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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah. It's time for Florida man. All right, so a Florida man tossed $4,000 worth of stolen meat. when he found his girlfriend cooking with another man.
Wooger, what you doing? Independent says the Florida man tossed $4,000 worth of stolen meat. He made off with an assortment, like topped sirloin, brisket, beef, and lamb, said authorities.
So, what ended up happening is Cuban national.
So, is that meaning illegal alien? He's accused of stealing $4,000 from a number of different grocery stores of meat. Hineas Renea. Of Jacksonville. He's caught on surveillance footage stealing an assortment of meats and Phoeixons from two separate public stores, according to Flager County Sheriff.
Oh man, that's a lot. He okay, over $1,500 of meat from one play from one Publix. And then 20 minutes later, he stole over $2,000 worth of meat. From another Publix. He was identified as the suspect, but then after, so he drove to his girlfriend's house.
And he found she was cooking with another dude. What?
So after he found that out, he was very upset. He tossed most of the stolen meat. And That was yeah.
So he was arrested for felony, retail theft. And he's in the b I don't know about the girlfriend. She moved on and was cooking with another man, so you know. Just saying, that's a lot of meat to get though for two people. Was he going to have a big old cookout?
I've got questions. A man was arrested after groping a driver and causing a crash in Miami. Oh, for the love. Susan BC, the victim lost control of the car and crashed. This was in Little Havana.
That's yeah. The Oscar Aguire, 26, he's accused of covering the victim's mouth and groping her. She's a driving service. She was driving him somewhere. and it made her lose control of the car and crash.
And video shows, it was caught on video, like the crash and then the aftermath. Don't know if anybody was injured. He tried to flee later on foot, but was caught in a parking lot.
So now he's got battery, culpable negligence, exposure to personal injury. Uh, he's got his bond. He also is a TRO against the victim. Oh, and he's an illegal alien, so he's on a hold. Isn't that interesting?
Two stories. Two stories, back to back now. Falling. Mm-hmm. involving a legal alien.
A man was fired from his new job After he showed up in a bathrobe to collect his first paycheck, after he was day drinking. Oh, I thought this was America.
So it apparently was an office prank. He was still hung over, but And he drank heavily the night before, his first payday, his first day off. Colleagues were like, sleep it off, but he showed up to work the next morning anyway, still hungover and wearing a bathrobe. And he ended up being promptly fired, like days into his new job. Uh apparently they didn't like the spectacle of it and um Yeah, so.
That's Yeah.
So at least you got one paycheck.
Well, yeah, he did. He got like the one paycheck.
So there's There's that. A Florida woman was arrested after alleged fare ride line dispute with a child. Yeah. A boca raton. It was in Palm Beach County.
They apparently got into a fight. over a line at a ride at a fair.
So a woman lost her temper. She thought an 11-year-old was cutting into the line. She grabbed and yelled at the kid. It's a South Florida Fair. Reyesa D'Souza was arrested, charged with battery, and then resisting arrest without violence.
So the girl stepped out of line to use the arresting with her parents and was trying to get back with her family. And that's when apparently the woman grabbed her by the r arm, pulled her backward. And the child ran back to the parents crying. And then the deputies arrived, found that woman still waiting in line for the ride, and they took her into custody. I would have whooped her.
my gosh. Give me an excuse. I know, like what is wrong with people? It's an 11-year-old kid. Their family's there.
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I don't care if you have a license in another district, and I don't care if you're a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail, and hope you get the gun back. Oh my word. That's good. What is happening?
That's exactly how you reacted when it happened. Oh my gosh. Woohoo! Yeah. Welcome back to the program.
Dana Lash with you. Top of the Second hour. I like I'm going to just say, separate from this, I like Janine Pira. I've she's I've been on her show before. Talk to her on the phone.
She's hysterical because You know, she's you know, most people are like, Hey, how are you? She just launches like feet first into a topic. There is no, like, we're not doing the greetings and salutations. It wastes time. I'm kind of the same way, so I appreciate that.
She's very straightforward and hysterical.
Now, I don't even agree with my husband 100% of the time on things.
So you know as sure as hell I ain't gonna agree with anybody that's not my husband on probably even less than. What she said was not correct. Because you can get a non-resident DC permit. I have a lot of friends who have them. And In fact, one of my friends was the first to get one.
