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If a Republican said what Newsom said, They’d Be Gone plus SOTU '26 Analysis w Buck Sextion · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom should be in hot water right now for
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Speaker 1: his clearly racist comments about African Americans having low IQ.
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Speaker 1: But let's be honest, the media is not talking about
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Speaker 1: this and it should be receiving far more attention than
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Speaker 1: it is, because if this story involved a Republican governor
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Speaker 1: instead of Gavin Newsom, it would have a twenty four
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Speaker 1: hour media firestorm all over it and more than likely
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Speaker 1: that Republican governor would have had to resign. Now reports
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Speaker 1: indicate that Governor Newsom is facing backlash, but not from
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Speaker 1: the media, after telling a black mayor, I'm like you,
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Speaker 1: before referencing low IQ in the conversation. Now, let's be
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Speaker 1: very clear, invoking IQ at a conversation involving an African
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Speaker 1: American elected official, a mayor, especially in a way that
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Speaker 1: can be interpreted as linking race and intelligence, is not
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Speaker 1: just careless, It's not just politically explosive, be condemned outright.
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Speaker 1: Is straight up racism now, because intelligence is not determined
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Speaker 1: by race, period, is what the media should have also
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Speaker 1: said in this report, but they're not talking about it.
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Speaker 1: So when language like that's used, even loosely, even jokingly,
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Speaker 1: or even defensively, it should matter, and it should matter
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Speaker 1: to all American voters. The bigger issue here is, yes,
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Speaker 1: the double standard. This is the part that makes me
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Speaker 1: angry because if a Republican governor use this language or
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Speaker 1: even hinted at racial stereotypes involving intelligence based on the
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Speaker 1: color of your skin, what would have happened.
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Speaker 2: I know exactly what would have happened.
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Speaker 1: Number One, we would have had wall to wall cable
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Speaker 1: news coverage demanding more than just an apology, but then
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Speaker 1: demanding that other Republicans call for that governor to resign.
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Speaker 1: We have none of that right now on TV. Editorial
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Speaker 1: boards would have also jumped in demanding accountability, saying that
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Speaker 1: voters deserve more from their governor than this, And then
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Speaker 1: there would have been the national political outrage from nationally
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Speaker 1: elected figures or centers or congressmen far away from wherever
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Speaker 1: the outrage actually happened. In this situation, it actually did
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Speaker 1: happen in California. There would be zero tolerance as well
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Speaker 1: as zero hesitation to condemn a Republican if.
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Speaker 2: They did this.
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Speaker 1: But because it's the high profile Democratic front runner or
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Speaker 1: at least number two in line for the White House
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Speaker 1: on the Democratic Party, then Apparently they're all willing to
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Speaker 1: cover for the racist words of Gavin Newsom. There's also
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Speaker 1: the lies of this story, which are even more incredible.
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Speaker 1: When Newsom is talking to a black audience, he says,
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Speaker 1: I'm dumb too, yeah, just like you. But when Newsom
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Speaker 1: was talking to a white audience, I want you to
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Speaker 1: listen carefully to what he had to say to that audience.
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Speaker 2: You've written a hell of a book. And I don't
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Speaker 2: say that lightly.
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Speaker 3: I went through it in a quick hour and a half,
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Speaker 3: almost two hours, and trust me, I don't read very fast,
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Speaker 3: but it reads at an unbelievable pace. It's so well written,
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Speaker 3: and of course it's so familiar because I fell a
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Speaker 3: little bit adjacent so much of the subject matter. But
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Speaker 3: it's eighteen chapters. It's an impressive piece of work, two
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Speaker 3: hundred and sixty three or so pages.
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Speaker 1: Two So let's be clear what you just heard. Gavin
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Speaker 1: Newsom talking to white authors about a white book and
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Speaker 1: a white audience. He basically says, you know, I read
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Speaker 1: three hundred pages of your book in like two hours. Now,
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Speaker 1: he's either a liar, or a race paider, or a
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Speaker 1: racist or all three of those things. Because when Gavin
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Speaker 1: Newsom goes and talks to a black crowd in Georgia.
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Speaker 1: This is what he says instead.
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Speaker 4: I'm not you know, I'm not trying to impress you.
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Speaker 4: I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you,
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Speaker 4: I'm no better than you.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: I'm a nine to sixty SAT guy, and you know,
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Speaker 4: and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying
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Speaker 4: to act all there if you got nine forty, but
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Speaker 4: literally a nine sixty SAT guy.
