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Liberal friends on social media · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I ask if you had any Democrat friends left, because
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  Speaker 1: it's it's getting it's getting difficult. It is getting difficult.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get into that and feel free to
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  Speaker 1: grab a line and get on hold if you've got
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  Speaker 1: stories already, because I got friends, family, people, people that
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  Speaker 1: I like or I have liked, But man, they are
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  Speaker 1: just getting so vicious, so nasty, so insulting on their Facebook, Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: Twitter that that it's it's uh, it's hard to take this.
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  Speaker 1: It is really hard to take it. And I've I've
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  Speaker 1: started unfollowing or or taking a break, as they say
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  Speaker 1: on some of these people. It breaks my heart. It
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  Speaker 1: makes me sad. I've always been one to think we
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  Speaker 1: can disagree without being nasty to one another. But people
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  Speaker 1: that I've never known to be like this are are
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  Speaker 1: They're being nasty?
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  Speaker 2: Is that why you unfollowed me?
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  Speaker 1: No? No, I just don't like you, Okay, But the
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  Speaker 1: you know, do you have I'm serious, do you have
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  Speaker 1: any liberal friends on your your social media that you've
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  Speaker 1: just put your You're kind of reaching your limit with now?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: It's different for me because I don't pay attention to
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  Speaker 2: it very often, like Facebook or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I rarely look at anything. See, I have to. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: not knowing what people are thinking and talking about is
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  Speaker 1: part of what I do here every day, so I
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  Speaker 1: have to pay attention to these things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I hear you.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm sick of, you know, being referred to as
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  Speaker 1: Nazi fascists and all this kind of crap because you
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  Speaker 1: have a problem with politics. This is just getting stupid, man,
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  Speaker 1: It's it's Look, what Elon musk Is is in charge
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  Speaker 1: of doing right now is going through this whole ball
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  Speaker 1: of axe and figuring out where we are wasting money.
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of millions, if not billions, of your dollars are
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  Speaker 1: being thrown away on a yearly basis. And to this
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  Speaker 1: point it's been done with nobody paying any attention. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: just said, clerk color rolled a little ornances Patty, and
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  Speaker 1: the money would spend. That's simple, and nobody paid any attention.
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  Speaker 1: Now somebody's paying attention. And you would think, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: your political stripes, you would think that reasonable people who
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  Speaker 1: understand we are in debt as a country, our children
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  Speaker 1: are in debt, our grandchildren are in debt, you would
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  Speaker 1: think that you might be able to put politics aside
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  Speaker 1: long enough to go Okay, let's see where this goes.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see where this goes. Let's see are we really
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  Speaker 1: paying Social Security checks to people one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: years old. If so, that could be a problem. And
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  Speaker 1: for those that are doubting it, hang on a second.
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  Speaker 1: What what was it four years ago? Eight years ago?
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  Speaker 1: I forget which one presidential year? And one of the
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  Speaker 1: things was the IRS had issued like six hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty refund checks to the same address. Do you not
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  Speaker 1: recall this to the same address. I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: big your house is, there are not six hundred people
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  Speaker 1: living there. This stuff happens. Back in the seventies, we
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  Speaker 1: had the fifteen hundred dollars screwdrivers of the three thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars toilet seats at the Pentagon, and people act like
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  Speaker 1: today that can't happen. And to say, Elon wasn't elected
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  Speaker 1: to do anything, Elon isn't elected to Elon is working
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  Speaker 1: for the president, who is in turn working for the
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  Speaker 1: people of this country. Hillary wasn't elected to anything. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any problem with her having an office and
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  Speaker 1: a full staff in the White House when she came
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  Speaker 1: in and said we are the president. Did you look
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to fight, I'm not trying to argue it.
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  Speaker 1: What I'm saying is, please stop being rabid long enough
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  Speaker 1: to be reasonable. Is that asking too much? And you
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  Speaker 1: know what, if this is all just one big bunch
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  Speaker 1: of smoke, I will be the first to say, Man,
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  Speaker 1: they do you know what? I thought they were better
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  Speaker 1: and they weren't. But if it's not smoke, if it's
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  Speaker 1: for real, every single one of us, as Americans going
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  Speaker 1: out here trying to stimulate the economy while feeding our
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  Speaker 1: families and putting gas in our car and keeping the
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  Speaker 1: house warm when it's single digits at night, and trying
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  Speaker 1: to get a dozen eggs every now and then, every
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  Speaker 1: one of us should be saying, yeah, go man, go
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  Speaker 1: dig it out, root it out, because no, we shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be paying for most of this crap that we're paying
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  Speaker 1: for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of your dollars.