It is the laws that you have, the hoops that you have to jump through because you have to have like separate things for your ammo. I mean, you can't even have like a show key, it's so stupid.
So that's not entirely correct. I don't know. At first, we were like, well, is she just referencing. Prohibited possessors, right? Maybe, and then she's like, even if you're law, I was like, oh no, oh, I don't know.
I was thinking that when I first saw that clip, that was what I was thinking. And then she said, I was like, no! I was like launching in my mind, launching myself at the word, just shove it back in her mouth and. You know, like, no, get back in there, don't come out. Don't be verbalized.
Shh. Just didn't happen. I don't have that. ability. But Yes, you you can.
resident permits that you can get. And it's okay. And this was all about the Predi case and et cetera, et cetera.
Now she tried. Cleaning it up. This was cut seventeen. Listen to those. Good morning everyone.
I'm here in the office and some people are concerned about something I said yesterday, so I want to be crystal clear. I am a proud supporter of the Second Amendment. I have guns myself, long guns, handguns, and I'm a proud high-heeled gun owner. In fact, I even keynoted an NRA convention.
However, you need to be responsible. And every responsible gun owner that I know makes sure that they understand the laws, where they are going, and understand whatever registration requirements there might be. President Trump's goal Here and my goal as well is to make sure we take guns out of the hands of criminals. There is a reason that we have the lowest homicide rate in recorded history. We're taking guns off the street, illegal guns, in the hands of criminals who want to use those guns to victimize law-abiding citizens.
There's a big difference here. You're responsible, you follow the laws, you're not going to have a problem with me. Hmm.
So, I mean, yes, it's not a... Why where do you sit over there? I th It just did. It didn't do it for you? No, it didn't.
Because she was pretty clear. I don't want to have to like get mad and g come at you like Amy Klobuchar with my shoe. She was pretty clear in her original comment about I don't care if you're a law-abiding person in another district, doesn't matter she was really clear in that first one. Yet she was very broad and muddy with the apology. She wasn't specific.
She didn't tackle or address any of the specific things she said in her original argument. She just said, I'm a friend of 2A, I'm a supporter of 2A. That's very general in response to a specific thing you said. It it it is. It is very virginal.
Because you, the administration just needs to be very careful about messaging on this. They need to be very, very careful about messaging.
Now, in DC, specifically, like I said, you can get a non-resident permit. It's not entirely super easy to get, but it's possible and you can get them. Like I said, I have a lot of friends that have gotten them, but You know, the big thing is that the administration is not Inspiring. a lot of confidence. Um In terms of its defense of the Second Amendment because of this stuff.
And I don't like to see people having to do damage control over it. And that's the other thing. The statement that anybody bringing a gun in the district will go to jail, that wasn't really pushed back. Entirely. Um, permit holders from other jurisdictions face charges.
She was trying to, she was trying to clarify, though. She had. uh with that second the second video Um but I think, you know, she said that her goal was to take hands, guns, out of the hands of criminals. And You know, a friend of mine said, you know, you could have a valid Virginia permit. And if you carry a pistol in D.C., that's you're a criminal under D.
C. law.
So I don't think that they should be prosecuted as zealously as you would prosecute. a violent repeat offender. you know, who's involved in carjacking or something like that.
So And the ban on openly carried firearms and what they call, I hate this word, large capacity because it's so stupid. I mean, that is something that, I mean, it violates the Second Amendment. And I want to see the DOJ talk about violating the Second Amendment and standing up for citizens' rights more so than, you know, going after people who might be made criminals because of, you know, incredibly ridiculous, excuse me, incredibly ridiculous laws. That's um and then and then prosecuting them the same as you would, you know, a violent felon. And that's the big issue.
Um I don't like the idea of a quote-unquote unregistered gun. I don't like that phrase. I think it's all an abridgment. It is, because it is all an abridgment. And so I I I want to hear More about sticking up for law-abiding gun owners than perhaps going after them as though they are criminals.
because they don't adhere to DC's stupid purposefully confusing. Laws. And that's, you know, I don't even know what she could say at this point. Unless she goes out and says, okay, well, we're not going to go after anybody who has. you know, a carry permit from Another state, you know, maybe we'll just like, you know, have like a misdemeanor, you know, wrist slap or something if they're in DC with it.
