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Andrew Schulz Should SHUT THE F*CK UP | Luke Thomas Gets Political · Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

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  It is genuinely not hyperbole to say
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  that at least one of the reasons we have
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  a fascist or a growing fascist
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  government currently in the United
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  States is because a bunch of comedians
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  with podcast simply wanted to be able to
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  say slurs without being cancelled and it
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  has brought us to this moment of hell.
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  But you'll notice that some of them have
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  had for a while now some buyer remorse
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  and that is only increasing. Take for
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  example Andrew Schultz who on this
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  recent flagrant podcast had a couple of
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  interesting things to say. We're going
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  to play them and then I want to react
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  because on the one hand I do think it is
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  important to make room for people who
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  have buyer remorse second thoughts about
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  voting for Trump and supporting Trump.
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  However, however, I also think it is
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  important that if those people actually
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  really do want to join any kind of
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  movement or political force or have any
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  kind of meaningful change in trajectory,
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  especially if they are prominent public
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  figures,
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  they need to come clean about their role
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  in all of this and they need to examine
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  the depths of their own ignorance and
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  the depths of their own negligence that
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  brought us to this particular moment.
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  Listen to what Andrew Schultz has to say
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  about the ICE killing of Alex Prey and a
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  little bit more about immigration more
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  generally. And then I want you to
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  understand how he is very responsible
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  for bringing us to this moment. And
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  unless he acknowledges that,
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  I appreciate that he's having some
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  second thoughts, but they're just that,
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  second thoughts.
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  >> Let's talk about what happened in
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  Minneapolis. Uh, ICE murdered an
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  American citizen in cold blood and then
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  the Trump administration called him a
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  domestic terrorist.
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  >> Yeah,
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  >> that's it.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Like plain and simple.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> I see the administration trying to spin
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  it. Um, and it's [ __ ] disgusting.
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  >> It's like they didn't even have a moment
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  where they're like, "Hey, we're
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  reviewing the footage. We're going to
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  try to see what's really happening." All
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  of them, Trump and all the cronies, put
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  out collective statements that
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  immediately blamed an American citizen
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  that was exercising his first and second
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  amendment rights, right? He has a right
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  to protest. He has a right to carry a
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  firearm. He's a legal gun owner, right?
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  There's no question about this
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  whatsoever. And the administration
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  immediately comes out
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  >> and they try to gaslight the public,
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  which you cannot do when we have 15
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  different videos of what happened.
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  >> Yes.
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  >> And um
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  >> I mean, I agree that the administration
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  can't be out there gaslighting.
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  And I'm not saying that he's exactly
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  gaslighting about his role in bringing
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  Trump to the forefront, but he's not
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  exactly coming clean with his his own
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  level of responsibility here.
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  >> Not in the Alex Petty matter, but in the
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  general Trump support matter.
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  >> That is what they do though.
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  >> But that is what they do. Yeah. And and
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  I think that governments have probably
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  been doing this for centuries, uh,
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  millennia, and now you have a public
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  that is armed with phones and we can see
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  what actually [ __ ] happened. then
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  you're not going to just lie to us,
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  plain and simple like that.
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  >> Fair enough. Okay, not much here to say
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  one way or the other about and this is
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  mostly obviously about the Alex Prey
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  shooting, but you can see that there is
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  some dissension in the ranks. Pay
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  attention to the next clip and then I
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  really, really want to dig into some of
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  these details. If you see it with your
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  own eyes, you know exactly what
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  happened. And there's something
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  disgusting that's happening not only in
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  Minneapolis, I'm sure it's happening
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  other parts of the United States where
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  it's
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  >> ICE is
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  under the [clears throat] guise of
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  security, right? Under the guise of
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  safety, because that's what they're
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  doing, right? Is every time something
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  horrific happens, they keep going, but
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  look at the pedophiles we got. Look at
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  the murderers we got. Look at all the
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  violent criminals we got. I looked at
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  the numbers. It's 5% of the people
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  they've deported are violent criminals.
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  Yes,
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  >> there's probably more pedophiles in the
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  Oval Office.
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  >> No, exactly. If you bring up another
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  [ __ ] pedophile about deporting and
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  you're not releasing the Ebstein list,
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  just shut the [ __ ] up all of you.
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  >> Yes.
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  >> I don't want to hear anything else
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  about, oh, we got to get deport the
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  pedophiles. They're right here.
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  >> They're right here. There are a list of
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  them and you're not exposing it.
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  >> Andrew.
