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All right, all right. Welcome to the Roundtable Podcast. This
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is Reuben Castellon.
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And this is Chris Holland.
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And it's episode 166. 166.
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Just talking about that. You know, that's 80 months, give
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or take, you know, that we've been doing this.
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Yeah.
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That's a long time.
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2022? I think it was 22, yeah.
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It might have been 2021. Well, we've been in here
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in the massacre. Wearing a mask?
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No, we weren't wearing masks. At least we weren't.
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Yeah, yeah. But I'm saying it might have been 21 then.
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Yeah. It's been a while.
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It's been a long time.
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And it could have been a whole, it could have
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been towards the amount now had we stuck to the
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original plan about every week. Every week. But then it
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just got too much.
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Yeah. Got busy lives.
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But I think we perfected it now because it's every
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other Thursday for 30 minutes. So consistency, I think that's
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very important because that was one of the biggest. issues
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that most viewers had that you're not consistent. I can't
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keep up with your changes, you know.
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So, yeah.
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So what's going on on your end?
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Nothing.
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So, you know, September in an election year, you know,
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campaigns are getting hot and heavy. You know, a lot
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of stuff. We saw that yesterday started the midterm, the
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first ever Republican midterm convention. You know, the idea being
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they're trying to get people motivated to get out And
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one thing that I was kind of concerned with listening
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to President Trump talk, he was talking about, you know,
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that if the Congress got reelected, that they were going
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to give everybody $ 5, 000. Now, I kind of have a
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heartburn with that, right? Right now, a lot of people
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are feeling high prices, but the underlying fundamentals of our
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economy are strong.
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Wages are up. Very strong.
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You know, unemployment steady. You know, inflation, while it's, bouncing
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back and forth, it's pretty steady. You know, it's not
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really rising. And we'll talk about that later, about the comparisons.
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But so, you know, back in 2020, when basically the
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government shut down the economy and people were hurting, and
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then the fundamentals dropped out of the economy, right? The
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stock market lost like, I don't know, 1,200 points, you know,
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in a couple months or whatever. So there was an
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impetus to give people money. to try to stabilize the
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economy and to just help them survive, you know, because
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if you can't go to work, you're not getting a paycheck.
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You can't buy groceries. You can't pay rent, whatever. So anyway,
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that's the difference right now. We have a strong economy.
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Very strong.
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People are complaining about the high prices. I'm complaining about
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the high prices. You know, I'd like to see some
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of it come down, but we have to realize that
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during the Biden administration, we were tracking about 9% a
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quarter of inflation. Well, We all have lived long enough
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to know that when prices go up, they very rarely
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come down significantly, right? You know, gas in our past
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20 years has averaged between, you know, like $ 2. 50 and
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at times $ 5, $ 6 a gallon. But there's that median
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that's about $ 3 a gallon. That's about the average price
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for American gas. So even historically, you know, our gas
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prices aren't as high as they have been. So anyway,
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back to the $ 5, 000. You know, we don't need it.
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It's great. Everybody likes money. However, back to what we
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always talk about, money that comes from the government is
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not free.
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Absolutely not.
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Somebody has to pay for it. So therefore, we're going
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to raise taxes or we're going to borrow money, sell
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bonds and borrow money. And they're talking about this price
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tag on this proposal is like a trillion dollars. Trillion plus.
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So that's a trillion dollars out the door. And it's
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going to increase inflation because when people have money, they
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go buy things, you know, the PR the market is infinite,
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you know, amount of stuff.
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And we have more dollars chasing that stuff. The price
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always goes up. So I, I don't agree with it.
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I don't think that the economy needs it. I know
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there are some, you know, when we get down to
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the micro level of families and stuff, there might be
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some that would benefit from it, but overall the economy,
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It would hurt our economy if we did that.
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You know, back to, and we'll talk more about this,
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but I remember during Obama, I don't know if it
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was his first or second term when it got all
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wacky where the gas prices were very high because I
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remember that I used to have a gym membership in
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downtown Fayetteville. My wife and I, we had to stop
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going to the gym because, you know, I almost failed. No,
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I consider myself a medium income.
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Right.
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And I was feeling it.
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Right.
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And back then, no, I was not a law enforcement
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officer no more. So I had two vehicles. I mean,
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I didn't have two vehicles for many, many, many years.
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And And so I remember one thing that really concerned
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me when Obama said, get used to these gas prices
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because it's never going to go down below $ 2. And
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what did Trump do on his first term? It was $ 186, $ 189.
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So I learned many years before even then that you
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don't say never. Now, we know why the gas prices
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are high right now. To be honest with you, my
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own opinion, and I don't have time to prove it
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because even if I proved it, it ain't going to
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do anything, is that these CEOs of the major oil companies,
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they're shaking us down because President Trump keeps saying that
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we are selling oil to other countries.
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Right.
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So if we're selling oil to other countries, why are
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we paying more for gas? So it doesn't make any
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sense because remember not too long ago, Trump said that
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he was going to direct his DOJ to investigate the
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oil companies because they were gouging. And I believe that
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that is the case because even he says that they're
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smuggling gas. millions of barrels of oil through the strait.
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So the production coming out of the Gulf states is
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about pre-February levels. So we're almost back to the same
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amount of oil entering the market. However, if you look
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at the big picture, this is the time of year
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when refineries come offline for maintenance. This is when, right now,
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I think we're at 90% or above of refining fuel, right?
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So the oil that we're selling is stuff that we
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just can't use. We're just making money off of it,
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which is good, you know, because they pay more taxes
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on it. But there's just a whole lot of reasons
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why the gas prices are the way they are. Some
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of it could be artificial inflation by the companies themselves.
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I believe that's one of the instances. The other thing
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that I did not know that Jesus brought to my
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attention is, and if I didn't know... Millions of people
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don't know because the media is not putting that out,
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that one of the reasons why our gas prices could
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be higher is because they're down for maintenance. This is
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the term, the period where they are down for maintenance.
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And you know what? That makes sense.
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Yeah, going into the winter months, the fall, the winter
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in the U.S., typically it's a different blend of fuel.
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It takes less processing. They can get it out the
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door faster, so they pull production offline, and that's where
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they do all the repairs and maintenances so that coming
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in the springtime, when the gas increase comes back up,
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Memorial Day and all that type of stuff, there's more
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for the market.
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I've got to tell you, the blaming Trump, I'm going
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to tell you this right now. I voted for Trump.
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I voted for Trump the first time. I voted the
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second time. And if we change the Constitution so he
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can run again, I'll vote for him again.
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Well, if we've changed the Constitution, which is a high bar.
