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Pat McAfee Is a MAGA STOOGE | Luke Thomas Gets Political · Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

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  I know what the common response to this
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  video is going to be from Pat McAfei
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  supporters. They're going to say,
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  "You'll never be as successful as him.
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  You've been doing this longer than him
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  and you're not as successful as him.
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  You'll never be anything like him." To
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  which I would actually say, "You're
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  right. I will not be I will not be
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  anything like that." But I don't think
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  it means what you think it means. what
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  it means for me and what I hope every
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  like young aspiring I don't know if
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  journalist is even the word at this
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  point but media figure if you want to be
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  a big deal in media first of all having
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  some level of acclaim or celebrity that
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  you bring to the situation before
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  getting into media it helps a lot but
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  putting that to the side that's really
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  not even the point is you have to be a
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  stoogge for power that's what that means
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  that means you need to rub elbows with
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  adjudicated rapists and war criminals
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  that's what this means because that's
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  exactly what Pat McAfee is
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  That is what he is doing. This is not a
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  guy who is interested in any way in
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  challenging power in any kind of way in
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  pushing back in any kind of way other
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  than lending what his visibility and his
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  popularity is to the worst people
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  imaginable. Then getting called on it
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  and being like, "What's everyone worried
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  about here?" If you don't know what I'm
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  talking about, Pat McAfee joined
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  President Trump for the Patriot Games.
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  This is this stupid ass competition
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  that's part of the uh the 250
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  Celebration of America by Trump. It's a
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  high school competition. It's an
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  athletic competition. It's I don't know.
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  It's like the presidential fitness test
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  beats American Ninja Warrior. That's
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  really not the point. The point is that
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  Pat McAfee was rubbing elbows with this
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  guy in support of it. And what's kind of
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  funny about all of this is Pat McAfee is
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  such a coward, he can't even defend
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  himself on the terms that he is supposed
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  to. He gets called on it. This is what
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  he's tweeting in response to rubbing
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  elbows with President Trump. And the
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  tweets are now going to be on the
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  screen. And then he addressed this on
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  his show. Take a look at this.
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  >> All of Disney. The previous head of
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  Disney just bought the Lakers.
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  >> Yes, he did.
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  >> This is the new head of Disney. Head of
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  ABC right there. One of the heads, Miss
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  Deb. Incredible. Love catching up with
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  her. Jimmy Petaro. That's a head of
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  ESPN. And then right there with his left
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  arm around uh one particular guy. That's
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  Gumpy.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Okay. That is that that is Gumpy. And
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  then obviously it's me and then the
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  amount of students and kids the energy
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  last night was just absurd in there and
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  they're winning lifechanging money. So
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  you can there's a lot of people upset
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  anytime obviously you have uh uh the
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  president doing anything especially
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  President Trump uh who was very gracious
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  to me and Gumpy I would say and all the
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  Disney people would say the same thing
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  with how it was all set up last night.
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  Uh, anytime he's a part of something,
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  it's gonna be very loud. And there's
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  people saying some
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  >> heard some people say it's really mean
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  stuff.
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  >> Oh, yeah.
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  >> Diary a polarizing figure available
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  Friday by brand new album. I wrote uh 15
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  songs. I learned how to sing for them
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  and it will address a lot of this and
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  this kind of is what my life is. But the
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  mission of the Patriot Games, I am a
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  firm believer and I'm not the only one
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  and and I am very excited for what the
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  future is. If we're gonna get an aggro
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  crag with an American Ninja Warrior,
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  with a push-up pull-up contest, with all
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  these things, what the presidential
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  fitness things used to be, but like
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  bigger, bigger, I think this can become
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  something that's magical across the
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  entire country. So, I was very lucky and
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  honored to be there,
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  >> Pat. This is gradea coward [ __ ]
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  bro. And you know it is, too. I'm not
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  telling you anything you don't know. You
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  know it is. You don't even have the
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  decency to defend yourself.
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  You have to make this about the high
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  school kids, which is this is not what
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  this is about. No one is really, for the
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  most part, complaining about the Patriot
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  games.
