The Somali Fraud Machine

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Erica.
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We'll keep American. Great, keep America. You keep America, We'll
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keep it America. Good day.
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Welcome to the Bob Americ Saper American Podcast. Moname is
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Bob Zadlod. Hey, my name Jack Phoebe. Thank you all,
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Thank you all for being here. I hope everyone had
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a very merry Christmas. How's your Christmas was good?
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Okay?
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Yeah, yeah, the weather is beautiful. Had a wonderful Christmas.
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And the thing I love about it this year and
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it just seems to be everybody's saying Merry Christmas, like
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nobody's saying. Sometimes they'll say happy Holidays, but my response
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is always Merry Christmas. And then they like let their
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guard down, go oh, merry Christmas. But I mean that's
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like people are saying that again. Man. We I want
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to take a minute because there's so much infighting and
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complaining and I think the problem with just the culture
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in which we live is everything is so immediate, everything
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is so instant gratification oriented, that we don't take enough
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time to appreciate what we've done. And we can complain
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and we can sit in our little echo chambers go well,
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this isn't done, and that isn't done. But look where
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we were last year or last year Donald Trump had
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not been inaugurated yet, we were still in the Biden era.
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In the last year, you know, inflation has come down tremendously,
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not enough, I mean costs or not. I'll get to
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that in a minute. Costs are not where they should be,
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but they are coming down. We are making progress in
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the right direction to the border. The border. If Donald
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Trump's only first year accomplishment was the border, that would
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be enough. I mean, think about it, Bob, think about it.
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Last year and the year before that was the pre
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eminent issue of his twenty twenty four campaign was the border.
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The border is out of control. Ninety one hundred thousand
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people crossing a month. It's down to zero zero amazing months.
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We said that he did in his second term. He
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did with the border. What he did with isis in
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his first year. Remember isis here. He eradicated them in
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ten months. Yeah, they my poor dude. I may get
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to retire one day. I mean, my portfolio is headed
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in the right direction. It's a beautiful thing to see. Obviously,
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there's a lot to be done, but there will always
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be a lot to be done. People. Thinking that you're
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going to find perfection, let alone from your elected leaders,
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is silly. There's always going to be places where we
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can improve upon. I think Pam Bundy's got to step
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it up. Satisfied with the job that she's done at
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the DOJ in her first year, i'd like to see
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her doing more, certainly with respect to what we're what.
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Your fat ass of New York, Will you arrest anybody
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right now?
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It's it's just going to be, well, what I'm what
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I'm thinking of specifically, And what's really got me upset
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is you're paying attention to what's going on in Minnesota.
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Yeah yeah, Jesus.
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Okay, So well, let me let me take a second
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here because I want to give credit where credit is due.
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There's a young YouTuber. The guy's like twenty three years old,
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Nick Shirley, Nick Shirley. If you're not following Nick Shirley
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on x at Nick Shirley, and that's what two why's
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he's a YouTuber. He's a twenty three year old kid,
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and he went and he exposed the Minnesota fraud like
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no professional journalist has even come close to doing. Remarkable.
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So here's the thing. Okay, so these programs in Minnesota,
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it's a perfectly run scam when you look at it.
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So and again, I want to get to in a second,
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like where the organization is coming from, because I don't
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think these are immigrants that are coming here and starting
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the scams. I think these are people that are praying
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and using the immigrants to perpetuate the scams, who are
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just as culpable and are in on it. But I
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don't think it's coming from them. I think you have
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a lot of organizers who are local who know how
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to manipulate the federal and state government because medicare all
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these state programs, all these federal programs are so easy
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to manipulate. I mean, you saw that during COVID, the PPP,
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the Paycheck Protecting Program, the EIDLD, those programs, and oh
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my god, I have a business. I have one hundred employees,
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I make one hundred thousand dollars in revenue a month.
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Help me out. Oh, here's a check for a million dollars,
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like it happened. I mean. One of the reasons why
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we saw the inflation, we saw the economy stumble the
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way it did in the early twenty twenties was primarily
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because of COVID and certainly the way the government was
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just writing check out check to anyone who demanded it.
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But that being said, so in Minnesota, so Somali immigrants
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have been targeted and they come here and people say, hey,
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we can get you money. Do you have an autistic child?
