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What the fluff the Epstein files are coming out.
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Do you contend Racey Plasket just talking to a sex
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traffick or are you.
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Hearing I haven't had a conversation with Stacy Plasket, but
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I have I have not had a conversation with Stacy Plaskett.
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Let the fall out begin, plus my visit to Portland, Oregon,
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Land of brainwashed Liberals. That's what's bugging me, baby, So
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let's get started. Hello, my friends, thanks for dropping by
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for episode one and fifty three of What's Bugging Me
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on the Rip Roarin or Ricochet Network. Five shows to
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go Yo. I'm speaking to you late on Wednesday night
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from Portland, Oregon, the blinded and brainwashed land of Liberals.
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I've been here since Sunday, staying at a hotel downtown
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at the vacancy rate is approaching forty percent, and I'm
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doing research for our next book. I'm looking into how
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the well meaning policies of uber liberal Oregon are a
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self inflicted wound that threatens to kill this state and
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strangle growth and force more of the most talented, highest
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earners and the most successful companies to leave for greener pastures.
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I want to take a deep dive on this because Portland,
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Oregon may be the canary in the coal mine. Portland
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may be a sign of what's to come for New
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York City and other ultra liberal urban centers unless the
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people and the business owners here will step up and
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fight back and make themselves heard. I've been interviewing a
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stellar cast of Oregon insiders this suite and in the
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b Bloc.
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I hope to give you a.
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Taste of what they are telling me. If the talented
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mister producer who puts this show together can sift out
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the sound bites from the murmurs of diners in the
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clinking glass and silverware at various restaurants here in the
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city of Roses, as Portland calls itself. We'll get to
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what's bugging me in a moment, But first you got
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to hear this from Elon Musk. In my book The
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Leadership Genius of Elon Musk, which you should buy, I
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talk about how he dreams huge and he's willing to
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spend years in pursuit. The other day, he's on CNBC
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with the Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huong, talking about AI and
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the massive amount of energy it will consume and this
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already is the next NIMBI battle, as in not in
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my backyard. In Nvidia and open Ai and Elon's Xai
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and others want to build giant data centers and their
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power needs will infringe on local businesses and residents, draining
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their supplies of electricity and water. So Elon has come
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up with out of this world solution.
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Give a listen in order to the way to think
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of AI in space is that in order to achieve
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any meaningful percentage of a cluttership two scale civilization where
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you are using even a millionth of a millionth of
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the Sun's energy, you must have solar powered AI satellites
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in deep space. So that once you realize, like once
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you think in terms of a clodship through scale civilization,
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which is what percentage of the Sun's energy are you
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turning into useful work, then then it becomes obvious that
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space is overwhelmingly what matters. Overwhelmingly, the Sun only receives
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one roughly one two billionth of the Earth only receives
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roughly one two billionth of the Sun's energy. So if
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you want to have something that is, say a million
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times more energy than Earth could possibly produce, you must
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go into space. It's and so yeah, this is where
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it's kind of handy to have a space company, I guess.
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Funny stuff, Funny stuff, you know. Elon always says he'd
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rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. But
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his optimism is based on a certain fatalism that Earth
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will eventually destroy itself or die, so we must expand
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other planets, and on this AI and space idea, Musk
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says this is doable sooner rather than later.
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My est of it is that actually that that that
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the cost of electricity, like like the cost effectiveness of
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AI in space will be overwhelmingly better than AI on
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the ground.
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So for long before you exhaust potential energy sources on Earth,
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long long before, meaning like I think even perfs in
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the four or five year time frame, the lowest cost
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way to do AI compute will be with solar powered
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AI satellites. And just electricity generation is already becoming a challenge.
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So if you if you start doing any kind of
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scaling for both electricity generation and cooling, you realize, okay,
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space is incredibly compelling.
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Just incredible and fascinating. Elon Musk dreams the impossible and
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his talking about it makes the impossible plausible. You gotta
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love it, and you gotta love this too. Trump hosting
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a dinner this week with Cristiano Ronaldo, the soccer star,
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and JD Vance and Apple's ten cook and Elon Musk.
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Maybe he's back in the fold, bebbe and that's good
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for Elon, and it's good for our president, and it's
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good for our country. So hallelujah. Things have been going
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Trump's way lately. And listening to this from CNN, Trump's
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approval rating on foreign policy is on the rise.
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Normally, when we look at these data points, we see
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that Trump is doing worse than other presidents. But on
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this one he is doing significantly better. Because take a
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look here, all right, twenty first century foreign policy approvating
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at this point in term two, George W. Bush was
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down at thirty six percent, Barack Obama was at thirty
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seven percent. Look at this, Donald Trump actually leaves the
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pack at forty three percent. Donald Trump as a higher
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foreign policy approval rating at this point in a second
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term than any other president who served their second entire
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second term in the twenty first century. This is something
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I think Donald Trump really likes to look at because
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the bottom line is this, presidents like to build their
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legacies off a foreign policy, and at this particular point,
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the American people like much more of what Donald Trump's
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doing on foreign policy than either of the two other
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twenty first century presidents who serve at least or serve
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two terms.
