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In the 2nd installment of "Stay Dirty. Stay Moderate" Adam examines how bullying culture has become the norm since the 2016 election and shares insights into the bleak outlook for the Dems in the upcoming Midterms.

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I'm Adam Epstein and I'm a dirty moderate. 


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Dirty moderates. 


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Thank you. 


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Thank you for listening. 


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As always. 


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I always want to thank the listeners for helping this 


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podcast, be what it is for seeing it grow, for being 


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helping it grow. 


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I should say, and for being so loyal. 


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Thank you. 


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This is stay dirty stained moderate every week. 


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I am here with my take as you know, I sit down with guests of 


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all Stripes, all backgrounds with people, 


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I disagree with. 


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That's what we do here. 


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And people I agree with some who I sort of agree with and we 


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talked we discourse right? 


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We And that's a big deal if you think about it. 


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Why is it a big deal? 


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Well, we have in the last six years and I say six because I'm 


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including 2016, become a bullying culture, a bullying 


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Society. 


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I think Trump is partly to blame. 


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I think he symptomatic, but I think we are a killer be 


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killed. 


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And I mean, that in a metaphorical sense, of course, 


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culture. 


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I think we are authoritarian in our actions and our 


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If so, I think we're intolerant. 


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I think in many cases, that is a right-wing and tolerance and 


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many other cases. 


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It's left wing collar because I think we don't want to hear, we 


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don't want to hear, we don't want to be told, we are right 


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or wrong. 


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We don't want to disagree 


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with people or have to disagree. 


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Shall I say with people who we think we shouldn't disagree 


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with? 


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What does that mean? 


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Well, I don't know why Democrats have to be brain-dead 


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in the state of California with some of the worst leaders, 


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running the city of Los Angeles, the city of San 


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Francisco. 


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State a democratic super majority that is completely 


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spendthrift. 


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I believe, corrupt, totally incompetent and wrong on. 


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I'd say half the things and they continually go vote for 


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these people. 


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Why? 


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Well, because they are blue, right? 


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Because we've had, we have this talk all the time, on your 


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team, red and your team blue, and that's all it is. 


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We've solved the world's problems. 


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I have all the right answers. 


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You have all the right answers were done 


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wrong. 


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Absolutely wrong, 


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very short. 


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Citing, very stupid, very foolish, 


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very babyish. 


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And in many ways anti-democratic small be right, and 


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this is becoming, it isn't becoming. 


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It is an infection and it is infectious. 


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When you ask your fellow liberal or fellow conservative 


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or fellow independent, why they think what they think 


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they say, well, I think I'm supposed to think that way or 


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it sounds good, or it feels good. 


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Right? 


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I'm a sensitive guy. 


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So we should be sensitive about this or I'm an insensitive. 


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Sin, and I don't think we care. 


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Well, 


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neither of those things are relevant to whether the good 


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policies are not right. 


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So moderates, you know, 


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we got to talk about, obviously, few things. 


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But first and foremost, we have the biggest authoritarian, 


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bully. 


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Who is the farthest thing from a Mater? 


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Is the governor of Florida around us. 


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And this I think this guy has got to be maybe beside Ted Cruz 


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and Greg Abbott Governor Texas. 


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This guy's got to be 


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as Paramount and pointedly an asshole. 


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Is anybody I understand. 


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This is engaging in his continued war with Disney in 


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Orlando 


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to the point that he has now gotten the vote of the Florida 


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Senate. 


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And by the way, everyone who doesn't know I'm born and 


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raised in Miami Beach, Florida. 


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Florida at one time. 


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In the old days was considered kind of a southern Democratic 


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State. 


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Obviously, as you know, has trended read in the last decade 


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or so. 


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Interestingly enough, Bill Clinton carried it. 


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The second time. 


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Oh, Barack Obama care to twice Joe Biden. 


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Lost it. 


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The makeup of between them, 


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the Venezuelan Cuban Community, large streaks of Latino 


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conservatism mixed with the Aging population. 


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And the state north of the I-4 Corridor is pretty red. 


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It's become more reliably Republican, which is 


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interesting because that's not always been its history, but 


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it's become. 


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Also a Haven for wacko, Birds. 


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Okay, John McCain, famously called Ted Cruz. 


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A wacko bird. 


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It's one of my favorite word's. 


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So Ron DeSantis now his attack won't stop. 


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What's the attack about? 


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Well, the attack is about Don't say gay. 