I don't know. But I don't think that she's going to do that. It's just, my point is that it made a mess out of something that didn't even need to be, there was no mess that needed to be made. The administration needs to stop jerking this attention back onto firearms because it has nothing to do with guns. This has to do with use of lethal force and it has to do with impeding federal law enforcement investigations.
Has nothing to do. With 2A, that was one of the things I remarked about over the weekend. It has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. It stopped being about that the moment the guy who was carrying decided to commit a felony, thereby committing another felony. But we just this is just not helpful And it's frustrating because now It puts good people.
It make it puts them up for a ton of criticism. that you know they ended up netting because of this, because of their remarks. I don't know. And there have been a lot of groups and a lot of other folks that have been very concerned about all of this as well. But it's just It's something And here's the other thing, and Kay made this good point because he's like, it's sort of bizarre that we're in this world where the left is pro-gut, they're not.
Here's the thing: you're being baited. They're trying to do two things at once here. I have a piece coming out in the Washington Times about this this week. They're trying to do two things at once. The first thing that they're trying to do is they're trying to go after ICE and use of lethal force, and they're temporarily supporting.
This guy's you know Second Amendment rights. Just as a way to divide further, exploit the division on the right over this because they're seizing on the ill-timed and ill-informed remarks that the administrator has been making about the Second Amendment. The other thing, too, is they're trying to Redefine what they think legal carry is and mainstream that. If you've noticed, like the Giffords group, the Brady group, they've all been very careful with their language. You know, they don't say that he lawfully carried in that situation.
They say that he was a lawful firearm owner. And then, separately from that, they're very careful with their words. They get into use of lethal force because they don't necessarily believe that he was a lawful gun owner. All of these same exec groups, these were the people who advocated against optics. They advocated for any magazine that was like over five to seven rounds that held five to seven rounds.
They campaigned against having, you know, regular, you know, detachable. Magazines, they camped. I mean, for crying out loud, they advocated against threaded barrels. I mean, this is who these people are. Everything about the pistol that this dude had.
They wanted him to be a felon for it before his engagement with ICE ever happened. They would have made him a felon over it. I mean, Gavin Newsom banned carry of firearms in protest in California.
So, this idea, and notice how none of them have come out and said, well, you should be able to carry it or protest. They haven't said that because they know in a number of these states, they've actually the states and local municipalities that have passed restrictions on carry and protests have all been Democrat.
So they're trying to mainstream what they think is a more lukewarm view of the Second Amendment.
So they're trying to walk it back. by exploiting the support of Second Amendment advocates. They're trying to walk it back and redefine it. You got to be very careful what these people do, they're very crafty. But it doesn't help.
You know, it doesn't help when you have... The administrative officials make these remarks that really serve that purpose. Right there.
So now they're trying to get Republicans to be like, yeah, you well, I mean, should you be able to carry in a? Protest, you got all these admin people coming out.
Well, you know, you shouldn't be able to carry. Oh, yeah, two loaded magazines. Oh my gosh, you know, some maximum capacity, all this other stupid verbiage that I've heard. They're trying to get Republicans to accept that and mainstream it. You gotta be very, very careful.
Very careful with this. But like I said, it stopped being a Second Amendment issue the second the guy committed a felony while carrying. And he committed a felony while carrying by carrying while committing a felony. During the holidays, it's easy for all the healthy habits to go out the window. Desserts, late nights, you name it.
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Alright, so first and foremost. Alleged, this is a crazy story.
So. Savannah Guthrie's mom was apparently kidnapped, and there was an alleged ransom note that was sent. I think. maybe Team Z had it first, where they were demanding millions in Bitcoin. This is weird.
They said there was apparently like blood outside, and her pacemaker stopped syncing with her Apple Watch. Over the weekend, apparently. That's that to me was a real that. I mean, I don't know, maybe it's because it's too far apart. I don't know.
Pima County Sheriff said that they were aware of reports that were circulating about all of this. By the way, all the auto videos that play on these websites, I know, went to me though. I'm like, gosh, dang it, you people. No one wants to hear your stuff. But the thing that gets me is that they said that, like, the neighbors.
