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Luke Thomas Political Live Chat, ep. 3 · Luke Thomas Gets Political (LTGP)

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Hey,
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we're live.
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We're live. We're live. Can you Tommy?
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Can you hear me?
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D. Hello everybody. Welcome on this 18th
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day of September 20 26. My name is Luke
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Thomas. This is episode three of my
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political live chat. It was announced I
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would do it today. I did not announce a
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time. This is still very much a what
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would you like to say? a soft roll out.
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You know, we haven't really got this
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going yet. Um, as you know, I've tried
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to explain in other circumstances or I
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should say other contexts that we still
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I can't use all of the tools that I want
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to be able to put the super chats on the
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screen. This is becoming quite a vexing
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problem if I do say so myself. Um, I'm
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hoping to get that resolved.
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I don't know if I will. It's becoming
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quite a challenge, but I'm going to give
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it a shot. Um, talk to me in the
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comments, man. Let me know how you guys
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are doing. Thank you for being here,
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especially because it's impromptu. You
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can see the sun is changing in this
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hotel room. I'm in Boston.
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I'm in Boston. Um,
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and uh I'm here to support my wife for
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uh one of her sort of insane work trips.
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So, in any event, uh where the hell is
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everybody? Let's get this going. There
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we go. There we go. We got some [ __ ]
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going. Um, I got recognized that this is
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a little unusual. Walking around in in a
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big city and then someone spotting me is
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not highly unusual, but I got it
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happened three times today. Uh, and it's
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not even 5:00 yet. Like, that's unusual.
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So, shouts to Boston for being, you
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know, understanding what's going on.
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Um, but hey, let's get this going. What
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do you guys want to talk about? I have
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tried my best to uh stay on top of
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everything that is going on. I'm sure
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that there are things that have fallen
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through the cracks. I have not had a
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chance
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to comment on the latest Hassan [ __ ]
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freakout. The freak out of the week.
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You know, the freak parties are with
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Diddy and the freakout parties are in
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Dem media. That's apparently are in the
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right-wing media as well. Um freaking
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out about Hassan [ __ ] I've not had a
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chance to weigh in on this. He says
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things that you would hear literally in
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any undergrad political science class.
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He repeats it to the public and they're,
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you know, there apparently some kind of
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horror.
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So, thumbs up on the video if you
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haven't already. Share it around. Let me
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know how you're feeling. We don't have
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to talk about that, but I've been
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meaning to weigh in on it. It's just
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because uh just a lot of life
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circumstances have kind of gotten in the
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way recently. Um it's been
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I tell you what, dude. Getting a
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seven-year-old ready for things,
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all things throughout their day, like
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gotta get them up, got to get them to
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the shower, got to make sure they have
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their clothes, got to make sure they
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have their breakfast, lunch packed, take
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them to school, pick them up from
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school, take them to their practices,
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whatever the [ __ ] they got, dinner
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you're responsible for, got to put them
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to sleep, you know, the whole and doing
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that every day solo, plus trying to stay
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on top of MMA during a pay-per-view
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fight week, plus trying to do that while
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the world is crumbling as diesel prices
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skyrocket through the atmosph
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atmosphere.
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Not the easiest thing in the world. I
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will I will cop to that. Um, if you
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would be so kind, you do not have to,
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but it's a great way to support the
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channel. Please be so kind as to put in
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a super chat if you would like to. It
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makes a big difference. It helps me
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quite a bit. Folks often ask, "Hey, how
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do I help the channel? How do I do
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that?" Super chatting is a great way to
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do it. All right. Jules says, "Should
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anyone involved with this Mitch
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taxiderermy fiasco face legal
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consequences? its obstruction of justice
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and the ability of the Senate to do its
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job. Um, and someone wants to know about
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soccer and jetted reefer madness. Um,
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okay, let's start with the first one. I
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hope everyone understands what the
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long-term potential at least what is
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potentially possible here by virtue of
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now, now Mitch McConnell is not the
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first one of these cases. Um, the Dems
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have done this rolling out um, who was
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it? Was it Barbara Boxer or was it
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Feinstein that they were rolling out
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forever and ever until she croked at the
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end and to the point where, you know,
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you were just wondering whether her
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staff
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was how much of this was like literal
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elder abuse and certainly within the
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faculties that was required to be an
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important federal legislator, did she
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have those faculties? Right. So, that's
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kind of like the first question you have
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to say. And there's the whole Joe Biden
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situation where again to what extent was
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he really in charge of his own
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faculties, right? So they're playing
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this game and now you're seeing this on
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the left. Now, I have a feeling that I
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am not as concerned with Trump 2028 as I
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once was because he is I mean, if you
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look at there's been clips circulating
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recently of some of the debates that
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Trump was in circa 2016 and the the the
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the cognitive decline that he's
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experienced cannot be understated. He is
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really falling off a cliff and you know
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within two more years it's probably
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going to be even more exacerbated. Um,
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and I don't know if he just wants to
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keep doing this will have enriched
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himself beyond our wildest imaginations
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by that point. if he if he lives to that
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point.
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But if he does decide to go through with
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it or at a bare minimum gets kind of
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cajjol into it in a declining place,
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look at the precedent from a bipartisan
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perspective
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that is now being set where basically
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you get an completely ancient
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someone who should be, you know, closer
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to hospice care than they should be in
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the halls of Congress
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kind of just getting attended to with
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excellent health care but like you know
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weakened at Bernie's through the process
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of legislating by their staff and we're
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all just supposed to expect or I should
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say receive this as like above board and
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normal. First of all, like the fact that
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it's happening on its own independent of
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the long-term implications are just
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deeply deeply I mean this is just not a
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serious country right now. And I know
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that's an overused phrase, but I mean it
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like quite literally. We don't even have
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the seriousness and the urgency, the
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moral urgency, the ethical urgency, the
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the legal urgency, the the urgency just
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to look at something in decline and and
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feel the need to repair it. We have a
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dirty room and no one wants to pick it
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up and so we just have to live among its
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wreckage. The fact that we are
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tolerating this by itself speaks so
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poorly of the condition that we are in.
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But even putting that to the side, there
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is now precedent for this. Hey, the
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public will make jokes about it and the
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press will ask questions about it, but
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is anyone going to do anything to keep
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this from happening, to make it a bigger
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scandal, to find a way to force these
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guys out or whatever the case may be?
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Remember, there are certainly those
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conditions in place for the presidency.
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25th Amendment, among other ones,
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we're just normalizing this [ __ ] We're
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just normalizing this [ __ ]
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It's just it's like dude, how unhealthy
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is our democracy that we are looking at
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a a man and there isn't a I mean there
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isn't one the like the only part of his
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brain that is left and operating is the
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one that controls like okay the heart
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still needs to beat and uh the blood
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still needs to flow and air needs to be
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inhaled. You know what I mean? Like the
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literal biological process by which a
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person is made alive or I should say
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maintained alive. That's it. There's
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nothing else going on in there. And
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they're trottting this [ __ ]
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around town
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like this is just hey well yeah no no
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he's he's sitting in a wheelchair
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because hey he's old and he's on the
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road to recovery. This [ __ ] is
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on the road to the cemetery. Like we all
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know this like there's he's cooked
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finished and even if there is more
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executive function than I'm able to
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ascertain from afar it's not good enough
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to do this job any [ __ ] way.
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And and again I'm going to say it one
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more time. The alarming part about this
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is it is absolutely no way whatsoever
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specific to the right. Not. In fact, you
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could very much argue the the left is
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even worse about worse about it.