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And to be clear, the bill don't say, gay doesn't say, don't say 


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gay. 


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Okay, in other words, that that is what the opponent's have 


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labeled it. 


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And I am on the opposing side to be clear, but it is, it is a 


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bill that is really restricting specifically kindergarten to 


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third grade classrooms from teaching, about sexual 


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orientation, or gender identity. 


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It does bleed into higher grades because the language is 


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so vague in its 


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That, 


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who knows if an 11th grade teacher decides to talk about 


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his or her, let gay partner, what that will mean for the 


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students of Winter Haven. 


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Florida, be a gas where the kids at Pensacola ever be able 


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to withstand the idea that one of their classmates has two 


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daddies. 


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I mean, first of all, I can't believe we're talking about 


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this but a lot of this animus and this is really important, 


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is rooted in the anti-trans movement, which is gaining a 


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tremendous amount of momentum, and is sweeping a lot of the 


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red States. 


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Especially when it comes to sports, but the Santa's going 


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further. 


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The Santas is saying, 


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I can't believe Disney is withholding donations and 


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criticizing me and my Administration for doing this. 


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So I am going to take away a key provision. 


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Which Disney has enjoyed? 


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It was this provision by the way, was agreed upon in 1967 


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Disney World. 


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We're talking about, did not open until 1971, but they enjoy 


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their own self-contained municipality. 


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What does that mean? 


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They're exempt from certain fees and regulations. 


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Oceans 


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and they get to act as a little mini City, you know, free from 


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you might say government interference. 


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Now, I'm old enough to remember, and I think many of 


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you are when the conservative movement felt that government 


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shouldn't meddle, right? 


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They've always had a little bit of contradiction about whether 


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it's your meddlin Nippers, private life, but that, that's 


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not what this discussions about. 


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Certainly two days. 


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They're not really conservatives when they use 


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that term. 


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Today's 


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let's call them denizens of trump a stand. 


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Are in the business of punishing people with whom we 


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disagree expanding the power of the state. 


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Not shrinking government, right? 


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In this case, in the State of Florida, but the state being 


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the government and using it as a weapon weaponizing, it 


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against your political enemies, the vulnerable, the 


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marginalized mainly because it works the base into a lather 


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and it quote unquote owns the lips. 


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What I'm trying to say is this a bad faith position? 


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Does that mean there aren't legitimate people out there who 


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have issues with 


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gendering and gender? 


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On pronoun and the transmitted. 


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Yeah, I do. 


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And I don't think all of them are in bad faith. 


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I think a lot of Americans need any time in this area to 


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understand how to catch up with some of this stuff. 


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But these people right want to make it punitive. 


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They want to stigmatize that they want to hurt people. 


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They want to see the power of the government in regulatory 


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action 


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in Vengeance. 


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Taking away right now. 


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Disney the biggest company in that state, you know, Florida 


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is known mainly for its tourism. 


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Doesn't agree 


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Disney employees. 


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A lot of gay people 


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does. 


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The employees trans people Disney has been very forward on 


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that. 


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They had civil union. 


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Several Partnerships long before marriage equality was 


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the law of the land and they don't like this. 


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They it's bad for business. 


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They think it's bad for Florida. 


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They make it's bad for human beings. 


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Rhonda Santa's is on an authoritarian Quest. 


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He's going to run for president. 


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I assume he will be re-elected. 


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Sadly, this fall in 2024, if you all get out and voting 


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wouldn't 


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But, you know, this might be your the people's decide to 


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stay on the couch because they're so fed up. 


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And then two Santa's is positioned as the governor of 


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one of the largest states with believe. 


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It's 27, electoral votes to run for president. 


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I still think Trump is running. 


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This is going to be quite the food fight of a shit show 


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recently. 


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By the way. 


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There's a video with Roger Stone and Trump at an event and 


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Roger Stone says, you know, around the same. 


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This is a piece of shit. 


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It's all on tape went viral, Trump doesn't say anything, but 


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he kind of Nod, so, you know, he's smarter than that, but But 


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the point being is we have a guy who is a bully and my 


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started by saying we're and intolerant bullying place and I 


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believe since 2016, 


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Trump unleash the ID on our world that ID, right? 


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And did not know that the ability of you than in the 


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super-ego and Freudian terms, the idea that you were going to 


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go and act out every impulse that you want to have because 


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you are fucking pissed, you are loaded for bear. 


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You are ready to come out. 


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Swing against your opponent. 


