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In this political coliseum, we slay the rising beast with the fateful sword of truth that transcends hypocrisy and censorship.
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It's time to unleash yourself from the tyrants of media propaganda on the America Out Loud Talk Radio Network.
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This is unleashed the political news hour.
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Welcome to Unleashed the Political News Hour.
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My name is Bruce Robertson, and I'll be your host for this episode.
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The um it's been an interesting week, folks.
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Uh again, it's been a very interesting week.
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I'm going to talk to you a little bit about as I open the show communists and kings.
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You know, we saw the No Kings demonstrations in full bloom this week, and uh the No Kings illusion is not really about kings or tyranny or dictators.
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Many of you may not be surprised by that.
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Across the country this weekend, the No Kings protests took place with demonstrators claiming that Donald Trump represents a threat to democracy.
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Some even going so far as to call him a tyrant.
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That's strong language.
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But it's worth asking a simple question.
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Is that what's actually going on here?
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Because if we're going to use words like king and tyrant, we should all be very clear about what they mean.
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A tyrant is someone who operates above the law, someone who is unchecked, unaccountable, and free to rule by personal authority or cult of personality.
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That idea has been debated for centuries.
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In 1644, Samuel Rutherford wrote Lex Rex, which is Latin for the law is king.
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It was a direct challenge to the prevailing idea in Europe and elsewhere at the time that rulers and monarchs themselves are above the law.
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In fact, that they are the law.
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Rutherford argued exactly the opposite that no leader stands above the law, and ultimately all authority is only under God.
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Now that principle didn't just stay in theology.
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It actually helped shape systems like ours in the United States.
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The United States is not a monarchy.
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But it's not a pure democracy either.
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America's founding fathers actually debated the idea of a monarchy or of crowning a king long ago.
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They wanted George Washington to be king.
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They thought maybe they would have him be king, and they debated it and they rejected the idea.
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And you can look that up.
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It's in writing.
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It's a constitutional republic that we have in which the Constitution stands above every president.
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And stands above the legislature.
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It stands above every power in this country, whether they're enumerated powers or any directed powers that government has.
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Power is divided into three branches in this country, precisely so that one no one person can rule unchecked.
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Courts block actions, policies get overturned, authority is restrained.
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That system is still in place in the United States.
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Which raises the question.
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If Donald Trump is truly acting like a king, where is the unchecked power?
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Where is the absence of accountability?
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The reality is that much of what's being labeled tyranny today is simply a policy disagreement by one side, dressed up in highly extreme language.
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And that's an important distinction.
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Because when we look at recent history, we can find plenty of examples where government power expanded in far more sweeping ways, with far less resistance.
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Not too long ago, during COVID 19.
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Entire states were effectively shut down.
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People were told that they could not work, that they could not gather, and that in some cases they could not even visit their sick and dying loved ones.
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I know for myself, my parents were both in the hospital with COVID.
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They could not even see each other, and both of them had COVID.
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Churches were restricted.
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Public spaces were closed.
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Churches were even closed.
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Daily life was controlled in ways that few Americans had ever experienced.
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And all of this was cheered on by the left.
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In fact, they lined up to get their little masks.
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They sat in their cars alone wearing a mask driving.
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They lined up six feet apart wherever they had to line up.
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I mean, they all dutifully lined up for the vaccine.
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At the same time, some of the Democratic leaders enforcing those rules faced criticism for not consistently following them.
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Gavin Newsom drew national attention.
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The governor of California for attending a very high-end dinner at French Laundry in San and in Napa Valley, uh while strict restrictions were in place for California residents.
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Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan Democrat, faced scrutiny over similar concerns when she went out on her yacht in Lake Michigan, while no other boat owners were allowed to take their boats out.
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Now, whether one agrees with every critique or not, the perception was unavoidable.
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There are rules for the public, but not for those in power.
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Now, if tyranny is defined as leaders placing themselves above the rules, those moments with Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer raise serious questions.
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And yet those same voices now gather under the banner of no kings, and they became angry when conservatives raised concerns about those same very very same things.
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So that inconsistency, that hypocrisy reveals something much deeper.
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The issue is not simply what Donald Trump is doing.
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It's more about who Donald Trump is.
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Donald Trump is breaking the chains of tyranny both here and abroad.
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And it appears that the tyrants don't like it.
