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Tulsi Gabbard

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  1. “I turn to God for that solace, for that clarity, for that strength to both know what the right thing to do is and the strength to act accordingly and to constantly strive to further develop that very personal loving relationship with God.”

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  2. “Trying to dedicate your actions in life in a way that have a positive impact on others, being of service to others. And so for me growing up, I never really understood as a kid the idea of sectarianism, of one religion battling against another because I knew and understood and experienced that the real meaning of religion was love for God. No matter what name you worship him by or how you worship, that is the real meaning of religion. And the application of that in your life is You ask, how do I see God in a personal way? I know that God is my best friend. God is my confidant. When I am struggling with a problem in my life or, you know, during those quiet moments by myself where I am anxious or I'm sad.”

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  3. “The application of their teachings in the Bhagavad Gita, for example, that talk about bhakti yoga. Bhakti Yoga essentially translates into dedicating your life, striving to develop a loving relationship with God. Karma Yoga. There's a chapter in the Bhagavad Gita that speaks about karma yoga. Karma is a word that has become a part of the, you know, both karma and yoga have become very common terms. But what it really means is”

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  4. “Applicable to all of us. They are timeless truths that whether you consider yourself Christian or Catholic or Muslim or Jewish or Hindu, these truths are eternal and relevant through all time. So for us as kids growing up, we learned from and had bedtime stories that came from both the Bhagavad Gita and the New Testament. My dad was raised Catholic. My mom was raised Episcopalian and both of them were attracted to the Bhagavad Gita as they were in their own lives searching for a more personal relationship with God than they had been able to find elsewhere in their own spiritual journeys. That's”

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  5. “Think one of the things that's most commonly misunderstood about Hinduism that people don't know is that Hinduism is truly a monotheistic religion, that there is one God and he goes by many names that describe his different qualities and characteristics. And as you pointed out, Hinduism is uniquely a non-sectarian spiritual practice, essentially. It's not a quote unquote religion that you convert into or you leave behind or whatever the case may be. Bhagavad Gita, a central scripture in text that comes from India literally means song of God. And the principles that are conveyed throughout the Bhagavad Gita are”

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  6. “It's everything. It is central to who I am, what inspires me, what motivates me, where I find strength, where I find peace, where I find... Shelter and where I find happiness. And this has been a constant. Throughout Know times of challenge, times of darkness, times of heartbreak, times of happiness in Always feeling very secure in knowing that God's unconditional love is ever present. And no matter what else is happening in my life, that God is my best friend and remaining centered and grounded. In always remembering that and meditating upon that truth. Is it's everything to me.”

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  7. “Anyone else, as long as I am doing my best to be pleasing to God, that is where I draw my happiness from and my fulfillment and contentment and strength.”

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  8. “My dedication and my desire in my life to be pleasing to God and to live a life of service. And what better way to be pleasing to God than to try to do my best to work for the well-being of God's children? Being rooted in that has made it so that as the attacks are coming from different directions, even as people who I was friends with, former colleagues of mine, others even family members, even as they have turned away or become attackers against me themselves because of different reasons related to politics, of course, it's a sad thing, especially when it's someone that you know personally and have had a personal friendship or relationship with. But I don't live My life, trying to please politicians or please the people who show up on TV or”

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  9. “It really stems from having a clear sense of purpose. I never saw, you know, I've served in state government, I've served on our city council in Honolulu and served in Congress. At no time have I seen this as a quote unquote political career. I don't have that ladder climbing ambition that a lot of politicians have my sense of purpose is deeply rooted in my”

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  10. “By the Democrats, by the Biden administration, not only now, but something that started back in 2016 when he was a candidate. He's a guy who by all measures has been successful in his own life. And because of that, he's not coming in with this desire to please Washington that many other politicians have. And because he is so willing to challenge the quote-unquote norms, And these are not norms that serve the interests of the American people. These are norms that serve the interests of the most powerful. He is a direct threat. And so that attitude and that mindset of not coming in with the kind of caution that too many politicians come in with, of wanting to be the popular one at the parties or whatever it is that they want, that is the strength that he brings.”