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You know, and so I think he's doing great. Unfortunately,
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we know that he has a lot of enemies. And
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one of the primary enemies that continuously... passes misinformation, disinformation,
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is the media. Even Fox News, I'm getting disappointed in them,
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which I don't watch them anymore. I just see clips
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on Facebook here and there, and like, what is this?
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You know, and so it's very discouraging, but I'm going
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to tell you this right now. If you are a visioneer,
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you should be able to see what he's doing for
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future generations, okay? I always said and I learned this
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a long time ago that why I was doing things
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a certain way is because people older than me when
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I was in my 18s and my 20s have already
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made my future for policies, if you think about that.
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And so today, Donald Trump is making policy that is
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going to affect my children, my and my grandchildren, and
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if you can't see that, you are a liberal, and
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you are a leftist, a communist, a socialist, whatever you
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want to call yourself.
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Well, I'll tell you that definitely setting the conditions, right?
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You know, a world global economy, and we are the
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leader of the world economy.
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That's right.
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Right? And so what, everybody follows us. So changing direction, changing,
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you know, objectives or anything else, it goes over a timeline.
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One president can't even do it in two terms, right?
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What you have to do is get the Congress and
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a president on board to set those policies and conditions
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into long-term execution. And like you said, it affects generations.
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Not us immediately. We might be suffering some pain, but
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we've got to look at the future and look at
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what the outcome on the other side in five years,
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10 years, 20 years, what is it going to.
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Do for us? The U.S. just went into contract with Venezuela.
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Had he not done what he did, we would not
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be in what I consider a great situation with Venezuela.
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They're only producing like 1.5 million barrels of, I don't
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know if it's per week, per day or whatever. But
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that's not, you don't see the effect right now, but
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that's going to benefit my son. That's going to benefit
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my grandson as well. And so you've got to be
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able to look at that. I'm going to tell you
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this right now. Yeah, I see the difference when I
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go to the grocery. I like drinking Bustelo, Colombian coffee.
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We've had this conversation already. And I'll tell you what,
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Donald Trump's first term, it was less than $ 9 for
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a gallon of ground coffee, okay?
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I'm paying over $ 20 right now, but it was already at, uh, under, uh,
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under Biden. It was already like, uh, close to $ 20. Right.
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And so, you know, there's not that much of a
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difference between 20 and $ 22. Now there's a difference between 15.
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And $ 22, you know?
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And so I, I feel the pain and I know
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that some are feeling the pain, but let me, let
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me just remind everybody, no taxes on tips. Okay? Those
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people that were suffering because of minimum wages, if you're
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a waitress or whatever, you, even if you give a
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tip with a credit card now, you're keeping that tip. Right.
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It's up to $ 25, 000 a year, right?
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And that's a lot of money.
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Yeah, it is. I mean, that's... $ 25, 000, if you get.
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You make $ 50, 000 and say you report... $ 50, 000 on tips,
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you're going to keep $ 25, 000. And before, it wasn't like that.
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Let's be honest, okay? Because you see this all the time. Barbers,
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cash only. How much are they really reporting, okay? Waitresses,
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if they get all cash, how much are they really reporting?
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You know, so that's kind of like an honesty type
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of situation. But let's not forget, $ 25, 000. Yeah, I mean,
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that's half of the median wage of the U.S. That's
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a lot of money. And unfortunately, the media doesn't put
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that out. And I'm going to tell you this right now.
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The GOP, not that I haven't been disappointed before, they're
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just not putting out a strong message. They're having, of course,
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I feel for the Democrats right now. They're completely lost.
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At least the GOP is not lost yet. But right
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now is a time that everybody needs to be united.
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Because I'm going to tell you this right now. It's
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way the Democrats are right now. I think, personally, we've
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lost the Democrat Party. I think the Democrat Party, they
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are in a point right now where I think they're
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not going to return. It's only going to get more radical.
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Well, and that's the problem. I think that the conservative
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Democrats have too long let the radicals have a voice,
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have a say, and... Now that's become identifying with the
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Democrat policies, right? And it's to the point now where
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people are buying into it. Free this, free that. Let's
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pack the Supreme Court because we don't like their rulings.
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Let's get rid of the Senate. That August buddy that
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deliberates and puts holds on fanatical legislation. And that's become
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their main constituency now. are those radical people. The people
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that have.
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Been indoctrinated in our universities probably still currently. Because I
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know the DOJ is still suing certain universities because they
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have not stopped indoctrinating. You know, it's just, we're in
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a situation right now to where I am so grateful
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that Kamala Harris did not get elected to president because
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they would have finished the job.
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Yeah. And so, you know, back history of the Soviet Union,
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you know, you have Stalin, you have Lenin, but I
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think it was Trotsky, Strotsky, Trotsky, and I think it
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was Lenin was talking about the long march through the institutions.
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And that was, hey, you know what? We're not going
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to be able to fight the United States head to head.
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We're going to have to infiltrate them and influence their
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generation so that, you know, Our grandkids, their grandkids will
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have our ideals. And that's where we're at now. The
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day of reckoning is coming.
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I tell people the only good thing that happened from
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COVID is that this came out. Yeah. This came out.
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Well, it accelerated. It accelerated in my perception is the
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people that think that the government should take care of you,
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our government demonstrated that it could, right? Now, it wasn't
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the lifestyle that everybody wants, you know, the fancy cars
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and the mansions, but everybody had sustenance. Everybody had housing,
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you know, for the most part. And it reignited or
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ignited that, hey, you know what? They just did it.
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Why can't they do it forever? You know, and that
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gave those people impetus to say, you know, listen to me.
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Look what they did. Let's have that now forever.
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But you know what? But Reality is that it cannot
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be done forever because the government depends on the working
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class to bring in taxes to pay for it. When
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the working class stops working, there's only so many millionaires
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before we lost those two. And then when you stop
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taking money from everybody, now what are you going to
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do next?
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Well, that's the thing. People don't realize that socialism just
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means equal poverty for everybody.
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That's right. Right?
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And because you don't have a choice, I don't want
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to work.
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Well, except if you work for the government, you're a
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little bit better off.
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A little bit, yeah. Well, yeah, the ruling class obviously
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is better off. But for the working class, the common person,
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you know, we're all equal in poverty. We're all equal
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in misery. We all have the same standard of living.
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Poor.
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People... Our generation. We were the last of the Cold
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War generation, right? Cold War was going away when we
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came of age, right? But growing up, in school, we
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were taught about the Soviet Union, the USSR.
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Communism.
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We talked about the ghettos, for the better part, just
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big apartment buildings that were government-owned, government-furnished.
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They call them Section 8 housing today. Here in America.
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Here in America. But you were assigned an apartment. You
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were assigned a job. You were given a ration ticket,
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and you stood in line after work, and you went
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and got your day's supplement of groceries, and then you
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went home. And if you were the last guy in
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the line and there was no groceries, you just waited
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until tomorrow. That's it. And that's the way it was.