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Many of those protesting are not reacting to a unique form of tyranny.
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Many of the things that Trump is doing have been done many times by multiple United States presidents.
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Even Barack Obama.
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They are reacting instead to a person that they strongly oppose.
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The language of king becomes a way to elevate that opposition to turn disagreement, where you would have normal public debate into something much more derat dramatic, much more urgent, much more absolute, much more demanding of violence.
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But when everything is labeled tyranny, the word begins to lose its meaning, doesn't it?
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There is, however, a deeper issue behind all this, and uh it's one that goes beyond politics.
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The Bible describes a time in Israel's history with a sobering line.
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It's in Judges 21, verse 25.
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And it says there, in those days, there was no king in Israel.
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Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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Now, folks, that wasn't a picture of freedom.
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That was a picture of disorder, which led to ultimate destruction.
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Without authority, without a standard above the individual, society cannot flourish.
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It fragments, it divides.
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And that's exactly what makes the No Kings movement so revealing.
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For many of those protesting, this is not really about tyranny at all.
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It's about resisting laws that people don't like.
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When it comes to issues like border enforcement or ICE administered immigration prosecution, or efforts to crack down on fraud and abuse.
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Out there that if a law conflicts with personal beliefs or preferred outcomes, it should simply be ignored.
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That's called being a scoff law, ladies and gentlemen.
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No respect for the law.
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That is not a stand against tyranny.
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It's a step toward anarchy where laws become optional, and enforcement itself is treated as oppression.
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Because while it claims to resist tyranny, it often reflects something else entirely.
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A resistance to authority itself.
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Not just a bad ruler, but any ruler.
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Not just unjust laws or judges, but any binding standard whatsoever.
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The desire is not simply for better leadership.
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It's for autonomy without restraint.
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Where individuals determine for themselves what is right rather than submitting to any authority above them, and when any authority comes in to try and correct them, they throw a temper tantrum.
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Well, it's confusing, folks, especially to the protesters themselves, and that has not gone unnoticed.
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Who to their discredit cannot clearly articulate anything about what they're marching for.
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They seem to be marching for anarchy, but they're being paid by one world government Marxist oligarchs.
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That seems to be a conflict.
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Neither anarchy nor Marxism has ever led to freedom.
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The Christian view has never been no king, ladies and gentlemen.
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It has always been this.
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Christ is king, and there is no king above God.
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And God's law rules.
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Authority is real, necessary and good, but it must be limited, accountable, and ultimately under God's authority.
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Donald Trump is not a king.
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Has he acted perfectly in his office?
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Probably not.
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But he's been pretty good.
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He's been acting under more constitutional restraints than most others in recent years.
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So calling Trump a king doesn't make him one.
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And doesn't strengthen the argument at all.
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It weakens it.
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It replaces all serious discussion with exaggerations and blurs a line between true tyranny and political disagreement.
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The real danger is not that we have a king.
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It's that certain people don't want authority at all.
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Not even God's.
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And I'm your host Bruce Robertson.
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Before we left for the break, I said that this second segment of the show is going to be a bit about No Kings rally explained for people who think that they're fighting fascism.
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Imagine this, ladies and gentlemen, you're standing in a crowd on a Saturday, and you look around and you think, yeah, no kings.
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This is what democracy looks like.
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Bro, you're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.
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Get real.
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You live in a constitutional republic.
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Elections, term limits, remember those?
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A free press that spent four years calling the current president a fascist without one journalist ever being arrested.
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The modern left's definition of fascism is this.
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You love your country, you're a fascist.
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You want to enforce the border, you're a racist.
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You think parents should raise their kids, you're a bigot.
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You want to know who's voting in your elections?
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They call you Jim Crow.
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That's ironic, folks, since Republicans fought very hard to repeal Jim Crow laws, and Democrats themselves resisted very hard and insisted on keeping those Jim Crow laws.
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Being patriotic is now called fascism to the modern left.
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Interesting, since modern leftists are socialists, and Hitler himself was a leftist fascist socialist.
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Oh yeah.
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That's not what your professor told you.
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That's not what the history books currently say, but they've been altered to skew the information to make you think that fascism is a right wing ideal.
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And it is not.
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Hitler himself called themselves socialists.
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The Nazis were socialists.
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Nazi itself stands for National Socialist Workers' Party.
