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hen they would have had to do it if it was ordered. What choice did they have? Why would you fire somebody for following an order, you know, unless those generals knew it was an illegal order and the country wasn't treating it like it was illegal? So certainly there are some people at the top who need to be replaced. I feel confident in saying that. I don't know that you need to go all the way thr…

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't get? For example, Joe Biden, I don't believe could get a job as a babysitter. You know what I mean? I don't think he could. How about Kamala Harris? Could she get a job as running your AA meetings? Probably not. Probably not. Could Kamala Harris get a job that required a drug test? I don't know. Good question. Could Kamala Harris get a job as the head of the FBI? Again, I'm pretty sure you'd have to pass a drug test. Vice president and president didn't have to pass any drug test, right? So I don't know. Just suspicions. I don't have any proof that she does any drugs.

All right, so that's a fun game. What you could not be hired to do. Hugh Hewitt is saying that maybe the Gaetz nomination is some kind of 4D chess. You ever heard that before? That Trump and Gaetz may be running a play and the real purpose of it is to get Gaetz out of his ethics probe. So he's under an ethics investigation in the House. They haven't completed it. But since he's resigned and he resigned under the cover of nomination for AG, that they would naturally drop the investigation. Although there's some thinking that the paper might be released but it wouldn't be binding on anything because he wouldn't be a member at that point.

So what do you think of that? Do you think that the whole thing was a clever plan to simply avoid him being covered by that proceeding? And do you think that, well I think it could be just one of the benefits. I think that genuinely Trump would feel more comfortable with his most loyal hellraiser in that position. So if it's not, if he doesn't want Matt Gaetz in that position, then my question would be who's better? Who are we going to see that would be a better choice? Now there definitely, you could get somebody who would be less controversial. So that's easy. And less controversy is worth something, right? That's not nothing. So you know indeed he could get somebody less controversial. But could he get somebody who he would trust more, who would more likely pull the weeds out by the roots than Gaetz? I don't think so. He might actually. He's very high on my list as first choice. So we'll see. It could be that he wants him as AG. It could be that it also solves the problem of the ethics thing. Could be. But let me say this as unambiguously as possible. I don't care what Matt Gaetz did as a single man. Some of the things he's being accused of, you know, it would be, you could say oh I wish he hadn't done that or he shouldn't brag about his success with the ladies. Yeah, okay. I don't care. You, I mean I could agree with you that maybe less of that would be better. But I don't care and you can't make me care about his sex life.

Now there's allegations that there was something illegal that I'm not even going to mention. But he's not being brought up on any legal charges. So if the government's legal mechanism can't find anything that they think is worth pursuing, then why am I going to listen to some report? If I've got a legal system that says nope, we'll take a pass on this, doesn't look like we could make him guilty, and yet there's some report that acts like he is guilty, I think I'm going to go with innocent till proven guilty. Like that's, I've said it a million times, that's got to be the standard. So if you can't prove it and you're not taking him to court, I don't want to hear it. Not even a little bit interested. If it's not illegal and something he did when he was single, I wouldn't even care if it was something he did when he was married because that's not my business. But yeah, I don't care. So you can't make me care. You cannot make me care what you did as a single man.

Well, Ezra Klein, who writes for the New York Times, which would make him one of the famous left-leaning people around, he was slamming the people who were saying that Fox News and the like are the reason that Trump won. And I like how he put it because he's not mincing any words. He goes, this idea that like, oh no, the economy is actually good or crime is actually down, that this is all just Fox News. He says like, shut the fuck up with that. Klein fumed. He was on one of those Pod Save podcasts. And he said if you just talked to people who lived in the cities you would know that people were really, really unhappy. And he said that if you'd spent any time basically talking to real people who lived in the cities you would have totally known that Trump was going to do better than the media was telling you because people were pissed. And he mentioned, he says the thing that surprised me least about the election was the sharp red shift in these big cities because if you talk to anybody who lives in them they are furious.

Now do you know why this is national news? This is just one person with an opinion and we all have opinions and there are like thousands of famous people with opinions. Why is this one, at least famous in politics, why is this one well-known person's opinion, why is it national news? Why is everybody talking about it? Do you know why? Because it's a Democrat telling the truth. That's, I'm not joking, that's actually the reason. There's a Democrat telling the truth. So it's national news, right? Because there's nothing about this opinion that's new, provocative, innovative. He's not reframing anything. He's saying what the majority of Americans already knew because they just voted in the new president. So all he's doing is agreeing with the majority of Americans who are looking at the same stuff he's looking at. And it's national news because he told the truth. Just hold that in your mind for a moment. Hold in your mind that it's national news that a Democrat told the truth. And like an obvious truth, like one that we all see is true. We don't have to do any research.

Well, I'm going to give him full credit. So you know it would be easy to go negative on this and say where were you before and why weren't you speaking out and why didn't you vote for Trump if you believe this and all that. But

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how about we just say thank you? How about we just say thank you? If there's any other Democrats who want to say something that's obviously true, I'm here for it. And I'm happy to say bygones are bygones. And if you were wrong before or you're playing for a team before but now you see things a little differently, I'm here for you. So unity, I think a little bit of at least being open to unity is a…

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