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Speaker 3: I cannot you you've never seen me read a speech.
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Speaker 4: Because I cannot read a speech, maybe the wrong business
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Speaker 4: to be.
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Speaker 1: I'm like you to a black audience. I'm a nine
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Speaker 1: to sixty SAT guy.
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Speaker 2: I can't read. So which one is it? Is it?
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Speaker 1: Are you the guy that can read a three hundred
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Speaker 1: page book in a couple hours? Are you the guy
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Speaker 1: that's stupid just like you? Of course, only referencing black
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Speaker 1: people in the audience. This is why it matters. We
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Speaker 1: live in a political culture where leaders are constantly telling
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Speaker 1: the country that language matters. Right, Gavin Newsom's one of those.
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Speaker 1: We're told that rhetoric matters. How do we know that?
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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom has said it. Gavin Newsom has also said
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Speaker 1: that tone matters and the implication of the words you
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Speaker 1: use matter. Well, they're right, it does. So if that
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Speaker 1: standard applies to everyone else, why does it apply to
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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom as well? Historically, by the way, linking race
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Speaker 1: and IQ has been part of a deeply offensive and
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Speaker 1: discredit argument. Yes, history makes comments like this, and we
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Speaker 1: expose them, especially sensitive and especially inappropriate comments to remind
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Speaker 1: Americans of what racism actually is. And any elected official,
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Speaker 1: whether it's Republican or Democrat, they should know better, especially
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. And to be clear, this is
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Speaker 1: not cancel culture that I'm advocating for. This is an
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Speaker 1: elected official looking at a black audience saying I'm like you,
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Speaker 1: I can't read, I'm dumb, I'm a nine sixty sat guy.
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Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Newsom. Why is he not being held accountable?
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Speaker 1: Because he is seen as being the guy that could
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Speaker 1: be the Democrat's next president. He's trying to present himself
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Speaker 1: as polished, media savvy, forwardlooking Democrat for the future. And
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Speaker 1: that's why this story should be so damaging, Because if
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Speaker 1: you've got a rich white guy telling black people he's
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Speaker 1: stupid like them, shouldn't that disqualify him from being the
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Speaker 1: president of the United States of America. Now, Democrats are
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Speaker 1: falling all over themselves to protect Gavin Newsom, And the
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Speaker 1: key simple question I have is this, when is there
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Speaker 1: going to be accountability when someone on the left says
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Speaker 1: something as racist as this? When is there going to
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Speaker 1: be a clear explanation from Gavin Newsom about what he
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Speaker 1: actually meant? Is there going to be a clear apology
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Speaker 1: from Gavin Neussom to the black community for implying that
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Speaker 1: they're dumb or that they can only get a nine
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Speaker 1: to sixty on their sat Is there going to be
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Speaker 1: a clear acknowledgement that the phrasing was at least at
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Speaker 1: the bare minimum inappropriate. And the sad part is, especially
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Speaker 1: minority voters deserve clarity on this issue. So where is
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Speaker 1: the media? Why aren't they doing their job? The bottom
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Speaker 1: line on this is well pretty simple. If it's a Democrat,
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Speaker 1: the media will protect them at all costs. There is
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Speaker 1: no consistency. Are we going to be able to hold
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Speaker 1: public officials accountable for racially charged rhetoric? Then if we're
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Speaker 1: going to do that, we got to hold them all accountable,
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Speaker 1: including the front runner.
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Speaker 2: Of the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1: I believe that no party should get a pass when
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Speaker 1: you say something like this, No governor should get a
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Speaker 1: pass if you say something like this, and certainly no
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Speaker 1: future presidential hopeful should get a pass if saying something
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Speaker 1: this racist on stage in front of a black audience America.
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Speaker 1: I want to believe he has moved beyond the ugly
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Speaker 1: history of tying intellect to the color of someone's skin.
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Speaker 2: That kind of thinking has no.
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Speaker 1: Place in this country and certainly no place in modern
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Speaker 1: politics for anyone. And if leaders want to lecture the
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Speaker 1: country about sensitivity and standards, they better live by those
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Speaker 1: same standard themselves. That's not partisan, that's just straight up principle.
