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Surprise Podcast: Thing Actually Ain't That Bad! · Dumbasses Talking Politics

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  So it looks like we are going to have blackouts today sometime.
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  Good news is I'm running all this stuff off my phone and off my tablet.
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  So this will not be too much of a fraud getting through this.
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  Stuff and no one's saying yes things have gotten expensive no one's saying that,
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  that prices are really high now no one's saying that but also people aren't
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  pointing out that there is a lot of good news in your car.
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  Are low, that doesn't mean the gas prices are way too high.
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  That doesn't mean, I mean, to tell you the truth, in California,
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  we have no reason to do it.
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  We voted for the prices we have for gasoline. That's us that did that.
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  That's not even the Iran war.
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  That is California that does that. California can sit back and just lower gas
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  prices by almost $2 a gallon if they just removed the taxes.
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  But they won't do that. They just would rather.
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  Look how Biden was creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, 60, 70, 80,000 jobs.
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  All of those jobs, most of those jobs, over 50%, were either government jobs
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  or government subsidized jobs, like health care clinics.
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  Jobs. President Trump is creating nothing but private sector jobs.
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  That's why his numbers are a lot lower.
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  He could easily create 100,000 jobs just by hiring more government workers.
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  They want to be Americans. That is the only reason, the only people Trump wants in.
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  Anybody else, like if you're coming in from Afghanistan or Somalia,
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  there's a very good chance that you're here, but you're not here.
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  When more than 150,000 federal employees accept buyouts from the government,
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  resulting in the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years.
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  Despite the downsizing, the government has yet to see.
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  What it means is, they're not doing enough of it.
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  It means that the government is so enormous and taking in a tremendous amount of money.
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  So these are all good things. The fact that people say, well,
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  we barely even see it, really does tell you something about our spending call
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  we haven't discussed before.
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  Now, even though Democrats don't like this, they protest, they whine and cry,
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  they say people are losing their jobs, people will starve, people will die.
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  Yes, they are actually saying that.
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  This is a tremendous way of looking at it. you are shutting,
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  you are, you have cut the government down by 11%.
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  From perplexing. And I will comment on each of the points because some things are bigger than others.
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  Some things are more exaggerated. Some things you got to give a grain of salt with.
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  So let's go through this list. The ending of several wars, specifically about
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  eight wars. This is great.
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  And what's great about this is that the leaders of the countries that were warring,
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  were actually in the White House citing their treaties.
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  One war that also was stopped, it wasn't actually ended, was the Hamas-Israeli War.
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  That ended, Trump does get credit to them.
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  He has kind of put a pause on refugee missions, unless the country has some serious issues.
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  For example, the genocide in South Africa. He'll bring people over.
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  For the child's retirement, the government will add money and then the government
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  will use the private sector, in other words, the stock market,
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  to actually build that revenue.
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  If you're on any government entitlement, government entitlements are not made for immigrants.
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  They're made for American citizens. Yet we're finding that most entitlement
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  programs, there are a tremendous number of immigrants.
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  White people only make up like 35% of the entitlement.
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  Blacks make up some crazy number like 24%. What's for immigrants?
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  We really need to get these people off the government goal and get them the
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  hell out of the country and that's what the Trump administration has been trying to do,
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  homicides fell 21% in 2025 okay this one I kind of have a problem with we already know that.
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  For a second i i know for an absolute fact you do not walk through los angeles,
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  so i don't believe that i think that is crap so i i would say uh if it felt
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  10 i'd be happy if that was.
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  Not be seen, and then get back. We also have to remember they had a...
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  Is also fantastic of course the democrats hate this for whatever reason because
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  i guess they like drugs i gotta be honest with you i'm not so sure some republicans don't like this,
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  i i think republicans i think the reason the drug cartels have gotten so powerful
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  is i think they got a lot of our politicians in their pockets,
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  that's a conspiracy theory totally admit it but someone Don't prove me wrong,
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  because it sure looks like it.