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Oh yeah, sure, check the box. Then they have these
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programs set up. And what this guy, Nick Shirley did
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is he went to these addresses, these business addresses, and
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it's literally like a warehouse that says like children's learning center,
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except it's all misspelled, like stapled up to the front door,
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like okay, you say here on your federal filings, you
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have seventy five children you take care of. There's no
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one here. And what they do is they say, we
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have seventy five children, We're a learning center for the
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Somali community and the federal government. Because that's what they do.
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Here's four million dollars. Now you and I are paying
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for that, bob. When in ten days, less than ten days,
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the year is over, we start over at zero. And
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that means that you got to start going back in
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your books, and you've got to calculate, and you got
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to get with your accountant to figure out how much
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do I owe the US government for the hard work
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for the labor I expended in twenty twenty five. And
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the government's going to come and take a big fat
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bite out of your paycheck to pay for the fraud
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that these people are committing that have no stake in
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this country to begin with. They have no stake the idea, Bob, I.
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There's an issue that conservatives are debating right now. There's
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a big kind of infighting going on in the conservative community.
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Have you heard about the concept of heritage Americans? Have
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you heard about that? What that is? Yes? Okay, so
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there's a different whether you know if you have more
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strongly grounded roots in America, do you have a greater
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steak or are you considered to be more American than
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the next person. I've been thinking about that a lot,
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and I want to flip the script. Let's think about
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it this way. I wake up tomorrow morning and I
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say I've had enough of the US. I want to
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move to Japan. And I apply to Japan, and I
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get a property and I start going through the process
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of citizenship. Am I'm more Japanese or do I have
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a stake a vested interest in the nation, like a
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family that's been there like a thousand years that goes
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back to the Samurai period. Like am I a heritage
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Japanese person? I don't think. I don't believe that that
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gives me the same standing as somebody who's got deeply
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vested root in the country. If I move to the
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Middle East, you know some family that's been there for
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two thousand years. Am I a greater Afghan or a
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greater Saudi Arabian or a greater whatever than them? And
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I'm not saying that you can't come here and be American.
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And of course you have the same rights you have.
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You become a citizen, you have the right to vote,
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you have the right to engage in the process of
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being an American just like the rest of us, which,
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mind you, does not exist really anywhere in the world.
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If you were to move to Mexico tomorrow, you can
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become a Mexican citizen. Bob, you can never own a
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piece of property there because you weren't born in Mexico.
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There are very strict immigrants in other countries. We are
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the most leany was generous on earth. And I have
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to think like if you're here, like if your ancestors
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came over on a mayflower, I want to say, you
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have a little bit more steak in this country than
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someone who's you know, great grandparents came here. I'm and
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I'm speaking against my own interests because I have both
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on both sides. On one side of my family, we've
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been here since the sixteen hundreds. On the other side
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of the two generations removed from immigrants. So I kind
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of feel that way that I think the more you
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have vested in a country, the longer you've been here,
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the deeper your roots are. I tend to think you
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have just a little more of a vested interest and
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maybe a little more steak in this country than someone
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who's newer. I just think that that kind of goes
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without saying for anywhere you are in the world. But
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what is I don't have a problem. What it means
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is the idea that anybody can just come here and
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they're automatically American, that anyone can just come here no
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matter what and just like set foot on American soil,
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like you're as American as a family that's been here
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since the day's the Pilgrims. I don't necessarily think that's true.
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And also when we look at how immigration is coming
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in the modern era as opposed to how it was
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one hundred hundred and fifty years ago. We've had waves
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of immigration in this country for a very long time,
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and it's always been the idea of people coming here
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for a better life. But they were coming here. We
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talked about this at nausea, people coming here to be
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part of America. Assimilation was the assimilation was a key
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factor in success, a key factor in how you would do.
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And it was also not only on the immigrant community
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coming here. We impose that upon the immigrants coming here,
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you will assimilate. What can you provide? We had skills tests,
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What can you provide? Are you going to be a
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positive for us? Or are you going to be a drain?
