Feb. 8, 2023 - America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes
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I don't think you guys are getting audio, right? | |
| Let me see if I can fix that. | ||
| Can you hear the video or not? | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| Let me know if you'd hear it or not. | ||
| I'm gonna check the live chat right now Oh last year I shared with you with Hang on. | ||
| Alright, you know what? | ||
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Yeah, I know. | |
| All right, you know what? | ||
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This might not work. | |
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Yeah, thank you. | |
| Audio? | ||
| Yeah, okay, well yeah, because the headphones just turned off. | ||
| Can you hear it now? | ||
| Can you hear it now? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'll just turn it all the way up. | ||
| Alright, is that good? | ||
| All right, is that good? | ||
| All right, there you go. there you go. | ||
| I know I've been criticized for saying this, but I'm not changing my view. | ||
| We're going to make sure the supply chain for America begins in America. | ||
| The supply chain begins in America. | ||
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Echo now. | |
| We've already created 800,000 new manufacturing jobs without this law before the law kicks in. | ||
| With this new law, we're going to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs across the country. | ||
| And I mean all across the country. | ||
| Not just the coast, but through the middle of the country as well. | ||
| That's going to come from companies that have announced more than $300 billion in investment in American manufacturing. | ||
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Yeah, okay, the audio's not good, okay? | |
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Okay. | |
| Semiconductor factories on a thousand acres, literally a field of dreams. | ||
| It's going to create 10,000 jobs. | ||
| That one investment. | ||
| Oh, that's why. | ||
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Okay. | |
| 3,000 jobs in those factories. | ||
| Once they're finished, they call them factories, jobs paying an average of $130,000 a year. | ||
| And many do not require a college degree. | ||
| Because we work together, these jobs where people don't have to leave home to search for opportunity. | ||
| It's just getting started. | ||
| Think about the new homes, the small businesses, the big, the medium-sized businesses. | ||
| So much more that's going to be needed to support those 3,000 permanent jobs and the factories that are going to be built. | ||
| Talk to mayors and governors, Democrats and Republicans, and they'll tell you what this means for their communities. | ||
| We're seeing these fields of dreams transformed to the heartland. | ||
| But to maintain the strongest economy in the world, we need the best infrastructure in the world. | ||
| Folks, as you all know, We used to be number one in the world in infrastructure. | ||
| We've sunk to 13th in the world. | ||
| The United States of America, 13th in the world in infrastructure, modern infrastructure. | ||
| But now we're coming back because we came together and passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. | ||
| The largest investment in infrastructure since President Eisenhower's interstate highway system. | ||
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You know, I actually support Joe Biden. - Thank you. | |
| I don't. | ||
| We've funded over 20,000 projects, including major airports from Boston to Atlanta to Portland. | ||
| Projects that will put thousands of people to work rebuilding our highways, our bridges, our railroads, our tunnels, ports, airports, clean water, high-speed internet all across America. | ||
| urban, rural, tribal. | ||
| And folks, tribal? | ||
| We're just getting started. | ||
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Based? | |
| We're just getting started. | ||
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And I mean it sincerely. | |
| I want to thank my Republican friends who voted for the law. | ||
| And my Republican friends who voted against it as well. | ||
| But I'm still, I still get asked to fund the projects in those districts as well, but don't worry. | ||
| I promised I'd be a president for all Americans. | ||
| We'll fund these projects. | ||
| And I'll see you at the groundbreaking. | ||
| Look, this law will further unite all of America. | ||
| Projects like Brents Bend Bridge in Kentucky over the Ohio River. | ||
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What? | |
| Built 60 years ago. | ||
| Badly needed repairs. | ||
| One of the nation's most congested freight routes, carrying $2 billion worth of freight every single day across the Ohio River. | ||
| And, folks, I've been talking about fixing it for decades, but we're really finally going to get it done. | ||
| I went there last month with Democrats and Republicans, and from both states, to deliver a commitment of $1.6 billion for this project. | ||
| And while I was there, I met a young woman named Sarah, who's here tonight. | ||
| I don't know where Sarah is. | ||
| Is she up in the box? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Sarah, how are you? | ||
| Well, Sarah, for 30 years... For 30 years... Average ironworker. | ||
| I learned. | ||
| She told me she'd been a proud member of the Ironworkers Local 44, known as... Known as the Cowboys in the Sky. | ||
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The folks who built... | |
| I can't see live chat on my screen. | ||
| Sarah said she can't wait to be 10 stories above the Ohio River building that new bridge. | ||
| God bless her. | ||
| That's pride. | ||
| And that's what we're also building. | ||
| We're building back pride. | ||
| Look, we're also replacing poisonous lead pipes that go into 10 million homes in America. | ||
| 400,000 school and child care centers. | ||
| So every child in America Every child in America can drink the water instead of having permanent damage to their brain. | ||
| Look, we're making sure that every community in America has access to affordable high-speed internet. | ||
| No parent should have to drive by a McDonald's parking lot to help them do their homework online with their kids, which many thousands are doing across the country. | ||
| And when we do these projects, and again I get criticized for this, but I make no excuses for it, we're going to buy America. | ||
| We're going to buy America. | ||
| Folks. | ||
| And it's totally consistent with international trade rules. | ||
| Why America has been the law since 1933, but for too long, past administrations, Democrat and Republican, have fought to get around it. | ||
| Not anymore. | ||
| Tonight, I'm announcing new standards require all construction materials used in federal infrastructure projects to be made in America. | ||
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Okay, based? | |
| Made in America. | ||
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I made it. | |
| This is so awesome. | ||
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Lumber, glass, drywall, fiber-optic cable. | |
| And on my watch, American roads, bridges, and American highways are going to be made with American products as well. | ||
| Folks, my economic plan is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten. | ||
| So many of you listening to me tonight, I know you feel it. | ||
| So many of you felt like you've just simply been forgotten. | ||
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True. | |
| I'm making upheaval over the past four decades. | ||
| Too many people have been left behind and treated like they're invisible. | ||
| Maybe that's you watching from home. | ||
| Remember the jobs that went away? | ||
| You remember them, don't you? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| The folks at home remember them. | ||
| You wonder whether the path even exists anymore for your children to get ahead without having to move away. | ||
| Well, that's why... I get that. | ||
| That's why we're building an economy where no one's left behind. | ||
| Jobs are coming back. | ||
| Pride is coming back. | ||
| Because of choices we made in the last several years. | ||
| You know, this is, in my view, a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America and make a real difference in your lives at home. | ||
| For example, too many of you lay in bed at night like my dad did. | ||
| Staring at the ceiling, wondering what in god names happens if your spouse gets cancer. | ||
| Or your child gets deadly ill. | ||
| Look at this guy. | ||
| Or something happens to you. | ||
| Are you going to have money to pay for those medical bills? | ||
| Or are you going to have to sell the house or try to get a second mortgage on it? | ||
| I get it. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| Look at the size differential between McCarthy and Kamala. | ||
| in the law. | ||
| We're taking on powerful interests to bring health care costs down. | ||
| Look at the size differential between McCarthy and Kamala. | ||
| Is that real or is she just slouching? | ||
| We pay more for prescription drugs than any nation in the world. | ||
| Let me say it again. | ||
| We pay more for prescription drugs than any major nation on earth. | ||
| For example, one in 10 Americans has diabetes. | ||
| Many of you in this chamber do, and in the audience. | ||
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Peace. | |
| But every day, millions need insulin to control their diabetes, so they can literally stay alive. | ||
| Insulin's been around for over 100 years. | ||
| The guy who invented it didn't even patent it because he wanted it to be available for everyone. | ||
| It cost the drug companies roughly $10 a vial to make that insulin. | ||
| Packaging and all, you may get up to $13. | ||
| But Big Pharma has been unfairly charging people hundreds of dollars, $400 to $500 a month, making record profits. | ||
| Not anymore. | ||
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Great news for Utah Zoomer. | |
| Utah Zoomer most affected. | ||
| We said we were doing this, and we said we passed the law to do it, but people didn't know because the law didn't take effect until January 1 of this year. | ||
| We capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month. | ||
| I like how he says 30. | ||
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I like how he says 30. 13. 13. | |
| People are just finding out. | ||
| I'm sure you're getting the same calls I'm getting. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Look, there are millions of other Americans who do not or are not on Medicare, including 200,000 young people with type 1 diabetes that need this insulin to stay alive. | ||
| Let's finish the job this time. | ||
| Why is he still wearing a mask? | ||
| Let's cap the cost of insulin for everybody at $35. | ||
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Hey, Dalton in chat. | |
| Wow, everybody's in chat. -Folks, the big farm is still gonna do very well, I promise you all. | ||
| I promise you, they're gonna do very well. | ||
| This law also caps and won't even go into effect until 2025. | ||
| Out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors on Medicare at a maximum of $2,000 a year. | ||
| You don't have to pay more than $2,000 a year, no matter how much your drug costs are. | ||
| Because you know why? | ||
| You all know it. | ||
| Many of you, like many in my family, have cancer. | ||
| You know the drugs can range from $10, $11, $14, $15,000 for the cancer drugs. | ||
| If drug prices rise faster than inflation, drug companies are going to have to pay Medicare back the difference. | ||
| We're finally giving Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices. | ||
| Bringing down prescription drug costs doesn't just save seniors money, it cuts the federal deficit by billions of dollars. | ||
| By hundreds of billions of dollars. | ||
| These prescription drugs are drugs purchased by Medicare to keep their commitment to the seniors. | ||
| Well, guess what? | ||
| Instead of paying $400 or $500 a month, you're paying $15. | ||
| That's a lot of savings for the federal government. | ||
| And by the way, why would we want that? | ||
| Now, some members here are threatening, and I know it's not an official party position, so I'm not going to exaggerate, but threatening to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act. | ||
| As my coach, that's okay. | ||
| That's fair. | ||
| As my football coach used to say, lots of luck in your senior year. | ||
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I don't get it. | |
| Make no mistake! | ||
| If you try anything to raise the cost of receiving jobs, I will veto it. | ||
| Look, I'm pleased to say that more Americans have health insurers now than ever in history. | ||
| A record 16 million people are enrolled in the Affordable Care Act. | ||
| And thanks to the law I signed last year, saving millions are saving $800 a year on their premiums. | ||
| And by the way, that law was written and the benefit expires in 2025. | ||
| So my plea to some of you, at least, in this audience, let's finish the job and make these savings permanent. | ||
| Expand coverage of Medicaid. | ||
| Look, the Inflation Reduction Act is also the most significant investment ever in climate change. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Ever. | ||
| Lower utility bill. | ||
| What if I were here? | ||
| What if this was me? | ||
| That's actually how you're supposed to pronounce Missouri. | ||
| What if I were here? | ||
| What does this mean? | ||
| That's actually how you're supposed to pronounce Missouri. | ||
| It is pronounced Missouri. | ||
| New electric grids that are able to weather major storms and not prevent those forest fires. | ||
