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This is an emergency broadcast 
system episode of Rumble with 

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Michael Moore. 
I'm Michael Moore, the state 

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legislature in the State House 
of Representatives in Tennessee,

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Has just spent the last four or 
five hours that just ended and I

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wanted to put this up here on my
podcast and get this out to you 

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right away because if you have a
chance to watch this I'm sure 

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you can go online at C-SPAN. 
What just happened, what? 

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I just witnessed what I think 
anybody was tuning in across the

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country, just witnessed was the 
real epitome of where we are at 

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right now in this country. 
With our democracy, the threat 

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that it faces. 
Has and my belief. 

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That this behavior on the part 
of the right-wing, the white 

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supremacist, the Republican 
party and what they did today in

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the state house in Tennessee. 
Will only guarantee their 

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further demise. 
They have no clue. 

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Who this country is anymore. 
And they made a decision today 

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to suspend democracy in the 
state of Tennessee. 

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That's not hyperbole by friends,
the State House of 

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Representatives in Tennessee, 
this afternoon and this evening.

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Voted to remove from office to 
house members. 

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A young black man from Memphis. 
His name is Justin Pearson. 

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And another young black man from
Nashville, his name is Justin 

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Jones. 
Remember those names? 

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Because what they did and how 
they stood up today, against 

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these right Wingers and how they
were treated by them by these 

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Republicans in the House of 
Representatives in Tennessee. 

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This is going to reverberate 
across the country and 

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especially amongst young people.
I'm sure they're there. 

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They're already watching it on 
YouTube. 

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C-SPAN dot-org Tick-Tock passing
it around whatever because There

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were many levels of what what I 
just witnessed here today. 

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The racism of it. 
They're actually they tried, 

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they were three members three 
Democrats in the Tennessee house

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that they tried to expel today. 
And they expelled the two black 

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members, the two young black men
in their 20s. 

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There was a white woman. 
They also tried to expel a 60 

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year old former teacher from 
Knoxville amazing woman, who had

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the Good Fortune I guess to be 
white because they she won. 

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I mean by one vote. 
She was not expelled From the 

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Tennessee House of 
Representatives, but the two 

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young black men, the to Justin's
Justin Pearson and Justin Jones 

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out. 
Removed. 

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These are people voted into 
office by the voters of their 

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districts in Memphis and 
Nashville. 

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And now the voters of those two 
districts have no representation

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in the Tennessee house. 
Gone. 

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Now you're by this point, Mike, 
what are you talking about? 

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What did they do? 
What did they do to have them 

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kicked out of the Tennessee 
House of Representatives? 

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What did these two black guys 
do? 

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A week ago today. 
Students all over Nashville 

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March to the that's the state 
capital, A March to the state, 

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the state capital. 
And protested, the fact that 

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Tennessee has some of the worst 
gun laws in the country. 

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This was two days. 
Two days after the mass shooting

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there at the school in 
Nashville, three dead, nine 

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year, olds three dead staff 
members. 

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By a shooter with an AR-15. 
And so young people, as they've 

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been doing for at least since 
the Parkland shooting, but many 

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young people before that 
protesting all this gun 

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violence. 
And the fact that they now, they

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now as young people, it's become
the number one cause of death 

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for anyone under the age of 18 
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Death by gun. 
Is that the most disgusting, an 

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amazing statistic that you could
hear. 

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Not cancer. 
Not car accidents. 

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Not a whole host of things that 
happen to babies when they're 

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born. 
The number one cause of death 

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for children. 
Under the age of 18, in the US 

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are guns, So, whenever you hear 
of a teenager dying or an 

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eight-year-old dying or 
whatever, your first thought 

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from now, on must always be oh 
my God, who shot them where they

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shot. 
It would, I mean, if anything is

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the number one cause of 
anything, that's where your head

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should go first, right? 
So when you hear a toddler a 

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child, a tween a teen dying. 
Automatically. 

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Statistically. 
You should go. 

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Oh my God. 
Don't tell me more guns, the 

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guns again, because it's the 
number one cause of death. 

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So what did these three 
legislators do? 

