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are you happy with the state of our
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country I'm not I'm Rob Richardson
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engineer political activist and advocate
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for change I've spent the last two
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decades fighting for the average person
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this rupp scene is not a compromise
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let's shake things up a bit
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challenge the status quo and focused on
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what's really important to you
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welcome to disruptions welcome to
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disruption with Rob Richardson and my
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co-host Nicole Taylor we are here today
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to discuss Donald Trump is he the future
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or is he an accident history and let me
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just say I really hope it's the latter I
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really really do so how do we get here
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Trump's candidacy started on racism and
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that has to be said we have to really
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call it out because for too long we
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allowed him to entertain us we allowed
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this to go on and so when Trump at that
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time began his rise to begin his quest
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to become the 45th President of the
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United States he did so by attacking
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whether or not the President of the
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United States at that time President
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Barack Obama was even born in this
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country birtherism as it was called he
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put this he brought this back up and
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made it mainstream so much so that at a
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point at least 30% of Republicans
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believed that Barack Obama was not born
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as born in this country and then also
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believed that he was a Muslim not that
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that should matter by the way but they
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believed that he was a Muslim and they
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believed that he was not born in this
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country and that was believable because
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the media gave audience to it we
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empowered not we I didn't do it because
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I don't know any media so let's be clear
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not we but the media gave this power
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they gave it legitimacy and so it kept
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going most people thought it would be a
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joke people thought he had no shot but
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starting with birtherism and working his
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way up to questioning the questioning
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Mexican saying that a lot of them might
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be rapists going on to questioning
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Muslims putting them all together as
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terrorists and horrible people all
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this went unchallenged and even
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encouraged by many a campaign of hate
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the campaign is complete hate and most
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people didn't take it seriously they
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said he's never going to get there he'll
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never be President but here we are we
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find ourselves with President Trump and
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he used the tactics of division to get
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there and what's amazing and what's so
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amazing is that this president actually
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said that he was going to be a unifier
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he said that he would bring people
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together he said he was a unifier of
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people I don't know let's play a clip
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and see what you think we have a divided
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country foe we have a terrible president
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who happens to be african-american there
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has never been a greater division just
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about than what we have right now the
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hatred the animosity I will bring people
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together I'm going to bring people
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together
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you watch we're going to bring people
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together there has never been a greater
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division than when President Obama was
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president
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that's what Trump said there has never
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been a greater division I mean is he
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serious
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are you serious he's saying that we were
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more divided then I can comfortably say
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that we are more divided now that we
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ever work there are Republicans that
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think this dude is out of his mind he
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has his own party device he does he does
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he's a legend in his own mind no I got
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to tell you the mayor believes he's a
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unifier and I just don't know how he can
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reconcile that with what's actually
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happening what do you think I mean quite
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frankly you know Trump is a real
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character and I think just recently I
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guess he attacked a reporter and he's
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always been a bully he bullied his
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people he was going against to run for
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office and he bullied his way to the top
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attacks women say very - I grabbed Alina
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you know what and people still voted for
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him as you know it's not so much shame
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on him as it is shame on us yeah and and
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I was listening to his press secretary
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basically refusing to apologize he
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apologizes for nothing yeah basically
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saying he as we as an American people
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voted for it voted for it I didn't vote
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for it but I just I have a hard time
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understanding how people can reconcile
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reconcile any of this it started with he
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questioned John McCain's service in the
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in the military these used to be things
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that were aligned you couldn't cross
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right that everyone understood did he
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didn't stop there he then went on to
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question a gold star mother which is a
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gold star go star someone whose family
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member who died in a war he questioned
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them and we still went along who no tax
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cut or no policy should be worth your
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moral character and what I do not
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understand is how can you have a party
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that that focuses on Christianity talks
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about Family Values and this is their
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nominee this is their guy this is this
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is who you want to model yourself after
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this is who you want to show your kids
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like this is a great president you
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really can go and say and go to Bible
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study get up go and pray every night and