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It's [ __ ] insane, bro.
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It's it's
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so dispiritating. It's It's so It's so
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insanely dispiriting.
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I don't know what the legal implications
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are for the staff who are keeping this
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guy weakened at Bernie's ing. I don't
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know. I don't know what that looks like.
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It's well beyond my pay grade. I
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couldn't tell you. But
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it's such a sign that our democracy is
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in trouble.
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Yeah. We just let the elderly die in
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office and when their capacity to reason
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uh perform basic functions
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um you know
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ex demonstrate a a modest level of
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cognitive thinking which they you know
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he can eat. I mean, this guy is like
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literally [ __ ]
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he's mute now. Like, he can't even utter
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words. He can just kind of look around
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and acknowledge uh you know what I mean?
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And I'm not trying to belittle his al,
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you know, I don't really care about his
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suffering per se, but I'm not trying to
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be belittling of people who might be in
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that circumstance, but like people who
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are in that circumstance shouldn't be
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[ __ ] legislating.
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It's crazy, bro.
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It's crazy.
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All right,
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what do we have here? Uh, what do I
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think of cigar and jetty's saga and
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jetties? Uh, Reefer Madness. Obviously,
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I don't agree with him on a lot of that,
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but I might be a little bit more
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inclined to agree with him than you
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might think.
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People think that because I have
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permissive attitudes about drug or
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relatively speaking permissive attitudes
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about drugs that I have like I don't
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think that there are any risks to drugs
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and that's just really not my place.
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Mark, you guys remember I remember he
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died a few years ago. There's a there
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was a guy who studied this who was
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extremely influential in my thinking. I
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think his name was Mark Kleinman and he
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was a professor I think somewhere in the
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northeast. Um, and he basically studied
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he he studied uh, you know, drugs, drug
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legalization and what happens to
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societies that take up various versions
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of it and and what it all means. And
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basically his argument was look if it
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comes down to whether or not it should
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be legalized you know especially given
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the the way in which we pursue this is
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you know before there was sort of this
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mass legalization campaign
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where you know you had to still meet
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your dealer in the back of a piggly
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wiggly parking lot to get a [ __ ] dime
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bag you know and then people are going
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to jail for it for potentially long
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periods of time. He basically was like
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this is not this is clearly not the
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superior option. This is a bad way to do
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it. we shouldn't do this. Uh and he was
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basically on the side that legalization
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had better societal outcomes especially
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given the set of harms. But one thing he
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was very very very very
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clear about is that yes you can say it
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is better for something to be legal than
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it not. Alcohol we put on one of those.
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But if you anytime you take something
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that is illicit and then you say well we
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just don't want to do it this way and
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now we want to make it you know uh
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normal you are inviting a new series of
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harms that will you'll have to contend
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with. Like people think that when you
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legalize something you just get rid of
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all the bad stuff. you get a lot of the
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bad stuff to go away and in fact net net
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it might be worth it. But there are
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going to be there's now going to be on
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the back end of that um other problems
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when you make something mass available
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that simply wasn't that way. And weed is
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no different in that particular regard
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than anything else you might legalize.
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Again, not everything is going to be
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equally delletterious. I do not believe
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that marijuana is equally delotterious
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to alcohol. I don't think it's even
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close even in, you know, accounting for
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all of these differences in how we u
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either legalize or don't.
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But there are harms associated with it.
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There are harms associated in many many
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cases for people who are daily users or
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you know frequent daily users. And you
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know I'll just say this like I'm looking
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at the state of young men in this
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country who are going to college you
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know less and less every year. uh you
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know porn and other forms of you know I
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don't know parasocial relationships
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depending if it's like a creator are
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replacing romantic bonds and sex lives
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um you know certainly again within the
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context of combat sports I do think that
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there is a relationship that's always
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going to be there between that and
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gambling but a lot of people are just
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getting this for the first time and it
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could be affecting you know how they
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manage their money how they manage their
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lives and then cases like this where
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they're becoming regular users of stuff
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it's like is that actually an
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appropriate balance whether or not you
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want to say that should be legal or not.
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Oh, sorry. This is not it's not a
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question of saying, "Well, look at these
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harms. Let's make it illegal." No, it's
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that also like if you're going to make
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it legal, you have to be cognizant of
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some of the second order harms that can
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happen from all of this. And I'm not
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blind to that. I I believe in drug use,
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you know, um as opposed to having drug
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prohibition. But anybody who's followed
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any of my opinions on steroids have I've
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always been very clear like there needs
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to be intelligent use of it. There are
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intelligent use cases for drugs of drugs
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of any kind. Drugs that you get from the
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pharmacy, drugs that of recreation,
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there's intelligent use cases and
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non-intelligent use cases. Um, I believe
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used intelligently and used thoughtfully
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marijuana or a lot of other drugs for
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that matter can actually quite enhance
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your life. Jacob Sullum, the writer from
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Reason, wrote a book called In Defense
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of Drug Use. And one of the things he
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notes is like, you know, how many people
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who have used marijuana previously have
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said it helped them appreciate art in
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one kind of moment. They went to a
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concert, they had some, and they enjoyed
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it better, they had a better laugh, a
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meal tasted better. Like, it it it can
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quite obviously enhance your life. But
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used unintelligently, it can cause
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paranoia. There can be long-term
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cognitive effects from it. It can affect
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your emotional regulation. That's not
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intelligent use. And we are now
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unleashing some of those forces. And I
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think Sager's recognition of that is not
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unfair. I think his solution for it is
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probably not the right answer either.
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Um, and you know, when he says things
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like, "Oh, marijuana smells on the
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street." I'm like, "This is not a very
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persuasive argument to me in any kind of
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way." But him being cognizant of the
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series of harms that were dropping on
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top of a population and asking, "Did we
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get the balance right?" I don't think
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that's unfair.
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What the [ __ ] I hate this thing because
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I can't use it properly to see
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everything I'm supposed to see. So, if I
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missed something, please forgive me. Uh,
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one nation, a far-right Australian
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party, once popular in the early '90s,
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has had a resurgence as of late. Have
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you noticed this happening globally?
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What do you think is the driver behind
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it? I I I don't know enough about
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Australia or Australian culture to say
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that this is true. I don't know. But
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from afar, it looks like Australia is
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starting to become more culturally
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influenced by the United States than
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they have previously.
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Like, you know, for example, they they
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took I mean, just on a number of
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different levels, they took to UFC in
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ways that a lot of other markets um you
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know, they've obviously UFC's had a lot
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of explosive growth everywhere, but they
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kind of took to that. I remember I did
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that I took part in that Australian
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documentary on the UFC's rightward turn
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and they were asking me about stuff and
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I was telling them answers about like
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the state of you know politics here and
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the rightwing and stuff like that and
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they were saying that they were seeing
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evidence of that starting to bubble
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underneath the surface in Australia.
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I've seen on Twitter, you know, like uh
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Australian political accounts that are
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doing a lot of the same kind of
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messaging about being anti-immigrant
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and, you know, Australians first and all
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kinds of stuff. Like they're just I
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don't know. There seems to be kind of
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like a
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I mean, I again, I could be totally
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wrong. I don't know. Or maybe maybe a
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better way to put it is uh maybe maybe
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I'll walk that back. Maybe a better way
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to say it is that the American right
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seems to be having an effect on the
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Australian right as well. I mean there's
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a lot of growing rightward movements in
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a lot of different parts of the world.
