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Resist Facism Site and Older Tech · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Check Douglas in the Power hour six ten double UTV
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  Speaker 1: in my number eight two one nine eight eighty six
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  Speaker 1: eight two one wtv N one eight hundred and six
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  Speaker 1: ten double UTVN. If you were a if you're one
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  Speaker 1: of those people who still uses toll free numbers, which
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  Speaker 1: I've said before, I don't understand why. With your cell phone,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much everything is everything's local. There's no such thing.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when we used to have, hey, hurry to the phone,
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  Speaker 1: he's calling long distance. You remember that? Were you old
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  Speaker 1: enough to remember that?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: I do, I actually remember.
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  Speaker 1: And you actually had to go to the phone. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't in your pocket, right.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when I wanted to ride home for my parents,
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  Speaker 3: I'd have to call one eight hundred collect two.
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  Speaker 1: One eight hundred collect or. Uh, just dial Star Star
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  Speaker 1: one one two oh four seven two oh seven seven
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  Speaker 1: four before you call your number. We had all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember. I do remember the first time we
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  Speaker 3: fouled Star sixty seven, which would give you like the time, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and the weather, and then Star sixty nine, which it
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  Speaker 3: would tell you who just called you?
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: By at least in West Virginia, did we were like amazed.
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  Speaker 3: We thought it was something super duper fancy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there were all kinds of services back there right
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  Speaker 1: after the phone company when AT and T was broken up,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of long distance services MCI, which eventually I
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  Speaker 1: think it merged with Oh was it all tell to
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  Speaker 1: form Sprint Mall Bill. I worked for AT and T
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of years right after what they called divestiture,
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  Speaker 1: the breaking up of the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
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  Speaker 1: and then just became AT and T. And Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: number of people out there who were making money by
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  Speaker 1: having these long distance companies that you would either use
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  Speaker 1: a card or dial up prefix before dialing your number,
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  Speaker 1: or like you said, call one eight hundred, collect and
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  Speaker 1: then place your call through them. It was just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And it only lasted for I'm gonna say, maybe two
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  Speaker 1: years and it was gone. We've had all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: changes just in the last couple of decades, maybe three
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  Speaker 1: decades of you know, things used to last for a while. Somebody,
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  Speaker 1: you know, builds a car and the car is still around.
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  Speaker 1: But the long distance companies and then the cell phone
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  Speaker 1: companies and the evolution of the cell phone companies into
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  Speaker 1: broadband companies, the Internet, dial up modems which become cable modems,
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  Speaker 1: and so forth, all of that kind of stuff. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I probably put more emphasis on the possibility of
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  Speaker 1: alien life than I do on ghost just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I think honestly and this is just truth of
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  Speaker 1: the matter. We again, this is my wheels are all connected.
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  Speaker 1: We went into the break there, and you were making
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  Speaker 1: fun of me and doing coast to coast stuff with me, And.
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  Speaker 3: No, I wasn't. I was poking fun of myself. I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't making fun of you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but see that's in my head now and I
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  Speaker 1: think about this kind of stuff. Okay, Look we went.
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  Speaker 1: We went from relative nothing. Okay, in the fifteen hundreds
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  Speaker 1: and the sixteen hundred sev seventeen hundreds, we finally had
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  Speaker 1: some flint locks and fought the American Revolution one shot
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  Speaker 1: at a time, kneel down, repack, reload, all that kind
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  Speaker 1: of crap. We've slowly advanced from throwing rocks and sticks
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  Speaker 1: at each other in the sixteen hundreds to having these
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  Speaker 1: flint locks in the seventeen hundreds. In the eighteen hundreds,
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  Speaker 1: Smith and Wesson comes along. We had the Colt. We
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  Speaker 1: have the revolver technology is there for a six shooter.
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  Speaker 1: Semi automatics came on the scene early what was it,
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  Speaker 1: early nineteen hundreds or late eighteen hundreds, can't remember what,
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  Speaker 1: and then we pretty much stopped. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there was no significant weaponry that was devised until you know,
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  Speaker 1: probably the atomic bomb. Our our forward momentum stopped, so
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  Speaker 1: then the tomic bomb, then the alleged Roswell nineteen forty seven,
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, we're sending men to the
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  Speaker 1: Moon orbiting the planet as satellite technology at home computers.
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  Speaker 1: But we just we spent several hundred years crawling and
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden were Jesse Owens when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to technology.
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  Speaker 3: Especially when the computer came around, it was just we
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  Speaker 3: just skyrocketed.
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  Speaker 1: And the original computers were I was again, I was
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  Speaker 1: working for AT and T. I was selling what essentially
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  Speaker 1: was a three eighty six computer of a monochrome monitor,
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  Speaker 1: and we were getting like forty five hundred dollars for
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  Speaker 1: those things. I mean, people were paying through the nose.
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  Speaker 1: We started at twenty five hundred dollars for the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the cell phone, which weighed about eight pounds you
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  Speaker 1: carried it in a bag on your shoulder. It had
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  Speaker 1: one half of one WAT of transmitting power and the
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  Speaker 1: battery lasted about thirty minutes. If you wanted to use it.