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You're not there just to disagree with your opponent's 


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ugly. 


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Think we're To do or that we 


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should be doing in a democracy. 


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You were there to punish them. 


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This is, this is the Rhonda. 


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Santa's Trump's GOP Playbook. 


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We hate you so much. 


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We will pass laws, even if they're unconstitutional wrong, 


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even if we Sully 


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somebody's name or or try to block something. 


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Let's say in the case of Catania brow Jackson where, but 


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for three Republicans, they all voted no acted abhorrently. 


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Lee at a hearing Astra questions, like, how do you 


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define a woman and our babies racist and all this stuff? 


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And again, I talked about this before. 


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My point is, this is nothing to do with whether she was 


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qualifying. 


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A lot of the stuff going in, Florida has nothing to do with 


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deep animus 


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on the part of everybody against, let's say the lgbtq 


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community, but if you're in politics, you got to do what 


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the politics we want. 


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I think it's terrible politics, but you have a guy into Santa's 


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who is governing with an iron fist, so it doesn't matter what 


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you think. 


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And let me say this. 


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I'm not excusing. 


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And the net result is the same. 


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If you make bad policy that hurts people, still hurts 


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people, whether you meant to do it or not or whether you were 


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doing it for the complete childish, bogus unamerican 


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reason, 


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right of owning the lips. 


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Now as already knows, I'm not a liberal. 


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Okay, not a Democrat, but I'm also not a conservative. 


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I'm not a republican. 


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I have 


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I think I have 


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what shall we say? 


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Visitation rights in both parties suppose harder and 


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harder to have visitation rights the Public and party, 


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but you know, it's election year and I'm listening to 


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podcast with Democratic strategist Democratic 


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pollsters. 


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You know what, guys, you don't get it? 


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You just don't get it. 


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All right, everything with this with this crowd is well, you 


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know, we have democracy under threat and we've got racists, 


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and we've got bad people. 


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All this is true. 


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By the way, everybody knows here. 


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We fight like hell for democracy, or we do it 


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everyday. 


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I do it on Twitter. 


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I do an Instagram. 


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I try to do in my life, but, you know, in this room 


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That I'm in. 


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And I thank you for allowing me to have this world. 


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We have a party. 


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That seems unaware that when inflation and gas prices are 


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hurting the average person, regardless of whose fault. 


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It is voters are going to vote. 


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Yea, 


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turning around saying, well, it's because of this, or 


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because of that. 


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And because of this, and because of that, because of 


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this, nobody cares, okay, it's we're coming out of a horrible 


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time. 


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Horrible, pandemic. 


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I think the scourge of trumpism still is very much 


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coursing through our bloodstream. 


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I'm even though Trump is in president and you've got a lot 


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of trauma. 


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You also have a lot of exhaustion, but democracy 


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depends upon your tirelessness authoritarians are counting on 


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your apathy. 


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Okay, they're counting on you being over there, counting on 


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you not being willing 


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to get out and vote. 


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But then when you get stupid comments, like, well, if 


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everybody just or didn't have a problem with Devon, the police, 


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it would be. 


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Okay. 


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And it, everybody spoke out constantly consistently about 


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identity politics, and what group you're in, then all would 


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be fine. 


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Wrong wrong wrong. 


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The country isn't a left-wing country. 


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It's not a right. 


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This is a Centrist country. 


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It's probably Center really come to think of it. 


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Probably Center left. 


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But if you Center left center right today, what's right? 


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And what's left is been so skewed and so blown apart, 


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because remember, Trump took so many aspects of the 


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conservative movement and those sort of long-standing norms and 


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shattered them. 


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Right? 


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I mean, the hating of the national security agencies and 


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the hating of law enforcement, especially in January. 


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Six, they only like them. 


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If they're if they're being used to break up, you know, 


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civil rights, protests tariffs, you know, loving Russia saying 


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things like George w--. 


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Bush was a terrible present, Iraq was a mistake hating. 


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Neoconservatives mean all this stuff was, you know, part and 


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parcel of Republican ideology and philosophy for many many 


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years. 


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So we're Far Cry from right from Ronald Reagan. 


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Well, so very Far Cry even argue from George w-- Bush, but 


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I do see 


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Disaster. 


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And I hate to say it because I don't see and there's a lot of 


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races, right? 


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Every house. 


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See it is up. 


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Some of the Senate seats are up and it doesn't work that every 


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Senator is up every four years because they're on six-year 


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terms. 