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  11. “Hope that he sees that he's learned from what went wrong in 2016, that he went in with a largely non-interventionist, more focused on peace agenda, and yet he surrounded himself with people who are at the heart of the warmongers in Washington and who directly went against the policies that he advocated for. On the strength side, I think it's It's easy to point out because it's also what has caused him to be so attacked in ways that we haven't seen before, certainly not in my lifetime.”

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  12. “Yes We are human. We are fallible. We are flawed by nature. And I'll go into kind of the next one you asked about Trump. The weakness side and the lessons that I hope have been learned from 2016 for him and his team is you have to be in a position where you are surrounding yourselves with other people of courage who aren't just thinking about their next political job or their next job getting a cable news contract or looking for fame themselves or looking at how they can monetize their position for their whatever their next financial interest might be but people of courage who know what they're up against to really seriously clean house across the federal government and the corruption and rot that is so deeply entrenched in order to truly be effective. And if he is re-elected, that is my”

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  13. “I think it goes back to what we talked about a little bit, which is what are you driven by and what are you afraid of? And if you are concerned for Whether or not you can get reelected. Who's going to fund that reelection effort? Who's going to fund the presidential library and your legacy that will follow? There have been some documented examples around how he promised to crack down on big pharma, but when push came to shove his Department of Justice campaign funding was threatened and they chose not to take action even when they had a very, very strong case to make. This was with regard to the opioid crisis in the country. And this just goes back to the heart of why it's so essential that we have leaders who have courage and who are focused on. What we elect them to do.”

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  14. “That fear and that broken heart, that brokenheartedness that they felt to be true. And I'll mention one example related to civil liberties that we talked about. He was someone as a U.S. senator who gave some pretty powerful speeches on the Senate floor about his concerns with the Patriot Act, his concerns with surveillance from the NSA, his concerns with a violation of our Fourth Amendment rights and civil liberties. But when as president he was confronted with leaked information about this surveillance occurring under those authorities in his presidency, he cited, he took the side of the national security state and did not take action to right the wrongs that he correctly pointed out as senator and during his campaign for the presidency, which is Unfortunate because he really did build this unifying momentum throughout his campaign.”

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  15. “Continue to be a part of this mission that they expected would extend beyond the campaign. And they've expressed to me personally how heartbroken they were because so quickly after he was elected, instead of bringing in a new generation of fresh leadership that was not a part of the Washington establishment, he instead immediately chose to surround himself with people who were more of the same old, same old, who were essentially part of the problem. And many of his actions after that”

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  16. “During his 2008 campaign, yes, I think that his message resonated with so many people across generations and across, you know, different views, different backgrounds to where people cried on the night that he was elected because they felt so hopeful. I talked to people and I know people who set aside their entire lives to work on his campaign to be a part of this hope and change mission that he laid out that would bring us together. Some of the people that I know personally, they gave up their lives during the campaign and after he won, they went to Washington, D.C. because they wanted to be able to do the work that they had laid out.”

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  17. “Instead of listening to his better angels, he has instead at every turn, if you go back and you know, I look back to his inauguration speech where he promised to be a president for all Americans. And during his campaign promised to be the uniter-in-chief, to bring a country together that was deeply divided, that's the Joe Biden that I've known for many years, a guy who has worked with different people with different backgrounds and different political views, but... Tried to find at different points in time a way to work together. At every turn, he has done the And has left us as the American people today more divided, less secure, both from an economic standpoint, as well as a national security or safety and security standpoint and less free as a society and as a people.”