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It would be no exception necessarily to
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Australia. Um so I mean there's there's
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this kind of obviously the one in the
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United States is becoming imperiled
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because of their poor performance but
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there has been like a right ascendancy
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generally in this country as well. Um I
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don't know the specifics in any kind of
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way about Australian uh politics to
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comment intelligently beyond that. But
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what I can say is that I I I have kind
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of seen and like I know for example too
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like the American right has been very
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very influential in the Brazilian right
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like these are notable patterns that's
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more hemispheric obviously that's a
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little bit more of a common bond in
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certain ways. Um, but you know,
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Australians, we share a language to a
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large extent. We share a religion to
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some extent. We share even a background.
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Um,
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you know, there's obviously a lot of
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common bonds there, too. NFL showing up
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there as well. Like, I don't know. I
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just I I can't I I don't know enough
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about what's actually happening in
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Australia, but it does kind of seem like
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they're they're uh there's these global
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trends about the right generally.
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There's this kind of
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internationalization about the hobby
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horses that they all focus on. Like I
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read that book partisan nation where
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they talk about the nationalizing of our
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politics, right? The point that they
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make is that it used to be the case you
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could be a, you know, I mean, I know
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Bernie Sanders is technically an
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independent, but let's say you go
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someone on the left. You could be a
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Bernie Sanders kind of Democrat where
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you're like you're proun,
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but you're anti-gun in California. And
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those kinds of contradictions used to be
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able to be the the parties used to be
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much more tolerant of these like kind of
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regional approaches to, you know,
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basically similar kinds of positions, in
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many cases the same positions, but, you
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know, with with with with regional
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eentricities that had to be accounted
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for. And then the nationalization of our
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politics has smoothed that over to a
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degree where now everything is kind of
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like a national issue, right? This is
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why people in West Virginia, they have
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no there's like there's like net zero
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migration to uh to to to to
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western Virginia and then when you ask
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them what their number one issue is,
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it's like the border. It's like but that
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has no relationship to your life. It's
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because it's the it's that's become a
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national issue. The nationalization of
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it has kind of created a homogene
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homogeneity of of perspective. I believe
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that there is something happening on a
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similar wave wavelength with the
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internationalization of our own politics
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that the right in various places picks
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up from the right and other ones. The
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left is to to me still a little too
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disorganized. But like dude in Colombia,
19:12
I don't know it's like a common thing
19:13
that I always talk about, but dude to
19:14
Colombia
19:16
de lasa is like borrowing from Trump
19:21
to the letter. Like they didn't run.
19:25
There is some tension between
19:27
Venezuelans and Colombians in my
19:29
experience in Colombia. There's some
19:31
there's there's not it's not like
19:33
insane. Uh well,
19:36
there's there's some friction. I'm told
19:38
that it's much worse in other places. My
19:40
my friend got back from Lima. He told me
19:43
that they have like hardcore friction
19:45
between the Peruvians in Lima and the
19:47
Venezuelans who were there. Apparently,
19:48
that's a real sore subject. It's not
19:50
quite like that in Colombia, but there
19:52
is some social friction. But then de las
19:55
gets out there and is like, "Yeah, you
19:56
know what we're going to do? we're just
19:57
going to do like deportations, you know,
19:58
and using a lot of the same language
20:00
that you see from Trump press releases
20:02
and like this was not a thing that he
20:04
was running on. Oh, we're going to get
20:05
rid of Venezuelans there. It's like, you
20:07
know what I mean? Like you're just
20:08
borrowing an idea from a from a
20:11
right-leaning
20:13
uh force that you're just taking Trump
20:16
politics, cutting it out, and then
20:18
trying to paste it on top of a different
20:19
country. And it has it's it's weird.
20:21
like yeah there'll be some support for
20:23
it because again there is some friction
20:25
about it
20:27
but it wasn't like that wasn't why
20:28
people voted for him like at all you
20:31
know he's just kind of forcing it on
20:32
there. This is what I mean like there's
20:34
kind of this influence that's happening
20:35
that I don't I I really wonder um if
20:39
we're just starting to see the fruit of
20:41
that uh be born.
20:46
Oh, [ __ ] Hell.
20:52
Oh, what the [ __ ] Sorry, y'all. It's
20:55
such a pain in my ass.
21:01
God damn it. Hang on one second.
21:05
There we go.
21:10
Okay. Antagonizing Canada was a bold
21:13
move, Cotton. firm handshakes for
21:15
walking us into being associate members
21:17
of the EU, which now Trump has said, you
21:20
know, if they do that, it'll just be ar
21:21
trade armageddon. I don't have much to
21:23
say in the in about that. I you know,
21:26
Trump doesn't understand that like pe
21:28
other other places have a you know
21:31
what's amazing about the American right?
21:33
They can't fathom that other people
21:36
would be proud to be where they're from.
21:39
Have you noticed that? like they can't
21:42
fathom that Canadians would be proud to
21:44
be Canadian. They can't they can't
21:46
fathom that Germans, you know, they they
21:49
care about being German or pick any
21:51
place, Hawaiians or, you know, like any
21:54
kind of people other than who how they
21:55
perceive themselves. They cannot imagine
21:58
that those people have pride in their
22:00
own national identity, which is why
22:02
they're like, you know, you see some
22:03
people on the right being like, yeah,
22:04
you know, if I lived somewhere, I would
22:06
love to be taken over by the United
22:08
States. It's like, well, partly you're
22:09
just a [ __ ] but the other part is
22:10
that they they they concept of that they
22:13
have a hard time grasping, but the other
22:16
part too was like, did you see Trump
22:17
trying to be like, yeah, like he was
22:19
trying to explain, you know, trade
22:22
deficits. And he was like, you know, if
22:24
we just stop trading with them, we'll
22:26
make more money. And it's like,
22:29
dog, this is why when people like accuse
22:31
you of like people are like, oh, Luke,
22:33
you have TDS. Yep. Sick as a dog. Sick
22:36
as a dog. this [ __ ] [ __ ] for this guy
22:39
is barely one st like Mitch McConnell
22:44
has like a few things firing in the back
22:46
of his brain stem that are keeping his
22:48
blood you know pumping in his body but
22:50
it's really kind of about it you know
22:52
Trump is one step above that in terms of
22:54
cognitive decline this [ __ ] idiot
22:57
thinks that like
22:59
you know if we do if we do trade with
23:01
you know with goods and services in one
23:03
direction and it's more you know there
23:05
there's a there's a difference there
23:06
obviously because we're a bigger
23:07
economy, we might take more or send more
23:08
depending on the situation and because
23:10
that there's a difference that like
23:11
there's a loss of money
23:17
like like money went missing from that,
23:20
you know, we had this much and then it
23:21
got subtracted out,
23:23
you know, like this is not even econ
23:26
101,
23:27
right? It's not even that. It's just
23:30
genuine confusion about how the world
23:33
functions
23:36
and and and and people will accuse you
23:38
of being like of having Trump
23:39
derangement. If you don't have
23:41
derangement about Trump, I question your
23:44
sanity.
23:45
I question your intelligence and I
23:47
question your sanity.
23:51
Uh, someone writes, "Happy to see your
23:53
political channel growing, LT. Yeah,
23:54
it's been quite the surprise. Must feel
23:57
a lot less dirty than your MMA work."
23:59
Not necessarily. Uh, and as a Well, but
24:02
yes, in a certain respect. And as a
24:04
bonus, your dad is finally No, my dad's
24:06
proud of me no matter what, I suppose.
24:07
But um but yeah, like
24:11
um
24:14
is it less dirty than working in MMA?
