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around it. And if you said it that way, then you could go out and say we think strong family bonds are good. We think education, whatever you want to say. So you could say anything you wanted and it would sound unifying. It would also sound perfectly good for Republicans because you'd still say yes, we think the family unit should stay together. Yeah, we think God. Republicans would say yeah, that…

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nal sacrifice, something you don't want to do, it's a personal sacrifice and you do it for the purpose of protecting other Americans, what would you call that? What do you call it when somebody personally sacrifices for the benefit of other Americans? Patriotic. It's patriotic. I completely agree with Joe Biden.

Now if you disagree with that, let me reiterate, I'm not saying that you're wrong to go with that. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm not saying that you can't have a different opinion about the experts' opinion of whether it's good. Absolutely you can. I'm not saying that you should curtail your personal freedom just because other people think you should. I'm not telling you that. I'm giving you a personal opinion that if you sacrifice for the benefit of other people, and here's the important part, your sacrifice for the benefit of other people might not be guaranteed. Meaning that you may say to yourself I'm not a hundred percent sure this makes any difference at all, right? Because we can't be a hundred percent sure that it works, that mask works. The odds are good.

So what would you call it if you were even a little bit sure it made any difference? It was totally what you didn't want to do. It's completely a sacrifice and the only reason you're doing it is to protect other Americans. Patriotic. You are welcome to disagree. You're welcome to disagree and I won't even argue with you. It's just my personal opinion of that.

So I thought things were calming down for 2020. No, I didn't really think that. But last night Kanye decides that he's in the race. Yay, he's running now. All w

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e know so far is that he tweeted it and now we're starting to learn how practical or impractical that is because people who are smarter than I am are doing some googling and they're saying things like, somebody says wearing burkas is patriotic. Does that analogy, I think I have to respond to your bad analogies. Does that analogy make sense? You think of a burka and a medically required face mask t…

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