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  At least that's not really the
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  substantive critique. And you don't even
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  have the decency to defend what it is
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  you're doing. You're a guy who in the
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  middle of some kind of group of other
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  people puts on some pornography where
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  the setup is a plumber comes to fix some
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  lady's pipes. you put this on, they get
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  to work and people are like, "Dude, wh
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  why are you what are you doing? What is
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  this?" He's like, "Guys, I'm just really
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  into home improvement. Anytime I can be
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  out there to help someone with home
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  improvement or just learn something new
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  about the plumbing process, that's
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  something I'm always going to do." Dude,
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  who [ __ ] believes this? Who believes
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  this? Least of all you. Nobody. Nobody.
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  And again, as I mentioned, least of all
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  you.
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  If you want to be seen with Donald Trump
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  in the year of our Lord 2026 here this
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  month of August, you have a
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  responsibility to explain precisely why.
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  Cuz the jury is out, dude. Let me
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  explain to you who you are. Okay? You're
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  not the January 6th guy. You're not the
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  one who's so politically adultled that
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  they're running into the Congress
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  looking for Mike Pence to hang him. No,
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  that's not you. That's not who you are.
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  That's not what you're doing. You've got
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  a much more low-key vibe. That's true.
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  You're the January 7th guy. You're the
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  guy after all of this is over is trying
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  to tell people this is all no big deal.
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  This political extremist who just tried
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  to steal a presidential election, and
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  this is a fact, with a fake elector
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  scheme. We should just forget about
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  that.
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  Yeah. that guy who got over 120 girls
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  killed in Iran, which the Iranians also
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  say was a double tap strike.
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  None of that happened. You're the Jan 7
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  guy. You're the guy trying to polish the
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  crimes of January 6.
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  I have said that this country not
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  getting after the crimes of January 6 is
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  going to prove to be an absolutely
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  catastrophic
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  mistake for our democracy. And people
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  like you are proving that argument true.
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  I don't know how to explain this to you
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  and everybody else, but we can all see
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  it even if you pretend you can't. This
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  is not Bob Dole.
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  This is not Mitt Romney.
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  This is not Dan Quail.
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  That's not who's running here. That's
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  not who's operating here.
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  This is the most extreme political
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  project in the United States in the
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  entirety of my life. This is a guy who,
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  as I mentioned, has already committed
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  war crimes. To say nothing of what
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  they're doing, for example, in the
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  Caribbean, just killing Ecuadorian
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  fishermen over and over and over again.
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  This is a guy who's throwing Fulbright
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  scholars into ICE detention for op-eds
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  they've written. This is a guy who, as
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  we speak today,
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  has a family locked up for crimes of
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  simply existing within the bloodline.
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  They've literally done no immigration
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  crime and they've done no actual crime
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  beyond that. Nothing. And they are
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  sitting in ICE detention month over
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  month. This is a guy who has destroyed
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  health care subsidies. This is a guy who
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  has destroyed clean air laws, clean
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  water laws. This is a guy who has tried
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  to roll back civil rights protections
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  all the way to 1965. This is a guy who
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  has ignored through his administration
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  thousands
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  thousands upon thousands of court orders
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  and plan to keep doing that. This is a
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  guy who is one of the MVPs, I should say
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  at a bare minimum, the all stars of the
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  Epstein Files and you're at an event
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  with children next to him.
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  This is not any old dude you can just
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  parade around with and we're all going
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  to think it's cool. This is not even
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  standard partisanship. Well, some people
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  are just not going to like this guy.
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  This guy is a criminal. This is the most
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  corrupt man to ever hold this office.
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  Also a fact that is not even debatable.
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  And you're rubbing elbows with him and
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  then called on it. And your only
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  response is to use the kids as human
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  shields to put them in front of you.
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  Defend yourself.
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  Defend yourself on the terms you are
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  supposed to be offended. It is amazing
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  to me how [ __ ] all of these guys are
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  about wanting to rub elbows with Trump
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  and then pretending none of that ever
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  happened or that's not really what's
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  defining this or there can be no
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  political consideration. My guy, you get
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  involved with a guy like this and it
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  becomes nothing but political. Why do
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  you think you are there? Because he
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  wants your witty reparte.
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  He wants to use your popularity and your
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  visibility to make himself and his
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  projects look better.
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  The guy who is the adjudicated rapist.