Thought that they noticed some things that were strange. There was apparently some blood outside. But yeah, the pacemaker stopped sinking with the watch, and now you have this alleged ransom note. This is just such a weird. I saw another headline where they said maybe it was one of her fans that went too far.
What?
I know, that's crazy. Even crazier, Jill Biden's ex-husband was charged with killing his wife. Former First Lady Jill Biden, her ex-husband. Murdered his wife, apparently.
Well, that's what he's being charged with following an extensive weeks-long investigation. This is police in Delaware. They announced this yesterday, or sorry, earlier today. Actually, no, yesterday. Police officers responded to a reported domestic dispute.
They found Linda Stevenson 64 unresponsive on the living room floor. Her husband had called 911 at the time. They are charging him with first-degree murder in connection with his wife's death. The indictment alleges that he, quote, did intentionally cause the death. of his wife.
He didn't post 500,000 bonds, so he's in jail. That is her ex-husband. She was married to a guy who's capable of murder. I'm not surprised. Is that the guy she left Biden for?
Yeah. Ooh, this is very weird. Remember how Billie Eilish was all, we're on stolen land.
Okay, well, yeah, the Native American tribe that owns the land that her message. that her mansion is on. They have a message for her. They're like, go ahead and give it back then. How about that?
It's the Tongva tribe. They said her $3 million home does, in fact, sit on its ancestral land. Notice they didn't say it's our land, they just said ancestral land. Uh and They said that she hasn't contacted them ever, but they said that maybe she should explicitly reference us next time. Do you honestly think Billie Irish, Billie Eilish, even knows who the Tonka Tribe is?
No, she doesn't because she's a dumb, stupid white chick whose brother plays dolls with her as a real-life doll. She doesn't write any of her own stuff. All she does is sing in the same breath the whole time. The whole thing is her brother who created her. That's it.
There's an update on that story from this morning from an LA law firm. Sinai Law says that they are the actual top eviction law firm and they will help evict Billie Eilish. If necessary. Yeah, that's what happens when you go out there and you say stupid stuff like that. We'll return to the story.
The son of Gaddafi, Muamar Gaddafi, was killed. According to news sources, the Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son, and a, I think it was the oldest of his sons, because he has others, have been, he was killed according to family sources. They said this yesterday. They don't have any details of exactly what all the roles happen, you know, what happened, but interesting.
So he was, he's been, he's now exed. Off the Earth's crust, like his father was. Very interesting. And.
Now we have people getting, this is a crazy story, a recruit, a police recruit in New Orleans. was taken out of service, arrested by federal agents because he's here illegally. Aspiring police officer taken into ICE. I know, ICE custody. They said that there was nothing in his personnel packet that would give us reason to believe that he didn't have legal status.
Really, nothing in his packet. They said he had to vial a driver's license. Yeah, but because some states have been giving them out, that's why. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you.
It's good to be back with you. Had a fun time in Kansas, although it was two degrees. In Wichita, you people are tough up there. I walked out. I was there was snow everywhere.
My heart cried. But everybody was very sweet. It was a very nice time. The um while that was happening, everybody was gearing up for the gray. I didn't watch the gray.
I used to watch I 'cause I used to watch award shows because I loved the pomp and circumstance and I liked the fashion of it. And I just I don't know. Maybe as the years go by, I just have less tolerance for stupid stuff. Maybe that's what it is. I don't know.
But What gets me is that They go all off. on, you know, for instance, like jelly roll. Who lost a lot of weight, by the way, and he apparently didn't do it with the fat jabs. He apparently was like working out. He worked out with a friend of mine, who's a bow hunter.
He like worked out and ate right and you. You know, because diet is 90% of it. That is a legit thing. I say this as somebody that does intermittent fasting every day. It is a legit thing.
So He, you know, he had made his acceptance speech and he was talking about Jesus because he's really become Christian, he's really growing in his faith. He was asked about ICE because you know, every all these celebrities, and the reason I'm bringing this up is because they're still trying to really go at him. Like him, Sidney Sweeney, every single time I see their names pop up somewhere, it's always some reporter that's trying to. You know, foment some kind of new controversial narrative over the goofiest thing.
So he was asked about all of the ice stuff. And he was not going to get into it. This is cut 33. He was not going to get into it. Listen.