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  Move forward with the Golden Missile Dome, says Defense System.
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  That dome will be protecting the United States from missile attacks.
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  That's a great deal. And it's going to be the Golden Dome, because I think it will expand to space.
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  Push NATO allies to commit to more spending. Don't forget, NATO allies are spending
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  like 1.5% of their GDP per country.
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  And now they are pushing it up to 5% to 6% of their GDP.
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  Just last week, one of the NATO generals had said, yeah, we need to go higher.
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  We need to protect ourselves from Russia. And that's exactly what they should do.
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  Because the United States is really doing all of the funding of NATO.
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  Expanded oil drilling, backed coal, revived nuclear power, to the point that
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  we're actually exporting oil.
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  Now, this is something that has driven me crazy.
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  The prices of oil have gone so far up, especially diesel, because of the war in Iran.
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  Well, the reason the prices of diesel, especially diesel, has gone up because
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  of the war of Iran is because the war in Iran has stopped the delivery of oil to other countries.
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  And what our companies are doing here is they're exporting oil to other countries
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  and not leaving it here. that's leaving us in a glut.
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  Now, I understand I had to fill my tank. I put in half a tank yesterday.
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  I wasn't going to fill my tank up.
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  But this is a small thing for Iran. I'm sorry. The Iran war was necessary.
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  I will say that for the rest of my life.
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  The bravest thing Trump did was go to war with Iran.
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  And yes, I'm saying this now. I'll pay higher oil prices until the war is over.
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  Now, that doesn't mean I can't criticize Trump for how he's running the war
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  in Iran. I don't like the way he's running the war in Iran.
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  I think he needed to come up with a better plan. I think he needed to explain
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  it and I think he needed to bomb the living crap out of them and then get out
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  and just leave and They would have been fine.
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  I think he should have taken out Card Island the Ports on the Strait of Hormuz,
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  the bridges and the power plants.
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  I think he should have taken them all out and then left Iran's economy would
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  have sunk to crap China and Russia would not have helped Iran and.
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  And Iran would have been economically dead a lot quicker than they are.
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  I mean, right now, they're economically gone.
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  The real, I think, is somewhere at the vicinity of, I think I heard,
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  7 million per the dollar.
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  So it's 7 million real to $1. Their inflation rate is like 300%.
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  They're a mess. They're going to be done very soon.
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  He put in law requiring big tech companies to pay for their own data center
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  power needs and set up a rate payer protection pledge now I like this this is
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  something we needed to talk about with data centers,
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  I think Donald Trump is answering all of the fears no one talks about this by
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  the way but answering all the fears that people are having that their water
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  rates are going to go up which is absolute crap,
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  golf courses take up more water than a data center. I mean by a lot. Like 25%.
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  Of what a golf course takes up. So I think that's crap.
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  Also, we have to understand, throughout this country's infrastructure.
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  And especially since Joe Biden's infrastructure bill had nothing to do with
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  infrastructure, it had to do with climate change, Our electric infrastructure is not very good.
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  I said this yesterday, I believe, that these data centers were going to build...
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  Their own electrical infrastructure, simply because nowhere can it support their infrastructure.
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  So they'll build it with coal or hydrogen or natural gas, use whatever they need to use.
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  And that should actually make everyone not worry about resources being used.
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  I also look forward, I think we need to embrace we need to embrace this embrace
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  technology because one of the things that,
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  Elon Musk has said we're going to build data centers out in space we already
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  have the satellite they already have the satellite infrastructure and then the energy,
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  you have up there is all from the sun because the sun is in constant contact
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  with the data center so I look forward to things like that we need to stop demonizing
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  And I'll mention this again.
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  We need to stop demonizing the freaking tech companies, even though it seems
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  like the tech companies are demonizing themselves. But we need to stop demonizing tech companies.
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  He reformed the SNAP program and reset the federal nutritional guidelines.
