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This Political Ad Is Going Viral. Is It The Worst Ad Ever Made · The Matt Walsh Show

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  Speaker 1: What you're about to see is one of the most
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  Speaker 1: cowardly and self-defeating political ads ever produced in modern American history.
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  Speaker 1: But just over a month ago until the midterms in
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  Speaker 1: a year that's been dominated by completely legitimate concerns about
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  Speaker 1: the cost of living and the difficulty of finding stable
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  Speaker 1: long-term employment that can support a family and a mortgage,
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  Speaker 1: the Republican governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has just
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  Speaker 1: made the baffling decision to demonize the most loyal supporters
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  Speaker 1: of her party, namely white men. Now I call this
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  Speaker 1: decision baffling and it is, but that doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: it's unexpected or surprising.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the Republican party after all.
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  Speaker 1: They might be useless and unreliable most of the time,
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  Speaker 1: but at least you can always count on them to
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  Speaker 1: be openly contemptuous of their own voting base. So you
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  Speaker 1: can rely on them for that at least. According to
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  Speaker 1: Republicans in Arkansas, you know, contrary to what you're seeing
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  Speaker 1: every day with your own eyes, The truth is that
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  Speaker 1: lazy white men are the real problem. Yes, it's white men.
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  Speaker 1: White men are the ones dragging us down. They are
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  Speaker 1: the cinder block chained to our ankle, pulling us as
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  Speaker 1: a nation into the icy depths. They're defrauding the government.
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  Speaker 1: They're ripping off the treasury. They're unwilling to work or
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  Speaker 1: improve their own lives or contribute to society. So forget
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  Speaker 1: everything you've seen or think you've seen about Somali daycares
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  Speaker 1: and EBT scams and home health care shams and welfare fraud,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all that rampant, pervasive corruption that's overwhelmingly committed
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  Speaker 1: by non-whites, many of them not even Americans. Well, in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of the Republican Party establishment, you should focus
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  Speaker 1: your disdain instead on an imaginary epidemic of 20-something white
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  Speaker 1: male welfare queens.
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  Speaker 2: Watch. Yeah, you want some of this?
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  Speaker 3: Take that.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Me and Brad, Brad has turned relaxing into a full-time profession.
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  Speaker 4: But you, you actually work hard. You pay taxes to
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  Speaker 4: cover welfare for guys like Brad who just choose not
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  Speaker 4: to work.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I launched a welfare-to-work requirement.
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  Speaker 2: Almost there.
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  Speaker 4: Now, more Arkansans are working than ever before.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa.
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  Speaker 2: Even Brad.
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  Speaker 1: Well, of course, at first glance, it's surprising to see
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  Speaker 1: a white male depicted in an advertisement at all. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's a rare sight these days, as we know. I
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  Speaker 1: was watching football on Sunday, and I don't think I
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  Speaker 1: saw a single commercial with a white male unless he
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  Speaker 1: was depicted as part of a biracial couple or like
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  Speaker 1: a multiracial friend group. Aside from that, you only see
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  Speaker 1: white males in commercials if they're portraying, of course, the
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  Speaker 1: burglars in a home security ad or You know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: the greedy credit card company executives in an ad for
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  Speaker 1: a different credit card company that doesn't have greedy executives,
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  Speaker 1: of course. That's the kind of brilliantly subtle messaging we've
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  Speaker 1: come to expect from our nation's illustrious marketing departments. And
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  Speaker 1: it's also apparently exactly what we can expect from the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party, which rose to power in the last election
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  Speaker 1: by campaigning quite explicitly against DEI and against anti-white discrimination
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  Speaker 1: in general, even if usually they won't call it that.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're trying to convince us that the prototypical welfare
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  Speaker 1: parasite is a 23-year-old white guy named Brad, which is
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  Speaker 1: exactly like producing a PSA calling attention to plummeting math
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  Speaker 1: scores featuring a procrastinating, incompetent East Asian math student named
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  Speaker 1: like Zhang Chen or something. You know, exactly the sort
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  Speaker 1: of person that immediately springs to mind when we think
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  Speaker 1: of people.
