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Racism from a Sitting Member of Congress · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show Monday morning thirty, first and
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final day of July. Hi, I'm West Thanks for joining me. Winding
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down a month, getting ready to kick off August. We're on that slope.
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Man. Saw the Halloween stuff out in stores. I saw some really
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good Halloween stuff actually over the weekend, some really nice stuff. I'm gonna
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have to make some early purchases while they're available. I have to do that.
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But I know people are upset. I can't believe Helloween stuff's out.
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Yeah. I didn't mean to sound like Dracula when I was doing it either.
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Oh, Helloween stuff is out. So here we are, final day
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of July, and we're a little over a week away from back to school
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for a lot of kids in the area. I guess some may be starting
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back in the area this week. So it's happening. It's happening quickly,
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and I know the Muscogee County kids have another week. But now this is
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the week where you start resetting the clocks because they've been up late eating potato
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chips all night, playing video games. Sneaking their phones. That's what they
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do all night, you know, that's what kids do. My kids they
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never do things like that. Never. But let's say this is the week
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to reset all those clocks and start getting them to charge their phones outside of
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the bedroom. You know, maybe even in your bedroom. I don't have
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an area where their phones can charge there safely, because that's the best place
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to get the charge, you know, come up with some reason like that,
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all right. Almost on Q after Friday's show where we talked about racism,
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we talked about this notion, this idea that there's no such thing as
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racism from anybody, I guess except for white people in America, specifically white
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men. I don't know. We have this. It sort of fluctuates.
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Sometimes it's like white men can be racist, all of them, I guess,
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or racist, and then that's that's a that's a lump of like all
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or racist. And then you got groups of white women that are racist,
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some of them not, depending on you know, political leanings and things.
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I know some of the white men have the same political leanings, but it
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doesn't matter. They're lumped in the giant group of you know, racist white
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men. Some women good some women bad. It depends. So the bad
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women racist, the other women they're fine. You know, if you're if
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you go see the Barbie movie enough, you're fine because you're you're supporting the
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message of that movie, which I'm not really even sure what it is.
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I suspect I know what the message is, um but and I'm not opposed
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to watching this absurdist movie, I guess. But I'll also know that sometimes
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when we have these absurdist movies that have this uh, you know, moral
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lesson that's supposed to be there, that's supposed to smack you in the face,
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supposed to be this lesson you're supposed to get, sometimes that becomes bigger
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than the actual movie itself. You know. Sometimes that's sometimes you can sit
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there and say that the message of a movie like Moonlight that won the Best
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Picture Oscar. You know, they say, oh, you know, we
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gotta get this message we're trying to get out there. The movie wasn't really
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that great. It was all right, it wasn't great. There was a
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message there that was more important than the actual movie. Brokeback Mountain had a
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message that they wanted people to hear and to see, and they wanted it
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to be promoted, but it clearly wasn't the best movie that year. I
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didn't think it was great at all. I did watch it. It was
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nominated for Best Picture, and I thought, well, I'll check this out.
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There's a movie a couple of years ago, call Me by Your Name
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or whatever it's going and it's, uh, you know, about an adult
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man and an underaged child having a relationship together. For some reason. There's
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a message there. I don't know what's going on with that message, but
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people said you should watch that, and then you know there's a Black Panther
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strong message. You know. Black Panther was a sort of the message of
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the movie was kind of this embodiment of the Black Panther comic book character.
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Movie. Uh, you know, nothing really great. I didn't think.
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I got friends that saw it and went, hey, I don't understand.
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It's kind of overhyped, right, But again, it was more important to
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have the message therefore it I think that's what's going on with Barbie. But
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anyway, tangent big time because I was talking about, you know, if
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you're into the cause that is the Barbie movie, then maybe you're you know,
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maybe you're one of the good ones. You're not one of the racist
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ones, but it's it's safe to assume. And then Republican black men are
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the only ones that can be racist if they're Republican, if they're Clarence Thomas
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or Tim Scott, they certainly are, you know, traitors to their own
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calls, all those horrible things that get said about them. But for the
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most part, the universal acceptance is white men just racist, and there's not
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and you can't even deny it. If you try to explain it, then
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you're white explaining it. There's all these negative connotations that come. You can
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reference Friday Show if you want to dive into some of the things that were
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going on in Kentucky where they were telling nurses, hey, you have to
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take this test. It's going to tell you about how racist white people are.
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And the and the white people who you think maybe aren't racist because they
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don't say anything racist, they don't do anything racist, but they're they're just
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kind of, you know, they're silent about it. They're not being vote
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cool enough. They're not marching, they're not wearing the Black Lives Matter T
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shirt, they're not doing all of the and supporting the political cause and the
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mansions and things of the Black Lives Matter where that money actually went. So
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clearly they can't possibly understand that they're they're racist, That's just what they are.