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And here's President Trump this week hosting the leader of
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Saudi Arabia and go to him on live television basically
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to invest even more money in the US.
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That would create a lot of You are doing that now.
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You're saying to me now that the six hundred million
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will be one.
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Trending definitely, because what we are signing to a facility.
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In the answer like.
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That, No, that's great, that's I appreciate that. That's great.
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It's doing numbers that nobody's ever done, and there all furnished.
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If you didn't see potential in the US, you wouldn't
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be doing that.
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Definitely.
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You don't want to lose money.
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As you said, mister President, it's the most hottest country
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and the planet. But what you're creating is not about
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opportunity today. It's about also long term opportunity. And I
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said to America that would affict America economy positively in
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the next coming decades.
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Part of the deal, my friends. Trump has been on
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a wind streak against his enemies in the media too.
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Trump is nearing the one hundred million dollar mark in settlements.
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But let's not take this media bashing thing too far.
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Here's Trump going medieval on a reporter for ABC News.
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Mister President, But fine, wait for Congress to release the
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Epstein files.
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Why not just do it at.
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Oh, it's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude.
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I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
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you ask these questions. You start off with a man
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who's highly respected asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just
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a terrible question. And you could even ask that same
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exact question nicely. You're all psyched. Somebody suites you over
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at ABC. You're gonna psych it. You're a terrible person
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and a terrible reporter. You just keep going on the
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Epstein files. And what the Epstein is is a Democrat
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hoax to try and get me not to be able
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to talk about the twenty one trillion dollars that I
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talked about today. It's a hoax, and people are wise
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to your hoax and ABC's is your company, your crappy
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company is one of the perpetrators. And I'll tell you something.
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I'll tell you something. I think the license should be
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taken away from ABC because your news is so fake
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and is so wrong. And we have a great commissioner,
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the chairman who should look at that, because I think
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when you come in and when you're ninety seven percent
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negative to Trump and then Trump wins the election in
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a landslide, that means obviously your news is not credible
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and you're not credible as a reporter.
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So hold on our mister president. ABC News must be
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able to bash you without fear of reprisal or penalty.
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That's what the First Amendment allows and encourages. Simply bash back.
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Stifling free speech is wraw. And the ABC network itself,
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by the way, isn't licensed by the FCC at all.
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Individual stations are licensed by the FCC, and ABC News
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is a tiny slice of their programming over all. So
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stop with this, mister president. You are better than this.
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No matter what Trump does, the Democrats only have one
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strategy oppose him. That's why the Epstein files came out
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came up again this week, another lame attempt by the
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media and the Democrats to sink the Trump ship. The
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House voided with only one no vote to release the
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files on this case. You know, if there was anything
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in the Epstein files that implicated Trump, it would have
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come out years ago. I mean, his opponents made up
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stuff to throw it him, and so if there was
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one sentilla of evidence, we would have heard about it
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long ago and instantly. Instead, this latest Epstein round is
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backfired on the Democrats. Newly released records show that Jeffrey
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Epstein had almost ninety percent of his donations going to
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Democrat causes, and people like Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and
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Senator Chuck Schumer and now Democrats Hakeem Jeffries and Stacy
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Plaskett are getting caught across fire as well. Plasket reportedly
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was getting guidance from Epstein on what questions to ask
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some years ago during a congressional hearing. Here's Jesse Waters
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again on Fox New. Raskin says it was a perfect
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phone call.
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They've arraigned a Democratic member for taking a phone call
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from her constituent, Jeffrey Epstein in the middle of a hearing.
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And of course I don't think there's any rule here
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against taking phone calls in a hearing.
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But all these Epstein revelations are suddenly making hips clam up.
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Do you contend Stracey Plaskett just talking to a sex
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traffic or during a hearing.
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I haven't had a conversation with Stacy Plasket. I have
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not had a conversation with Stacy Plasket.
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Now listen to Hakeem Jeffrey's defending Plasket on the floor
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of the House. This Obama lightweight is shocked. Shocked.
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We believe in transparency, we believe in accountability, we believe
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in due process. That's the opposite of what is happening
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on the floor today. And let me be very clear
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about Stacey Plaskett. She's a woman of great intelligence and
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a woman of great integrity, and she deserves better than
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what she's receiving from House Republican extremists. She deserves the
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opportunity to be heard, She deserves due process, She deserves
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the ability to make her case, not to be prosecuted
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by petty foggers playing lawyer on the floor of the
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House of Representatives. Google that if you don't know what.
