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rest of the world and warn us about it and tell us where to do business and where not to do business. That's exactly what they should be doing. I want more of that, not less. Now if they told me not to do business in a place that didn't have any reason not to do business, then I would say, oh well, that's inappropriate. I want to do business with this country. You don't have any good reasons. Don…

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rns that down without talking to the boss? Do you believe that? Do you believe that DeSantis's staff turned down an invitation to The View in very news-making language without checking with him? It's possible. It's possible because bureaucracy in big companies and blah blah. It's possible there's something. But I would probably fire that staff. No, no, no, no, no. Somebody's saying that's a smart staff. No, no, no. You have to fire them. He should fire them because they made a decision that was his decision and that wasn't theirs to make because he may have played it differently, right? He may have said, you know, this is one time that I might want to go into the belly of the lion. I'm strong enough now that I can survive that. I'm quick enough that I can make this work. I think they took that option away from their boss and they should be fired for that.

Like if somebody did that to me I'd at least demote them, whoever made the decision. Can you imagine having, would you put up with the risk of that happening again if your employee made that decision for you and presented it as your decision and did it flamboyantly? It's the flamboyant part that's cause for termination. Yeah, if you make a decision on my behalf flamboyantly without checking with me, oh you're so fired. You're so fired.

How many people who have ever managed employees would agree with me that that's a firing offense? I want to see if anybody agrees. Now you'd have to take the entire situation into effect, so I'm oversimplifying it. It's not the only variable in play. But if it were the only variable in play, that's a firing offense. Yeah, I guess some of you agree with me.

So I think we can all, there's no inconsistency. You can like DeSantis and still say maybe that was a staffing problem. You know, it's not like there's anybody at his level who doesn't have staffing problems. I mean I say the same thing about Cuomo. Yeah, I think Cuomo took a lot of heat for maybe a staff mistake about the nursing homes. I get he may be the one who signed off on it, blah blah. But he was advised. Somebody presented him the option. I just think everybody has staffing problems. I'm not sure exactly how much you can assume is the top boss's actual problem or they caused it.

So here's a question that I want all of you to start asking your Democrat friends just for fun, just for fun. The question is, if you could rig the, if you believed, let's put it in, I'll just paraphrase it. If you believed a racist were coming into office for the presidency and you believe this was definitely a terrible racist and you had the option of rigging the election, let's say you're in a position to do so, if you had the option of rigging the election to keep a known racist out of office, would you do it? And if you say no, that you wouldn't do it, what the hell is wrong with you? Are you a coward or are you not a patriot?

Because I would. Let me say it as clearly as possible. If there was somebody running for president who was a confirmed known racist, or I believed it to be true, I mean I could be wrong but let's say I believed it to be true because I'd accepted what the news told me, if I believed it to be true and I was in a position to stop that person from coming to office, pretty sure I'd do it. Especially if I thought I had a chance of getting away with it, right?

Now you know we all like to think that we would have shot Hitler if we had a chance, but you know people aren't that brave really. I feel like if I could get away with it and I could stop a racist from coming to office, I feel like that would be the patriotic thing to do. I remind you that we are a nation of laws created by the biggest law breakers the world has ever known. So do you do what they say or what they did? Because the founders were the biggest law breakers. A revolution, a revolution's about as hard as you can break the law. You can't break the law any harder than that. We were created by law breakers. That's our DNA.

And our DNA says completely clearly, correct me if I'm wrong, if you're an American, reread your own DNA. Doesn't your DNA say follow the law totally, follow the law, unless things go too far and then break the law, right? Nobody says that directly but it's in your DNA. Everybody follow the law unless there's some like weird situation that just has gone too far and then you pick up your rifle if you need to. You break the law. You cheat. You do what you need to do. Like you're not protected from the obligation to protect your country because there's some legal way that the other team is doing it. Your obligation to your family, your country doesn't go away in a real emergency. That doesn't go away because there's some law in the way. No, the law is the least important thing if you have a genuine emergency. The genuine emergency says do what makes sense. It doesn't, a genuine emergency doesn't say do what is legal. It's the opposite. A genuine emergency says always do what makes sense, period. No, you never get out of that side of that. Or you're in trouble.

So I feel like that's a fair question to Democrats. If they didn't cheat in 2020 under their belief that Trump was literally some kind of a

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racist white supremacist dictator monster, if they didn't cheat they need to explain that. And if they're not willing to cheat in 2024 they need to explain that. Why they're not on the side of the country right now. They might be mistaken in their beliefs. I believe they are. But they're not acting on their beliefs in a way that you would even imagine could be slightly patriotic, slightly positive…

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