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The two young black men and the 
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name was Gloria Johnson from 
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And let me just point out 
something about her that a 

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decade or so ago when she was 
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in Knoxville, There was a school
shooting, there she is a 

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survivor of a school shooting 
and on the floor of the house 

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today, as she was defending her 
actions, she told the story of 

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that day and all the children 
running to hide in her classroom

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because of the shooting in the 
cafeteria. 

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So she's already experienced 
this herself as a teacher. 

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This plague. 
Of gun violence. 

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Why were they being expelled 
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Because last week, when all 
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capitol building to protest, 
demanding gun legislation, And 

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they did their best to keep them
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protest to keep these young 
people outside after that, 

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though they've been getting in. 
And today's protests were all in

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the Rotunda there in the Capitol
in Nashville. 

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But they weren't getting a 
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They weren't their voice was 
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And any Democrat who tried to 
speak on the floor, Republican 

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leader, the Speaker of the House
in Tennessee, which is cut off 

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Democrats or not, call on them 
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And then finally turn the 
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This is like a week ago. 
And so these three house members

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walked up to the main podium in 
front of the speaker, And he cut

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their microphone and cut the 
microphone off. 

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And so then they just kept 
talking, one of them had a 

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little mini bull horns and they 
started talking through that. 

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So everybody could hear them to 
speak out against the NRA 

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against gun violence. 
Against these mass shootings, 

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which they've already been over.
Are what 100 just since New 

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Year's Day in this country, that
was their crime. 

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They were speaking out of turn. 
They violated the rules of the 

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house and so the bills were 
introduced resolutions were 

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introduced to expel them to 
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that's what today was about this
afternoon and this evening in 

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Nashville, Tennessee, The white 
woman was spared by one vote, 

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just one go. 
They needed 66 votes to remove 

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any of them, 65 voted to remove 
her. 

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And then the to Justin's the two
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73, 71 whatever it was votes to 
remove them and they were 

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removed. 
Removed from office, not just 

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kicked out of the room because 
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from office. 
So H they District in Tennessee,

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has anywhere from 70,000 to 
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You know, it's they try to 
divide them up fairly evenly but

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because it's so gerrymandered 
even though Republicans get more

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voters in Tennessee but they 
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they gerrymander the district's 
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Just like they've carved up 
Tennessee for the US House of 

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Representatives. 
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itself, a city with a 
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population after the census in 
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When the Republicans redrew the 
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the city of Nashville. 
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It is like it like a pie. 
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So instead of the one city of 
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and like roughly three pieces 
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white Suburban District 3 white 
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little piece of Nashville And 
then had a white majority and so

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Nashville, which is usually 
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US Congress. 
Now, no longer now represented 

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by Republicans Republicans, that
representing this diverse 

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vibrant, city of Music, 
creativity Arts, a democratic 

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City. 
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Congress by two or three 
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So that's the, that's the 
context of what happened here 

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today. 
And each of the three who were 

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accused because they, they went 
up to the microphone on that day

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last week to speak their piece 
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legislation that needed to pass.
The Republicans called it an 

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uprising. 
They compared it to January 6. 

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This was a nonviolent peaceful, 
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protest, I guess it was in the 
sense because they the speaker 

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wasn't allowing them to speak. 
So they just went ahead and kept

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speaking. 
So they broke the rule. 

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But as one of the individuals, 
representative Pearson Justin 

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Pearson, he did his homework. 
He said his fiance is a is in 

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law school and so she helped him
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against them. 
The charges are not true. 

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They weren't breaking the 
permanent rules of the Tennessee

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house. 
I mean, it was really was just 

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brilliant the way that they kind
of broke it down and tore it 

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apart and threw it back in the 
faces and So so then these 

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Republicans, he's these white, 
men got to stand up and and 

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Jacques use these three 
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I mean if it wasn't so sick it 
would be hilarious but the way 

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that they talk to them the way 
that they interrogated them at 

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the podium today. 
You know, you and you know why 

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you're standing there right now.
You know, why you're in trouble?

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Not there talking to them is. 
It's a complex. 

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It's not really. 
It's not a complex tone. 

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The tone is very clear, I'm 
certain especially if you're 

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black and especially if you're 
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To be talked to like, you know, 
you are a child and but to talk 

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to be talked to like, you're not
white when they interrogated the

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woman, the white woman former 
teacher, who broke the rules. 

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They changed, they change. 
If you get to watch this on 

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C-Span or whatever, just watch 
the tonal change. 