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  18. “This is a tough question. I've known President Biden for a lot of years. I knew his son Bo who served in the National Guard the same time that I did. I consider Joe Biden a friend. He is someone over the years that I've talked to and shared laughs with and spent time with in different situations. The positive characteristics that drew me to Joe Biden of the past. They are not represented in how he has led as president. And, you know, I'll let the pundits theorize as to how that is or why that is, but the truth that I know exists, which points to his weakness, is that”

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  19. “Warmongers who by their essence are willing to take away our freedom in the name of national security and vote for people nobody's perfect we shouldn't hold anybody up on a pedestal but vote for those who are committed to the constitution and who hold those values that represent the interests of the people”

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  20. “Politicians and leaders who are more interested in feeding the thriving system in the Washington establishment, but we're also seeing that the Republican Party also has some voices, and I would say increasing voices of people. And I would put Donald Trump in this category who are challenging the quote-unquote norms of the Republican Party that are represented by people like Nikki Haley or Mike Pence, for example. You know, the Republican Party is not a monolithic entity and it means different things to different people. And that's where I think the real challenge in this next election is less It's really less about one political party over another, and it's more about our opportunity as voters to select leaders, first of all, to fire those who are against freedom and who are”

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  21. “The beauty and messiness of what a free society looks like, they're so afraid of us because they see us as the people and our freedom as the central threat to their ability to remain in power. I think the difference that we're seeing today Is that unfortunately? We talked about this a little bit how the Democratic Party has become a party where you must walk in lockstep with the leadership of that party or risk being faced with your reputation being destroyed and smeared and all of these different attacks. And the reason why they do that is to put people like me and Bobby Kennedy and others up as an example of saying, hey, if you step out of line, if you challenge us, this is what we're going to do to you. The Republican Party has also done that and they also have...”

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  22. “They're somehow not Paul Hungry. Yeah, I'm glad you brought this up. You know, the book details why after 20 or so years. As a member of the Democratic Party, I decided to leave. But also, and it goes through my experiences and things that I have seen and learned along the way. But I also point out exactly that fact in the book from the very beginning with the prologue is we should not be naive to think that this only exists within the Democratic Party. There are very serious problems within both of our political parties specifically coming from politicians who are driven by this desire for power and who are so afraid of losing that power that they're willing to do whatever they feel they need to do, which centers around taking away our freedom because the more free we are to make our own decisions, even if they may end up being the wrong decisions, but to learn from those things and know that we've got to live with the consequences.”

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  23. “It is the height of hypocrisy and frankly an act of hatred towards women that they are so intent on doing this. And ironic that it's coming from the party that for so long proclaim themselves to be the greatest feminists and the most pro-woman party in the country. I go into detail around each of these issues and more. In the book, but you will see as we go through each of these issues fundamental and foundational to every one of them is that sadly the Democratic Party has become a party that is so consumed by their desire for power, this insatiable hunger for power that they are willing to destroy our republic, our democracy, our freedom just so that they can try to hold on to power and gain more power.”

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  24. “We see this through their open border policies. We see this through how in their education policy they are failing our kids and how they are pushing this narrative that ultimately is a rejection of objective truth. The fact that it's a question up for debate about whether or not, well actually it's not a question up for debate for them. They are actively pushing for Know boys who identify as girls to compete against girls in sports. Changing our language so that the word woman, the identity of being a woman is essentially being erased.”

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  25. “In the book, I go into A number of the central reasons why I made that choice. But fundamental to them. That the Democratic Party has become a party. Is opposed to freedom, that is opposed to the central and foundational principles that exist within our founding documents and that serve as the identity of who we are as Americans and what this country is supposed to be about. It has become a party that is controlled by this elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven, who are driving forward this quote-unquote woke agenda. And we see it through their racializing of everything. We see this through their defund the police.”

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  26. “You know what I like most about him is he is who he is. Unapologetically so, both in personality but also in what he advocates for and what he's advocated for for a long time. You can agree or disagree with his positions, but He is who he is”

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  27. “Has shown through her record to be the queen of warmongers in Washington. I wanted to be in a position where I would have a platform to inform voters about her record so that they could make that decision for themselves, so that they could see, hey, in this area, on this issue, which is incredibly important, there is a clear contrast between these two candidates running in the Democratic primary. And that's what drove my decision to resign and to endorse Bernie Sanders. And that's what I went on to do throughout the rest of that primary election.”

