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Rip up the engine, feel.
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The green on a shake from the base to the
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basis that weed's sake.
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Meet Dave Carter, a veteran of the fight Swamp dog
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tags for a mic, chasing stories in the night once
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and eight see and Wheeler rolling down those flowing rooms.
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Now we're spending tails like a rock star unload from
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Lousyanna swamps to the distance towards of duty.
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He's kind of cranky humor with the touch of raw beauty,
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steering through the memories both the dark and bight.
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With left her as his compass.
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He'll cut it through.
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The date on the day of show where the story's
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flow from battlefields highways.
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It's a wild loadio with the hard coverage and a
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grin on his face to.
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Think you want a journey through time and say.
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I'm Dave Carter and we are broadcasting from home base
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here on Florida's Emerald Coast in the Panama City Panama
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City Beach area. My wife and I just got back
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from a trip to the home country back in Louisiana.
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It was a good, good time to recharge, visit with
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mom and sis and all the kids, a lot of kids.
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It was great to do that, and it's great to
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be back all charged and radio. You know, I've noticed
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when I'm back home, Keith, you're listening into this. But
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when I've noticed whenever I'm home, if I go back
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to places that I'm really familiar with and kind of Acadiana,
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the Heart, Accage and Country and rain Brobridge, Lafayette, places
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like that, if I'm there for more than ten minutes,
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my accent comes back, and I sound like a bowl
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of gumbo. Oh, we're gonna we're gonna have a good time.
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Was we're gonna mess around and we have we have
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a party. He has some gumboat a balaya. Oh we're
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gonna pass a good time, and I sound like that
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without realizing it. Anyway, Guys, it's great to be back
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in the driver's seat here on the day of Carter program,
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and great to be back for some truly compelling conversation
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with great minds and interesting personalities. And our guest today
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has both of those qualities in spades. Keith Gross is
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coming up.
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No safe spaces, no sacred cows, just straight talk and
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savage labs. Welcome to the Dave Carter Show.
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So a couple of months back, we spoke with mister
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Keith Grosse, who is running to replace retiring Congressman Neil
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Dunn in the US House Representatives, where he will be
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representing Florida second Congressional district. He was raised here in
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the Panama City area in a single parent household. He
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literally put himself through college, law school, became a successful
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businessman and business owner, and now he's running to unapologetically
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represent regular folks here in the Florida Panhandle. And he
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joins us now, good morning, mister Gross, Good morning, Dave.
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God to be with you.
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That's great to have you here. You're and thanks for
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taking time to talk with us. You're a busy guy.
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You got my attention last time we talked, which was
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also the first time that we talked. When you explain
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that you're self funding your campaign, there aren't any moneyed
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interests funding you, so there's no puppet strings or anything
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like that. And you pledged to donate your congressional salary
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should you win, to local charities, which essentially means that
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you can't be bought, which is kind of an anomaly.
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Right now, I've seen you on billboards, commercial advertisement, social media.
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You're on ex Facebook, airport, radar, sonograms, and I even
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think I saw your likeness on a piece of toast recently.
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So you must be exhausted, man, How you holding up
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through all this?
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You know, we're definitely staying busy. But I have the
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drive to do this. I mean, I've gone from nothing
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to building national companies, and the sort of drive it
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takes to do that is the same sort of drive
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it takes to zealously represent such a large district. You know,
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the sixteen counties stretches, you know, more than three hours
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driving time if you're driving from one end to the other,
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and so trying to be everywhere is certainly a lot
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of time and effort, but it's worth it because you know,
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we deserve good representation here in the Panhandle. I can't
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fix everything wrong in Washington, but I can lead by example.
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And that's why I'm self funding. That's why I'm donating
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my salary because I think if we had five hundred
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and thirty five people in our Congress in Washington that
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would all do the same thing. Imagine how much better
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our country would look. So I'm going to do my
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part and lead by example.
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I love it. I love it. Now. I asked this
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question of our mutual friend Brian Rust about his campaign.
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So I'll ask this question to you. When you're talking
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with voters and hearing their ideas and concerns, Well, I mean,
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what are their concerns. What kinds of things are they
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specifically asking you to address if elected?
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Well, I think the biggest thing that's hitting all of
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us across the board is costs. Affordability is a problem
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for most families here in the northern part of Florida,
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but also.
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Across the nation.
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You know, the cost of goods has gone up dramatically,
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the cost of fuel, groceries, you name it, think cost more.
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Wages haven't gone up as fast as costs have gone up.
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And that sort of imbalance has been accelerating for decades,
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stretching back to the nineteen seventies when we opened our
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borders to China and really expanding since then. The offshoring
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of American jobs is killed American manufacturing and that's led
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to slow wage growth. Couple that with massive spending in
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DC which has led to massive inflation, and you've got
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the perfect storm. And we're living through that perfect storm
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right now, where wages are low and costs are high.
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The thing that we need to change quickly is the
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spending in DC, because that's what's driving inflation. We also,
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of course have to work to rebalance decades of bad
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foreign trade policy. President Trump's doing a lot of that
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right now. I mean, we don't like tariffs, No one
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likes paying tariffs, But what other tools are in the
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toolbox to rebalance for in trade when you're dealing with
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adversarial nations like China that back their industries with state dollars.
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Well, and tariff's also helped that. And Trump is has
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a big, given masterclass in this is tariffs can be
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used on the foreign policy front as well to coerce
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if you will, no to incentivize that's a better word,
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various competitors to behave, and on the international scene as well.