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Speaker 1: This is exactly why I think the President of the
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Speaker 1: United States of America, Donald Trump, should probably mention this
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Speaker 1: also in the State of the Union tonight. I gotta
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Speaker 1: say one of the best lines of one of the
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Speaker 1: four Democratic responses was like the spamburger one, She's like,
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Speaker 1: is the president really working for you? The answer is yes,
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Speaker 1: he actually is working for you. And that's what his
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Speaker 1: two hour speech was about. A good friend of mine
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Speaker 1: is gonna join me now to break down what.
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Speaker 2: He thought about the speech.
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Speaker 1: He's also got a book right now that you've got
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Speaker 1: to go grab, Manufacturing Delusion. Left uses brainwashing and doctor
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Speaker 1: nation and propaganda against you. Buck Sexton, dear friend of mine.
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Speaker 1: He's also the host of the Clay and Buck Show.
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Speaker 1: His new book out now. Grab it wherever you get
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Speaker 1: your books or on Amazon dot com. Manufacturing Delusion Again.
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Speaker 1: Congrats on the book. By the way, timing is perfect.
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Speaker 1: You got Democrats that are actually screaming at the president
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Speaker 1: in the State of the Union wearing buttons that say
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Speaker 1: f ICE. But it's not the abbreviation. It's full capital FUC.
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Speaker 1: You know what ice, Rashida Telee putting that on her
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Speaker 1: beautiful white blouse, dressed thing in magic she was wearing
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Speaker 1: with her big red lipstick. They're keeping a classing the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party. Buck, I gotta say, I actually think this
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Speaker 1: speech by President Trump may have been the best speech
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen him give.
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Speaker 2: And it was long, but I didn't notice how long
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Speaker 2: it was.
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Speaker 5: It was the best State of the Union speech I've
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Speaker 5: ever seen that I can remember, and I've you know,
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Speaker 5: the good thing about Twitter is that there is something
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Speaker 5: of a record of this. I've never said that before,
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Speaker 5: So this is the first time I've ever said I'm
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Speaker 5: actually someone who's a little salty about State of the
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Speaker 5: Union speeches. I'll genuinely say things like, you know, they're
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Speaker 5: too long. I wish they were just written. That speech
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Speaker 5: was an incredible dynamo performance from President Trump start to finish.
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Speaker 5: I watched the entire thing. I hate staying up late.
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Speaker 5: As you know, I live in Miami, but my Heavens,
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Speaker 5: I do not like to party.
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Speaker 2: I like to be in my I saw this for
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Speaker 2: a while.
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Speaker 1: If guys that don't know Buck, Buck is basically a
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Speaker 1: forty a young forty year old man stuck in an
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Speaker 1: eighty year old body, like, can we just can you
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Speaker 1: agree to that statement? Like you get cranky after seven o'clock?
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Speaker 5: Right, there's no question about this. Clay knows this very
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Speaker 5: well too. We always go to events and people like
10:51
Speaker 5: Clay and Buck, will you guys come out for drinks
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Speaker 5: or something after as I'm like, well, Clay will. So
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Speaker 5: he's our representative. He's our captain of fun, and I'm
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Speaker 5: our captain of get your leap and and you know,
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Speaker 5: wake up when you feel like it. So here's what
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Speaker 5: I would also say, though there were a couple of
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Speaker 5: moments tonight from from the State of the Union, rather
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Speaker 5: a couple of moments that I thought particularly stuck out. Obviously,
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Speaker 5: people are going to say when he said that we
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Speaker 5: stand for American citizens over illegal aliens, that was and
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Speaker 5: Democrats didn't stand of course, and that was clear, and
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Speaker 5: you know, I just think that that's something that hammer's home.
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Speaker 5: The key difference in the parties right now is that
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Speaker 5: the Democrat Party will advance the interests of foreigners over
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Speaker 5: the interests of actual Americans as long as it advances
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Speaker 5: their power something else. There were some amazing moments of
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Speaker 5: of of just sort of patriotic pageantry. The USA team
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Speaker 5: hockey team that was just awesome and so much fun
11:51
Speaker 5: to see those guys, and and then the the Metal
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Speaker 5: of Honor presentations, and particularly memorable was Chief Warrant Officer Slover,
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Speaker 5: who was part of that Duro ray. That was amazing.
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Speaker 1: But you can see that he was also by the way,
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Speaker 1: and still in a lot of pain. Is that chopper pilot.
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Speaker 1: I mean you could see him standing, and I mean
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Speaker 1: and you could see as they were trying to help
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Speaker 1: him down, like those were life threatening injuries that that day,
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Speaker 1: and for him to go through all that and to
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Speaker 1: stand there that proud for that long was incredible to.
