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Canada Says ’We Live Above a METH Lab’ — They’re Right · Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

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  Canadian here. Feels like we live above
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  a meth lab.
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  I know that people on the right who
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  watch this or generally don't want to
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  hear what I'm about to say. Uh and it's
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  not me even like I just I just need you
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  to understand something.
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  the way in which we have grown up. The
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  reason why the world feels so unstable
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  now is yes, there's quite literally
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  conflict and
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  um a number of issues but it's a little
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  more than that. Namely, we have all
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  lived under the order of American uh
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  hegemony.
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  We have lived under a hegemonic order
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  established by the United States. And
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  that's not just security protocol with
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  different alliances or the ways in which
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  the world functions there or you know
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  various theories of deterrence but you
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  know the the dollar as the reserve
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  currency and the way in which that has
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  enabled our spending which has enabled
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  our security situation and when all of
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  that goes away the entire paradigm
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  changes and I have I don't know if
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  anyone's noticing but the world is
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  slowly moving in that direction how can
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  the world look at I mean it's one thing
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  for Trump to wreck this place which he
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  is doing right we talked about it before
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  for the first time since the Great
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  Depression, more people are leaving the
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  United States than coming here. Right?
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  That's a fact.
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  There was an article today in the New
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  York Times.
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  Uh the USA is the only country among
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  major like OECD countries or even
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  standard tourist destinations that is
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  losing viewer uh visitors year-over-year
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  than gaining them. All the rest are
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  gaining. Colombia is having like a
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  renaissance by the way.
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  And
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  you you put all of this together and
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  then you look at how various allies are
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  decoupling from us either from a
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  security theater or even even certain
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  financial agreements or I should say
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  trade relations and the like. Canada
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  being a pretty good example of this.
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  They're going to move off the dollar as
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  the world reserve currency if we keep
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  pushing it. And maybe it's already too
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  late. And at that point they will have
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  disassociated and helped implode the
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  United States as a way to preserve world
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  stability. That is not a world where the
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  United States that you grew up in ever
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  comes back from. And it is not an
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  impossibility to suggest that is the
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  world in which we are creating. a world
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  in which the rest of the world looks at
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  us destabilizing
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  again trade routes, destabilizing supply
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  chains, destabilizing security theaters,
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  destabilizing not just the the the the
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  security situation in the Middle East,
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  but now in order to compensate for that,
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  we're pulling resources out of our Asian
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  uh allies bases and the security theater
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  there and what that potentially means
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  for them like destabilizing everything.
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  to say nothing of what, for example,
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  tariffs have done to further create
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  complications to existing trade and
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  other forms of um economic agreements
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  between nations.
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  They're looking at this and they're
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  saying to themselves, we can't trust
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  these people. And even if you know,
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  Trump were to be 25th Amendment
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  tomorrow, so much of this damage has
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  been baked in. I don't know if we can
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  get it back. And I just need folks to
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  understand this is what is at risk. We
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  might avoid the worst calamitist version
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  of things. Oh, there's no nuclear war.
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  Okay, great. There's no famine. Okay,
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  great. There's no there's no Great
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  Depression. There might be a recession.
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  I think we're already in one. But you
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  avoid the calamitous versions. Okay.
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  Okay, great. But the order, the
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  backbone,
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  the skeletal system that created how the
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  world functions over the course of my
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  life, that might be undone. And once
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  that gets undone, you can't live in this
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  country the same way anymore. There's no
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  way to do debt finance spending on
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  defense in the way that we do. The whole
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  system changes and the whole the way in
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  which we can interface with the world.
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  Everything about that changes and
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  there's no going back from that. And we
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  are staring down the barrel of that if
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  not already walking that path.
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  All right. What do you make of Noam,
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  Christy Noom being fired and Steven
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  Miller backing down from his 3,000
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  arrests per day demand? Has the tide
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  turned? may be lightly subsided or
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  calmed before the storm. They're opening
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  they're closing some facilities so they
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  can open these mega warehouse of one of
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  uh camps. They're concentration camps.
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  We've talked about this before, but
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  whatever you would like to call them. Uh
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  Hagerstown, Maryland is supposed to have
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  one. There's a series of them that are
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  going to be opening. These are private
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  essentially prisons, you know, in a
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  they're detention centers, but you get
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  the idea. Those are still being built
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  with this huge amount of uh money. And I
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  I I don't in any way imagine that um
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  that's going to lead to anything but
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  human rights abuses. I think over 20
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  people have died in ICE custody just
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  this year. I think it's up to 20 is what
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  I saw based on some of these camps in uh
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  remote parts of the Dakotas.
