Mixing Politics with Mental Health

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Hey guys, welcome to today'sepisode.
The content today is going tobe quite a bit different than my

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normal content.
Today is going to be quite abit different than my normal
content.
Normally I try to tell somestories or elaborate on things
that have some kind of an impacton mental health whether it be
mine or someone else's mentalhealth and that or just general
conversation.
That's kind of the core of whathappens here.

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But something happenedyesterday and, despite
everything in me not to bringthis topic up, I just felt like
I can't help it up.
I just felt like I can't helpit.

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I've never wanted to put myopinion on political matters or
anything like that out in thesocial climate.
For obvious reasons, it can getquite confrontational and
unfortunately because of that itmakes it very hard for people
to talk openly in public aboutthose things, especially when

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people become so passionateabout it.
So today's episode is lessabout storytelling and I guess
you'd say more of a rant.
It's a rant basically becauseI'm tired of seeing what I'm

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seeing or hearing what I'mhearing, and unfortunately it's
around such a controversialtopic of politics and I
generally reserve that forprivate conversations.
However, I'm not alone in myopinion.

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Just about any social media app, you can see some creator going
online and talking about thingssimilar to what I'll be
discussing today.
So I'm not alone in it and Iknow that.
I just generally try to steerclear of it because of how

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controversial it can be.
So, keeping that in mind, andkeeping in mind that I also have
a day job that I have tomaintain, and keeping in mind
that I also have a day job thatI have to maintain, I'm going to
do my best to not let mycomments get too out of control.

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Like most, I can have a verypassionate response to things
that I experience.
Generally, I keep a cool headabout things, especially if it's
something that's right in frontof my face and causes danger or
whatever.
However, at this time, itaffects so many people that it's

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hard to it's hard to not bepassionate about it.
So I'm sure everybody's awareof what's going on right now.
In November, we had the election.
Donald Trump has been electedfor the next presidency.
He's going to be taking officehere in a few days and along

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with that comes the nominees forthe cabinet for him and then,
right after his nominees areannounced.
That's when all theconfirmation hearings start
happening in the Senate.
And the way I've alwaysunderstood these confirmation
hearings to be were they'resupposed to be an interview.

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Our Senate sits down with thenominee and asks them questions,
goes over their background,determines if they've got the
qualifications to hold thatposition that they've been
nominated for, determine ifthey've got the ethics or the
aptitude to be able to handlewhat comes with that profession

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or with that job title.
And it's always been myunderstanding that that's what's
supposed to happen.
And I've never been really intopolitics, so that limited
understanding that this wasbasically just a job interview
and the nominee is sitting infront of all of the bosses being

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asked questions by all of them.
That's my generalizedunderstanding of what this is
supposed to be.
Over the last several years,like I know a lot of others have
, I've gotten at least a littlemore interested in paying
attention to what's going on inpolitics.
And I will tell you, I'm notleft or right.

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I don't lean one way or leanthe other way.
I'm not hard left or hard right.
Quite honestly, I think thatthat's kind of a crappy stance
to take, to be one side or theother side, and I don't mean
that to say that you need to bea fence jumper and go back and
forth and, you know, flip yourum, flip your opinions on things

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based off of what one partysays or the other party says or
whatever.
What I mean is is I don'tbelieve you should be so
attached to a party that you letit guide your decisions.
And unfortunately, like so manyothers, I think that's exactly
what's happened and it's notanything new.

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It's happened long before now.
You know there's always beentalk of partisan decisions and
bias and things like that.
However, it really kind of hitme in the face yesterday because
I was listening to some of theSenate confirmation hearings on

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Pam Bondi the Senateconfirmation hearings on Pam
Bondi.
Pam's supposed to be the USAttorney General.
I think that's the job she wasnominated for.
She's been Attorney Generaldown in Florida for a long time.
She's got a long history.
Don't really know much abouther, just know that she was the
nominee.