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Are you going to be a burden? And we've lost
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we've lost that where we're inviting people here and applying
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them with assistance. Look at the sheer numbers. Okay, if
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you take the Somali community, take the eighty thousand Somalians
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that are in Minnesota, and you look at what they
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pay into the tax system as opposed to what they've
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taken out through public assistance and fraud. They are a
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net drain on the Minnesota and American economy just by
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the sheer numbers. That's not making any comment about where
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they're from, just as an immigrant group, when we look
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at what are you contributed? Because everyone tells us diversity
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is your strength. Diversity makes us great. Okay, where is
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that strength? Where is that greatness? If you're eighty thousand
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of you were here committing nine billion dollars worth of fraud,
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but your tax base you're only paying on average about
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eight hundred dollars a person, where the average American is
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paying eight to ten thousand. Where where is that strength?
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Where is that greatness coming from? And I want, but
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I want there has to be a cultural shift in
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this country. I think we're in the right direction where
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we have a right to say we don't want you here.
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You've proven that you're not going to contribute. Your absolute
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refusal to assimilate, the sheer level of fraud that's perpetrated
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by your community, the number of people in your community
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that are seeking public assistance, it's not doing us any good.
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We're not We're not a place where you can come
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and you can just live off public assistance. We can't
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be that, we can't just be like the waste reciprocal
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of the world. And I know everyone, like the Democrats,
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always like to go, oh, give us, you're tired and
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you're poor, your huddle masses. Americans are tired. Americans are poor.
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Americans are huddle masses yearning for Where's that American dream
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that we were promised. Where's that American dream for American kids?
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This is our country, this is our country, and we
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are not in existence for the rest of the world
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to come and take complete advantage on our dime. And
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I think immigration quotas, I think moratoriums. I think that's
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where we need to go because it's not a matter
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of what you look like. I don't think anyone looks
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at another human being in the modern era looks at
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someone's skin color and goes, oh, I don't like you
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because your skin is that shade. That's old world bullshit
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that doesn't exist anymore. It's when eighty thousand of you
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from one particular place are responsible for nine billion dollars
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worth of fraud. Where's that greatness that we were promised?
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Where's that benefit? Is it? The food? Is the food
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really that good. You give me a break. I mean,
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it's not sustainable, Bob. That's the issue that we run into.
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It's not sustainable. We're at forty trillion dollars in debt.
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How far does it go? And that forty trillion dollars,
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mind you, that hasn't come over to undred and fifty
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year period that we were at about three trillion in
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nineteen ninety five. Where did the remainder of that come.
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That's been in about the last twenty twenty five years,
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really escalating in about the last ten. We just don't
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have enough resources. We don't have enough to take care
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of the world. I've said it for so long, and
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even Republicans man can happen for this. I would fully
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if I were king of this country, I would issue
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a decree non negotiable, cannot be challenged, twenty year moratorium
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on all immigration. All immigration. Call me can be a cruel, unfair, heartless.
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I don't care if you're coming from Norway. I don't
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care if you're coming from Nigeria. I don't care what
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you look like. I don't care your background. I don't
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care who your parents are. No no means no America
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is closed. Twenty years so we can one implement importation
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of those who should not be here, get rid of
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the criminals, get rid of the illegals, try to recoup
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our losses the best we can kind of get back
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on level playing field. Eliminate the fraud, pay down our debt,
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take care of our veterans, take care of Americans. God,
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I'm sitting here sounding like a damn socialist. Bobs and
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take care of Americans. Government, take care of the Americans.
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Take care of the people who have sacrificed their lives,
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their limbs, their mental health to preserve the freedoms that
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we take for granted. And once we do that, then
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we can reevaluate. Okay, back to basics. And again note
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the argument that always comes, well, who's going to do
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the who's going to clean my house, who's going to
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pick the lettuce? You know what we we talked about
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it for twenty five thirty years. Well, for first of all,
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you know a lot of those jobs, the Amazon warehouse jobs,
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a lot of the agricultural jobs are being automated. Of course,
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automation is going to do a way with a lot
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of that in due time. The other jobs, I mean, look,
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if you want to have a guest worker program. I've
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always been in favor of that. I'm always that we
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should have a guest worker program. You want to bring
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people here, make them pay taxes, document them, and then
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you know, at the end of the work season or
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a certain time year, they go home. I have no
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problem with doing that seasonal work. I have no problem
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with that. But as far as you coming here and
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taking the limited resources that really need to be allocated
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first and foremost to Americans, No, and what's going on,
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what's going on in Minnesota should enrage every single American
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and it should be a bigger What's that judge that
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the jury gave it?
