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5 - Republicans in disarray, and Working for Nothing · World Ablaze with George Fontes

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Welcome World of Blaze listeners.
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I wanted to go ahead and preface this show with a bit of a correction.
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I realized that after doing some editing and just publishing it,
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and to be honest, edited and published it rather quickly,
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that my mind and my mouth were not necessarily in sync.
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One usually goes faster than the other. Usually it's my mind.
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So as you listen to this, you're going to hear me say basically House of Representatives instead of where I should be saying Senate.
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And I do not address the Senate.
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Instead, I say House and then I say Congress, which, you know.
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So when you're listening to this, just realize that when you get to that section, I realize how it came out after I already published this.
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and I do understand that I misspoke and I did want to say one thing but the other came out and
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I apologize we'll try to be better next time but just give giving you a little heads up on that
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other than that thank you for coming back and listening and enjoy the show
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all right all right all right hello everybody back
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again one more time trying to keep the content going here for everybody and uh man did i have
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a long day i mean a long day it's actually one of those days where i have to do this
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yeah had to pop that top and definitely taking a drink and give me a second here
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well kind of got me thinking so i i wanted to bring up a few things here before i get into
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the topic at hand here.
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So I was made aware, and I know this happens,
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but I actually was shown and I heard it,
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that on certain platforms, when you're listening to,
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for example, our show, The World Ablaze,
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with yours truly, George Fonts,
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that there are ads being inserted
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and I want to make everyone aware for all of our listeners around the world here that
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some of these ads that you hear they're not really sponsoring us they're not approved by us
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they're basically the platform making money off of our content that being said we're glad to be
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that's how you're able to listen to us. But at the same time, it doesn't mean that what you're
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hearing in sponsorship aligns with our views or that we back that particular sponsor or advertising
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that you're hearing anyway. And it also doesn't mean that the advertising you're hearing means
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we're getting paid for it because I guarantee you that most of the ads that you are hearing or have
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been hearing, we're not getting paid for it. Unless I specifically say, you know, now a word
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from it. And it doesn't mean that we align with that company in particular. So just so you know,
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a lot of so's, I keep saying so my mind's out of it. I am literally beat. And, and, um,
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when you hear those things, just realize that we're not necessarily being supported by those
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donations, funding, whatever it is that's related to the business side of the podcast world and this
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show in particular. Okay. Uh, now going, going, the other thing I'd like to say is that it's
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important for you to know that while I do get this show done, and I haven't been very consistent,
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and I've said this on my brother's podcast, which is where I really kind of started was with the
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Stretch Goose podcast. I'm still a co-host there, although part-time, I will admit, just because
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I'm busy. We also want everyone to know that you can be sitting and listening to us wherever you are,
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but just realize that most of what we're doing, we're doing it because we enjoy doing it. We're
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doing it because you listen to us and because we believe our opinion matters
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and if our opinions are wrong we are challenging you to call us out on it we
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would love to have a difference of opinion you know debate us it's okay but
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we mostly doing this I doing this because I enjoy it I doing this because I believe it needs to be done I believe that there needs to be another outside opinion to the world of bullshit in which we live in That being said if you hearing us in Iceland you hearing us in Germany if you hearing me in Canada you hearing me in Russia wherever it is I a working class person
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I have a full-time job and running a full-time business.
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I'm still out there clamming ladders, pulling wire.
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I'm installing AV gear.
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I'm doing live events.
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I'm doing, you name it.
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It just never stops in my world.
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I still have to pay the bills as well.
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So I am literally not making a living off of this.
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And that's why I'm so upset when it's been pointed out to me
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that when you're hearing my show
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and you're hearing an ad inserted in the front
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that you have to listen to
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before you even get to hear the content
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that I have sat here to put together,
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the content that you want to hear,
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that there's an ad that we're not getting paid for.
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We're not getting anything out of it.
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And it's the false sense of,
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oh, well, they must support that company
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who's advertising with them
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because most people know from the podcast world,
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listen to podcasting,
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most podcast shows or podcasters in general
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get to kind of pick and choose their advertisers
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because most will pick a company they can get behind.
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You see, that's the thing that's really awesome
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about the podcast world is you have that freedom.