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  Um what do I make about no one being
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  fired? Dude, you can do a lot of things
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  working for Trump, but one thing you
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  can't do is
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  uh kind of make blame him essentially or
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  make him look bad. I think that the
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  money she had spent on marketing and
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  then saying that, you know, had Trump's
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  approval really pissed him off. I think
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  that was a thing that really did him did
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  did her in. I don't imagine that what
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  happened in Minnesota necessarily helped
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  her out very much. I don't think that
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  was the deciding factor either. But if
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  you do something in a way that you pin
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  blame on him, he doesn't take very
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  kindly to that. And then if you're also
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  doing a bad job on top of it, that'll
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  make it pretty bad, too. I think Patel,
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  for example, has survived because he's
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  quite obviously incompetent and terrible
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  at the job, but he mostly finds ways to
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  shoulder that. Same with Hexath after
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  the signal scandal and everything. He
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  kind of finds ways to make not make
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  Trump the victim there. Uh, and so I
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  think that has preserved him. But do I
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  think you know
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  guys if you just look at the proportion
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  of ICE the population that is being
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  detained by ICE over 70% of them have no
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  criminal charges
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  and it wasn't that proportion early they
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  have no one else to get except to dig
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  into that portion of the population
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  depending on whatever their their
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  immigration situation is. So it's just
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  taking them to a totally untenable
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  place. it's making them dip into parts
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  of quite obviously productive society
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  and um you know and there's been South
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  Florida excuse me South Texas has been
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  describing their construction collapse
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  of their market um but Florida as well
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  Florida do you see Florida I think lost
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  something like it might be more than
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  this but something around like 40,000
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  students because of their immigration
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  rates being pulled out of the public
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  schools and you might be like oh well
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  they don't deserve to be there. It's
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  like, well, when you remove enough
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  schools and the facilities go unused
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  because the population is declining,
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  this has effects on education quality
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  over time. Like it's not just a thing
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  you can just remove that many kids from
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  school and like this is just a and by
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  the way that could continue this trend
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  and like oh the quality of the schools
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  won't suffer. They will. You're also
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  removing potentially from the tax base
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  that contributes to the school. Like
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  it's just a it's a way to decline your
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  system anyway. But people
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  people are determined to blame
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  immigrants for all of their problems
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  rather than examining the ways in which
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  society has been organized around elite
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  wealth. But okay, you know
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  your take on everything going on in
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  Iran? Do you think Trump will just try
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  to find a way out, declare victory and
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  leave? If he does that, what do you
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  think happens? The I this is a question
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  well beyond my purview, but I have been
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  reading what experts who have focused on
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  Iranian war games have been saying and
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  they don't think it's that simple. What
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  they are saying
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  is that Trump could do that. He could
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  say, you know what, mission
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  accomplished. We're done here. We're on
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  the way out. But it's really not going
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  to work that way because what Iran wants
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  is a virtually no military presence in
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  those GCC countries, if at all, which is
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  why he's going after them. Uh why Iran,
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  excuse me, is going after them the way
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  that they are. But the way that they
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  explain it is what the Iranians want is
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  to damage America enough that they think
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  twice about ever doing this again. And
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  for Trump to just leave won't do that.
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  And what they anticipate is a world
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  where there's many possibilities, but
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  the ones that I have read about are
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  situations where Trump might in fact do
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  something like this. Like, you know
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  what, mission accomplished, we're out of
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  here. And they still don't open the
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  straight of four moves. Like, no, [ __ ]
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  you. We are going to we are going to
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  unleash pain and punishment on every
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  part of your supply chain cycle, on all
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  of your allies, on this entire region,
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  so that this kind of threat because they
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  see it as existential. They see the
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  threat as not just a bombing campaign
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  that they have to survive, but about
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  whether or not the country as that's
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  currently assembled, and again, we're
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  not here to support necessarily every
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  version of that, but it's not our choice
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  either. The question is what the people
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  in power want. And they see this as
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  existential. What they want is to
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  establish some kind of very painful
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  deterrent threat that the United States
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  doesn't [ __ ] with them basically uh ever
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  again or at least, you know, certainly
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  not anytime soon. And what they're
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  they're unil what they have what I have
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  read from experts about this is that
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  they don't think unilateral engagement
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  will work.
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  This is the problem with escalation
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  either vertical or horizontal. It then
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  takes on a life of its own that simply
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  removing oneself from doesn't really
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  solve the problem because now the fire
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  is burning beyond the place where you
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  initially set it. Oh, I created a fire.
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  I put out the portion right but the fire
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  is still burning here. you walking away
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  from that doesn't put out the fire and
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  by the way the fire could just reach
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  back to where you were before this this
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  is the issue as I again as I understand
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  it this course is beyond my you know
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  what I have spent my life studying but
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  um the I if you guys have read experts
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  who feel like unilateral disengagement
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  will yield an end to the conflict I
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  would love to read it because that is
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  not what I have seen