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  Speaker 1: This is not Democrat and Republican. This is not left
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  Speaker 1: to right. This is good guys and bad guys. This
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  Speaker 1: is the wolves and the sheep, and the sheep. Finally
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  Speaker 1: have a sheep in there with some teeth and some
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  Speaker 1: big old ram horns that said, hey, wolf, come over here,
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  Speaker 1: I got something for you. I would think the sheep
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  Speaker 1: would be happy. Or maybe that's just me. It seems
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  Speaker 1: to be perfectly reasonable. People are getting on their social
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  Speaker 1: media pages and just just saying the most ridiculous, insulting,
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  Speaker 1: infuriating things about anybody that is that is a supporter
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  Speaker 1: of Donald Trump, that is a registered Republican that identifies
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  Speaker 1: themselves as conservative. If you're not, if you're not sitting
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  Speaker 1: around lamenting the fact that Kamala is not our president,
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  Speaker 1: you're the enemy. And I'm gonna be honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be difficult for me to sit down
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  Speaker 1: in the future and have civil, reasonable discussions with some
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  Speaker 1: of these people because of the crapola they're putting out
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  Speaker 1: there right now. I'm trying not to take it personally,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a little difficult to not take it personally.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I may again, Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm alone.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm alone, lone inhabitant of this island. But if
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  Speaker 1: I'm not, I'd love some backup. I'd love to hear who.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to name the people, but your stories.
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  Speaker 1: Who You're losing, people, losing friends, losing family, losing coworkers
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  Speaker 1: over this craziness. I'd love to know I'm not alone.
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  Speaker 1: A two one nine eight eight six is my number
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  Speaker 1: two one WTVN or eight hundred six ' ten WTV
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  Speaker 1: And Drew, you're on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com
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  Speaker 1: phone line. Hi.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, great, great opening, but I want you
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  Speaker 2: to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Take a deep breath.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little worried for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't be worried. I'm I'm. I'm feeling fine personally. Man.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's a frustration because Drew, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm kind of archaic in this respect. I
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  Speaker 1: truly like people. I want to like people. I want
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  Speaker 1: to think the best of people. But they're making it
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  Speaker 1: hard right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually had a few friends, and technically, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what you call it when friends, I guess
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  Speaker 2: friends break up with me via text and they just
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  Speaker 2: assume how I voted. Obviously, it's it was a safe assumption.
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  Speaker 2: How However, these are friends of these have been friends
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  Speaker 2: of mine for thirty thirty five years, and that's just
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  Speaker 2: just to be that vitriol to someone that you've known,
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  Speaker 2: that you've known for that long. So no, you are
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  Speaker 2: not wrong. I take it personally. How can you not
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  Speaker 2: take that personally? All because in the United States of America,
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  Speaker 2: I have the right to vote for the person I want.
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  Speaker 3: To vote for.
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  Speaker 2: Let's if you want to talk about it. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about it. Don't hate me for it speaking about all
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  Speaker 2: the hate. Utah, what us we do? That's That's one
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Is it? Is it electionism? I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea we can come up with a name from ism.
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  Speaker 2: All right now, I need to I need to let
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  Speaker 2: you back to your great opening. And I'm a little
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  Speaker 2: fired up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Drew, I'm glad that you're fired up, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad to know, honestly that that you're experiencing this because
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  Speaker 1: I I don't hear anybody else talking about it, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, you kind of feel like you're on an
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  Speaker 1: island by yourself sometimes because you don't hear other people
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  Speaker 1: having the same feelings issues problems that you do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think a lot of it too is people
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  Speaker 2: are still well, they're scared now because they are hearing
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  Speaker 2: the stories from friends that this is happening, and now
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  Speaker 2: they're scared again, just like twenty twenty. To admit whom
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  Speaker 2: they voted for. And that's just not right. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's because I'm on the winning side this time. However,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's unhuman, it's unkind. And you're right, I
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  Speaker 2: expect people to be kind. That's all I want. Some
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  Speaker 2: people be kind and be a positive contributor to society.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's enough of my take.
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  Speaker 1: You have a great rest of your night, sir. Thanks true,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you out there. Thank you very much. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: just be decent to one another. It's not that that's
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  Speaker 1: not that big of a commandment, is it? Just be
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  Speaker 1: decent to one another. I don't think so. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think so. And I'm you know, Drew said, well, we're
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  Speaker 1: on the winning side. Yeah, I am on the winning side.
