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around 400 companies have withdrawn from
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russia their services their businesses
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again in part of punishing putin for
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this invasion in ukraine um
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there's one in particular that hasn't
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well there's a few that happen i mean
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the other day we talked about how papa
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john's in some form or fashion also
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hasn't
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but this particular one you might not be
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surprised by it is coke industries and
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dave robertson is the president and ceo
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of coke industries he did issue a
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statement talking about the reasons
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behind it and did start with a little
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bit of a condemnation
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for russia and what they were up to so
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the horrific and abhorrent aggression
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against ukraine is an affront to
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humanity it violates our company's
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values and principles which are grounded
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in the fundamental truth that the system
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most conducive to human well-being
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progress civility and peace is one based
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on respect for the dignity of the
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individual the consistent rule of law
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and the right to freely exchange goods
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and services wow nice uh it also goes on
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the statement continues on how they
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won't be doing much about all these
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horrible things that are going on coal
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company guardian industry uh industries
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operates two glass manufacturing
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facilities in russia that employ about
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600 people we have no other physical
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assets in russia and outside of guardian
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employ 15 individuals in the country now
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while guardians business in russia is
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very small part of coke we will not walk
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away from our employees there or hand
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over these manufacturing facilities to
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the russian government so they can
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operate and benefit from them there's a
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report by bloomberg in 2011 it did
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reveal that they also flaunted some of
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american sanctions against iran so
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different country with some sanctions
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and
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they went around those as well so the
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billionaire koch brothers allegedly made
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a ton of money off of sales of
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petrochemical equipment to iran
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they dodged the u.s trade ban using
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foreign subsidiaries the company
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allegedly engaged in illicit payments in
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africa india and in the middle east from
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99 to 2003 had to pay more than 400
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million dollars in fines the report
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quotes an employee saying that managers
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taught them how to steal and cheat the
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technique was called
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the coke
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method it's like they have a name for it
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uh so specifically some of these
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organizations uh they receive the
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funding from the koch brothers uh the
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koch industries are also towing this
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company line because
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obviously uh so there's a non-profit
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that's funded by charles koch it's
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called stand together and dan caldwell
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tweeted this out the stand together
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community supports targeted sanctions
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against russia in response to his
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immoral invasion of ukraine we also
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believe that sanctions are a legitimate
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tool of statecraft however broad-based
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economic sanctions rarely achieve their
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desired policy outcomes so how can we
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support them
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uh also dan um he's the
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the vice president for foreign policy
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for them as well
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and uh the president of the american
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institute for economic research which is
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another coke funded organization they
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echoed again with this message
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the united states can and should do very
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little for ukraine aier president will
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ruger said ukraine simply doesn't matter
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to america's security or our prosperity
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on the issue of sanctions ruger
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suggested that they make it much harder
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actually for russia to stand down
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because putin does not want to quote
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appear to cry uncle
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to this pressure also
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further there's concerned veterans for
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america that's another organization
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that's funded by koch brothers and they
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said this
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i urge you to exercise and encourage
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restraint as america responds to
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russia's immoral invasion of ukraine we
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should avoid actions that may aggravate
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the situation further or have damaging
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repercussions to the american prosperity
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there's so many uh uh tentacles and
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lines and connections from koch
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industries to some of the other
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companies that they're funding and also
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work with
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that this uh this handy little image
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here shows us exactly how many different
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connections those are i could explain it
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to you but i'd have to first look deeper
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into it for the next 45 minutes to an
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hour but that's how many uh angles they
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have at this
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so
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let's it just translate for you guys
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right because they
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they they speak in horse crap and uh and
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i and i'm a decoder of it okay
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so uh they say oh the horrific
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aggression of the russians is just
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terrible
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and then they speak out of both sides of
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their mouth and they send their
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political groups to go out and say as jr
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just read you ukraine doesn't really
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matter
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it's not worth getting involved in and
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at the end they say now remember let's
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remember the most important thing is
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american prosperity which by the way
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means their own prosperity they don't
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mean your prosperity they mean
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no even though
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charles koch is one of the richest
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people on the planet
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his greed is endless
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he's like oh the ukrainians are getting
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murdered i don't care at all
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i care about my prosperity i need
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another billion on top on top of my what
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is it he up to 48 billion 34 billion
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what difference does it make that enough
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bro hey hey
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charles monster coke
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when is it enough
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dude you're in your 80s what are you
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gonna do with it
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so you're gonna how many ukrainians are
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gonna die
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so you can make an extra couple of bucks
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so then they get into the horse crap
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about oh the some sanctions work and
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others don't in other words the ones
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that don't affect us are fine with the
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ones that do affect us hey hey hey that
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cost me 13 bucks okay
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now so do sanctions work yes now do they
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work all the time absolutely not so
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where do they work they work in a in a
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in a country where it's not one dictator
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like saddam hussein or kim jong-un
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because they're never going to run out
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of caviar and they don't care about
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anyone else
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and they don't work in a system where it
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affects everyone equally
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they work best when there is
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a group of people that have economic
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power that isn't just one person
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like oligarchs how do we know they've
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worked in the past
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a situation just like that was south