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So Congress, people have to run every two years for the 435 


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seats in the House of Representatives. 


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And then, there are 100 senators and I believe, a third 


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of them were up this year. 


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It's a better map for Democrats than it is Republican, but it's 


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not a good year. 


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Listen, it's not Joe. 


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His fault that he's facing headlines, but headwinds are 


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had one, you know, it was like during covid-19, people would 


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say, well, there's no work right now or no activity, or 


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everybody doesn't want to do anything because of covid. 


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Well, stasis is stasis. 


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Similarly, political headwinds are headwinds and we're so 


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tribal to the point that I think the Democrats are 


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constantly, not on guard, not playing offense. 


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They're always playing defense. 


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When Republicans come out. 


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Do something as horrible as don't say gay to call it that, 


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because that's what we call it, or the Republicans do something 


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like 


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Greg Abbott, they were blocking trucks coming in so that you 


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could clog up the supply chain. 


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They get outraged, they get offended. 


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You know, my God if there's a time, every Democratic, no get 


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offended by something, they get offended, and they and they 


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whine about it rather than getting on the offense. 


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And how but saying we're not here, do PR. 


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We're not here to dilly-dally and being around the bush call 


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around to save this for what he is, 


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you know, come out and say this is what Disney's doing it and 


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it shouldn't be on my dad. 


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Can you believe it? 


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It's a red State. 


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Oh my God. 


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I hate red States. 


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Well, that doesn't solve any problem with 50 states were 


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Union. 


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As long as you as long as we would like to be and I think we 


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will be okay. 


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We're not a secessionist group of people. 


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And by the way, every state that's red has blue voters in 


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it. 


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Every blue state has read voters and everything isn't 


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one. 


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One Fell Swoop. 


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Everything is in one kit and caboodle if you will. 


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And so you think about 20, 22, and you wonder, what else can 


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the Democrats do to make things worse? 


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What else can the by demonstration do? 


00:14:30    

Well? 


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Now we're going to have the CDC appeal. 


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A federal judges, voiding of the Ask mandate on public 


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transport, which happened just the other day to Great 


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consternation and moralizing by the covid police. 


00:14:42    

Okay. 


00:14:43    

Here we go. 


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I want to make clear, you didn't have this podcast 


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before. 


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I was very Vigilant about this. 


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At the time. 


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I believed in it and triple vaccinated. 


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I've worn it. 


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People don't want to do it anymore. 


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It is now endemic, it will come and go, 


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and I'm sorry, that that's the case. 


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Trying to block. 


00:15:01    

What a judge has done for something is deeply unpopular. 


00:15:05    

Whereas this literally is a Glide path to people like Ron 


00:15:08    

DeSantis and Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy. 


00:15:10    

If you really think that you need to wear a mask on an 


00:15:13    

airplane, even though you take it off, half the time to eat 


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your food and drink, just like the stupid rule when you have 


00:15:18    

the bar and you think that's more important than preserving 


00:15:21    

democracy, especially at the 


00:15:22    

place. 


00:15:22    

We are now with covid. 


00:15:24    

I disagree with you. 


00:15:25    

I really disagree with you fundamentally and I'm saying 


00:15:29    

this, not because I'm against masks, not because I'm against 


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covid, but covid fatigue is real. 


00:15:35    

And also mental health matters, quality of life matters, 


00:15:40    

and that's all we can do. 


00:15:41    

There's always going to be weak people who need help. 


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There's always be poor people. 


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There's always going to be people who we should look after 


00:15:46    

I agree. 


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But you can't organize society around this forever and ever 


00:15:50    

and ever, and public health must be balanced with personal 


00:15:52    

responsibility. 


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I believe. 


00:15:54    

Now, we are at that place. 


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What I have said that pre-vaccine know, I might even said 


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that six months ago, 


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but I want to tell you, the Democrats are going to impale 


00:16:03    

themselves driving. 


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Artists take of their own fortunes and arguably 


00:16:08    

democracy. 


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If they die on this hill, 


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it's not a hill worth dying on. 


00:16:13    

Okay? 


00:16:13    

Freedom means freedom for everybody. 


00:16:16    

I don't have to wear a mask. 


00:16:18    

You can wear a mask for the rest of your life. 


00:16:20    

How about this? 


00:16:21    

To all the hand. 


00:16:22    

Ringers? 


00:16:23    

You wear a mask? 


00:16:24    

Nobody's saying, you can't. 