24:15
The thing is is that I I love MMA and I
24:19
loved I used to love MMA a lot more. I
24:22
still do love it. Um and so it feels
24:25
like something that I loved being
24:26
damaged. Now, obviously, what Trump is
24:28
doing to DC. Like, dude, Trump is I'm I
24:30
You know what I'm going to do? I was
24:31
thinking about this. I have to go around
24:33
the city and show you guys what it looks
24:34
like. I cannot explain to you what a
24:37
[ __ ] dump he's turning DC into. And
24:40
people can't appreciate this because you
24:41
don't live there. Like, there's [ __ ]
24:43
National Guard everywhere. It's like up
24:45
to 6 million a day to keep them there.
24:47
They moved into luxury housing. There is
24:49
fencing up around now the [ __ ]
24:51
Kennedy Center. The Tidal Basin looks
24:54
like a [ __ ] hurricane hit it. They're
24:57
starting to chop down trees down there
24:59
at East PTOAC. I mean, the reflecting
25:01
pool. Get the [ __ ] out of here with
25:03
this. So many parks, the National Mall,
25:06
all that [ __ ] is torn to pieces. He put
25:09
gold wrapping on the [ __ ] uh the what
25:11
is it called? The access of war statues
25:13
by Arlington National Cemetery. And they
25:15
want to move forward with that Trump
25:16
arch. Dude, he is People like, "Oh, he
25:18
got the fountains on a Union Station."
25:20
Shut the [ __ ] up, [ __ ] I live here. He
25:24
is wrecking this place. To say nothing
25:26
of what they did with Doge and just
25:27
completely destroy the economy and so
25:30
many people I know had to [ __ ] leave.
25:31
Some of them out of the goddamn country.
25:33
Several of them, as a matter of fact,
25:34
out of the goddamn country. Like, I just
25:36
it is so [ __ ] insane to me that the
25:39
right will be like, "Yeah, you know, he
25:40
really beautified DC." [ __ ] I haven't
25:43
seen I'll be straight up honest with
25:45
you. I there were maybe a better there
25:47
was a worse homeless problem in during
25:50
the pandemic. I'll say that for sure.
25:51
But I mean what are they doing with the
25:52
homeless? They're just moving them out
25:53
somewhere. They're not like solving the
25:55
problem. So I'll say it was worse then.
25:57
But in terms of like just [ __ ] being
25:59
everywhere, like just looking like
26:02
someone came through with a pickaxe and
26:04
just didn't stop for a year. This is the
26:06
worst I've seen DC since Marian [ __ ]
26:08
Barry. And honestly, he might have had a
26:10
better looking than this. It's crazy how
26:13
bad it is. crazy how bad it is. That
26:16
wounds me. Yes. Like that part that [ __ ]
26:19
is is really really awful. But the
26:21
reason why the politics coverage for me
26:22
is uh it it feels maybe not quite less
26:25
dirty is not the right word, but it
26:27
feels good is because uh you know
26:34
I wasn't always I mean I never felt like
26:37
I was shielding my opinion in MMA, but I
26:40
you know you try to maintain
26:41
relationships and over time I've
26:43
realized that like I was kind of
26:45
preventing myself in certain situations
26:47
from being more honest in real time. I
26:49
didn't feel like I was doing that. But
26:51
then upon reflection, I'm like, I think
26:52
I might have been doing that. Again,
26:53
when you're trying to work inside of the
26:55
industry, you're not just going to fire
26:57
bullets at everyone all the time, even
26:58
if you don't consciously think, you
27:00
know, about it one way or the other. You
27:02
just might end up kind of softening what
27:03
you're doing to sort of maintain things.
27:06
And um I don't have to worry about that
27:08
in politics. I can just [ __ ] it's
27:11
drive by shootings every time I upload a
27:13
video and I don't have to feel bad about
27:14
it, you know?
27:18
Thoughts on Pablo Torres reporting on
27:19
the billionaires playing Makea-Wish
27:21
tennis and then offering finance jobs to
27:24
retired tennis pros they play with. Man,
27:26
I haven't even seen that. I haven't even
27:29
seen that, dude. Pablo Tori is boy, if
27:31
you if you're rich and you're [ __ ]
27:32
around with your money, Pablo Tori is
27:34
about to find out. No pun intended. But
27:37
unfortunately, I've not I've not seen
27:39
that, so I can't comment on that right
27:40
now.
27:42
Let's see here.
27:44
Someone says, "Uh, your outspokenenness
27:46
has helped me feel more comfortable
27:47
expressing my leftist progressive views
27:49
to my mostly conservative friends and
27:51
family members." Guys, I want to explain
27:53
something to you about the left in this
27:55
country, and I want you to hear me now.
27:57
And if this is the only thing you ever
27:59
hear from me on, I'm okay with it
28:01
because this might be the most
28:03
important. You as a leftist are going to
28:05
run into a reality that you need to
28:08
confront right away in your views.
28:11
Namely, what you are going to hear from
28:13
the right and what you are going to hear
28:15
from the center left is that what it
28:17
means to advance left-wing causes is to
28:20
shield the world from your advocacy of
28:23
left-wing ideas.
28:26
You want to get a world that's closer to
28:28
what you like, you can't really advocate
28:30
for the things that you believe in. You
28:32
can't share leftist ideas. Look at this
28:34
freakout about Hassan [ __ ] Hassan
28:36
[ __ ] saying the Middle East would be
28:38
safer if Iran had nukes. Guys, how is
28:41
that even remotely debatable? Trump
28:44
said, was it this week or last week, by
28:46
himself, if they had nukes, we'd have to
28:49
play nice with them. He said this in a
28:51
[ __ ] speech. He said we'd have
28:54
to play nicer with them. They haven't
28:55
pursued a nuclear weapon. That's we know
28:57
that to be true by our own US
28:59
intelligence. That is what they have
29:00
determined that they haven't even
29:02
gotten. I mean, now they might do that,
29:03
but up to that point where they were
29:05
assessing it, that was not a thing that
29:06
they were done. If they had a nuclear
29:08
weapon, right, if they got to that place
29:09
now, it would be like what we have in
29:11
North Korea where we can't really [ __ ]
29:12
with them. No one is more vindicated, I
29:14
am afraid to say. But no one is more
29:17
vindicated than Kim Jong-un and his dad
29:19
Kim Jong-
29:21
no one is more vindicated than him. Not
29:24
that I'm saying that what he's doing is
29:25
a great thing in North Korea. I I'm not
29:28
commenting on that at all. But I'm
29:29
saying look at what it does to deter
29:32
militarism around them. We are at right
29:34
now. In fact, I think I saw a report
29:36
before I went live that the entire power
29:38
grid in Cuba is down. We are blockading
29:41
them. We stole Venezuela's leader. We
29:43
are blockading Cuba. Uh we just bombed
29:47
Iran for basically [ __ ] nothing,
29:50
right? And here we are. Look at all of
29:52
the militar. We're threatening to take
29:54
over Canada, threaten to take over, you
29:56
know, basically Danish territory in
29:58
Greenland.
30:00
and look at the rest of the world
30:02
looking at our militarism and then
30:03
saying what's the best way for us to
30:05
protect ourselves like and if they did
30:09
Trump acknowledging what the fallout
30:11
would be like I wouldn't [ __ ] with them
30:13
how can you [ __ ] argue anything other
30:15
than that and that's not so much a
30:16
leftwing idea it came from a leftwing
30:18
guy but it's this kind of sense about
30:20
trying to help Americans understand what
30:22
the cost of empire is cost to the world
30:25
and the cost to ourselves and the cost
30:26
to international order the cost to law
30:28
and order the cost to so many different
30:31
stakeholders in this entire thing. That
30:33
is what this is all about. And
30:34
everywhere you're going to go, they want
30:36
you to shield people the they don't want
30:39
they want you to like be quiet about
30:41
your views. They want you to say, "Well,
30:42
not those ones. Some of these you can
30:43
have, but not those ones." [ __ ] that.