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We've gone through this before in a massive economy. The
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USSR was a massive economy.
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At one time.
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Yeah, at one time. And it failed. It crumbled and
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it failed. And so, you know, just a warning. We've
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been here before, kids. It didn't turn out good.
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And the sad thing about it, and I'm going to
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tell you this right now, I'm going to push a
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little bit back on the parents too, because parents also
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are implicated in the indoctrination of their children in the
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universe because you have allowed your children to get these
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philosophy degrees these basking and weaving degrees that you can't
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get a job.
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They don't translate to workable skills.
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They don't. This is why the smartest kids today are
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the ones that go into the trade jobs, the community colleges,
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the HVAC, plumbing, etc. all these hands-on jobs that are
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extremely hard to be replaced by AI. AI or robotics.
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AI is a dangerous software that we've had movies we
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talked about this we've had movies the terminator that that's
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that's futuristic.
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That's sky net yeah that's one of.
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The possibilities you know i got my phone right now
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on all the uh apps that i have not to
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listen to me but mysteriously when i'm talking about something
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facebook comes up with the same thing i was talking
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about right right you know so it's it's uh it's
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uh People say it's a very complex situation. It's not.
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You need to wake up, especially those of you that
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are turning 18 years old to vote. Those that are
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between 18 to 36 years old, if you're voting Democrat,
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You think you're voting Democrat because free stuff is going
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to be given to you when it runs out? You're
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not going to have anything to stand on. Zero to
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stand on.
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Let's talk about the comparisons we were talking about before
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the show so we can kind of bring this into context.
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So this is basically the first 18 months of comparison
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between the Biden administration and the Trump administration, okay? The
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overall consumer prices under Biden was 13.3 plus percent. In
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other words, it went up.
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Consumer prices rose 13%. Yeah, 13 plus percent, okay?
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Under Trump, 5.1% and so that is when you keep
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those things into perspective, right? Okay, and then you have
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Food such as going out to eat and stuff like that.
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Okay under precedent under President Biden I must go ahead
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and just say 14% because it's thirteen point nine Okay
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on under Trump four point four percent, right? Okay, and
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then you got specifically groceries Under Biden, 16.2%. Under Trump, 3.4%.
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That's in 18 months. That's not in four years. That's
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in 18 months. 18 months.
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We're not talking about the full four years. This is
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18 months under a so-called war, which I don't consider
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we at war with Iran. Because number one, we don't
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have troops on the ground. So, we're just bombing them.
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To me, that's not war.
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Yeah, we're just pulling them down.
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And then you got gasoline. Gasoline, you're going to be shocked. Okay? Gasoline, Biden, 91.4%.
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From the time he took office, 18 months later, it
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went up 91%.
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91%.
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You know why? Because when he came into office, one
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of the first things he did, shut down the pipelines
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and all kinds of production.
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Yeah, he.
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Shut down a whole bunch of permits.
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Under President Trump, 27.3%. Look at the difference. Basically, you
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can say under Biden, basically, it was 100%.
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Almost double.
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So if we were paying $ 2, because we were paying
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$ 2 when Trump stopped being the president. Right.
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And that's what people need to understand, too. Oil is
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traded on the futures market. You ain't buying a barrel
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of oil today for today's price. You're buying it in
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three months for a price where they think it's going
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to be in three months because of whatever's going on
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in the world. Even with shutting down the Strait of Hormuz,
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we're at, what, 13%?
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13%.
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And under Biden, because of policy. There was no major
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wars going on.
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No.
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There was policy.
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But he shut down everything.
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And that was in 2020. Just a few years ago.
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Not even two years ago.
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Well, what I was going to say is the economy
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was stalled, too.
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So the demand was even.
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Because remember, all the jobs that we were picking up,
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they were all government jobs. Yeah.
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Well, but what I'm saying is transportation, the economy was stalled.
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That's right.
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So the demand for fuel wasn't as high as it
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is now.
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Yeah. And then the electricity under Biden the first 18
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months was 21.9% up. Under Trump, 7.4%. Keep that into perspective, okay? Yes,
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we're paying a little bit more, okay? But it could
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be worse. We could be under.
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The policies of Biden.
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I'm going to tell you this right now. Had Biden
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never had that.
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That debate with Trump, and he would have done exactly
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the same thing he did beyond the basement. He would
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be our president today.
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Probably.
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And we would be still stalled. Yep.
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We'd be worse off.
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And the bad thing about it is the media does
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not push this. Everything, Trump, bad. Orange man, bad.
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Right.
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When you ask him why, he's just bad.
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He's just bad because he talks mean things. Because he
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says mean things.
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Yeah, yeah. I don't know what he's saying.
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Because he doesn't respect world leaders that don't respect back.
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That's right.
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You know, respect is earned. And so, you know, there's
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a lot of leaders that are being brought to heel.
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And another thing about the whole tariffs, you know, just
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off on this tangent, you know, just for an example,
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right off the top of my head, this is back
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before tariffs, sending a Ford truck to Europe was tariffed
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like 15%.
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Mm-hmm.
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Sending a BMW to America was 3%.
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Who was benefiting?
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The Germans.
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That's right.
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It's cheaper to send a car over here than to
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bring one of our trucks over there.
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And let me tell everybody, who did that? Biden, Obama administration.
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And you talk about who was benefiting, who was suffering?
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The American auto worker. The American auto worker.
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That's right.
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Because that market was basically closed down.
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That's right.
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They couldn't afford to export a truck to Germany. And
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that's why you got a bunch of little Toyotas and
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stuff running around Germany. But But that's the thing. So
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when we talk about tariffs, it's equalizing the table. Hey,
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you want to charge us $ 10? We're going to charge
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you $ 10. It's about time that the American worker doesn't
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subsidize the economy of the rest of the world.
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And here's the sad thing about it. It was under his,
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I can't remember if it was his first. No, it
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had to have been his second term. Second term, when
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Elon Musk got the, The audited team going on. Doge.
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Doge.
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Doge. I was in disbelief how many millions and millions.
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Hold on. Let me go back. Billions with a B.
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America is sending to countries that don't even need our money.
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And don't like us.
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And they'll chant death to America.
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I read an interesting article. Man, we're getting way off
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what we had talked about before.
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But.
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So USAID, you know, a lot of that was just gutted.
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It was just shut down. I read this Boohoo story.
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It's a study by an international LGBTQ committee or organization
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about how all these countries' programs are being shut down.
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You know, drag shows. I think it was like $ 300, 000
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for drag shows in Colombia. It was like Kyrgyzstan. Who
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even knows where Kyrgyzstan is, right? It's in Eastern Europe.