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say Lord make sure more of my kids are
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like Donald Trump I mean do you really
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can you really justify that and say that
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I'm a Christian I believe this but yet
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not speak up and allow this to go on
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allow this to happen every single day
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because it's not about a moral standing
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is about politics and for conservatives
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and you know about money through money
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and it's about when he says winning you
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know they care about winning and winning
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to them is having like you said total
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domination power so you can go in the
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back room and create a health care bill
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that doesn't really support and
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effectively help society but really help
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people like themselves and so it is
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beyond amazing what we're dealing with
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right now
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this country but uh when you talk about
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disruption Trump is a total disruption
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he is the disrupting our country and so
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the real question is what are we going
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to write what is what is the plan and
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and all disruption is not good
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disruption so I he you know when you
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talk about why should we care why does
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this matter
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this is why it matters because who the
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president of the United States is
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matters right Lex on who we are and it
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reflects on what happens to our country
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if we're actually going to be able to
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solve the problems if we're actually
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going to help people or we're just going
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to or is just going to be the worst
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reality show we've seen for the last
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four years and so far it's looking that
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way there has been nothing accomplished
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zero we've had over a hundred and fifty
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days there hasn't been a single piece of
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substantive legislation come out there
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has been nothing done to help all those
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people he said it would help not a thing
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all he does is seek to distract instead
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of actually doing something he does that
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for a simple reason he has nothing to
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talk about
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now he will and he's not accomplishing
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anything and so it's better to keep us
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distracted so we should disrupt anything
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we need to make him and the party feel
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extremely uncomfortable it's the
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pressure and it's the pressure on
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Congress um so we have to disrupt them
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and and I love what some people did as
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far as I did this have disabilities and
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they went straight to the White House
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and literally laid their bodies you know
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in the hallways I mean that was powerful
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and image is worth a thousand words and
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a million likes it that's that says a
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lot and so I think because the president
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doesn't have the absolute power he does
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need the Senate in the house so we have
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to use our leverage as voters and it has
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to be engaged there we're doing more
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than ever so if you're not calling your
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Congress men and women women and you
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know speaking out and stand abreast of
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what's going on not just nationwide but
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even statewide because there's a lot of
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things that's going on that they're
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trying to speak up under our noses as we
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speak you know so we have to stay on top
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of that I agree and as you think about
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what's happened there
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there we had a congressman Republican
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congressman shot nearly killed because
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of the heated rhetoric and you have a
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president that never takes any moment to
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not take a shot at somebody to not
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Ratchet it up to not make it more
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difficult
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his goal seems to be to be destructive
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to be divisive to be difficult mm-hmm
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I cannot point to one magnanimous moment
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from this president not one I can't I
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can't remember him ever saying I was
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wrong I should have done that right I
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can't remember him ever trying to work
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with someone that disagrees with them
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his goal is to try to discourage them
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not actually figure out a way to work
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together we cannot allow this to stand
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and so I want people to really pay
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attention and to not get mad for a
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second or a moment but really make it a
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movement that lasts and become engaged
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because it matters even if you didn't
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love who's running for office
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it matters every single office matters
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whether it's running for prosecutor
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which matters a lot running for judge
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which matters if we decide to check out
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and not get involved and we just handed
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the power to someone else and that's
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what we do too often in this country
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right that's how we got Donald Trump
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right we got Donald Trump because people
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say oh there's no difference between him
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and Hillary Clinton yes there's a
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difference is a difference clear
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definitely a clear difference and do i
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we wouldn't be going through half of the
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stuff we're going through now if we had
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a different president so we have to get
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people engaged and wake up but notice we
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have a president that is not going to
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slow down he seems to not be able to
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have any bit of humility not a bit so I
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just want to send a note out to our
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president and I hope you're a listener
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or the show if you're not
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hopefully you become one and you can
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listen to a little hip-hop this is this
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is a salute to you mr. president
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now Elmo
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sit down sit down
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be humble pull up pull up sit down no
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honey humble