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  28. “That responsibility to serve as commander in chief is the foremost responsibility a president has. It's essentially the one area where the president can unilaterally make decisions without Without education, healthcare, immigration, Congress has to actually pass legislation. President can come through and say, hey, here's the policies that I want, here's legislation that I'll propose, but those changes can't be made without Congress working with Congress to pass them. So she was essentially being let off the hook for her record as an American, as a soldier, as a veteran. That was a big problem for me. And so I made the decision to resign as vice chair of the DNC so that I could endorse Bernie Sanders, who largely at heart, I believe is a non-interventionist. He hasn't focused a lot on foreign policy. It's not at the heart of what his focus has been for decades. But he was certainly far more of a non-interventionist than Hillary Clinton, who”

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  29. “Mainstream media and those who are supposed to be in a position to be neutral arbiters to facilitate debates and forums and conversations so that voters can be best informed in who they want to vote for. We're calling Hillary Clinton the most qualified person ever to run for president in the history of our country because of the positions that she had held as Secretary of State, as a U.S. Senator, as first lady. And yet they glossed over those titles without ever holding her asking questions even or holding her to account for her record, especially in the area of foreign policy. The job she was running for was to be commander-in-chief, to be the president of the United States.”

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  30. “I saw a couple of things pretty quickly. Number one is that the chair of the DNC at the time was a woman named Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a congresswoman out of Florida. And she made very serious decisions unilaterally that many times we found out about via tweet or press release that showed she was tilting the scales in the favor of Hillary Clinton in that 2016 primary. The other thing that I saw was”

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  31. “Vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, one of the things that The rules of the DNC required was that officers of the DNC, of which we were as I think there were five or six of us who were vice chairs at the time, you have to remain neutral in a Democratic primary. So you're not as a party supposed to be tipping the scales in any direction for any candidate during a primary election. And so I had no plans to get involved in any for any candidate or against any candidate during that primary and just the hopes of like, all right, we got to make sure that this is a fair and balanced primary so that voters have the best opportunity to vote for the candidate if they're choosing.”

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  32. “And there's a section in there as well, just kind of the last piece on this is if you use a VPN and you try to use a VPN to access this, you could have problems with the law. And you take that a step further and say, well, how would they know A surveillance aspect to that. So once you start peeling back the layers of this really toxic onion,”

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  33. “The way that it passed through the House of Representatives with such an overwhelming bipartisan support and so quickly and President Biden saying that if it comes across his desk, he'll sign it. I thought it would pass through very quickly. I'm only slightly encouraged by the fact that the Senate at least appears to be saying, hey, there are serious free speech concerns around this bill, serious civil liberties concerns around this bill. We need to do our due diligence. I won't say I'm cautiously optimistic because I understand how that place works, but their pause at least gives people the opportunity to continue to kind of sound the alarm and for people to call their senators and express their concerns with this. They're very real, valid concerns.”

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  34. “Undermines the truth, which is the way to defeat bad speech is with better speech and more speech, whether it's hate speech or things that you might be offended by or things that you might disagree with. The answer is not to have some entity with the power of censorship and being the quote-unquote authority to decide what is good speech and acceptance and what is bad speech and unacceptable. It's what you said. Let's encourage this debate and encourage people who are inspired by like, no, man, I saw this thing or this thing is happening and it's pissing me off. So I'm going to bring a superior argument. I'm going to show what the right way is. And gosh, this is what our founders envisioned for us as a society in this country. And we would be so much stronger with a more”

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  35. “The thing here, too, though, is this extends far beyond social media companies. This is a very specific example, but it's one example of many how those who are greedy for power are continuing to try to find ways to tell us how to live our lives. They are increasingly trying to tell us, again, what we're allowed to see and hear, whether it be social media companies or what shows up in a Google search engine, for example. And if they're not finding a willing and compliant social media company or big tech company, then they're looking for ways to reach their hand into those tech companies and force compliance. But in the age of disinformation, Misinformation, hate speech, all of the excuses that are given for government either directly or indirectly through big tech to try to censor certain voices It really.”