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So I was listening in to hearhow the confirmation hearings go
and she was obviously chosen byDonald Trump to fill that role.
So the Republican-nominated,duly elected president or

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president-elect chose her tofill that role, which meant
obviously because we havepartisan lines and people stick
to those partisan lines.
The Democrat side of the aislewas not going to be happy and
the partisan line was veryheavily drawn in what I was
listening to, heavily drawn inwhat I was listening to and

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quite honestly, it wasinfuriating to listen to these
questions that were being asked.
And that's when the correlationbetween politics and mental
health kind of come to me,because I'm sitting there and
I'm listening to all of thesesenators ask these questions and
on the Democrat side of theaisle they're all asking the
exact same questions, likethey're just different
variations of it.
And if any of you have evertaken a mental health test, a

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psychological test, if you'veever taken a psychological test
for a job or anything like thata lot of times, one of the ones
that's used is the MMPI orMMPI-2.
I hadn't done research on thatin quite a while.
But one of the things they doduring these psychological tests
is a lot of questions.

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I mean, it's a ton of questionsthat you have to answer, but
one of the things that they dois they will ask the same
question repeatedly throughoutthe test in different spots and
in different ways ways, and thereason they do that is because
they're trying to see if you'regoing to give a different answer

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, as if maybe you've got ananswer prepared for a specific
type of question and rather thangoing off of your prepared
answer, they want to get to thereal answer, the one that's not
prepared.
So that's the reason for thatin that testing is to determine
you know whether or not you'retelling the truth when you're

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answering the question.
And that's what I heardyesterday when I heard these
Democrat senators interviewingPam Bondi.
That's what I heard.
They all wanted to keep talkingabout January 6th.
They all wanted to talk aboutif President Trump or

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President-elect Trump orderedher to go after his political
rivals, if she would do that.
I get asking those questions, Iget it.
You know, if I was a part of aparty that, for the last four
years at least, were constantlygoing after a man who wanted to

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become president and then hebecame elected, I too would
probably have a concern aboutthat.
And that's not to say whetheror not there was any validity
into the investigations or theprosecution attempts or anything
like that.
I'm not giving credit one wayor the other on that, but if I
repeatedly went after somebodyand all of a sudden, they were

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now in a position where the tidecould be turned the other way
valid or not, I'd probably be alittle concerned about what was
going to be happening.
So, okay, those are validquestions.
I got irritated with them beingasked or them asking the
question will you classifyJanuary 6th as an insurrection?

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What does that matter?
It's 2025.
That happened four years ago.
People are still sitting injail, they've still been charged
and they're waiting for thecourt dates.
Maybe some have take pleas, Idon't know, but that happened

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four years ago.
Why does that matter?
Why does it matter if Pam Bondi, who's going to be, or is
possibly going to be, the nextAttorney General, why does it
matter if she's willing to callJanuary 6th an insurrection or a
riot or a political uprisingWhatever you want to label it?

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Why was it so important forthem to harp on that?
And then they brought up thequestion on whether or not she
agreed with others saying youshould let those arrested during
January 6th out.
She had her answers for that.

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I guess I could kind of see that.
I can see the question beingasked once, maybe twice, but why
does every senator need to dothat?
Why does every senator need tobring up January 6th?
Why does every senator need tobring up?
Are you going to go afterpolitical rivals?

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There was even one senator andI don't remember which senator
it was, but there was onesenator who asked her if she was
willing to say that DonaldTrump lost that election.
The 2020 election, 2019-2020election.

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Why does that matter?
Why does that matter?
Why does it matter whether ornot the potential Attorney
General is willing to say thatDonald Trump lost an election
four years ago?
Why is that important?

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It's four years ago.
Four years ago.
Why does it even matter?
And these senators just keptbrowbeating her over and over
and over again with these samequestions.
And then they would bring upthings that she said I

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understood that part.
And then they would bring upthings that she said I
understood that part During thisyear, during this year, during
this time.
During that time, you said X, yand Z.
Would you care to give anexplanation on it?
Do you still feel the same waynow that you did?
Then those questions make sense.
But then the continued harpingon it.