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It's in the name, folks.
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The left wants open borders.
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But every country has borders and enforces them.
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176 countries require voter ID.
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That's the definition of a country.
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But the Democratic establishment has told you otherwise, haven't they?
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And leftist protesters believed all this.
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Congress now has a 15% approval rating.
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80% of Americans disapprove.
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Yet 97% of incumbents get re-elected.
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What's going on here?
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Well, maybe it's an example of why we need term limits.
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Consider Chuck Schumer.
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Forty-six years in office.
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That's longer than Stalin.
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How about Stenny Hoyer?
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45 years in office.
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That's longer than Chairman Mao.
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Communist chairman of China.
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Mitch McConnell, 42 years.
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That's five times longer than Napoleon.
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Nancy Pelosi, 39 years.
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That's longer than Henry the Eighth.
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Maxine Waters, 35 years.
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That's longer than Mussolini.
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Bernie Sanders, 35 years.
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That's triple Hitler's entire reign.
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Folks, it's getting to the point where the inside of the Capitol must smell like a nursing home.
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With Walker parking just outside the doors.
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Trump's been in office for a total of five years and three months all together, with both terms.
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He's won the popular vote and the electoral vote.
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But somehow, Trump is the king.
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Not these others who refuse to retire.
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Okay, buddy.
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Tell me another story.
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You don't hate kings.
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You hate kings that aren't yours.
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And yesterday your kings had you out in the street carrying their water.
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The Democrat Party installed the president without letting you vote.
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Biden quit on a Sunday.
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By Tuesday, Queen Kamala was crowned.
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There was no primary, there was no debate, there was no ballot.
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First time since now.
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1968.
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Three days before your march, every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.
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How's that for freedom?
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During COVID, you carried a vaccine card everywhere, like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.
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But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote, apparently that's oppression.
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The Democratic Party is now pro-illegal immigration and birthright citizenship.
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If you think about that for a moment, what is birthright citizenship?
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Birthright citizenship means that the children of illegal aliens, people from a foreign country that are not citizens here, their children can now vote to tax your children and steal their birthright.
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That's a hard turn from even what socialists like Bernie Sanders said, his position was as recently as 2015.
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Listen to what Bernie said in 2015.
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I quote, open borders, that's a right wing proposal, which says essentially there is no U.S.
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It would make everybody in America poorer.
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What right wing people in this country would love is an open border policy.
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I don't believe in that.
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That was Bernie in 2015.
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Now what do they do?
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Open the borders, count non-citizens in the census, the census determines congressional seats, more non-citizens means more seats, means more power for the people that open the borders.
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No voter ID means no way to check.
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They're trying to bum rush the nation and pack the house with Democrats who sprinkle goodies from the taxpayer-funded treasury on all of their newfound forever dependents.
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We know what they're doing.
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We see them.
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That's how you keep power without having to wear a crown.
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But it's there, ladies and gentlemen.
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These are your kings.
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But Trump threw a wrench in the works with his executive order recently banning birthright citizenship.
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Now, a lower court tried to block it, and now the Supreme Court is hearing the case on birthright citizenship.
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But win or lose, the White House can use the court's decision, whatever it is, to reignite the debate over immigration and propose common sense improvements to our country's broken immigration and representation system.
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Changes that should include no longer counting undocumented people in our national census.
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Changes that should include ending the diversity lottery and initiating a merit-based admissions program in schools.
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Well, that's happening.
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Okay, and a merit-based admission program in our country as well.
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Let's see if that happens.
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President Trump was elected in part to end the immigration crisis created by his predecessor Joe Biden.
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The nation was horrified that Biden allowed millions of migrants, immigrants, illegal aliens, to enter the country illegally.
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Voters were disgusted by scenes of chaos at the border.
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In December 2023 alone, some 300,000 people crossed the United States illegally, largely unvetted for criminal histories or health issues.
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Everybody had to be vaccinated, apparently, except the illegals that were pouring across our border.
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300,000 people in one month in December 23.
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It was a national disgrace.
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Trump, as promised, when he got elected, quickly secured the border again.
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But his aggressive deportation policies are unpopular, and his approval rating on immigration has plummeted into deep red territory.
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He needs to reset his immigration approach, which may prove critical to holding on to the historic inroads that he and other GOP MAGA candidates have made with Hispanic voters last year.