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It means, call me crazy, guys and gals. But maybe
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the Democrats will be better off to stop fighting Trump
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at every turn and come up with their own agenda
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for America. They're better or worse have When we come back,
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we're going to take a closer lift that thing goings
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on in Portland, Oregon. Hard Times, My friends, Hard Times.
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And now for the b Blow. I spent this week
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in Portland, Oregon, gathering string for a new book and
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trying to make sense of one of the most liberal
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states in the nation. Oregon is in deep trouble. This
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crisis is of its own making a result of its
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own uberliberal policies. The state loses a billion dollars in
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income every year as high earners leave for lower taxes elsewhere.
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Portland is the second highest tax city in the country,
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trailing only my hometown of New York City, and both
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the city and state here have been whipsawed since twenty
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twenty by four fatal factors, the COVID lockdowns, which were
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allowed to go on longer than anywhere else in the nation,
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and the George Floyd riots that lasted here for over
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one hundred days, and an influx of illegal immigrants in
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the past four years. And inflaming all of this, Oregon
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is imbued with an almost psychotic hatred for President Trump.
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It infects every issue, every debate. Oregon is dominated by
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Democrats that hasn't elected a Republican governor in something like
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forty years. Politicians here have failed utterly to fix four
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intractable and interlocked problems street crime, homelessness, drug addiction, and
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mental illness. And if you live here and if you
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dare defind the orthodoxy and publicly complain about any of this,
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your neighbors and city officials and the local media will retaliate.
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And this is what I've learned in my interviews in
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Portland all week long. When President Trump set plans a
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month or two ago to send National Guard troops to
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Portland to defend the Ice Building against Antifa protesters, local
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polls were up in arms. Here's Portland Mayor Keith Wilson,
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who took office last January.
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President Trump has directed all necessary troops to Portland, Oregon.
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The number of necessary troops is zero in Portland and
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any other American city. Let me repeat, Portland is an
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American city, not a military target. The President will not
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find lawlessness for violence here. On Monday, I will gather
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with a dozen regional mayors to sign a joint statement
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modeled after that of Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, who
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received the same ugly threat of military deployment as Portland
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now has. Like Mayor Johnson's executive order, our statement will
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be one of values of caring about our community and
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caring for each other. That's what we need right now,
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not occupying troops.
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And listen to this from Oregon's Governor, Tina Kotec. She
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was elected twenty twenty three, the first openly lesbian woman
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to be elected speaker of a US state House and
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one of two lesbians to be elected governor of the state.
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I point this out because to liberals, these details are
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what matter most. As she put her on PBS News.
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Hour, lawful demonstrations happen in the city of Portland outside
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of this facility. It is being managed. What I'm seeing
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and what we're seeing and what the mayor is seeing
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on the ground is an escalation from the agents who
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are protecting the building, trying to antagonize those protesters who
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are there. And I would like to de escalate the situation.
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We don't need a military intervention.
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And what I learned this week is that these politicians
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are so far out of touch with their voters it
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is astonishing. Not one person among the dozen Origonians I
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have interviewed this week, not one believes things are copasetic here.
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They are frustrated and angry and tired of feeling fear
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when they walk down the streets downtown. On Tuesday afternoon,
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I met with a Republican operative at his fundraiser wife
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and a lawyer who fled her downtown office after she
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was assaulted by a presumed drug addict. Here's the fundraiser,
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Lori Lavy, on the homeless problem.
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I actually think the road awakening about Portland is that,
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you know, all the arguing over getting people off the
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streets and all that, even if we're successful in doing that,
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we don't have any place to put him. And the
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rate of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, I don't know
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you can go to I don't know, a recovery center
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and find out. But I think it's less than twenty
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I think it's less than twenty percent or ten percent
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of those people are going to recover at all. So
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the rude awakening is somebody were stand up about a
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bunch of mental health institutions and keep people in.
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And she also speaks of a silent majority. Give a listen.
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There's a silent majority of people, yeah, who really want
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you know, who are really actually more conservative than the
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electing officials, but they're afraid to say anything.
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Laurie's husband, Dan Lavy, the Republican Operative, finds himself turning
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more conservative as things in Portland get worse.
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So the fact that I am like, I sound like
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my father or Russian Limbaugh now right, is really sometimes
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I have to catch myself. I feel pretty conservative in
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the context of well.
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Here, yeah, you would be conservative, but.
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I have become like reactionary conservative in a way that
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I never was. And I think there's a lot of
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liberals in Portland who are.
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This way now.
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from her neighbors.
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They might be like.
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Super progressive and all that stuff, and then you can't
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like really see.
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Anything, you know, Jerry ask a question.
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No, Like, our son was going to go to school
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in Old miss that was that was his deal. He's
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like going to be walking down the street. And one
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of our neighbors said, now, why would you want to
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go to that place?
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Right?
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And my son looks at her like this and says, because.
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It's must.
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Wow, it's so racist down there.