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  In other words, you can't buy candy bars on SNAP.
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  And if you have been unemployed, if you were 23 years old and been unemployed
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  for the last seven years, get yourself a freaking job.
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  Now, mind you, what they're asking people to do is not extreme.
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  Work 20 hours a week. This is not extreme stuff.
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  I know. You saw it. People were bitching and moaning that their SNAP payments
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  were not coming in, or their SNAP payments got cut down from $3,000 a month to $500 a month.
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  Yeah, our SNAP program's corrupted.
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  And actually, I'll go a step further, we need to get rid of SNAP all the time.
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  We need to get rid of all the entitlements.
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  And the reason we need to get rid of all the entitlements is we're going to
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  be in austerity anyway in, what, three years?
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  And I don't think, I think three years is a push. I'm thinking 2029,
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  we're going to be out of money.
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  We can't have a $40 trillion debt, which actually is $150, $160 trillion when
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  you add in all of the stuff like SNAP and Medicare and housing and all that crap.
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  You can't keep adding this debt and think that eventually it's not going to
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  come due. It is definitely going to come due.
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  And it's going to be sooner rather than later.
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  I know I've heard people say, oh, 2035. No, it's not going to be that far.
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  It'll be within the next few years.
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  All right. Snap actually ended up getting people, 4.3 million people off the program.
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  Because they were healthy. They could work. They just decided not to.
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  So 4.3 million just said F it. They got off the program.
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  A lot of the people that got off the program, believe it or not,
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  were illegal aliens because they were afraid they were going to get caught.
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  So there's lots of reasons why people are getting off of SNAP. And that is a good thing.
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  Revamp the childhood vaccine recommendations.
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  This is something that has given people just a big heartache over them. And I don't know why.
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  First off, when they redid the vaccine recommendations, there was thought that.
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  Robert Kennedy was going to sit back and say no one should take any vaccines.
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  Not what he said. He said take the vaccines that are necessary and leave the vaccines alone.
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  The one vaccine that is really kind of a stupid vaccine is the flu vaccine.
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  We were when i worked for the when i worked for the clinic,
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  for a medical clinic we had to get the flu vaccine every year i never wanted
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  to take it but if i wanted to be employed i had to take the damn vaccine,
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  and then never worked i ended up getting i ended up getting the flu and they
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  said oh well it's a it's a it's a better it's a better better flu lighter flu
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  than it was if you did get the vaccine no,
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  i when i take a vaccine i expect not to get it it's kind of like the covid vaccine
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  when i when i get the covid vaccine i expect never to get covid again instead
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  i ended up getting it three more times,
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  so no so they basically said like measles mumps,
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  i don't know if chicken pox is on there but um,
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  some of the important vaccines that we know work they recommend taking those
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  but all the other ones they said that we really don't know how well they work
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  how efficient they are does a kid need them,
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  they're just saying hey it's on you do what you want.
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  Ended DEI program, oh no, first let's go here, lowered prescription drug prices.
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  This was a fantastic deal.
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  This was never talked about much.
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  Trump brought it up and no one else talked about it. This was gigantic.
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  What basically Trump allowed people to do is, the drug companies would sell
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  their vaccines to the United States at an elevated price,
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  and then sell the same vaccine to Canada at a lowered price.
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  So basically, the United States was subsidizing the vaccines that were sent
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  out of country. What did Trump do?
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  Trump sat there and said, OK, buy your vaccines from Canada.
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  Don't buy them from here.
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  This forced the drug companies to actually either raise the prices in other
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  countries, which I think is what they did, or lower the price in the United States.
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  Let's see. What else? Oh, and a DEI of the government. I think this is fantastic.
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  A DEI is nothing but racism. That's all it is. It's racist against white people.
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  Made federal policy recognizing only two sexes.
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  Why this had to be written down as an executive order, and we can't even get
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  Congress to agree with this?