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Then, on top of that, theywould ask questions, and then,
while she's trying to give ananswer, because she didn't start
out with whatever answer theywanted to hear, they'd
immediately cut her off,immediately start talking over

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the top of her.
That's a tactic to use incourtrooms.
I've witnessed it.
I've experienced it.
I've experienced it duringdepositions.
You get asked a question andthen the next thing you know,
the person that's asking thequestions is stepping all over
you and not giving you a chanceto answer because you're not
giving them the response theywanted.
And that's entirely what it is.

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I don't care if they want toclassify it as anything else.
You're not giving them theanswer that they wanted.
Ergo, they're going to continueto talk over you.
And even when she would answershe would say, okay, well,
that's a non-answer would answer, she would say, okay, well,
that's a non-answer.

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So it doesn't matter what shesays.
It literally doesn't matterwhat she says.
And this isn't to say that Isupport Pam Bondi, because,
again, I'm not supporting or notsupporting her.
Just wanted the informationbecause, unlike so many others,
I don't sit staunchly on oneside of the aisle or the other

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side of the aisle.
I follow my conscience ondecisions.
I follow my conscience onthings that are being brought to
me no-transcript.

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And while I'm sitting therelistening to this.
Don't take this as mebrowbeating Democrats, because
that's not it, because what Iheard from the Republican side
was grandstanding.
They're not asking her anyquestions, no real questions.
They're asking her softballquestions that they already know

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the answers to, and I get it.
She was nominated by DonaldTrump, who won the Republican
ticket and is thepresident-elect.
Give her the softball questions.
Let's get her through, not giveher a chance to say anything.
That can mess it up.
I don't agree with that canmess it up.

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I don't agree with that.
They took the time tograndstand and give these long
speeches while asking softballquestions and you don't gain
anything from that.
This thing's being broadcast forthe American citizens to see.
It's for us to be educated onit as well.
What am I learning from youasking softball questions?

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What am I learning about mypotential next attorney general?
If you're going to grandstandand want to browbeat the
Democrats which some of thebrowbeating I was OK with
because they were browbeatingthem over the crap that I'm
talking about now they werebrowbeating them over asking the
same questions or not lettingher answer.

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I was okay with them bringingthat up.
I'm okay with them pointing outthat fact, but don't follow
that stuff up with softballquestions that doesn't allow you
to learn anything about thenominee.
If you're not learning anythingabout the nominee, then how do
you know whether that person isactually fit to fill that role?

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How do you know that person isgoing to sit in that role and,
talking in terms of the attorneygeneral, how do you know that
she's going to sit there andethically handle these cases
that come before her, make theright decisions based off of
those cases?
If you're not asking thequestions for it, you're asking

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her pre-prompted questions thatyou already know the answer to
because it falls on the partyline and you don't learn
anything.
It's like no one did theirresearch into what she did.
Up until that point.
They didn't go and do researchto find out how she handled
certain cases and if they did,it may have been one or two

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questions, but I didn't get tolisten to the whole thing.
Nor would I have listened tothe whole thing Because it was
that bad.
It was that horrible to listento because it was so staunchly
drawn between partisan lines theDemocrats that I heard all they
wanted to do was browbeat.
All they wanted to do was tryto demean her and you're not

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learning anything from that.
You're not learning anythingfrom browbeating and demeaning
an individual who's there tointerview for a job.
She had some responses that Ithought were very appropriate.
One of the senators startedtrying to ask her questions and
she said Senator, I wish youwould have taken the opportunity

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to speak with me earlier thisweek or last week, but you
refused to speak to me.
Now.
Do I 100% agree with them allsitting down and having
conversations leading up to thatpoint?
Maybe I don't know, but shepointed out look, a lot of the
things that you're trying totalk about now we could have

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already discussed, but no, thesenator waited until it was
broadcast on national media,broadcast across the airwaves
for the radio and TV, and thenwanted to browbeat her and
demean her For no other purposeother than partisan lines,
because not a single Democratthat was going along at least

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during the time frame that Icould listen to, not a single
one was willing to sit there andask an honest question.
They all got a script and it wasworded differently.
At least that's how it came off, worded differently, and as
soon as you start to answer,that's a non-answer.