I can tell you that people shouldn't care to hear my opinion, man. You know, I'm a dumb redneck. I haven't watched enough. I didn't have a phone for 18 months. I've had one for four months and don't have social media.
I hate to be the artist aesthetic aloof, but I just become so disconnected from what's happening, and I'm just not a. I grew up in a house. Of, like, insane pandemonium, and like, you like, I didn't even know politics were real until I was in my mid-20s in jail. Like, that's how disconnected. When you grow up in a drug addict household, you think we like have common calls about what's happening in world politics?
Like, we're just trying to find a way to survive, man. You know? And I have a lot to say about it, and I'm going to in the next week. And everybody's going to hear exactly what I have to say about it in the most loud and clear way I've ever spoken in my life.
So I look forward to it. There we go. He's I mean, he was being classy about it. He did make a good point, though. I don't think he needed to put himself down at all.
Because I mean, the reason that he is where he is is because he's made some real smart decisions. You know, he says he's a dumb redneck, but you don't make dumb decisions and get where you are. But what he said though, what he touched on, I thought was interesting because he was like, you know, back then, we were just trying to survive. And it's very this is why I feel like there are such um an impetus on Not just news gathering, but relaying things as accurately as possible. And there's some things you can be sensational over and you can have fun over.
But I think he was still That is separate from making sure that you're correct with information because people are just trying to live. I mean, people are trying to survive right now. For some of us, this is what we're nerds and we really enjoy it, and then others, it's our, you know, it's what we do for our profession. And I think when you have that responsibility, you do need to turn around and make sure that you're giving a return on the investment of someone's time into your content by being a straight shooter with them and not BSing them about stuff. Uh, especially when their time is so limited because they're just trying to survive, is what he was alluding to.
Like, you're he's you're not able to follow every single thing. And I will say, you know, with the advent of social media. Humans aren't supposed to follow every single thing. There's certain things that I just can't follow because I'm too busy following everything else. I don't have research assistants.
So It's incredibly important. Not just to be first, but to be correct on things. But good for him because they were, and they were like, Oh, can you believe it? They were trying to act like it was, somebody was trying to act like. They were offended on behalf of dumb rednecks.
Like all of a sudden, the press cares about rednecks. When did that happen? When the hell did the press ever care about a redneck? They still don't. They're pretending to, just like they're pretending to support the Second Amendment and the Alex Predty case, which isn't even about the Second Amendment.
This is what the media does. Oh, Jelly Rule said he's a dumb redneck.
Now they're going to act like it's a slur or something. You the media's hated flyover people forever. Don't sit here and act like you're all offended for the Rednecks now. Oh my Lord. Yo, my Atlanta.
Oh. Peas and carrots. You're not gonna act like you're all offended for them now. I just thought what he did was a heck of a lot better. than Billie Eilish.
We don't really need to play her thing, do we? I feel like she's literally just a creation of her brother. I feel like her brother went from playing dolls to just dressing up his baby sister. And he made her into an artist because she doesn't do any of this. Like, he writes the songs, he does all of it.
That's true.
So, I mean they can get man. Yeah, go ahead and play it. Might as well. Go ahead. No one is illegal on stolen land.
We can't move over there because the crack will so assure us. No one is illegal on stolen land. There's no such thing as stolen land. It's either purchased or conquered. Yeah, it's just that all the land all over the world is either purchased or conquered.
Everything, and if she's so upset about stolen land, then she can give her big old mansion to the Tonga tribe because they're like, Yeah, that's our ancestral land that your house is on. But she doesn't even know any of this because her brother didn't write it on a song sheet for her.
So she doesn't know. Her brother Phineas. Senior Finance and Arb? Phineas and Ferb? Yeah, Phineas and Ferb.
I like I like Phineas and Herb better, honestly, though. Let's be real. I do feel like he just created her. I've not been a fan. I've never really been a fan because it all felt contrived to me.
I feel like she's a wannabe Regina Specter or a wannabe Jessica Hoop or a wannabe. Tori Amos in a way. Although Tori Amos, we don't agree politically, but she's brilliant. Um, I it just it but she's like an entirely creation of her brother. Her brother couldn't be the chick singer, so he made his sister the chick singer.
So I just Yeah, the problem with her argument though, as far as stolen land is concerned, is there's how far do we go back? Do we go back 200 years? Go all the way back to cave people or dinosaurs. A thousand years? Yeah.