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  Speaker 2: Who aren't good at math.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the truth, of course, is that white males are
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  Speaker 1: among the least likely to be on any kind of
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  Speaker 1: welfare at all. And young white males like Brad are
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  Speaker 1: virtually nonexistent on the welfare rolls. You know, we'll dig
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  Speaker 1: into the numbers more in a minute because this is
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  Speaker 1: actually a much more revealing moment in American politics and
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  Speaker 1: culture than it may at first appear. There's a reason
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  Speaker 1: why when Republican politicians and consultants get together in a
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  Speaker 1: room to come up with an ad for their new
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  Speaker 1: welfare policy, which, by the way, is a good policy.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that in a moment. They make
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  Speaker 1: the deliberate decision to represent welfare leeches with a stereotypical
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  Speaker 1: lazy white male caricature. I mean, there's a reason they
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  Speaker 1: specifically chose not to use a more statistically accurate caricature.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you think the conservative.
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  Speaker 1: Critics of this ad are overreacting, well, then just imagine
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  Speaker 1: how basically everyone would have responded if they had used
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  Speaker 1: the exact same approach, but with a different race.
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  Speaker 2: Now, somebody on X called Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Clown PhD, who may or may not be a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: medical doctor, I don't know, posted an AI mock-up with
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  Speaker 1: the races swapped out. So this is basically the exact
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  Speaker 1: same ad, but with the stereotype this time being of
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  Speaker 1: a black guy.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is. Oh, hell no, that's a hole. Throw
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  Speaker 2: the flag, man.
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  Speaker 4: Meet Deshawn. Deshawn has turned relaxing into a full-time profession.
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  Speaker 4: But you, you actually work hard. You pay taxes to
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  Speaker 4: cover welfare for guys like Deshaun who just choose not
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  Speaker 4: to work. That's why I launched a welfare to work requirement.
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  Speaker 4: Now more Arkinsons are working than ever before. Even Deshaun.
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  Speaker 2: Now that, of course, is AI slop.
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  Speaker 1: I object to it on the grounds that it is
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  Speaker 1: AI slop on those grounds, at least. It's also not
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  Speaker 1: really representative of the statistically standard welfare moocher who is
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  Speaker 1: more likely to be a black single mom with multiple children.
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  Speaker 1: The people attaching themselves to the welfare system like barnacles
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  Speaker 1: on the hull of a ship and staying on the
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  Speaker 1: dole for their entire lives and costing the taxpayers untold
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars every single year are generally not young
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  Speaker 1: male gamers of any race.
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  Speaker 2: But the point still stands.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that AI slop video is a lowbrow, insulting, crass,
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  Speaker 1: black male caricature. And the whole point is that you
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  Speaker 1: would never see that or anything like it, AI or otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: from any politician on the left or right. And if
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  Speaker 1: you ever did, it would be widely condemned as racist.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody would pretend they don't see the problem with it,
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  Speaker 1: that they don't understand what the ad.
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  Speaker 2: Is doing or why.
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  Speaker 1: And when people objected to that ad, if it ever
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  Speaker 1: did exist, which it never would, you're not going to get.
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  Speaker 2: People saying, what? Oh, you're upset about that? I have
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  Speaker 2: no idea why. That wouldn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Because this kind of demonization only ever goes one way,
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  Speaker 1: only ever targets one group. White males have been degraded, demeaned,
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  Speaker 1: and systematically disadvantaged by every institution in the country explicitly so,
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  Speaker 1: openly so for decades.
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  Speaker 2: That's a fact.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's not just like a sob story. That's
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  Speaker 1: actually just a fact.
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  Speaker 2: It's true.
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  Speaker 1: Some of us are tired of it, and we expect
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  Speaker 1: our elected representatives to push back against it, or at
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  Speaker 1: the very least, if they don't have the gumption to
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  Speaker 1: push back against it, at least don't participate in it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: not every conservative feels this way. As the ad, you know,
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  Speaker 1: provoked a loud and justified backlash from many on the right,
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  Speaker 1: there were others who were quick to rush to its defense.
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  Speaker 1: For example, Joel Berry, who used to write for the
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  Speaker 1: Babylon Bee, posted this, quote, There's a strategic reason behind
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  Speaker 1: using a white guy in this ad. It's designed to
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  Speaker 1: keep the conversation on the merits of the policy instead
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  Speaker 1: of making.
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  Speaker 2: It a racial issue.
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  Speaker 1: That would have worked great 10 years ago, but now
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  Speaker 1: we have a growing contingent of whites who are just
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  Speaker 1: as cripplingly insecure and neurotic about race as a BIPOC SJW.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: Joel is pretending he doesn't understand the point, but I
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  Speaker 1: do know that he is pretending. He's smart enough to
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  Speaker 1: know that there is a rather significant difference between the
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  Speaker 1: white people criticizing this ad and the, quote.