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But when you hear an ad that completely sounds like
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it's unrelated to my views and opinions,
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if I don't say, hey, love this company, check it out, chances are it's not affiliated with us
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and we're not getting any revenue out of it. So I'm just going to leave that there.
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Let's move on to work and long, hard days. We all have them. And man, you know, I just kind of
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talked about this the other day. Job satisfaction is a big thing. I know with the younger generations
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millennials gen zers and and i get it i do get it but the grind is real the bills are real and
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that's why we still work as hard as we do and and and that's why i'm still working as hard as i do
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but it doesn't mean there are times that i don't want to throw my hands up and go fuck all this
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you know why don't i just sell everything and walk away i've said it more than once many many times
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my wife gives me shit about it because like you say it every year but there you go back out again
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on the road with the trucks and setting up the stages and doing all this. I mean, there's a part
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of you that's addicted to it. For example, many of us may be getting into jobs that, you know,
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we just fell into. We were good at it because we had a certain skill level, but it doesn't mean it
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was our career choice or dream, but we stick it out. Nothing more annoying when you get a job
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that you don't necessarily want to be at every day.
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For example, it's not your dream.
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You don't wake up and go,
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man, I can't look forward to pouring concrete.
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Some people do love doing it.
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Okay, some people do love framing.
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Nothing wrong with those jobs whatsoever.
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But what makes it hard is a disorganized
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or a management structure in disarray
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that doesn't know how to manage a department
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or a company properly.
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And you're always short-staffed.
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They put too much responsibility on you.
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It's just overwhelming.
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And year after year, you start to question, why the fuck am I still here?
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I encourage you to make the change.
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If you didn't get a degree and you're still within the age range in your life to where
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it makes sense to commit that extra time to do so, please do it.
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It'll open another door for you that allow you to move on into another career.
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If you like the career you're in your field in, but you just have a bullshit company organization
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you're working for, start putting them damn resumes out. You know, listen, it's very true.
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A lot of people are not going back to work. They just aren't still. They're being picky.
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They want their $200,000 a year, blah, blah, blah, all this shit. But that gives a person like you
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and me or anyone else who has no problem working, making a few bucks, paying the bills, making a
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living, having a good time, on our days off, gives us the opportunity to take advantage of that void
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and guess what by even doing that you may just walk into the the same type of job or similar
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with another company who's willing to pay you more because they need you
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so if you're dissatisfied start working on not being dissatisfied be happy get out there
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we're all gonna bitch and moan listen you know we all have a drink at the end of the day maybe
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we took a little weed, whatever your thing is to relax. For me, it's usually a nice alcoholic
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beverage and an amazing cigar that works for me. And I am not afraid to say I love drinking
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champagne. So that's just where we're at. Whatever works for you. But let's not make that the habit
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that shouldn't be your end of day every day because you can't cope with the work or the job
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behalf. Be happy. Move on. Keep going. Grow in your life. Okay, now let's move on to what in the
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hell is going on with the Republican Party. I know I've said before I don't like or I don't want to
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keep this show primarily political. Primarily. Sorry, as I said earlier, I had a long day here.
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but it seems to be hard to avoid these days news and politics really are the leading sector
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in the podcast world believe it or not the numbers do not lie it is huge that tells me
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and everyone else that we are interested in what's going on with with the politics and
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and the overall news of what's happening in the world but we're just not always getting the right
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information. And I'm very sure that we can all agree on that. So let's get back to politics.
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Look, this whole polarization of parties, you know, my team, your team, Democrat, Republican,
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I brought it up before. If you get down to the bare bones of it, we need both parties
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to balance. On paper, that's the way it's supposed to be. Problem is, Republican Party
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starting to look a lot like the Democrat Party.
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It's starting to look like we only have one actual party
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with just a few minute differences
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to make you think you're in an opposing party
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with opposing ideas and moral beliefs.
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In reality, you're probably not too far off.
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Now for those who really believe in your party and I do believe in a multi system i don know if i believe in just a two system now we do have more than one party i mean
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you know we have the independent party tea party i don't even know if that's still a thing democratic
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party we have the libertarian party we have the republican party i mean you name it we have them
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out there but none of the other ones get paid attention to because they don't get the funding
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because the media won't pay attention to them either.