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That's awful that you she's even been there years old
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and she's never been there, right, But you know what.
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I'm saying, it's the cancelation of I mean, your neighbors.
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Meanwhile, lawyer Kristen Olsen, the one who was assaulted and
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then fled her downtown office, she talks about her Democrat
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Party going a little insane as was shown during the riots.
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It's just so interesting how countercultural it really. I mean,
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I mean it's literally left of the Democratic Party, which
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is just as a Democrat just like blows my mind
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because to me, the Democratic Party is insane right now,
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like the Democratic Party is progressive insanity.
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And we're left of that. Wrap your mind around and well.
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You know, because you've seen but there's nowhere like this.
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I mean, there's no where like that.
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we don't get noticed.
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Except for yeah, like you're you're, You're wise.
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I think to write this book because so many things
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that have happened here are relevant to the national debate.
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Right but because we're on a swing state, because we're
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a small state, because we're not have many big corporations here.
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The next day I had lunch with Democrat strategist Kevin
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Looper at South Park Seafood, located fittingly enough on Salmon Street.
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I had the Pacific Coast Salmon Delicious. Kevin Looper risked
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his Democrat career a year or two ago when he
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teamed up with Republican Dan Lavy to form a group
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called People for Progress. They led a bipartisan effort to
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fix the mini flaws in Portland, or even just work
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on a few of them. And would the two men
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dare go on local TV to trumpet their new effort,
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bad things happen.
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It turns out that when you have the beliefs that
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I do and then stand up for them, it doesn't
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make you very popular. Well, one thing I didn't want
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to mention is you were talking about the people before. Yes,
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when I started People from Portland with Dan, we did
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a round of TV interviews to talk about from the
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left and from the right. We believed that the practical
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ways forward. You think it'd be pretty compelling, good kind.
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Of stuff, good story.
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Yeah, the windows of my car shot out in front
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of my house.
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How soon after?
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I mean, like within the first.
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Week the windows on your car, the.
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Windows of my car, which was parked on the street
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in front of my Bedroomen.
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Got shut out with a gun.
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Got so, how you shoot things?
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Yeah?
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And and I had Dan and I but I I didn't.
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I didn't take any average for Dan being included this,
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but a petition formed on the left were over two
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undred people signed a petition calling us racist. And by
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the way, like no evidence, right, just the fact that
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we were trying to like help clean up the streets
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when people of color, of course, are disproportionately represented among
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the homeless, so that means we must be racist.
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Wow, they shot out as windows, They called them a
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racist all because he wanted to try to help fix
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things in Oregon. And so it goes in Portlandia. I
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guess the almost universal opinion when I ask the people
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here about the chances for a rebound. They express a
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lot of doubt. They say, Oregon hasn't hit bottom yet,
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but it's getting there. I'll be right back.
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Hi, This is a Culter.
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Welcome to my Ricochet podcast.
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And Coulter every week on Ricochet.
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You're home to center right conversation.
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Hey, that was pretty good.
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And now for my parting shot markets climb a wall
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of worry. That was always a favorite saying in my
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old boss, Steve Forbes and Forbes magazine, and it's always
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been true. And we saw another example of this in
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recent weeks. Stalks have been falling on worries that the
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whole AI thing is a bubble. The Nasdaq index since
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the start of November was down almost seven percent in
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just a few weeks. And if you got skittish and
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sold in that decline, you lost a little bit. And
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if you held on, you're in on the rebound and
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rebound it did. In Vidia reported earning's late Wednesday that
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blew away expectations and put to bed all that talk
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about an AI bubble for now at least. And then
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on Thursday morning, and as I'm speaking to you right now,
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in fact, the Job's report for September came out six
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weeks late because of the government shut down, and this
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job's report was twice as good as expected, a total
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one hundred and nineteen thousand new jobs created in September
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when the forecasters were expecting only fifty thousand jobs or so.
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And in the stock market, it's never really about the
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actual numbers when they come out. It's about whether those
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results exceeded expectations or fell short of them. And so
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stocks were on the rise once again, climbing that wall
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of worry. So I can count a couple of lessons
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that lie therein right. One lesson goes back to something
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I've told you many times before. I want to trademark
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this one, and that is capitalism is optimism monetized. We
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invest because we believe in the promise of the future.
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We believe things will get better, we believe in innovation.
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And the second lesson is buy and hold, baby. When
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you find an index you like, or a stock or
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ETF you like, buy in gradually and hold on to
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what you get, and let any dividends be reinvested in
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buying more of that same investment, because over the long run,
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you will benefit hugely and two hundred and twenty years
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of stock trading. For any given ten year period, stock's
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finished up literally ninety eight percent of the time. This
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favors those who choose to be optimistic and those who
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choose to have patience, which is a third lesson. Maybe
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hope is a decision, It's up to you. Thanks so
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much for listening in on episode one hundred and fifty
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three of What's Mugging Me? Baby Damn. Proud of the
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show we put together here for the past three years,
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and I am grateful to Ricochet for this opportunity. So
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What the fluff the Epstein files are coming out.