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Speaker 5: See, right, and you know, for a rotary wing aircraft
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Speaker 5: pilot in that situation, to maintain its steady, complete the
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Speaker 5: mission to everything. He had the lives of everybody else
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Speaker 5: on board in his hands while his legs were essentially
12:37
Speaker 5: bleeding out right. I mean, I know he survived, but
12:39
Speaker 5: those could have been fatal wounds if he hadn't gotten
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Speaker 5: rapid attention on them. So it was. It's an incredible
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Speaker 5: act of bravery. But something I want to focus on,
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Speaker 5: which goes to my book, Manufacturing Delusion, which is and
12:51
Speaker 5: this is sort of the primary review that I'm seeing,
12:53
Speaker 5: a really good book with a lot of research. People
12:56
Speaker 5: will learn things. It took me eighteen months to write it.
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Speaker 5: It took the CIA five months to clear it. I
13:02
Speaker 5: have stories from my time in the CIA that I've
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Speaker 5: never talked about publicly before as part of my journey
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Speaker 5: into essentially the making of political madness. I mean, that's
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Speaker 5: the theory, or that's that's the thesis of the book
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Speaker 5: is how is political madness made? How does the left
13:19
Speaker 5: do this? And I go back one hundred years to
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Speaker 5: have Havelov to the Soviets to the Chinese and then
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Speaker 5: bring it up to the present day. And when Trump
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Speaker 5: looked at the Democrats ben and said, you're all crazy.
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Speaker 5: They are. I mean, they act like lunatics in that room,
13:37
Speaker 5: but beyond that, they're policies, whether it's climate change or
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Speaker 5: transgenderism or open borders or BLM, are rooted in mandatory
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Speaker 5: lies and mandatory madness, which is why Manufacturing Delusions the
13:50
Speaker 5: book is so important and why anyone who buys it
13:53
Speaker 5: is going to be like, I love this, I'm so
13:55
Speaker 5: glad I'm reading it because you go learn about the hit.
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Speaker 5: You know, a lot of people know they share these
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Speaker 5: arts with you and me like, yeah, telling you know
14:02
Speaker 5: a twelve year old girl that they're really a boy
14:04
Speaker 5: is clearly nuts. There are reasons why they do this,
14:08
Speaker 5: and they are rooted in totalitarian mind control tactics, and
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Speaker 5: people need to understand what those are, you know.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that I also thought was very
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Speaker 1: interesting about the speech was the fact that the President
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Speaker 1: was just so honest about where the Democrats are right now.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned a couple of those, but I go back
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Speaker 1: to one point where he was saying, in this country,
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Speaker 1: he asked members of Congress stand that they believe the
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Speaker 1: government should protect Americans instead of illegals. The Democrats remain seated,
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Speaker 1: like if you want to know who side they're on,
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Speaker 1: it's not the American people. And in time after time
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Speaker 1: you kind of just called them out, like you're not
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Speaker 1: going to stand for that. You're not going to stand
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Speaker 1: for that, You're not going to stand for that. Democrats
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Speaker 1: are reviews, by the way, to stand for the mother
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Speaker 1: of Irena who was brutally murdered by a career criminal
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Speaker 1: in Charlotte, North Carolina. That is how heartless the Democrats
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Speaker 1: are as a party, no matter what the President does,
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Speaker 1: even on something like that, we have a mother that's
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Speaker 1: crying the present, telling your story, honoring them, they wouldn't
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Speaker 1: stand for her.
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Speaker 5: Yes, well, the extreme partisanship of the Democrat Party, and
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Speaker 5: when I say extreme partisanship, we expect that on certain issues.
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Speaker 5: We don't think that the Democrats are going to cheer
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Speaker 5: for Trump's tax cuts, and honestly, it would be weird
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Speaker 5: if they did, because the prosperity of the private sector
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Speaker 5: and increasing wages and well for Americans. They don't like that.
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Speaker 5: They like financial duress, they like Marxism, they like class warfare.
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Speaker 5: So of course they're not going to say we love
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Speaker 5: Trump's tax cuts. But there are some things like a
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Speaker 5: gold medal for the US men's soccer team I mean
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Speaker 5: saw a hockey team rather or the conferring of a
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Speaker 5: medal of honor, or something like as you mentioned, I
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Speaker 5: mean the murder of this beautiful young woman killed so
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Speaker 5: heinously that you would think go beyond These are things
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Speaker 5: that should go beyond politics, And for Democrats, they did
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Speaker 5: not in some of these key moments that I think
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Speaker 5: will come back to haunt them at some level in
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Speaker 5: the midterms. I mean, I don't ever like to overstate
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Speaker 5: this stuff. A million things will happen between now and then.