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That's a non-answer, but you'rerefusing to answer.
Here's a hypothetical situation.
I'm not going to comment on ahypothetical situation.
I don't disagree with that.
Commenting on a hypotheticalsituation can open up a lot of
bad doors, but she didn't wantto answer those.
That's a non-answer.
That's a non-answer.

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You know, in particular, one ofthe topics talking about going
after political rivals.
I distinctly remember hearingDonald Trump during an interview
.
I think it was where he said hewasn't interested in going
after his political rivals.
He was interested in fixingwhat he thought was broke.
But I guess we'll just ignorethat.

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We'll ignore that, just likeall the other times when he was
asked so many questions and gaveanswers to those questions.
But then they want to turnaround and browbeat him and say
he's never answered thosequestions, or they want to
accuse him of something anddespite all the evidence that
says otherwise.
Well, we'll pick and choosewhat we want to believe.

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Again, I'm not saying I supporthim or don't support him.
I'm just saying you're nottreating people the same.
The Secretary of Defense,secretary of State, the one that
was doing the Senateconfirmation hearing on Monday,

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peter something I think it'sPeter they were not prepared to
actually ask him any realquestions.
Elizabeth Warren come in andsaid something about him being a
general and he had to tell herma'am, I'm not a general.
Why, why even bring thatquestion up if you're not going

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to do the research to find outwhat the man's actual rank is?
But that's the crap that I'mtalking about.
And the reason why I drew thisconnection to mental health with
all this is, I noticed how itmade me feel.
You know.
The repetitive questions thatwere exactly the same, just

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worded differently reminded meof the MMPI test.
The way that they were drawingpartisan lines so hard made me
think back to all the contentcreators and news media that

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I've heard where they talk abouthow these people are drawing
political lines or partisanlines, how they're making sure
that they stay on board and inline with the partisan agenda.
And yet here we are, asAmerican citizens, sitting back,

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and these are the people thatrepresent us.
These are the ones that we'resupposed to sit there and listen
to and trust that they'reguiding our country in the right
way and they're representingour best interests.
For those that are old enough toremember the last 10 to 12

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years, think about how muchtrust you have in our government
anymore.
How much trust you have in ourgovernment anymore.
I'm not trying to draw anagenda or anything like that,
because I want to support mygovernment.
I want to trust that mygovernment is doing what's best
for this country, but I don'thave a problem saying that the

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faith that I have in mygovernment is weaker now than it
was 10 or 12 years ago, because, instead of our politicians
going up and representing theirconstituents, instead of them
going up and making decisionsthat's going to be best for this

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country, instead of that, whatwe see is them going up there
and pushing partisan agendas.
We see them going up there andmaking decisions that don't have
Americans in mind at all.
They claim it does, but it'sall about one agenda or another.

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Think about all the differentthings over the last 10 to 12
years that the American peoplehave had shoved down their
throat and been told that youhave to accept this as normal
and if you don't, there'ssomething wrong with you.
I'm not going into specifics onthis stuff, but think about it.

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The last 10 or 12 years, ourgovernment has come to the
American people and said youropinions are irrelevant.
This is what is right.
This is what will be done.

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Last time I checked, politicianswere put in office by our votes
.
If you're one of those peoplethat didn't show up to the polls
, I don't even want to hear it.
I'm sure it doesn't make adifference what my vote is blah,
blah, blah.
Maybe not?
Okay, let's give some credenceto your theory that your vote

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doesn't actually count.
You don't even try.
You don't even give way to thethought that maybe you're wrong,
maybe your vote actually doesmatter, because I'm willing to
sit back and give way to thethought that, while I think my

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vote matters, I'm willing togive way to the thought that
maybe it doesn't.
But you know what?
I'd rather try, and it meannothing than do nothing, and it
would have meant everything.
So I don't want to hear thestatements of you know my boat
don't count.
That's why I don't go to thepolls and vote.