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But what does that have to do with America that
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we're doing all these trans, you know, ideological promotion services
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and organizations? And, yeah, it ended up being like $ 300
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million across the USAID programs. But there again, and what
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one of the points of the article, because this was
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kind of a neutral article, hey, here's what they reported,
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and this is kind of perceptions, but they were saying that,
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you know, look, You know, when you're promoting, you know,
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transgender or, you know, surgeries and stuff, transition surgeries and
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all that kind of stuff in a place like Turkey, well,
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then that's where Turkey goes, look, you know, that's America.
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Those are the bad guys. That's what free speech ends
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up being. That's what the freedom of, you know, assembly,
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the freedom of, you know, all our freedoms are. look
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at America and look what they're trying to do to
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our society. So it just turns that hate right back to,
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to us. You know, it gives, I don't say justifiable,
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but it gives them a narrative that, Hey, America is bad.
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We don't need to be like America. And for everybody
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that wants the world to be a democracy, you know,
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that's right in the face of that because you're turning
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those people, you're, you're influencing their culture, you're polluting their culture.
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And they're just looking at us and going, we don't
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want that. We don't want that, but we'll take your money.
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But here's the whole thing. Here's the whole thing, okay?
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We have all this money going to this, well, it stopped,
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but we had all this money going to all these
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different locations for the LGBT mafia surges, whatever the case
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may be, okay? But I'm going to tell you something
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right now. Last year, my wife and I, we went
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to Mexico for seven days. You know what I didn't see?
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I didn't see a man dressed in a dress.
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On TV, yeah.
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You know what I didn't see? I didn't see anybody
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pretending to be something other than what they were. Yeah.
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Because they're truly stupid. conservative states. Colombia was getting so
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many millions of dollars for drag. I guarantee you that's
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not happening over there. No. So it makes the difference.
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Where is this money really going to?
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Right, yeah. Well, they found out a lot of us
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going in a big circle right back to these politicians
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that are doing PACs. Let's talk about some events that
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are coming up real quick. We started off talking about elections, right?
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But anyway, so campaign season is going on. Just a reminder,
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the deadline for voter registration here in North Carolina is
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October 9th. By COB, you have to be registered to
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vote in the November election unless you're going to do
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same-day registration during early voting. All right, so early voting
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in Hope County begins on October 15th, continues until October 31st.
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Voting runs Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.,
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and on Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., there will
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be no Sunday voting. There are two early voting sites,
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Rockfish Community Center and the Commissioner's Meeting Room, downtown in
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the Pratt Building. ID will be required to vote. For
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a list of acceptable ID, refer to the NC or
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North Carolina State Board of Election or the Hope County
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Board of Election websites. And then what I wanted to
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say was, yeah, so you can register same day, register
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and vote in early voting period. But if you miss
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the October 9th deadline and you do not vote in
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early voting where you can register on election day, you
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will not be able to vote if you're not registered.
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All right.
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General election will be Tuesday, November 3rd. beginning at 6.30
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in the morning, ending at 7.30 p.m. If you are
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in line at 7.30, you will be able to vote.
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There's 14 precincts in the county. Go to the Hope
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County Board of Elections website. There's a search feature there.
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You can find what precinct you're supposed to vote in
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on Election Day. Early voting is the only two sites.
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Election Day, you have to vote in your precinct. All right,
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some upcoming events. Tomorrow, the 9-11 observance. sponsored by Floors
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to Go of Rayford, will be held at the courthouse
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tomorrow at 9 a.m. They're going to hold a... The
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old courthouse. The old courthouse, yeah. It's part of the
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North Carolina Fall Festival activities. Music on Main tomorrow night,
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6 to 10 p.m. in downtown Rayford. There's going to
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be bands, food trucks, and other activities. Come out and
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enjoy that. Vets for Vets are holding a national POW
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MIA recognition day on Friday the 18th. 12 p.m. at
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the Hope County Courthouse. First Baptist Church Rayford's Memorial Golf
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Tournament is at Bayonet Golf Course on September 24. Registration
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at 8, tee-off at 9. And then Ralph Carter, who's
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running on the Republican ticket for North Carolina House 48,
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he has some upcoming events that he would like the
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community to know about. Saturday, September 19, at 8.30, he's
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going to have a Breakfast, meet the candidates at McLaughlin Park.
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Come out, get a chicken biscuit, I think it is,
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Chick-fil-A or whatever, and meet the candidate. Following that, on
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September 19th at 10 a.m. at the original Something's Brewing
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over here on 7104 Fayetteville Road, they're going to do
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a door-knocking day of action. So if you want to
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come out and door-knock, hand out literature, talk to potential
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voters for him and his campaign team, meet there at
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10 o'clock. If you'd like to just make phone calls,
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you know, that's a pretty easy thing. They'll give you
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a list of people to call. They'll give you a
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script to talk about. If you'd like to do that,
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you know, definitely get a hold of them. And then
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on the 15th of September, they're going to ask for
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people that are in the community to help them put
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out signs. So for any information or if you want
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to volunteer to help with those guys, just reach out
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to them at ralphcarter4nc at gmail.com. And those guys can
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hook you up and help you get involved in the process. But, hey,
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to cap it all off, everything we talked about, you know,
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is this is an important election, right? We've seen what
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some of the candidates that have won on the Democrat ticket,
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especially in the Midwest, you know, especially in the Northeast,
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there are people who are on the ticket this November
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who fundamentally want to end the American experiment. They want
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to end America as we know it. They want us
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to be more like Venezuela. They want us to be
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more like Russia. They want us to be more like China.
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It's up to us. And you only have one thing
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that you can do, and that's vote. So I implore
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everybody to get out and vote November 3rd.
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If you don't want an actual second revolution... I urge
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you to come out and vote because you know who's
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going to come out and vote to make sure the
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destruction of America? Democrats. And independents, you got to get
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on this side. You got to get on the right side, independents, unaffiliated,
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because I'll tell you what. At the end, if they
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take over the House and the Senate, you think it's
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painful right now?
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Yeah.
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You think there's no legislation being done? Think about that.
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24-7 it's going to be impeach Trump, trials of Trump.
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That's all that's going to happen. Let's impeach Hexeth. Let's,
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you know, let's impeach Supreme Court justices. They're talking about that. And,
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I mean, the Congress has the power.
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To do that. They don't want Thomas there. Nope. Yeah. But, anyways,
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the last thing I want to say is one thing
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that I always want to say when we're talking about
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politics is that if you hunt, if you are a hunter,
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I know you don't like to vote because you don't
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think that your second amendment is going to be taken away,
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but you need to get out and vote. Okay? Ronald
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Reagan used to say that we were just a generation
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away from losing our Constitutional Republic. We're beyond that. We
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are just one or two elections away.