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Speaker 5: But there are people who saw, and there are people,
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Speaker 5: I think who are becoming more clear on what these
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Speaker 5: primary divisions are that are deep ideological and really ethical
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Speaker 5: and moral and patriotic divides within the party. And you
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Speaker 5: mentioned the moment of standing or not standing for illegals
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Speaker 5: versus Americans. You know, I in Manufacturing Delusion, wrote a
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Speaker 5: chapter on propaganda as part of mind control and the
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Speaker 5: manipulation of language and the changing of words, specifically around
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Speaker 5: the issue of immigration. You know, from illegal alien to
16:55
Speaker 5: illegal immigrant to undocumented to you know, non citizen in
16:58
Speaker 5: person to migrant again into all this stuff. But really
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Speaker 5: it's erasing the difference between an American and everybody else.
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Speaker 5: And so if you can erase that in our language,
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Speaker 5: you start to erase that distinction in the minds of well,
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Speaker 5: not just Americans, but the whole world. And it's a
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Speaker 5: way of dissolving our sovereignty in real time. I mean,
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Speaker 5: it's deeply subversive what they do. And that's why in
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Speaker 5: one of the latter chapters of Manufacturing Delusion available now
17:27
Speaker 5: and I hope everyone goes and gets a copy because
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Speaker 5: it is a bestseller and I want it to be
17:31
Speaker 5: a massive bestseller. They'll see that this manipulation of language
17:37
Speaker 5: goes to something much more insidious than just oh, democrats
17:41
Speaker 5: like to have their way on TV, or Democrats are
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Speaker 5: hissy about language. They're trying to shape understanding, they're trying
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Speaker 5: to shape belief, They're trying to control minds with this stuff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: where you look at this speech and part of what
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Speaker 1: the President think was trying to lay out was and
18:01
Speaker 1: go back to the simple issue if it's the economy stupid, right,
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Speaker 1: It's such an important point to make. The President was
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Speaker 1: trying to make that clear the American people, Hey, we
18:10
Speaker 1: are way better off now than we were when the
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Speaker 1: last guys were in charge.
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Speaker 2: Never ever, ever forget that.
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Speaker 1: And he was also some of the things he's enacted
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Speaker 1: are just now becoming a reality that people are seeing.
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Speaker 1: No tax on tips has just been enacted, No tax
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Speaker 1: on overtime has just been enacted. I mean, we're not
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Speaker 1: even talking about a quarter of the year of people
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Speaker 1: experiencing what that does and how it can change their
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Speaker 1: life and keeping more of their own hard earned dollars.
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Speaker 1: Like I feel like the President actually did a really
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Speaker 1: good job of selling and reminding people of where we
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Speaker 1: were and where we are now.
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Speaker 5: Of course, and it's been an amazing first year. All
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Speaker 5: the key indicators and numbers on the economy speak to that.
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Speaker 5: And so it's a fun place for Trump and for
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Speaker 5: his cabinet and the administration to be And I mean,
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Speaker 5: it's a joyful place one year in to look at
19:02
Speaker 5: all the accomplishments. But I also think, of course, there's
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Speaker 5: a setting of expectations, which is that now this has
19:09
Speaker 5: to continue on into year two, and we can't think
19:13
Speaker 5: of this as a two year presidency, as in, we
19:16
Speaker 5: can't allow the midterms to just slip away. And then
19:19
Speaker 5: all of a sudden you have the styming of the
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Speaker 5: Trump agenda, and you have these crazy people, which is
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Speaker 5: what Trump called them, and I think in many cases,
19:27
Speaker 5: maybe most cases, of the Democrats assembled there, that is true.
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Speaker 5: You have these crazy people who, because they are so
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Speaker 5: personally invested in this, almost like they've been made to
19:38
Speaker 5: be crazy, like their delusions have been manufactured. Manufacturing Delusion
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Speaker 5: is a fantastic book that will explain to you how
19:44
Speaker 5: this happens. You notice, by the way, then when you're
19:48
Speaker 5: selling a book, you have to absolutely be you have
19:51
Speaker 5: to be rerelentous. You cannot give, you cannot relent. But no, really,
19:56
Speaker 5: the Democrat Party, i think, has gone into a place
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Speaker 5: where it is incapable of moderation or reform, and so
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Speaker 5: people just need to be prepared for the empire to
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Speaker 5: strike back and the maniacs, you know, the inmates, to
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Speaker 5: be running the asylum again if they win these midterms.