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  Speaker 2: BIPOC SJWs.
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  Speaker 1: The difference is that the latter group complains about systemic
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  Speaker 1: and institutional bigotry against their favored demographic groups, except that
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  Speaker 1: the systemic.
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  Speaker 2: And institutional bigotry is not real.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, the growing contingent of whites, as
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  Speaker 1: Joel calls them, complaining about systemic and institutional bigotry against
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  Speaker 1: white males. In that case, the systemic and institutional bigotry
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  Speaker 1: is real. So we're complaining about a thing that is real.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually happening. As opposed to complaining about a thing
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  Speaker 1: that is.
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  Speaker 2: Not real and not happening.
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  Speaker 1: Joel, do you understand the distinction between complaining about a
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  Speaker 1: thing that isn't happening and complaining about a thing that
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  Speaker 1: is happening? Do you see why there's no logical or
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  Speaker 1: moral equivalence between those two? I think you do see it.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're pretending that you don't see it. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I know you see it because you admit it in
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  Speaker 1: the first sentence. You say, again, there's a strategic reason
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  Speaker 1: behind using a white guy in this ad. It's designed
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  Speaker 1: to keep the conversation on the merits of the policy
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  Speaker 1: instead of making it a racial issue.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Why would that be the case, Joel? Why would political
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  Speaker 1: consultants assume that the only way to avoid a racial
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  Speaker 1: controversy is to portray the oafish, dishonest, useless parasite as
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  Speaker 1: a white male?
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  Speaker 2: Why is it?
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  Speaker 1: Is it because white males are the only group that
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  Speaker 1: can be portrayed that way in our society? Is it
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  Speaker 1: because that is the unspoken and sometimes actually spoken, in
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  Speaker 1: this case by you, rule that every major institution in
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  Speaker 1: the with white males being the default punching bags. We're
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  Speaker 1: not okay with a situation where we say, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: we need a group to be the punching bag here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just use white males. Obviously, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: white males. We need a bad guy. It's got to
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  Speaker 1: be a white male. Yes, I agree that that is
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  Speaker 1: the strategy. That is what they're doing. Our point is
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  Speaker 1: that that is bad. We shouldn't accept that. We're critiquing that.
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  Speaker 1: And if that makes us cripplingly insecure, then so be it.
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  Speaker 1: But I'd say someone appears to be emotionally crippled in
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  Speaker 1: this conversation, and it's not us. Any white male, on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, who's willing to just sort of lie
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  Speaker 1: down and take it, I'd say they're maybe the crippled one,
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  Speaker 1: even the insecure one. Now, meanwhile, in the face of
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  Speaker 1: this backlash, instead of firing her communications team and admitting
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  Speaker 1: the ad was a terrible idea, Sarah Huckabee Sanders proceeded
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  Speaker 1: to make the situation infinitely worse.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't simply double down.
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  Speaker 1: She took a cue from the Joel Berry camp and
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  Speaker 1: pretended that she didn't understand what.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody was upset about.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what she wrote, quote, Some critics online don't like
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  Speaker 1: my welfare work requirement ad. Next thing you know, they'll
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  Speaker 1: say I should have used cookies instead of cheese balls.
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  Speaker 1: If you're able-bodied, you should not collect welfare simply because
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  Speaker 1: you choose not to work, period. Again, these critics online
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  Speaker 1: are conservatives who are simply tired of seeing.
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  Speaker 2: Even our own side demonize young white men.
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  Speaker 1: Your team, governor, made an obviously intentional decision to not
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  Speaker 1: depict a more statistically representative welfare leech, which, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: would be a black single mom. Can you explain why
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  Speaker 1: you made that decision? Don't pretend it wasn't a decision.
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  Speaker 1: It might fool Joel Berry. It's not going to fool
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  Speaker 1: the rest of us. Don't pretend that it wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: deliberate decision where you've got consultants and marketing people. You're
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  Speaker 1: sitting around in it trying to decide who is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the villain in this ad. Don't pretend it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't deliberately decided. Oh, yeah, well, that's got to be
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  Speaker 1: a white. There's no way we're putting a black guy
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  Speaker 1: in that position. You're insulting our intelligence. Can you explain
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  Speaker 1: why there's no way in hell, no way in a
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  Speaker 1: million years you would ever produce that kind of ad
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  Speaker 1: with any other group as the villain?