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Do you contend Racey Plasket just talking to a sex
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traffick or are you.
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Hearing I haven't had a conversation with Stacy Plasket, but
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I have I have not had a conversation with Stacy Plaskett.
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Let the fall out begin, plus my visit to Portland, Oregon,
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Land of brainwashed Liberals. That's what's bugging me, baby, So
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let's get started. Hello, my friends, thanks for dropping by
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for episode one and fifty three of What's Bugging Me
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on the Rip Roarin or Ricochet Network. Five shows to
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go Yo. I'm speaking to you late on Wednesday night
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from Portland, Oregon, the blinded and brainwashed land of Liberals.
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I've been here since Sunday, staying at a hotel downtown
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at the vacancy rate is approaching forty percent, and I'm
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doing research for our next book. I'm looking into how
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the well meaning policies of uber liberal Oregon are a
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self inflicted wound that threatens to kill this state and
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strangle growth and force more of the most talented, highest
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earners and the most successful companies to leave for greener pastures.
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I want to take a deep dive on this because Portland,
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Oregon may be the canary in the coal mine. Portland
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may be a sign of what's to come for New
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York City and other ultra liberal urban centers unless the
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people and the business owners here will step up and
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fight back and make themselves heard. I've been interviewing a
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stellar cast of Oregon insiders this suite and in the
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I hope to give you a.
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mister producer who puts this show together can sift out
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the sound bites from the murmurs of diners in the
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clinking glass and silverware at various restaurants here in the
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city of Roses, as Portland calls itself. We'll get to
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what's bugging me in a moment, But first you got
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to hear this from Elon Musk. In my book The
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Leadership Genius of Elon Musk, which you should buy, I
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talk about how he dreams huge and he's willing to
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spend years in pursuit. The other day, he's on CNBC
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with the Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huong, talking about AI and
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the massive amount of energy it will consume and this
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already is the next NIMBI battle, as in not in
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my backyard. In Nvidia and open Ai and Elon's Xai
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and others want to build giant data centers and their
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power needs will infringe on local businesses and residents, draining
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their supplies of electricity and water. So Elon has come
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up with out of this world solution.
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of AI in space is that in order to achieve
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any meaningful percentage of a cluttership two scale civilization where
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the Sun's energy, you must have solar powered AI satellites
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in deep space. So that once you realize, like once
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which is what percentage of the Sun's energy are you
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turning into useful work, then then it becomes obvious that
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space is overwhelmingly what matters. Overwhelmingly, the Sun only receives
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one roughly one two billionth of the Earth only receives
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roughly one two billionth of the Sun's energy. So if
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you want to have something that is, say a million
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times more energy than Earth could possibly produce, you must
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go into space. It's and so yeah, this is where
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it's kind of handy to have a space company, I guess.
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Funny stuff, Funny stuff, you know. Elon always says he'd
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rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. But
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his optimism is based on a certain fatalism that Earth
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will eventually destroy itself or die, so we must expand
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other planets, and on this AI and space idea, Musk
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says this is doable sooner rather than later.
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the cost of electricity, like like the cost effectiveness of
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AI in space will be overwhelmingly better than AI on
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the ground.
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long long before, meaning like I think even perfs in
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the four or five year time frame, the lowest cost
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way to do AI compute will be with solar powered
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AI satellites. And just electricity generation is already becoming a challenge.
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scaling for both electricity generation and cooling, you realize, okay,
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space is incredibly compelling.
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Just incredible and fascinating. Elon Musk dreams the impossible and
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his talking about it makes the impossible plausible. You gotta
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love it, and you gotta love this too. Trump hosting
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a dinner this week with Cristiano Ronaldo, the soccer star,
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and JD Vance and Apple's ten cook and Elon Musk.
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for Elon, and it's good for our president, and it's
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good for our country. So hallelujah. Things have been going
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Trump's way lately. And listening to this from CNN, Trump's
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approval rating on foreign policy is on the rise.
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that Trump is doing worse than other presidents. But on
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this one he is doing significantly better. Because take a
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look here, all right, twenty first century foreign policy approvating
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down at thirty six percent, Barack Obama was at thirty
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seven percent. Look at this, Donald Trump actually leaves the
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pack at forty three percent. Donald Trump as a higher
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foreign policy approval rating at this point in a second
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term than any other president who served their second entire
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second term in the twenty first century. This is something
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I think Donald Trump really likes to look at because
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the bottom line is this, presidents like to build their
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legacies off a foreign policy, and at this particular point,
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the American people like much more of what Donald Trump's
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doing on foreign policy than either of the two other
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twenty first century presidents who serve at least or serve
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two terms.
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Saudi Arabia and go to him on live television basically
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to invest even more money in the US.