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Okay, then don't have an opinionabout what happens in this
country.
If you do have an opinion,don't bother sharing it with the
rest of us, because you're notgoing to put in the effort, like
the rest of us, to try to makea difference.
Don't want to hear it.
I literally don't want to havea conversation with you Now.

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If you're willing to beopen-minded and have a
conversation, that's a differentstory.
But being closed-minded, nah,I'm not.
I don't have time left in mylife to do that.
I don't have the time nor theinterest left in my life to
entertain somebody who's willingto be a stonewall on something

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it's pointless Happened withsome co-workers the other day.
We were having a conversation.
One of them made it abundantlyclear that they were not open to
any form of interpretation ofwhat they felt or thought about
something.
I walked away from theconversation or thought about

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something.
I walked away from theconversation.
Walked away from it because whywould I continue to sit there
and engage in a conversationwith someone who's not willing
to be open-minded?
That maybe, just maybe, they'renot right.
I'm willing to sit there and dothat.
I know I don't know everything.
I'm willing to sit there and dothat.
I know I don't know everything.
You know how hard it is for meto talk about politics Because

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I'm not politically smart.
I don't study enough of it toknow enough about it.
I'm an average guy out heretrying to earn a living in my
life for my family and providefor us and, in some small effort
, trying to make society better,trying to do my part to help
someone out.
That's what I know, but yetthat's not what we get in return

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.
So this whole thing of partisanlines and toe in the, the party
agenda, I just I see what statethat our country is in and I can

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only think that one of thereasons why we've got so many of
the problems that we've got isthat exact reason.
Again, I'm not siding with theRepublicans, I'm not siding with
the Democrats, because both areequally guilty at towing the
party line.
Both are equally guilty of notwanting to work with the other

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for the betterment of thiscountry, because that's not what
the Republicans want, that'snot what the Democrats want.
So we're not going to work withit.
We're going to shut thegovernment down.
We're going to do this, we'regoing to do that Meanwhile,
while they're being careerpoliticians.
Meanwhile, while they're beingcareer politicians, those of us

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out here working to earn moneyand take care of this country
who are actually doing thephysical work we don't have a
voice.
At least that's how it feels.
Instead, what we wind upgetting is a bunch of people

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talking out the sides of theirmouth.
We get a lot of politiciansthat want to wait until there's
a camera in front of them andthey want to say the right
things.
I'm doing this for myconstituents.
I'm doing this for the X numberof thousand people in my
district back home.

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I'm doing this for America.
I'm doing this for blah.
Are you?
Are you?
Are you?

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I don't think so, not anymore.
At least I'm not saying everypolitician, I'm not saying
everybody in DC.
Far more than should be.
You know, I listen to far morethan should be.
Now, I listened to part of theSenate confirmation hearing, for

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I guess I think he was it's theSecretary of Defense, secretary
of State, I don't know whichone, it is Peter, something, one
of the things they brought up.
I'm guessing at some point hehad an extramarital affair, had
something going on in his lifethat morally, is unacceptable.

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I was glad to see at least onesenator speak up and point out
the fact that he's a human andhe's not perfect.
I was glad to see this onesenator say that he also was not
perfect, because during thesehearings and we saw it during

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one of the Supreme Court judges'confirmation hearings, we saw
it then they wanted to attackthis person morally, ethically.
Now get, bring it up.
You're going for one of thesetop tier positions, and

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Americans are expected to trustyou and believe in you that
you're doing the right thing.
Question it.
They didn't say hey, we knowyou had a moment in your life

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where you made this unethicaldecision, this immoral decision.
What's changed now from then?
That's a perfect opportunityfor that individual, that
nominee, to give a response, toshow how they've grown and
changed, how they used theforgiveness they were given and

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made the necessary changes intheir life, how they overcome
whatever it was.
Yet those senators will sit upthere and they'll point fingers

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and browbeat, demean theseindividuals as if they
themselves are imperfect orperfect, when they're far from
it.
Go on any of the social mediaTikTok, facebook, instagram,
youtube.
Start searching politicianscaught driving drunk,
politicians having affairs,politicians doing this,
politicians doing that the sameexact things that they're

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pointing fingers at thesenominees and waving their finger
and shaming them on nationaltelevision, national radio the
same thing that they're shamingthem for those individuals are
equally guilty of.
Yet they were elected.