| Roads and water systems will withstand the next big flood. | ||
| Clean energy to cut pollution and create jobs in communities often left behind. | ||
| We're going to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations installed across the country by tens of thousands of IBEW workers. | ||
| We're helping families save more than a thousand dollars a year with tax credits to purchase electric vehicles and efficient appliances, energy-efficient appliances. | ||
| Historic conservation efforts to be responsible stewards of our land. | ||
| Let's face reality. | ||
| The climate crisis doesn't care if you're in a red or blue state. | ||
| It's an existential threat. | ||
| We have an obligation, not to ourselves, but to our children and grandchildren to confront it. | ||
| I'm proud of how America, at last, is stepping up to the challenge. | ||
| We're still going to need oil and gas for a while. | ||
| But guess what? | ||
| No, we do. | ||
| But there's so much more to do. | ||
| We've got to finish the job. | ||
| And we pay for these investments in our future by finally making the wealthiest and biggest corporations begin to pay their fair share. | ||
| Just begin. | ||
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Hey, that's our girl, Ilhan Omar. | |
| 07's in chat for Ilhan Omar. | ||
| I'm a capitalist, but pay your fair share. | ||
| I think a lot of you at home, a lot of you at home agree with me and many people that you know, the tax system is not fair. | ||
| It is not fair. | ||
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True, the poor need to pay more. | |
| Hey, I pay my fair share, and then some. | ||
| The idea that in 2020, 55 of the largest corporations in America, the Fortune 500, made $40 billion in profits and paid zero in federal taxes? | ||
| Zero? | ||
| Folks, it's simply not fair. | ||
| But now, because of the law I signed, billion-dollar companies have to pay a minimum of 15%. | ||
| of 15% God love them 15% that's less than the nurse pays Let me be crystal clear. | ||
| I said at the very beginning, under my plans, as long as I'm president, nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay an additional penny in taxes. | ||
| Nobody, not one penny. | ||
| But let's finish the job. | ||
| There's more to do. | ||
| We have to reward work, not just wealth. | ||
| Pass my proposal for the billionaire minimum tax. | ||
| You know, there's 1,000 billionaires in America. | ||
| It's up from about 600 at the beginning of the term. | ||
| But no billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a schoolteacher or firefighter. | ||
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I mean, think about it. | |
| Think about it. | ||
| I mean, look. | ||
| I know you aren't enthusiastic about that, but think about it. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| Have you noticed Big Oil just reported its profits? | ||
| Record profits. | ||
| Last year, they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis. | ||
| Ukraine tie. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| I think it's outrageous. | ||
| Why? | ||
| They invested too little of that profit to increase domestic production. | ||
| And when I talked to a couple of them, they said, we're afraid you're going to shut down all the oil wells and all the oil refineries anyway, so why should we invest in them? | ||
| I said, we're going to need oil for at least another decade. | ||
| And that's going to exceed and beyond that. | ||
| We're going to need it. | ||
| Production. | ||
| If they had, in fact, invested in the production to keep gas prices down. | ||
| Instead, they used record profits to buy back their own stock. | ||
| Rewarding the CEOs and shareholders. | ||
| Corporations ought to do the right thing. | ||
| That's why I propose we quadruple the tax on corporate stock buybacks and encourage long-term investments. | ||
| They'll still make considerable profit. | ||
| Let's finish the job and close the loopholes that allow very wealthy to avoid paying their taxes. | ||
| Instead of cutting the number of audits for wealthy taxpayers, I just signed a law to reduce the deficit by $114 billion by cracking down on wealthy tax cheats. | ||
| That's being fiscally responsible. | ||
| In the last two years, my administration has cut the deficit by more than $1.7 trillion, the largest deficit reduction in American history. | ||
| Under the previous administration, the American deficit went up four years in a row. | ||
| Because those record deficits, no president added more to the national debt in any four years than my predecessor. | ||
| Nearly 25% of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone, the last one. | ||
| True. | ||
| They're the facts. | ||
| Check it out. | ||
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True. | |
| Check it out. | ||
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He's right. | |
| It was the COVID stimulus. | ||
| How did Congress respond to that debt? | ||
| They did the right thing. | ||
| They lifted the debt ceiling three times without preconditions or crisis. | ||
| They paid American bills to prevent an economic disaster in the country. | ||
| So tonight, I'm asking the Congress to follow suit. | ||
| Let's commit here tonight to the full faith and credit of the United States of America, who will never, ever be questioned. | ||
| Some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage. | ||
| I get it. | ||
| Unless I agree to their economic plans. | ||
| All of you at home should know what those plans are. | ||
| Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset. | ||
| I'm not saying it's the majority. | ||
| Let me give you, anybody who doubts it, contact my office. | ||
| State of the Union. | ||
| I'll give you a copy. | ||
| Oh, look at this clown. | ||
| Look at her. | ||
| That means Congress doesn't vote. | ||
| Well, I'm glad to see you. | ||
| And I tell you, I enjoy conversion. | ||
| You know, it means if Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, they'd go away. | ||
| Other Republicans say, I'm not saying it's a majority of you. | ||
| I don't even think it's even a significant... But it's being proposed by individuals. | ||
| I'm not politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by some of you. | ||
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Look, folks. | |
| Women are out of control. | ||
| Biden is wrong. | ||
| I don't think there are any Republicans suggesting to eliminate Medicare. | ||
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But these women are so obnoxious. | |
| So, folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare are lifeline for millions of seniors. | ||
| Americans have to pay into them from the very first paycheck they started. | ||
| So tonight, let's all agree, and we apparently are, let's stand up for seniors. | ||
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Stand up and show them. | |
| We will not cut Social Security. | ||
| We will not cut Medicare. | ||
| Those benefits belong to the American people. | ||
| They earned it. | ||
| And if anyone tries to cut Social Security, which apparently no one's going to do, and if anyone tries to cut Medicare, I'll stop them. | ||
| I'll veto it. | ||
| I'm not going to allow them to be taken away. | ||
| Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. | ||
| But apparently it's not going to be a problem. | ||
| Next month, when I offer my fiscal plan, I ask my Republican friends to lay down their plan as well. | ||
| I really mean it. | ||
| Let's sit down together and discuss our mutual plans together. | ||
| Let's do that. | ||
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Wow. | |
| McCarthy applauding bipartisanship. | ||
| Nice. | ||
| I can tell you. | ||
| Wow, he really just is that much taller than her. | ||
| The plan I'm going to show you is going to cut the deficit by another $2 trillion. | ||
| And I won't cut a single bit of Medicare or Social Security. | ||
| In fact, we're going to extend the Medicare trust fund at least two decades, because that's going to be the next argument. | ||
| How do we make keep it solvent, right? | ||
| Well, we'll not raise tax on anyone making under 400 grand, but we'll pay for it the way we talked about by making sure that the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share. | ||
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Look, look, look, here's the deal. | |
| Here's the deal, Jack. | ||
| They're not just taking advantage of the tax code. | ||
| They're taking advantage of you, the American consumer. | ||
| Here's my message to all of you out there. | ||
| I have your back. | ||
| We're already preventing Americans from receiving surprise medical bills. | ||
| Stopping $1 billion surprise bills per month so far. | ||
| We're protecting seniors' life savings. | ||
| By cracking down on nursing homes that commit fraud, endanger patient safety, prescribe drugs that are not needed. | ||
| Millions of Americans can now save thousands of dollars because they can finally get a hearing aid over-the-counter without a prescription. | ||
| Look, capitalism without competition is not capitalism. | ||
| It's extortion. | ||
| It's exploitation. | ||
| Last year, I cracked down, with the help of many of you, on foreign shipping companies that were making you pay higher prices for every good coming into the country. | ||
| I signed a bipartisan bill that cut shipping costs by 90 percent, helping American farmers, businessmen, and consumers. | ||
| Let's finish the job. | ||
| Pass the bipartisan legislation to strengthen antitrust enforcement and prevent big online platforms from giving their own products an unfair advantage. | ||
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Ah, yeah, okay. | |
| My administration is also taking on junk fees. | ||
| Those hidden surcharges too many companies use to make you pay more. | ||
| For example, we're making airlines show you the full ticket price up front. | ||
| Refund your money if your flight is cancelled or delayed. | ||
| We've reduced exorbitant bank overdrafts by saving consumers more than 1 billion dollars a year. | ||
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What's an overdraft fee? | |
| I don't know what that is. | ||
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I don't even look at the prices. | |
| I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket. | ||
| I don't know what that is. | ||
| I don't even look at the prices. | ||
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I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket. | |
| I don't even look at the prices. | ||
| I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket. | ||
| I don't even look at the prices. | ||
| I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket. | ||
| I don't even look at the prices. | ||
| I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket. | ||
| I don't even look at the prices. | ||
| I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket. | ||
| I don't even look at the prices. | ||
| I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket. | ||
| I don't even look at the prices. | ||
| I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket. | ||
| I don't even look at the prices. | ||
| I just, uh... I don't even buy the ticket. | ||
| I don't even look at the prices. | ||
| I Not anymore. | ||
| We've written a bill to stop it all. | ||
| It's called the Junk Fee Prevention Act. | ||
| We're gonna ban surprise resort fees that hotels charge on your bill. | ||
| Those fees can cost you up to $90 a night at hotels that aren't even resorts. | ||
| The idea that cable, internet, and cell phone companies can charge you $200 or more if you decide to switch to another provider. | ||
| Give me a break. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Let's go! | ||
| service fees on tickets to concerts and sporting events and make companies disclose all the fees up front and will prohibit airlines from charging $50 round trip for family just to be able to sit together. | ||
| Baggies fees are bad enough. | ||
| Airlines can't treat your child like a piece of baggage. | ||
| Americans are tired of being-- Let's go. --we're tired of being played for suckers. | ||
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Let's go. | |
| This is my president. | ||
| You know what? | ||
| Go on. | ||
| That's the Junk Free Prevention Act, so companies stop ripping us off. | ||
| For too long, workers have been getting stiffed, but not anymore. | ||
| We're beginning to restore the dignity of work. | ||
| For example, I should have known this, but I didn't until two years ago. | ||
| 30 million workers have to sign non-compete agreements with the jobs they take. | ||
| 30 million. | ||
| So a cashier at a burger place can't walk across town and take the same job at another burger place and make a few bucks more. | ||
| It just changed. | ||
| They just changed it because we exposed it. | ||
| That was part of the deal, guys. | ||
| Look it up. | ||
| But not anymore. | ||
| We're banning those agreements so companies have to compete for workers and pay them what they're worth. | ||
| There's not a whole lot in here for me, though. | ||
| It sounds like a lot of stuff for, like, poor people and, like, burger flippers and firefighters and nurses, but what about, like, business owners and, uh, rich people? | ||
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No. | |
| No. | ||
| No, they don't. | ||
| people on my left with the right i'm so sick and tired of companies breaking the law by preventing workers from organizing pass the pro act because business have a right no workers have a right to form a union no they don't no let's guarantee all workers have a living wage no No. | ||
| Let's make sure working parents can afford to raise a family with sick days, paid family medical leave, affordable childcare. | ||