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Speaker 5: So the stakes are very high.
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Speaker 1: Mind, Yes, so maybe a good friend of mine, Buck Sex,
20:17
Speaker 1: and the author of the Manufacturing delusion, how the left
20:19
Speaker 1: uses brainwashing and doctrination and propaganda against you. I want
20:24
Speaker 1: to end on a final subject of foreign policy. You
20:28
Speaker 1: talk about this in your book and being in the
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Speaker 1: CIA back in the day. I think it's really interesting
20:34
Speaker 1: to see what's happening across the border, the southern border
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Speaker 1: in Mexico.
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Speaker 5: Right now.
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Speaker 1: You have two top people now that have been killed,
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Speaker 1: not just one, but another one after that, The top lieutendant,
20:43
Speaker 1: the finance guy, all things money of this cartel was
20:47
Speaker 1: also taken out. We've been told there's a question about
20:50
Speaker 1: what other cartels be targeted. There's four major ones in Mexico.
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Speaker 1: Only one of the four has been targeted by the
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Speaker 1: government so far in a major way.
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Speaker 2: Who will? Will there be an next?
21:01
Speaker 1: And then you've got what's happening in Cuba, Venezuela and
21:05
Speaker 1: also in Iran.
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Speaker 2: I get your take on all that real quick before
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Speaker 2: I let you go.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, the death of the really the targeted killing
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Speaker 5: of El menshow taken out by the Mexican military, And
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Speaker 5: my understanding is a bit like the bin Laden situation.
21:21
Speaker 5: You know, this was a military strike. This was much
21:25
Speaker 5: less like a traditional law enforcement operation than you'd see
21:30
Speaker 5: in other contexts, but this is most meaningful because it's
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Speaker 5: the beginning perhaps of an expanded true war on drugs
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Speaker 5: across the border in Mexico. Look, we have a Secretary
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Speaker 5: of War, Pete Hegseth, who is overseeing strikes effectively drone
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Speaker 5: strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean. I mean this
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Speaker 5: is warlike stuff. I mean, these are military moves, kinetics
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Speaker 5: that are being taken. And if we expand that into Mexico,
22:03
Speaker 5: we go after the head of the snake when it
22:05
Speaker 5: comes to the fentanyl poisoning of so many tens of
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Speaker 5: thousands of Americans every year. Now, the other side of this, though,
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Speaker 5: is that those cartels in Mexico have a lot of
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Speaker 5: these ciicarios. They're assassin you know, hitmen, gunmen. They have
22:19
Speaker 5: a lot of money to throw around, and it's going
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Speaker 5: to get very messy. I think if we try to
22:26
Speaker 5: go in and go in heavy, but that may be
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Speaker 5: a price that the administration is willing to pay, certainly
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Speaker 5: using special operations and more technological and tactical moves against
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Speaker 5: important cartel targets. So because what we have been doing
22:43
Speaker 5: obviously hasn't worked. So that's this idea that we're going
22:46
Speaker 5: to have you know, like free needle clinics like they
22:48
Speaker 5: have in San Francisco or these things, or decriminalization or something. No,
22:54
Speaker 5: people are going to die in large numbers, and the
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Speaker 5: cartels are making too much money from this and it
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Speaker 5: needs to be stopped, and Trump's willing to stop it.
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Speaker 5: So I think that they are going to By the way,
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Speaker 5: they're effectively taking something that you mentioned. My time the CIA,
23:08
Speaker 5: I was in the counter terrorism center there. They're taking
23:11
Speaker 5: what we've learned fighting al Qaeda and fighting these dispersed
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Speaker 5: terror cells of the Jiehattist variety, particularly in the Least, but
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Speaker 5: everywhere from the Philippines to South Asia to all over
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Speaker 5: the place to East Africa and West Africa. They're taking
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Speaker 5: that model, I think, and going to apply those tactics, techniques,
23:35
Speaker 5: and procedures to how we go after the cartels in Mexico.
23:38
Speaker 5: And if they do that, you're going to have a
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Speaker 5: lot more elementho like funerals going on for the narcos there.
