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President
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Trump issued a truth that has i would
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I think it's safe to say the entire internet spinning
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In the whole entire world probably
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The truth says a whole civilization will die
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Tonight, never to be brought back again.
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I don't want that to happen, but it probably will, he says.
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However, now that we have complete
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And total regime change
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Where different, smarter and less
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Radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionary
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Wonderful can happen.
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Who knows, we will find out tonight.
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One of the most important moments in the long and complex
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History of the world.
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47 years
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Of extortion, corruption and death will finally end.
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God bless the great people of iran.
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So everybody on line who has been anti-war,
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Which i consider myself to be a part of, by the way,
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Is going to a conclusion here that i never would have
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Even thought had i not read the comments.
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Everybody's assuming that he's
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Going to wipe out iran with the nuclear weapon.
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He did say a civilization will die today.
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Well, so, so first of all, i think this is a huge
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Litmus test never to return.
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Well, i think he's talking about the regime, but,
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Listen, i, i just maybe i'm wrong.
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Maybe i'm the crazy one.
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And i'm not looking at president trump's truth here
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In the proper light. i don't think that's true.
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I so i know president trump to be
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To use the, a more polite word for it.
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Blake.
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He is a smack talker. okay.
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He does back it up often times with actual military
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Kinetic force. we've seen that in venezuela.
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We've seen that, with the mother of all bombs.
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We've seen that with soleimani.
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We've seen it obviously in iran.
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So i'm not saying these are,
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You know, empty threats.
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I don't i don't think that at all.
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He's given them a deadline of 8 p.m.
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Tonight.
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He extended it once to basically say,
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Come to the negotiating table, open the strait.
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He used an expletive, open an expletive straight,
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Open the expletive straight.
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And then he did the the,
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You know, praise be to praise be to allah.
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Yeah.
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Tweet, which was another tweet that's got everybody spun up.
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So i mean i'm looking up and down the line here.
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You've got brett weinstein.
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You've got of course tucker carlson roxana,
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You've got a lot of people basically now saying invoke
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The 25th, get him out of office.
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And then you have a bunch of other
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People that are saying, guys,
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Keep your wits about you.
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You know, jd vance is out there in hungary,
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Basically sounding a pretty conventional tone.
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You know, jd is known to be one of the people
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Inside the administration who is more
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On the anti interventionist track.
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It's kind of like when rush limbaugh
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Used to say, i'll let you know when it's time to worry.
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And i don't think we're there yet.
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I think this is an incredibly important day.
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This is a critical day a historic day.
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But to jump to conclusions that
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President trump is considering using a nuclear weapon,
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I think is, beyond rational.
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And i would say he already did correct the record
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In the new york post.
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He told them that he's not planning on using it.
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Well, we'll see. it is, as you say, he loves to go
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Maximally aggressive rhetorically a lot.
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And then he will back off.
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We saw this with greenland, for example.
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There was all this stuff like
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We were going to invade greenland.
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And then he says, oh, we got some better
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Basing rights and mineral rights and whatever.
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And so i think everyone's holding their breath
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Because as you say it frankly, is possible.
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He uses it doesn't need to be a nuclear weapon.
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He might drop one of those like mother of all bombs on them.
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Or he could just mean i'm going to hit targets
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That were off limits before.
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Yeah, and he needs to credibly signal
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That he was ready to do that,
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When in fact, his ideal is to reach a ceasefire.
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Back off.
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De-escalate.
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As we mentioned, there is, a lot of friction
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Between tucker carlson, the president.
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I don't think it's surprising that he disliked
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The intervention in iran.
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You have a lot of history and insider knowledge.
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I used to work with tucker.
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So i know you see tucker always. yeah.
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So ever since
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I first encountered
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Him, tucker was very skeptical of all
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Of the military adventures in the middle east.
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I think that's sort of what initially moved him away from.
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He was a bit of a neocon type.
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Yeah.
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Back in,
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He supported the original iraq war
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When it began, and he was greatly regretted.
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It greatly soured on it quickly.
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And that's driven a lot of his thinking since then.
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It's not surprising he doesn't like that,
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But he's really just in the last few days,
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We've been getting much more aggressive about it.
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I think he posted a video last night exactly.
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In the early days, there was a lot of sort of vague.
