Ep. 20: Why Politicians Are Obsessed With Gay | Disney's Real Passion | Greg Palast on His Film, "Vigilante'

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The Army is changing the way it measures body fat on soldiers … to make sure that its force remains fit for duty. When a soldier’s weight is too much in relation to their height … the Army has relied on measuring the soldier and then using a complicated equation to determine if they have too much body fat. The measurements were taken at different locations for men and women .. and soldiers often complained that it was inaccurate. 

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One of the award presenters was up there and referred to “Ron DeSantis as the Imperial Wizard Oops, I mean the Governor of Florida”.

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If you live in Florida, or you intend to go, and you've already been cautioned not to go, because if you're an African-american, it is considered officially by the Naacp as

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unsafe. It may or may not be, but it is inhospitable, because the second you step there.

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If you walk onto school grounds and claim that your ancestors might have been inducted here, brought here in chains, and there was such a thing as slavery.

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That could be a third-degree felony, and if you're a teacher and you happen to mention it, you might go to the hoosegow; and worse what if you have a gay nephew and you bring it up somewhere on Campus, like in the cafeteria? Well, you could could be in handcuffs under this guy.

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Why not, or, better yet, have his private police force? The neo-nazis all over the State of Florida - literally planting swastikas on the property of a fortune 500 company, Disney, with the governor/presidential candidate’s name on attending signage.

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Just come in and beat you up you know. That's pretty effective, and possibly not illegal.

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We're still not sure how those things are going to work out yet, because it's not. Let's just say it's not illegal it might be unlawful, but with gunshows every other day who's to say so the fun is just beginning this guy wants to be your President he's banking on

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the fact that Donald Trump is going to go to the Slammer, which I don't think is going to happen, because if you open the door and you start putting presidents in the Slammer and holding them accountable, then nobody else is safe, and I mean the people under them like all the Senators… all

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the Congressmen, all the way down the food chain, everyone being held accountable.

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I mean, I'm getting hard thinking about that, but it's never going to happen, not in this country, in its current state.

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But we're going to get into that with the great Greg Palace down the road, in just a handful of minutes.

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