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africa and after you put enough pressure
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and sanctions on
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the wealthy of south africa said
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mas we've had enough it's cost us too
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much money we're going to change
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apartheid now are they working in russia
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in this particular case we just covered
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on the show yesterday putin came out
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saying now the sanctions have devastated
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us putin is saying right and i need the
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russian people to brace for impact
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because inflation is going to be bad our
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markets are hurt our uh ruble's in am is
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in massive trouble but let's stick
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together as russians it's all worth it
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for my glory i mean russian glory right
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so
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putin himself is telling you how much is
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hurting him and how he's lost leverage
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we're hearing stories of how oligarchs
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are pissed at putin which is what you
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want so they could put pressure on him
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to end it and here comes the koch method
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going yeah but it's
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putting sanctions on the russians even
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though it's working it might save
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thousands of lives in ukraine it's going
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to cost us 30 or 40 bucks
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and so our infinite greed says let them
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die and that's who charles coke is
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that's exactly the kind of monster he is
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amy
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yeah another role that this could play
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um in the peace talks really is giving
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the power
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to be part of the negotiation saying
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that you know if you come to a peaceful
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negotiation then we'll lift these
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sanctions and that's another important
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uh you know aspect when you look at this
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and then i'd like to add you know i was
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thinking to myself you know why is this
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even a story
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and you know i think it comes down to
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because of the political influence that
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the koch brothers and and their business
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has in our political discourse in this
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country i mean i was looking it up and
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since 1990 they have they funneled in
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over 72 million dollars into campaigns
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with 14 and a half million going into
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campaigns just this last cycle and it
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more than doubles when we talk about the
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money they're putting into lobbyists so
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it really goes back to really
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highlighting again you know the the
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sickness we have in this country and
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allowing corporations to act as
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individuals that have a voice in our
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political system um and it gives them
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much more power than they should have so
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amy great point because
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why do we even care about the kochs we
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only care
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not because like we care about one
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billionaire's opinion
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no because he buys half our politicians
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they're the largest political donors in
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the country all these people have insane
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conspiracy theories about oh soros and
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and the and the
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council of zion runs the world and
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insanity right no the kochs the mercers
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the
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largest donors in the world to
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politicians actually control the
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politicians because they give them
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literally millions of dollars and
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they're not at all jewish it doesn't
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have anything to do with insanity like
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that it has to do with the real world
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the real world is they're greedy and
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they think
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hey you know what i pay an american
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politician they're going to do exactly
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what i want they're they're my dogs now
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how do they know that through history
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and so if you don't know the kochs
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originally made a huge part of their
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portion
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their fortune
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by stealing from native americans they
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got caught
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they were
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being investigated by the federal
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government and that is when they first
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discovered this was decades ago
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oh the supreme court allows us to put
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money into politics
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and they started buying senators one of
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the very first senators they bought was
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bob dole who later
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not coincidentally became the republican
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presidential candidate against bill
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clinton why because he had the most
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money where'd he get the money from the
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koch brothers and from koch industries
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which are based in kansas's home state
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and shockingly enough the senators that
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they initially contributed to help
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dismiss the case against them
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they steal they rob they do the coke
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method and then later they buy
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republicans and the republicans say oh
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uh we don't want to regulate
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koch industries because that would be
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against
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freedom
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no
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no it's just the most obvious corruption
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you've ever seen
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it's basically our oligarchs
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people like charles koch saying you
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better not touch their oligarchs
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all of us corrupt people across the
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world are in this together no matter who
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dies there's been talk and i wonder this
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too because as i hear it you talk about
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the people that are actually on the
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ground saying russia
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ukraine belarus because belarus is part
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of some of those uh some of those
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sanctions that we're talking about at
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the first off the jump when it comes to
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the trade things so they're going to
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feel the pain as well
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what about those people so i get it what
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about those people that are affected
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because the cook industries and things
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like this will be the the driver that
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allows them to buy more politicians i
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think they can pull these types of
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schemes but then there's people really
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on the ground that are affected and how
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much of a voice do they really have when
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it comes to shouting at someone like
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putin
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hey this is hurting you might want to
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change course how much does he really
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care and what limits does he have once
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that happens is the question
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yeah well i mean i don't think charles
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code cares about anything other than
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money um
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and he's a terrible guy uh and but guys
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this isn't about uh
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one particular evil person or another
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it's about the system so amy's a
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candidate in nevada uh a mainly vegas
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area and she doesn't take corporate pac
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money in fact she was a one of the
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original justice democrats and and we
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did the rule about you can't take
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corporate pac money because it corrupts
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it corrupts by definition it does and
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and here's uh most of the republican
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party taking that uh charles coke money
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and if you're a republican who's always
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say oh george soros he's super evil and
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he's the one that's the puppeteer and
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controlling people then why would you be
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in favor of charles cook being your
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puppeteer moving all of your politicians
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around and getting them to betray you
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betray innocent people for their own
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profits let's get all the money out of
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politics then we don't have to worry
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about oligarchs here in america thanks
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