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Latinos who followed the rules to enter our country oppose illegal immigration.
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They don't like their neighborhoods being threatened by Venezuelan gangs or their communities' hospitals or drug cartels or schools overrun by undocumented immigrants.
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But they also don't like seeing their long-standing neighbors picked up by ICE officers and hauled out just because they're in the country illegally.
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So there's a problem there.
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And that I think makes tremendous sense.
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Democrats, on the other hand, universally support birthright citizenship.
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They actually favor any program that increases illegal immigration, which puts them at odds with the majority of the country who oppose it.
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Gallup polling shows that as recently as last year, 55% of Americans thought that immigration should be reduced, and that nearly half the country supported depart deporting all immigrants who are living illegally in the United States.
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All immigrants.
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Since then, as Democrats and their media allies have worked overtime, pounding the table and demonizing ICE agents, rounding up who are rounding up, by the way, drug and sex traffickers and human traffickers, and some who are simply in the country illegally as well.
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People's attitudes have softened a little bit.
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Most Americans want our immigration laws to benefit our country, and a majority approved of the two-part immigration program that President Trump rolled out in his first term.
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The plan includes stepped up border security, but it also created a merit-based immigration system that would prioritize people who bring needed capabilities into the United States.
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As President Trump said in 2018, some 70% of all immigrants who come to the United States today are admitted based on family relationships or through a random visa lottery.
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And that's a system that favors random choice over the skills our economy needs.
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He proposed a point-based system that like that similar to that the one that's used in Canada, although a little different as well, which would increase the number of legal immigrants selected on the basis of skills or merits from 12% to 57%.
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Trump's proposal here met with broad bipartisan support.
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According to a 2018 national poll conducted by Harvard, a merit-based immigration plan was supported by 84% of registered voters, including 75% of registered Democrats, and finding support across all racial and ethnic lines.
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The Democrats oppose common sense immigration reforms, and they conflate legal and illegal immigration.
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And why wouldn't they?
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They're confident that a large majority of those who enter the country illegally will ultimately be able to vote and will back the Democrat Party.
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You know what I call that?
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I call that demographic warfare.
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It's subversive.
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It should be treasonous.
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I mean, look what happened in Germany.
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And Britain as well, by the way.
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But in Germany, Angela Merkel, Angela Merkel, just admitted on camera this week that she deliberately flooded Germany with third world immigrants to stop the far right.
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She chose to erase her own people rather than lose power.
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This wasn't a mistake, folks.
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It was demographic warfare.
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And Merkel admits to it.
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I think it's treasonous.
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Honestly, treasonous.
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And Biden did the same thing, by the way.
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So even now, illegal immigration is a boon to Democrats who are in charge of blue states like California and New York, whose reckless spending and consequent high taxation are driving residents, especially wealthy residents, to move to more affordable states like Florida and Texas.
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Mass outmigration should lead to reduced federal aid and fewer congressional seats and electoral college votes in New York and California.
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However, because the government includes undocumented people in the decennial sentence census.
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That's every ten years.
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In Washington.
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That's gotta end.
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The treatment of undocumented people who have lived in the United States honorably for decades and have contributed to their communities, if they have, must also change.
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Wholesale deportations are probably not the answer.
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Such people should be allowed to apply for some alien resident status, but maybe they should understand that as a penalty for entering illegally, they may never become citizens.
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Our immigration system does not put America first.
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President Trump now has a chance to fix it.
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He's right on birthright citizenship, as his executive order states the 14th Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.
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That's true.
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The children of foreign diplomats, for instance, do not become citizens even if they're born on U.S.
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soil.
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It's encouraging that the court will refuse will review this issue, but even if President Trump's executive order is struck down, there's plenty of more work to be done.
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Now, on top of all this, of course, we have O'Biden, O'Biden, Obama and Biden, building building a censorship machine during both their terms as president, which now is largely being dismantled, but the left is hanging on in the media.
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Social media was pressured by Obama and also by Biden, especially by Biden, Biden administration, and his uh his law enforcement, FBI, and also his uh his intelligence agencies like the CIA to suppress true information, and it they admitted it in writing.
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Censored, they censored scientists, they censored doctors, they censored jokes and memes online.
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I mean, the Biden White House told Facebook to remove remove any humor and satire that didn't conform with a certain narrative.