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So we talked about that a little bit on on Friday, and then
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like right on Q we get handed this gem. Over the weekend, elan
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Omar representative Minnesota does an interview with Al Jazeera and explains that this is just
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kind of just lobbed it out. It wasn't even really. It was just
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like I would say, our country should be more fearful of white men across
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our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.
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She said country a lot. But you know, Minnesota, the little house
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on the right. So no explanation for what that meant. There's no statistical
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evidence to back up her claim that white men calls most of the deaths in
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the country. I don't unless she's talking about I don't know, people in
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charge of managing pandemics and things, right, If she's talking about one particular
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guy, then maybe so. If she's talking about, you know, people
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whose name rhymes with grouchy, maybe that's what she means. I don't know,
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But she didn't explain. All I know is that she thinks that,
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you know, white American men are causing most of the deaths in the country.
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They're the threat. It's strange, as she came to this country for
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opportunities, she left a country where she was not treated well at all.
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That's an understatement, right, That's part of her story, isn't it.
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I mean, she left Somalia to come here, and she gets here and
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you know, ultimately just says, yeah, these white men in this country
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are horrible. It is interesting the number of people who maybe come to this
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country and or just thankful to be here. And I know that to her,
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she wants to make it into the country that she wants it to be.
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But it's that same sort of thing that takes place when people leave a
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state like California or New York and they come to another state, they go
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to Texas, or they come to Georgia and they say, we left a
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place. It was a disaster, it was a nightmare. It was an
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or Florida, it was a nightmare coming being an a state like New York
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and or I'll Georgia as my reference point. The folks from California or New
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York that were actors that came here looking for acting jobs because a lot of
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movies get made in Georgia. Now, opportunities in the Atlanta area, a
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lot of opportunities here in Columbus people to make movies and get an opportunity to
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do that, to work on movies and continue their craft in a state that's
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far far away from the nightmare that is Hollywood, the nightmare that is New
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York when it comes to taxes and politics. But what do they do.
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They get here and they think, well, we're need to make this more
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like California or New York, not appreciating the fact that you're coming from a
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place that's much worse than where you currently are and not being able to just
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kind of, you know, take it in for a while. Maybe I
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don't know, live there five ten years before you think we need to change
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everything and make it more like where I was anxious to get far away from.
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Because that's what always baffles me, That's what always confuses me. So
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for the most part, people come to the US from countries and they say
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it was terrible there, Cuba was bad. I'm glad I'm here. And
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this is why I believe in these basic principles, these basic ideas that make
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this a better place than where I was. Right, and then you get
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the occasional person who comes in and just says, I want it to be
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socialist. I want it to be different. I want it to be what
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I want it to be, and not what it's been since the beginning.
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Not all the things that made me want to come here in the first place,
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not all the things that made me think it would be great to come
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here. Let's change it, let's make it different. The number of people
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here in our country already that live here, we're born here, but want
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to make America push further to the left and to be more socialist or communists.
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The opportunities are there to leave this country and go to those places.
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You can go there. They'll take you in if you believe in the vision,
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if you believe in all the things that they support, if you believe
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that communism is great and that China is amazing, you can go there.
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Why not go there? Why not go there and tell them swear allegiance to
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their to mao, swear allegiance to all of the things that they do that
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you look up to. You know, go to any place that supports Marxist
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ideals and just say I'm here to serve, show me my place, tell
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me my job, here for the cause, and let me do my job
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for the cause. But no, it's about trying to take something that's different
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and change it into that. It's about taking something that's been helpful to the
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world. You know, generally, it's been helpful for the world, this
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idea that is America. So she goes and she says this really hateful things.
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It's hateful. That's a hateful thing to say, speaking as a white
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man, that's a hateful thing to say white men. People should be afraid
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of white men because white men are causing most of the deaths in the US.
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That's it. They're actually causing most of the deaths within this country.
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That's what she explains. And that's not considered racist. That's not been deemed
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Now some people are calling it racist. There's a lot of people on social
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media saying, wait a minute, this is pretty racist. This is textbook
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racist. This isn't reverse discrimination racist. This is just straight up racist.
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This is saying something negative and hateful with nothing to back it up about white
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men causing most of the deaths. That's what she says, and like I
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said, I don't know if she's talking about Anthony Fauci or you know,
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if that's what she's trying to explain, I'd love to hear that flushed out.
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I'd love to hear her really follow that idea all the way to its
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conclusion. I think that would be great. It would be wonderful to hear
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her say all of those things. Wouldn't that be great. I'd love to
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hear it. I'd love to her to explain the lab leak theory and how
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well, I guess then you'd have wouldn't be white men creating it. But
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if funding came from the US and went to help fund the lab leak and
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cause that to happen, then you know, maybe that would be the case.
