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LLP Ep134: Politicians, Complicit In Crime
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When the guardians of justice become complicit in crime, who protects the innocent? In this eye-opening exploration of our modern justice system, Eric and Matt pull back the curtain on how law enforcement and judicial institutions have transformed into political weapons rather than bastions of public safety.
The heart of this episode centers on a disturbing pattern: career criminals released on mere promissory notes who go on to commit violent crimes, judges who face no consequences for endangering communities, and a media complex that selectively amplifies or buries stories based on political narratives. Through real-world examples like the tragic stabbing of a Ukrainian woman on public transit and Chicago's staggering weekend violence statistics, we confront the uncomfortable reality of a justice system that often prioritizes ideology over public welfare.
Personal experiences add weight to these observations, as Eric shares his own battle with social media censorship during the 2020 election cycle—an account with nearly 900,000 followers deleted without explanation, requiring congressional intervention to restore. This firsthand encounter with politically-motivated suppression illustrates how deeply these issues penetrate our society.
The conversation expands to examine the financial corruption within politics, the dangers of red flag laws, and how power swings like a pendulum between opposing factions while everyday Americans are caught in the crossfire. We challenge listeners to consider what happens when those tasked with protecting us become the very people enabling harm through their actions—or inactions.
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Speaker 2:That's the way I look at it. You know, if it's a duck, it's a duck.
Speaker 1:That's right. I hope everybody has had a great week and I really appreciate the continued support for LLP. We've got a lot of great things we're going to talk about today. Today's episode is called Complicit Crime and what we're going to really be discussing today is how our law enforcement, judicial system, the system of law and order that we have in our country, has become a giant political football, and the way that it is wielded and often mishandled, I think, is probably a good way to articulate that, matt A mishandling, a miscarriage of justice, activist politicians essentially that get into these positions of power strictly to you know, sort of wield it as a weapon against people they disagree with.
Speaker 1:I suppose at the end of the day, matt, that's probably what politics really is, I suppose. But it is unfortunate that it becomes this pendulum effect of you know, consistently going back and forth between two political factions and you have these average people in the middle who are just trying to live their lives and be normal people and they really just want to be left alone. They really don't want anything to do with either side really. They just want to live their lives and have fun and take care of their families and work hard and do their thing and it seems like there's just this people in the middle and this meat grinder that sort of get chewed up and spit out, and I think a lot of people are starting to see this duopoly, this sort of effect of push and pull and stranglehold that is on society by these people. And that's what we're going to discuss today and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:You mentioned this idea like oh yeah, we're going to go off on this one.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, man, because it's just one of those things that you you clearly see it in your everyday life and nobody ever asks the questions.
Speaker 2:They just kind of accept it Like this is just the way it is, um, and I just always find it weird, like you won't see it report any of these crimes, you don't see it report any of these crimes. You don't see it reported, or you see it for like one day and then it just disappears. It gets kind of buried underneath everything else. But you always see that happen in you know blue cities or blue States, especially when it doesn't fit the narrative of that particular government. But then you see it happen on the opposite side where, when it does fit their narrative, they trumpet it and they blast it from the rooftops. It's crazy.
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Speaker 1:So this, this complicity in crime, it's like if you ignore the crime, it's the same thing as saying that you either support or contribute to the crime at hand. I think that the way that a lot of Americans feel is that they are in this kind of situation where they're being thrown to the wolves by the very system that they view is supposed to protect them on a regular basis. And well, first of all, now I have you guys know I have strong feelings about this you should never rely on a governmental system to be responsible for your safety, for your security, for your you know livelihood, to be responsible for your safety, for your security, for your livelihood. I strongly believe in people being self-sufficient, being able to solve their own problems, being able to protect themselves, own their own guns, have their own food storage. I mean, that's why my Patriots apply it's such a great supporter of this show because they know where our heads are at and they know that you guys who listen, you know, listen to the podcast, and if you watch here on YouTube, uh, you know that we are all kind of very similarly minded in our uh ability to, you know, really think critically, to think for ourselves and to be responsible for our own safety and take that up into our own account accordingly. And I think that that's very important for society in general to not overly rely on government, to rely on government as little as possible.
Speaker 1:And when we see these situations where it seems like our own government is actually complicit in crime, about that is again these activist judges, these judges who will take violent criminals who are what we call career criminals. And that's the craziest thing in the world to me to think of a criminal as a career criminal, as someone who can actually just keep getting out with a slap on the wrist and keep doing the same thing over and over and over again, seemingly without consequence. And I know you guys and girls, you probably saw that tragic stabbing that happened on the bus A young girl who was coming back from her job. She was, I think, working at a pizza restaurant or something and was coming back from her job on the bus and got stabbed in the neck and killed by a perpetrator that had been let go by these activist judges multiple times. In fact, she let that guy go along with, I think, some like a dozen or 16 others, with a simple, like promissory note.
Speaker 2:It was a promissory note.
Speaker 1:yes, Signed a note saying that I promise to show up to court.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:And let them all go, and then now you see what happens. So are these judges facing any consequences for their actions? Are these judges the ones riding public transport? Are their children riding on public transport Transportation Right? Are their children going to public schools with some of these types of people that might be out there? I seriously doubt it. They're living in an ivory tower. I seriously doubt it.
Speaker 1:No, absolutely not, they're living in an ivory tower and that's a very. You know these judges, they're never going to directly see the consequences of what their actions, you know, produce.
Speaker 2:No, they absolutely live in an ivory tower. They have, you know, security details that protect them. They have people parked outside their house. You know that judge probably has people parked outside their house. You know that judge probably has people parked outside their house. That particular um guy allegedly uh, because you know nothing has gone through um, he was a schizophrenic and he had been diagnosed as a schizophrenic. He'd had the police called on him multiple times long a long sheet, rap sheet of you know crimes. So I find it very odd that the same judge would do that to quite a few other people. But promissory notes to know hey, I promise to come back and do my court date.
Speaker 2:And the next thing, you know, you're just sitting on public transit. You have your nose buried in your phone, like 99% of people. I'm not saying that there was anything wrong with what she did, because most people that's what they do Whenever they're traveling. They sit down, they pull their phone out, they're looking at the news, they're looking at something to entertain them. They don't expect to get stabbed in the throat from behind for nothing. It was just. It's just.