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We're elections away. Yeah, what was that? Patriotism or Americanism
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doesn't run in your veins, does not pass on your
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genes or something. It has to be taught.
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Yeah.
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It has to be tough because that's what we were
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taught when we were in school. Right.
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To love America.
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Anyways.
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For all its faults.
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Go ahead and follow us on Facebook. Share. Click the
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check out our YouTube channel. We need all the help
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we can get right there. I guess we'll see you
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next time. Yes.
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Get some crazy comments on YouTube. Go check them out.
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I'm Reuben Castellon.
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And I'm Chris Holland. You guys have a great weekend.
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Just talking about that. You know, that's 80 months, give
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or take, you know, that we've been doing this.
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Yeah.
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That's a long time.
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2022? I think it was 22, yeah.
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It might have been 2021. Well, we've been in here
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in the massacre. Wearing a mask?
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No, we weren't wearing masks. At least we weren't.
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Yeah, yeah. But I'm saying it might have been 21 then.
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Yeah. It's been a while.
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It's been a long time.
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And it could have been a whole, it could have
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been towards the amount now had we stuck to the
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original plan about every week. Every week. But then it
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just got too much.
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Yeah. Got busy lives.
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But I think we perfected it now because it's every
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other Thursday for 30 minutes. So consistency, I think that's
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very important because that was one of the biggest. issues
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that most viewers had that you're not consistent. I can't
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keep up with your changes, you know.
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So, yeah.
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So what's going on on your end?
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Nothing.
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So, you know, September in an election year, you know,
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campaigns are getting hot and heavy. You know, a lot
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of stuff. We saw that yesterday started the midterm, the
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first ever Republican midterm convention. You know, the idea being
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they're trying to get people motivated to get out And
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one thing that I was kind of concerned with listening
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to President Trump talk, he was talking about, you know,
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that if the Congress got reelected, that they were going
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to give everybody $ 5, 000. Now, I kind of have a
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heartburn with that, right? Right now, a lot of people
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are feeling high prices, but the underlying fundamentals of our
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economy are strong.
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Wages are up. Very strong.
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You know, unemployment steady. You know, inflation, while it's, bouncing
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back and forth, it's pretty steady. You know, it's not
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really rising. And we'll talk about that later, about the comparisons.
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But so, you know, back in 2020, when basically the
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government shut down the economy and people were hurting, and
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then the fundamentals dropped out of the economy, right? The
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stock market lost like, I don't know, 1,200 points, you know,
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in a couple months or whatever. So there was an
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impetus to give people money. to try to stabilize the
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economy and to just help them survive, you know, because
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if you can't go to work, you're not getting a paycheck.
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You can't buy groceries. You can't pay rent, whatever. So anyway,
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that's the difference right now. We have a strong economy.
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Very strong.
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People are complaining about the high prices. I'm complaining about
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the high prices. You know, I'd like to see some
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of it come down, but we have to realize that
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during the Biden administration, we were tracking about 9% a
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quarter of inflation. Well, We all have lived long enough
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to know that when prices go up, they very rarely
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come down significantly, right? You know, gas in our past
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20 years has averaged between, you know, like $ 2. 50 and
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at times $ 5, $ 6 a gallon. But there's that median
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that's about $ 3 a gallon. That's about the average price
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for American gas. So even historically, you know, our gas
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prices aren't as high as they have been. So anyway,
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back to the $ 5, 000. You know, we don't need it.
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It's great. Everybody likes money. However, back to what we
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always talk about, money that comes from the government is
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not free.
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to raise taxes or we're going to borrow money, sell
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bonds and borrow money. And they're talking about this price
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tag on this proposal is like a trillion dollars. Trillion plus.
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going to increase inflation because when people have money, they
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go buy things, you know, the PR the market is infinite,
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you know, amount of stuff.
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always goes up. So I, I don't agree with it.
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I don't think that the economy needs it. I know
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there are some, you know, when we get down to
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the micro level of families and stuff, there might be
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some that would benefit from it, but overall the economy,
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It would hurt our economy if we did that.
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You know, back to, and we'll talk more about this,
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but I remember during Obama, I don't know if it
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was his first or second term when it got all
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wacky where the gas prices were very high because I
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remember that I used to have a gym membership in
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downtown Fayetteville. My wife and I, we had to stop
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going to the gym because, you know, I almost failed. No,
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I consider myself a medium income.
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And back then, no, I was not a law enforcement
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officer no more. So I had two vehicles. I mean,
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I didn't have two vehicles for many, many, many years.
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me when Obama said, get used to these gas prices
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because it's never going to go down below $ 2. And
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what did Trump do on his first term? It was $ 186, $ 189.
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So I learned many years before even then that you
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don't say never. Now, we know why the gas prices
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are high right now. To be honest with you, my
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own opinion, and I don't have time to prove it
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because even if I proved it, it ain't going to
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do anything, is that these CEOs of the major oil companies,
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they're shaking us down because President Trump keeps saying that
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we are selling oil to other countries.
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So if we're selling oil to other countries, why are
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we paying more for gas? So it doesn't make any
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sense because remember not too long ago, Trump said that
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he was going to direct his DOJ to investigate the
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oil companies because they were gouging. And I believe that
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that is the case because even he says that they're
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smuggling gas. millions of barrels of oil through the strait.
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So the production coming out of the Gulf states is
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about pre-February levels. So we're almost back to the same
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amount of oil entering the market. However, if you look
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at the big picture, this is the time of year
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when refineries come offline for maintenance. This is when, right now,
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I think we're at 90% or above of refining fuel, right?
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just can't use. We're just making money off of it,
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which is good, you know, because they pay more taxes
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on it. But there's just a whole lot of reasons
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why the gas prices are the way they are. Some
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of it could be artificial inflation by the companies themselves.
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that I did not know that Jesus brought to my
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attention is, and if I didn't know... Millions of people
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don't know because the media is not putting that out,
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that one of the reasons why our gas prices could
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be higher is because they're down for maintenance. This is
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the term, the period where they are down for maintenance.
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And you know what? That makes sense.
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Yeah, going into the winter months, the fall, the winter
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in the U.S., typically it's a different blend of fuel.
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It takes less processing. They can get it out the
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door faster, so they pull production offline, and that's where
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they do all the repairs and maintenances so that coming
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in the springtime, when the gas increase comes back up,
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Memorial Day and all that type of stuff, there's more
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I've got to tell you, the blaming Trump, I'm going
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to tell you this right now. I voted for Trump.
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I voted for Trump the first time. I voted the
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second time. And if we change the Constitution so he
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can run again, I'll vote for him again.
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Well, if we've changed the Constitution, which is a high bar.