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The whole jury said guilty, and they tried to overturn
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it said I saw that.
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I saw that. Hey, activist judges, that's been a problem
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for a long time. Activist judges are a problem. Activist
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judges are a major, uh impediment to Donald Trump and
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what he's trying to accomplish. But I'll tell you one thing,
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you know, Executive order is one thing our GOP Congress
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needs to get attacked together because they have a very
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rare opportunity right now that may not well, I say corrected.
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They have a very rare opportunity that may it's not
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may not be repeated. It will not be repeated because
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this is Donald Trump's last term. This is the last
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term Donald Trump will ever serve as president of the
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United States, And we have a congressional majority, and we
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can't get things done. If I'll only tell you something,
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and hats off to the Democrats, if Nancy Pelosi were
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the Speaker and Kamala Harris were president and they have
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the Senate, to you bet, you're ass they'd be shoved
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every bit of left wing legislation down the American's throat
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and making it law, not just ruling by executive order.
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Executive orders are very easily shot down. Laws much harder
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to do that. So exactly we should which which now
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it's it's really materializing and becoming the disaster we always
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said it was going to become. But that being said,
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I don't know what the what the GOP is doing
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and how many of them are either resigning or saying
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I'm not seeking reelection. What's going on with that? We're
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gonna lose seats because of that, they see them on
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the wall.
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I think we're gonna crush it because he's gonna give
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a two thousand dollars to end which we don't have
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to pay back. So it's not stimulus. It's a dibot
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out in the tariff money. And I think everybody's waking up.
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I think on midterms, we're gonna crush it in the midterms.
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He's going out and on the ticket, so that's what helps.
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Well, he'll he'll do that. Yeah, I mean, like when
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the when the midterms come around, he's gonna be the
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biggest driving force because he's gonna go out and he's
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gonna have rallies and he's gonna Trump knows what to do.
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He's gonna be the kingmaker that he is. But that
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being said, you know, this time next year there will
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be you know, we'll be ready for an incoming congress.
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Hopefully it's a Republican Congress. But to be honest with you, Bob,
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I don't see a big difference between a Democrat and
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Republican control congress. I don't see a big difference right now.
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I agree with I think after the miterial well, but.
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But right now, but not after see that's the problem,
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and not after the midterms. They're wasting the opportunity.
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They have right now.
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They've had since since since January of twenty twenty five,
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they've had nearly a year where they should be working
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around the clock, going, guys, we have a limited time
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period because we don't know how things are going to
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turn out the next in the next election. So we
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have two years to take Donald Trump's agenda, the agenda
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that the overwhelming majority of Americans voted for. Seventy seven
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million Americans voted for this. We have the opportunity to
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turn this into law. And that means, because you know
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an executive order, what's going to happen you do an
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executive order. Let's say twenty twenty eight, is President Newsome,
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he comes in and on day one he strikes all
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of them. That's it. That's doff. It's like, if you
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make it law, that's how you create legacy. That's how
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you create long lasting change. And again this goes back
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to what I've been saying since our first day on
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this podcast. Republicans are looking for their next meal. Will
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democrat are looking fifty hundred years ahead. They've always done that.
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They play the long game so much better than Republicans do.
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And Mike Johnson and Thune and our congressional leadership is
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lacking in the fact that either it's a lack of
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will or a lack of ability that they can't seem
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to take this agenda that really, when perfectly executed, makes
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this country infinitely better.
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How the big beautiful bill pass that's looking back, it's like,
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holy crap pass?
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of concessions made to Democrats. Of course, as is the
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case in Washington. I mean that's the system we have.
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Deals have to be struck unless you have a supermajority,
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which I don't think either party will ever have again
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as long as our country is in existence. I just
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think we're ideologically too far divided where we would ever
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have it like seventy percent Republican or seventy percent Democrat Congress.
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But as far as you know, there have been a
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significant number of immigrants who have I guess by the
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reports we're being given, have self deported, and certainly the
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deportation efforts have ramped up, but it's not nearly enough,
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and it's not nearly on pace to get it done
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within the four year period. And mind you, if Republicans
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lose the House and the Senate in twenty twenty six,
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that's all going to be reversed because Congress controls the
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purse strings, and they'll just stop the funding of it.