Speaker 1:It's sad that we live in a society where people have to be on guard constantly, um, with that sort of stuff, and it's only because we're not strict enough on criminals and, you know, we let these people out with a slap on the wrist. Now I'm going to probably catch some flack here, which it wouldn't be an episode with me in it if I wasn't catching some sort of flack. I mean, you know me like, I'm very opinionated, but sometimes no.
Speaker 1:But sometimes look, sometimes my opinions don't necessarily line up with the bulk of society, particularly on the right Right. There are some libertarians that agree with me and disagree with me, there are Republicans who agree with me and disagree with me, and there are Democrats that agree with me and disagree with me. So the true nuance of an argument comes from a place that is free of insult from anyone. Argument comes from a place that is free of insult from anyone. I simply cannot be deterred because I'm always going to look at things logically and with common sense and based on the way I view the world and the things that I've witnessed happen in the world over the years, in my 41 years that I've been lucky enough to be on this rock. So the way I look at it is. The nuance of the situation is yes, we should not let criminals out with a slap on the wrist. We should be stricter on crime. We should lay down very stiff and extreme sentences for people who commit violent crimes murder people, rape people, armed robbery, whatever it might be. However, there's another side of that coin as well, is what happens when you give the government full latitude to decide what punishment someone should receive for what crime and then allow them to be the arbiters of that. Now, if, if our judicial system was ran by principal people right, like it's supposed to be and I'm not saying that people that are, that are judges, are not principled people, because there's a lot of good, principled judges out there that do a really good job and many of the judges that Trump has appointed have done some pretty good things. So we're very lucky to have some good judges that seem to actually have a good head on their shoulders. So I'm not trying to say that all judges are like this person that let these head on their shoulder. So I'm not trying to say that all judges are like this person that let these guys off who then stabbed this young lady from Ukraine actually in the neck and killed her. She died right there on the bus.
Speaker 1:What I'm saying is you know, the system only works when the arbiters of the system are given the latitude to do things according to the Constitution, according to the rule of law, according to the law of the land and according to morality and goodness and justice and actually wanting to gather justice for someone who has been the direct victim of a crime, and I don't really trust our current government. I don't trust government in general to be the arbiters of that very careful undertaking and one would say, okay, well, a person is judged by a jury of their peers. Okay, that's true. Our law system, our legal system that we have for establishing guilt, our legal system that we have for establishing guilt, you know it's not always perfect, but it is a pretty good overall system, right, you know it may not be perfect, but it's okay, right? But again, do we trust them to be the arbiters of that?
Speaker 1:I mean, if we have people just letting folks off with a slap on the wrist for a crime that really should have an extreme penalty and it doesn't, and yet you see a situation where it was that Marine that subdued a guy on a bus who was trying to do something, let's just say similar. Maybe that guy was going to do something similar to what the guy stabbed the poor lady in the neck, right? Yeah, so he gets put in jail for subduing someone and preventing them from committing a crime, but then the guy who stabbed the girl in the neck got let off for a bunch of other crimes, which then allowed him to do that. So the media is quiet about the guy who stabbed the girl in the neck, but then all you see is a giant news feed of the dude who subdued the other guy, the Marine who subdued the guy, and he's in prison.
Speaker 2:Well, I would hate to be the person that clearly describes the difference here in the perpetrator and the victim, because what happens is they're exactly the opposite. Right in new york, it was the perpetrator. Perpetrator was white, victim was black. And charlotte, the perpetrator was black, victim for all intents and purposes, was white, even though she was ukrainian, caucasian, sure, um. So when you look at the two and this this was just coming after the whole Derek Chauvin, I forgot the dude's name. So the guy that died knee on the neck, that guy, so there was a-.
Speaker 2:Floyd, George Floyd, yeah, that guy man.
Speaker 2:I don't remember his name so which might get you in trouble, sorry. So after that there was this big outcry of excessive force, so you could see why the public was up in arms about it. But I agree, he simply was defending himself. I think it was the victim at that time was attacking people or he was like in their face, really in their personal space, and I'll be the first one to tell you that if you come within my personal space and I don't know you, I'm doing whatever I need to do to keep you out of my personal space.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And I think that's reasonable and in this, but in the particular case in Charlotte, there that opportunity wasn't there, it was from behind.
Speaker 1:What gets me so much is if you watch the extended video of that bus situation with the girl and her getting stabbed. I mean that's tragic, extremely tragic. But what's even more tragic is people's response to it. Oh yeah the guy just walked off the bus covered in blood.
Speaker 2:He's dripping all over him. Yeah, well, he cut himself because what happens a lot when you stab somebody, especially if you don't have the hilt, like when you stab somebody, your hand will slip off into the blade. So apparently he cut himself really bad and he's like walking up and down, he's just like dripping blood, what gets me is no, none of the men on that bus did anything.
Speaker 1:Nope, and they saw it. I saw it happen noticed that as well, and that's so strange to me that our society. They just had their heads stuck in their phones and just will do nothing in that type of situation, and that worries me like what. What's happened to manliness? Well, what's happened to manhood? I mean, like there's no way.
Speaker 2:Like if you or I saw something like that happen, that dude's gonna be in some serious up shit creek, yeah I think it was, uh, a train and I think when he he stabbed her he moved to a different train car, so so maybe those people didn't see the people, the people if you watch the video, the people.
Speaker 2:When he moved to a different train car, the people in the second train car were like hey, man, you're bleeding a lot like are you okay? Because they didn't know what happened. But then at the end of the video you can hear someone yelling hey, he just stabbed that girl back there. So now people are starting to understand, like what's going on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 2:But still, the people in that car watched that happen and they didn't.
Speaker 1:How terrible. Yeah, everyone with their face stuck in their phone. We're going to talk about that in a future Gun Grape episode about situational awareness. But for the purposes of today's podcast we're going to stick to this whole complicity of crime. And you know, is that to say that if you see a crime and you don't intervene, are you complicit in that crime being carried out?
Speaker 2:I don't know, man, because, like, that's a slippery slope, because some people genuinely aren't prepared to handle like they're incapable of handling, those think of, like you know, bob, that work because, charlotte, you know they have some tech companies and this is just me spitballing bob. You know, tech guy, you know a little overweight, no fighting ability, no way to probably never been in a fight.