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  Speaker 1: It cost you seventy five cents per minute during daytime
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  Speaker 1: hours and between seven am and six or seven pm
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  Speaker 1: and six am it was off peak time when it
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  Speaker 1: was twenty five cents per minute. Now people live on
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  Speaker 1: their phones, but back then per minute charges. Just that's
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  Speaker 1: that's so weird that we moved as quickly as we did.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember those late night infomercials where they were
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  Speaker 3: adult only sex lines. Yeah, and it would be like
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  Speaker 3: I didn't put it together because I didn't call them.
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  Speaker 3: But I remember, look at be like, talk to this
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  Speaker 3: lady and you knew this six ninety nine a minute, Yes, and.
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  Speaker 1: We had we had nine seven six numbers which were
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  Speaker 1: local numbers, and then they went to nine hundred numbers
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  Speaker 1: and that you were paying per minute, and they'd have
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  Speaker 1: this you know, this hot model on TV goes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: waiting for your car right now. If you weren't bright
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  Speaker 1: enough to figure it out, the woman who was actually
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  Speaker 1: answering the phone and taking your money to talk to
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  Speaker 1: you probably looked a lot like me, and she was not.
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  Speaker 1: She was not even remotely close to resembling the women
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  Speaker 1: in the commercial. But people were spending money doing that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure at one time those companies made a ton
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  Speaker 3: of money.
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  Speaker 1: Well I'm sure they did too. I'm sure they did too.
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  Speaker 1: We but just we've CDs, even compact disc. Man, we
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  Speaker 1: thought this was the be all ind all of music,
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  Speaker 1: digital music. Oh my gosh, no scratchy sound to worry
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  Speaker 1: about you And and CDs are are pass a now.
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  Speaker 1: They were old school. There's kids, my grandson, the other kids.
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  Speaker 1: What's us as a DVD player? What? I'm like, wow?
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  Speaker 1: Wow man? Yeah, yeah, because everything streams now. We just
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  Speaker 1: moved so quickly, which is why I'm more inclined to
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  Speaker 1: believe something happened in Roswell than I am that that
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  Speaker 1: kid walked through the funeral home in the video.
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  Speaker 3: Chronologically, it seems, Yeah, a human evolution. That that's a
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  Speaker 3: good thesis.
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  Speaker 1: The good thesis. I think we should write it up
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  Speaker 1: and get a degree from somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we could do that.
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  Speaker 1: We could probably do that. Okay, so this have you
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  Speaker 1: ever noticed that you can sometimes and maybe more often
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  Speaker 1: than that, I don't know, look at someone and know
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  Speaker 1: their political affiliation.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, Like obviously you're judging a book by its cover,
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  Speaker 3: But a lot of times if somebody's looks a certain way,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, oh, yeah, this is this. Or if they
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  Speaker 3: say if they look a certain way and they go,
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  Speaker 3: I support so and so, you're like, yeah, we know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well if the cover you know, says lefty on it,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, you're right? Right? Representative is Pamila or
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  Speaker 1: Pamella or I don't know Pamia. I think it is
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  Speaker 1: j representative from Washington. I think it's Premia. Jaya Powell,
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  Speaker 1: She's a Washington Democrat, was on MSNBC Money to discuss
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  Speaker 1: her new resistance lab but program, Okay, this is Maxine
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  Speaker 1: Waters with more Manners is all it is. It teaches
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  Speaker 1: Americans how to fight back against dictators. The congresswoman explained
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  Speaker 1: that her program introduces American scholars of democratic backsliding and
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  Speaker 1: encourages them to find community with others interested in a
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  Speaker 1: coordinated resistance. These trainings, according to her website, have been
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  Speaker 1: created specifically for this moment. What we decided was that
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  Speaker 1: we really need to help Americans understand what happens when
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  Speaker 1: democracies fall, when dictators take over, she told MSNBC hosts
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  Speaker 1: Racial Madcal We've developed a curriculum that helps people understand
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  Speaker 1: how you go after the pillars of support, not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: the person on top, which means you, which means you
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  Speaker 1: let me say it one more time, which means you,
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  Speaker 1: but the pillars of support that allow the person to
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  Speaker 1: continue to have power. And how do you shift allies
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  Speaker 1: from being passive opponents to being active supporters of taking
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  Speaker 1: down a dictatorship? That means how do you get people
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  Speaker 1: crazy enough to burn Tesla. These are pretty words, people,
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  Speaker 1: but listen, listen to what is being said. She then
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  Speaker 1: explained that through though America has yet to experience a dictatorship,
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  Speaker 1: it appears as though that's the direction we're headed.
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans are gonna meet your grandparents, eat dog food.
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  Speaker 2: The repelllic has gonna take away he's so security. Repelicans
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  Speaker 2: gonna make your kids and now has school.