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  36. “And this is like the social dilemma documentary, I think, exposed a lot that there is so much. So much that these algorithms do in these various social media platforms that's problematic, to say the least. Data security and privacy is a serious issue. These are serious things. And so let's have a conversation about these serious things and cease these attempts to try to have our government try to tell us what we are and aren't allowed to see, you know, where we are and aren't allowed to say what we want to say. That's really what it comes down to.”

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  37. “A guy who has said himself he's committed to free speech and is allowing free speech on his platform and is not allowing the federal government to manipulate his platform by deeming which accounts are okay to post their content and which accounts are not because of disinformation or whatever they claim it to be It's it's not an accident that the social media To take action at the behest of the federal government and the White House to censor certain voices, they are not included with or being targeted at all in this legislation or outside of it. Yet other platforms that are not cooperating or collaborating somehow are. So the underlying issue here, this is being sold as TikTok and national security, but ultimately even as Ron Paul said, this is legislation that's the greatest assault on liberty since the Patriot Act was passed.”

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  38. “So, when you look at, and this is where there's been a lot of chatter around this, when you look at Elon Musk, for example, well, you already have people in the Biden administration, even President Biden himself, implying that Elon Musk's activities need to be investigated. Well, he is someone with Tesla who does business in a lot of countries, including China. And therefore, he must be investigated. It is not at all a stretch of imagination to say that X could be the next platform, that the executive branch decides, nope, we've designated this person to be a foreign adversary and therefore his business interests cannot be allowed for this social media platform, cannot be allowed to exist. We've seen this already with people accusing him and ex of interfering in our elections. Again, it's ironic that it's coming from the Democratic Party that they are claiming that”

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  39. “Working or living in some other country or working or living here, but doing business with other countries, if the executive branch of our government decides that this individual is under the influence of or controlled by someone that they deem a foreign adversary, then that platform must not do business in America. And that person obviously even an American citizen is banned from Conducting that business, they must divest, essentially.”

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  40. “Who is a foreign adversary single handedly? No consultation with or agreement from members of Congress or anyone else. It actually gives the power to a cabinet secretary to designate who is a foreign adversary and if a social media platform has at least 20% ownership in a social media platform, that platform may be banned from doing business in America, essentially but it's not just a foreign state actor that could be named as a foreign adversary. It also includes a line in the legislation that if let's say a person has at least 25% financial interest or ownership in a social media platform, they're an American citizen who may be”

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  41. “Yes, this is another, I guess the bottom line up front is this is another piece of legislation being expedited through Congress with strong bipartisan support. The name of national security interests that is essentially a power grab and an assault on freedom and liberty. And I'll just say this in, I think, probably like the top three things that they're not actually telling us that's in the bill. Freedom of speech. It's our ability to be able to express ourselves, whether it be in person on a podcast, on a social media platform, in a newspaper, whatever the platform may be. This legislation gives the executive the power to decide which platforms are acceptable for us to be able to use. TikTok itself, the words TikTok is not actually in the bill, but it gives the power to the president to decide.”

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  42. “The position of the presidency certainly does unfortunately We have people too often who assume the presidency from a position of weakness because they're afraid of losing power. And so they make those calculated decisions not based on what is right for the right reasons, but instead driven by fear of loss of power and loss of influence. And that's where Especially given all that we are facing, we need leaders in the presidency and in Congress who have courage to be that voice in the room, to ask about to remain mindful of and rooted in the Constitution. Even as we are seeing this legislation being billed as the anti-TikTok bill, That's really not about TikTok. It's about freedom of speech.”