Speaker 1:Never been in a fight he's gonna.
Speaker 2:There's no way. He's prepared, or even able, and you see a guy with a knife.
Speaker 1:It's probably the scariest thing you've ever seen. I'm not saying that it's some justification for an action. I think that a man should always view danger right in the eye and go well, I may not be better ready for this danger, but I'm as ready as I'm gonna be and I'm not gonna be a coward. I think that should be people's mindset. That's just me, but yeah, you're right I mean maybe he's just was scared.
Speaker 2:Maybe he's like dang maybe never saw anything like that before there's only one thing scarier than a gun, and that's a knife. Dude, a knife will absolutely wreck you, yeah.
Speaker 1:This Fairbairn and Sykes. I know we see this and this stays in the, but like this Fairbairn and Sykes, this knife design was developed around World War II and a lot of the British OSS commandos and people like that were using this thing in clandestine operations because, as a general purpose, fighting knife, this Fairbairn and Sykes, this is one nasty little tool, right here.
Speaker 1:It has one purpose, yes, and if somebody knows what they're doing with this, fairbairn and Sykes, you're going to have a very bad day, because all it takes is just getting stabbed in just the right spot. Yeah, and it's got the length, it's got the stabbing power through the hilt and this knife right here, just one good jab in the kidney, you're done.
Speaker 2:Second and third rib right into that. Yes, like the heart and the lung, the heart.
Speaker 1:So this is a very deadly piece of hardware In the lung, the heart. So this is a very deadly piece of hardware. And I know we always associate defense with guns, but I always carry my Fairbairn Sykes dagger everywhere I go. When I'm traveling, I have my go bag and you better believe I have my Fairbairn Sykes with me. And now it may not be the easiest thing to get to right in that moment, but you better believe if I need it it's like I love, love this knife and this is my favorite knife design is the fairburn sykes so I mean it's.
Speaker 2:I mean I've seen pictures like I went down that rabbit hole of looking at, like you know, police officers that got you know knife attacked. I mean it just looks like a freaking yes bloodbath man I mean, it's ruthless.
Speaker 1:Think about ancient battlefields and people were hacking each other to death with swords and shields and blunt objects and everything you can imagine. And you know, imagine like when you watch a movie that shows a medieval battle scene. I don't think it even comes close to capturing just how absolutely dreadful it had to be, because you know dang well. Well, there's hundreds, if not thousands, of men laying around bleeding out to death, screaming yep, it had to have been a very hellish place to be well, just imagine the broken bones, like if it doesn't cut you, like you have armor on something's broke.
Speaker 2:You have a broken arm broken, femur broken hips broken like everything, you're just. You're just inside of a metal armor.
Speaker 1:You are just a sack of meat and those battles were dreadful, man, and you know, a lot of people don't realize it in in ancient times. I mean, yeah, there there were ways that they could perform triage and they had some medical little bit, of basic medical knowledge and and yeah, they could, we could patch somebody up if they weren't hurt too bad. But if you lost that battle and you were the enemy and they would just go around and spear people to death.
Speaker 1:It's like if you were still alive. You ain't going to be alive long and they would just go around and finish people off. There wasn't none of this oh, all right, the battle's over. You lost here. Let me help you. If you were alive and you were able-bodied, they're going to make you a slave or they're going to do something humiliating to you and they love to humiliate people that lost.
Speaker 1:And it's crazy to think that you know that deadliness, that savagery that we saw in ancient warfare, that when we look at today, right, we see, like in the UK maybe, a machete attack or a knife attack, or I know in China it happens all the time People will go on a machete attack and they'll knife a bunch of people and you see with extreme prejudice and violence that they act quickly and violently and with power and intent.
Speaker 1:And when you see that power and intent, even in the modern world, you think wow, like the ancient times when this was the only way people could get each other out of here. You know they really meant it. I mean, you know those gladiators fighting in the ring, like fighting life and death, knowing that you're getting thrown into this pit and that it's you or them. And imagine the desperation if you weren't a trained warrior, you're just a slave or somebody that they just put in there just as cannon fodder. And imagine the feeling if you actually came out on top, you actually survived somehow. Imagine the feeling like wow, like how intense that had to be, that just really scary feeling of being in that moment and knowing that if you did somehow win against the gladiator, you're just going to go back in.
Speaker 2:No, if you killed the crowd's favorite gladiator, they're going to kill you anyways for killing their favorite gladiator. Imagine that you won and the crowd's like no, and then they still kill you.
Speaker 1:I'm like come on. So I think, getting back to the original kind of topic at hand, is that, yes, knives are scary and you should always kind of keep some distance between you and other people. If someone's a perfect stranger, you know we're going to talk about this in a future gun gripe episode but you always want to create distance, you know. Keep your distance, make sure you don't ever have your back to people, and I think that's just a smart policy in general, no matter if you're a gun person, a knife person or you're just a person who wants to be alive, hello, I mean, if you don't want to get stabbed or shot, you probably shouldn't turn your back to people who you know have a clear history of shooting and stabbing people. I mean, I think that's pretty obvious.
Speaker 2:So, as far as the you know, complicit crime, I think one part that we haven't spoke about yet was the complicity of the government, and in this particular case, it was the mayor of Charlotte, um, asking when that first happened, asking not to report on this particular crime, and I just thought that that was very, you know, unethical of it. Um, because why would you not report? And I'll tell you why it's because it didn't fit the narrative of that particular city. Um, they don't want that type of information to get out, and she took a lot of criticism for that. Um, as she should, yeah, I mean. But at this point, um, you know, how can you not, how can you not, you know, report on something that's this heinous?
Speaker 2:But you see this across the board. I mean, look at, you know so, for example, let's, you know this happened in Charlotte, but let's move to say, like Chicago, you know, labor Day, let's just go back. I have this, I have the numbers here, I have the numbers here, my man's got the receipts. Yes, all right, Labor Day, labor Day, labor Day weekend Chicago 54 people shot, seven people killed. Wow, one weekend, one weekend in Chicago, 54 people shot, seven people killed. That's crazy man.