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They literally went after people for making fun of them.
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The UK, I have to say, does it better, however?
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We're not going to talk about the UK so much today, but the UK's been arresting people for their Facebook posts and putting them in jail.
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Everything they censored, strangely turned out to be right.
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They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.
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And it doesn't stop at speech.
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See, this is tyrannical activity.
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This is the real kings I was talking about.
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It doesn't stop at speech.
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The extreme left justifies taking children from families.
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The Hitler youth did this, Mao's Red Guards did this.
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The Soviets built statues of a child who turned in his own father.
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That's some playbook, folks.
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During COVID, your bakery got shut down, your church was closed.
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You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital, but thousands packed together doing BLM to burn Minneapolis, and that was essential civic engagement, obviously.
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Two billion damages, 25 dead, 2,000 cops injured, 20 states burning, Kamala Harris promoting a bail fund for the rioters.
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There was no investigation, there were no hearings, it was catch and release.
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January 6th, however, there was one building, a few hours, a thousand people prosecuted and put in prison, and two years of televised hearings.
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The kings are the ones who decide which violence counts.
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And your left is kings, decided, didn't they?
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Welcome back to Unleash, ladies and gentlemen, the political news hour with Bruce Robertson.
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So we're talking about kings.
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We're talking about communism.
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Listen in.
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We're going to talk about it a little more.
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Um as I said earlier, kings decide which violence counts.
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And the left, the kings on the left, decided.
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Charlie Kirk spent his entire life walking in onto campuses asking for honest debates.
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He was assassinated.
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CSIS terrorism database, okay.
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2025 is the first year in 30 years that left wing attacks outnumbered right wing attacks.
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Yet nobody brings this up.
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75% of liberal students now say that preventing a speaker from talking is justified.
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27% say violence is justified and acceptable.
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Liberals who went to Trump rallies said I never felt safer.
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The experience changed me, changed my opinion about MAGA Trump supporters.
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They welcomed me.
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Conservatives, however, who show up on liberal campuses, get screamed at, blocked, attacked, and assassinated.
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You know, one side talks, ladies and gentlemen, open dialogue.
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The other side screams and tries to shut your mouth.
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The party for socialism and liberation marched with the No Kings demonstrators on Saturday.
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And if you're one of them, they marched with you.
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Their stated purpose in their own words are revolution, not reform.
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That, ladies and gentlemen, is pure Marxism.
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Five hundred groups, three hundred three billion in revenue, pre-printed signs, lots of organization.
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The signs were delivered and ready before you were even angry.
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The people currently screaming no kings in the streets are the exact same people who handed Kamala Harris, the Democrat nomination without a single primary vote cast by actual Democrat voters.
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You didn't get the vote on them.
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You didn't get to vote on that.
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There was no primary.
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Not one contest, not one debate, not one state.
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The party bosses decided in a smoke-filled back room, and they called it democracy.
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And here it is.
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Every other thing they did.
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By the way, by the way, look how many Republican candidates there were in the primary.
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I mean, it was a relative, it was around Robin.
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It was like the NCAA basketball championships for crying out loud.
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And Trump came out on top.
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And here is every other thing they did to the candidate, 77 million Americans actually chose.
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Okay.
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They arrested him.
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There were four criminal indictments across four jurisdictions, timed with the precision of a political hit operation.
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They sued to physically remove Donald Trump's name from ballots in multiple states.
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They were trying to erase your choice before you ever got to make it.
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They went to court to keep Robert F.
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Kennedy Jr.
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off the ballot because an independent voice threatened their stranglehold on power.
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They weaponized the Department of Justice.
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They weaponized the FBI.
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They put the full force of the federal government against a political opponent in a manner that this country has never witnessed in its entire history.
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No kings from the people who crowned a candidate nobody voted for, who imprisoned their political opponent, who erased names from ballots and silenced independent voices.
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The movement chanting about democracy tried to cancel every election they couldn't control.
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How's that for democracy?
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The good news is that the American people saw through every single bit of it on last November 5th, and they will see through it again.
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So WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange this week told Megan Kelly that the reason his organization has never released any damaging material on President Trump is that quote, there is no dirt to release on Donald Trump.
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He is probably the most squeaky clean individual in Washington because he's not a career politician.
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He's not from inside the beltway.
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He's not a product of the globalist cabal of elites.
