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#95 - Don't Drink the Kool Aid—On Either Side · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Don't, don't, don't, don't drink the Kool-Aid.
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  Don't drink the Kool-Aid, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you liked my impression
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  of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris when they just said that was their warning to the world.
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  Mine is don't drink the Kool-Aid, whether you are on the right or the left,
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  whatever side you find yourself on, because not everybody's going to get everything perfect always.
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  We're going to take a look at the Great Reset, what is happening right now.
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  We're going to also take a look at Ben Shapiro's position on the tariffs that
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  we are experiencing and how I believe Ben is misguided on this one.
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  I think he's taking a wrong position, and I'm going to give my argument for that, why that is.
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  My name is Brandon Fogel. This is Evolution. Let's get into it. All right.
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  So I did want to begin with the don't drink the Kool-Aid because wherever you
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  are at, if you buy in completely hook, line, and secret to whatever you are,
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  you think is the temperature in the room and you want to go to that side and
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  you just, without even looking,
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  blind eyes, close your eyes, you don't even want, you just jump all in.
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  You're going to end up in the wrong spot.
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  And we got to guard ourselves against that. Don't do it whether you're on the right or on the left.
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  There are so many things happening right now. So many just upheaval happening
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  in our economic structure that we have, that it's reasonable to take a pause
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  and think what is going on.
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  Ben Shapiro's position, we're going to take a look at a clip that he had and
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  what he said about it, because he has been an ardent supporter of Donald Trump in a lot of ways.
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  But on this issue, he is not on board.
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  He does not think that Trump is doing things right by going this way about it with the tariffs.
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  And we're going to see exactly why he thinks that.
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  And it has to do with the whole starting point is the board that we saw when
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  Trump took out there and he said, this is the percentage that all the other
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  nations have against us and these tariffs that other nations have against us.
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  And rather it was a board about, it was showing what our deficit is compared
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  to all these other nations.
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  And he's going to say that with anybody in a regular position in life,
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  I have a trade deficit with my local price chopper.
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  He uses the store Publix or any store that you go to as a consumer and you buy,
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  you have a trade deficit with them.
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  It's not, it's, I think it's apples and oranges.
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  You can't compare what you buy personally as consumer compared to what the United
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  States is setting in the way, the position that we line up compared to the rest of the world.
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  You can't compare. There's a little bit of similarity, but on a much grander
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  level, you can't make this comparison that he does. And I've been thinking about
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  what does all this mean for the United States and all the people that we have in our country?
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  Is it going to benefit mostly the older generation or the younger generation?
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  And I would strongly argue this great reset that is happening is for future generations.
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  It's not going to benefit immediately the people that all their money is in the stock market.
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  And I've been seeing these protests, whether they're the Elon Musk protests,
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  protests that are happening over the weekend or the just the against Trump and
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  they have these just crazy things that they got on just that are sometimes nasty,
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  what they're saying about Trump and Elon Musk and all that.
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  But the median age of these people that are at these protests look like they're 70.
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  You know, it looks like they're the way older people. And that's not to say
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  anything bad about older people, but it gives us an idea of who is so against this.
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  I think Gen Z and the alpha generation, the most recent ones,
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  they're going to be the ones that are going to be benefiting the most,
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  way more than the ones that have all their money and their eyes are locked in on the stock market.
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  You could say 50% of people have their money in the stock market at this time.
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  It goes to a lot of people because a A lot of people just have their 401ks.
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  They're not even looking at it.
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  They're at a job and it's how their portfolio is going up and down, all that.
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  But 50% don't. 50% are not looking at the stock market and they're okay with
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  it going down because it's been so heavily inflated.
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  It's just magic money that's just out there that is not really money in itself.
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  It's just numbers going up and down, up and down.
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  It's not affecting the people at the bottom level right now.
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  And I think that it's resetting everything. It's resetting the game.
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  Completely for especially millennials gen
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  z and into gen generation alpha you can
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  say gen x you know so the the ones that are heavily impacted right now
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  are the baby baby boomers the baby boomers you know they're seeing it going
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  out and i think that's why we are seeing them so ardently and just all in about
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  saying against it completely against it the idea that these are reciprocal tariffs
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  or responsive tariffs the problem there again is if i thought these were responsive tariffs.
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  And I think if the market thought that, it'd be a lot more sanguine because
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  the question is what comes next?
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  Is President Trump going to try to cut bilateral deals with various countries
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  to lower the tariffs back down to zero?
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  Or is he doing this because he just doesn't like trade deficits?
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  This is the problem I was pointing out yesterday. That giant poster board that
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  he was holding up that showed, quote unquote, tariff rates for various countries on our goods.
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  It's not true. Those were not tariff rates. They had nothing to do with tariffs.
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  Those were trade deficits divided by imports, meaning the only way to get those
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  numbers down to zero would be for those other countries to just buy more American
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  products, regardless of whether they are poor or whether they even have tariffs
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  on American products in the first place.
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  It is the equivalent of you saying that you are running a deficit with your grocery store.