Speaker 1:It's such a daily occurrence in some of these leftist controlled cities that it's almost just not even worth reporting anymore for them, because it's such a common occurrence that it would be in the news daily, and wouldn't people kind of start to go wait a minute? This is happening every day. This is some sort of problem. But of course the media is complicit because they choose to, just they don't really report on it or they report super soft, like maybe just a quick mention. Ah, there was a shooting today downtown and then all right onto other news, the weather.
Speaker 1:like they don't, they don't want you to really have the details, they just kind of mentioned it in passing.
Speaker 2:Here's the wild part. Their answer part. Their answer the governor of illinois. The answer was more gun control. They want to institute more gun control for that and I'm like how you can't, you can't legislate crime out of it. It's just not going to happen. No, because guess what? Those 54 people that were shot, majority of them were probably criminals and they had them illegally anyways.
Speaker 1:Right, and I mean one would say okay, and this is just me being sort of critical here. One would say, if it's bad people that are just shooting each other every day and there's not a lot of good people involved in it, well then you know, maybe society's better off if they just if they kill each other every day. I'm not saying that's the reality. I'm sure there are plenty of innocent people. I mean, you can't even get gas in some places in Chicago without someone trying to rob you when you get out of the car or try to carjack you or hold you up or do something or, if anything, panhandle for money or bother you or harass you if not worse.
Speaker 2:Well, there are certain things that I don't do in Atlanta Like. So. We travel a lot for my daughter's wrestling tournaments, which means we have to go to the airport a lot. The fastest way to get to the airport is MARTA. Marta, the train goes directly into the airport. It literally pulls inside of Hartsfield Jackson airport open, really, yes and you walk into baggage, claim. You are right there. Nothing is faster. However, I refuse to do that because Marta is not a pleasant experience. It's not. It smells like urine. There is homeless people panhandling on every train. The crime is out of control. Everything smells like weed, people blasting music in the open. My daughter, in her youthful innocence, loves to ride the train. She's like can we take the train? I'm like absolutely not. We are not doing that. So you park and ride? Yes, so as the law-abiding citizen that I am, I get taxed because I have to drive to the airport and pay $30 a day for parking. Just to feel adequately safe, I do the park and ride also.
Speaker 1:It is what it is which I have to do the park and ride because I, you know, it is what it is which I have to do the park and ride because I live far, you know, further away from the airport than you do. Yep, I will say, as the park and ride goes, it is a pretty freaking good experience, like every time I go Very good, the parking lot's secure, the people are fast and efficient.
Speaker 1:They fast and efficient, they know exactly where to take you. They're very friendly. So, yeah, it costs money, but I know that when I'm gone no one's going to mess with my car. One time I even got back to the parking ride and my battery was dead. I don't know how. There was some current draw on my on my vehicle and my truck died and it was cold, it was like 28 degrees. When I got back and sure enough, um, I called and I was like hey, can you guys help me? And they showed up with this huge big old rechargeable jump box like in the back of a truck and they jumped me off.
Speaker 1:Very nice, and they were really cool about it and the guy wouldn't even take a tip. I tried to give him a tip, he wouldn't take it.
Speaker 2:So I will say my experience with them has been extremely good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they charge $30 a day, but that's a peace of mind to know that no one's going to mess with your car. If you have a problem, when you get back they'll make it right. And so far, the park and ride. Hey, big shout out, park and ride over there, over there in College Park.
Speaker 2:Good people, and they can even wash your car if you want them to. Really, yeah what they offer car detailing no Car detailing. You could I don't do it, but they do offer that.
Speaker 1:What a smart business model.
Speaker 1:Think about it Like, yeah, leave your key with us, whatever You're going to be gone anyway, and it keeps you from having to take your key when you travel right, so you don't have to worry about losing your key. You know they have it and they detail your car. Come back nice and clean, ready to go, go about your day. So I respect that. I respect that. I understand that there are situations where you don't want to put yourself in harm's way. Why go out of your way to potentially be a victim? It's sad that in society we have to perform this triage of danger when it comes to the way that we associate the public and being out in public places.
Speaker 1:I do love Atlanta. I love going to Atlanta. I was born here, I was born in Atlanta, I've lived here a long time. I love my city. Atlanta is my city and I love visiting Atlanta. I love going to the Varsity. I love going to the World of Coke. I love going to the Aquarium. I love going over there to oh, what do they call that place? It's not Peachtree Commons, it's, uh, you know that that little area over there where they have the bodies exhibit and all that. I forget the name of it.
Speaker 2:You know that. Uh, well, I mean they have like the high museum and stuff yeah, I mean I love all that.
Speaker 1:I love the culture of the city. You know I love going to restoration hardware and looking at all the furniture. You've been over there, yeah it's cool.
Speaker 1:I like it, you know, and um, and I enjoy Atlanta. There's some really nice eating places up in Buckhead, I mean, and never in Atlanta do I ever feel unsafe. But that's because I also don't go to shady areas where you would be like, wow, this probably took a wrong turn. You're not going to Bankhead, no, you're not going to Stewart Avenue, or even Peachtree Street on a late Saturday night can be a dangerous place to be Joseph E Lowry Boulevard guys.
Speaker 2:The places that we're naming don't go.
Speaker 1:I mean look, boys and girls, if you're leaving the Claremont Gentleman's Lounge at two o'clock in the morning on a Sunday, well, Monday technically expect to be absconded. I mean, you're going to get something's going to happen. If you walk down Peachtree Street long enough, you're going to run into something crazy, a hundred percent.
Speaker 2:It's all about tempering your expectations.
Speaker 1:Yep Right. If you know the place you're going has a history, well then, why are you going there unless you're expecting?
Speaker 2:something to happen. That and something to happen. That's right. You don't expect something to happen and then complain when it does.
Speaker 1:Yes, you got to stay out of those situations?
Speaker 1:Yes, Now these things are hard enough to deal with as it is. It's even harder when the government is complicit in it and I guess that's really to go full circle and go back to this complicity. The media Now I know we discussed the government and their actions and everything like that, but the media too, this machine that exists, that is, the social media complex, the mainstream media complex and this sort of talking head influencer complex. That seems to be a huge part of everyday society, especially for it's normie society. When we look at normie society, what does that mean? When we say normies, we mean people who rely on the media and mainstream media and social media pretty much for all their news and they take whatever their favorite talking head says as the gospel. They're following their favorite Democrat people on Twitter or on wherever and whatever they say they take as narrative about race or relations or religion or vaccination, status or whatever hot button topic that you might be able to just put in the blank. They will take whatever narrative they're fed as the gospel.