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That would create a lot of You are doing that now.
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You're saying to me now that the six hundred million
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will be one.
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Trending definitely, because what we are signing to a facility.
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In the answer like.
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That, No, that's great, that's I appreciate that. That's great.
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It's doing numbers that nobody's ever done, and there all furnished.
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If you didn't see potential in the US, you wouldn't
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be doing that.
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Definitely.
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You don't want to lose money.
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As you said, mister President, it's the most hottest country
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and the planet. But what you're creating is not about
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opportunity today. It's about also long term opportunity. And I
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said to America that would affict America economy positively in
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the next coming decades.
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Part of the deal, my friends. Trump has been on
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a wind streak against his enemies in the media too.
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Trump is nearing the one hundred million dollar mark in settlements.
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But let's not take this media bashing thing too far.
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Here's Trump going medieval on a reporter for ABC News.
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Mister President, But fine, wait for Congress to release the
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Epstein files.
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Why not just do it at.
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Oh, it's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude.
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I think you are a terrible reporter. It's the way
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you ask these questions. You start off with a man
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who's highly respected asking him a horrible, insubordinate and just
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a terrible question. And you could even ask that same
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exact question nicely. You're all psyched. Somebody suites you over
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at ABC. You're gonna psych it. You're a terrible person
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and a terrible reporter. You just keep going on the
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Epstein files. And what the Epstein is is a Democrat
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hoax to try and get me not to be able
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to talk about the twenty one trillion dollars that I
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talked about today. It's a hoax, and people are wise
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to your hoax and ABC's is your company, your crappy
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company is one of the perpetrators. And I'll tell you something.
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I'll tell you something. I think the license should be
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taken away from ABC because your news is so fake
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and is so wrong. And we have a great commissioner,
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the chairman who should look at that, because I think
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when you come in and when you're ninety seven percent
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negative to Trump and then Trump wins the election in
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a landslide, that means obviously your news is not credible
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and you're not credible as a reporter.
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So hold on our mister president. ABC News must be
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able to bash you without fear of reprisal or penalty.
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That's what the First Amendment allows and encourages. Simply bash back.
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Stifling free speech is wraw. And the ABC network itself,
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by the way, isn't licensed by the FCC at all.
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Individual stations are licensed by the FCC, and ABC News
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is a tiny slice of their programming over all. So
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stop with this, mister president. You are better than this.
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No matter what Trump does, the Democrats only have one
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strategy oppose him. That's why the Epstein files came out
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came up again this week, another lame attempt by the
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media and the Democrats to sink the Trump ship. The
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House voided with only one no vote to release the
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files on this case. You know, if there was anything
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in the Epstein files that implicated Trump, it would have
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come out years ago. I mean, his opponents made up
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stuff to throw it him, and so if there was
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one sentilla of evidence, we would have heard about it
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long ago and instantly. Instead, this latest Epstein round is
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backfired on the Democrats. Newly released records show that Jeffrey
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Epstein had almost ninety percent of his donations going to
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Democrat causes, and people like Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and
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Senator Chuck Schumer and now Democrats Hakeem Jeffries and Stacy
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Plaskett are getting caught across fire as well. Plasket reportedly
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was getting guidance from Epstein on what questions to ask
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some years ago during a congressional hearing. Here's Jesse Waters
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again on Fox New. Raskin says it was a perfect
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phone call.
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They've arraigned a Democratic member for taking a phone call
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from her constituent, Jeffrey Epstein in the middle of a hearing.
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And of course I don't think there's any rule here
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against taking phone calls in a hearing.
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But all these Epstein revelations are suddenly making hips clam up.
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Do you contend Stracey Plaskett just talking to a sex
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traffic or during a hearing.
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I haven't had a conversation with Stacy Plasket. I have
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not had a conversation with Stacy Plasket.
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Now listen to Hakeem Jeffrey's defending Plasket on the floor
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of the House. This Obama lightweight is shocked. Shocked.
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We believe in transparency, we believe in accountability, we believe
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in due process. That's the opposite of what is happening
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on the floor today. And let me be very clear
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about Stacey Plaskett. She's a woman of great intelligence and
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a woman of great integrity, and she deserves better than
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what she's receiving from House Republican extremists. She deserves the
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opportunity to be heard, She deserves due process, She deserves
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the ability to make her case, not to be prosecuted
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by petty foggers playing lawyer on the floor of the
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House of Representatives. Google that if you don't know what.
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It means, call me crazy, guys and gals. But maybe
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the Democrats will be better off to stop fighting Trump
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at every turn and come up with their own agenda
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for America. They're better or worse have When we come back,
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we're going to take a closer lift that thing goings
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on in Portland, Oregon. Hard Times, My friends, Hard Times.