30:47
If you believe what you are saying is
30:49
true, obviously do some of the homework
30:51
to know what is true and try to be
30:54
honest with yourself in that process.
30:55
But if where you ended up was there,
30:57
argue for that [ __ ] Argue for that
31:00
[ __ ] This population is so heavily
31:03
propagandized by the news media. And I I
31:05
used to not be one of these people being
31:07
like, well, you know, no, dude. No. Like
31:09
this whole debate over what [ __ ] was
31:12
saying, like, you know, what's worse,
31:13
the United States or al-Qaeda? And like,
31:16
you don't even have to rank them. You
31:18
don't have to even compare them. But the
31:20
point about that com that that that an
31:23
that discussion is to basically get
31:25
people to reconcile with the idea that
31:28
the United States government over the
31:29
course of our lifetimes and certainly
31:30
long before that but even right now with
31:32
the blockade and everything else we're
31:34
doing in Cuba and Iran the whole [ __ ]
31:36
that like we have unleashed hell on the
31:39
world we have done it and when I say we
31:41
I don't mean you and me I've not done
31:43
that but like our the government in our
31:46
name has done that and there's been a
31:47
lot of good that they've done too but
31:49
they have unleashed [ __ ] hell on the
31:51
world. And if we actually want to make a
31:53
better world, we have to be in touch
31:55
with that fact.
31:57
We have to we have to accept not we
32:00
don't have to accept it as part of
32:01
ideology. We have to accept it because
32:02
it's [ __ ] reality. And then once you
32:04
once you really begin to reconcile with
32:07
like what we've done, that is what
32:09
informs your judgment about what we
32:11
should do. But if you refuse to have
32:14
that because you have a child truly like
32:17
people want to have to their country
32:19
like they have a like like like a
32:20
child's relationship to a superhero. It
32:23
can only be good. It can only be fine.
32:25
This is I mean it's quite literally it's
32:26
childish. It's childish. We don't have
32:29
to throw the baby out with the bath
32:30
water and declare ourselves evil and
32:31
then dissolve the government and we all
32:33
just live off the grid [ __ ] you know
32:36
like some kind of dystopian zombie.
32:38
That's not the point. But if we want to
32:39
make better judgments about our foreign
32:42
policy, about how we take on uh future
32:45
conflict or how to avoid future conflict
32:47
or how to make arrangements for security
32:49
and long-term prosperity, how can you do
32:51
that if you don't reconcile with the
32:53
[ __ ] crimes that not only the
32:55
country has committed, it is committing
32:57
now. It is committing now. As I speak to
33:02
you this instant, we are doing this in
33:05
Cuba. We are starving these people.
33:11
How can you have more enlightened policy
33:13
towards Cuba if you cannot recognize
33:15
this fact? And it's not just having more
33:17
enlightened policy towards Cubans. It's
33:19
understanding like what the toll is of
33:21
suffering and what our responsibility is
33:24
in having created this unnecessarily.
33:26
Certain forms of suffering I suppose
33:28
certainly can happen when when conflict
33:30
is impossible to avoid and it is
33:31
existential. There'll be suffering and
33:33
you have to accept it. We're not doing
33:34
any of that [ __ ]
33:37
And now we're emiserating ourselves in
33:39
the process because the way which has
33:40
been done by this administration is so
33:42
utterly incompetent. They they want you
33:46
to not force these conversations on the
33:48
population. Hassan [ __ ] is forcing what
33:51
you know. Yes, he got pound-for-pound
33:52
wrong and there's a question of exactly
33:54
you know what we funded and what we have
33:56
and there's some of the particulars
33:57
maybe you could quibble with. But the
33:59
but what he is doing here is he is
34:01
forcing onto the conversation something
34:03
our news media should have done long
34:06
long ago but within my lifetime after
34:08
the Iraq war. That is when this lesson
34:11
or 9/11 that's when this lesson should
34:13
have been learned. And we're not
34:15
learning this [ __ ]
34:27
Uh, Lukito, not sure what your dinner
34:28
plans are, but try to make it to Celeste
34:30
if you can. Super fun Peruvian spot.
34:32
Excellent food. Good for date night. I
34:34
will keep that in mind. I will keep that
34:35
in mind. Here in W. Thank you for the
34:38
recommendation. Here in Wisconsin, gas
34:40
prices were holding steady at 3.99 as
34:42
recently as last week. Today, I paid
34:44
$4.49. Holy [ __ ] Are they out of market
34:47
manipulation tricks? I'm sure there
34:49
might be some greedflation, dude. But
34:50
nah. Nah, dude. The Saudis are in
34:53
trouble. No [ __ ] dude. They're in
34:55
trouble.
34:57
I mean they I mean I they we we are not
35:00
bailing them out on their on their
35:02
western flank. Um obviously Iran's got
35:06
all that [ __ ] unlocked on their eastern
35:07
flank. They took out the east or most of
35:10
it the east west or enough of it anyway.
35:12
The east west pipeline. They're in deep
35:14
[ __ ] bro. And now you know
35:17
I mean what do you want to say about
35:18
what's happening in Yemen and with Ansar
35:20
Allah?
35:22
They're in deep [ __ ] They're in super
35:24
super super deep [ __ ] Uh, but that kind
35:26
of means we're also in deep [ __ ] you
35:29
know? I mean, that East West pipeline
35:30
alone was 4% of global supply, guys. The
35:34
prices haven't peaked.
35:37
Frankly, they're unless they come to
35:38
some deal very, very quickly, they might
35:41
just be getting started.
35:43
like this [ __ ] [ __ ] The midterms
35:45
are in November and this [ __ ] [ __ ]
35:48
you know, and now they had to raise
35:49
interest rates because of what basically
35:51
his economic policy, you know, and
35:53
they're out there just blaming Biden,
35:55
Biden and immigrants, you know what I
35:57
mean? And he's doing this right before
36:00
the midterms. Like, do you understand
36:02
how like, can you imagine? like and I
36:05
think he and remember they did that sort
36:06
of the the they did that convention the
36:09
midterm convention which was all
36:11
basically built around more of him
36:13
thinking like more of him is exactly
36:15
what the Republican party needs now to
36:17
get elected. He is
36:20
you just that the the I when you really
36:22
begin to assess how [ __ ] up it is what
36:25
we've done to ourselves
36:28
um it's frightening, dude. he could
36:29
bring down the entire financial order
36:33
just by virtue of incompetency and the
36:35
other political actors in play uh having
36:39
no reflex to ever intervene.
36:44
Uh complicated math elevated weed use
36:47
has made for way less alcohol which is
36:49
significantly more harmful net all
36:51
costs. That has been my experience as
36:53
well. I know a lot of people have done
36:54
that. They've used weed to kind of
36:55
temper their alcohol use and like net
36:57
net is that a benefit? Sure. Sure. But
37:00
again, like the more you use something,
37:01
you just you can't say, "Well, it's
37:03
better than alcohol, so there are no
37:05
costs." No, it is better than alcohol,
37:08
but there are also costs.