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  You're running a trade deficit with your grocery store because you gave them
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  money and they gave you goods.
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  And the only way that you're going to achieve parity.
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  Is by getting the grocery store to buy fan belts from your factory.
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  Well, listen, all of this.
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  Okay, so I had to start it there because I usually agree with probably 90% of
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  what Ben talks about, but with this, I don't think he's going to be proven right.
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  I mean, the market is about to open, so we're going to continue to see this immediate reaction.
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  But we got to stop thinking near-term and day-by-day news cycle that's in our face.
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  And that's all we think in one day, everything flips, completely flips.
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  And we think it's the end of the world.
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  Think about China. They're not, they're not, they're thinking long game.
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  We need to start thinking long game, big time.
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  And are we setting us up for future? Are we going to last as a nation economically as a superpower?
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  I mean, all of this with the, the tariffs, throwing tariffs on everyone.
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  I mean, he's doing it. Trump is doing it equally across the board.
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  Whether you agree with his method of madness of why he's doing it, at least it's fair.
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  At least it's consistent. It's consistent because he's showing it's not all
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  the tariffs that all these nations have against us, but it is the deficit that we have with them.
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  And it was this overkill by Donald Trump and slapping everything on everyone.
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  It might've been, I would say it might have been overkill and we're seeing a
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  reaction, but maybe overkill is what he was going for.
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  I think as a huge negotiator, he knows what you got to do when you're coming to a negotiating table.
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  You don't maybe want to ask for a 10% raise when you really want a 25% raise.
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  He goes for a 50% raise on his bottom line and let's maybe negotiate and work it down.
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  He puts himself in like a really crazy position compared to everyone else.
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  And that's why everybody's up in arms and going all over the place.
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  So there, I wouldn't say that Trump was doing anything dumb.
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  I don't think he's doing anything dumb here and throwing these tariffs on everybody.
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  Cause he's, he's trying to get immediate hardcore reaction from everyone.
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  And he's getting that the market is getting that we are experiencing that we are seeing that.
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  And the people that have their portfolios just going down, everyone,
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  those are the ones that are immediately benefiting for the system that we have.
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  We need to flip the system.
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  We need to put it maybe right side up. And I think that was what Trump is going for.
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  He's putting America in a position that they can come and actually negotiate
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  and real changes happen.
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  So I disagree with Ben Shapiro on this. And I don't think it's the equivalent, like he says, that.
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  Our position as the United States compared to Madagascar and whatever,
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  you know, I mean, he throws out maybe it was the best thing to put a huge tariff
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  on Madagascar, whatever.
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  We have nothing we're really bringing in, but he's being consistent across the board.
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  He's being fair across the board. And I don't want you to think that I've just
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  drunk the Kool-Aid of Donald Trump because I haven't.
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  And I've seen that. And I actually felt good when I see Trump supporters coming
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  at me, people that are just.
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  Exceptional Trump supporters coming at me and having their target on me and
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  thinking that I'm saying something wrong because I'm not completely bought into
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  everything he does. Everything he touches is not absolute gold.
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  Not everything that anybody does is perfect ever. So I would say for both sides,
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  whether you're on the right or the left, let's see how this plays out.
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  I think, just my opinion, we're going to still see some turbulent times,
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  but we're going to overall see a much stronger level that we are all playing
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  on as the United States compared to everyone else. We got to change the trajectory.
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  And this is taking a chainsaw. We're doing it to our own government and cutting everything.
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  But we're also taking a chainsaw to the massive irregularities of other countries
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  just having us bent over backwards.
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  We're trying to set things straight and show who is the stronger nation in the room.
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  And when America's strong, the rest of the world gets lifted up.
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  The rest of the world is going to be protected because we are the ones that
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  if something goes bad in the world, you don't see, you don't expect China to
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  be the ones to jump in and save the day.
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  Everyone looks to the United States and it's eventually the chickens are going to come home to roost.
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  And if America is not in a strong position financially, we are not going to
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  be able to help anyone else.
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  If we can't help ourselves, we can't help others.
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  So I disagree with where Ben Shapiro went with this. I think he is going to be proven wrong.
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  I absolutely love Ben. I love a lot of the things he stands for and believes in.
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  And I agree with most of everything he promotes and his opinions,
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  but I'm not going to drink the Kool-Aid of Ben Shapiro as I don't think we should
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  drink the Kool-Aid of anyone or whatever position that you currently find yourself in.
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  Be a person that just maybe looks at both sides and come to your own conclusion.
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  Maybe that's the independent mindset. Maybe that's instead of being red versus
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  blue, let's find some purple. Let's come together.
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  So we're going to see the market open up It's
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  going to be a little bit shaky I think this week It's going to be really shaky
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  But there is going to be a bottom That we are going to hit And America will
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  be firm and strong And going forward The future generations This is for you
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  all This is for you all what Donald Trump is doing This isn't for the oldies
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  The oldies are still good,
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  But this is for the future of America So keep going and keep evolving to that best version of you.