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Julian Assange is a hero for exposing to the world the truth about Hillary Clinton and saving us all from her planned destruction of America and the world order as we know it.
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Donald Trump, on the other hand, is the greatest existential threat to the globalist uniparty cabal.
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They have absolutely nothing on him, and he has everything on them, and they hate him for it.
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In other words, he has all the cards to checkmate the deep state.
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God bless Julian Assange.
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He's been a years long former political prisoner, and thank God he's finally free at last.
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Now let's shift to the international scene.
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Iran is claiming that India needs permission and needs to submit crew lists and pay protection fees for them to enter the Strait of Hormuz.
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Now, this is reminiscent of the Barbary pirate blockades under which Thomas Jefferson formed the United States Marines, and we fought two wars with them against the Muslim Sultanate of the Ottoman Mediterranean Barbary states to the end.
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Now India tells Iran no permission needed.
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That's good that they stood up.
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No tribute will be paid to Iran as the Indian Navy is sending seven warships to guard the oil lifeline in the Strait of Hormuz.
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So India just drew a firm line in the sand against Iranian strong armed tactics in the Strait of Hormuz.
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New Delhi made it crystal clear.
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The strait is an international waterway under UN CLOS rules.
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No permission, no crew lists, no protection fees or tributes are required for Indian ships to pass through.
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While the world watches Iran-Israel tensions choke off 20% of global oil flows, the Indian Navy just launched Operation Urjah Shirakshah and deployed seven frontline warships.
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That includes destroyers in the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.
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Their mission is simple and tough.
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Escort India-bound tankers carrying liquid petroleum, crude, and liquid natural gas straight through the danger zone.
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This is not an empty gesture, ladies and gentlemen.
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India relies on these trade routes for 90% of their LPG imports.
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Disruptions hit kitchens and factories hard.
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And they got a lot of mouths to feed over there.
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The Navy has already guided ships like Jagvasant and Pine Gas to safety with more escorts rolling out.
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Warships stay outside the strait but stand ready to protect every mile, all the way to Indian waters.
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So there's no begging Washington, no weakness, just clear-eyed strategic autonomy backed by steel.
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India is putting its Navy where its energy security is and sending a loud message to the world.
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Mess with our tankers at your peril.
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The video making rounds shows exactly why adversaries should think twice.
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Indian destroyers slicing through the sea.
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I saw this this week, missiles ready, fleet looking like it's in pretty good fighting form.
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This is how a serious nation defends its interests when global choke points turn into chokeholds.
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Now, three weeks into the bombing of Iran, too much of the debate remains focused on the legality of the Trump administration's actions.
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Most good faith actors by now recognize that the regime there is evil and is developing nuclear weapons, or they have been.
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They've also learned that the regime has intercontinental ballistic missiles of a longer range than first thought.
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And those missiles, by the way, were recently fired at some U.S.
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assets in the Indian Ocean.
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But rather than focusing on the wisdom or timing of Trump's Operation Epic Fury, opponents have rallied around challenging its legality.
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Now, this is a curious line of attack.
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While the Constitution grants Congress the power to declare war, even the most pacifist legal stickler recognized president's authority, our president's authority to use force to defend U.S.
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sovereign interests when they're under attack.
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More broadly, presidents going back to the founding generation have engaged in limited uses of military force without congressional authorization, including the Barbary Wars.
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One of us expanded on this overwhelming precedent in the context of American operations in Venezuela earlier this year.
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But we're not going to go into that.
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But just using basic geography, invoking a modernized Monroe doctrine, doesn't work for Iran as it does for our operations in the Caribbean.
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And so there's no service of criminal warrants on the indicted head of a narco-state terrorist through the Iranian, although the Iranian regime is involved in all sorts of criminal activities, including the drug trade.
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Instead, the White House is rightly focusing on continuing threats for decades to American interests and personnel, which has built up and built up and has finally come to a head.
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And they've got enriched uranium.
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The historical precedent for unilateral presidential military action in that context is overwhelming.
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As I said, President Thomas Jefferson defended U.S.
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trade ships by directing a naval squadron to North Africa to attack the Barbary pirates.
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The militant Islamists of their day.
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Even the Korean War was technically just an international police action.
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And the congressional authorizations for use of military force against Afghanistan and Iraq also lacked formal war declarations.