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He was upset about it, but he would, you know, do that
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Classic, you know, attack the president's advisors.
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They have misled him.
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But he's getting more direct about it.
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And a lot of people are noticing it.
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So first of all, he criticized the president.
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We wanted to flag this because he's upset.
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He was actually quite upset about his easter tweet
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Where he says, praise be to allah.
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He said that was not a good tone to take.
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Let's do clip 13.
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Message in our bible, which is you are not god
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And only if you think you are do you talk this way.
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But it's not
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Just mockery of islam
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And no president should mock islam.
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That's not your job.
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This is not a theocracy.
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We don't go to war with other theocracy
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To find out which theocracy is more effective.
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Now it's time to say no. absolutely not.
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And say directly to the president, no.
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Okay, you're thinking about using some weapon
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In mass destruction against the population of iran,
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In whose name we liberated iran.
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We killed their religious leader for their benefit.
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Do you remember that this was last month?
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Those people who are in direct
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Contact with the president need to say no.
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I'll resign.
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I'll do whatever i can do legally to stop this
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Because this is insane.
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And given you order, i'm not carrying it out.
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Figure out the codes on the football yourself.
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So we obviously this is a huge escalation.
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Like i said, president trump has already addressed it
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To the new york post and said he's called the tucker
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Carlson low iq and that he's a fool and has denied
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That he is considering using nuclear weapons.
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We've got one from odette.
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An email. here you go.
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We asked you guys to email in.
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Yeah, i think makes a good point here.
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Says hi, guys.
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It's ridiculous to think someone who said iran
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Can never have a nuclear weapon
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Would then bomb them with the nuclear weapon.
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Trump has been saying he will go after their infrastructure.
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If he does that,
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It will be very hard for them to be a sovereign nation.
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I think a fair, fair critique there.
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Julie.
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Hi, gentlemen. i'll start with the 25th amendment.
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Baloney.
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Our courageous
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President is doing what he should have done, decades.
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What should have been done decades ago.
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He's of sound mind and a critical thinker
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And strategist in my nonmilitary mind.
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I believe he's going to destroy as much infrastructure
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As possible and hit the bad apples
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As much as, militarily as possible.
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Okay, so listen, there is a new clip here that i want to
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I want to get out here
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Because i do think it's, relevant to the discussion.
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It's from somebody who kind of knows something.
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So one of these people that has really come out
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Is mark kelly.
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Right?
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We we talked about the cdc's six.
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There's been another democrat senator that is now calling
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This war crimes, this war crimes conversation.
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But, matthew buckley, is a former
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Pilot, a military pilot, and he has an interesting
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Critique of mark kelly.
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And i think it's important that we understand this context.
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Sot 17 the people frothing at the mouth today
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Clutching their pearls about alleged war crimes.
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If the president decides to target infrastructure,
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The first things you do in any air
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Campaign is to target the infrastructure.
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So the president is actually doing this in reverse.
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He has avoided targeting infrastructure. why?
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Because he wanted to leave
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A lot of this stuff intact for the great iranian people.
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So all the pearl clutching and the
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And the folks like mark kelly, allegedly
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Mark kelly is admitting to committing war crimes
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When he flew a-6 is in desert storm because we uplifted it.
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We obliterated their infrastructure.
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And now he's out there saying, well,
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If the president does this, it's a war crime.
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So, man,
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If it wasn't for their double standards,
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They'd have no standard at all.
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I think that's important context,
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Because, i mean, it's a frustrating thing
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Because i think
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Even if you oppose this war, some people have immediately
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Leaned into what would be a very left
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Wing framing of it, which is just any escalation,
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Various actions, everything is a war crime.
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Like, as he says,
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Infrastructure is something that you target in wartime.
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And well, in mark kelly himself did. yes.
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And now they're all calling it a war crime.
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So, you know, listen, i want peace.
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But let's be consistent people and just hold your judgment.
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We'll be right back with kane from citizen free press.
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We'll be right back with kane from citizen free press.
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Citizen kane from citizen free press.
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Welcome back to the show kane i texted you this morning.
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I was like, okay,
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It seems like the entire world is losing its mind
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This morning.
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Half half the internet
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Thinks trump's about to drop a nuke on iran.
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The other half wants to go 25th amendment.
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And meanwhile, we're all waiting for 8 p.m.
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Eastern because that's the deadline.