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  Speaker 1: I backed this president and I believe in what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in his mission. And I'm scared too. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna say I'm not. I'm worried. I'm on many levels.
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  Speaker 1: I'm scared. What if something does go wrong with the process.
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  Speaker 1: What if some crazy goes after him again, They've already
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  Speaker 1: tried twice to kill him. That we don't need that.
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  Speaker 1: What if civil unrest comes? You know that? Do we
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  Speaker 1: need to go back to the nineteen seventies, Watts, Is
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  Speaker 1: that what we want to see? Do we want to
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  Speaker 1: see people mistreating each other like that? Again? Do we
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  Speaker 1: know so? Yes? To some degree. I am scared too,
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  Speaker 1: But I'm scared and confident at the same time, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm listening to my intellect. I'm listening to my heart.
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  Speaker 1: I believe. I believe while the road may be a
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  Speaker 1: little rough, it's the right road and we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: okay in the end. But that's also based on the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we're the United States of America. We have
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  Speaker 1: a tendency to stick together and get through things, and
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  Speaker 1: so much of what I'm seeing right now is not
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  Speaker 1: even not even remotely close to sticking together. And if
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  Speaker 1: we're ready to fray at this point in the game,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what we're going to look like in
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  Speaker 1: a year down the road. Eric, you're on six to
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  Speaker 1: ten double UTV and high.
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  Speaker 3: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Eric, Okay, he put Eric on the screen. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sorry about that.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, no problem happens all the time. Hey, I just
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  Speaker 3: wanted to come out on what you're saying. I'm right
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  Speaker 3: there with you. I've voted for Trump three times now
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  Speaker 3: and the only thing I can say regarding your topic here,
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  Speaker 3: maybe you know, getting annoyed with some Democrats or just
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  Speaker 3: left leading or Democrat leading. So I have a brother
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  Speaker 3: that works for the US Force, and that's under the
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  Speaker 3: Department of Agriculture, Sure South in Bend, Oregon, and he
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  Speaker 3: is really potentially maybe losing his job. He's in an
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  Speaker 3: upper management position overseas to national forest.
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  Speaker 2: Areas.
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  Speaker 3: Now I don't think he is going to lose his job,
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  Speaker 3: but he has that some colleagues that have lost his job,
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  Speaker 3: and it is an incessant that's garage of text messages
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  Speaker 3: every single day and freaked out about whether or not
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  Speaker 3: even lose his job. So I understand that, and so
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  Speaker 3: I'm a little torn. I got him right there with
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  Speaker 3: Doge and he did him clean out some of the
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  Speaker 3: some of most of all of this waste and over
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  Speaker 3: government sending. But I also am wondering, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: they are kind of targeting at first, kind of the
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  Speaker 3: smallest portion falls enough of money and maybe eliminating some
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  Speaker 3: job prematurely and then maybe rehiring people back on. So anyhow,
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  Speaker 3: I can see how somebody like that left leaning is very,
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  Speaker 3: very frustrated, and you know, he's the US Wildlife and
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  Speaker 3: fishery biologists. He's like, I don't know where else I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna go and get a fishery biologist job. Right now,
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  Speaker 3: he does get fired, So but I'm still on board
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  Speaker 3: with everything that's happening. I think there's a long term
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  Speaker 3: process and needs to be patient. But there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of nature reaction amongst the levels more or less league people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it could be you know, any number of
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  Speaker 1: people that lose jobs, but hopefully they can you know
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  Speaker 1: that rebuilding us into something different, it's difficult. Yeah, rebuilding
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  Speaker 1: us into something different may create opportunities for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I think in the long term a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these things do need to be privatized, so it isn't
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  Speaker 3: a one size like so many people are relying on
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  Speaker 3: the government, you know, so it's terrible. Yeah, if you
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  Speaker 3: have you want administration to comes in and does something different.
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  Speaker 3: That's the whole point. It's to break all of this up,
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  Speaker 3: and I think at some point, yeah, it has to
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  Speaker 3: be broken up, and it's not going to be easy,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I mean, anybody that works in the private
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  Speaker 3: industry has maybe lost the job if the company has
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  Speaker 3: gotten under you get fired real quick, and then what
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  Speaker 3: do you do. You have to go out fine another job.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know this one size is just like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I work with the federal government, so I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 3: work there forever. It's kind of ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, comfort, comfort can be your enemy, and Eric,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the I appreciate you backing me up and
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  Speaker 1: making me not feel alone. I do