Speaker 1:And I think that the media is very complicit. When I say the media, it includes all these people, because they're essentially all controlled, kind of. In the same way, when I say the media, it includes all these people because they're essentially all controlled, kind of. In the same way, the media is complicit in how you view the things that go on in your society, whether it's a negative opinion or a positive opinion or anything in between and they absolutely are complicit in the way that we view these things.
Speaker 1:When they happen, either they fail to report them at all or they choose to only report things in a very kind of specific juicy sort of way. Like, okay, this situation with the girl getting stabbed on the bus, girl gets stabbed by man on bus There'll be some generic reporting where they're going to purposely go out of their way to make it to not like, make it go against the narrative. Now, if it were, let's say again I hate to report it this way, but y'all, it is what it is. Okay, look, if a white man stabbed a black girl, what would? What would? What would the article the next day read?
Speaker 2:probably something about a race-induced hate.
Speaker 1:Evil white guy stabs innocent young valedictorian prom, queen, everything it can be black girl.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's just the. They're never gonna report it when it's the other way.
Speaker 1:So it's not. And look, it always gets labeled as racism, matt. It always gets labeled See, if you bring it up, oh, you're a racist. But they're not a racist for only showing one side of the equation to benefit whatever narrative they might want, which in itself is racist, they are guilty of the very racism they accuse you of by simply bringing up. Well, hey, why don't you report it when it happens either way? But they don't. They only report it when it happens in the way that they want to use that as their narrative, and that, by definition, is racism.
Speaker 1:If you only report one side and not the other, who's the racist? Me for mentioning that you didn't report when it happened from other side, or you for only reporting one side. And then you, you try to deflect that argument on me because I mentioned that. Oh well, by the way, this happened. Oh, you racist, you did this like. Really, you have the audacity. Do you think that people are that mentally, you know, unstable or or intellectually incapable of seeing what you're trying to do? Right, that's what gets me.
Speaker 2:Well, if you look at it that way, that is true as well as if you look at. Another example is if you look at the Catholic school shooting that just took place in what was it? Minneapolis.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:You know, nobody brought up the fact that that was a, you know, a transgendered. You know everybody kept saying misgendering. I use misgendering in quotes. They're saying he, he, he, when the manifesto and everything clearly was like she. So it was a transgendered girl, if that's what they call. I'm not 100% sure how they. I don't know the verbiage, I don't play the game and it is a game, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't play the game so I'm not 100% sure on the correct terminology. I'm just going by what I see. Transgendered girl that was left-leaning, hated Trump. The manifesto had all kinds of stuff about like anti-trump, anti-government, uh-huh, but how did you even see that in the news, eric?
Speaker 1:no, now. Now, what kind of hardware are we talking here? An ne an audi is it the sack thing like what? What kind of hardware are we talking? Still talking about female hardware or what kind of hardware do we know I I'm boobs chopped off.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure it looked like. It looked like a boy that identified as a girl.
Speaker 1:That's what it was how terrible so that people, people put themselves in that situation like I mean, it's not my place to be sorry for anybody or to have you know opinion either way, but it's kind of like the way I look at it, I kind of I kind of feel sorry for some of those people, cause you know that society has really got them confused and got them in a bad way. And you know, there there was a time where I kind of openly like supported them and kind of felt like like hey, you know, treat them this way, that way, treat them as equals, and there's a bit of that. I mean, I don't have some complex against people that are that way, right, right. But at one point you have to kind of look at it and go there's something clearly wrong here.
Speaker 1:There's a point, yeah, whether it's a combination of SSRIs or mental situations. It's not that I have a problem with treating them equally, of course. I have no problem with that. I'm down, I try to be a friendly guy, that sort of thing. But once a certain pattern starts to emerge, you have to eventually call it what it is and go all right. Well, do these people? Do they need help? Is it medication they're on? Is it just that they're mentally unstable? What is it? What is causing them to act in a certain way? So it's not about whether or not someone chooses to be that way or not. It's what they do with it. It's how they act. It's what they put out in society, it's what they do in the world over.
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Speaker 1:All right, is that a bad thing? Okay, maybe, on the surface it's not right, because people view the government as being responsible for law and order. Right, most people agree with law and order. They agree that they don't want to have a society full of craziness and danger, and they agree with law and order. So, therefore, when they see the Trump administration, pam Bondi, kash Patel, doj and all of that sort of mechanism saying, well, maybe we should ban transgender people from owning firearms, right, that's what they're floating the idea right now and one issue I have with the Republican Party is that they really have always been very, very big proponents for red flag confiscations, and it's something I could never understand.
Speaker 1:Pam Bondi was real big on pushing for red flag laws in Florida when she was, I guess, a district attorney in Florida and she's taken that now to her role as the AG, and I can't say I necessarily agree with the practice. It puts officer safety at risk. It puts civilians and average people at risk. So this is something that is within the vein of red flag confiscation, where they go. Well, if a person who is transgender has guns and we know they have guns well, now we're going to use some sort of red flag confiscation scheme to essentially go after them and disarm them. That's essentially more or less the idea that's being floated, yeah.
Speaker 1:I disagree with it. I disagree with that as well. I disagree with it. And okay Is that to say that when you look at the pattern, matt, that emerges from all of these mass shooters, right, what's one of the most distinctive modern patterns that is emerging with all of these shooters in recent memory? Okay? Ssris behavioral medicines, or they're either homosexual, transgender or both, Whatever. Whatever you want to call it. Both of those are true.