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  I don't know but this is pretty much common sense,
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  restricting transgender athletes in women's sports this is actually having a
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  bigger impact than anyone thought,
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  because a lot of colleges listen, a lot of the colleges thought this was BS
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  anyway having men in women's sports they all thought it was crap but they needed to be woke,
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  and now they're just pointing to Donald Trump's executive order and they're
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  saying oh well now we have to do it.
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  I don't care why they do it, as long as they do it.
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  Made English the official language? Why wasn't this done 200 years ago? 250 years ago.
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  And by the way, that doesn't change anything. It doesn't change anything.
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  You can still go to the DMV, which makes no sense, and get your driver's test
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  in 74 different languages.
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  I think that's crap. We shouldn't be doing that.
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  I think ballots, the DMV, any official government documentation should all be in English, period.
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  That doesn't mean you can't speak Spanish or French or whatever.
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  But we are pretty much the only country in the world that does not have an official language.
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  I mean, shit, Canada has an official language. It's French. Doesn't make sense to me.
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  Took the White House construction projects, took on White House construction,
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  projects, costing at least $900 million, privatized most of it.
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  This was, for example, the ballroom, the adding of a flagpole,
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  the fixing up of the mall, the reflecting pool at the mall.
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  By the way, Obama wanted to do that too. and it ended up costing him way more.
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  That's good. And by the way, I love I love the classical architecture.
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  We do not use enough classical architecture.
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  We're going into this brutalist architecture, which I absolutely hate.
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  The FBI building is an example of brutalist architecture.
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  But for some, it's ugly. It's it's bland. It's ick.
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  Obama's library is brutalist architecture. It's ugly, bland. Ugh.
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  What happened? Why is it that we can't have pretty things in this country?
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  Well, brutalist architecture is actually what they use in the Soviet Union.
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  It's what they use in China. It's actually a communist way of designing anything.
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  LaunchedAmerica.gov. This was done this week. America.gov uses AI to,
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  streamline processes for citizens to access government services,
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  such as registering for a passport or renewing a passport.
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  Now, I don't know. Where was this two years ago when I got my passport?
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  It was up there. Now you can just go on there, type your question.
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  This is what I need. And guess what it'll do?
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  It'll just tell you, give you the forms. This is what you need to do.
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  Here's the form, fill it out, submit it, boom, done.
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  No longer do you need to go to the post office to get yourself a passport.
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  And it is using technology to the advantage. And you know what else this is going to do?
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  Federal government, because AI will do it.
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  And I know Democrats are going to bitch and moan, but when was the last time
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  you went to the post office and felt very satisfied with the service at the post office?
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  Matter of fact, a lot of people, they started playing with this America.gov
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  website. You should play with it. Go over there and play with it.
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  It's freaking phenomenal.
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  It's like using ChatGPT. I'm not kidding. That's exactly what it is.
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  When was the last time you went to the post office to get a passport and said,
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  yeah, I was really satisfied with that?
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  And then you got a bunch of bureaucrats running everything, doing all this, all this paperwork.
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  And then this paperwork has to be sent to the State Department.
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  You got more bureaucrats analyzing paperwork.
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  And then six months later, you get your effing passport.
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  I'm exaggerating with the six months, but not by much. And finally,
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  believe it or not, we are winning the war in Iran.
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  Iran is going to fold.
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  Iran, they're already talking surrender.
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  Economically, we have destroyed that country. Militarily, we have neutered it.
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  We have taken out all their leadership. We still don't even know if the current,
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  Ayatollah in Iran is alive.
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  We know he's gay and he's missing a leg, but we don't even know if he's alive.
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  The IRGC is basically shooting everything they have left to try and keep themselves alive.
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  This war, yes, it should have been over in a month.
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  It wasn't. I think that was bad decisions on Trump. But this war is going to
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  be a victory, and it's going to be a complete victory.
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  And we have eliminated one of the biggest enemies of the United States.
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  And we have secured one of the biggest enemies of the United States from not
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  having a nuclear weapon.