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They're holding their chair.
Oh no, not us.
This glass house that we livein is perfect when it's anything
, but it's sickening.
It's sickening to see how theseindividuals are.

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It's sickening to see how theytreat other people and then
we're supposed to sit here andlisten to them and think that
they're making the bestdecisions for us, because we
know they make mistakes.
They're human beings just likethe rest of us.
Because we know they makemistakes.
They're human beings just likethe rest of us.

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There's nothing special aboutthem.
They have a job title, theywere elected into a position.
They make a ton more money thanmost of us, but there's nothing
special about them.
They're human beings, just likethe rest of us.

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They wake up, eat breakfast, goto work, maybe Come home, eat
dinner, go to bed Just like therest of us.
Just like the rest of us, justlike the rest of us.
And yet they sit there and actas if they don't make mistakes.

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They sit there and act as ifthey're perfect and that the
rest of us should just bow downand be thankful for what they

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give us.
I just I don't get it.
I don't get how you could situp there and shake your finger
at people.
Quite honestly, if I was everasked not that I would, but if I
was ever asked to sit in one ofthose positions, there's no way
I'd do it.

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I can't say that I would everwant to do that job.
I'm willing to answer for themistakes I've made in my life.
But what I'm not willing to dois be humiliated and shamed for
everyone to see by people whoare equally as flawed as I am.

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I'm not willing to do it.
It's not worth it.
It's a paycheck.
I'll get out here and break myback doing something else,
because I'm not going to bejudged by people who are flawed

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like that, who are willing tosit there and sit on these
committees and these boards andknow the direction our country
is about to go and then starttrading stocks that's going to
benefit them.
I'm going to talk aboutunethical.

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If I'm not mistaken, marthaStewart went to prison for it.
It wasn't for very long.
She went to prison for insidetrading.
I guess our politicians expectus not to see that.
Good on them for making money.
I want you to lift someregulations so the rest of us
could maybe make some money thesame way.
Good on them for making money.
I want you to lift someregulations so the rest of us

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could maybe make some money thesame way, since it's okay for
you, but it won't happen, won'thappen.
They knew these decisions werecoming, but they're going to sit
there and do it anyway.
Don't believe me.
Do your research.
Do some research on thepoliticians that are sitting

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here trading stocks based off ofdecisions they know that are
coming out of the Senate, thatare coming out of our government
.
Again, I don't care that theygot money.
There's plenty of people aroundme that have money.
I don't mean, oh well, we payour bills.
I'm talking about people thatgo you're looking at buying a

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car wrong because you're lookingat a monthly payment as opposed
to just looking at the totalprice.
Those are people that Iconsider got money, because when
I'm going to buy a car, I'mtrying to get the monthly
payment where I can afford it.
People that got money don't dothat.
People that are smart withmoney don't do that.
I'm not them.
I got plenty of people withmoney around me.

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It doesn't bother me, but let'swave our finger and shame
others for doing the exact samething.
You know, I've got a rule in myjob and it's a personal rule
for myself.
I will never take actionagainst someone for something

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I'm going to do myself or that Iwill do myself.
I'm not going to do it If I'mrunning radar, if somebody's
running over the posted speedlimit and I know that I am
guilty of running over theposted speed limit to that level
.
Guess what?
I'm not writing them a ticketfor it.