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  Speaker 2: Can you tell us why?
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  Speaker 1: If you don't want to explain it because it's precisely
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  Speaker 1: the answer we already know, then again, at least don't
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  Speaker 1: insult our intelligence by pretending you don't understand the point
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  Speaker 1: we're making. Now, you certainly know that we aren't upset
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  Speaker 1: about work requirements for welfare. I mean, Republican voters support
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  Speaker 1: work requirements generally, where people have to demonstrate that they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to find a job before they get benefits. Really,
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  Speaker 1: many of us want to go much further than that.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking for myself, at least, I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: numbers are with Republicans generally. Speaking for myself, I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate food stamps entirely. I'm more anti-welfare leeches than
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  Speaker 1: you are, Governor, a lot more. I'd say get rid
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  Speaker 1: of the whole thing. The SNAP program has no reason
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  Speaker 1: to exist. It's the single easiest welfare program to defraud.
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  Speaker 1: And that's obviously saying something. And it's built on a
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  Speaker 1: faulty premise, which is that millions of Americans need free
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  Speaker 1: food or else they'll starve.
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  Speaker 2: That's just not true. It's a fantasy. It's not true.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody in America is at a risk of starvation. We're
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  Speaker 1: all going to die. We're at risk of many different
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  Speaker 1: kinds of physical calamities. But starvation is not going to
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  Speaker 1: be the thing that takes.
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  Speaker 2: Any of us out.
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  Speaker 1: Americans are, by orders of magnitude, pun intended, more likely
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  Speaker 1: to die from eating too much than too little. As
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  Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal reported this year, quote, America doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have a hunger problem. About three quarters of adult food
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  Speaker 1: stamp beneficiaries are overweight or obese.
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  Speaker 2: Only 3% are underweight.
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  Speaker 1: More Americans of all income levels die from illnesses caused
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  Speaker 1: by overindulgence than by hunger. Yes, three-quarters of adult food
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  Speaker 1: stamp recipients are overweight or obese. This is a program
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  Speaker 1: that costs around $ 100 billion per year, and 75% of
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  Speaker 1: the recipients, by definition, do not need food assistance.
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  Speaker 2: If anything, they need the opposite.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can make a much more compelling case
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  Speaker 1: for distributing taxpayer-funded Ozempic than for food stamps. Not that
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  Speaker 1: I'd be in favor of that, but the point still stands.
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  Speaker 1: And If anyone doesn't, you know, does need help accessing food,
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  Speaker 1: they have about 10 other welfare programs that they can
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  Speaker 1: draw money from, not to mention private charities and soup
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  Speaker 1: kitchens and food pantries and so on and so on.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why if you spend five minutes on TikTok,
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  Speaker 1: you'll find that food stamp recipients are generally obese and
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  Speaker 1: highly entitled. They're also bragging about making plates and selling
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  Speaker 1: them on the street using their food stamp money.
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  Speaker 4: Watch.
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  Speaker 5: I'ma tell y'all straight up like this. I just got
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  Speaker 5: that text that the link is definitely cut the f
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  Speaker 5: * * * off for November. Y'all better stay the
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  Speaker 5: f * * * out of my way in these stores.
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  Speaker 5: I'm walking out with cards and I'm not paying for
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  Speaker 5: s * * *. Tromba, if you won't, motherf *
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  Speaker 5: * * er start looting. Oh, it's finna happen. Before
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  Speaker 5: my kids go broke in this b * * *
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  Speaker 5: h like jock. I'm going to be stealing like it
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  Speaker 5: ain't no tomorrow. I am going to go in that store,
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  Speaker 5: get everything I get regularly. I'm going to bag my stuff,
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  Speaker 5: swipe my link card, so that they ain't no pin
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  Speaker 5: to balance on there. I'm going to walk the out.
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  Speaker 3: My boy trying the strawberry kiwi.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A hundred out of ten.
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  Speaker 1: A hundred out of ten.
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  Speaker 6: Come on now.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is the kind of fraud that would be
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  Speaker 1: worth depicting in a political ad. It would actually resonate
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  Speaker 1: with voters because it's really happening and it's costing us
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  Speaker 1: tens of billions of dollars every single year.
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  Speaker 2: So what are the actual numbers?