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First of all, she's white. 
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she's black. 
I mean, you got to I mean, if 

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you grew up like I did starting 
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the 20th century. 
You're very used to this tone, 

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you know, this you grew up 
listening to it evil. 

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But to hear it in 2023. 
So, when they talk to the white 

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woman, they talk like you're 
talking to a white person and 

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they. 
So, so, some respect, but then 

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she's a woman. 
So then it's a bunch of men, 

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man. 
Splaining to her the questions 

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that they're asking her and, and
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So, again, I think probably if 
you're a woman, you know, this 

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tone, right? 
I don't know. 

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I'm probably mansplaining it 
right now, but I mean, it was 

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just like, are you freaking 
kidding me? 

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and the way that they went after
these two young black 

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Representatives, these two men 
And why do you think you're 

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standing there boy? 
They left off the boy, but it's 

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there. 
And in fact, both of them said, 

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later afterwards. 
They heard it. 

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They know the tone, they know 
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You think you get to come in 
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Just because you're elected and 
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Boy. 
What I think we have here is a 

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failure to be white. 
Hmm. 

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Oh my God, please. 
I mean, I hate to have to have 

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you listen to this, because it's
so freaking disturbing and 

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disgusting, but I think it's 
important. 

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We know that what we're up 
against, it's important to know 

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it because we keep beating it. 
We beat these people on Tuesday 

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in Wisconsin. 
We beat their attempt to take 

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over Chicago, on Tuesday, in the
mayor election with a republican

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running as a Democrat. 
We beat them in a lot of red 

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States, back in November last 
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All voted for abortion rights. 
Michigan Minnesota, 

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Massachusetts. 
Maryland, all all took over 

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their state house. 
Where their state house and the 

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state senate are now 
democratic-controlled. 

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The governor's Attorney General 
Secretary of States in all four 

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states, they all now are fully 
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And they join another, what 14 
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that way. 
So we're pushing 20 States, 

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almost 20 States. 
Now we're Democrats are in 

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charge. 
Now, you know, you've listened 

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to me long enough for read my 
stuff, or watch my movies. 

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A lot of problems with Democrats
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about them. 
And I hope I have helped to 

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contribute by being so critical 
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we now have more and more and 
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winning that are sitting in 
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that have well over 100 members 
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progressives. 
It wasn't like that 10 years, 20

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years, definitely not 30 years 
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even 20 years ago, they were 
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like it was a dirty word, they 
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so they didn't say it and they 
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Democratic platform. 
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abortion, they didn't want to 
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So they removed all that so they
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were so afraid. 
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about all these years I've been 
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before my first film, that's how
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know me back then in 1989. 
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in 1972. 
I was the first 18 year old 

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The youngest person, one of the 
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So, you know, I've been doing 
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out, to try to, you know, what's
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the field, guys. 
Come on guys, move the ball down

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the field so that we do the 
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So that This madness ends. 
The fact that they removed 

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people who are elected to 
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money, they were bribed by some 
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The last time they remove 
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removed two people in the last 
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Tennessee. 
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then the other was in 2016 4, 22
allegations of sexual misconduct

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against. 
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so they they bounced him on the 
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A big Hyun big cry about how 
wrong this is, you know they you

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know, this man didn't get his 
due process. 

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They they they informed these 
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to be put on trial today on 
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They just decided to hell with 
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you were removed from office. 
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removed by only one vote, she 
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them afterwards, they went 
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building. 
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when our reporter asks, you 
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to say stupid question it 
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wants to hear her say it. 
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former teacher from Knoxville 
who was not removed today by one

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vote. 
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So on representative Johnson, 
why do you think they were 

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removed and not you? 
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goes racism. like, Everybody 
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And also, the other thing it is,
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There they hate. 
The fact that there are twenty 

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somethings. 
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houses, in a lot of our state, 
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Representatives, we have a 25 
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Frost from Orlando Florida. 
Now represents part of Orlando 

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there in the US Congress. 
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They had him on talking about on
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Pearson Justin Pearson he said, 
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defending himself wasn't really 
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He was just give it right back 
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You're damn right. 
I'm going to stand up for these 

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three. 
Nine year, olds who were killed 

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and everybody else who's poor 
who doesn't have health care 

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who, you know, went down the 
whole list and then he and then 

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he stated he said I stand here 
in this body. 