Speaker 1:Those things are all very much mutually exclusive to each other. When we look at all the shootings back in the 90s, okay, we had some school shootings like Columbine, which was very tragic, especially to happen in the 90s. No one expected that to happen in the 90s, right, when Columbine occurred, it turns out, yeah, those kids were on some crazy SSRIs and depressed and they were being bullied and there was a lot of that going on. Okay, so we have to have a serious talk about the drugs that we're pumping into people, right, all the preservatives that they're putting into food, the food. Now, not to get on a grandstand about this in this conversation, but rfk just tore him a new one, you know, in a congressional hearing the other day. Like you know, he was tearing him a new one about the vaccines and about autism rates and things that are causing autism and all these behavioral issues that they're correcting with medications. That it's all the this crap they're putting in the food preservatives and hormones and all these sorts of things, and they're pumping kids full of these SSRIs and society is indoctrinating all these kids that think they need to chop their genitalia off and God knows what else. Of course, that's enough to make a person crazy and that's the greater discussion that needs to be occurring is not should we just disarm these people and then allow them to still be hurt and crazy in society? We have to fix the crazy.
Speaker 1:The gun is not what's causing the issue, it's the actor, it's the person who is using the gun that's causing the issue. So this is really a mental health kind of crisis that is far more complicated than simply someone just being disturbed. This is not even so much that they're disturbed, matt. They may not actually even be morally disturbed. People like an evil person. It's not because they're evil, they're just misaligned. There's some chemical imbalance or some imbalance of social chemistry that they're lacking in their lives that's causing them. I mean, if we had Jordan Peterson here, he could explain a lot better than me, but that's essentially I mean.
Speaker 2:I'm no behavioral scientist, but that's yeah.
Speaker 1:There's a social chemistry that is lacking, a molecule here, and it's causing them to act this way.
Speaker 2:Well, you'll have to. Maybe you know the answer to this, but I thought that there was the ability for someone that is selling they work at a gun store. Let's say you're working the counter at a gun store and someone comes in and they want to buy a gun, can't the person refuse to sell them the gun? I thought I read that there was a rule or a law that allowed that. Like if that person was kind of coming in and just being a little shady or you just had like a feeling that this person was kind of up to no good, would that person be able to deny the sale?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 1:So, if you work in a gun store and this has always been standard practice for any gun store if someone walks in a gun store now look, it is not a gun seller or gun merchants place to decide who should or should not own a gun. But if you sell guns, if you have an FFL and you're conducting an over-the-counter gun transaction and let's say, now, look, I'm not judging. Okay, listen, this is Eric here. Okay, I'm pro-gun as hell. You're never going to catch me lacking. All right, I got the receipts, baby. Now, look, I'm just saying the reality.
Speaker 1:Okay, say, you run a gun shop and someone walks in and smell like reefer and you don't want to sell them a gun because they smell like weed. Or they come in and they smell like alcohol and you can tell they're drunk as a skunk, they stumble in the front door, they're physically intoxicated. You don't have to sell that person a gun. Or maybe a person comes in, they're acting shady and they said oh, I just had an argument with my neighbor and I need a gun because I think I'm going to do something. Do you have to sell that person a gun? You don't. You can say, sir, I don't feel comfortable with this. I think you need to maybe chill. Go think about this for a day or two and come back. I'll be more than happy to help you. It's not a gun salesman's place to be the arbiter of morality or principles or morals, or even the law for that matter.
Speaker 2:But it's okay to have morals and have a conscience.
Speaker 1:It is okay to have that view if you want. If a transaction feels weird, you don't have to conduct that transaction. Nothing says you have to do it. You have the full backing to be able to say I don't think, I'm comfortable with this transaction and that's okay. You can say that it's fine.
Speaker 2:If you have the guy, the all too famous hey, I want that shotgun, okay, great, you want a box of shells? No, just need one Then that guy's probably going to be like I don't think I'm gonna sell you this shotgun, sir, um. So yeah, I just wanted to make sure because I've I've never worked a gun counter. I know you had, so I was kind of leaning on you to to have that, uh, experience in that, in that front.
Speaker 2:but that just goes to show you, like they while I agree they shouldn't be the arbiter, while they most definitely shouldn't deny gun sales based off of their own personal views that if something feels off that, they do have the ability to do that correct because I mean some, like some people will just come in there and they'll just be wild, like I've been at a gun range that sells firearms and I'll just be waiting for the ammo, because sometimes, like they don't let, I'll bring ammo that they don't want you to shoot. So I have to like lead, so I have to buy ammo and I'll just be waiting for them to fulfill my, my ammo order. And you'll just see the craziest jokers in there, like doing some wild and what about?
Speaker 1:people who, you know, go to a range and they want to rent, like there's lots of situations where people will go to a range and rent a gun and then, yeah, use it on themselves in range. It happens, you know. Society in general, you know, has disturbed people in it. Society is full of disturbed people, it happens, and some people are self-destructive. Some people want to destroy others and hurt others. Some people gather some form of gratification in hurting others. So there's a huge spectrum here of behavioral tendencies that people have in society. And again, I'm no psychologist but it's just, I think, my view of it from just, you know, recognizing human behavior and just looking how people act and observing people's behavior, we obviously do have a really big issue with people's, you know, status of mental decay. It's bad.
Speaker 2:It is bad, it is bad and look it's.
Speaker 1:either someone is based and normal and average, and maybe they're just well-grounded people like I. Would consider you and I to be pretty well-rounded and well-grounded people who handle our stuff. We pay our bills, we're responsible, we work hard, we make money, we take good care of our family. We're average people who love life and are happy and don't need anything crazy to be happy. We don't need to pump ourselves full of a bunch of crap to be happy. Now, I'm not going to lie. I kind of like some testosterone, but other than that I'm a pretty normal guy.
Speaker 2:Well, I look at it like this and it still is. There's currently a shortage of medication for ADD, adhd and I think that what? And I get that. I only know this because I have, you know, parents of our Jiu Jitsu academy that are always like complaining about it. So I hear about it all the time because some of the kids that you know, part of jujitsu teaching jujitsu is you run into kids that are you know they have ADD or ADHD and they have to constantly be stimulated.
Speaker 2:Jujitsu is great for that. So lots of parents bring their kids in because that keeps them moving. It gives them something to do all the time. So I'm a huge advocate of that. If your kid is ADD or has ADHD, put them in martial arts. It'll get them moving. But from the parents I hear like, hey, I have a hard time finding medication because sometimes the kids get really, really wild in class and it's not because they don't have their medication. The parents are saying, hey, we weren't able to fill our prescription, so I apologize in advance for little Timmy. He might act a little crazy and that's just something that we have to deal with.
Speaker 1:Well, things didn't used to always be like that. Right. Like back in the old days, you didn't have all the medicines for kids. They had plenty of things to do to keep them occupied.