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  43. “It does. And what is behind the military industrial complex? And there are different examples of this. You can look at the pharmaceutical industry as well. There's a huge amount of money and a huge amount of power that wields tremendous influence over members of Congress. There are different examples of this across different sectors of our society, but I think the military-industrial complex over time has proven itself to be The most powerful and influential. And that's what is behind it is this is why they try to destroy anyone who dares to ask the most obvious questions is because it is about power and wielding power”

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  44. “Their instinct is to self censor and not speak up because they don't want to experience the wrath and ire, whether it be coming from four-star generals or the secretaries of state or defense or these high-ranking people in positions of power and influence. They don't want to be the one guy in the room who's just like, hey guys, let's just take a breath and actually think this through what will happen, not just in the immediate response of this action that you're advocating for, but what are all of the other people, other actors, stakeholders in the world? How will they respond? And then how will we respond to them? How will they respond to us actually go through this exercise of in the military, this is commonly referred to as what are the second, third, fourth order of effects that will occur as a result of pursuing a specific course of action?”

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  45. “The cost of their retaliation against those who are reasonable voices, who look at the world as it is, not some fantasy that they wish existed is in those rooms during those critical moments, people will, even if they know in their heart or their mind that this could end really badly.”

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  46. “One of the biggest costs of this establishment destroying the reputations of and smearing and trying to cancel and censor those who are voices of peace or just those who take a contrarian position and say, well, hey, why don't we just pause for a moment and actually think this through? Why don't we talk through what happens if we take this course of action? What happens if we go down a different path? Let's actually be thoughtful about what our options are for A, B, and C and then make the decision in a thoughtful manner based on that. Even advocating for that is seen as a kind of heresy in the warmongering establishment in Washington. And the cost of this”

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  47. “It's sad that. I mean, to me, that's what we should expect of our leaders Is exactly that, and it's sad that Having a leader in that position fulfill their responsibility and the oath that they take is seen as a heroic act, when we should, like that's your job. That's what we elect our leaders to do. And yet so many have failed. But to your point, It's not cynical at all to know that in those rooms, especially in these moments of crisis, unfortunately, there are the predominant and prevailing opinion. Of this warmongering establishment that's not specific to one party is the knee-jerk reaction, which is to go to war or to execute an act of war. And this is...”

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  48. “Could be launched unintentionally, how many near misses were there during the last Cold War. I saw this documentary called The Man Who Saved the World. And it was some mid-level officer who happened to be on duty and who didn't do what he was told in launching the nuclear missiles because of what they thought was an incoming attack. And it turned out to be a complete mistake or misread on the radar. But that's what we're facing.”

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  49. “She said her closing words were, we've got this. And it was so disturbing in that it was so completely out of touch with reality. It creates this kind of false sense of security that, okay, well, it's kind of like, here's what you do when a tornado hits or when a big storm hits and categorizing the big one, a nuclear attack within that same kind of preparedness that you would want people to have in the event of a natural disaster of some sort. And it is reflective of the carelessness with which people in our government, that careless attitude that people in our government have towards nuclear war and a nuclear attack, even as they set us up for failure in pushing us to the closer and closer to the brink of a nuclear war occurring, whether it be an intentional attack or as we saw during the last Cold War one that”

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  50. “Put out by New York City's emergency management office about what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. You would find it funny if it wasn't so deeply disturbing. How they created this public service announcement, they distributed it everywhere across the city, on the internet. I think it was on the radio, where you had a woman who appeared to be an actor coming in and saying, hey, in the event of when the big one hits, Here's what you should do Focus on doing these three things, and I'm paraphrasing, but I encourage you to watch it. I'm paraphrasing, but she said, Inside, stay inside, and stay tuned. That was it. And get inside, go away from the windows. Stay inside. Don't go outside until you get the all clear. And stay tuned. Follow our account on Instagram and Twitter. And at the very end of this short PSA.”

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