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You know, and so I think he's doing great. Unfortunately,
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we know that he has a lot of enemies. And
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one of the primary enemies that continuously... passes misinformation, disinformation,
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is the media. Even Fox News, I'm getting disappointed in them,
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which I don't watch them anymore. I just see clips
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on Facebook here and there, and like, what is this?
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You know, and so it's very discouraging, but I'm going
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to tell you this right now. If you are a visioneer,
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you should be able to see what he's doing for
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future generations, okay? I always said and I learned this
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a long time ago that why I was doing things
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a certain way is because people older than me when
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I was in my 18s and my 20s have already
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made my future for policies, if you think about that.
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going to affect my children, my and my grandchildren, and
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if you can't see that, you are a liberal, and
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you are a leftist, a communist, a socialist, whatever you
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want to call yourself.
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Well, I'll tell you that definitely setting the conditions, right?
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You know, a world global economy, and we are the
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leader of the world economy.
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That's right.
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Right? And so what, everybody follows us. So changing direction, changing,
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you know, objectives or anything else, it goes over a timeline.
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One president can't even do it in two terms, right?
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What you have to do is get the Congress and
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a president on board to set those policies and conditions
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into long-term execution. And like you said, it affects generations.
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Not us immediately. We might be suffering some pain, but
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we've got to look at the future and look at
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what the outcome on the other side in five years,
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10 years, 20 years, what is it going to.
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Do for us? The U.S. just went into contract with Venezuela.
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Had he not done what he did, we would not
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be in what I consider a great situation with Venezuela.
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They're only producing like 1.5 million barrels of, I don't
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know if it's per week, per day or whatever. But
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that's not, you don't see the effect right now, but
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that's going to benefit my son. That's going to benefit
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my grandson as well. And so you've got to be
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able to look at that. I'm going to tell you
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this right now. Yeah, I see the difference when I
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go to the grocery. I like drinking Bustelo, Colombian coffee.
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We've had this conversation already. And I'll tell you what,
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Donald Trump's first term, it was less than $ 9 for
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a gallon of ground coffee, okay?
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I'm paying over $ 20 right now, but it was already at, uh, under, uh,
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under Biden. It was already like, uh, close to $ 20. Right.
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difference between 20 and $ 22. Now there's a difference between 15.
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And $ 22, you know?
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that some are feeling the pain, but let me, let
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me just remind everybody, no taxes on tips. Okay? Those
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people that were suffering because of minimum wages, if you're
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a waitress or whatever, you, even if you give a
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tip with a credit card now, you're keeping that tip. Right.
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It's up to $ 25, 000 a year, right?
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Yeah, it is. I mean, that's... $ 25, 000, if you get.
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You make $ 50, 000 and say you report... $ 50, 000 on tips,
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you're going to keep $ 25, 000. And before, it wasn't like that.
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Let's be honest, okay? Because you see this all the time. Barbers,
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cash only. How much are they really reporting, okay? Waitresses,
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if they get all cash, how much are they really reporting?
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of situation. But let's not forget, $ 25, 000. Yeah, I mean,
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that's half of the median wage of the U.S. That's
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a lot of money. And unfortunately, the media doesn't put
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that out. And I'm going to tell you this right now.
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The GOP, not that I haven't been disappointed before, they're
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just not putting out a strong message. They're having, of course,
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now is a time that everybody needs to be united.
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It could be worse if the GOP was just the
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way the Democrats are right now. I think, personally, we've
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lost the Democrat Party. I think the Democrat Party, they
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are in a point right now where I think they're
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not going to return. It's only going to get more radical.
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Democrats have too long let the radicals have a voice,
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have a say, and... Now that's become identifying with the
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Democrat policies, right? And it's to the point now where
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people are buying into it. Free this, free that. Let's
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pack the Supreme Court because we don't like their rulings.
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Let's get rid of the Senate. That August buddy that
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deliberates and puts holds on fanatical legislation. And that's become
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their main constituency now. are those radical people. The people
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that have.
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Been indoctrinated in our universities probably still currently. Because I
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know the DOJ is still suing certain universities because they
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have not stopped indoctrinating. You know, it's just, we're in
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a situation right now to where I am so grateful
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that Kamala Harris did not get elected to president because
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they would have finished the job.
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Yeah. And so, you know, back history of the Soviet Union,
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you know, you have Stalin, you have Lenin, but I
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think it was Trotsky, Strotsky, Trotsky, and I think it
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was Lenin was talking about the long march through the institutions.
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And that was, hey, you know what? We're not going
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to be able to fight the United States head to head.
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We're going to have to infiltrate them and influence their
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generation so that, you know, Our grandkids, their grandkids will
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have our ideals. And that's where we're at now. The
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day of reckoning is coming.
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I tell people the only good thing that happened from
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COVID is that this came out. Yeah. This came out.
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Well, it accelerated. It accelerated in my perception is the
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people that think that the government should take care of you,
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our government demonstrated that it could, right? Now, it wasn't
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the lifestyle that everybody wants, you know, the fancy cars
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and the mansions, but everybody had sustenance. Everybody had housing,
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you know, for the most part. And it reignited or
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ignited that, hey, you know what? They just did it.
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Why can't they do it forever? You know, and that
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gave those people impetus to say, you know, listen to me.
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Look what they did. Let's have that now forever.
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But you know what? But Reality is that it cannot
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be done forever because the government depends on the working
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class to bring in taxes to pay for it. When
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the working class stops working, there's only so many millionaires
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before we lost those two. And then when you stop
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taking money from everybody, now what are you going to
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do next?
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Well, that's the thing. People don't realize that socialism just
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means equal poverty for everybody.
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That's right. Right?
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to work.
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little bit better off.
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is better off. But for the working class, the common person,
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you know, we're all equal in poverty. We're all equal
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in misery. We all have the same standard of living.
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People... Our generation. We were the last of the Cold
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War generation, right? Cold War was going away when we
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came of age, right? But growing up, in school, we
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were taught about the Soviet Union, the USSR.
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Communism.
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We talked about the ghettos, for the better part, just
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big apartment buildings that were government-owned, government-furnished.
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Here in America. But you were assigned an apartment. You
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were assigned a job. You were given a ration ticket,
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and you stood in line after work, and you went
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and got your day's supplement of groceries, and then you
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went home. And if you were the last guy in
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the line and there was no groceries, you just waited
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until tomorrow. That's it. And that's the way it was.
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We've gone through this before in a massive economy. The
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USSR was a massive economy.
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At one time.
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Yeah, at one time. And it failed. It crumbled and
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it failed. And so, you know, just a warning. We've
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been here before, kids. It didn't turn out good.
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And the sad thing about it, and I'm going to
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tell you this right now, I'm going to push a
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little bit back on the parents too, because parents also
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are implicated in the indoctrination of their children in the
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universe because you have allowed your children to get these
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philosophy degrees these basking and weaving degrees that you can't
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get a job.