37:12
I think the age should be reduced to 55
37:14
and 25 should be the minimum for
37:16
president. If you if you s if you're
37:19
someone wait, if you someone want mentor
37:22
somebody, then do that. The youth should
37:25
be representative more in my opinion.
37:27
What's your thoughts? I don't know about
37:29
55 and 25. I kind of like 35, but I
37:32
definitely feel like 75 should be the
37:34
cut off. 55 is a little early, actually.
37:36
I would go 75.
37:39
Let's go here.
37:44
Oh, Jesus. What the [ __ ]
37:48
No. Hold on.
37:55
Sorry. Oh, here we go. Look, what does
37:58
accountability Jesus [ __ ] I hate I
38:01
hate this thing so much? Look, what does
38:03
accountability
38:05
when this administration ends look like
38:07
for you? And what do we do when he
38:09
pardons literally everyone on his way
38:11
out? Um,
38:13
there might be various kinds of pardons.
38:16
He doesn't hang out. There might be some
38:18
that are still make people liable in
38:20
various state courts. Um,
38:24
but anybody who can be investigated
38:26
needs to be investigated. Anybody who
38:28
can be impeached needs to be impeached.
38:30
Anybody who can be jailed needs to be
38:33
jailed. Um, and I suspect that if I know
38:37
Trump, he is going to cover some
38:39
people's ass in ways that make any kind
38:41
of eventual prosecution difficult. But
38:44
he's going to leave some people out to
38:45
hang them out to dry. And all of them
38:47
should be should absolutely be
38:49
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the
38:51
law. Uh, and I think that another thing
38:54
that I again I don't know what the legal
38:55
possibility is, but like all the money
38:57
he's stolen, I think should be clawed
38:59
back.
39:00
Um,
39:02
yeah. I mean, I think this guy all the
39:04
monuments that go up in his name need to
39:06
be torn down. All the changes he's made
39:08
to all of the various federal buildings
39:10
need to be taken away. Um, he should be
39:13
treated like a Confederate general when
39:16
this is all over where every part of
39:18
what he representative represented is
39:20
burned to the ground.
39:23
Did you catch Rogan recently say Trump
39:25
fans are nuts and he's been leftwing his
39:27
whole life? I did.
39:29
Do you think anything Joe can do to
39:31
redeem himself? Yeah, Joe.
39:34
All of us will make mistakes. I've made
39:36
mistakes. All of us will change
39:37
opinions. I've changed opinions. All of
39:40
us will rethink things later in life.
39:42
And so, for that reason, all of us
39:44
deserve grace. I'm actually not one of
39:46
these people that thinks, "Oh, there's
39:48
no way that various people can't get
39:49
grace." But like just kind of going out
39:52
there and pantomimeing vague left-wing
39:54
ideas and then asserting that you're
39:57
leftwing. You [ __ ] endorsed the most
40:00
incompetent right-wing freak movement
40:03
possible, Joe. You laundered the
40:06
reputation of the inner circle of all of
40:09
those people. You have done
40:10
extraordinary harm as an influence
40:14
campaigner, so to speak, to make those
40:16
ideas palatable. those ideas that are
40:19
ruining the lives of ordinary people in
40:22
this country and well beyond. The amount
40:24
of [ __ ] even if Trump was doing
40:26
nothing else, the amount of misery we
40:29
are inflicting upon ourselves just
40:31
through the mass deportation campaign to
40:33
me automatically makes you know like
40:36
like
40:37
wouldn't say unforgivable but pretty
40:39
[ __ ] close.
40:41
like it can be done, but but then when
40:43
you add in everything else that's being
40:45
done, like we haven't even begun to bear
40:47
the costs of what we're doing on the
40:49
immigration front. I hope everyone
40:50
really understands that. The decimation
40:52
to our university system, these people
40:54
on the right, they they they don't care
40:57
about the world that
41:00
we built. They don't care about the
41:02
institutions that power it. They don't
41:04
care about the alliances internationally
41:06
that have secured American prosperity
41:08
and and and and more for generations.
41:11
Like they don't care about um uh you
41:16
know understanding how the rest of the
41:18
world or other political adversaries
41:20
might have their own agency. They don't
41:22
care about any of these things. So
41:24
they're just happy to burn it all to the
41:26
ground. They'll burn the university
41:28
system to the ground. They'll burn our
41:30
our health screen. Dude, look at what
41:31
has look at what has been done just in
41:33
the LA not even two years to our food
41:35
supply. I I have to I don't I don't know
41:38
about you guys. I have a friend who has
41:40
opened a couple of restaurants and he
41:43
never calls me on the phone. He called
41:45
me on the phone. He's like, "If I were
41:46
you, I unless you can source exactly
41:48
where it's coming from. Don't eat beef."
41:51
That's a [ __ ] restaurant owner
41:54
and a guy I've known since I was in high
41:56
school.
41:58
You know what I mean? Like he's like,
41:59
"Don't eat beef. And I was like, "Holy
42:02
shit." Like just look like burning the
42:05
administrative state, burning the
42:07
university system, burning research
42:09
funding, burning the all of the
42:12
intellectual capital that we had built
42:13
in with the the had the largest firing
42:16
of mass PhDs in history.
42:20
These people have no idea what has made
42:23
America great. They have no idea what
42:26
has powered it. and the very things that
42:28
they disdain are the very ones that are
42:31
actually responsible. There's there's
42:33
criticisms to make, but in the
42:34
broadstrokes,
42:36
these are the things that have powered
42:38
American greatness. And they just want
42:39
to burn it all because they are not part
42:41
of the world that can rise through those
42:43
institutions and rise through those
42:44
circles and rise through those places.
42:46
They just want it all to burn.
42:52
Oh, anyway, getting back to Trump and
42:54
Rogan. and Rogan being like, "Yeah, I've
42:55
been leftwing my whole life, brother."
42:57
This is the same This the same [ __ ]
42:59
Dana does where Dana's like, "You know,
43:02
I got a few things that are left. I got
43:03
a few things that are right." I don't
43:05
give a [ __ ] if in your free time you
43:08
wrote a sequel to the Communist
43:10
Manifesto
43:12
and you call all of your friends comrade
43:15
and you believe in Antifa. I don't give
43:17
a [ __ ] if what you do in the real world
43:21
is materially push the most
43:24
uh extreme political project in American
43:28
in my in my American life.
43:31
It doesn't matter. It It doesn't matter.
43:34
It doesn't matter. And so Joe being
43:36
like, "Oh, I've had leftwing views my
43:37
whole life." Yeah, I don't think Joe
43:38
hates gays, right? Like in that sense,
43:40
he's got, you know, he's got some sense.
43:42
And I don't, you know, there's other
43:44
things that are probably like, yeah, you
43:45
know, like I I don't even know what his
43:48
views on abortion are at this point, but
43:49
whatever. They're they're probably not
43:51
the worst of the things that could be,
43:54
but like who gives a [ __ ]
43:56
Who gives a [ __ ] You used considerable
43:59
media and personal resources to help put
44:02
back into power a guy who tried to steal
44:05
a presidential election, this is a
44:06
[ __ ] fact, with a fake elector
44:08
scheme. who was grossly incompetent in
44:12
every possible way and you said, "Let's
44:14
do that again, but only worse." Get the
44:17
[ __ ] out of here. Get the [ __ ] out of
44:19
here.
44:25
Giving you money so you keep doing this.
44:29
Oh, thank you.
44:35
Uh,
44:37
soccer is not cognizant of the harms of
44:40
drugs. He is an outright advocate of new
44:42
age reefer madness. He does not engage
44:44
in critical thinking about our drug
44:45
laws. I've heard him engage in some
44:47
critical thinking about the drug laws.