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If Republicans lose the House, even just for posterity sake,
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they will impeach Donald Trump again just to do it
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no reason. I think they're really going to go after Hegseth.
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I think they're really going to try to get a
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dog referral for him. I don't think that's going to
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happen under Trump, but if when New summer, if someone
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else were to get it in twenty eight, yeah, they're
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going to prosecute him for war crimes for blowing up
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the drug boats. But we are losing opportunity here to
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take Trump's agenda, which is you know that's over at
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some point, but to make it long lasting law, and
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to give this guy a legacy and not just him,
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not just to appease Trump is he go, doesn't mean
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any more of that, but the ideas and the reason
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he was elected to really make this country better and
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to reverse the course that we've been on for the
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past forty years. You know, Donald Trump is a reaction.
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Donald Trump is a reaction to a failed system. We've
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said that twenty sixteen. His victory was not a Republican victory,
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it was not a Democrat victory. It was a victory
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for those that saw a corrupt system on both sides.
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To you know, it was as much a rebuke of
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the Bush years as it was of the Obama years.
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It was like Bush Obama, enough of this already, and
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Trump came in. I think what we're learning now with
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it what came out in Georgia, how many ballots were
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not properly authenticated. So Trump was right when he was
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on the phone with what's his name to Secretary of
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State saying, hey, find may the eleven thousand votes and
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something like three hundred thousand were actually not properly authenticated.
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That would have done would have taken Georgia out of
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play for Biden. And then we just you know, look
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what Trump's had to do in the last year is
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he's really got to bring us back from the abyss
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that that was the Biden years. It was a really
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bad time for this country economically, on the world stage,
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nobody respected us, and to get that back. I think
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we've come a long way, but I think we have
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a long way to go. But certainly with respect to
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the fraud that's going on in Minnesota and what we're seeing,
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and I think that's just a tip of the iceberg.
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I mean, if it's going on like that in Minnesota,
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it really hasn't been and no one's even really looked
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into it in the other states the way that it's
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been examined in Minnesota. But now the action's got to happen,
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because think about it this way, Bob. If you have
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let's say you have a home healthcare company and you
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bring home healthcare aids to people, and you fudge the
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books and you make up places all. I went to
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John Smith's house on Tuesday and sent an aid worker
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there for two hours, and then you build medicare and
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they send you your check for two hundred thousand dollars
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wherever it is. If you were to do that and
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you amassed, you know, ten twenty million dollars in fraud,
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you'd go to prison twenty years. They do it all
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the time. This is so much worse than that, And
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not only that is I think the organization goes so
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much deeper than that. I don't think, I really don't
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think these are people that are coming here from Somalia
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and kind of figuring out how to game the system.
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These are people that are here that know how to
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game the system, that are using the Somalis as their
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vehicle by which to generate tremendous profits.
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I had never thought about it. That sounds plausible for sure.
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Yeah, well, someone someone had put that out there. Someone
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had mentioned that that, like, it's not like this, the
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level of bureaucratic sophistication and just knowing how to do it.
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I mean, it's a real art form, like people who
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know how to game the system. It exists, no matter
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whether it's like EBT fraud, medicare fraud, whatever it may be.
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little vetting in place or very very minimal, very shallow.
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It's very easy to perpetrate fraud, especially medicare front. Hey,
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I've got a Somali daycare center. We're taking care of
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Somali immigants with maybe thousand Smali and words of Minnesota.
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These are the needs of the community. We have a facility.
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We can take seventy five children per month. Each child
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we need approximately four million dollars a year. Oh oh, beautiful,
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stunning and break here you go, there's four million dollars
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and then you show up at the location and there's
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a there's a misspelled stye tapped to the door, and
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nobody's there.
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I could just really pissing you off because your tax
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is going to be pretty big.
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Dude, my tax well, I pay taxes throughout the year.
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It's already it's already massive. Man, Hey, pisses me up.
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It makes my upset. It does because, like at the
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end of the day, like we're hardworking, law abiding people,
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Like we're not going to cheat on our taxes, honestly. Like,
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it's it's a game of fear. I mean, income taxes
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arm robbery when you think about it, income taxes armed robbery,
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because the reason I am giving my percentage of my
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income is fear based. It's not a voluntary system. If
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I don't do it, you can deprive me of my liberty.