It never ends. That's a th that's why her position on this, and everyone's position on this, is just dumb. And indigenous nations also bought or conquered it. I mean, it's like right of conquering. I mean, that's they they bought or conquered it themselves.
There's no uh I mean, stop saying the stupid phrases. But what it is is they want to delegitimize. Oh, well, let me say it the Candace Owens way. Delegitimatize. Macabur.
They want to delegitimize the United States. I mean, that's how all this whole argument came to be: like the creation of the republic, the validity and veracity of the claims, etc. That's it was all designed for that. But just like the difference between her and Jelly Roll or some of these other folks that are up there. Like nobody took, you know, and then you got Peter Dinklich.
Good night.
So, I don't know who this poet is. It's some dumb poet. He wrote. He read, he's reading this poem. It's about Renee Goode.
He's on the steps of the public theater in New York City. And Peter Dinklage has decided. I don't know, this is like the worst poem ever. Just check it out. Toss him.
This is a poem by Amanda Gorman of Renee Holdgood, killed by ice on January 7th. 2026. They say she is no more. That there her absence roars Blood blown like a rose. Ice wheels flinched and froze.
Now, bare riot of candles, dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hens. Oh my gosh, this makes me hate perfectory. It makes me hate poetry. Look, if somebody's trying to be Alan Ginsburg.
So tired of this stuff.
So that was a bad poem.
So what what is it? Like the he's mad because she hid an agent? Just a little, little man. Toss him. I'm quoting Lord of the Rings.
Every now and then I'll do that, by the way.
So don't get mad at me. I just like just stop. Just stop. I I Hollywood's struggling right now with their with their films. The last thing that they need are for actors that are trying to seek A stay on relevancy.
By dabbling in politics in the most uninformed ways. Like no one's telling you not to have an opinion on politics, but don't be What what's the word? Just don't just don't be annoying and rude about it. Don't be and don't feed into misinformation. I just it For all the art that these people do, why is so little effort put into understanding the political issue for which they want to speak on?
For all of the artistry that they try to put in everything else, it's like they just, you know, spit out this thing. And it's just, it cheapens everything that they do. They're free to do that, of course. And we're also free to say, wow, you just cheapened yourself. The mystery of an artist is part of the artistry.
That's part of it. There is an allurement there. There is intrigue. There is something that makes that person do what they do that always keeps you hooked and waiting to see what else they do. And when you compromise that by giving people too much insight, When you show all the mess and what's under the rug and what's in the closet.
The mi the magic is gone. There's not a lot of magic left in the world. And there are some people hell-bent on destroying it entirely because they're hyper-political, but yet they have more zeal than knowledge. Especially on these issues. I just, there's a way if you're if you dislike immigration law, then talk about parts of immigration law that you dislike.
But going out there with a Mao esque phrase Of, you know, no one's on stolen land. By the way, these slogan, the slogan airing is: it's all, it's a populist tactic. Remember, populism is not a belief set, it is a tactic. Populism is not a principle, it is a tactic. and it can be used by anything.
dangerous to assume that it's not. Because even Mao used it. You have these slogans that people say over and over again: no one's on stolen land, like how the slogans like Hamas uses, from the river to the sea, and all that. They're slogans designed to skim over issues and try to create a false sense of shallow unity while also denigrating the issue by diminishing it to just a single string of like really like ad libs. Like or or mad libs.
It's like, you know, non sequitur. That's what it is. It's sloganeering. She could have gone out there and said, you know, I disagree with, you know, this, or I disagree with the enforcement, instead of going, stolen land. Stolen land.
Like that's That's just like the dumbest thing you could go out and say. Especially knowing history about purchase and conquer. It's just dumb. It makes you sound dumb. And now look, all this backlash.
There's a way if you're gonna if you're gonna espouse a thought do it in a smart way I think people don't begrudge individuals that disagree if they do it from a position of at least giving enough of a rat's ass to learn about it to talk intelligently. I can't listen to people who think so little of an issue that this is all they offer for it. If you can't be smart on the issue, then why should we care? If you don't do the due diligence to at least understand the issue before you speak on it, why the hell should we care what you say? You're not owed a space in the mantle of public opinion.
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