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  Andrew, buddy, [snorts]
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  my friend,
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  I appreciate that you can recognize that
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  these issues have turned to a place that
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  make them unmistakably horrible, even to
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  people who might have had a degree of
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  willingness to give Trump a chance. I
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  can appreciate that you can see this now
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  a little bit more clearly for what it
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  is, but honestly, you don't really have
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  that much of an excuse because this was
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  easy to see from the beginning. Folks,
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  and Andrew, if you're seeing this, if
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  someone can send this to him, buddy,
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  Donald Trump accepted the nomination
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  for president in July of 2024 at the
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  Republican National Convention. Look at
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  the signs that people were holding up at
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  this convention.
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  Look at what they were talking about
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  because it wasn't just the signage. The
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  the mass deportations
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  was a part of this. And of course, in
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  order to do that, you have to take away
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  people who are day laborers, community
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  members, family members, right? in order
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  to do mass deportation,
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  in order to to put Steven Miller back
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  into the White House, there's no way to
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  get to the place that they want to go to
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  without these kinds of heavy-handed
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  tactics. How else do you think mass
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  deportation exists? What do what do you
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  think there's a kind and nice way to
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  tear communities to pieces?
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  Nobody in this country, and by the way,
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  this is left and right, seems to
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  understand the truth of the immigration
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  debate. The number one reason why they
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  are here, there are many reasons, but
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  the number one reason, and this has been
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  shown in research literature over and
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  over and over again, the number one
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  reason that they are here is to fill
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  labor shortages. And we have not updated
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  the immigration allotment system. how
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  many we give out for H-1Bs or any of the
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  variety of all the different types of
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  green cards and you name it, how many of
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  those we give out today. We've not
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  updated that system since 1990,
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  1990. We haven't updated it. So, of
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  course, we don't have the exact and the
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  more precise a lotments for what our
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  economy needs in terms of legal
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  immigration because we haven't updated
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  the system in over 30 years. That's just
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  a reality. The economy is now three
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  times the size it was in 1990, but we
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  still have the exact same allotment
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  system. So what's going to happen?
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  There's going to be people here filling
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  labor shortages who don't have a legal
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  pathway because we have not given them
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  one. That is that is simply how
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  immigration works and we know this well
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  documented. But getting back to the
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  point, this is July. This is July. You
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  had him on on your podcast in October.
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  Did you not see the convention?
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  Did you not see the other rallies where
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  he talked about his plans for what he
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  was going to do or where you saw similar
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  kinds of signage? And more to the point,
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  not only did you have him on after he
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  accepted the nomination in July and then
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  you had him on in October, you didn't
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  ask him anything about mass deportation.
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  You didn't ask him anything related to
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  these questions. What was your thought
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  about what mass deportation looks like?
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  The answer is it doesn't matter because
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  you are hopelessly out of your depth.
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  That's what this means.
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  You had this [ __ ] guy on. You didn't
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  ask him anything related to any of these
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  issues despite them project 2025. The
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  again, if nothing else, the signage of
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  the Republican National Convention, but
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  of course, it's well beyond that. You
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  didn't ask him any of these questions
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  about what any of this meant and then
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  essentially just endorse the guy. And
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  here we are in this moment. Here we are
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  in this place. Here we are in this
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  disaster because you decided to take on
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  responsibilities. You are poorly
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  equipped to do.
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  You do not know what you are doing. At
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  least as it pertains to this. And I'm
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  not saying this, and I swear to God, I'm
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  not saying this to just donk and be
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  mean. I promise I'm not. We have all
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  been wrong about things, sometimes
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  catastrophically so, either for
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  ourselves or others. And it's a very,
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  very difficult burden to carry. That's a
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  true fact. But the difference is it's
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  one thing to get things wrong when
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  they're new and you haven't seen them
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  before and you make a miscalculation.
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  It's another one. This guy was already
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  in office and the only thing that
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  constrained him were the little pockets
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  of rationality around him. All of this
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  well doumented. All of this well
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  reported. to say nothing of the campaign
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  rhetoric, to say nothing again of what
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  you saw at the Republican National
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  Convention, and then you had him on and
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  then you didn't ask him anything. You
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  are not allowed to just waltz into, "Oh,
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  well, I'm having second thoughts about
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  it until you reckon with your role in
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  bringing us to this hell."
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  You played a very important role in
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  helping him connect to parts of the
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  electorate that are hard to reach. you
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  made him or tried anyway to make him
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  look cool.
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  You guys dressed this whole thing up and
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  now you're like, "Well, we don't like
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  what's happening." Fine. And I
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  appreciate that. I mean that genuinely.