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Nobody knows.
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So give us the vibe check.
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Kane. what?
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What's it like out there at, cfp nation?
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Well, you you summarized it pretty well.
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I don't understand exactly why half of twitter believes
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That a nuclear bomb is coming, and that includes, i guess,
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For people who don't know, tucker, you've
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Probably been talking about i've been too busy to listen.
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But tucker carlson and marjorie taylor greene and others
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Seem to be operating on the idea that a civilization
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Could be wiped out means a nuclear weapon.
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And i don't you know, trump uses bombastic language.
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That's the way i interpret it.
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I have at no point in reading any of his true
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Social messages.
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Have i gotten the feeling that nuclear bombs are coming.
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I don't know about you guys, but no, i listen.
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I didn't even
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Jump to that conclusion until i logged on this morning.
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I was like, wait, people think he's going to use a nuke?
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I it didn't even occur to me
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Because i just i'm so accustomed
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To the normal sort of i don't want to call bluster,
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But there's the saber rattling, i understand.
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And blake pointed this out before, is that he likes to use
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Maximally aggressive language when he's in deal mode.
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And i just see this is trump doing a deal.
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But he did just tell, brett bear, i got this on the stack.
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Kane.
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So thank you for highlighting it for us.
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Yeah that he told brett bear that 8 p.m.
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Is absolutely on if they don't come to the table.
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So i don't think he's bluffing.
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But i also don't think he wants to,
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You know, necessarily have to do anything.
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I just want to have to escalate beyond this point.
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But he's willing to.
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Yeah.
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I think i agree with all of that.
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He's this is the language trump uses.
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We shouldn't be surprised by it.
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I also never got an inkling of an of anything
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Involving nuclear weapons.
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Part of that
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I have this philosophy that i feel
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Like influencers or influencers slash journalists,
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They feel like
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They always have to have
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Something to talk about on twitter all day long.
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It's almost as though
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They've got a 24 hour show and they've got to fill it.
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And so i feel like people just sort of
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Naturally get pushed to jumping to conclusions
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In order, you know, and they and yet they don't, you know,
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I mean, speaking
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Specifically about tucker, they don't seem to,
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You know,
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To qualify their statements by saying,
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Look, trump has made no comment,
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You know, along these lines.
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So i think that's kind of irresponsible, to be honest.
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The alex jones in 25th amendment stuff
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You mentioned, that is, you know, people haven't seen it.
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That clip is also in the stack that, you know, we know
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Alex has been against the war, which is his prerogative from
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The beginning. but he and,
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And barnes,
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You know, we're discussing how to and it seemed again
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To be the same, the same misinterpretation.
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You know, they they seem to be assuming
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That trump's about to drop nukes.
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And so he has to be stopped.
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And in the case of alex jones, he was suggesting
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A 25th amendment removal.
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So to me i'm not you know, the vibe in the stack,
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The vibe in in the open thread, the, you know, the
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Million or so people who visit cfp
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Every day seems to be trust the president.
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You know, no one is happy about this war.
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No one is looking forward to, to the possibility.
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Hopefully it doesn't happen of ground troops.
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So this isn't my audience, isn't,
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You know, a war mongering audience.
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But at the same time, they're they're willing
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To allow the president to do his deal making,
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You know, trump.
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I've been thinking, as i'm sure both of you have,
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I'll finish with this and throw it back.
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I've been thinking, you know, every time trump lays down
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A mini ultimatum, let's call it a 50% ultimatum, a full one.
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I, you know, i wonder, does he think about
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How he gets out of this if iran doesn't buckle?
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And so that's where i've been doing
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My analysis is just trying to see ways out.
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And and you know, now this last part, this you know,
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This human
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Shields on the bridge that's going to add
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A completely different element to it.
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So i want to hear you guys thought i get really
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On the 25th amendment thing.
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What makes me angry about it is
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You can really sense, when people tout that
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The certain degree of contempt they have for america
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Being a republic with an elected presidency,
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Whether you have concerns with the president's
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Approach or not, i don't think it remotely comes close
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To the scenario envisioned by the 25th amendment,
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Which is the president actually
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Being incapacitated, actually incapable.
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Whatever you think of trump,
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He actually is able to understand what he is doing.
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He knows completely.
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He is taking the actions he wants to take
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As the elected president. you might think it's misguided.