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So there's a precedent.
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As Trump skeptic Jack Goldsmith, who's a former head of the Justice Department's office of legal counsel under George W.
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Bush recently said, the practice over almost 250 years has been growing.
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Unilateral presidential use of force.
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Several opinions, most recently regarding Venezuela, have codified this state of play.
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Furthermore, political limitations on presidential warm making powers have real teeth.
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While the air campaign against Iran has been robust, Trump has suggested that it won't last long.
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There's no hint yet of a draft or any full-scale deployment, as in Iraq or Vietnam.
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That's another conflict, by the way, Vietnam, where Congress never formally declared war.
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Yeah, we didn't have a declaration of war on Vietnam, although it lasted more than 10 years.
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And the operation has been mightily successful at relatively little cost so far in blood and treasure.
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So in less than the time a think tank can produce a white paper, the Iranian government has been pretty much decapitated through air power alone, without the need for really any boots on the ground.
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Now that may change.
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We may go into Carg Island.
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We may, Congress could certainly move to block further action in Iran as well, or cut off funding as it did to uh precipitate the end of uh the Vietnam War.
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But thus far, it hasn't chosen to do so.
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The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has never pronounced any judgment on many of these questions, other than to defer to the executive or to the political process.
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Accordingly, Trump's airstrikes face very little legal opposition, apart from what Yale law professor uh Rubinfeld uh characterize as the chattering of partisans, insisting that they know what the Constitution requires, when in reality, very few do.
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The question of whether Congress needs to declare war on Iran is moot.
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The illegitimate regime in charge of that country long ago declared war on the U.S., even to the point of adopting death to America and calling us the Great Satan.
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The fact that Iran often enlists other non state actors, assorted terrorist groups, rather than engaging us directly in uniform, really doesn't matter.
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Indeed, the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the current regime formally renamed the country, has waged war against the United States more or less continuously during the last 47 years of their history.
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Beginning with the taking of hostages at the U.S.
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Embassy in 1979, by the way.
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In 1983, they directed their proxy, Hezbollah, to blow up an American military barracks in Lebanon.
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They killed 241 U.S.
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Marines in that act.
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During the Iraq War, the Iranian regime supplied insurgents with improvised explosive devices, otherwise known as IEDs, that killed and maimed so many U.S.
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service members.
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Iran launched some 170 attacks on U.S.
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forces and assets from October 2023 through December of 2024 alone.
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And they also tried to assassinate President Trump.
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While there were brief periods of rapprochement during the Gulf War and under the Obama administration, when Obama was basically kissing their butts and paying them billions of dollars in U.S.
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money, these were anomalies in a long history that was predominantly defined by Iranian aggression.
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So is there anything more than that you need to know to understand that the United States has been in a war with the Islamic Republic for decades?
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I mean, whether Congress declares it or not, I mean, we could debate the policy merits of engaging in military action in Iran or engaging in it maybe now, but the legal justification is very strong, and as we're seeing, it's largely irrelevant.
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So what's the real story behind all that's been happening in real time?
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You know, I've been arguing that the goal in Iran is to seize the global oil, to put our hand on the tap of global oil.
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We did it in Venezuela in January, and now we did it in Iran in February, effectively.
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They want to, you know, the idea is to neutralize the supply channels outside the dollar system within maybe 90 days, and then achieve a compliant successor government in these countries and complete the energy dominant dominance.
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The reason is because oil is traded in dollars.
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When companies want to change the currency that the oil trades in, we have a problem because our money is basically backed by oil.
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The oil thesis was the obvious layer.
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However, when you zoom out and you've you view the last four years as one single consequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander U.S.
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plan is becomes becoming more and more visible.
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You know, first there was Europe.
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Europe laid the groundwork.
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The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed the Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40.
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Then the Nord Stream pipeline was destroyed.
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And I think we probably understand who had a hand in that.
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And that rewired the entire European energy system permanently.
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The U.S.
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went from supplying 28% of Europe's liquid natural gas in 21 to 58% of Europe's liquid natural gas by 2025.
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And now we export a record 11 million metric tons.
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That's the first country in history to break 100 million tons.
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Okay, metric tons.
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I've got much more to say, but we're out of time.
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So this is unleashed the political news hour.
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I'm your host, Bruce Robertson, and we'll speak to you next week.