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  And with Iran out of the picture, we can have more,
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  Middle Eastern countries will normalize.
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  That no one even thinks of him as a big victory in. They don't look at Donald
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  Trump and say, you're a great president because you ended illegal immigration,
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  about a month after he got into the presidency.
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  Even conservative outlets like Fox News kind of ignore all these accomplishments.
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  No Republican politicians are touting these accomplishments.
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  And by the way, most of these accomplishments have nothing to do with Congress.
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  These were done specifically by executive order, which is not good.
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  This is why Congress is probably going to lose. And that's why I really don't
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  give a shit if Republicans lose Congress, because they've done nothing.
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  Every executive order that Trump signed should have been codified.
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  But Congress is too dysfunctional.
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  Here's the reality. the.
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  Economy is actually in really good shit. It is not in the crap hole shape that
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  everybody talks about. It's okay.
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  If you add AI into the mix, the economy could boom.
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  That doesn't mean that things aren't expensive. They are. We all see it.
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  Here's the reality. Prices of certain things are going to stay high.
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  The great lie of the Biden administration was that the high prices from his inflation,
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  The high prices from his inflation were not transitory.
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  They were not going to go back down. They were going to stay high.
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  We're not going to see the price of bread go down. I'm sorry,
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  it's not going to happen. So we might as well get used to this.
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  But what we can do is fix the economy or defeat the affordability crisis.
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  I hate that term because everyone's in an affordability crisis.
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  By exploding the economy.
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  And what does this mean? It means less government spending, including entitlements.
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  It means less government interference against business, less taxes,
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  fewer regulations, and dare I say it, less tariffs. I think tariffs have not helped.
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  And embrace technology, such as AI and the face rate.
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  Ashley and Burt, this guy.
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  Technology is going to save this whole thing. The AI needs to continue to be
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  developed, and it will explode the economy.
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  We will see money, GDP will go up, everything will go up.
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  And we need to assume this is going to happen. I mean, AI is very powerful.
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  I think the doomsaying by the AI companies is garbage.
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  And I think the doomsaying of these AI companies, for example, from.
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  OpenAI and from Claude, the makers of Claude, these guys are just trying to
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  get regulatory capture.
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  They're number one and number two, and they do not want to have somebody like
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  Meta's Muse come in and overtake them.
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  Which, by the way, Meta has already said, there is nothing wrong with AI. We will be fine.
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  Just let us develop it. That's Mark Zuckerberg saying that.
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  Why? Because Muse is probably going to be the next booming AI.
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  It is already being used in business.
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  So this one is probably going to overtake Anthropic, overtake OpenAI OpenAI,
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  actually I'm kind of surprised I love OpenAI, don't get me wrong,
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  I use it all the time I use Cloud and OpenAI,
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  I use them all the time, I love them but OpenAI is a little.
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  I can see why they're worried about losing their second position to Muse and
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  anthropic, I definitely can see them losing.
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  But these are going to change everything. The space race right now,
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  the flights to the moon and eventually Mars, all of that is huge.
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  That will not only bring pride back to the United States, possibly bring minerals
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  that we don't have from the moon and Mars back to the United States,
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  but it will also, and I guarantee you this, it will bankrupt China.
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  Because the AI race and the space race really cost a lot of money,
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  and they can't develop it themselves, and it could end up bankrupting.
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  If we can just let our economy run unburdened,
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  we will see inflation drop like a rock. We will see prices drop like a rock,
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  and the GDP in this country will explode.
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  Okay, so I ran a little longer than I thought.
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  I don't know if you heard all the beeping in the background.
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  That's SDG and E calling and saying, yep, we're probably going to shut down your power.
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  So I'm going to go to a casino, sit in a cool casino, because they never shut.
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  Down their power. And then,
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  basically camp it out. I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend.
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  God bless. This is Gene, and you've listened to Dumbasses Talking Politics.