00:16:25    

But many of us, I travel time at. 


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I don't want to wear one anymore. 


00:16:29    

Okay, as I said, I did the precautions. 


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I didn't say covid-19. 


00:16:35    

Speaking like a real person. 


00:16:36    

This is how we feel. 


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So same way gas is high inflation side. 


00:16:39    

All of these things may not be a product of one party or the 


00:16:43    

other though, Trump mismanaged grotesquely the pandemic and 


00:16:46    

its Origins. 


00:16:47    

But Here we are now, 


00:16:49    

okay, and I just want to say, we have to think about things 


00:16:53    

in a holistic way. 


00:16:55    

We have to be able to step outside of ourselves and 


00:16:57    

critically. 


00:16:58    

Think we have to not say well, we've always believed that or 


00:17:01    

this is so and we have to stop being so goddamn tribal and 


00:17:04    

partisan. 


00:17:05    

I'm like you 


00:17:07    

I think I'm like you. 


00:17:08    

My wonderful listeners and like many Americans. 


00:17:10    

I wish all would listen this Pockets. 


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Anybody. 


00:17:13    

You're not a Democrat. 


00:17:14    

You're not a republican. 


00:17:15    

You're not a covid. 


00:17:15    

Cop. 


00:17:16    

You're not a covid denier. 


00:17:17    

You're not a homophobe and you're not. 


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Not a homophobe. 


00:17:20    

You're not a transphobic. 


00:17:21    

Okay, but you also don't want the government over regulating 


00:17:25    

your business. 


00:17:26    

You want people to live their lives. 


00:17:27    

Today is April 20th, by the way for 20, it's weed day. 


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Well, we'd should not be, it should be a legal thing. 


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NG. 


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Okay enough already with the Cannabis regulation enough. 


00:17:39    

You can decriminalize like Amsterdam. 


00:17:40    

We can talk about the details. 


00:17:42    

Government does has no business being, you're prude parent, 


00:17:46    

telling you what you should and shouldn't. 


00:17:48    

Do you want to go get stoned? 


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Get stone. 


00:17:49    

Leave me the fuck alone. 


00:17:51    

Right? 


00:17:51    

And that's what I say. 


00:17:52    

We all want to be left. 


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The fuck alone. 


00:17:54    

Life's hard enough, 


00:17:55    

governments to Big 


00:17:57    

the Democrats over reach though. 


00:17:58    

They are the party that I think believes in democracy, but our 


00:18:01    

two-party system now can exist because we have lunatics and 


00:18:04    

what ends Happening is you just reaffirmed the worst of the 


00:18:07    

Democrats because they won't be checked in their power and blue 


00:18:10    

States because nobody will vote red. 


00:18:12    

I'm not saying they have to vote read, but that's impasse 


00:18:15    

that were at. 


00:18:16    

I think that impasse that intersection that sweet spot is 


00:18:19    

where I live because I'm in the middle and I don't everything I 


00:18:23    

said today. 


00:18:24    

I don't have the answers to, I don't know. 


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Is all I'm saying. 


00:18:26    

I have opinions. 


00:18:28    

I know a lot of them are informed opinions and so are 


00:18:29    

yours, 


00:18:31    

but I don't know. 


00:18:32    

I might be wrong, but I do know him in there somewhere. 


00:18:35    

We're in the middle strata, 


00:18:37    

and I'm somewhere there. 


00:18:38    

But I've always been politically homeless, 


00:18:41    

may be suspended in midair some of the hate that, 


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I'm a Centrist. 


00:18:46    

I'm a dirty mug. 


00:18:48    

And I want to thank dirty moderates for joining me on 


00:18:51    

this podcast. 


00:18:51    

Listening those who join me, those who are listening and 


00:18:54    

everybody progressives, conservatives. 


00:18:56    

Never Trump has everybody. 


00:18:57    

We all are in the fight for democracy and we can all 


00:19:00    

continue to disagree because democracy depends upon the. 


00:19:03    

We can't hate each other 


00:19:05    

because we hate each other this experiment called America no 


00:19:09    

longer exists, 


00:19:12    

folks. 


00:19:13    

I don't know if you smoke weed or not, but it is 420 smoke 


00:19:16    

weed. 


00:19:16    

If you do go have a drink, do whatever you want. 


00:19:19    

I'm gonna go have a drink in the meantime. 


00:19:21    

Stay dirty. 


00:19:22    

Stay moderate. 


00:19:24    

Thanks for listening. 

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