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happen. The executive order says things like, "Oh, you must now really obey the existing laws of the state and federal government." Wasn't that always the case? Weren't we always supposed to obey the existing laws? So that's part of it. Then there's a part where he's encouraging the attorney general to press some legal cases to find out where the borderline is where you can prosecute somebody. So…

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could prosecute.

Anyway, do your own reading. You will find that there will be great disagreement on what the executive order says. But what it doesn't do is change the law. So it doesn't change the law. It's the existing law. It might cause some differences in how it's enforced, but I don't even know how to have an opinion on it. It looks like my best guess is that most of the purpose of it, that's Gary purring into the microphone if you hear extra sound there. It looks li

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ke Trump is just doing one of those Trumpian things where he makes the press and all of his enemies talk about something that's not even real and nobody really cares about that much. And if they're talking about flag burning, it would be more along the lines of, "Hey, Democrats, what do you think about crime in the cities? Well, you must be in favor of it. Hey, what do you think about that border?…

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