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No, it's too many days off. | |
| That's going to enable millions of more people to go and stay at work. | ||
| And let's restore the full child tax credit, which gave tens of millions of parents some breathing room. | ||
| What about an in-cell tax credit? | ||
| To the lowest level in history. | ||
| And by the way, when we do all these things, we increase productivity. | ||
| We increase economic growth. | ||
| So let's finish the job and get more families access to affordable, quality housing. | ||
| Let's get seniors who want to stay in their homes the care they need to do so. | ||
| Let's give more breathing room to millions of family caregivers looking after their loved ones. | ||
| Pass my plan so we get seniors and people with disabilities the home care and services they need. | ||
| And support the workers who are doing God's work. | ||
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Like me? | |
| These plans are fully paid for and we can afford to do them. | ||
| Restoring the dignity of work means making education an affordable ticket to the middle class. | ||
| You know, when we made public education, 12 years of it universal, in the last century, we made the best educated, best paid, we became the best educated, best paid nation in the world. | ||
| But the rest of the world's caught up. | ||
| It's caught up. | ||
| Jill, my wife, who teaches full time, has an expression. | ||
| I hope I get it right, kid. | ||
| Any nation that out-educates us is going to out-compete us. | ||
| Any nation that out-educates is going to out-compete us. | ||
| Folks, we all know 12 years of education is not enough to win the economic competition of the 21st century. | ||
| If you want to have the best educated workforce, let's finish the job by providing access to preschool for 3 and 4 years old. | ||
| Studies show that children who go to preschool are nearly 50% more likely to finish high school and go on to earn a two- or four-year degree, no matter their background they came from. | ||
| Let's give public school teachers a raise. | ||
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| No, I disagree with that. | ||
| We're making progress. | ||
| By reducing student debt, increasing Pell Grants, or working in middle-class families. | ||
| Let's finish the job and connect students to career opportunities starting in high school, provide access to two years of community college, the best career training in America, in addition to being a pathway to a four-year degree. | ||
| Let's offer every American a path to a good career, whether they go to college or not. | ||
| And folks, Folks, in the midst of the COVID crisis, when schools were closed and we were shutting down everything, let's recognize how far we came in the fight against the pandemic itself. | ||
| While the virus is not gone, thanks to the resilience of the American people and the ingenuity of medicine, we've broken the COVID grip on us. | ||
| COVID deaths are down by 90%. | ||
| We've saved millions of lives and opened up our country. | ||
| We opened our country back up, and soon we'll end the public health emergency. | ||
| But that's called a public health emergency. | ||
| But we'll remember the toll and pain that's never going to go away. | ||
| More than a million Americans lost their lives to COVID. | ||
| A million. | ||
| Families grieving. | ||
| Children orphaned. | ||
| Empty chairs at the dining room table constantly reminding you that she used to sit there. | ||
| Remembering them, we remain vigilant. | ||
| We still need to monitor dozens of variants and support new vaccines and treatments. | ||
| So Congress needs to fund these efforts and keep America safe. | ||
| And as we emerge from this crisis stronger, We're also going to double down on prosecuting criminals who stole relief money meant to keep workers in small businesses. | ||
| Before I came to office, Before I came to office, you remember, during that campaign, the big issue was about inspector generals who would protect taxpayers' dollars who were sidelined. | ||
| They were fired. | ||
| Many people said, we don't need them. | ||
| And fraud became rampant. | ||
| Last year, I told you the watchdogs are back. | ||
| Since then, since then, we've recovered billions of taxpayers' dollars. | ||
| Now let's triple the anti-fraud strike force going after these criminals, double the statute of limitations on these crimes, and crack down on identity fraud by criminal syndicates stealing billions of dollars, billions of dollars from the American people. | ||
| And the data shows that for every dollar we put into fighting fraud, the tax rate gets back at least 10 times as much. | ||
| It matters. | ||
| It matters. | ||
| Look, COVID left us scars. | ||
| Like the spike in violent crime in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. | ||
| Right. | ||
| We have an obligation to make sure all people are safe. | ||
| COVID caused more crime. | ||
| Public safety depends on public trust, as all of us know. | ||
| But too often, that trust is violated. | ||
| Joining us tonight are the parents of Tyree Nichols. | ||
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| That's a big one. | ||
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You know, in fairness, he probably did die in four years. | |
| Had to bury Tyree last week. | ||
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It was unjust. | |
| As many of you personally know, there's no word to describe the heartache or grief of losing a child. | ||
| But imagine, imagine if you lost that child at the hands of the law. | ||
| Imagine having to worry whether your son or daughter came home from walking down the street, playing in the park, or just driving a car. | ||
| Most of us in here have never had to have the talk. | ||
| The talk that brown and black parents have had to have with their children. | ||
| Beau, Hunter, Ashley, my children. | ||
| I never had to have the talk with them. | ||
| I never had to tell them if a police officer pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away. | ||
| Don't fight them. | ||
| Don't reach for your license. | ||
| Don't reach for a gun or a knife. | ||
| Keep your hands on the steering wheel. | ||
| Do not try to kill the police. | ||
| Imagine having to worry like that every single time. | ||
| Imagine having to worry. | ||
| Kill guard in the car. | ||
| Here's what Tyree's mother shared with me when I spoke to her. | ||
| The kid might strike the cops. | ||
| When I asked her how she finds the courage to carry on and speak out. | ||
| The faith of God, she said her son was hope. | ||
| Keep doing too much. | ||
| A beautiful soul and something good will come of this. | ||
| Imagine how much courage and courage that takes. | ||
| It's up to us. | ||
| To all of us. | ||
| We all want the same thing. | ||
| Neighborhoods free of violence. | ||
| Law enforcement of enforcement who earns the community's trust. | ||
| Just as every cop when they pin on that badge in the morning has a right to be able to go home at night, so does everybody else out there. | ||
| Our children have a right to come home safely. | ||
| Equal protection under the law is a commitment we have with each other in America. | ||
| We know police officers put their lives on the line every single night and day. | ||
| And we know we ask them, in many cases, to do too much to be counselors, social workers, psychologists, responding to drug overdoses, mental health crises, and so much more. | ||
| In one sense, we ask much too much of them. | ||
| I know most cops and their families are good, decent, honorable people, the vast majority. | ||
| But they risk... And they risk their lives every time they put that shield on. | ||
| But what happened to Tyree in Memphis happens too often. | ||
| We have to do better. | ||
| Give law enforcement the real training they need. | ||
| Hold them to higher standards. | ||
| Help them succeed in keeping us safe. | ||
| We also need more first responders and professionals to address the growing mental health and substance abuse challenges. | ||
| More resources to reduce violent crime and gun crime. | ||
| More community intervention programs. | ||
| More investment in housing, education, and job training. | ||
| All this can help prevent violence in the first place. | ||
| When police officers or police departments violate the public trust, they must be held accountable. | ||
| With the support of the families of victims, Civil rights groups and law enforcement. | ||
| I signed an executive order for all federal officers banning chokeholds, restricting no-knock warrants, and other key elements of the George Floyd Act. | ||
| Let's commit ourselves to make the words of Tyler's mom true. | ||
| Something good must come from this. | ||
| Something good. | ||
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| All of us. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Wow, look at her. | ||
| Folks, it's difficult, but it's simple. | ||
| All of us in this chamber, we need to rise to this moment. | ||
| We can't turn away. | ||
| Let's do what we know in our hearts. | ||
| We need to do. | ||
| Let's come together to finish the job on police reform. | ||
| Do something. | ||
| Do something. | ||
| That was the plea of parents who lost their children in Uvalde. | ||
| I met with every one of them. | ||
| Do something about gun violence. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| Thank God we did. | ||
| Passing the most sweeping gun safety law in three decades. | ||
| That includes things like that the majority of responsible gun owners already support. | ||
| Enhanced background checks for 18 to 21-year-olds. | ||
| Red flag laws keeping guns out of the hands of people who are a danger to themselves and others. | ||
| But we know our work is not done. | ||
| Join us tonight as Brandon Say, a 26-year-old hero. | ||
| Brandon put his college dreams on hold to be at his mom's side. | ||
| His mom's side when she was dying from cancer. | ||
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| Brandon now works at the dance studio, started by his grandparents. | ||
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| Two weeks ago. | ||
| He's a dancer. | ||
| During the Lunar New Year celebrations, he heard the studio door close, and he saw a man standing there pointing a semi-automatic pistol at him. | ||
| He thought he was going to die, but he thought about the people inside. | ||
| In that instant, he found the courage to act and wrestled a semi-automatic pistol away from the gunman who had already killed 11 people in another dance studio. | ||
| 11. | ||
| He saved lives. | ||
| It's time we do the same. | ||
| Banned assault weapons now. | ||
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Banned them now. | |
| Once and for all. | ||
| William Boebert. | ||
| I love the fight to do that in 1994. - Four. | ||
| In ten years that ban was law, mass shootings went down. | ||
| After we let it expire in the Republican administration, mass shootings tripled. | ||
| Let's finish the job and ban these assault weapons. | ||
| And let's also come together on immigration. | ||
| make it a bipartisan issue once again. | ||
| We know we now have a record number of personnel working to secure the border, arresting 8,000 human smugglers, seizing over 23,000 pounds of fentanyl in just the last several seizing over 23,000 pounds of fentanyl in just the last several Thank you. | ||
| We've launched a new border plan last month. | ||
| Unlawful migration from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela has come down 97% as a consequence of that. | ||
| But American border problems won't be fixed until Congress acts. | ||
| If we don't pass my comprehensive immigration reform, at least pass my plan to provide the equipment and officers to secure the border. | ||
| And a pathway to citizenship for dreamers, those on temporary status, farm workers, essential workers. | ||
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| Here in the People's House, it's our duty to protect all the people's rights and freedoms. | ||
| Congress must restore the right and the-- - Your word! - Your word! - Your word! - Your word! - Your word! - Congress must restore the right I was taken away in Roe v. Wade. | ||
| and protect Roe v. Wade. | ||
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Give every woman a constant right. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Look at Kamala. | ||
| She's trying to look like a normal person. | ||
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| She's trying to look like a normal person. - We safeguard patient safety. | ||
| Well, already, more than a dozen states are enforcing extreme abortion bans. | ||
| Make no mistake about it. | ||
| If Congress passes a national ban, I will veto it. | ||
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| Let's also pass the Bipartisan Equality Act to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity. | ||
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| Our strength is not just the example of our power, but the power of our example. | ||
| Let's remember the world's watching. | ||
| I spoke in this chamber one year ago, just days after Vladimir Putin unleashed his brutal attack against Ukraine. | ||
| A murderous assault, evoking images of death and destruction Europe suffered in World War II. | ||
| Putin's invasion has been a test for the ages, a test for America, a test for the world. | ||
| Would we stand for the most basic of principles? | ||
| Will we stand for sovereignty? | ||
| Will we stand for the right of people to live free of tyranny? | ||
| Will we stand for the defense of democracy? | ||
| For such defense matters to us because it keeps peace and prevents open season on would-be aggressors and threatens our prosperity. | ||
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One year later, we know the answer. | |
| Yes, we would, and we did. | ||
