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Hello folks, my name is Ernest. Thank

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you for tuning in. Before I go into

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this, I want you to know regardless of

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where you stand politically, this

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episode is not intended to be about

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politics. It's about basic goddamn

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humanity or a lack thereof.

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Currently in America, if you're one of

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the fortunate few whose hard day of work

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consists of 18 rounds of golf at a

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private golf course followed by a

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fabulous dinner, you probably won't hear

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this message. But the rest of us have

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certainly heard yours. Need SNAP

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benefits to keep you and your family

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from going hungry? [ __ ] you. need a

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functional government that isn't shut

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down to provide taxpaying citizens with

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even the most basic governmental

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functions such as lifesaving emergency

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organ transplants typically sent via

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aircraft. [ __ ] you. Yes, I believe most

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Americans are getting the message loud

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and clear. The question becomes though,

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what are we going to do about it?

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Well,

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I believe that when enough Americans and

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their children begin to starve, they'll

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begin to be thinking long and hard about

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some terrible decisions they made about

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a year ago. Because now the proverbial

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chickens are coming home to roost. And

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King Trump and his round table of

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thievingly rich bureaucratic puppets in

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the White House has a clear and

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unambiguous message to the peasants, aka

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the American working class. [ __ ] you. I

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want to reiterate that this is not meant

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to be about politics per se. This is a

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critique of what America shamefully has

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become. At no time in the relatively

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short history of this nation has there

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been a more corrupt, inept, and inhuman

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president and administration than now.

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The current administration, which are

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nothing but total lap dogs for

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bureaucratic corporate interest, have

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been working overtime to destroy every

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social pillar of our democratic society.

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If I may name just a few.

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A war on workers rights and protections.

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A war against unionization.

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A war against environmental

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responsibility.

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A war against the public school system.

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A war against federal workers. And a war

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against any and all critical news media,

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if any still exist at all. And that's

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only a handful of what's been destroyed

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or is in the process of being destroyed.

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right now. As far as the Supreme Court,

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what do you think our paragonss of law

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and social justice think about King

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Trump's desire and demand to destroy the

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SNAP food assistance subsidy? Think

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apparently they think the idea is just

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fine and dandy. King Trump's lap dogs of

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the bureaucratic corporate elite voted

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to side with King Trump to halt SNAT

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food benefit payments as Trump wanted.

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So, so much for the Supreme Court.

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I find it very ironic that this select

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group of creatures who are very well-

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paid and benefited and have their job

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for life who are supposed to be decent

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human beings capable of good, humane and

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rational judgment would vote to deny

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those truly in need of support. to those

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needing the most basic element of life,

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food, and the wealthiest and supposedly

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greatest nation on earth.

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You can bet your ass one thing though.

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None of them are ever going to go

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hungry. And none of them I'd be willing

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to wager a lot of money if I had it ever

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have been. So I ask you now and I don't

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give a damn what political stripe you're

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from. Does this seem right to you? Do

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you think this degradation and

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humiliation forced on people with little

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or no means to do better and most often

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are simply victims of circumstance and

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situations

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they had no control over is right.

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I can tell you that in the past 20 years

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alone, I have personally known dozens

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and dozens of people that lost

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everything by no fault of their own. And

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I can state that with an absolute truth.

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I'm about to wrap this up. And if you've

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stuck around this long, I absolutely

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thank you. And if you are or formerly

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were a King Trump supporter, I doubly

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thank you and want to ask you one of the

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most difficult questions of all. What

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would Jesus do?

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Now, I'm not trying to be sarcastic. As

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I've stated many times before, I'm very

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happily agnostic, but I do appreciate

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much of the philosophy of the Jesus.

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I'm saying this because I know many of

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King Trump's base to be religious. So

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with that in mind, I'm simply asking you

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this. Do you think Jesus would endorse

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the idea of cutting SNAP benefits?

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I would certainly hope not because I

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don't claim to be a theologian by any

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means, but I do seem to remember Jesus

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healing people and Jesus feeding people.

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You know, generally doing good things.

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That's why I subscribe to the idea of

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the old Dooby brother song that Jesus is

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just all right with me.

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Just one last thing. When I think of

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King Trump, one of the closest

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historical figures in terms of

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delusional and utter disconnection from

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reality and anything other than the most

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superficial human connection, I think of

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the Roman Emperor Nero.

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Now, historically, much is known about

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and said about Nero, and one of them

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being, besides the fact that he stomped

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his own mother to death, is that Nero

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fiddled as Rome burned. Which begs the

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question, I wonder what tune King Trump

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is currently playing because America is

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sure as hell burning.

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I invite you to reach out to me. I would

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love to discuss any of this or anything

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else for that matter with you.

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Until next time, this is Ernest and it's

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all I've got for today.