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You might think it's a mistake.
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You might think it makes him a bad president.
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But it's it's not like joe biden, for example,
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Where you'd have
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A credible suspicion that he is actually not the president,
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That he is out of action and other people
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Are making the decisions for lucid.
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He's in control while he's making sense.
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He's not slurring his words like, i don't think that.
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And that is the point of the 25th amendment.
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Yeah.
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Like
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There've been the biggest complaints about president
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Trump is he's doing things he's done before, but more.
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Yeah. okay. well, here's a good example.
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Can our team dug this up?
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This is a 2018, tweet from president trump.
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And just because it felt relevant, north korean leader
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Kim jong un
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Just stated that
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The nuclear button is on his desk at all times.
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Well, someone from his depleted and filled food
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Starved regime.
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Please inform him that i too have a nuclear button.
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But it is much bigger and more powerful, one than his.
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And my button works. that was all timer.
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The button works very powerful for the rocket man.
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I mean, he trump 1.0. we were.
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There was a moment where we were actually
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And it was the same thing we were said threatened.
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He's going to start a nuclear war.
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Yeah.
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They need that was when the 25th amendment thing started.
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And now look, their best friends like
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I can't remember who it was, but one of the one who said,
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Oh, jd vance needs to invoke the 25th
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And then pick a democrat as his vice president
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And then also say
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He won't run for reelection like these people.
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Yeah, i saw that. i saw that one as well.
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What are they even like? what are they even doing?
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Just come out and say,
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I don't think america should have elections.
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It should have some committee of experts in dc.
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And they picked the president.
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And they also decide what the constitution means.
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Like that's what you want when you say something like that.
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That is the system you want.
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Well, and listen,
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I can and i want to get your reaction here, but
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I just feel like the whole internet discourse
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Right now is missing, like an obvious third way here.
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And it's not like i always look for third ways.
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I mean, but my here's my point.
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I am not in favor of this war.
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I would if i would have been in the room,
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I would have said, let's not, i think it's bad politically.
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We have a nation build to build here at home.
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Okay. just all cards on the table.
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That would have been me.
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But i also don't jump to conclusions
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When president trump is saber rattling
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And when he's negotiating and when he's
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Doing the rhetorical flourishes as, right as he tends to.
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But here's the point.
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I can also understand
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The military and political,
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You know, drive to deal with the iran threat.
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I understand it.
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I'm not sitting here going like, this doesn't make sense.
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There's been no case made.
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No, the case has been made
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That they were trying to develop a nuke.
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They've been funding terrorist proxies
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Throughout the middle east,
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Attacking our troops, attacking our allies.
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I get it, i, i disagree, i would have
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I would have said, hey, let's pass on this.
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We don't need any more middle east wars.
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But like, i just feel like the rational
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Middle is getting winnowed away.
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I it's like the inner
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It turns everybody into this galaxy brain
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Where we just rush to the most extreme positions possible.
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Where we just rush to the most extreme positions possible.
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So cain, it looks like odds have,
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Jumped on some of the prediction
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Markets of a regime change, not only by april
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30th, but by december 31st.
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So the odds markets seem to indicate that,
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This is probably more and more likely.
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And brett baer is now on
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The record will play this sot 19 saying 8 p.m.
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Is happening.
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I just got off the phone with the president.
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He called and i said, listen, if you were to put odds on it,
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What were the odds that this is going
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To end up being a negotiated deal?
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He said he wasn't going to put odds on it, but he said 8 p.m.
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Is happening.
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That's what he said.
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He said it is if we get to that point,
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There is going to be an attack like they have not seen.
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So israeli tv, by the way, we have seen this image
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Going around, has a countdown clock,
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Kane counting down to 8 p.m.
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Tonight as it switches, which is wild.
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So what? yeah, there it is.
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This is, making the rounds,
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Which feels a little too excited.
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Maybe by half.
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But mccain, you know,
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We go back to this idea that, nobody wants this again.
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I put myself firmly in the anti interventionist camp,
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But i do believe that you can in that way as well.
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This is something charlie and i used to talk about a lot.
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You know, if we're going to,
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If charlie and i were going to when we're debating we would
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In the anti interventionist camp. okay. just. yeah.
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You know again.
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But, you know, peace through strength is trump's mantra.