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24:02
Speaker 1: The new mayor of New York, Mondani, has got a
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Speaker 1: socialist push for rent controls that are about to wreck
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Speaker 1: the New York City housing market, calling it rent controlled
24:14
Speaker 1: two point zero. And the new political push that's brewing
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Speaker 1: in New York City is to force people out. The
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Speaker 1: center of it is the mayor and his unapologetic calls
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Speaker 1: for sweeping rent controls. Now, he's pitching this plan as
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Speaker 1: a moral crusade. He's framing it as justice, and he's
24:35
Speaker 1: selling it as salvation for renters crush by what he
24:39
Speaker 1: described as sky high housing costs that are un American.
24:44
Speaker 1: Yet he's actually a socialist. So what is the solution,
24:49
Speaker 1: he says. It's about making New York City more affordable
24:52
Speaker 1: by forcing home owners or landlords or property owners to
24:58
Speaker 1: fit the bill or subsidized other people's rent. Now, this
25:02
Speaker 1: is a promise, the mayor said, He's going to pay
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Speaker 1: off on, freeze the rents, and save the people. There's
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Speaker 1: even that catchy slogan. Mundani's message is simple and politically powerful. Rent,
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Speaker 1: he says, is too high landlords are greedy, developers are profiting,
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Speaker 1: and the government must step in and stop it all.
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Speaker 1: His proposal expands and titans rent controls across the entire city,
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Speaker 1: limiting how much landlords can increase rent, restricting market adjustments,
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Speaker 1: and increasing penalties for owners who violate what he describes
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Speaker 1: as the new caps. Now, this is all being celebrated
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Speaker 1: by the radical left because they say it sounds compassionate
25:50
Speaker 1: to voters, it sounds bold, it sounds like someone finally
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Speaker 1: doing something. But the economics don't respond to the those slogans
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Speaker 1: at all. So what happens when government caps prices? Economists
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Speaker 1: are worried and warning that we've seen this before, and
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Speaker 1: they say that many are actually left behind. Many hardworking
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Speaker 1: people don't get the money they need. And when you
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Speaker 1: have these strict rent controls distorting the housing market, it's
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Speaker 1: a disaster for the free market and many people that
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Speaker 1: own those homes. Now, if landlords can't raise rents to
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Speaker 1: match rising costs, then they cut maintenance. If developers can't
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Speaker 1: make projects penciled out, they stop building. And if investors
26:38
Speaker 1: fear political risk, what do they do? They pull capital.
26:43
Speaker 1: If supply shrinks while demand stays high, then the shortage
26:48
Speaker 1: and the price war actually worsens on the people that
26:51
Speaker 1: need to help the most. Now New York already has
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Speaker 1: a housing supply crisis. The city needs more housing, no less,
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Speaker 1: But these aggressive rent controls can well do the complete
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Speaker 1: opposite and can behead construction at the exact moment when
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Speaker 1: more units are desperately needed. Now New York has already
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Speaker 1: experimented with versions of this new policy literally for decades
27:20
Speaker 1: after the twenty nineteen rent law expansion, there was measurable
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Speaker 1: effect declining renovation of rent stabilized units, smaller landlords struggling
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Speaker 1: to refinance buildings, reduce investment in multifamily housing, and reports
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Speaker 1: of units being left vacant because upgrades no longer made
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Speaker 1: any financial sense at all, turning nice places into what
27:46
Speaker 1: now is described as well slow lords. Reports of these
27:51
Speaker 1: units being left vacant then cause crime to skyrocket, as
27:55
Speaker 1: well as drugs to well infiltrate buildings, and when makers
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Speaker 1: tighten the screws further, those pressures actually intensified. Housing markets
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Speaker 1: are a fragile ecosystem. You can't squeeze one side without
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Speaker 1: consequences on the other, and the supply chain problem. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's what no one wants to talk about in the
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Speaker 1: Mayor's office. New York's road crisis isn't simply greedy landlords.
28:23
Speaker 1: It's simple math. Demand is enormous, the land is scarce,
28:29
Speaker 1: construction costs are in an all time high, and regulations
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Speaker 1: are complex, making it cost even more to build. Also,
28:36
Speaker 1: approval timelines in New York City are some of the
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Speaker 1: slowest in the entire country. Now, if you freeze prices
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Speaker 1: but don't increase supply, you don't solve the problem at all.