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It's a little hypocritical.
It's hypocritical.
I'm not going to do it Becauseat the end of the day, I'm the
one that's got to look at me inthe mirror.
I've got to be happy with whatI'm doing.
But that's not what we'regetting from up there.
That's not what we're gettingfrom our politicians.

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What we're getting from upthere, that's not what we're
getting from our politicians.
What we're getting from them isthe I don't even know the right
words to put it the holier thanthou, the mightier the better.
Again, it's both sides of theaisle.
This isn't partisan here.

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It is both sides of the aisle.
Republicans and Democrats alikedo the same thing and I know
how it's affected me over thelast 10 to 12 years, and I know

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how it's affected me over thelast 10 to 12 years and I like
to think I'm a pretty rational,pretty rational, reasonable
person, but not everybody's likeme, and when I sit there and
see what they're doing and Iknow how it makes me feel the

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emotion that it draws out of meI can only imagine what it's
done to others.
There's a reason why there areso many content creators that
are getting millions of viewsbecause they're getting online
and bashing our government.

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You'll even hear theRepublicans talk about it.
There's a reason why Donald JTrump was elected president
again Because the Americanpeople were tired.
Maybe so, maybe.
So the American people weretired, maybe so, maybe so.

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Maybe they just thought he wasa better candidate.
I'll be the first to tell you.
I'm not making a claim one wayor the other about Donald Trump,
but what I will say is I can'tstand to sit there and listen to
him do an interview.
I can't stand to listen to himdo an interview.
I can't stand it because I gettired of all the.

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It's the best thing ever.
It's the best thing that's everbeen made.
No, it's not.
This is the greatest.
Everyone I've got everyonetelling me they love it.
No, you don't.
No, you don't Stop it.
Just say what it is and be goodwith it.
You don't got to add all theextra stuff.
If you have to sit here anddescribe it, it's the greatest,

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greatest thing, since thegreatest things were great.
If you got to sit there andtell me that I'm not going to
believe you.
I'm going to think that you'refull of it and you're blowing
smoke up my butt and you'retrying to get me to also believe
that the greatest things aregreater, since the greatest
things have been great.
So don't think for a secondthat my comments have anything

(43:17):
to do with I'm supporting oneside or the other.
They're all flawed and ourgovernment has gotten to the
point that I wonder how muchsupport they actually have from
those that aren't sitting theredrawing partisan lines.

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How much support do theyactually still have from the
regular Americans who don't carewhat the Republican Party
thinks, who don't care what theDemocrat Party thinks.
All they care about is how muchgroceries are going to cost,

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how much gas is going to cost,how much taxes are going to come
out of their paycheck.
Do they even care if they stillhave that support?
I know they do during elections, but do they even care if
they've got that support duringthe time between?
Because you don't see it untilit comes time for an election,

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at least out of many, becauseyou don't see it until it comes
time for an election, at leastout of many.
You know, in getting ready totry to make this record and I
was trying to do some research.
Like I said, I'm notpolitically smart.
There's a lot of things aboutpolitics that I don't know, so I

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was trying to do my research onit.
So I didn't get on here andsound just like a blubbering
idiot on talking about politics.
I don't think I did very goodat not sounding like an idiot.
But either way, and while I'msitting there doing this
research, I did go over to AI torun a couple of statistics and

(45:04):
some other things by it, and oneof the things that it said is
would you like to discuss waysto make a difference?
I got ADHD guys.
It was real easy to go off downthat little rabbit hole and
start looking at that.
And it's, you know, work, worklocally.

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That's where you're going tomake changes at.
I want to agree with that, butthe federal government came in
not too long ago and said thatconcerned parents were domestic
terrorists.
What it was small town, usa orwhatever city it was.

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They were disagreeing with theBoard of Education and concerned
parents are being labeledsomething by our federal
government.
I'm sorry.
I thought we had the right tobe concerned over what our
children were being taught.
I thought we had the right tohave an opinion on how our

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children were raised.
Not in that situation, and I'lladmit there may be some nuances
there that I don't know.
There may be some nuances therethat are just above my
knowledge and all I got was thepropaganda partisan feed.
It's possible, but I know thatin any case, where the federal

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government is deciding that theyneed to interject in a small
town's or any town's board ofeducation, that's a stretch,
guys.
That's a stretch.
I thought states had the rightto make decisions for what's
best for their state.