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I stand for the lost, the last, 
and the least. 

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The lost the last and the least.
Holy Thursday. 

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Passover. 
Ramadan. 

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All of that today. 
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These bible-thumping 
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Christians and when they filed 
out of there after they did this

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and they had to go through a 
gauntlet, a very actually 

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respectful Gauntlet of young 
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they made way a little space in 
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And no violence, no pushing no 
shoving, just a gentle, you're a

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fascist, you're a fascist, 
you're a fascist, you're a 

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fascist as they left and it's 
like, it's seriously. 

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These white guys. 
The camera angle is beautiful. 

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As they walked this Gauntlet, 
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they were coming off an assembly
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But I swear to God talk about 
how white people all look alike.

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They look, they just all looked 
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It was like they were coming off
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One angry older white guy after 
another Walking out of the 

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chambers and having to pass by 
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Who's number one, cause of death
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I don't know, I just wanted to 
turn on my microphone here and I

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wanted to talk to all of you as 
quickly as possible. 

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I want you to watch this. 
If you can, it's up on C-Span 

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dot-org or it's on TV. 
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just turn it on. 
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said if 70 to 80 thousand 
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these three represent. 
They were attempting to remove 

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the voice of almost a quarter of
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That was on the agenda today. 
Remove the voice in the state 

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house, for nearly a quarter 
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And they got rid of two of them 
the what the two who were black.

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And so you've got probably at 
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tennesseans tonight. 
Who have zero representation in 

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the Tennessee House of 
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In other words, their rights to 
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them. 
Not just the representatives 

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being removed, but the 150,000 
now who have no voice, that 

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means they have no democracy 
when it comes to anything going 

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on in the Tennessee house. 
Now, there's going to be a 

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special election. 
Do not quite exactly what the 

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procedures are in Tennessee. 
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and Jones afterwards outside of 
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Press conference announced that 
You're planning to run and come 

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back. 
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you had of course, everyone in 
their district is going to vote 

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for them and return them to a 
district, full of people who are

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going to be able to vote. 
Now, a district that's been told

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right now. 
You have no voice in the 

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Tennessee legislature here. 
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that Justin Jones in just a sin 
are going to be right back in 

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there. 
So that's the good news. 

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I guess from this are before I 
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go but I just to be to be a 
witness to a state represented 

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by its house. 
Voting to essentially end 

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democracy because if you have 
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million people that no longer 
are being represented then you 

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can't call your state of 
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Everybody is represented in a 
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now, that's not the case in 
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So to witness a destruction of a
democracy in a state today was 

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chilling. 
It was gobsmacking If you watch 

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this it will start to take your 
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But I want to tell you I'm going
to end on this. 

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The good news in the feeling. 
I after I sat here, processed it

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for a while. 
I thought how stupid are the 

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Republicans I mean, look at all 
the seats that they lost in the 

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November election when they were
so sad, that big red wave and 

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all these states that voted in 
Democrats, the Democrats ended 

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up with more US senators after 
the November election than they 

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have before it. 
And they only are missing the 

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house here by just a few seats. 
And I'll tell you when you watch

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this, if you do watch it, or 
just you can take my word for 

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it. 
If you want young people. 

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Young people are watching us, 
they're very tuned in as I 

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speak. 
I know. 

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I know thousands of them are 
passing this around the internet

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right now, passing this around 
on social media. 

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What? 
They just witnessed everything 

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that happened today was one slap
across their face and then right

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back on the other side of their 
face, that way that these two 

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young black men were spoken to 
First is degraded as black men 

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by these white racist. 
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house but also because they were
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So they were talked down to, in 
that way to. 

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I got a double whammy for it. 
And I know enough, Jen's ears, 

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and millennials. 
The Parkland generation, the 

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Columbine generation. 
I know and work with them. 

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I've met enough of them in my 
years of making films and 

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traveling the country helping to
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They're not going to like this 
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The looks on these young 
people's faces as they as the 

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white race is filed out of out 
of the house. 