Speaker 2:Well, how many kids are on this medication? That there is a nationwide shortage, that there's no other medication that I know of, that is extremely hard to get, but yet something that these kids need to take daily, multiple times a day. They're running out of and they can't fill prescriptions. That's a lot that's sketchy for an entire country to be having a shortage of this medication, whether it's adderall or whatever other medication they're on, um, and it's been like that for like a year. Yeah, so they can't make it.
Speaker 1:I can't make enough to handle all of the mentally deranged people that are out there. And then what's?
Speaker 2:the next step on this, like okay, so they have adhd and then they just keep them on, keep escalating with medication further and further, up until they're on ssris and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1:So let's go back to the trump administration for a minute and let's talk a little bit about this, uh, this potential like they're talking about wanting to take guns away from transgender people. We'll talk about that a little bit. So what is the danger in that? Is that, again earlier in the in the podcast I discussed, you know, this pendulum effect of the swinging back and forth. Well, one day it's the Republican saying that transgender people shouldn't have guns and the next day it's going to be the Democrat saying that, oh, veterans shouldn't have guns, or, you know, whatever group of people we deem to be mentally incapable of having a gun shouldn't own a gun. Well, do you really want two opposing political factions that are on very, very different ends of the of the political spectrum? Do you want them to have control of that ability to take people's firearms so easily? Because eventually, Democrats can be in control again. And when they are, they're going to be.
Speaker 1:Oh well, the Democrats are, I'm sorry, the Republicans went after transgender people, so we're going to go after veterans and whoever else. And, oh, you're right wing. You posted, you know, anti-vax, whatever it is. I mean, look at what's going on in the UK. They will literally come to your freaking house and arrest you for a social media post. Yeah, that's crazy and I tell you, if you gave that right to the Democrats, you better believe they'd be showing up to your house to arrest you for a social media post that they don't like.
Speaker 2:They've already tried. There's been numerous times where you know, back when Twitter was Twitter and not X, that you know government officials went after people for posting memes. They were like oh yeah, you posted a meme. We're going to try to sue you for defamation. Like it's a meme, it's satire.
Speaker 1:They came after me. Yeah, you know early on it was. It was during the I guess it was the 2020 presidential election.
Speaker 2:Was it in 2020?. Yes, yeah, so yeah, 2020, 2024. So yeah, 2020, 2024. 2020, yeah.
Speaker 1:In 2020, they banned my Facebook account. They pulled my Facebook account completely.
Speaker 1:And I had almost 900,000 followers on my Facebook account and I was posting pro-Trump stuff. I was like, hey, I'm pro-Trump, pro-this. One day I woke up, account was gone and what happened was that they got the call. Facebook got the call to pull me down because all the pro-Trump stuff I was posting. And then, of course, fast forward to what happened in the inauguration or whatever. And, yeah, I got a visit later that year from the FBI. They show up right on my doorstep. Oh well, where were you on the 7th? Yeah, where were you doing? Where were you? Were you in DC? Were you doing this? Were you doing that? Oh, and, by the way, what happened to your Facebook account? It's like they knew they were trolling you. Man, yeah me, because they knew, by mentioning that that that was their way of putting that in my wheelhouse to say, yeah we got rid of your.
Speaker 1:Facebook account it would be a shame if something happened to one of your other accounts and they knew that that is a huge part of my livelihood. I was making a lot of money on affiliate links at that time not to get into the business side of things, y'all, because I try not to let the kids know Y'all are like my kids, we're not going to pull a car over, don't worry, it's okay but the truth is that, yeah, part of my livelihood was that Facebook page and I was making a considerable amount of money blessed enough to make decent money off of my affiliate posts, and I was posting spicy memes. I was posting pro-Trump stuff and it was great. Everything was cool, getting a lot of traction, doing really well and really what they saw was that I was changing hearts and minds. I was changing people's minds and attitudes about Trump and about the Republican Party and about guns, and they saw that the political needle was moving more towards Trump and away from the other person.
Speaker 2:It was Hillary that he was running against Kamala. Was it Kamala In 2020, it was Hillary, wasn't it 2020?
Speaker 1:it was Right In 2024, it was Kamala, was it Kamala? Yeah, you know, in 2020, it was Hillary, wasn't it 2020?
Speaker 2:it was Right In 2024, it was Kamala. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:But anyway, the point is is they saw that this political needle was moving in a way that they didn't deem it to be appropriate. And again, going back to complicit crime, what more of a complicit crime is there when the government orders a social media company to take down a famous influencer's page because it doesn't line up with the political narrative that they want to see put forth? And now, if I was some extreme left-wing person with 900,000 followers on Facebook and posts that were going viral every day, oh, I'd get left alone, in fact, oh, they would boost those posts, they would accelerate the growth of those posts, but it's like they couldn't find any way to shut me up or shut me down, so they literally just had to get rid of me.
Speaker 1:They deleted the account, they completely got rid of it with no explanation. They would never tell me what it was. And I ended up finding that there was a subpoena from the government about activities that that page was involved in, and Facebook's answer was well, we don't want to be involved in said activities, we're just going to delete the page instead of telling me what it was. And they never would tell me, even to this day. I have a couple of Facebook engineers I'm really good friends with and they're like dude. We looked in the back of your account and at the time they were like this is so locked down that it requires admin like high level admin approval to even look and see. Like, we can't even look with our level of access man. And then I wound up talking to another guy who was way higher and even he couldn't get to. He's like dude. It is not normal for me to not be able to see what's going on on the back. This has never happened before.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So let me tell you, you know, how I got my Facebook account back. It was, oh my gosh, oversight committee. What's that gentleman's name? Oh man, I'm going to feel so bad if I can't thank him in this video because it's not Chip Roy. The other gentleman is the guy that we really all wanted to run for for the speaker of the house. Okay, that guy and, and he wanted to have another role. He wanted to be over the oversight committee. Okay, well, anyway, he's still over the oversight committee now.