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  I genuinely think it takes somebody who
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  can look at a situation and say, "I'm
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  not okay with this." Even if I thought
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  it might have been something else or
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  this was a person that I previously had
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  a, you know, fonder feelings for. Now I
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  live in a different place. Okay, I can
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  accept that. I genuinely can accept
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  that. But you need to reconcile with
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  what you did to bring us here. And you
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  need to reconcile with all the steps you
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  skipped that you should have taken that
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  could have maybe changed at at a bare
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  minimum if not the trajectory that of
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  things that ultimately happened.
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  Certainly at a bare minimum your
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  [ __ ] contribution to them
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  because it is significant at least for a
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  certain part of the electorate. it is
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  significant and you did that [ __ ] and
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  you had every reason to know better and
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  you didn't know better. You need to
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  reflect on what that means for the kinds
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  of things you should be doing in your
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  career.
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  If you have a guy who was in office
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  tried to steal a presidential election
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  on the way out and by the way Andrew, I
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  don't know if you know this, but more of
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  that is on the way. So whatever your
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  revulsion about ICE, get ready, brother,
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  because we haven't even gotten to the
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  midterms yet to say nothing of 2028.
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  You need to reconcile with what you did
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  and the negligence that you uh showed
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  that brought us to this hell where now
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  they are tearing communities apart. They
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  have they're so heavy-handed they're
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  murdering in cold blood US citizens. to
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  say nothing of the surveillance state
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  that they're building. To say nothing of
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  the harm this will do to local tax
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  bases. To say nothing of the fact that
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  now we have prominent immigrants now
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  leaving the country because of the
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  broader climate of fear that it is
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  creating. To say nothing of the nose
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  dive that has happened to tourism
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  because who the [ __ ] wants to come here
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  when anyone who has any kind of even
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  remotely shaky immigration status, even
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  if it's actually not even shaky, now has
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  to face the the potential of ending up
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  in ICE custody.
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  You played a role in this one. You did.
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  You did. And it's not one of these cases
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  where I just didn't know it was going to
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  be like this. Yeah, I bet you didn't
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  know if you didn't bother to
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  [ __ ] ask. And maybe he gives
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  you a [ __ ] answer in that time when
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  you had him on the podcast. This is a
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  moment for you, and I mean this
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  sincerely from a person to another
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  person. This is a moment for you to
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  reflect on your various and significant
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  and frankly to everybody else obvious
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  failures that contributed to a dark and
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  potentially trajectory altering moment
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  of political time in the United States.
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  Of course, I'm not putting all the blame
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  on you. That would be silly. I'm not
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  suggesting as much. And there's other
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  podcasters who did worse than this who
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  were bigger than you. I understand. I'm
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  not I swear to God, I'm not trying to
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  dunk. But coming out and making these
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  statements
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  like, "Well, I don't like what's
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  happening here and this is bullshit." I
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  agree with you. You're right. Your
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  diagnosis of what happened here is
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  right. But not too long ago, about year
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  and a half ago, you had an opportunity
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  to to do your homework and ask him about
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  some of these things and have a more
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  honest conversation. But that wouldn't
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  have been the fun kind of chummy
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  interview that you guys did. and instead
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  you made a dude who tried to steal a
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  presidential election who now has a a
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  paramilitary force that is on a mission
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  to create an ethnostate and they don't
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  care who they hurt or who they kill in
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  the process to do it and now you don't
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  like that. Well, congratulations. I
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  agree. You shouldn't like that kind of a
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  thing. But your role in contributing to
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  it needs to be examined not by us
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  anymore, but by you. And a public
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  reckoning by by you needs to happen
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  because there's a lot of people who out
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  there might have second thoughts, but
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  the ones who cheerleaded it from a
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  public standpoint, you have an
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  obligation to own up to your own
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  failures. And this is honestly one of
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  these ones that might stain your career
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  and your life for for eternity.
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  Putting this guy back into office might
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  be one of the most cataclysmic things
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  this country has ever done. And you
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  putting a little spit shine on him on
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  his way back into office is not
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  something that we're soon going to
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  forget. But if you at least make an
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  effort at acknowledging that and you at
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  least make an effort in recognizing that
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  and then changing your behavior around
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  that, there is, I think, some level of
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  understanding that will be afforded to
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  you. But all this [ __ ] about you
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  coming out and I don't like this and
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  that's bad for immigration. Brother,
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  brother,
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  take a nice long look in the mirror.
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  Take a nice long look in the mirror
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  because you helped do this more so than
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  a lot of other public figures and in in
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  ways that will not and cannot be forget
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  easily forgiven, fixed and undone if
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  they can be fixed at all. It is time for
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  you to have a public reckoning about
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  your failures. And honestly, only you
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  can really do that. Get to it, please.