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  Speaker 1: Well, You know, there are many different figures floating around
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  Speaker 1: on social media about how different groups collect welfare at
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  Speaker 1: different rates. We're not going to take their word for it,
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  Speaker 1: but unfortunately, calculating the exact number of people on welfare
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  Speaker 1: is complicated and the government makes it difficult to do so. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that may be partly intentional. After all, if
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  Speaker 1: America's welfare programs are really distributing wealth from people of
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  Speaker 1: one color to people of another... then they wouldn't really
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  Speaker 1: want us to know that. Another reason is that welfare
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  Speaker 1: is a patchwork of dozens of different programs, some administered
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  Speaker 1: by the federal government and.
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  Speaker 2: Some by the state.
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  Speaker 1: Some, like what Huckabee is talking about in her ad,
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  Speaker 1: are federal programs administered by the state. So to keep
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  Speaker 1: things neat, we'll focus on one of the biggest programs, SNAP,
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  Speaker 1: which provides food assistance, as we know, to low-income people.
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  Speaker 1: This report on The SNAP program is the most recent
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  Speaker 1: government statistic published last month by the Department of Agriculture.
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  Speaker 1: On page 75, it breaks down SNAP recipients by race
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  Speaker 1: and demographics. And according to the data, about 40.1 million
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  Speaker 1: Americans are on SNAP, which is a ridiculously high number already.
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  Speaker 1: We're supposed to believe that 40 million Americans would not
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  Speaker 1: be able to eat without taxpayer assistance. That's what we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to believe. That's just under 12% of the population,
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  Speaker 1: about one in eight people. One in eight people are
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  Speaker 1: not capable of feeding themselves in a first world civilized
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  Speaker 1: country is what we're supposed to believe. Now, according to
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  Speaker 1: the official government data, 35% of SNAP recipients are white,
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  Speaker 1: despite them being almost 60% of the population.
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  Speaker 2: So that is wildly disproportionate.
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  Speaker 1: In the sense that non-Hispanic whites are using welfare much
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  Speaker 1: less often than the other groups. Black Americans make up
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  Speaker 1: roughly 25% of SNAP recipients, despite being 14% of the population. Again,
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  Speaker 1: wildly disproportionate in the opposite direction, wildly overrepresented on the
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  Speaker 1: welfare rolls. Hispanics are 16% of SNAP recipients and are
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  Speaker 1: 20% of the population. So if you're going to pick
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: any group that represents kind of the standard welfare recipient,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: or represents.
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  Speaker 2: A group that is the most likely to.
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• 19:07
  Speaker 1: also 55% of the SNAP recipients, despite being 50.5% of
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the population. So if you're going to pick a typical
• 19:13
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• 19:17
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• 19:20
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• 19:25
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• 19:29
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• 19:32
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• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Huckabee Sanders team is going out of its way to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: demonize one of the few demographics in the country who
• 19:42
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• 19:45
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• 19:46
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• 19:50
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• 19:52
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• 19:54
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• 19:58
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• 20:03
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• 20:13
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• 20:16
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• 20:16
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• 20:30
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• 20:34
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• 20:38
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• 20:45
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• 21:03
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  Speaker 1: So to be clear about this, Sarah Huckabee Sanders does
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  Speaker 1: not oppose the idea of SNAP in general, we should note.
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  Speaker 1: A year ago, she publicly advocated to ban SNAP for
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: junk food, which is a good policy. But at the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: same time, she demanded that the federal government allow people
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: to buy hot rotisserie chickens with their SNAP benefits. And
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: her stated reason was that she wanted people to be healthier,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: even though there's already plenty of healthy foods that people
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: can buy with SNAP if they want to, especially.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: If they're willing to cook their own food, which they should. Watch.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Right now, you can use food stamps to buy a
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: soft drink or a candy bar from a gas station,
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: but you can't use them to buy an Arkansas-raised hot
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: rotisserie chicken from a grocery store. That's the definition of crazy.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Governor Sanders says she's acting because America is facing a
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: chronic disease epidemic, with millions of Americans struggling with obesity,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: diabetes and heart disease. She says one third of all
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Arkansans have diabetes or are pre-diabetic.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: When the numbers are that high, it's important for us
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: to examine a system that actively encourages and subsidizes unhealthy,
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: highly processed, addictive products.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Now, the honest explanation for what's going on here is
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that it's corporate welfare. And some of the biggest corporations
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: in Arkansas, Walmart, Tyson's, Sam's Clubs, Kroger, and so on,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: sell hot rotisserie chickens. If Sanders was able to secure
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: an exemption allowing people to buy these chickens with SNAP benefits,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: it would be a very big deal for all these
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: big grocery stores. In general, SNAP isn't allowed to be
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: spent on prepared foods since it's supposed to be an
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: absolute last resort. It's supposed to help people get the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: essentials that they can prepare at home. But she wanted
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: an exemption, which would benefit companies like Walmart. And as
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: you probably guessed, the Walton family, which owns Walmart, are
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: major donors to Sarah Sanders and her various initiatives. The
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Waltons were some of the largest individual donors to Sanders' campaign.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Jim Walton sent half a million dollars to an education-focused
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: group that employed Sanders' campaign manager, Chris Caldwell, in a
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: high-level position.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: So is that what this is about? Who knows. But
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: it doesn't look good. And if we really.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Want those dastardly 20-year-old gamers to get off the couch
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and find a job and stop bilking the welfare rolls?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: All like five or six of them who are doing that?