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Armed agents with weapons can come to my house and
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can take me into Caay, you could kidnap me at gunpoint.
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So really, like when I do something under duress, under fear,
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that's a robbery. If you did that to me on
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the street, you go to jail. They do that in Washington.
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It's called taxes. It's it's absolutely infuriating. But can you
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talk about something else? Go right ahead, how about the economy?
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I mean said three point three percent.
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GP and it can be and get ready because the
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big beautiful bill is about the peak in January first,
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and he's been building a he's a builder, so he's
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been building the foundation all this year and next year.
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It's just gonna blow up. Q one.
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A lot of people don't realize. Most people will go
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for their tax returns and king as.
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Soon as they get their W two both, so their
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taxes apparently are gonna the returns are gonna be huge.
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Those people are gonna spend that money. Q one is
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gonna be huge.
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Q T is gonna be bigger. Q three is gonna
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be bigger.
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It's gonna explode next year.
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I think so. Uh, the economy has been I mean,
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the dows hit all time highs, and I know people
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say that, you know, Wall Street isn't a reflection of
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Main Street, and there's there's some truth to that, but
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there's certainly a trickle down. Look, if businesses are doing better,
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if people have confidence in the economy, people are spending
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more money, Certainly things are more expensive. I mean, there
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are certainly things are more expensive to put a new
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air conditioning system in. I mean you might as well
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sell a kidney to do that. I mean it's gotten
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really crazy. And again it's it's costs going up, costs
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going up. Inflation is still an issue. Affordability. Yeah, that's
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something that Republicans need to be talking about because that
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affects all of us. I don't care your income bracket.
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I mean, you have to make more and more and
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more money just to get by in the modern era.
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I mean, there used to be a time in American
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history where was like, oh, I can make one hundred
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thousand a year. I'll be said, if you're making one
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hundred thousand a year, you got a family of four
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year below the poverty line. Come on. I mean it's
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the amount of money it takes just to get by
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in this country right now is really astronomical. And one
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of the reasons for that is illegal immigration, fraud, things
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that we all have to pay for. Because when you
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commit fraud, when there's a nine billion dollar fraud perpetrated
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on the federal government, how do you think the federal
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government recoups their losses. It's a nonprofit entity. They're not
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making any money anywhere but you and I. They have
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to raise taxes. They go to Congress, Congress, but okay,
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we're going to pass you know, this is the new
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tax code for twenty twenty six. And now if you
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were in this bracket last year, now you're in this bracket,
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your taxes are always going to go up. They did
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it fore Ukraine because they got to pay for that war.
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They got to pay for the weapons and the money
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they're given that they were getting Zelensky not much anymore,
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but the fraud. The fraud's got to be recouped. But yeah,
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I think twenty twenty six economically is gonna be a
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great year. I think the DALLA is gonna hit fifty
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thousand before the end of the year, probably soon, probably
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within probably within six months market market oh eight seven,
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I think within six months time. I think it's a
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probably sooner than that, maybe three to six months. It's
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going to hit fifty thousand. I think uh Elon Musk
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is going to become the first trillion era in twenty
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twenty six, mark my words. I think that's going to happen.
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And again, Republicans just have to get working get busy
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and get serious about not just not just focusing on
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the midterms, but focusing on the opportunity that they have
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right now. It's a Donald Trump's last term. They have
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a congressional majority. Use it. Use that bully pulpit, utilize
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your power, wield that sword. Be like Nancy Pelosi, say
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what you will about her. I've always respected her ruthlessness
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and what she us for her party. We don't have
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that on our side, and that's always upset me because
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Republicans are always always a damn high road man. But
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we've always said it's a street fight. You know, it's
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in the gutter, and they're taking the high road.
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How about yeah?
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Over especially man? Silver is is? What is silver?
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Right now?
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Announce seventy nine? I bought it thirty one. Hang on
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to that man, and uh, what's gold going forty?
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I picked that up.
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It's forty Wait wait wait forty five thirty two?
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Yeah, and then check it.