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And now for the b Blow. I spent this week
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in Portland, Oregon, gathering string for a new book and
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trying to make sense of one of the most liberal
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states in the nation. Oregon is in deep trouble. This
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crisis is of its own making a result of its
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own uberliberal policies. The state loses a billion dollars in
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income every year as high earners leave for lower taxes elsewhere.
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Portland is the second highest tax city in the country,
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trailing only my hometown of New York City, and both
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the city and state here have been whipsawed since twenty
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twenty by four fatal factors, the COVID lockdowns, which were
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allowed to go on longer than anywhere else in the nation,
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and the George Floyd riots that lasted here for over
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one hundred days, and an influx of illegal immigrants in
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the past four years. And inflaming all of this, Oregon
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is imbued with an almost psychotic hatred for President Trump.
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It infects every issue, every debate. Oregon is dominated by
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Democrats that hasn't elected a Republican governor in something like
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forty years. Politicians here have failed utterly to fix four
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intractable and interlocked problems street crime, homelessness, drug addiction, and
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mental illness. And if you live here and if you
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dare defind the orthodoxy and publicly complain about any of this,
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your neighbors and city officials and the local media will retaliate.
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And this is what I've learned in my interviews in
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Portland all week long. When President Trump set plans a
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month or two ago to send National Guard troops to
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Portland to defend the Ice Building against Antifa protesters, local
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polls were up in arms. Here's Portland Mayor Keith Wilson,
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who took office last January.
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President Trump has directed all necessary troops to Portland, Oregon.
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The number of necessary troops is zero in Portland and
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any other American city. Let me repeat, Portland is an
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American city, not a military target. The President will not
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find lawlessness for violence here. On Monday, I will gather
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with a dozen regional mayors to sign a joint statement
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modeled after that of Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, who
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received the same ugly threat of military deployment as Portland
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now has. Like Mayor Johnson's executive order, our statement will
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be one of values of caring about our community and
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caring for each other. That's what we need right now,
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not occupying troops.
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And listen to this from Oregon's Governor, Tina Kotec. She
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was elected twenty twenty three, the first openly lesbian woman
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to be elected speaker of a US state House and
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one of two lesbians to be elected governor of the state.
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I point this out because to liberals, these details are
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what matter most. As she put her on PBS News.
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Hour, lawful demonstrations happen in the city of Portland outside
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of this facility. It is being managed. What I'm seeing
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and what we're seeing and what the mayor is seeing
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on the ground is an escalation from the agents who
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are protecting the building, trying to antagonize those protesters who
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are there. And I would like to de escalate the situation.
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We don't need a military intervention.
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And what I learned this week is that these politicians
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are so far out of touch with their voters it
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is astonishing. Not one person among the dozen Origonians I
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have interviewed this week, not one believes things are copasetic here.
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They are frustrated and angry and tired of feeling fear
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when they walk down the streets downtown. On Tuesday afternoon,
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I met with a Republican operative at his fundraiser wife
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and a lawyer who fled her downtown office after she
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was assaulted by a presumed drug addict. Here's the fundraiser,
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Lori Lavy, on the homeless problem.
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I actually think the road awakening about Portland is that,
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you know, all the arguing over getting people off the
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streets and all that, even if we're successful in doing that,
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we don't have any place to put him. And the
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rate of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, I don't know
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you can go to I don't know, a recovery center
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and find out. But I think it's less than twenty
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I think it's less than twenty percent or ten percent
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of those people are going to recover at all. So
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the rude awakening is somebody were stand up about a
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bunch of mental health institutions and keep people in.
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And she also speaks of a silent majority. Give a listen.
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There's a silent majority of people, yeah, who really want
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you know, who are really actually more conservative than the
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electing officials, but they're afraid to say anything.
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Laurie's husband, Dan Lavy, the Republican Operative, finds himself turning
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more conservative as things in Portland get worse.
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So the fact that I am like, I sound like
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my father or Russian Limbaugh now right, is really sometimes
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I have to catch myself. I feel pretty conservative in
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the context of well.
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Here, yeah, you would be conservative, but.
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I have become like reactionary conservative in a way that
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I never was. And I think there's a lot of
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liberals in Portland who are.
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This way now.
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And Laurie meanwhile says the pressure to conform comes even
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from her neighbors.
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They might be like.
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Super progressive and all that stuff, and then you can't
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like really see.
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Anything, you know, Jerry ask a question.
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No, Like, our son was going to go to school
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in Old miss that was that was his deal. He's
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like going to be walking down the street. And one
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of our neighbors said, now, why would you want to
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go to that place?
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Right?
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And my son looks at her like this and says, because.
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It's must.
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Wow, it's so racist down there.
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That's awful that you she's even been there years old
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and she's never been there, right, But you know what.
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I'm saying, it's the cancelation of I mean, your neighbors.
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Meanwhile, lawyer Kristen Olsen, the one who was assaulted and
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then fled her downtown office, she talks about her Democrat
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Party going a little insane as was shown during the riots.