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Why exactly should we be paying for them to eat
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: hot rotisserie chickens from Walmart? Why don't we tell this
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: mostly fictional group of welfare recipients to eat rice and
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: beans every day until they finally put the controller back
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: down and go to work? Hot rotisserie chickens taste good.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: It's the kind of food people can eat every night
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: and It's very convenient.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: And that's the opposite of the kind of food that
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: we want to give people for free. You want to
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: give the bare minimum. You want there to be some
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: effort involved if you're going to do this at all,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: which I don't think you should. Since again, virtually all
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: welfare recipients are already overweight. And also, the idea is
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: to motivate people to not, this should not be a
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: lifestyle choice. If you're going to have a system like this,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: which for the umpteenth time you shouldn't, it should be
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: A last resort, a stop along the way to you
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: getting your life back together. And by the way, if
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Sarah Sanders were truly concerned about the plight of young
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: white men, she'd not to take a total detour here,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: but she'd be talking about the rise of mobile sports
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: gambling in her state, which the government legalized just a
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: few years ago. In 2019, in Arkansas, a total of
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: $ 11 million was wagered on sports, according to the Arkansas
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: state government. And then they legalized betting on smartphones and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: everything changed. And by 2025, more than $ 655 million is
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: being wagered in a single year in Arkansas. This year,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: more than $ 2. 5 million is wagered on sports in Arkansas
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: every day. It's a massive financial problem for young men
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: in the state. Instead of investing in their own retirement
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: or a home, many of them making extremely risky bets
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: on their phone. And mostly without realizing it, they're playing
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: a rigged game. The sports books go to great lengths
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: to ban anyone who wins too much. Has the governor
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: of Arkansas said anything about this? As far as I
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: can tell, she hasn't. She's allowed gambling to proliferate instead.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: In fact, the Arkansas Racing Commission just approved a petition
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: from casinos to partner with all the major national sports
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: betting apps to expand access to gambling even further. We're
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: told not to worry about any of this. We're supposed to,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: you know, mock the unemployed white guy living in his
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: mom's basement. We're not supposed to criticize the sports books
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: in any way. And while we're at it, we're supposed
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: to pay for everyone to buy chickens at Walmart. It's
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: not really a coherent message. And politically, it's catastrophic. It's
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the kind of messaging you get when a political party
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: wants to lose, or at least doesn't know how to
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: not lose. What's interesting here is that Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: far from the only Republican who's pushing the message that
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: white people are lazy degenerates, She's far from the only
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: one to do that. This is a common message from Republicans.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Here's the Speaker of the House along with his deputy,
• 29:15
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• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Watch.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: You don't want able-bodied workers on a program that is intended,
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: for example, for single mothers with two small children who's
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: just trying to make it. That's what Medicaid is for.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: Not for 29-year-old males sitting on their couches playing video games.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to find those guys and we're going to
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: send them back to work. That's what everybody supports. That's
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: what the Republicans are for. And by the way, we
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: find dignity in our work. We're actually cutting spending in
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: this bill, getting rid of a lot of waste, fraud
• 29:33
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• 29:34
  Speaker 7: Example, in a program like Medicaid so that the truly
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: disabled and needy will be able to get better access
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: to Medicaid because those able-bodied adults who are turning down work,
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: the 35-year-old who's sitting at his mom's basement playing video games,
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: is going to have to go get a job again.