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They don't translate to workable skills.
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They don't. This is why the smartest kids today are
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the ones that go into the trade jobs, the community colleges,
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the HVAC, plumbing, etc. all these hands-on jobs that are
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extremely hard to be replaced by AI. AI or robotics.
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AI is a dangerous software that we've had movies we
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talked about this we've had movies the terminator that that's
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that's futuristic.
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That's sky net yeah that's one of.
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The possibilities you know i got my phone right now
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on all the uh apps that i have not to
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listen to me but mysteriously when i'm talking about something
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facebook comes up with the same thing i was talking
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about right right you know so it's it's uh it's
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uh People say it's a very complex situation. It's not.
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You need to wake up, especially those of you that
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are turning 18 years old to vote. Those that are
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between 18 to 36 years old, if you're voting Democrat,
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You think you're voting Democrat because free stuff is going
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to be given to you when it runs out? You're
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not going to have anything to stand on. Zero to
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stand on.
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Let's talk about the comparisons we were talking about before
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the show so we can kind of bring this into context.
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So this is basically the first 18 months of comparison
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between the Biden administration and the Trump administration, okay? The
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overall consumer prices under Biden was 13.3 plus percent. In
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other words, it went up.
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Consumer prices rose 13%. Yeah, 13 plus percent, okay?
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Under Trump, 5.1% and so that is when you keep
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those things into perspective, right? Okay, and then you have
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Food such as going out to eat and stuff like that.
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Okay under precedent under President Biden I must go ahead
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and just say 14% because it's thirteen point nine Okay
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on under Trump four point four percent, right? Okay, and
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then you got specifically groceries Under Biden, 16.2%. Under Trump, 3.4%.
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That's in 18 months. That's not in four years. That's
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in 18 months. 18 months.
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We're not talking about the full four years. This is
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18 months under a so-called war, which I don't consider
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we at war with Iran. Because number one, we don't
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have troops on the ground. So, we're just bombing them.
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To me, that's not war.
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Yeah, we're just pulling them down.
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And then you got gasoline. Gasoline, you're going to be shocked. Okay? Gasoline, Biden, 91.4%.
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From the time he took office, 18 months later, it
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went up 91%.
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91%.
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You know why? Because when he came into office, one
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of the first things he did, shut down the pipelines
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and all kinds of production.
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Yeah, he.
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Shut down a whole bunch of permits.
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Under President Trump, 27.3%. Look at the difference. Basically, you
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can say under Biden, basically, it was 100%.
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Almost double.
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So if we were paying $ 2, because we were paying
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$ 2 when Trump stopped being the president. Right.
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And that's what people need to understand, too. Oil is
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traded on the futures market. You ain't buying a barrel
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of oil today for today's price. You're buying it in
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three months for a price where they think it's going
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to be in three months because of whatever's going on
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in the world. Even with shutting down the Strait of Hormuz,
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we're at, what, 13%?
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13%.
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And under Biden, because of policy. There was no major
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wars going on.
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No.
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There was policy.
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But he shut down everything.
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And that was in 2020. Just a few years ago.
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Not even two years ago.
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Well, what I was going to say is the economy
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was stalled, too.
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Yeah.
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So the demand was even.
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Because remember, all the jobs that we were picking up,
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they were all government jobs. Yeah.
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Well, but what I'm saying is transportation, the economy was stalled.
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That's right.
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So the demand for fuel wasn't as high as it
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is now.
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Yeah. And then the electricity under Biden the first 18
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months was 21.9% up. Under Trump, 7.4%. Keep that into perspective, okay? Yes,
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we're paying a little bit more, okay? But it could
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be worse. We could be under.
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The policies of Biden.
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I'm going to tell you this right now. Had Biden
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never had that.
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That debate with Trump, and he would have done exactly
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the same thing he did beyond the basement. He would
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be our president today.
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Probably.
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And we would be still stalled. Yep.
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We'd be worse off.
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And the bad thing about it is the media does
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not push this. Everything, Trump, bad. Orange man, bad.
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Right.
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When you ask him why, he's just bad.
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He's just bad because he talks mean things. Because he
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says mean things.
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Yeah, yeah. I don't know what he's saying.
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Because he doesn't respect world leaders that don't respect back.
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That's right.
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You know, respect is earned. And so, you know, there's
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a lot of leaders that are being brought to heel.
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And another thing about the whole tariffs, you know, just
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off on this tangent, you know, just for an example,
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right off the top of my head, this is back
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before tariffs, sending a Ford truck to Europe was tariffed
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like 15%.
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Mm-hmm.
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Sending a BMW to America was 3%.
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Who was benefiting?
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The Germans.
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That's right.
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It's cheaper to send a car over here than to
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bring one of our trucks over there.
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And let me tell everybody, who did that? Biden, Obama administration.
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And you talk about who was benefiting, who was suffering?
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The American auto worker. The American auto worker.
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That's right.
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Because that market was basically closed down.
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That's right.
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They couldn't afford to export a truck to Germany. And
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that's why you got a bunch of little Toyotas and
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stuff running around Germany. But But that's the thing. So
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when we talk about tariffs, it's equalizing the table. Hey,
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you want to charge us $ 10? We're going to charge
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you $ 10. It's about time that the American worker doesn't
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subsidize the economy of the rest of the world.
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And here's the sad thing about it. It was under his,
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I can't remember if it was his first. No, it
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had to have been his second term. Second term, when
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Elon Musk got the, The audited team going on. Doge.
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Doge.
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Doge. I was in disbelief how many millions and millions.
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Hold on. Let me go back. Billions with a B.
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America is sending to countries that don't even need our money.
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And don't like us.
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And they'll chant death to America.
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I read an interesting article. Man, we're getting way off
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what we had talked about before.
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But.
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So USAID, you know, a lot of that was just gutted.
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It was just shut down. I read this Boohoo story.
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It's a study by an international LGBTQ committee or organization
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about how all these countries' programs are being shut down.
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You know, drag shows. I think it was like $ 300, 000
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for drag shows in Colombia. It was like Kyrgyzstan. Who
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even knows where Kyrgyzstan is, right? It's in Eastern Europe.
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But what does that have to do with America that
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we're doing all these trans, you know, ideological promotion services
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and organizations? And, yeah, it ended up being like $ 300
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million across the USAID programs. But there again, and what
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one of the points of the article, because this was
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kind of a neutral article, hey, here's what they reported,
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and this is kind of perceptions, but they were saying that,
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you know, look, You know, when you're promoting, you know,
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transgender or, you know, surgeries and stuff, transition surgeries and
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all that kind of stuff in a place like Turkey, well,
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then that's where Turkey goes, look, you know, that's America.