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Mantra.
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He's he's saying that he's willing to use this 8 p.m.
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Is going to happen.
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What do you think the odds are tonight?
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I would divide it sort of into two
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That question into two parts.
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The first part is,
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What are the odds that any bombing occurs, versus
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What are the odds an agreement is reached?
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I still believe that.
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Look,
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Let's take this back before i
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Answer that, let's take this back to.
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To what this war is really all about.
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All iran has to do, all the mullahs have to do
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Is say that they're willing to give up their any aspiration
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They have for nuclear weapons.
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It's not that large of an ask.
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They've now probably lost or damaged
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And probably crossed the trillion dollar mark,
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Maybe 2
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Trillion in terms of their infrastructure
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That petrochemicals, their steel.
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All of this to hold on to this illusion.
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And yet, you know, what's the the craziest part of of
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Of their, of their dialog on this is that they claim
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That this is all for peaceful nuclear energy.
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So they're, you know,
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Whether you believe that or not, this idea that, that
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This entire war, you know, is, has, has come about
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And the destruction
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Of their industrial base has come about
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Because they're not willing to give it up.
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So, so first,
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I would say they're the worst deal makers in history.
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So i, i that's i have to caveat that i have to say that
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In order to sort of
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Analyze the odds for tonight that some deal is reached,
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You know, will they is there, is there enough
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Frightening language
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In trump's, and trump's true social post?
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They could
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Get them to actually realize that it's not a good idea,
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To test this guy, that it's, you know,
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That it's going to set their nation back.
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So it's a really, really hard question.
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And so under normal circumstances,
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I would say a deal would be reached 80, 20
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Would be the odds that a deal would be reached before 8 p.m..
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But when you're dealing with this group
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Who could so easily have prevented this war or
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Stop this war at any point in the last month and a half,
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By just agreeing to the one basic demand out of the 15.
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So i don't have a lot of faith.
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So now at least to i feel like it's at least 5050,
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Then we're going to bomb.
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And then what will that bombing look like?
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Well, human,
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These human chains are definitely going to affect the,
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That, you know, the calculus of this situation.
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There's no way that trump and seth are going to bomb
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Any bridges or any facilities where they
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Where there are any sort of civilians either lined up,
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By their own choice or by coercion.
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I think that's the problem. right? you don't know?
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I don't know about that.
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I'll be honest, i, i think that that,
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As i've been sitting here hearing you talk,
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Can i, i'm sort of convinced that,
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You know,
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Maybe they might make a different calculation
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On that point, actually, and saying
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If people are willing willingly.
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That's the question, though. are they coerced or not?
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But if they're willing to not, you gotta feel like
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A lot of these people are pushed into it.
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I don't know, i would have second thoughts about,
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You know,
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Someone else posted in the open thread earlier today,
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What if the entire thing's a ruse?
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What if we plan to get these power
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Stations and bridges better at a later date,
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And we've wanted to draw attention
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Away from a lot of other facilities
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That we decide to target tonight instead, that would be,
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You know, a nice little backhanded route.
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Look,
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I think trump is going to
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Be accepted by the base no matter how
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He handles the bombing tonight.
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So i guess if i'm going to throw it back, i'm going to say
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The odds are 7030 that we're going to do some bombing at ap.
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Yeah.
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Listen, if he drops a nuke on iran tonight,
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Then i will absolutely, call for impeachment.
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I will say i'm the crazy one.
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I'll do all the things.
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I don't think that's even in the realm of possibility.
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He's already denied it.
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Okay, so i don't understand why
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That everybody's jumping to conclusions.
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Let this play out.
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President trump is doing what he does.
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This is why he is the elected president.
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I think he's lucid and in control.
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Have some have some patients, have some faith.
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Don't jump to the wildest conclusions.
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Don't let yourself get galaxy brained by the,
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By social media and and keep your wits about you.
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If you can keep your head while everybody's
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Losing theirs, then that's a good thing.
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Ken, final word to you. 10s.
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Well, i'll
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Be watching the masters.
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I wonder how many people feel exactly like that.
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Good. god bless you, man.
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Thank you for making the time, citizen free press.
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Check it out.
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It is a one stop shop for everything that's happening.
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Check it out. today.
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Citizen Kane: April 8, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

April 8, 2026 | 23:28

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