| We did. | ||
| And together, we did what America always does at our best. | ||
| We led. | ||
| We united NATO. | ||
| We built a global coalition. | ||
| We stood against Putin's aggression. | ||
| We stood with the Ukrainian people. | ||
| Tonight, we're once again joined by Ukraine's ambassador to the United States. | ||
| She represents not just her nation, but the courage of her people. | ||
| Our ambassador is here. | ||
| We're united in our support of your country. | ||
| Will you stand so we can all take a look at you? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We're going to stand with you as long as it takes. | ||
| Our nation is working for more freedom, more dignity, more peace. | ||
| Not just in Europe, but everywhere. | ||
| Before I came to office, the story was about how the People's Republic of China was increasing its power, and America was failing in the world. | ||
| Not anymore. | ||
| We made clear, and I made clear in my personal conversations, which have been many, with President Xi, that we seek competition, not conflict. | ||
| But I will make no apologies Ha! | ||
| that we're investing to make America stronger. | ||
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| Investing in American innovation and industries that will define the future that China intends to be dominating. | ||
| Investing in our alliances and working with our allies to protect advanced technologies so they will not be used against us. | ||
| Modernizing our military to safeguard stability and determine deter aggression. | ||
| Today, we're in the strongest position in decades to compete with China or anyone else in the world. | ||
| I'm committed to work with China where we can advance American interests and benefit the world, but make no mistake about it. | ||
| As we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country, and we did. | ||
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| Winning the competition should unite all of us. | ||
| We face serious challenges across the world. | ||
| He has like this Hitlerian energy which I'm really vibing with. | ||
| not weaker autocracy has grown weaker not stronger name me a world leader who changed places with xi jinping name me one name me one america's rallying the world to meet those challenges from climate to global health to food insecurity to terrorism to territorial aggression allies are stepping up spending more i'm really digging it look | ||
| the bridges were forming between partners in the pacific and those in the atlantic And those who bet against America are learning how wrong they are. | ||
| It's never, ever been a good bet to bet against America. | ||
| And never. | ||
| Well, when I came to office, when I came to office, most assured that bipartisanship assumed was impossible, but never believed it. | ||
| That's why a year ago, I offered a unity agenda to the nation as I stood here. | ||
| We made real progress together. | ||
| We passed a law making it easy for doctors to prescribe effective treatments for opium addiction. | ||
| We passed the gun safety law making historic investments in mental health. | ||
| We launched the ARPA-H drive for breakthrough in the fights against cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes, and so much more. | ||
| We passed the Heath Robinson Pact Act, named after the late Iraq war veteran whose story about exposure to toxic burn kits I shared here last year. | ||
| I understand something about those burn pits, but there's so much more to do. | ||
| We can do it together. | ||
| Joining us tonight is a father named Doug from Newton, New Hampshire. | ||
| He wrote Jill, my wife, a letter, and me as well, about his courageous daughter, Courtney. | ||
| A contagious laugh, his sister's best friend, her sister's best friend. | ||
| He shared a story all too familiar to millions of Americans and many of you in the audience. | ||
| Courtney discovered pills in high school. | ||
| It spiraled into addiction and eventually death from a fentanyl overdose. | ||
| She was just 20 years old. | ||
| Describing the last eight years without her, Doug said, there's no worse pain. | ||
| Yet their family has turned pain to purpose, working to end the stigma and change laws. | ||
| He told us he wants to start a journey toward American recovery. | ||
| Doug, we're with you. | ||
| Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year. | ||
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| So let's launch. | ||
| That is hilarious. | ||
| Fentanyl production in the sale and trafficking. | ||
| With more drug detection issues, inspection car drugs, stop pills and powder at the border. | ||
| Working with curries like FedEx to inspect more packages for drugs. | ||
| Strong privilege to crack down on fentanyl trafficking. | ||
| Second, let's do more in mental health, especially for our children. | ||
| When millions of young people are struggling with bullying, violence, trauma, we owe them greater access to mental health care at their schools. | ||
| We must finally hold social media companies accountable for experimenting they're doing, running children for profit. | ||
| It's time to pass bipartisan legislation to stop big tech from collecting personal data on our kids. | ||
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| Cheat editors online, ban targeted advertising of children, and impose stricter limits on the personal data that companies collect on all of us. | ||
| Third, let's do more to keep this nation's one truly sacred obligation to equip those we send into harm's way and care for them and their families when they come home. | ||
| Job training, job placement for veterans and their spouses as they come to return to civilian life. | ||
| Helping veterans afford the rent because no one should be homeless in America, especially someone who served the country. | ||
| Dennis McDonough is here at the VA. | ||
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| We had our first real discussion when I asked him to take the job. | ||
| I'm glad he did. | ||
| We were losing up to 25 veterans a day on suicide. | ||
| Now we're losing 17 a day to the silent scourge of suicide. | ||
| 17 veterans a day are committing suicide. | ||
| More than all the people being killed in the wars. | ||
| Folks, VA is doing everything it can, including expanding mental health screening. | ||
| Proven programs that recruit veterans to help other veterans understand what they're going through. | ||
| Get them the help they need. | ||
| We gotta do more. | ||
| And fourth, last year Jill and I reignited the cancer moonshot that I was able to start with President Obama asking me to lead our administration on this issue. | ||
| Our goal is to cut the cancer death rates at least by 50% in the next 25 years. | ||
| Turn more cancers from death sentences to treatable diseases. | ||
| Provide more support for patients and their families. | ||
| It's personal to so many of us, so many of us in this audience. | ||
| Joining us are Morris and Candice, an Irishman and the daughter of immigrants from Panama. | ||
| They met and fell in love in New York City and got married in the same chapel Jill and I got married in New York City. | ||
| Kindred spirits. | ||
| He wrote us a letter. | ||
| It's about his little daughter, Ava. | ||
| I saw her just before I came over. | ||
| Chocolates. | ||
| She was just a year old when she was diagnosed with rare kidney disease, cancer. | ||
| After 26 blood transfusions, 11 rounds of radiation, 8 rounds of chemo, one kidney removed, given a 5% survival rate. | ||
| He wrote how in the darkest moments he thought, if she goes, I can't stay. | ||
| Many of you have been through that as well. | ||
| Jill and I understand that like so many of you. | ||
| And you read Jill's book describing our family's cancer journey, and how we tried to steal moments of joy where we could with Beau. | ||
| For them, that glimmer of joy was the half-smile of their baby girl. | ||
| It meant everything to them. | ||
| They never gave up hope. | ||
| Little Ava never gave up hope. | ||
| She turns four next month. | ||
| They just found out Ava's beating the odds, is on her way to being cured of cancer. | ||
| And she's watching from the White House tonight and she's not asleep already. | ||
| For the lives we can save... For the lives we can save and the lives we've lost... | ||
| Let this be a truly American moment that rallies the country and the world together and proves that we can still do big things. | ||
| Twenty years ago, under the leadership of President Bush and countless advocates and champions, he undertook a bipartisan effort through PEPFAR to transform the global fight against HIV AIDS. | ||
| It's been a huge success. | ||
| He thought big. | ||
| He thought large. | ||
| He moved. | ||
| I believe we can do the same thing with cancer. | ||
| Let's aim cancer as we know it. | ||
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| Cure some cancers once and for all. | ||
| Folks, there's one reason why we've been able to do all of these things. | ||
| Our democracy itself. | ||
| It's the most fundamental thing of all. | ||
| With democracy, everything's possible. | ||
| Without it, nothing is. | ||
| The last few years, our democracy has been threatened and attacked. | ||
| Without democracy, nothing is possible. | ||
| Put to the test in this very room on January the 6th. | ||
| And then just a few months ago... Hey, that was me. | ||
| An unhinged, big lie assailed and unleashed a political violence at the home of the then Speaker of the House of Representatives. | ||
| Using the very same language the insurrectionists used as they stalked these halls and chanted on January 6th. | ||
| Here tonight in this chamber is the man who bears the scars of that brutal attack, but is as tough and as strong and resilient as they get. | ||
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| That's so ridiculous. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| The touch of heinous act should have never happened. | ||
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| We must all speak out. | ||
| There's no place for political violence in America. | ||
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| Honor the results of our elections, not subvert the will of the people. | ||
| We have to uphold the rule of law and restore trust in our institutions of democracy. | ||
| We must give hate and extremism in any form. | ||
| no safe harbor. - Uh-huh. - Democracy must not be a partisan issue. | ||
| It's an American issue. | ||
| Every generation of Americans has faced a moment where they have been called to protect our democracy, defend it, stand up for it. | ||
| And this is our moment. | ||
| My fellow Americans, we meet tonight at an inflection point, one of those moments that only a few generations ever face, with the direction we now take is going to decide the course of this nation for decades to come. | ||
| We're not bystanders of history. | ||
| We're not powerless before the forces that confront us. | ||
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| It's within our power of we, the people. | ||
| We're facing the test of our time. | ||
| So true. | ||
| We have to be the nation we've always been at our best. | ||
| Optimistic, hopeful, forward-looking. | ||
| And white! | ||
| And Christian! | ||
| Hope over fear. | ||
| Union over division. | ||
| Stability over chaos. | ||
| And freaking based. | ||
| We have to see each other not as enemies, but as fellow Americans. | ||
| We're good people. | ||
| The only nation in the world built on an idea. | ||
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| The only one. | ||
| Other nations are defined by geography, ethnicity. - Thank you. | ||
| But we're the only nation based on an idea. | ||
| That all of us, every one of us, is created equal in the image of God. | ||
| A nation that stands as a beacon to the world. | ||
| A nation in a new age of possibilities. | ||
| So I've come to fulfill my constitutional obligation to report in the State of the Union. | ||
| And here's my report. | ||
| Because the soul of this nation is strong. | ||
| Because the backbone of this nation is strong. | ||
| Because the people of this nation are strong. | ||
| The State of the Union is strong. | ||
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| I'm not new to this place. | ||
| I stand here tonight, having served as long as about any one of you have ever served here. | ||
| But I've never been more optimistic about our future, about the future of America. | ||
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| We just have to remember who we are. | ||
| We're the United States of America, and there's nothing, nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together. | ||
| God bless you all, and may God protect our troops. | ||
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| We have been listening to President Biden's State of the Union address. | ||
| He's just wrapped up his remarks. | ||
| You see him shaking hands there with Vice President Kamala Harris. | ||
| The President will now make his way out of the chamber. | ||
| And in a few minutes we'll have to... | ||
| Well, there you have it. | ||
| That's your State of the Union is strong. | ||
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The President covering a wide range of topics. | |
| State of the Union, 21st. | ||
| What are our thoughts? | ||
| Let's get some comments from the audience. | ||
| Let's get some super chats. | ||
| Let's get some... Give me a 1 if you liked it. | ||
| 2 if you hated it. | ||
| Let's take a quick poll. | ||
| 1 if you thought it was good. | ||
| 2 if you thought it was bad. | ||
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| The State of the Union is always boring, honestly. | ||
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Strong record? | |
| Lots of accomplishments. | ||
| Mr. President. | ||