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Maybe that would roll over. But anyway, I'd like to hear her
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explain, and I think that would be a great But anyway, some are
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upset. They should be. Now I'm upset because she's a member of the
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House of Representatives, and I don't think that this is okay. I wouldn't
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like this statement made about any group. If she said that, you know,
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Asians are responsible for the most Asian American men are responsible for most of
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the debt. I wouldn't like that. I wouldn't like her to say that
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about any group at all. That's despicable. It's the kind of thing that
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usually people are asked to explain themselves and then they end up having to apologize
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publicly for it, or her home address gets given out. And I'm not
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into the docks and craze, but that would happen. Somebody might show up
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at the I don't know, the Capitol, chase her into a bathroom and
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ask her why she can't explain what she meant. And that might happen,
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but not in this case. No, it's just we move on like this
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was no big deal. That's what's going to happen. We'll just pretend that
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nothing really happened. It's no big deal, just her making a comment.
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It's the kind of thing that and I, you know, overall, she
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doesn't matter to me. She's not someone that she's a part of that really
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loud SMA, a group that seems to be the loudest people in the room.
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But we're learning more and more now that they're not the loudest people in
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the room. And these sort of sentiments belong to this small group of people.
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They just find places like Al Jazeera TV and they get an opportunity to
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say hateful things and nobody really calls them out on it. And they should
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see, we're busy banning and boycotting beer. We're busy banning and boycotting or
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stressing out about a Barbie movie, where we really should be focused on things
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like this. We worry about chicken sandwiches, we worry about beer, we
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worry about oh my gosh, they move the All Star Game, which we
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should that's a fair thing to be up It's very fair to be upset that
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they move the All Star Game out of Georgia. And the same people who
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wanted it moved as a punishment to the state of Georgia because they said,
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you know, election problems. They're the same people who when the Braves were
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in the World Series, they after that that same season, they showed up
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and you know, went to the game and supported the Braves. They didn't
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seem to have a problem with the World Series. You know, that was
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different. It was different then, it's very different. So here we are
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something hateful, something racists said by a member of Congress who should be held
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accountable. Who should have to explain what this means? Who should be forced
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to explain exactly what this means and having otherwise? Shouldn't there be some form
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break. I know, a lot of the country has been experiencing really really
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hot weather, like the hottest summer ever, and a lot of people here
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just kind of rolls downhill when people talk about it. But it hasn't been
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as hot here as it has been in the past. Remember just recently,
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a few years ago, we had like ten fifteen days in a row over
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one hundred. So I don't think it's quiet, but it's still hot.
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It's all relative when you're talking about ninety eight or ninety nine versus one hundred
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and four or whatever. But people are dealing with it in creative ways.
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And here's some of the ways that people are dealing with the hot weather.
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A new survey came up with some of these ideas, and have you tried
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these? Are you doing these? And are they helping at all? Sleep?
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Being naked? First of all, just putting that out there. Some
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people do that. Some people do that in the winter. You know,
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I don't understand that in the winter, but some people do. But sleeping
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naked in the summer when it's hot, certainly I would think would be helpful.
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You could accompany that maybe with taking a cold shower just before bed.
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I think doing that as well in the mornings, if you have your hot,
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normal hot shower to get your clean and your pores open and all that,
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and then close it out with like two minutes of cold shower would work
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as well. Putting a wet towel on your head, sleeping in a separate
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bed from your partner, putting your feet in a bowl of cold water.
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I haven't tried that one. Sitting in a kiddie pool. There you go.
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Putting ice in front of a fan. Our air conditioning unit was out.
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It was out of free on and we had to get somebody to come
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in and take care of that. And in the meantime, that's yeah,
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putting ice in front of the fan. Anything you can do to just basically
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get water with the fan over the top of it, it's what you need.
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Sitting in a parked car with the AC on, see, that's not
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you know, that's gonna get the the people who fly the private jets to
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Geneva to complain about, you know, pollution. They're not gonna like that
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one. That's not a good one. Lying on a ceramic tile floor,
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stone floor, that's actually good. Sleeping on the floor. About sleeping on
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the floor. Hanging a wet sheet in front of an open window to cool
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the breeze. I think that's the same principle as a fan blowing over water.
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Right. Uh. Sleeping in a damp t shirt. I think that's
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called sweat, isn't it. Putting sheets in the freezer before bed another solution
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that some people do now. We used to regularly we would take a small
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towel and get it wet and put it in the freezer, and then you
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would take that you know, icy crusty towel one put it on your head.
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That was actually really effective. We did that when we were kids.
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So anyway, just some id is, just some solutions to help us navigate
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through the hot weather. All right, So how about this trend, this
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is it? Were those household chores I'm thinking, you know, getting a
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like a speed round of vacuuming the house, right, dusting at a real
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