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  The guy that is one of the allstars of
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  the Epstein files. The guy that is a war
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  criminal. The guy that is attempting to
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  become an authoritarian leader of this
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  country and to change its democracy. A
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  guy who tried to steal the presidential
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  election that he lost.
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  This is not any old politician where the
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  fact that they hold office, we might
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  have our disagreements, but I respect
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  the office. I don't respect [ __ ]
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  nothing about him.
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  And you can't if you take any notion
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  of ethics seriously and any notion of
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  political reality as important.
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  And when called on it, you couldn't even
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  defend yourself.
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  You don't even have the courage to
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  explain why you think it's okay. You
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  just want the office of the presidency
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  to just launder the whole thing and then
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  make gaslight everyone into thinking
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  they're just all partisans who can't get
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  over themselves and or to use it to
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  promote whatever like AI music thing,
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  whatever he's doing that he's promoting
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  on top of it.
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  That's the story here. That's why people
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  are mad. That's why they're angry. I
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  don't have a comment about his show
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  generally. I don't watch it. I wouldn't
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  know enough about it to understand it,
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  its popularity or anything else. But I
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  do know that he is popular. I do know
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  that he is certainly front and center in
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  ESPN. And for better or worse, these are
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  just the facts you have to contend with.
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  That's why you're there, Pat.
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  You're there because they want what your
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  popularity can do for them. Because it
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  sure as hell isn't the war crimes that
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  they're doing. It sure as hell isn't
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  destroying the exchange markets by
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  getting rid of subsidies. It sure as
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  hell isn't the thieving, the looting of
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  the treasury that they're doing. It sure
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  as hell isn't because you've got service
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  members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
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  who are trying to kill themselves
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  because of how abused we are making
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  them.
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  It's not any of those things. I guess on
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  some level I kind of understand why you
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  wouldn't make an argument because
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  what would the argument even be? Yeah,
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  sure. He's responsible for killing
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  thousands of innocent people just since
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  he took office in the second term. We're
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  just snatching world leaders out and
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  holding them hostage in various places.
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  We've turned Venezuela into a vassal
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  state. We're murdering Ecuadorian
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  prisoners. We're terrorizing
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  immigrants in this country to the point
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  of committing illegality every single
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  day, shooting people in the face in
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  Minnesota, if not in the back and in the
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  back of the head in many numerous other
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  ways. Absolutely destroying the fabric
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  of communities everywhere and
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  terrorizing, not specifically, but
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  including millions of Latinos. you think
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  it's cool to partner with that guy and
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  that we're all extremists when we're
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  like, "Dude, that's a bad idea."
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  I don't know when it will happen and I
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  don't know how, but like all things,
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  this will come to an end one way or the
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  other. And when it does, my sincerest
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  hope is the people that did nothing but
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  to make it bigger and more dangerous and
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  more sanitized and more accepted that
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  they get called to task on it. And I
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  won't hold my breath about that either,
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  but I'm certainly not going to forget
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  about this.
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  You had an opportunity to just do a show
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  and do it normal and have fun and be
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  irreverent. But I think what really is
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  going on here is that a lot of these
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  guys you see out there, I want the folks
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  in the audience to know this, the
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  biggest names in sports media, these are
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  people that are desperately seeking to
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  be associated to power. They get a taste
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  of it and they don't want to go back to
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  anything else.
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  And we are poorer for it. Our
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  information environment is poorer for
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  it. Our ethical environment is poorer
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  for it. And our political environment is
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  certainly poorer for it. These are
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  people that don't mind eiserating you
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  and me if it means they get to prosper.
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  These are people that don't care if you
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  suffer or I suffer as long as they win.
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  These are people that don't care if
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  somebody that they don't even have to
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  take a look at gets abused by the
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  government or killed or held in
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  detention or in some kind of way
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  emiserated. They just don't care
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  because they get to profit. And if they
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  can help power do it, no problem. No
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  problem. Pat McAfee is a [ __ ] stoogge
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  for a war criminal. That's who he is.
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  And a willing one at that without the
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  courage to even bother trying to defend
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  himself.
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  Don't be gaslit by this [ __ ] Don't
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  Don't fall for this. You can see what
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  his priorities are. He couldn't be
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  happier about them to show them to you.