| Things that have been passed that he can talk about. | ||
| Numbers, facts, and figures that he can already talk about. | ||
| Projecting into the future more things to come that haven't been implemented yet. | ||
| You brought up the thing that stood out to me, let's finish the job. | ||
| And then, you know, he brought the tone that I was looking for and he ended his speech in the way he ends basically all of his big speeches and that is when he gets to the point where he says we are the united states of america he almost growls it in a very forceful passionate way to remind us in word and in tone that this is a nation that when we put it and put our minds to it we can get a lot of things | ||
| it's true he does do that a lot which is interesting biden says uh we're the united states of america We could do whatever we want, man. | ||
| And it's interesting because it's, uh, it's become a tautology. | ||
| Like, why can we do anything because we're the United States? | ||
| I was like, okay, what does it mean to be the United States? | ||
| We're the United States. | ||
| And it's like, at one point it did mean something, but it doesn't anymore. | ||
| Now it's sort of like just, There's just this momentum to it. | ||
| It's become like, it's like self-referential. | ||
| We used to say that the United States was great because we had this government that was created through reason, and we had these people here, we had like a great stock of people, and it was ingenuity, and we had a great system, and took pride in our work, and all, you know, whatever you want to say, and now it's like, well, what is the evidence that we're great? | ||
| Well, because we are! | ||
| And the other thing is this, um, it really is like Empire Strikes Back. | ||
| The entire Biden administration, specifically with the rallying of NATO, it is like the Empire Strikes Back. | ||
| All these themes, because it wasn't like this under Obama. | ||
| But Biden is really asserting very strongly this theme of our democracy and democracy in the world against the so-called autocracies because it totally wasn't like that with the last Democratic administration. | ||
| Under Obama, he was with Raul Castro and they did the Russia reset and things like that. | ||
| And now after everything that happened with Trump, it's like the whole neocon deep state has come back together to crush the domestic resistance as well as the rising non-American coalition in the world. | ||
| And it's all around this premise of democracy. | ||
| But it's really like democracy is like a shorthand for just the regime because it's not even really about freedom or openness or anything like that. | ||
| It's what it's really more about is like this regime. | ||
| And it's almost like in the same way that in the Soviet Union, you could say that communism was like a stand in for the party, for like a particular group of people running a particular institution that wielded power on a global scale. | ||
| And in the same way, it's like this. | ||
| It's like, is it really about democracy? | ||
| Because if it were, the biggest threats to democracy are big tech, massive corruption, those kinds of things. | ||
| But instead they portray the real threats to democracy, of course, as misinformation, which is really like citizen journalism and dissenting political opinions and things like that. | ||
| It's actually like the opposite of democracy. | ||
| So they say democracy, and that's supposed to be a catch-all for openness, freedom, liberalism, But, in fact, it means none of those things, and it doesn't even mean democracy. | ||
| What it really means is, like, the so-called democratic institutions. | ||
| What they really mean is the institutions. | ||
| And what are the institutions? | ||
| Washington, D.C. | ||
| It's like the State Department, and it's the Pentagon, and it's the...it's things as they are. | ||
| It's the status quo. | ||
| And so Biden is more like a, more than anything, he's just like a cheerleader for the status quo, is what he represents. | ||
| When he says, we're America, we're a democracy, when he says remember who we are, like remember that we're the United States, it's an appeal to people's sense of America being a great country basically before, basically like before Obama even. | ||
| Because Obama really created a lot of these problems. | ||
| Obama comes in with the culture war stuff, and it's so divisive, and it creates this white lash, like Van Jones said, which is true in some sense. | ||
| Creates this implicitly white, revanchist campaign by Trump, and then Trump pushes with everything that he did, immigration, January 6th, all that. | ||
| And so Biden is like the regime's attempt at a recapitulation where it says, hey, everybody, remember what it was like? | ||
| Biden's kind of like—he's very radical, actually, but in terms of tone, he's a lot more like a Democrat from the 90s. | ||
| Maybe like more socially liberal, talking about trans stuff, but he's not, he's definitely not woke. | ||
| At least not in a speech like this. | ||
| In the State of the Union, in these major policy speeches, he presents himself as more of like a Bill Clinton, more of like a... | ||
| Centrist. | ||
| Because he talks about a lot of this, he does talk about a lot of the stuff that Trump does. | ||
| He's patriotic, he talks about basically protectionism, when he talks about, for example, the CHIP Act, and he talks about Buy American, Hire American, that's straight from the Trump playbook. | ||
| And he talks about reducing the deficit, and talks about, when he talks about immigration, he talks about border security, but also the pathway to citizenship for TPS and DACA. | ||
| Not that I support any of that, by the way, but that's the presentation. | ||
| Because, I mean, none of that's even true. | ||
| Like, the border's totally out of control. | ||
| He's talking about how they're apprehending drug smugglers or something, but you have these record high. | ||
| They didn't even release official immigration figures for November and December of last year because they're so bad. | ||
| In January, maybe it was December or January, the unofficial numbers was the highest monthly total of border, what is it? | ||
| What's the technical term for it? | ||
| It's apprehensions at the border more than any month in American history. | ||
| And it's been on track like that for a long time. | ||
| Not highest month out of all the months, but it was like, you know, last year, you know, In the spring and summer, it was the highest monthly numbers for those months ever, like the highest monthly total for the month of May in history, and the highest monthly total for the month of June in history, and then I think recently it was just the highest month ever, period. | ||
| And so we know that, of course, when you do the State of the Union, it's presented as something that's supposed to be unifying and it's supposed to be an appeal to really everybody. | ||
| And so that's why it seems more balanced. | ||
| But, you know, Biden has governed in a way is very radical. | ||
| But the presentation consistently, and I think Biden does this deliberately, is trying to appeal to kind of like what the 90s were like, basically, even though that's not really the case. | ||
| And I think it's effective. | ||
| You know, I don't think that Biden is as unpopular as conservatives think. | ||
| You know, and I think Scott Greer wrote an article about this in revolt. | ||
| Conservatives are totally divorced from reality, and the biggest evidence of that, or one of the best examples of that, was they thought there would be this red wave that came from this massive unpopularity of Biden, and it just really wasn't true. | ||
| And I think that's right. | ||
| I don't think that Biden is totally unpopular. | ||
| I don't think that he is somebody that people love, but I also don't think that he's somebody that people hate. | ||
| In other words, Biden doesn't really activate the conservatives. | ||
| I don't think that there's so much antipathy towards Biden that it's driving this massive turnout from conservatives and from independents that don't like him. | ||
| I think that a lot of people think that he's inoffensive and basically acceptable. | ||
| Except for, you know, people played up the fuck Joe Biden thing and all that. | ||
| I think it's overstated. | ||
| It's not to say that it's not out there, but I think it's overstated how much of that there really is. | ||
| I think that a lot of people, it's sort of like in the same way, in a similar way, there was a shy Trump vote in 2016 of people that supported Trump but didn't want to say it. | ||
| I don't want to say it's the same thing with Biden, but I do think there are a lot of people who Perhaps they don't want to admit it as maybe more left-wing, or even people that are more right-wing in the middle, or maybe more conservative. | ||
| I think that they welcome the stability. | ||
| I think that they welcome the establishment and the regime coming back to power because it's more peaceful. | ||
| And I would imagine there's a lot of conservatives who might not want to admit it, but maybe they did vote for Biden. | ||
| Maybe they do support Biden because they wanted an end to the chaos. | ||
| And it's not even so much that Trump caused the chaos. | ||
| It's that Trump is a resistance figure. | ||
| And to the extent that he's succeeding, the regime is panicking and lashing back out. | ||
| It's creating a conflict. | ||
| You know, he's creating tension. | ||
| It's creating a conflict. | ||
| And I think there are a lot of people, specifically women, that just didn't like that. | ||
| And I think that's why they like Biden. | ||
| So, um, I mean, I find it hard to hate Biden as a guy because he's just like an old school white guy. | ||
| He seems like an old school white guy who loves his family and seems like a decent person. | ||
| He's left wing so I don't think he has decent... | ||
| Positions like him wanting to protect abortion is is abhorrent of course and his position on LGBT and those kinds of things but it's hard for me to hate him because he seems like a Seems like a nice guy seems like he's a little off I also think that the extent to which he's retarded is maybe overstated too I was thinking for a long time that | ||
| He was going to become completely incomprehensible and incoherent during the first term, like in short order, but he's hanging on. | ||
| I mean, he did okay in that speech. | ||
| He stumbled a little bit, but you know, it's like the guy's 80 years old. | ||
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| So, I don't know if I'm just being a contrarian because conservatives are so anti-Biden, have we really come full circle that now I'm like, you know what, Biden's not that bad. | ||
| I'm not saying that Biden's not that bad, I'm saying on a very narrow way, I think that conservatives have to rethink the strategy here. | ||
| Because I don't think that Biden is unlikable. | ||
| And I think that as far as the rhetoric goes, you know, it gets the job done. | ||
| He's not the most eloquent speaker, but he's got some charisma and he's, he is likable actually. | ||
| And he's not, he hasn't totally, uh, lost his mind like a lot of conservatives have acted like for the last like five years or, you know, four or three years, whatever it is. | ||
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So. | |
| So I don't know. | ||
| So I have sort of mixed feelings about the State of the Union. | ||
| I have mixed feelings about Biden. | ||
| I mean, of course, he's got to go. | ||
| You know, we need to have like a Trump or Ye or somebody else win in 24. | ||
| You know, we need to have a Christian right-wing government and we need to replace this guy because he's just a puppet of the regime but um but i the what i'm trying to say is i just can't get on board with this crazy anti-biden stuff you know i just can't get on board there because he's not that unlikable | ||
| and also i don't actually lay all the blame at his feet necessarily because there's so much going on behind him too so So like, for example, when Marjorie Taylor Greene is jumping up and down like a chimpanzee in the chamber and screaming and hollering about China! | ||
| And Biden's taking it easy on China! | ||
| It's like, that is actually just so off-putting to me. | ||
| It's actually more off-putting to me than Biden. | ||
| Because Biden actually has a sensible policy towards China. | ||
| It's like what I said on my show last night. | ||
| When he says, we want to meet China as a competitor and work with them where we can, but if they provoke us, then we respond, you know, that's actually an appropriate position. | ||
| I mean, that's actually rhetoric which is far more in alignment with my position than what the hysterical conservatives are saying on Fox News. | ||
| Trump and Biden actually probably agree on China. | ||
| Trump said something similar the other day, which I talked about on my show, but it's frankly, Tucker, and it's Hannity, and it's Fox, and it's the neocons that have the, and Marge, and even people like Alex Jones and others that have this hysterical rhetoric that the chi-coms are taking over everything and Biden won't do anything about it because of Hunter, and it's just like a fever dream. | ||
| It's like a, It is a total concoction that was created by cable news that just isn't even real. | ||
| You know, Marjorie, I saw she gave a statement for Breitbart earlier tonight before the speech, and she's walking around with her prop, with her balloon, which is just so, like, just clownish. | ||
| And she said, Americans are telling me that they're terrified. | ||
| And it's like, what Americans are afraid of a fucking balloon? | ||
| What Americans are afraid of China? | ||
| What conservatives think that that's the biggest problem? | ||
| And specifically for it to be a surveillance issue is crazy. | ||
| Because the real, as we know, the real surveillance problem in America is the FBI. | ||