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: Those are going to be good things for the economy,
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: but it's also something that helps reduce waste, fraud, and
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: abuse and saves hundreds of billions of dollars in those programs.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: I know I'm being insecure, apparently. Even though, you know,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: here's the thing.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I am a white guy, but I don't... Quite infamously,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I don't play video games. I'm not a big gamer
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  Speaker 1: at all. And I don't live in my mom's basement.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: So there's no reason for me to take this kind
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: of thing personally. And I don't take it personally, but
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I do object to it. Because it's just not... This
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: is not the problem, okay? When we think about all
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the people who are spending billions and billions and billions
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: of dollars, who are forking over billions of dollars to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: leeches and parasites who are just living off the government
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: as a lifestyle, these are not.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Men in their 20s playing video games for the most part.
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  Speaker 2: That is a.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Minuscule fraction of the problem. You could kick every 20-plus-year-old
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: white gamer in his mom's basement off of the welfare rolls,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: kick them all off in one fell swoop. It would
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: make basically no difference. That could be like a thimble
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: of water being taken out of the ocean. But this
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: is the go-to talking point on the right. The people
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: who are sucking up the welfare dollars aren't black women
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: or Somalis or Venezuelans or anything like that. The real enemy,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: we're told, is gamers in their mother's basement, young white
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  Speaker 1: males named Brad who are playing with their virtual reality
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: headsets on the sofa.
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  Speaker 2: They're the ones bleeding us dry.
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  Speaker 1: That's the message that the consulting class is telling Republican
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• 32:06
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• 32:10
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• 32:15
  Speaker 1: women are more likely to be on welfare than men,
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  Speaker 2: People, significantly so.
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• 32:26
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• 34:57
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• 34:59
  Speaker 1: denied their brilliance and intellectual capital. And then she posted
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: this video. where she elaborates on her grand thesis, a
• 35:10
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• 35:16
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• 35:22
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  Speaker 2: Pushed out of the workforce. Where's that?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: The exact opposite is happening and has been happening for decades.
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  Speaker 2: Every institution goes out of its.
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  Speaker 1: Way to change the rules, to change the hiring process,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: to hire as many Black women as they possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, here's Ayanna Pressley describing this fantasy in greater detail.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 8: With the so-called reckless actions of the Department of Government
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  Speaker 8: Efficiency that took a sledgehammer to the infrastructure of our
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: federal government, If you processed a FAFSA application of the
• 36:05
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  Speaker 8: If somebody in your family was preyed upon by a
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• 36:24
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• 36:30
  Speaker 8: this is disruptive of livelihoods and lives. But this is
• 36:33
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• 36:37
  Speaker 8: and the intellectual capital of black women.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Now, by the way, I don't get this doesn't make
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: me angry when I see this kind of thing.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: I hear this.
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  Speaker 2: It's total nonsense. It's a complete fantasy.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: But I get why they're doing it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a smart strategy.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: As we just said, black women are like 92% vote
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: for Democrats at a rate of 92%, 95%. Your most
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  Speaker 1: loyal voters. I mean, black women as a demographic are
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  Speaker 1: more loyal to Democrats than any demographic has been loyal
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  Speaker 1: to any party ever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's unheard of, 95%. Again, that's where your
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  Speaker 2: bread is buttered. And so you talk them up.
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  Speaker 1: You have nothing but positive things to say about this
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  Speaker 1: group that votes for us at a clip of 95%.
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  Speaker 1: I get why they're doing it strategically.
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  Speaker 2: But again, it's false.
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  Speaker 1: Now, she's talking about the intellectual capital of black women
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  Speaker 1: and how we should all be in awe of their brilliance.
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  Speaker 1: And as evidence of this claim, she lists a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of federal government agencies that employ black women as bureaucrats
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  Speaker 1: doing mostly routine and unremarkable government work. She literally says
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  Speaker 1: that black women are processing applications for student financial aid
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  Speaker 1: as if we're supposed to sit back in awe. The
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  Speaker 1: brilliance it takes to, oh, they processed an application.
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  Speaker 2: That's like building a rocket. Move over, Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, you build a rocket ship, but can you process
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  Speaker 1: an application? I mean, yeah, you could definitely do that.
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  Speaker 1: You're a business owner, so you process paperwork all the time,
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  Speaker 1: but still.
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  Speaker 2: What's next?
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  Speaker 1: Did a black woman give someone a parking ticket? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: successfully stamp an envelope at the post office?