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Those are the bad guys. That's what free speech ends
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up being. That's what the freedom of, you know, assembly,
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the freedom of, you know, all our freedoms are. look
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at America and look what they're trying to do to
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our society. So it just turns that hate right back to,
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to us. You know, it gives, I don't say justifiable,
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but it gives them a narrative that, Hey, America is bad.
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We don't need to be like America. And for everybody
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that wants the world to be a democracy, you know,
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that's right in the face of that because you're turning
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those people, you're, you're influencing their culture, you're polluting their culture.
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And they're just looking at us and going, we don't
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want that. We don't want that, but we'll take your money.
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But here's the whole thing. Here's the whole thing, okay?
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We have all this money going to this, well, it stopped,
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but we had all this money going to all these
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different locations for the LGBT mafia surges, whatever the case
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may be, okay? But I'm going to tell you something
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right now. Last year, my wife and I, we went
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to Mexico for seven days. You know what I didn't see?
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I didn't see a man dressed in a dress.
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On TV, yeah.
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You know what I didn't see? I didn't see anybody
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pretending to be something other than what they were. Yeah.
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Because they're truly stupid. conservative states. Colombia was getting so
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many millions of dollars for drag. I guarantee you that's
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not happening over there. No. So it makes the difference.
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Where is this money really going to?
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Right, yeah. Well, they found out a lot of us
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going in a big circle right back to these politicians
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that are doing PACs. Let's talk about some events that
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are coming up real quick. We started off talking about elections, right?
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But anyway, so campaign season is going on. Just a reminder,
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the deadline for voter registration here in North Carolina is
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October 9th. By COB, you have to be registered to
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vote in the November election unless you're going to do
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same-day registration during early voting. All right, so early voting
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in Hope County begins on October 15th, continues until October 31st.
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Voting runs Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.,
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and on Saturdays, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., there will
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be no Sunday voting. There are two early voting sites,
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Rockfish Community Center and the Commissioner's Meeting Room, downtown in
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the Pratt Building. ID will be required to vote. For
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a list of acceptable ID, refer to the NC or
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North Carolina State Board of Election or the Hope County
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Board of Election websites. And then what I wanted to
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say was, yeah, so you can register same day, register
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and vote in early voting period. But if you miss
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the October 9th deadline and you do not vote in
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early voting where you can register on election day, you
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will not be able to vote if you're not registered.
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All right.
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General election will be Tuesday, November 3rd. beginning at 6.30
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in the morning, ending at 7.30 p.m. If you are
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in line at 7.30, you will be able to vote.
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There's 14 precincts in the county. Go to the Hope
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County Board of Elections website. There's a search feature there.
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You can find what precinct you're supposed to vote in
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on Election Day. Early voting is the only two sites.
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Election Day, you have to vote in your precinct. All right,
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some upcoming events. Tomorrow, the 9-11 observance. sponsored by Floors
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to Go of Rayford, will be held at the courthouse
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tomorrow at 9 a.m. They're going to hold a... The
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old courthouse. The old courthouse, yeah. It's part of the
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North Carolina Fall Festival activities. Music on Main tomorrow night,
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6 to 10 p.m. in downtown Rayford. There's going to
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be bands, food trucks, and other activities. Come out and
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enjoy that. Vets for Vets are holding a national POW
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MIA recognition day on Friday the 18th. 12 p.m. at
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the Hope County Courthouse. First Baptist Church Rayford's Memorial Golf
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Tournament is at Bayonet Golf Course on September 24. Registration
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at 8, tee-off at 9. And then Ralph Carter, who's
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running on the Republican ticket for North Carolina House 48,
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he has some upcoming events that he would like the
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community to know about. Saturday, September 19, at 8.30, he's
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going to have a Breakfast, meet the candidates at McLaughlin Park.
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Come out, get a chicken biscuit, I think it is,
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Chick-fil-A or whatever, and meet the candidate. Following that, on
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September 19th at 10 a.m. at the original Something's Brewing
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over here on 7104 Fayetteville Road, they're going to do
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a door-knocking day of action. So if you want to
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come out and door-knock, hand out literature, talk to potential
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voters for him and his campaign team, meet there at
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10 o'clock. If you'd like to just make phone calls,
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you know, that's a pretty easy thing. They'll give you
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a list of people to call. They'll give you a
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script to talk about. If you'd like to do that,
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you know, definitely get a hold of them. And then
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on the 15th of September, they're going to ask for
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people that are in the community to help them put
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out signs. So for any information or if you want
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to volunteer to help with those guys, just reach out
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to them at ralphcarter4nc at gmail.com. And those guys can
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hook you up and help you get involved in the process. But, hey,
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to cap it all off, everything we talked about, you know,
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is this is an important election, right? We've seen what
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some of the candidates that have won on the Democrat ticket,
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especially in the Midwest, you know, especially in the Northeast,
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there are people who are on the ticket this November
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who fundamentally want to end the American experiment. They want
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to end America as we know it. They want us
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to be more like Venezuela. They want us to be
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more like Russia. They want us to be more like China.
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It's up to us. And you only have one thing
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that you can do, and that's vote. So I implore
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everybody to get out and vote November 3rd.
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If you don't want an actual second revolution... I urge
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you to come out and vote because you know who's
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going to come out and vote to make sure the
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destruction of America? Democrats. And independents, you got to get
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on this side. You got to get on the right side, independents, unaffiliated,
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because I'll tell you what. At the end, if they
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take over the House and the Senate, you think it's
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painful right now?
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Yeah.
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You think there's no legislation being done? Think about that.
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24-7 it's going to be impeach Trump, trials of Trump.
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That's all that's going to happen. Let's impeach Hexeth. Let's,
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you know, let's impeach Supreme Court justices. They're talking about that. And,
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I mean, the Congress has the power.
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To do that. They don't want Thomas there. Nope. Yeah. But, anyways,
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the last thing I want to say is one thing
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that I always want to say when we're talking about
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politics is that if you hunt, if you are a hunter,
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I know you don't like to vote because you don't
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think that your second amendment is going to be taken away,
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but you need to get out and vote. Okay? Ronald
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Reagan used to say that we were just a generation
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away from losing our Constitutional Republic. We're beyond that. We
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are just one or two elections away.
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We're elections away. Yeah, what was that? Patriotism or Americanism
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doesn't run in your veins, does not pass on your
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genes or something. It has to be taught.
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Yeah.
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It has to be tough because that's what we were
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taught when we were in school. Right.
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To love America.
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Anyways.
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For all its faults.
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we can get right there. I guess we'll see you
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next time. Yes.
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Get some crazy comments on YouTube. Go check them out.
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I'm Reuben Castellon.
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And I'm Chris Holland. You guys have a great weekend.
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