| The real surveillance problem is our own intelligence community and our own DOJ with the Mar-a-Lago raid and all that business. | ||
| So, what I'm trying to say is, this plays into the problem on the right, which is, since Trump has taken a backseat and he's really not been in the spotlight for the last couple of years, he's been coming back and his messaging has been, I think, getting better, specifically over the last six weeks. | ||
| But as Trump has taken the backseat and kind of been, not to mix metaphors, but put on the sidelines, you've seen this total resurgence of basically what the GOP was before Trump. | ||
| You see this revanchist, establishment GOP. | ||
| And it's led by the people that we were led to believe were supposed to be anti-establishment, or the successors or the inheritors of the Trump legacy. | ||
| And I'm talking about people like Marjorie, and I'm talking about people like Tucker. | ||
| Trump is, when he came around in 15 and 16, he was against not just the Dems and the radical left, he was against the whole system. | ||
| And now that he's not in the equation so much, again up until very recently, and even his messaging was very bad up until very recently, now you have these people that we thought were going to be carrying the torch forward and taking it further than Trump did. | ||
| And they're taking it backwards! | ||
| So I'm talking about specifically the Marjories, the Tuckers, that go on their program, and they talk about how China's the real enemy. | ||
| That's like how the old GOP used to be. | ||
| That's like the same hysterics about Russia that the GOP used to have. | ||
| Because they were the party of anti-Russia hysteria ten years ago. | ||
| And the same stuff the pro-Israel Sycophant behavior, the anti-Iran hysteria, as well as this new obsession with the budget and with inflation. | ||
| Just like before, it really is hardly any different than Paul Ryan's obsession with, like, Ayn Rand and the Freedom Caucus and the fiscal conservatives. | ||
| But now it's just about inflation. | ||
| Now it's just about reining in inflation, reining in the budget. | ||
| And so you have these new people that are leading the charge, and it feels like the Obama conservatives all over again. | ||
| The Obama era, Fox News, Tea Party, retardation, all over again. | ||
| The delusional obsession with the president, who's really not unpopular. | ||
| You know, the media was able to demonize Trump in a way that Fox News has never been able to demonize a Democrat president. | ||
| They were never able to demonize Obama or Biden in the same way. | ||
| But it's this like lunatic obsession on Biden. | ||
| It's the it's this economic conservatism, whether you call it populism or economic nationalism. | ||
| It's still they're still focusing on that to the detriment or exception of everything else. | ||
| It's the war hawk. | ||
| George Bush, cowboy stuff against the axis of evil, which is now China, Iran, and apparently Russia too, if Mitch McConnell's wearing the Ukraine tie. | ||
| So the point is, when I see a speech like this, it reminds me I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, okay? | ||
| That's the most important thing in this time right now, in this very confusing, leaderless, transitional period, is to not get caught back up in the game. | ||
| That's the biggest thing. | ||
| And let me, let me mute this. | ||
| The biggest thing is, you watch this speech, you watch this propaganda, and I see so many people falling into this trap of becoming dutiful Republicans again. | ||
| Trump started this revolution, and people are just so ready to sign back up, and vote in the midterms, and vote for the Republicans, and fight on the budget, and they're gonna hate Biden on command. | ||
| And like, I'm just not going to do that. | ||
| I mean, I'm not like a Biden supporter. | ||
| I'm not a Democrat. | ||
| But listen, I have about as much antipathy for Biden and love for Biden as I do for Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell. | ||
| As far as I'm concerned, they're the same. | ||
| And sometimes they do good things and sometimes they do bad things. | ||
| But overall, They're part of a completely compromised and corrupt system, and they all have to be replaced. | ||
| So when Biden says some of these good things, like, hey, we're gonna go after junk fees, and we're gonna go after Big Tech and protect your privacy, that's great! | ||
| You know, that's terrific. | ||
| And when he says, buy American, hire American, and China's a competitor, even things like bring down the price of insulin, okay, great. | ||
| I'm not one of these lunatic, you know, I hate the Democrats! | ||
| It's like the Democrat-Republican thing. | ||
| If that's in your vocabulary, it's like the past 10 years never happened. | ||
| So... So anyway, that's my thoughts on the State of the Union. | ||
| It was boring, and... | ||
| It's interesting because there's no, where's the vision? | ||
| What could you say based on that speech was the unified vision and theme? | ||
| That's the problem above all with our country is not only does it not have a leader, but it also doesn't have any sense of a unifying purpose or vision. | ||
| And it's embodied in the campaigns and the speeches. | ||
| And you notice this with all the others. | ||
| I think that's why Trump was successful. | ||
| Because Trump, whether you're right or left, he was offering actually like a tangible, clear vision. | ||
| He said, we're going to make America great again. | ||
| What was the other message? | ||
| There was no alternative message. | ||
| We don't even know what the other slogan was. | ||
| I mean, I do because I was, you know, I'm a political guy, but we don't even remember what the other slogan was. | ||
| And now that Trump has become assimilated into the GOP, even in 2020, what was the slogan? | ||
| What was the vision? | ||
| Keep America great. | ||
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What? | |
| That's not like a vision. | ||
| And so we're, since basically Trump won that last election, we're without a leader. | ||
| And we're also without a vision. | ||
| And that's where you get these speeches where it just kind of meanders from policy to policy. | ||
| And it's, here's a little stuff about cancer. | ||
| And here's a little stuff about junk fees. | ||
| And here's a little thing about insulin. | ||
| And here's a little thing about the border. | ||
| And by the way, we're doing something about this. | ||
| And we're going to do a little of that. | ||
| and And the most that you could get towards the end, I thought they wrapped it up very hastily. | ||
| There wasn't a lot of rhetoric in here. | ||
| It was a lot of policy. | ||
| It was a lot of specificity. | ||
| There wasn't a lot of flowery, ornate, wasn't a lot of, you know, he didn't really set any themes or anything. | ||
| It was just a lot of, it was just sort of like a big list. | ||
| Really, like, in defense of his record, maybe more than anything. | ||
| You know, there was a little bit of that towards the end about, hey, democracy, we can't do anything without democracy, and everything we can do is cause a democracy, and tied that in with the Capitol, and with the attack on Paul Pelosi. | ||
| I thought that was very shoddy. | ||
| I thought that was just, like, poorly written. | ||
| Just kind of, uh... It was a bit of a reach. | ||
| And... | ||
| And so the themes were not really, um... | ||
| Didn't really have these strong themes. | ||
| They weren't really expressed well. | ||
| And so, like I said, he's really, the message is just, let's just keep everything the same. | ||
| The message is normalcy. | ||
| The message is, when he says, we're America, remember that? | ||
| Remember what it was like before? | ||
| It's like, hey man, we don't need to change. | ||
| Oh, here we go, we got, what is this now? | ||
| Oh, this is the Republican response, okay. | ||
| - No, it's okay, hold up. | ||
| - To the dangerous border crisis and threat from China. | ||
| Biden and the Democrats Biden and the Democrats! | ||
| China! | ||
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This is worse than the Biden speech. | |
| Biden and the Democrats. | ||
| China. | ||
| That's gay. | ||
| This is so odd. | ||
| This is so out of touch. | ||
| Because we're the freest country the world has ever known. | ||
| With a people who are strong and resilient. | ||
| No they're not. | ||
| They're fat and stupid. | ||
| Five months ago I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. | ||
| Diagnosed with diabetes. | ||
| It was a hard time for our family. | ||
| I was diagnosed with obesity. | ||
| Particularly our kids. | ||
| Scarlett, Huck, and George. | ||
| But we kept our faith and persevered. | ||
| Thanks to exceptional doctors here in Arkansas, a successful surgery, and the grace of God, I am cancer-free. | ||
| Through it all, I couldn't help but think about my mom. | ||
| She was 20 years old. | ||
| That's inspiring. | ||
| When she was diagnosed with spinal cancer, the doctors told her she might not live, and if she did live, They said she'd never walk again. | ||
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Wow. | |
| And if she did walk, she'd definitely never have children. | ||
| The daughter she was told she'd never have... Spoiler alert! | ||
| ...was just sworn in as the new governor of Arkansas and is speaking to you tonight. | ||
| She's the governor now? | ||
| I didn't know that. | ||
| Adversity and fear of the unknown can paralyze us, but faith propels us to charge boldly ahead. | ||
| She is a looker, man. | ||
| the face of great challenges you and i were put on this earth for such a time as this to charge boldly ahead i'll be the first to admit president biden and i don't have a lot in common i'm for freedom he's for government control at 40 i'm the youngest governor in the country and at 80 he's the oldest president in a Yeah, you're really young and hip. | ||
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Ah. | |
| I'm the first woman to lead my state, and he's the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can't even tell you what a woman is. | ||
| In the radical left's America, Washington taxes you and lights your hard-earned money on fire. | ||
| But you get crushed with high gas prices, empty grocery shelves, and our children are taught to hate one another on account of their race. | ||
| but not to love one another or our great country. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| It isn't? | ||
| Whether Joe Biden believes this madness or is simply too weak to resist it, his administration has been completely hijacked by the radical left. | ||
| The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left. | ||
| The choice is between normal or crazy. | ||
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Wow. | |
| It's time for a new generation of Republican leadership. | ||
| Upon taking office just a few weeks ago, I signed executive orders to ban CRT, racism, and indoctrination in our schools. | ||
| Eliminate the use of derogatory term Latinx in our government. | ||
| Repealed COVID orders and said never again to authoritarian mandates and shutdowns. | ||
| Americans want common sense from their leaders. | ||
| But in Washington, the Biden administration is doubling down on crazy. | ||
| These guys are crazy! | ||
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Democrats are crazy! | |
| What they're doing over there is crazy! | ||
| And the Democrats and Biden, what they're doing over there is damn crazy! | ||
| Just like so fucking stupid and retarded! | ||
| I'm not- I'm a Democrat, you know? | ||
| This is why I'm wearing a blue hoodie, because I'm a Democrat now. | ||
| What them there Democrats and Biden is doing over there is freaking crazy, man. | ||
| Girls and boys don't even know what they're doing. | ||
| It's not between conservative and liberal. | ||
| Are you normal? | ||
| How are you, damn crazy lunatic? | ||
| Our southern border. | ||
| Yet the Biden administration refuses to secure the border and save American lives. | ||
| And after years of Democrat attacks on law enforcement and calls to defund the police, violent criminals roam free while law abiding families live in fear. | ||
| Beyond our border from Afghanistan to Ukraine, from North Korea to Iran, President Biden's weakness puts our nation and the world at risk. | ||
| The president's refusal to stand up to China, our most formidable adversary, is dangerous and unacceptable. | ||
| President Biden is unwilling to defend our border, defend our skies and defend our people. | ||
| He is simply unfit. | ||
| to serve as commander-in-chief. | ||
| And while you reap the consequences of their failures, the Biden administration seems more interested in woke fantasies than the hard reality Americans face every day. | ||
| Beautiful, dark, twisted fantasies. | ||
| Most Americans simply want to live their lives in freedom and peace. | ||
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I want to just live my life in freedom and peace, man. | |
| I don't need all this crazy Democrat stuff. | ||
| Big, big government. | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| How about no more big girls? | ||
| Big government. | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| How about no more big girls? | ||
| I'm not worried about big government. | ||
| I'm worried about big fat girls. | ||
| Republicans will not surrender this fight. | ||
| Oh, really? | ||
| We will lead with courage and do what's right, not what's politically correct or convenient. | ||
| Republicans believe in an America where strong families thrive in safe communities, where jobs are abundant and paychecks are rising, where the freedom our veterans shed their blood to defend is the birthright of every man, woman, and child. | ||
| These are the principles Republican governors are fighting for. | ||