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Absolutely, I mean it's saved a lot of effort, a
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lot of time, and it's probably saved us some armed
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conflicts that Trump is so willing to use tariffs for
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the benefit of the American people. And that's what it
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all boils down to. We need more people who can't
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be bought. You know, President Trump donates his salary. He
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can't be bought. He's not there for the money. He's
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put to the point where he could comfortably retire, but
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he goes to work every day, working for the American
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people because he believes in our nation. I think if
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everybody woke up in the morning in DC and did
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the same thing, we would live in a better world.
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On that note, let's talk a few issues for just
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a moment, and then we'll wind our way back to
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the nuts and bolts of the campaign itself. Every now
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and then, out of mainly on my part, morbid curiosity,
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I'll listen to the prevailing narrative coming from legacy media.
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I call it a masochistic street, but I'll listen. I
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know that they're horribly disconnected from mainstream American opinion. But
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since you're in daily contact with a huge swath of
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mainstream American opinions, particularly here in the four Openian, he'll
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ask you, is there any correlation at all between what
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the folks are hearing from the legacy media and their
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evening news and what they're actually saying to each other
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into you in real life out on the trail.
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Well, I think if you watch the news, you'd think
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the whole world is in chaos. It's all burning down,
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and you can't go to Walmart without getting shot. The
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reality is America is a lot better than it looks
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on the news. And also we're not as divided as
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we seem to be on TV. You know, the far
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left is crazy, and then that gets accelerated in the
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news and amplified by the news media. Most Americans don't
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believe in these Marxist communist ideas that have become the
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basic talking point of every Democrat politician.
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It seems most Americans in the middle.
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You've got some people on each end of the spectrum,
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on the left and the right, but eighty percent of
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America lives somewhere in the middle where they just want
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to live a comfortable life. They don't want the government
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taking too much of their money. They don't want the
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government wasting money or sending it off to Somali pirates
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in Minneapolis. They want the government to do a good
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job and stay out of our lives. And that's what
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I'm hoping to achieve. Is my part in Congress has
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helped to reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
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Keep them out of our wallets, and keep them out
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of our lives.
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You know, the folks that you talk with each day.
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Are they able to tell the difference between a temporary
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spike in fuel prices the result of US denying nuclear
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weapons to a rabid group of seventh century throwbacks in Iran,
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and as opposed to the permanent spike in fuel prices
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that resulted from the previous administrations having crippled America's energy production.
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Listen to the legacy media, you'd think that distinction was
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lost in the viility of public Let's say you, I.
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Think most people, especially here in North Florida, back the
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President's operation in Iran because we know that paying a
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short term price to make sure that we don't have
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people in Iran possessing nuclear weapons. They've clearly stated that
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they wish to do harm to America them with a
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nuclear weapon would not be a good idea, and it
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would cost us trillions in the long run in extra defense.
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I mean, look at all the extra defense we have
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to do now, just because North Korea has a nuclear
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weapon on the other side of the globe. We have
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to spend untold dollars on missile interceptors and extra satellite systems,
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all because of that one crazy person with a nuke.
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The last thing we needed was another one. So President
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Trump's doing what should have been done nearly fifty years ago.
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He's solving the problem. And you know, short term pain
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is certainly frustrating to many. I don't like seeing gas
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prices and diesel prices, even as high as they are
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right now. But I think we would all agree that
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there's a price to pay, and if the price is
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worth it, you pay it. In this case, almost any
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price is worth depriving Iran of a nuclear weapon.
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Well, yeah, I look what they've done without a nuclear way.
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Look if they've flashed out at their friends or the
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people their neighbors, at least regionally, with whatever they could
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find to throw at them, and just a general tirade
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it seems when everything started. So yeah, you imagine that
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group I call them weird beards. Imagine those weird beards
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with a nuke. Oh my gosh, it would be ridiculous.
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Yeah, and it's it's sort of odd to see the
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Left defend literally anyone but America. You know, they defend
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Iranians and Palestinians and people that would certainly not do
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kind things to most Americans. They oppress women, They oppress
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pretty much everyone except the people that believe exactly as
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they do. And to see the left come out and
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support this is wild. It just makes no sense. I
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never thought i'd live in a.
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Time like this.
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No, it's it's surreal, it's real. And on that point
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of respect to the Democrat Party in the opposition, some
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people have called it the AOC wing of the party,
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a lot of Gadsad's formulation of her name Alexandra occasional cortex,
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that wing of the party. It seems like it's an
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entity into itself, but it looks increasing like it like
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it's defining the party. My favorite Senator John Kennedy from
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my homestate Louisiana, he recently heard a joke he told
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us about AOC in which someone asked her if she's
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a moron, and she said, no, she is not a moron.
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And furthermore, she's never even been to Utah and is
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not a part of that religion over there. But you
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have to wonder about a party whose most enthusiastic members
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literally staged a protest against ice agents and law enforcement
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on a Memorial Day, right the day that we set
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aside to honor our war dead, those who died defending
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the nation. The other out there attacking people who are
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defending the nation right now. I mean, do you have
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any insight on that or with that would Coorp acquire
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a lobotomy to figure it out? I'm not so sure
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I want to undergo the surgical procedure.
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You know, I think eighty percent of Americans don't understand
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what's happened to the Democrat Party, including half the Democrats
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now hold their nose and go with it. It seems
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so they're definitely to blame and they're part of the problem.
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But the left wing of the Democrat Party has taken over.
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They've become a party that doesn't believe in American sovereignty.