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I thought, man, these 
Republicans in addition to what 

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they've done to women. 
Two young women, but to all 

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women through getting rid of Roe
v-- Wade to all the other 

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anti-women, anti-seize Idaho 
passed a law this week to try 

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and track any woman who tries to
leave I to Idaho or any young 

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woman who doesn't have 
permission of her, parents tries

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to leave Idaho to go get an 
abortion, another state because 

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they're going to make abortion 
completely illegal. 

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And I do that, they can arrest 
you. 

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They could arrest you on a 
felony. 

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For sneaking out of your state, 
to go, have a medical procedure.

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That you have a right to because
it's your friggin body. 

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So we've got a lot of fight here
in front of us, but the good 

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news is there's more of us than 
there are of them. 

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The good news is, is that every 
year for million 17 year, olds 

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in this country, turn 18 and 
become eligible voters for 

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million a year. 
Just so you get a handle on that

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that means between the election 
of Biden in 2020. 

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And the election next year in 
2024 That means 16 million. 

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Teenagers became eligible 
voters. 

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How many of these teenagers do 
you think are going to vote for 

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the party of trump? 
Because they didn't in the last 

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few elections and we had record 
turnouts of young voters record 

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not like the old days anymore. 
These gems ears. 

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A lot of these Millennials, they
vote. 

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They've more than any other age 
demographic. 

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They're not racist, they're not 
misogynist. 

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And they're not haters. 
And we taught our boys to 

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respect women. 
And these kids, remember the old

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joke Colbert used to do when he 
had his show there on Comedy 

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Central when he was playing a 
version of Bill O'Reilly, I 

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don't see color. 
I don't see color. 

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Nothing ever really used to say.
What are you talking about? 

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There's no racism here with us. 
We don't see color. 

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Actually these kids they don't I
mean they may see it if for all 

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the good things that color 
brings that ethnicity brings 

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that diversity. 
Brings the for all the good 

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reasons, but but they don't see 
it to hate. 

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Now, I'm not saying that's true 
for all that making a huge 

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blanket statement, but I'm 
telling you, I turned off the TV

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here after watching this 
disgusting display of of racism 

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in anti-democracy. 
Zealots. 

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I turned it off and I just 
thought the young people are 

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going to save us. 
I don't want to put that on 

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them, it doesn't let anybody 
else listening to this off the 

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hook, but they know the, what, 
what of this and they're not 

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going to tolerate it and if you 
don't think they know when you 

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don't think they're thinking 
what I'm going to tell you trust

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me they think about it and us 
every day and that is the planet

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that we are handing them. 
The planet, they're going to 

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have to survive on. 
In the 2060s, the 20 70s, the 

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2080s. 
That planet. 

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You know what I'm talking about?
And they know they know we 

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aren't probably depending on, 
you know, what your age is here.

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A lot of us aren't going to 
suffer it. 

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And then just remind everybody 
that 24 election. 

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This we're in 23, it's next 
year. 

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And it's not only about the 
candidates, it's about ballot 

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proposals, it's about a whole 
bunch of things that we need to 

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be doing. 
We need to be working on it 

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right now and I'm sorry to 
sound. 

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So, like you need to do this. 
But I mean, you know, if you are

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a boomer, if you're of my 
generation or whatever, don't 

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just leave this up to your kids.
If anything out of just our 

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sense of wanting to seek their 
forgiveness, for what they're 

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going to have to live through 30
years, from now, 40 years from 

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now, 50 years from now. 
Because we messed it up. 

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Get involved. 
That's what I wanted to say 

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here. 
I hope it wasn't too. 

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Just joined it. 
I didn't really write up any 

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notes for myself here. 
I'm just so upset. 

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Having just turned this off 
witnessing another claps of 

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democracy and yet knowing 
knowing knowing just again this 

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week in Wisconsin, this week in 
Chicago, this week, so many 

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places people are throwing the 
Republicans out of office. 

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They are refusing all of their 
hate all of their destruction of

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this planet. 
It doesn't go as far as you are,

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I wanted to go but that it will 
if we get more of us involved 

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and do something about it. 
That's what I leave you with. 

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We can do this. 
We have to do it. 

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I want to thank producer and 
editor of this podcast, the 

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wonderful angel of Argos and all
of you for listening and sharing

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this with others. 
Please. 

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Pass it around more victories. 
That had folks. 

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More victories are ahead. 
Take care everyone. 

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I'll talk to you real soon. 
This is Michael Moore and this 

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is Rumble.