| And in Washington, under the leadership of Senate Republicans and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, we will hold the Biden administration accountable. | ||
| Down the street from where I sit is my alma mater, Little Rock Central High. | ||
| As a student there, I don't care. | ||
| Mike Huckabee's her dad? | ||
| watching my dad, Governor Mike Huckabee, and President Bill Clinton Mike Huckabee's her dad? | ||
| The doors open to the Little Rock Nine. | ||
| Doors that 40 years earlier had been closed to them because they were black. | ||
| Today, those children once barred from the schoolhouse are now heroes. | ||
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Heroes! | |
| Heroes! | ||
| I'm proud of the progress our country has made. | ||
| I believe giving every child access to a quality education- The little black fellers is heroes! | ||
| ...with far-versus of their race or income is the civil rights issue of our day. Tomorrow, I will unveil an education package that will be the most far-reaching- I'm going to unveil a package. ...conservative education reform in the country. I'm going to unveil a little educational package for you. | ||
| with real choices, improves literacy and career readiness, and helps put a good teacher in every classroom by increasing their starting salary from one of the lowest to one of the highest in the nation. | ||
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Ugh. | |
| That sucks. | ||
| Hmm. | ||
| Here in Arkansas and across America, Republicans are working to end the policy of trapping kids in failing schools and sentencing them to a lifetime of poverty. | ||
| We will educate, not indoctrinate our kids, and put students on a path to success. | ||
| It's time for a new generation to lead. | ||
| This is our moment. | ||
| This is our opportunity. | ||
| Her face is so meaty. | ||
| She's more masculine than me. | ||
| But, I'm hot. | ||
| She's more masculine than me, but... That's because I'm hot. | ||
| meaty. | ||
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She's more masculine than me. | |
| But I'm hot. | ||
| She's more masculine than me. | ||
| That's because I'm hot. | ||
| She would beat me in an arm wrestling contest. | ||
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Probably eat more ribs than me. | |
| probably eat more ribs than me. | ||
| Fucking barbecue sauce all over her face. | ||
| America can once again be the land of the free and the home of the brave. | ||
| During my two and a half years at the White House, I traveled on every foreign trip with the president. | ||
| A trip I will never forget was on December 25th of 2018. | ||
| My husband Brian and I had just cleaned up wrapping paper that was shoved into every corner of our house, thanks to our three kids. | ||
| When I had to walk out on my own family's Christmas, unable to tell them where I was going that night because the place I'd be traveling was so dangerous, They didn't want anybody to know that the president was going to be on the ground, even for a few hours. | ||
| We boarded Air Force One. | ||
| In complete and total darkness. | ||
| There were no lights on the plane. | ||
| No lights on the runway. | ||
| Our phones and computers shut down and turned in. | ||
| We were going completely off the grid. | ||
| Nearly 12 hours later, in the pitch black of night, we landed in the war-torn part of western Iraq. | ||
| It was again a similar scene. | ||
| No lights on the plane. | ||
| No lights on the runway. | ||
| The only thing you could see was coming from about a mile away in a dining hall where hundreds of troops who were in the fight against ISIS had gathered expecting to celebrate Christmas with senior military leadership from around the region. | ||
| They had absolutely no idea that the president and the president were about to walk into that room. | ||
| And when they did, it was a sight. | ||
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That's crazy. | |
| And a sound I hope I never forget. | ||
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The room erupted. | |
| President Trump! | ||
| President Trump! | ||
| Every political party, every demographic you can imagine started chanting in perfect unison over and over and over again. | ||
| U.S.A. | ||
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Yes! | |
| It was an absolutely perfect picture. | ||
| It makes our country great. | ||
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Yes! | |
| One of the young soldiers yelled from the back, Mr. President, I re-enlisted in the military. | ||
| And the president said, and son, I'm here because of you. | ||
| Shortly after that young soldier came up to me, He said, Sarah, you have a tough job. | ||
| I told him what I do is nothing. | ||
| You take bombs and bullets. | ||
| That's a tough job. | ||
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Wow. | |
| And in a moment that I know I'll cherish for the rest of my life, that soldier reached up and he pulled the brave rifle's patch he wore on his shoulder, and he placed it into my hand, a sign of ultimate respect. | ||
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Wow. | |
| And he said, Sarah, We are in this together. | ||
| Overwhelmed with emotion and speechless, I just hugged him with tears in my eyes and a grateful heart for our heroes who keep us free. | ||
| That young man and everyone who has served before him, all of those who serve alongside him, and the thousands we know who will be called upon to serve after him. | ||
| What about the real freedom fighters? | ||
| in a community back home doing our part in the fight for freedom. | ||
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Huh? | |
| - What about the real freedom fighters? | ||
| Huh? | ||
| - America is great because we are free. | ||
| - Nobody's talking to me. | ||
| - Our freedom is under attack. | ||
| The America we love is dangerous. | ||
| - Listen, I'm not poor and I'm not a soldier. | ||
| So where's my president? | ||
| And it's time for a change. | ||
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Huh? | |
| A new generation of Republican leaders are stepping up, not to be caretakers of the status quo, but to be change makers for the American people. | ||
| I'm a change maker. | ||
| We know not what the future holds, but we know who holds the future in his hands. | ||
| And with God as our witness, we will show the world that America is still the place where freedom reigns and liberty will never die. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| God bless you. | ||
| And God bless America. | ||
|
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And we have been listening to Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. | |
| So that sucked. | ||
| So that sucked. | ||
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I'm a Democrat. | |
| I support Biden more than her. | ||
| Why would they pick an ugly girl? | ||
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Just being practical here. | |
| Why would they pick a fat ugly girl to give the speech and represent Republicans? | ||
| What did I literally just say? | ||
| What did I literally... Did... Am I not, like, such a genius? | ||
| I'm not even really trying here, like, I'm tired, my neck hurts, I didn't even really want to do the stream, I watched a lame speech, I'm half messing with the audio, half watching, and at the end I said, well, I said, here's the problem, I said, it highlights how the Republican Party is reasserting itself, the establishment's reasserting itself, it's the same GOP like it was before Trump, | ||
| And then we get this hillbilly to come on and say, our heroes in Iraq, our heroes in our freedom, and the bad, the feckless Biden administration showing weakness to our enemies. | ||
| It's like, dude, could you be any more fucking out of touch? | ||
| Talking about big government? | ||
| Nobody cares about that anymore, okay? | ||
| We live in a big world, okay? | ||
| It's big business, big pharma, big government. | ||
| We're not going back. | ||
| So the best that we could hope for is a competent government that could protect the people's interest, protect the public interest against powerful private interest and against the interest of foreign countries. | ||
| That's the best you're gonna get. | ||
| And you want the government to be, uh, you want them to not overreach, you know, okay, you know, you don't want the government to be too whatever, but, you know, the idea that it's like, man, I walk outside the house and I can't catch a break from government regulators, it's like, I don't even know if that's really even true. | ||
| To be honest with you. | ||
| Like, when I think of all the problems in my life, of which there are many, like, big government just isn't one of them. | ||
| I live in California now, and there's a lot of bullshit that I have to put up with, like, you know, they charge you for a plastic bag, and like, You have to ask for a stride in and out and all that. | ||
| But it's like, this is probably the state where the government is overreaching the most. | ||
| And I'm not, I'm basically not even affected. | ||
| In fact, it's the opposite. | ||
| It's like the crime is out of control here. | ||
| The homelessness, we need, if anything, we need more government. | ||
| If anything, we need more armed government soldiers on the street, restricting everybody's freedom to steal and be homeless and all the rest. | ||
| So, I mean, for that to be the response, Biden gives a speech, and the democracy thing is cringe, okay, but he says, you know, listen, we're gonna go after junk fees. | ||
| The junk fees... I'm a huge proponent of this. | ||
| The junk fees thing is brilliant because it's something that is tangible that everybody... And it's one of those things that people think it just has to be that way, but it actually doesn't, and the government could just ban it. | ||
| And things like that, talking about cancer and talking about junk fees and talking about privacy and big tech, these are all things that actually affect people. | ||
| And talking about healthcare and immigration and the other issues that he talked about, again, those are things that actually affect people. | ||
| To go and give a speech and say, hey, we're the rootinest tootinest from big government out of our lives, it just, it's totally, doesn't resonate. | ||
| It's hollow. | ||
| And not that I don't agree in some capacity, but it's just not effective rhetoric. | ||
| And this whole thing about the Democrats are crazy, it's like, uh, I don't think anybody even really believes that, okay? | ||
| You know, these Republicans say, oh, you know, the Democrats are crazy, it's like, um, So are the Republicans. | ||
| Like, they think both sides think the other's crazy and probably most people are actually down with, like, transgenders, if you want to know the truth. | ||
| The things that we think are crazy, most people think are okay. | ||
| Most people are totally on board with gay marriage. | ||
| Most people are totally on board with trannies. | ||
| If you want to take a look at what people think is crazy, watch like barstool sports. | ||
| Barstool sports is something that your average right-leaning person is into. | ||
| That's about as culturally right-wing as you're going to get in the mainstream. | ||
| It's sports, it's like frat guys, it's that kind of thing. | ||
| And they don't give a shit about trannies. | ||
| If you watch like Nelk, or if you watch Barstool Sports, you watch that kind of stuff. | ||
| Even like, um, Andrew Tate. | ||
| They don't think trannies are crazy. | ||
| They support trannies. | ||
| They don't think feminism's crazy. | ||
| They're feminists! | ||
| It's just like, there's little parts of it that they dispute. | ||
| It's little, you know, they're like, well, we just think this goes too far, maybe that goes too far, this one's a lol cow or whatever. | ||
| That appeal, and I've said this before, it's like Josh Hawley in that hearing. | ||
| It's like Josh Hawley when he was in that Senate hearing with that black professor and she said that like men could get pregnant and he was like wow just wow and it's like yeah no like they run the country and that's what they believe and if you think that to just chortle and say huh them Democrats are crazy it's like well you know | ||
| The Capitol siege happened and you know Trump Trump's pretty off the wall like it's just not that effective so the the idea that all these uh that that messaging is gonna come across to young people or average people and they're all gonna be like Mm-hmm. | ||
| Bless their heart. | ||
| Like, it just isn't like that, man. | ||
| It just isn't like that. | ||
| Most people live in cities. | ||
| Most people have gone to college now. | ||
| Most people are going to college. | ||
| That's just normal for most people. | ||
| So, you know, all these rednecks and evangelical types that are gonna say, huh, bless their heart, what they're doing over there is crazy. | ||
| It's like, okay, well, most people don't see it that way. | ||
| And also, for the people that do think it's crazy, It warrants, actually, a stronger response than to just sort of chuckle about it and say, huh, that's crazy over there. | ||
| It's like, no, actually, it's deeply immoral and it's deeply corrupt and it's deeply offensive. | ||
| But that's the thing. | ||
| Conservatives don't know how to have any strong messaging. | ||
| You know, the right approach would be to say, hey, you should be offended. | ||
| Like, they're raping kids. | ||
| This is obscene. | ||
| This is depraved. | ||
| It is totally immoral. | ||
| We have totally lost a moral fabric. | ||
| It's got to stop. | ||
| The government's got to go in. | ||
| Like, that should be the messaging instead of this aloof, like, uh, because it's the smug, aloof, you know, like, well, we're not even going to give them reaction. | ||
| Well, it's just between normal and crazy. | ||