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They won't even give them a shot or chance.
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Those candidates running in those other parties,
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the opposing parties that are mostly independent
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or basically not the majority parties,
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I believe they still should have a chance
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and be giving time on the debate stage
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so America can be exposed to other options.
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It's probably not going to happen in our lifetime,
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my lifetime anyway, but I am hoping it gets there.
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Now, getting back to what just happened, McCarthy out.
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What is the Republican Party doing?
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We need the opposition.
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We need the two opposing forces, yin and yang, right?
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That's what's going to keep the balance of the country.
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The Republican Party just did a stupid thing.
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And we have to go ahead and ultimately blame Matt Gaetz.
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What is Matt Gaetz thinking?
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that look we have not had a seat vacated for i mean we're talking years it's just maybe the
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second time it's happened i mean don't quote me on that i'll be honest i didn't really look into
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it but i think it was the second time ever in history i think maybe please email me or make a
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comment just correct me if you can or will i'm fine with that um we'll share that information
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and make sure I do better next time.
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But Matt Gaetz is doing nothing here
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but showing the Democratic Party,
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the opposing party,
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how much in disarray the Republican Party is,
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how little strength they have,
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how soft their backbone is.
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Now is not the time,
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given all the heat going on.
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We're talking everything from indictments
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to, you know, and not just on, on, on former president Trump's side, we're talking also on
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the Biden side, like there's just so much going on, so much going on that the last thing you need
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to do is throw a wrench in the spokes here and oust your, and oust the, the, the house leader
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and, and leave, leave a large hole there for the Republican party.
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that is ridiculous matt gates did nothing more than basically say what he had to say to get likes
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to get clicks and get people to look at him because once once mccarthy was ousted and voted
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out by only i think six votes it wasn't much but it was just enough okay once that happened
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he didn't have the balls himself to automatically put himself in the running he just wanted to stir
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the shit up i'm going to go ahead and play a clip of what he had to say about mccarthy
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um after this happened my friend from oklahoma says that my colleagues and i who don't support
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Kevin McCarthy would plunge the House and the country into chaos.
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Chaos is Speaker McCarthy.
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Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word.
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The one thing that the White House, House Democrats, and many of us on the conservative
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side of the Republican caucus would argue is that the thing we have in common, Kevin
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McCarthy said something to all of us at one point or another that he didn't really mean
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and never intended to live up to.
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I don't think voting against Kevin McCarthy is chaos.
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I think $33 trillion in debt is chaos.
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I think that facing a $2.2 trillion annual deficit is chaos.
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I think that not passing single-subject spending bills is chaos.
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I think the fact that we have been governed in this country since the mid-90s
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by continuing resolution and omnibus is chaos.
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And the way to liberate ourselves from that is a series of reforms to this body that I would hope would outlast Speaker McCarthy's time here, would outlast my time here, and would outlast either of our majorities.
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Reforms that I have heard some of the most conservative members of this body fight for and some of the reforms that we've been battling for that I've even heard those in the Democrat caucus say would be worthy and helpful to the House.
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like open amendments, like understanding what the budget is.
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We have been out of compliance with budget laws for most of my life,
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most of many of your lives.
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And by the way, if we did those things, if we had single subject bills,
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if we had an understanding on the top line, if we had open amendments,
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if we had trust and honesty and understanding,
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there would be times when my conservative colleagues and I would lose.
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Might be a few times when we'd win.
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There'd be times that we would form partnerships
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that might otherwise not be really predictable
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in the American body politic,
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but the American people would see us legislating.
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These last few days, we've suspended the momentum
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that we had established the week earlier,
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where we were bringing bills to the floor,
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voting on them, staying late at night, working hard.
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That's what the American people expect.
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It's something Speaker McCarthy hasn't delivered,
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and that's why I've moved to vacate the chair, our reserve.