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Speaker 1: You create a massive housing shortage. And then that doesn't
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Speaker 1: help the working families Mandania is claiming he's helping. It
28:57
Speaker 1: actually pushes them into fewer available US unit's, longer waitless
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Speaker 1: and deteriorating housing stock, as well as deteriorating housing that
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Speaker 1: is of quality standards that he claims he wants. And
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Speaker 1: when private investment retreats, government is rarely fast enough or
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Speaker 1: efficient enough to fill the gap. But here's the political incentive.
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Speaker 1: Democrats want to force people out of New York City,
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Speaker 1: especially those with money. And that's what this is actually
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Speaker 1: all about. It's really just rent control, and it's rent
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Speaker 1: control for them to help the people that voted for
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Speaker 1: them the most, while hurting many others. The costs, however,
29:40
Speaker 1: they unfold gradually, Fewer new projects are announced, capitals shifting
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Speaker 1: to other states. Property values eventually decline. When you guessed it,
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Speaker 1: crime skyrockets, and smaller landlords are forced to sell or
29:54
Speaker 1: they default on what they already own. Infrastructure aging is
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Speaker 1: also a that's a problem without reinvestment, and when there's
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Speaker 1: no incentive to reinvest in the property, well then you
30:06
Speaker 1: just get bad, old aging properties. And then eventually the
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Speaker 1: prices come down, but no one wants to live there anymore.
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Speaker 1: Those consequences don't show up in the campaign slogans of Mundani.
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Speaker 1: They show up five years later, after what they're doing
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Speaker 1: now becomes a reality, and then who gets hurt first? Ironically,
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Speaker 1: the exact people that rent control claims to protect often
30:31
Speaker 1: fall to the unintended consequences. Renters struggling to find any
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Speaker 1: units to live in, new arrivals complete in an even
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Speaker 1: tighter market, and middle class families getting squeezed into uncontrolled
30:44
Speaker 1: segments where prices can spike even faster. Buildings age faster
30:49
Speaker 1: without those upgrades. And all of this has happened before,
30:54
Speaker 1: So why is Mundani getting away with it this time.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty simple. When you offer someone a cheaper bill
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Speaker 2: than what they're expecting to pay, people forget what happened
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Speaker 2: in the past. New York's housing market isn't just about apartments.
31:08
Speaker 2: It's also tied to property tax revenue, pension fund investments
31:13
Speaker 2: for many of the government workers that are in unions,
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Speaker 2: construction jobs that start to disappear, banking exposure to multifamily
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Speaker 2: loans which then people don't want to give, and neighborhood
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Speaker 2: revitalization that just disappears. If investment confidence drops, the ripple
31:31
Speaker 2: effects spread very quickly, which brings us to the housing
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Speaker 2: downturn that they say they don't want. It no longer
31:38
Speaker 2: stays isolated, but it cascades across all of New York City. Now,
31:43
Speaker 2: if only there was a warning that this is going
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Speaker 2: to happen, Well, the warning has happened before, literally in
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Speaker 2: New York City. And the big question now for so
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Speaker 2: many voters in New York and outside of New York
31:55
Speaker 2: in fact, and the entire country, is this, we are
31:58
Speaker 2: at a crossroads with ideas is do you fall to
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Speaker 2: the communist idea, which is everyone that is successful or
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Speaker 2: builds something or grows something is somehow evil and it
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Speaker 2: should be taken from them, or it should be regulated,
32:12
Speaker 2: or their advancement should stop. Should everything you do have
32:16
Speaker 2: government involvement? Now New York is at a crossroads. Do
32:19
Speaker 2: they try to control prices more aggressively by killing the
32:23
Speaker 2: market or do they focus on dramatically increasing supply. One
32:27
Speaker 2: approach is about freedom, the other eliminates it. And as
32:33
Speaker 2: this continues to move forward, the question that everyone should
32:36
Speaker 2: be asking is do you really want the government to
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Speaker 2: be in charge in what you live, how you live,
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Speaker 2: what rent you pay? Or should we go back to
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Speaker 2: the private sector and say the private sector gets aside
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Speaker 2: the price The people, by the way, are the private sector.
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Speaker 2: If I don't like the price of rent, I have options.
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Speaker 2: But when the government gets involved, does it really help
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Speaker 2: anything at all? Probably not based on what we know
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Speaker 2: in history. So here we are at the crossroads again
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Speaker 2: with a socialist idea. Unfortunately, there's a very good chance
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Speaker 2: it's going to become another disaster the Democrats. And the
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Speaker 2: question will be will other cities pay attention?
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