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It's just so interesting how countercultural it really. I mean,
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I mean it's literally left of the Democratic Party, which
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is just as a Democrat just like blows my mind
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because to me, the Democratic Party is insane right now,
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like the Democratic Party is progressive insanity.
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And we're left of that. Wrap your mind around and well.
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You know, because you've seen but there's nowhere like this.
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I mean, there's no where like that.
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And because it's a small place, it's such a see
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we don't get noticed.
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Except for yeah, like you're you're, You're wise.
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I think to write this book because so many things
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that have happened here are relevant to the national debate.
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Right but because we're on a swing state, because we're
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a small state, because we're not have many big corporations here.
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The next day I had lunch with Democrat strategist Kevin
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Looper at South Park Seafood, located fittingly enough on Salmon Street.
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I had the Pacific Coast Salmon Delicious. Kevin Looper risked
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his Democrat career a year or two ago when he
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teamed up with Republican Dan Lavy to form a group
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called People for Progress. They led a bipartisan effort to
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fix the mini flaws in Portland, or even just work
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on a few of them. And would the two men
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dare go on local TV to trumpet their new effort,
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bad things happen.
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It turns out that when you have the beliefs that
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I do and then stand up for them, it doesn't
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make you very popular. Well, one thing I didn't want
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to mention is you were talking about the people before. Yes,
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when I started People from Portland with Dan, we did
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a round of TV interviews to talk about from the
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left and from the right. We believed that the practical
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ways forward. You think it'd be pretty compelling, good kind.
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Of stuff, good story.
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Yeah, the windows of my car shot out in front
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of my house.
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How soon after?
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I mean, like within the first.
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Week the windows on your car, the.
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Windows of my car, which was parked on the street
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in front of my Bedroomen.
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Got shut out with a gun.
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Got so, how you shoot things?
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Yeah?
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And and I had Dan and I but I I didn't.
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I didn't take any average for Dan being included this,
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but a petition formed on the left were over two
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undred people signed a petition calling us racist. And by
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the way, like no evidence, right, just the fact that
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we were trying to like help clean up the streets
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when people of color, of course, are disproportionately represented among
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the homeless, so that means we must be racist.
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Wow, they shot out as windows, They called them a
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racist all because he wanted to try to help fix
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things in Oregon. And so it goes in Portlandia. I
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guess the almost universal opinion when I ask the people
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here about the chances for a rebound. They express a
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lot of doubt. They say, Oregon hasn't hit bottom yet,
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but it's getting there. I'll be right back.
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Hi, This is a Culter.
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Welcome to my Ricochet podcast.
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And Coulter every week on Ricochet.
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You're home to center right conversation.
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Hey, that was pretty good.
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And now for my parting shot markets climb a wall
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of worry. That was always a favorite saying in my
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old boss, Steve Forbes and Forbes magazine, and it's always
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been true. And we saw another example of this in
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recent weeks. Stalks have been falling on worries that the
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whole AI thing is a bubble. The Nasdaq index since
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the start of November was down almost seven percent in
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just a few weeks. And if you got skittish and
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sold in that decline, you lost a little bit. And
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if you held on, you're in on the rebound and
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rebound it did. In Vidia reported earning's late Wednesday that
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blew away expectations and put to bed all that talk
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about an AI bubble for now at least. And then
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on Thursday morning, and as I'm speaking to you right now,
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in fact, the Job's report for September came out six
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weeks late because of the government shut down, and this
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job's report was twice as good as expected, a total
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one hundred and nineteen thousand new jobs created in September
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when the forecasters were expecting only fifty thousand jobs or so.
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And in the stock market, it's never really about the
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actual numbers when they come out. It's about whether those
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results exceeded expectations or fell short of them. And so
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stocks were on the rise once again, climbing that wall
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of worry. So I can count a couple of lessons
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that lie therein right. One lesson goes back to something
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I've told you many times before. I want to trademark
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this one, and that is capitalism is optimism monetized. We
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invest because we believe in the promise of the future.
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We believe things will get better, we believe in innovation.
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And the second lesson is buy and hold, baby. When
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you find an index you like, or a stock or
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ETF you like, buy in gradually and hold on to
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what you get, and let any dividends be reinvested in
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buying more of that same investment, because over the long run,
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you will benefit hugely and two hundred and twenty years
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of stock trading. For any given ten year period, stock's
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finished up literally ninety eight percent of the time. This
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favors those who choose to be optimistic and those who
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choose to have patience, which is a third lesson. Maybe
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hope is a decision, It's up to you. Thanks so
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much for listening in on episode one hundred and fifty
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three of What's Mugging Me? Baby Damn. Proud of the
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show we put together here for the past three years,
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and I am grateful to Ricochet for this opportunity. So
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subscribe to the Rick, Join the Right Conversation, and have
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