| It's like, no, it's fucking not. | ||
| It's between good and evil. | ||
| It's between normal and them, they're Democrats. | ||
| I think they lost their damn minds. | ||
| It's like, no, it's between good and evil. | ||
| It's between being a Christian and having, uh, being a moral person and being completely amoral or immoral and not believing in God. | ||
| So no, it's not, it's not, you know, bless their heart. | ||
| I think they lost their damn minds. | ||
| It's like, no, they're evil. | ||
| They're coming for your kids. | ||
| You should be offended. | ||
| You should be mad about it. | ||
| You should talk about it like that instead of this like, it's between normal and crazy. | ||
| You know, while they're eating fucking grits at the gas station. | ||
| Anyway, so I didn't like that. | ||
| And then this whole thing about the troops. | ||
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I mean, dude, Like just what? | |
| Where does that work except for like a country music concert, man? | ||
| This like the troops thing? | ||
| It's like the war's over. | ||
| Give me a break now with this we flew in And the troops were there, and we said, Merry Christmas, and he took his purple heart and gave it to me. | ||
| You're the real hero. | ||
| You're getting shot at for our freedom. | ||
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It's like, what the fuck? | |
| I just can't, man. | ||
| Like, you know, I'm not a Democrat. | ||
| I'm certainly not a Republican. | ||
| And that whole scene is just repellent to me. | ||
| Marge, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. | ||
| The only—somebody said this earlier today. | ||
| I think it was—I don't know who said it. | ||
| I want to give them credit. | ||
| I think Ali reposted it. | ||
| I don't know who posted it first, though. | ||
| But somebody on Telegram said, the GOP's exactly the same. | ||
| It just got less white and gayer. | ||
| And it's exactly right. | ||
| It's like, instead of, like, Rick Santorum delivering that response, or whoever, now it's a girl. | ||
| You know, and instead of giving a speech about, like, whatever, well now they're gonna do the thing about the Little Rock Nine. | ||
| The Little Rock Nine, by the way. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| So, and it's like, instead of Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, you get Marjorie Taylor Greene, and you get, and it's girls instead. | ||
| I'm sick of these rootin' tootin' girl power divorcees and their anti-big government, you know, Freedom Caucus, Chapter 2 bullshit. | ||
| I'm over it. | ||
| I agree more with Biden than with Sarah Huckabee Sanders. | ||
| Biden's speech was way better by far than hers. | ||
| And he supported abortion in the middle of it! | ||
| Not that I support abortion, but it's like, you know, that's about as offensive as it gets. | ||
| And his speech was still, resonated with me more. | ||
| And he, and I was on there at January 6th, and he was throwing, saying I attacked democracy, and I still like the speech better. | ||
| Then Huckabee Sanders talking about the patch on her freaking arm. | ||
| Crazy. | ||
| Just crazy. | ||
| so yeah yeah That response was horrible. | ||
| Why would they pick her? | ||
| And I love how she says, I'm the youngest governor. | ||
| It's like, you're 40, man. | ||
| You're like a 40-year-old, not-good-looking woman. | ||
| Did they think? | ||
| And she kept saying, like, it's time for a new... So canned. | ||
| It's time for a new generation. | ||
| A new generation. | ||
| He's the oldest president, I'm the youngest governor. | ||
| He's 80, I'm 40. | ||
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We need a new generation. | |
| Is this the message? | ||
| Is this the spokesperson that's gonna speak to the new generation? | ||
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I'm the fucking new generation. | |
| And I'm supposed to watch this speech by Sarah Huckabee Sanders about big government and our boys over there in Iraq? | ||
| And that's supposed to win me over? | ||
| Man, you know, I love Biden's speech about buying American, hiring American, producing semiconductors and chips and reducing the price of insulin and going after junk fees and not going to war with China. | ||
| But you know, Sarah Huckabee Sanders talking about our boys over there on Christmas. | ||
| And big government and Little Rock Nine. | ||
| And, you know, as a young person, as a fellow young person like her, that just resonated with me. | ||
| Biden's too old. | ||
| Sarah Huckabee Sanders is definitely, like, cool and hip and young and stuff, like me. | ||
| How out of touch can you get? | ||
| Like, who made that decision? | ||
| What idiot made that decision? | ||
| I'd like to know. | ||
| That was brutal. | ||
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all. | |
| And that was after they got raped in the midterms. | ||
| Like, think about it. | ||
| The GOP got raped in the midterms in 2018. | ||
| We got raped in 2020. | ||
| We got raped in 2022. | ||
| Really for like, there was no reason that any of that should have happened. | ||
| And then on their 23rd State of the Union, this is kind of like the first thing they could do since the Trump announcement to set the stage for the next cycle, and they trot out Mike fucking Huckabee's daughter. | ||
| Mike Huckabee, host of Huckabee on Fox News, who plays the bass guitar at the end of his show. | ||
| And they bring out his... | ||
| Field hockey. | ||
| Daughter. | ||
| Big girl. | ||
| They bring out the big girl to talk about our heroes! | ||
| Heroes! | ||
| Like them little blackfellas and our boys over there in Iraq. | ||
| This one goes out to our first responders and our boys in uniform. | ||
| Jeez. | ||
| The GOP is just turning into a gayer, blacker country music concert. | ||
| Back to the country music concert. | ||
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Back to the farm. | |
| Trump brought the GOP to New York, into the future. | ||
| Trump said, I live at the top of a gold and black palace in New York, and I'm rich and hot and cool, and I'm a celebrity and I'm famous. | ||
| And my apartment's made out of gold and we're gonna bring America to Mars and buy Greenland? | ||
| And they want, they're like, you know, they want to bring us back to the farm in Texas. | ||
| They want to bring us back to the ranch. | ||
| Back to a Kenny Chesney concert. | ||
| Jeez, so horrible. | ||
| Trump was such a blessing. | ||
| He was from New York! | ||
| He was cool. | ||
| He was from the north. | ||
| Enough with all this folksy, you know, My mama, my daddy, my daughter, our three kids. | ||
| Bruh. | ||
| Don't like it. | ||
| What do the comments say here? | ||
| Return to Ram Ranch, yup. | ||
| Trump brought us gay world order. | ||
| Shut up, dummy. | ||
| New York City breeds cool-ass people, absolutely. | ||
| Good luck in your city without farms. | ||
| Good. | ||
| I'm so glad you're mad. | ||
| Fuck you. | ||
| I love all the southerners are now getting mad at all the farmers. | ||
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Good luck in your city without our farms out here. | |
| Listen, you're cringe. | ||
| You're cringe. | ||
| You're lame. | ||
| Yeah, okay, you grow all the food. | ||
| Well, without us, it wouldn't be worth living. | ||
| It wouldn't be worth even having food to live. | ||
| Because there's nothing going on out there! | ||
| Except for being boring. | ||
| And smug and fucking annoying. | ||
| They're like, well, we just do things a little different around here. | ||
| Yeah, lamer. | ||
| Boringer. | ||
| More boring and lamer and cringe. | ||
| Bless your heart, them city slickers just don't understand. | ||
| Yeah, okay, pal. | ||
| I think you have a little cow shit on your fucking pants, so... I think the smugness is maybe unwarranted. | ||
| If you're covered in mud and poo. | ||
| Anyway... I love farmers, but just, uh... You know, listen, they gotta stop with it. | ||
| We can't... The farm thing is just not... | ||
| This, this, uh, hill people thing, it just isn't gonna work. | ||
| Like, we're, we're not gonna win as the hill people. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Nothing wrong with farming, nothing wrong with being a farmer, but, like, this hill people, you know, this smug, arms-folded, uh, you know, whatever, you know, it's just not gonna work, man. | ||
| We're living in the 21st century, pal. | ||
| That's your gal there, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. - Yeah. | ||
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Hero! | |
| Our heroes! | ||
| In Sunday school, Sunday, Sunday school, our heroes! | ||
| Seriously? | ||
| I'm voting for Biden. | ||
| I'm riding with Biden. | ||
| I'm riding with Biden now. | ||
| I'm with Paul Town on this one. | ||
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I love when you see the Paul Town stream when he was like, your trailer fucking your trash. | |
| That was a great stream. | ||
| That was hilarious. | ||
| That's a big reason why I love Paul Town because he's got the same like he's now he's from New York he thinks New York is better than anywhere so we disagree on that but but I respect it because like you know what New York is the biggest city it is the American metropolis it is the American mega megalopolis okay so I respect it He likes Jay-Z better than Ye, whatever. | ||
| But I love that about him, that he has an arrogance because he's from a big city and he knows people that kill people and stuff like that. | ||
| Sounds like Spencer. | ||
| Yeah, exactly. | ||
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Somebody says, holy shit, Dickie Spencer was right all along. | |
| You know, in some ways he might have been, actually. | ||
| He might have been. | ||
| Don't make me pick between Biden and Marjorie Taylor Greene. | ||
| Don't make me pick between Biden and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. | ||
| Please. | ||
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Please! | |
| Me and Sarah Huckabee Sanders have nothing in common. | ||
| I'm Catholic. | ||
| I'm from Chicago. | ||
| I'm an extremist. | ||
| I'm a reactionary. | ||
| I'm Italian. | ||
| I have more in common with Biden than I have with Sarah Huckabee Sanders. | ||
| Biden's Catholic. | ||
| He's from the North. | ||
| He's Irish. | ||
| He's a protectionist. | ||
| He has this, like, national pride. | ||
| He believes in big, efficacious government. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Like, I have more economy with Biden than I do with these rootin' tootin' types from Arkansas. | ||
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So... | |
| Same with Marge. | ||
| Sarah Huckabee Sanders would totally disavow me. | ||
| Because she's probably pro-Israel and all that. | ||
| Alright. | ||
| Let me take a look at the superchats. | ||
| We'll see what the superchats say. | ||
| That was hard. | ||
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That was a hard watch. | |
| Thanks. | ||
| Another hard watch. | ||
| And then I gotta go eat. | ||
| I'm hungry again. | ||
| I had this small sandwich for lunch. | ||
| I need more. | ||
| Let's find out. | ||
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All right. | |
| Alan Akbar says, you're my hero, Nick. | ||
| You have literally gone through hell just to give us the truth and I love you for it. | ||
| You're a real hero and I wish you the best. | ||
| White ass niggas going hard as fuck forever. | ||
| House niggas are included. | ||
| Hey, thank you very much, man. | ||
| Thanks for the big super chat. | ||
| I appreciate it. | ||
| I love you too, buddy. | ||
| Thanks for all the love. | ||
| Yeah, I did go through a lot of hell just to give you the truth and good content. | ||
| And it's all worth it. | ||
| I was thinking about that today. | ||
| You know, and I was thinking about other people who made other decisions and, you know, they prioritize the money or their career or their YouTube channel, whatever. | ||
| And it's like, we make money and we maintain channels and things like that to do this. | ||
| Otherwise, it's not even worth it. | ||
| If you had the money, if you had the YouTube, if you had all the things that are taken away from you, Without the message. | ||
| What's the point of it all? | ||
| Because if I, if I was not saying what I'm saying, if I wasn't doing what I'm doing, I wouldn't be having fun. | ||
| I wouldn't be having fun. | ||
| I wouldn't be true to myself. | ||
| I wouldn't be true to the truth. | ||
| And so what would be the point of it all? | ||
| I could never really enjoy it. | ||
| I couldn't even really enjoy the company. | ||
| I don't know that I can enjoy the company of people that are not doing that. | ||
| in public or private. | ||
| I don't know that I could enjoy the company of the people that never decided to watch this show or think about these things or have these contrary opinions. | ||
| The best thing about this thing is the company, is the people that you meet, because it's like the most interesting, smartest, funniest people are attracted to this. | ||
| I I mean, they're the ones that are touching the third rail. | ||
| They're the ones that are considered the pariahs. | ||
| They're the ones that are ostracized. | ||
| And very quickly, when you get away from the third rail, you just get all these really unremarkable people. | ||
|
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So... | |
| So yeah, I mean, it's been tough, but wouldn't have it any other way. | ||
| Alan Akbar says, the will of a single man can change the world. | ||
| Real. | ||
| Dr. Datz says, Joe Biden says he's going to replace all the lead pipes in America so children don't experience brain damage. | ||
| Pans to John Fetterman. | ||
| Wow, very funny. | ||
| Well, he actually had a stroke, so it's a little different. |
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