Speaker 1:But it took literally, literally had to reach out to the house oversight committee and it was his office that called facebook and said you, sons of bitches, better bring this account back right now. It took literally him calling them directly and saying we don't know why you have the, you deleted this guy's account but you need to bring it back. And they did. James comer, no, no, the other fellow. Oh my God, I feel so bad. Maybe I'll try to put down in the lower third here in the video, but what is that gentleman's name? I'm going to go crazy if I can't remember his name, but he called him and he sorted it out, and it took them literally having to go and get it sorted out for me, isn't that?
Speaker 2:crazy.
Speaker 1:I'm just a well-known average guy that shoots guns on the internet Like. I'm not some social media influencer or paid talking head, like some of these people are. I'm just a guy with an opinion that just happens to have a huge audience and they didn't like that.
Speaker 2:Well, let's look at that. You had one political figure that stepped up to help you and do the right thing. And then now, if you look at another political figure, if you look at Minneapolis, ilhan Omar. Complicit crime here, crime here. And the complicit crime here is that when Ilhan Omar first was elected to Congress, they all have to file financial disclosures. It is required, it was.
Speaker 1:Jim Jordan's office.
Speaker 2:Sorry to interrupt Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan contacted Facebook and said sons of bitches, what are y'all doing? And they're like, okay, not giving me my account back. Well, he did the right thing. Yes, he did so, thank you.
Speaker 1:Jim Jordan, and thank you to the house oversight committee. It was a rare example of the government actually doing their job. Anyway, I digress, go ahead and continue, Sorry.
Speaker 2:When, when she filed. And so Minneapolis is a crime ridden cesspool at the moment. That is where you started to see the gang members take over the local hotels. You have the whole quote, and I'm using quotes here. They're eating the cats and they're eating the dogs stuff going down. So Ilhan Omar, on her financial disclosure, reported a negative net worth when she first ran. Negative which means she was in debt. Her net worth was so bad she owed money. She had nothing to her name. Literally Fast forward to her latest financial disclosure, from 2025. Eric, how much do you think her net worth is?
Speaker 1:20, 30 million, something like that $30 million Wow. How surprising.
Speaker 2:Complicit crime. Y'all Went from negative net worth to $30 million.
Speaker 1:Don't even get me started on all the PACs that funnel money and all of this sort of treachery that goes on, that is bonkers dude, and how bought and paid for these politicians seem to be. And you know I have personally never met anyone who serves in Congress. That's poor, Never.
Speaker 2:And if they are, they're not poor for long. Never. It doesn't exist. Looking at you, Dan.
Speaker 1:I mean, look his trades on his first year as a junior congressman. His trades on the first year was like rivaling Nancy Pelosi. What does that tell you? Who was giving him the gas?
Speaker 2:He was getting the inside juice. He was getting the text messages from Nancy, yeah maybe he was on Nancy Pelosi's text thread or something. Yeah, a group chat.
Speaker 1:I'm going to tell you it was a group chat, but Dan's trades were on point, a little too on point, and look, I'm not blaming somebody, for, hey, you know, some legislation's coming up related to something. I'm like, all right, maybe I'll buy some stock. Maybe you don't know the players know who it is, maybe there's still some mystery involved, and you go all right. Well, I think it may be these people, but if you get the gas from the inside and they say buy this stock at this time, at this specific time of the day, at 1145 am on this day, you're going to purchase this stock, wink, wink, because we told you to and they manipulate it somehow, short sell it somehow. They know there's some internal manipulation of the stock market that they're doing to purposely benefit these people. That's where I have an issue with it, because it's theft, it's unfair, it's usury.
Speaker 2:I don't like that shit. It's true. It's usury. I don't like that shit. It's true and I agree. I think somebody put in they wanted to legislate that you couldn't trade stock in Congress.
Speaker 1:Unless you have their family members, do it.
Speaker 2:Yep, but here's the thing real quick. I know we're running short on time. I remember a time and I'm not a fan of Jimmy Carter I think Jimmy Carter did more post-presidency than he did presidency. Jimmy Carter's problem was that he was too honest. He was a peanut farmer from Georgia. He owned a peanut farm. He had to sell his peanut farm when he became president.
Speaker 2:He left the White House using the bus. He wasn't picked up by a limo. He wasn't taken home on an airplane. He took the bus. He came in a man of meager means and he left a man of meager means. He probably could have done what all people in high office have done and utilize that to make money, and he did not. Again, I'm not a fan of his presidency, but I think that he lived the way that you would imagine someone that ran for public office and held public office would be. They just, they just did what was they thought was right, and that was it. That the sole purpose was. He was, he lived to, to for the people, to serve the country, and then he went home.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's a rare trait in today's world for these people to actually To a fault, to a fault.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, I think that today's show we definitely got into the nuanced bin of what it is for these people to be complicit in these crimes, and I think it's a shame that we allow in our society, these people to have so much control over not only the narrative but how people within the justice system are purposely treated in order to push that said narrative, and it ends up people dying, businesses getting burned down, looting, rioting crime running rampant and there's a group of people who's specifically responsible for allowing these things to happen, and I take issue with that. I think we should be much more, you know, stringent and, you know, really punish these people for what they're doing. There needs to be justice and I think it's a huge miscarriage of justice against the people and I hope that in time, that we will see justice served for the servers of justice who are misusing and misappropriating their power, and that is clearly happening.
Speaker 2:They just need to be held accountable.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Right now, there's zero accountability for anybody.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm not going to hold my freaking breath. I'll tell you that much, and I don't think for one second they'll ever see accountability, because they're all. It's a giant club and you ain't in it, just like George Carlin said, and it's true. But anyway, look, uh, I hope everybody has a fantastic week. Not to start off on a droll moment, but anyway, I hope everyone uh, you know, does great has a fantastic week and we will see you all next monday. We post every monday on lop around uh 9 am eastern standard thank you, lisa.
Speaker 1:uh, lisa handles all of our editing and back-end work, so a big shout-out and big thanks to our girl, lisa, who is amazing, and we will have a new episode out for you every Monday here on IRAC Veteran. If you want to watch us in video form, check it out on the YouTube channel IRAC Veteran 8888. Otherwise, you can find us where all your favorite podcasts are found Stitcher, spotify, apple Podcasts, et cetera. We're out there. Make sure you give us a good rating and maybe leave us a nice comment. Also, go back in on the backend system and send us an email.
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Speaker 2:Nope, no, thanks for everybody listening to us and we have a good fan base and you guys have been great.
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