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  Speaker 1: Like how long? How long? How long do we have
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  Speaker 1: to endure this crap before they finally figure out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're not that gullible anymore. Grandma ain't eating dog food.
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  Speaker 1: It's not happening. But they've been saying this my whole life, man,
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  Speaker 1: ever since you know, nineteen seventy. This has been the
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous conjecture that's out there that tries to panic and
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  Speaker 1: incite people into believing something that's not happening is actually happening,
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  Speaker 1: and something that's not there is actually there. And it
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  Speaker 1: makes me sad that in some cases it works. What
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  Speaker 1: was it we were talking about earlier? Mark read it
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  Speaker 1: and Guy said something about the basically saying fascism, Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration and fascist. Go back, go back and research the word.
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  Speaker 1: Research the word. You can throw Bernie and AOC into
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  Speaker 1: the fascist category a whole lot faster just saying. These classes,
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  Speaker 1: the article continues, can be hosted virtually based on a
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  Speaker 1: series of models or modules. She encouraged those interested to
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  Speaker 1: screen the Resistance labs while hosting house parties, which could
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  Speaker 1: potentially allow thousands of individuals to attend a single session,
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  Speaker 1: Though Representative Jaya Powell did not explain whether the trainings
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  Speaker 1: are aimed at a particular political figure, Trump Trump Trump
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  Speaker 1: Trump Trump Trump trump trump Trump. Her website notes, with
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  Speaker 1: Trump and his mega billionaires are doubling down on their
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  Speaker 1: attacks on democracy, we can't afford to sit this moment
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  Speaker 1: out again, throwing trite phrases out there. They have no
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  Speaker 1: what attacks on democracy. You should be a citizen to
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  Speaker 1: vote in American elections. That's not an attack. That's a reality.
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  Speaker 1: You should have to present identification when you vote. That's
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  Speaker 1: not an attack. That's a reality. We should actually count
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  Speaker 1: the votes and not allow some computer system to magically
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  Speaker 1: make ten thousand a peer or disappear in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night. I think that's a realistic thought process.
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  Speaker 1: The article continues. The moment comes amid growing resistance aimed
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  Speaker 1: at Donald Trump. Representative Alexandria Casio Cortez and Bernie Sanders
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  Speaker 1: now traveling the country to deliver rallies, encouraging attendees to
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  Speaker 1: fight oligarchy, again throwing out a word that most of
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  Speaker 1: their supporters don't even understand. But folks, I'm just I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to, you, got it. I don't want to. I
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  Speaker 1: try not to be political, Seriously, I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: do it this hour. I wanted to be a little frivolous,
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  Speaker 1: a little lighthearted, which is why we did the ghost
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  Speaker 1: and the cartoons and the next stuff. But this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, this is the kind of stuff that incites
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  Speaker 1: that crazy guy across the street that nobody ever talks.
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  Speaker 1: To keep your head on a swivel, as they say,
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  Speaker 1: watch out for what's going on. If I can find
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  Speaker 1: the online presence for these resistance resistance labs, I won't
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  Speaker 1: even share them publicly on the social media. There are
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  Speaker 1: some of you to whom I might send it on
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  Speaker 1: Messenger or something privately, because I know you're saying incompetent people.
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  Speaker 1: But I would even hesitate to share this openly on
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  Speaker 1: social media because the WingNuts are abounding and uh, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't need to give them any any inspiration. But
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  Speaker 1: if you look at this, did you look at her
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  Speaker 1: picture by the way, yes, Democrat? Democrat, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, But I've seen her before.
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  Speaker 1: Drives a Subaru with four hundred bumper stickers guaranteed.
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  Speaker 3: Coexist with what I don't know. They all have the
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  Speaker 3: co exist bumper I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, but they never say co exists with what they're not.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you co exist with me if I'm supposed
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  Speaker 1: to co exist with you, And for gosh sakes, look
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing to the paint on your car. Subaru
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  Speaker 1: makes a fine vehicle, but you cover it up with
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  Speaker 1: all those bumper stickers. That's how you can tell a
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  Speaker 1: real conservative. We don't do that to the paint on
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  Speaker 1: our cars. Man, that's just crazy when you got all
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  Speaker 1: those I'm just saying, but yeah, she very very much
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  Speaker 1: looks like a Democrat. If I saw her in the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Kroger. From the face she's making right now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming she'd be frozen foods, But yeah, I would
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  Speaker 1: know that I'm dealing with a left wing Democrat. All right,
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  Speaker 1: just head throwed out there. Want to make sure you
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  Speaker 1: guys were informed.
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  Speaker 3: You can even buy if don't send out that link,
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  Speaker 3: but if you do, remind everybody you can buy merchandise there.
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  Speaker 3: And they got some pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Cool resistance merchandise.
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  Speaker 3: Really, They got coffee mugs and masks.
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  Speaker 1: Really, anything with Maxine Waters on it.
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  Speaker 3: No, not available atom because I'd use those to get
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  Speaker 3: rid of the mice in the fall.
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  Speaker 1: Just seeing