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I don't know, man, I don't knowI, I don't know.
I'm sitting here looking at thesuggestion that AI is making
for how to make a difference andI'm not seeing it.
I'm not Talk to yourrepresentative.

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Start locally.
It needs to be a systemicchange.
I agree it needs to be asystemic change.
I agree it needs to be asystemic change.
I also think that maybe thecitizens need to stop worrying
about what party somebody's inwhen they're taking their votes,
when they're casting that vote.
Stop listening to what peopleare saying during the election

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trail or on the election trailand watch what they're doing.
I tell people all the timewords mean nothing.
Actions mean everything.
I can tell my wife that I loveher every day, every hour, but

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unless I back that up withsomething, they're just empty
words.
If a politician is going totell me that they love this
country and they love the peoplethat they represent, back it up
, and if you don't, don't putthem in office.
I know that's a pipe dream, butthink for one second.

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I'm going to vote for somebodythat I don't support.
Just because they're aRepublican doesn't mean I'm
going to vote for them.
Just because they're a Democratdoesn't mean I'm going to vote
for them.
Just because they're a Democratdoesn't mean I'm going to vote
for them.
I could care less about yourpolitical party.
I care more about the contentof your character and the things

(48:56):
that you do to actually helppeople.
I'm not alone in this.
I've seen far too many peoplehad far too many conversations.
No, I'm not alone in that.
I don't think the federalgovernment needs to be in
everybody's house.
I don't think the federalgovernment needs to try to
dictate how someone raises theirchildren.

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I don't think the federalgovernment needs to try to steal
every dime they can from theAmerican citizen.
I should probably stop, becausenow I'm starting to get off
onto an area where I can getmyself in trouble.
We've got a problem, guys.

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We got a problem guys.
We've got a problem in ourpolitics and in my opinion it
has wholeheartedly affected themental health of everyone in
this country.
Wholeheartedly believe thatBecause you've got average

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citizens that aren't willing tohave conversations with someone
who is of a different politicalparty, who sides with a
different political party.
How messed up is that?
That's where we've gotten to inour country.
That's where we have, otherthan saying it at the polls when

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we vote.
I don't know how to fix iteither.
So yeah, so yeah.
Sigh, I think that's about allthe ranting I want to do on that
, but if nothing else, it's foodfor thought.

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It's food for thought foranybody else, because now I've
got to go back and figure outhow I'm going to deal with it.
I've got to figure out where Ican try to make a change.
I've got to figure out where Ican try to start to make a

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difference so that maybe one day, maybe after my grandkids'
grandkids are dealing with it,maybe we'll get back to a time
where politicians actually wantto represent the will of the
people and not their own, Idon't know.

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Anyway, I appreciate y'alllistening to me, those of you
that have sat here and listenedto the live and interacted with
me, those that you know aren'tgoing to hear this until after
it's post-production and put out.
I appreciate you giving me yourtime.

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I appreciate the opportunity tovent, if you will.
I welcome your comments.
I welcome your interaction.
Know ahead of time.
If you choose to interact andyou're trying to argue, I'm not
going to argue.
I'm willing to have a to argue.
I'm not going to argue.
I'm willing to have adiscussion, but I'm not going to

(52:26):
argue.
It's pointless.
If everybody's screaming, thennobody's hearing what's being
said.
So I welcome it.
I want the conversation.
I want us to do better as awhole.
I want us to do better as acountry.
Partisan sides outside.
I want us to do better as awhole.
I want us to do better as acountry.
Partisan sides outside.
I want us to do better.

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There's far too many people inthis country that could use some
real help for us to be fightingamongst ourselves.
That's just my opinion.
Thanks, guys.
Bye.