44:48
He just comes to the wrong conclusion.
44:51
I've heard him make this point or at
44:52
least a pretty similar point. He is
44:55
concerned about the growing harms of
44:57
things. And I think if you're an
44:58
advocate for something, you don't have
45:00
to agree that everything that they say
45:02
is a harm is a harm. It's not like you
45:04
have to buy into all of their framing,
45:06
but even the person who should be in
45:08
favor of the drugs, you have to have a
45:11
cleareyed sense about its harms. That's
45:14
the only way you can get to intelligent
45:16
use cases and regulation.
45:18
Uh look, I'd love to hear your thoughts
45:20
on the PCSA. This is the this is the the
45:22
NCAA bill they're trying to pass. I've
45:24
only read a little bit about it. I like
45:26
to reserve not judgment per se. Well,
45:28
that too I suppose, but um commentary
45:30
until I've had a little bit more chance
45:31
to read it. But from what I've read,
45:33
it's kind of funny. It's dude, like I'll
45:35
say this for this for this bill. Uh in
45:38
terms of the broadstrokes and what I've
45:39
seen, it's basically
45:41
like it's kind of funny that the Ali Act
45:44
is happening at the exact same time
45:47
because
45:49
like I this is what I need everyone to
45:50
understand about the Ali Act. People are
45:52
thinking like, well, does the law have
45:54
or the bill have some benefits and what
45:56
are the pros versus cons? Like they're
45:58
trying to weigh it in an honest way. And
46:00
it's like, dude, look at like who in
46:02
boxing was being like, dude, you know
46:04
what we got to do? We got to make a UBO.
46:08
Like there was no ground swell of
46:10
support for this. There was no organic
46:11
grassroots movement. Like nothing grew
46:14
out of this. And you might say this is a
46:15
group that's not going to do a lot of
46:16
that anyway. And that's true. But but
46:19
like in a similar way, which of the
46:21
athletes in the NCAA are trying to get
46:24
um that that bill passed? Like it's not
46:26
coming from them. In both cases, it's
46:28
entrenched
46:30
Trump boosters or sorry, it's it's uh
46:32
powerful Trump boosters trying to get
46:35
federal law to entrench their position.
46:38
That's what they're trying to do in both
46:40
of those cases. The guy Cody Mills, I
46:42
think is his name, who is another Trump
46:44
booster, right? similar to Ari or you
46:46
know Ari is enough of one or Dana
46:48
whatever uh and it's the same kind of
46:51
thing over labor same kind of thing
46:54
because we are living in a moment we are
46:56
living in a moment of vandalism
46:58
we are living in an age of vandals and
47:01
it's not when I say vandals I don't mean
47:03
the guy throwing a rock through the
47:05
window of a of a you know a best buy and
47:09
then running out with a TV that's not
47:11
who I'm talking about I'm talking about
47:13
people who are looking at federal
47:15
legislation and saying we can if we can
47:19
change these we can we can have the
47:22
world will be ours and you've got
47:23
someone in power who doesn't care about
47:26
harming people whatsoever doesn't care
47:29
whether an industry gets [ __ ] it has
47:32
no care at all but is simply doing what
47:34
um Francis Fukuyama called the
47:36
patrimonial way where you know this is
47:39
sort of like my inner circle friends and
47:41
family you know you pay me I scratch
47:43
your back very very transactional in
47:45
certain ways. He's just going back to
47:47
that. And so these people who are creeps
47:50
see the federal legislation and they see
47:51
a moment in time and they're like, "This
47:53
guy will do something that the next guy
47:55
won't undo for another 40, 50, 60 years,
47:58
if ever. The time to do it is now." It's
48:01
all part of that. It's a smash and grab,
48:04
but it's that that they're trying to
48:05
smash and grab, right?
48:10
Uh yes, the US government has committed
48:11
crimes and wre havoc, especially the
48:13
admin. But [ __ ] and Kolinsky saying the
48:15
US is pound-for-pound worse is an insane
48:17
take. Why is that insane? The world is
48:19
safer with the US having a trillion
48:21
military army instead of al Qaeda. Well,
48:24
yeah, I wouldn't want al Qaeda to have
48:26
one, but like do you think that we have
48:28
used ours responsibly? In my lifetime,
48:30
and it's not not even including Vietnam.
48:33
Has the US used its military
48:35
responsibly? What would be the argument
48:37
for that? The war on terror in terms of
48:39
the the wars itself and then the forces
48:42
that it unleashed by various different
48:44
studies. I think one came from Brown
48:45
University killed 4.5 million people.
48:50
Right? These were all wars of choice
48:53
where we lied to the public. Right? I
48:55
remember Colon Powell going before
48:57
Congress and showing him the vial and
48:58
all of that [ __ ] I remember this whole
49:00
thing. I remember all of it. like and
49:03
then what we did to ourselves in terms
49:05
of you know finding ways to make torture
49:08
legal uh now all of some of these things
49:10
have come the black sidization which I
49:12
talk about all the time with with ICE
49:14
detention camps finding extrajudicial
49:17
justifications for what they want to do
49:19
all of this is our inheritance on the
49:20
war on terror so all of it's coming home
49:22
but like what we've exported has the US
49:24
military in my lifetime been used
49:26
responsibly for world security who could
49:29
make such an argument who could make
49:31
such an argument
49:34
Um
49:36
I I you know
49:39
people want to get hung up on these
49:40
comparisons. Oh, Al Qaeda is full of
49:42
religious fanatics who would turn the
49:44
entire world into a caliphate. Yeah,
49:46
they might. They they probably would.
49:48
They, you know, although, you know, that
49:50
hasn't stopped us to some degree to
49:52
getting behind what's happened, you you
49:53
know, with Al- Sharah in uh in in Syria.
49:56
I mean, that wasn't a dis I mean, that
49:58
guy was [ __ ] beheading people. It
49:59
wasn't a disqualifier for us, you know.
50:01
So there's that as well, but like I just
50:03
think, you know, again, it's everyone
50:06
wants to make, well, what about US
50:07
versus Al Qaeda? What about US versus
50:09
Mao? And they're trying to get into
50:10
these like power rankings of who is
50:12
doing it. And I just feel like that's
50:13
really something of a I mean, the the
50:16
comparison might be important to say
50:18
like look at the scale of horror that
50:19
has happened relative, right, for just
50:21
sort of doing like, you know, arithmetic
50:23
body counts. And I understand that, but
50:26
you don't even need to do that. Just
50:27
look at the situation for what it is.
50:30
And in my lifetime, in my lifetime, we
50:33
have and and and again, I I think it's
50:35
been worse under Trump and Bush than
50:38
Obama, but Obama did [ __ ] up [ __ ]
50:40
Clinton, too. Like, who can say that
50:42
these have been responsible uses? It's
50:44
impossible to make that argument. It's
50:47
been deeply, destabilizingly
50:50
irresponsible.
50:53
Any opinions on Florida Governor
50:55
candidate Byron Donald's? Uh, I haven't
50:59
paid close attention to that race. I saw
51:00
he beat Fishbach and then that was the
51:03
end of Fishbach, I guess. Um,
51:06
but you know, I see him on like Bill
51:08
Maher and Fox clips that come across my
51:10
timeline, but I've not paid close
51:12
attention to that race. Couldn't afford
51:14
to drive my truck to work today, but I
51:16
was able to get my lawn mower in time
51:19
for the LTGPC.