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I remember what it was, sixteen hundred ounces. At least
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have gold, we say, I remember when it was at
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sixteen hundred anounced it was the last time I checked it.
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I don't check you hold very often.
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It's probably gonna hit five twenty six, I would.
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Think, OK, we got to get those my gold guys
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back on the show.
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The only thing that's floundering of mine is bitcoin. M
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it's at eighty seven. It wasn't one point.
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It was it like one eight. It was it one
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twenty two, like two three months ago. I've always gone
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back and forth on bitcoin. I've played with it, I've
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you know, dabbled in, and I've done like the coin
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base account thing kind of like did a little day trading.
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And it's fun and you get a little exhilaration when
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you make money. But the problem with bitcoin and all
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the like the real old school like stoic economists, like
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the Warren Buffets of the world, that you really got
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to listen to, the like, what's the practical usage of bitcoin?
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Bob?
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You may own bitcoin, when is the last time you
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made a purchase with bitcoin? Three weeks ago? You bought
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you what you with? Yo? You bought you used bitcoin? Okay,
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of course, Look, bitcoin, bitcoin is is a it's and
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I know I'm going to piss off the crypto bros.
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It's it's a made up thing. It's it's just out
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of thin air. What's the practical usage. Have you gone
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Have you bought a car with bitcoin? Have you bought
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groceries with bitcoin? I mean, are b this is? I mean,
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I know some businesses accept bitcoin, I know some of
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my colleagues in the criminal defense world, except it I don't.
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But I just don't think there's enough practical usage to
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make it a commodity. I still think it's kind of
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this make believe thing. And I think, look, I'm either
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going to be completely wrong and it's going to hit
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a million dollars and I'm gonna be kicking myself going wide.
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Did and I buy it at eighty eight thousand or
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one day, it's just going to implode. Who the hell
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knows My brother Herman, he's had it for eight years.
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He's probably got one hundred million dollars worth.
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Yeah, well, you know what, he's got more discipline than
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I do, because if I had one hundred million dollars
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worth of bitcoin, I'd be selling it. I wouldn't hang
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on to it to hit a billion, because I wouldn't
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take the chance. That wouldn't.
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Oh, he's all in.
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Anyways, Well, anyways, guys, so this is the last show
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of twenty twenty five. Next weekend, I will be gone
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four New Year's We'll be back the first week of
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January twenty twenty six. Now on the back nine of
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the twenty twenties, this decade is going by faster than
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any decade previously. But I just think that's as we
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get older, our memories get shorter. Time just goes by well.
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Our perspectives changed, because when you're a kid, it's like
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Brian Adams in Summer sixty nine, the summer seemed to
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last forever. And that's a true line because I remember
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being a kid and more like a summer breaking, which
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is twelve weeks. If that, it was all the time
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in the world. And now it's like I blink and like,
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oh shit, it was just October and now almost in January.
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I something recently of time is I had five minutes, okay,
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and then five minutes took like twelve hours. It seemed like,
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you know, we don't care about time. It flies when
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you care about time, like slows down.
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The crazy thing about time, without getting too into the
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weeds on it is it doesn't exist. We've completely we
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made it up. All we have our revolutions of the
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earth and revolutions around the sun, that's all we have.
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All of time, all of existence since life first appeared
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to this very instant, is linear. It's completely linear. It's
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one straight road. And we have figured out, namely for
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agrarian reasons, like okay, like this is how much sunlight
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we get, and this is how much time we need
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to farm. So we broke it up into days and
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different cultures. The Romans had their calendar, the Hebrews still
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have their calendar. It's like the year five thousand. Different
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cultures figured out how to break it up, and we
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just decided for the sake convenience. Okay, this is how
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long it takes for We established a measurement of time
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for how long it takes for the earth to make
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one complete revolution and around the sun. So it's all.
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It's all made up. It's all made up. Time is
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in our heads, you know. It's just we're just here
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and all we have is existence, and just make the
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most of it, man, because shit, like life, it goes
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by too fast, it really does.
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I'm going outside after it this.
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Go outside, touch grass, live, enjoy the sun. Thank you,
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thank you all for giving us a platform and keeping
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us around for this long. And have a wonderful, wonderful
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New Years. We will see you next year. God bless,
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God bless indeed, take everybody. Two K Yeah America, Yeah,
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looking of America.