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okay so i will say that matt gates made some very good points um you know not knowing the budget
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the you know basically running the government on concessions omnibus um he's correct
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i understand that publicly on camera he's trying to make a hard line for being a hardline
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Republican. Problem is, this is not something you do publicly. If you're having an issue with the
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party, settle those matters internally because you can't afford to show your weakness at this
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point. Not right now. You just literally can't. While he may be right on some points, the way he
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handled the situation is extremely wrong and is more of a detriment to the Republican Party than
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ever because McCarthy was only ousted by six votes or so that was it that was it
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so there is definitely a divide but was this play worth it was the ousting worth it McCarthy did
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what he had to do to try to keep things going because the Democrats will not budge they have
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too much power It just true The presidency Congress I mean what are you going to do There going to be a give and take until you in the position
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to where the pendulum swings your way
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or you have more weight on the other side to pull things your way.
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That's just how it works.
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You've got to play the game, Gates.
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and everything you said there are some great points and you're correcting a few things
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but how this was handled was extremely wrong so we didn't now we don't have a speaker of the house
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all of a sudden all of a sudden as of today which is october 4th is there there is three or so
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republicans uh that are trying to call and get support for the position but those three candidates
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thus far aren't going to really make that much of a difference. They're really not.
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Now, he could blame McCarthy for everything, but
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President Joe Biden has literally threatened
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multiple times to stall or shut down the
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government if things don't go their way. Like, literally.
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President Biden himself has said this.
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He's okay with shutting the government down.
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honestly if the government gets shut down a little bit here and there it's not going to hurt anybody
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but what what who it does hurt is when they stop paying certain people who have positions
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you know certain government jobs you know including the military when they start to hold their checks
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because being part of the government they also shut those people down i think if you're going
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to stall or shut the government down,
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the only thing that should be shut down
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and who'd be taking a hit in pay,
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and not just a small chunk, I'm talking about
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a chunk of pay, should be
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the House of Representatives,
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Congress,
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and honestly, the President and his Cabinet.
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If you want to
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stop America
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from moving forward
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and function,
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then you take the hit.
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You don't punish
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the workers
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who just happen to have or take government jobs
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so that they can't feed their families and pay their bills.
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If you have a squabble amongst yourselves,
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Democrats and Republicans,
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then fucking hash it out
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without hurting the rest of America.
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And let's be real.
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An omnibus bill, right?
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Sneaking last minute shit
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into the 7,000 page document,
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giving them less than 10 minutes to try to freaking uh you know read through it and then
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it's like oh we need to pass it out here's the deadline of course that's a strategy that they
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all use and it's a bullshit strategy if they would focus on what really needs to be done for
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the country instead of trying to line their pockets or or or or uh make lobbyists happy
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America would be in a much better place
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and I'm sorry Matt Gaetz
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but I can't applaud you on your actions
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and what you did
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I can applaud your conviction
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but I don't applaud what you did
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to oust McCarthy
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this wasn't the right way to do this
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it definitely wasn't the right time
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now if you disagree with me out there
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that is all well and good
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drop me a line
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in the comments
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you can email me
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info at fontsmedia.com f-o-n-t-e-s media.com and uh yeah let me know what you think um i was gonna
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do one more thing here um dude it looks like honestly as far as matt gates i'm not the only
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one who's who's not happy with what he did looks like even florida uh republicans aren't happy with
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him. They're calling Gates divisive, disrespectful, selfish, and no other Florida Republican voted to
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oust McCarthy. Says Florida's GOP, I'm getting this from political by the way, Florida's GOP
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delegation as carrying out a personal vendetta. They're referring to Matt Gates by the way.
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They're saying he's doing nothing but carrying out a personal vendetta, accusing him of an
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overzealous bid for attention and trying to position himself to become a state's future
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governor, which it really seems that is what Matt Gaetz is doing. Representative Carlos Jimenez says
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Gaetz has very few friends in the conference. Also goes on to say Gaetz maybe has a couple
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of friends in the delegation, but I'm not one of them. So a lot of Republicans aren't even happy
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with what Gaetz just did because they realized this wasn't the time to do this. And they're just
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showing the rest of America that the Republican Party right now is weak. We're not together.
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You don't see the Democratic Party doing this. You don't see it happening whatsoever.
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I can dive into this more. I just wanted to get this out quickly as, you know, we all have 15
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