51:21
Let's get cutting. Thanks always. Look,
51:22
that's funny. That's funny. That's a
51:25
funny bit. I appreciate that.
51:28
Um,
51:30
yeah. So, anyway, like this this like,
51:33
oh, we got to go we have we got to go
51:34
after Hassan [ __ ] Like, no the [ __ ] we
51:37
don't. We got better, dude. We got Can
51:39
you Can you believe Can you believe the
51:42
president of the United States is
51:44
sending gas prices, energy prices
51:47
generally, to the [ __ ]
51:50
stratosphere.
51:51
We haven't even begun to have
51:53
conversations about worldwide shortages.
51:56
Shortages, excuse me. He kidnapped the
51:59
president of Venezuela who, oh, he's a
52:02
bad guy. Fine, but he kidnapped him.
52:04
They're embargoing and have a military
52:06
blockade on Cuba to starve their
52:08
government out of power. Um, did you see
52:11
what we did in Ecuador where we we
52:13
deported, you know, under the threat of
52:15
torture the political opponent of the
52:17
current president of Ecuador? We sent
52:18
him back to go get tortured in Ecuador
52:21
at the behest of uh a a uh a request
52:24
from a political adversary that we're
52:26
tight with. The Trump administration is
52:28
tight with like destabilizing [ __ ] every
52:32
possible [ __ ] place. And then they
52:34
got the nerve for people to be like
52:36
Hassan Piker's like, "Yeah, we're doing
52:38
a lot of bad shit." And oh, we're making
52:39
a claim about what's worse based on body
52:41
count. Either way, whatever argument you
52:43
want to make, he is 1 million% right to
52:47
point out what we are doing. What did
52:49
Martin Luther King say was the greatest
52:51
purveyor of violence in his lifetime? Do
52:53
you remember what he said? Go look that
52:54
up. Martin Luther King, a man we have
52:56
statues to on federal land in my
52:58
hometown, as a matter of fact.
53:01
He he didn't say anything in any way
53:04
dissimilar.
53:06
People don't Israel supporters don't
53:08
want to reckon with the crimes of
53:10
Israel. And that's going to be a
53:13
challenge for Americans to accept what
53:14
the government has done in its name. I
53:16
don't think people themselves have to
53:18
say. I mean, you know, if they voted,
53:19
it's a little bit of a different
53:20
responsibility. But I don't expect the
53:22
average American again to just hang
53:23
their head and say we are horrible
53:25
people and we are irredeemable and let's
53:26
just give it all back to the Native
53:28
Americans, you know, which is, by the
53:30
way, you know, I mean, a whole other
53:31
kind of conversation about what we've
53:33
done to them. But but what I do expect
53:34
them to say is as adults, we should stop
53:37
doing this [ __ ] We should stop doing
53:39
this. How can you have the urgency and
53:42
the awareness to do that if you are
53:43
unwilling to reconcile with what we have
53:46
done
53:48
to and again you're putting military
53:50
families members military um members and
53:53
their families through hell to make all
53:55
of this a possibility like in my
53:59
lifetime where did I see the most amount
54:02
of dudes come back [ __ ] up from
54:03
military campaigns and it was under Bush
54:06
and then later you know in Obama
54:09
coming back to Walter to read and [ __ ]
54:10
And some of my friends coming back who
54:11
didn't get blown up, but they were they
54:14
were a mess. They were a me. It all
54:16
happened. I mean, like
54:19
the most irresponsible of circumstances.
54:22
And everyone wants to cry about what
54:24
he's saying. Can you imagine that? And
54:26
he wants to demolish the Kennedy Center
54:28
under threat because they won't put his
54:30
[ __ ] name on it.
54:32
And we're worried about like you you
54:34
just it like like do we have the
54:37
resources? And I'm asking this question
54:39
sincerely. Do we have the resources, the
54:43
attention span, the urgency, the
54:46
awareness, the knowhow, and the drive to
54:49
actually fix our problems?
54:52
Do you think we can fix our problems if
54:54
we are fixated on what Hassan [ __ ] is
54:57
saying in interviews in Axios?
55:01
I don't think that those interviews are
55:02
irrelevant or that his influence people
55:05
want to say he has no influence again
55:07
relative to other matters he does not
55:09
have much influence but I recognize that
55:11
he's putting he's putting into
55:12
circulation ideas that a certain kind of
55:16
class and order that has reigned over us
55:19
doesn't want to allow and they have
55:21
acolytes willingly or otherwise
55:23
throughout the media class the financial
55:26
class to an extent less or so but to an
55:28
extent the academic class to the
55:30
profession professional and elite class.
55:32
It's everywhere. They these are the
55:33
beneficiaries and the architects of a
55:35
world order. And Hassan [ __ ] is asking
55:37
you to reflect on their crimes. Okay?
55:40
[ __ ] reflect on them.
55:42
Like this is the moral urgency that we
55:44
should have. If you want to take issue
55:45
with other things he said, fine.
55:48
But that that push itself, what is the
55:51
problem with that?
55:56
I I see so many signs that there's a lot
55:58
of people who are really upset with what
56:00
MAGA has done and that is heartening I
56:03
suppose better late than never certainly
56:05
but I see also a number of signs that
56:08
the that the center
56:10
kind of duopoly but certainly center
56:12
left too they don't want to have these
56:14
conversations they don't want to seek
56:16
the kind of meaningful change that we
56:18
actually need to we need to fix our
56:21
problems we are letting problems fester
56:24
among ourselves And it is tearing us to
56:27
pieces.
56:31
Do you see?
56:33
Like the longer we don't address
56:36
healthcare, the more we are going to rip
56:39
society apart,
56:42
the more we are going to unleash forces
56:45
that are going to look for an answer.
56:47
And because there is not one above them,
56:49
it will that they can access, it will be
56:52
the one below them.
56:57
I I just need people to take a moment to
56:59
really realize we are in deep [ __ ]
57:02
[ __ ] Super deep [ __ ] We will lose our
57:05
way of life if they if if if we don't if
57:08
there's not enough of a resistance. We
57:09
will lose it. Truly, I mean that.
57:13
And when a guy comes out and says some
57:15
things potentially inartfully to to some
57:17
extent, you can quibble with some of the
57:19
factual nature of it, but as a broad
57:21
perspective, it's exactly the kind of
57:23
conversation that the country should be
57:25
having.
57:27
What actually are our [ __ ]
57:29
priorities? And what are we going to do
57:31
about it?
57:34
What matters in this moment? What has
57:37
gone wrong? And why has it gone wrong?
57:39
And how do we stop that [ __ ]
57:42
And when it comes to undoing the
57:44
problems of American empire, you have to
57:47
have an honest conversation about it.
57:49
Otherwise, it will just continue.
57:54
All right. How long have I been on?
57:56
About an hour. Perfect timing. All
57:58
right. Thank you guys so much for
58:00
watching. I greatly appreciate it. Um, I
58:02
don't know when I'm going to have the
58:04
tools of this fixed. I am really sorry
58:05
that I haven't had them fixed, but um
58:11
it's a problem. So hopefully I can get
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it rectified for next time. All right.
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All right. Love you guys. Have a great
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weekend. I'll have a live stream
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tomorrow for Saturday. I'm going to work
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all weekend. So you know how that's
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going to be. Uh I'll have a live stream
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for you guys on tomorrow for the fights
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and then on Sunday as well and then MK
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on Monday. Boom boom boom boom boom.
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It's going to be on. All right. Have a
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good weekend. I'll talk to you next
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time. Peace.