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Donald Trump working at McDonald's, which we have revealed, Pat Ray joins us now,

was just, and I hate to break it to you, according to the left, just a, quote, publicity stunt.

Scam.

What?

He did not actually work at the McDonald's.

I didn't believe it either.

I didn't believe it either, Pat.

Are you saying he didn't go through the regular interview process right manager?

No.

That's what we're saying.

No, you're not.

That's seriously.

I didn't buy it either initially.

What about his next shift?

When is that?

He doesn't have one.

He doesn't.

He doesn't even have one.

He doesn't have another shift.

He doesn't have any schedule.

No.

Nope.

What about like this weekend?

No.

Like a late night?

Nothing.

No.

No.

And he started right at the top.

Special favors.

He

started right at the top, Pat.

At the drive-thru.

That's something you have to work a long time for.

You'll just step out there to the drive-thru on Dave.

They just gave it to him.

Give it to him on a silver panel.

And they've also exposed the drivers in the car.

They were all checked.

They were all

not by Secret Service, I hope.

And selected by the campaign.

Oh, no.

Yes.

They weren't just normal customers going up there at

that time.

That's what I thought.

I thought this was a very popular McDonald's because I saw

thousands of people.

Thousands of people lined up.

I thought, wow, this is, I mean, it's popular in this part of Pennsylvania.

But no.

No, no.

No.

Just lies, Pat.

Oh,

how can you believe a word?

Amen, brother.

Not one word.

Can't believe.

Amen.

Wow.

amen well i don't know uh kamala harris when you know she said to that person who said jesus is lord you're in the wrong you're in the wrong rally i believe that yeah i do too i did believe that that was true i believe that what i didn't believe was when she said you should be at the smaller one down the road because that one was three and a half times as large as hers yeah so i didn't believe that

right it's you know it's bad it's bad it is bad bad it is bad so have you noticed that uh donald trump is like channeling Ronald Reagan right now?

Yes.

He's very optimistic.

He's very different.

Yeah.

He has been.

The shooting thing changed him.

Yeah, I think it did.

It did.

How could it not?

Yeah, true.

Really, you take a bullet on stage.

You have that moment where you stand up and you say fight, fight, fight, and everything that went along with that.

Like, how could you not change?

At least at some level.

Well,

I don't know if I told this on the air, but I was with him last weekend or weekend before last, whenever, and

I was watching him thinking how much he has changed.

And, you know, you don't go through that without some introspection, you know, without going, you know, am I willing to die for this?

Yeah.

And I

really feel he is serving something bigger.

And

I think it's the American people.

I think it's you.

You know,

he gets up every day and he is

the what he's serving that's bigger than him is you.

Yeah.

And I don't know that he's a super

before this, that he was a super religious guy.

I will tell you.

But I think he's more so now.

Yeah, I will tell you.

I've heard him talk about God in ways that's, you know, not,

you know, not,

what is it?

Two Peters.

No,

no, it's just two Corinthians.

Two Corinthians.

Walking into a bar.

Did he give a religious speech about how much he hates Christmas?

No, he didn't.

No, can we play that again?

Because Kamala,

you gotta remember it's not Donald Trump that said that.

Oh, who wasn't?

And when we all sing happy tunes and sing Merry Christmas and wish each other Merry Christmas, these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas.

How dare we speak Merry Christmas?

Yeah.

How dare we?

Yes.

I'm going to the polls right now for Kamala.

Right?

I'm

pissed off about Christmas.

She just

is all.

That's not all.

Cut 12, please.

Should never again

have the privilege of standing behind the seal of the President of the United States.

How do they think that's going to work?

Never again.

It's remarkable.

Never again.

Never again.

What was that quote that Hillary said?

I am tired of telling people that I am tired.

What difference does it make?

No,

she said, I'm sick and tired of people saying you're not patriotic if you question your

war, which is hilarious these days.

We have the same party who's like, oh, how dare you it's it's not anti-American to question a war.

Gee, what happened to that whole philosophy on the left?

That's changed quite a bit.

But yeah, no, it's like you just think they would, she would have that one moment where she went off off the cuff.

It was like, you can't stand.

She would never stand behind.

That would happen one time, and everyone going to her would go, Kamala, good God, never again.

Don't, whatever you do, don't

hit that note, whatever that note is,

don't do it.

No, that's the strategy now, though.

Yeah, she really kind of.

That wasn't a one-off?

No, no, no.

no, no.

Are you kidding me?

She's not going to play it again, I guess.

Same hand gestures each time.

It's unbelievable.

Who would want that?

Wow.

Reverse course if you're Kamala.

If you're the campaign.

No, no, no.

I mean, if I, for me, for my purposes, continue to do exactly that.

But if you're in that campaign, aren't you like, Kamala, literally anything else?

I'd rather have her cackle.

I'd rather have her cackle for 20 minutes on the screen.

She did the Brett Baer interview with that attitude the whole time.

Yep.

The whole time.

This is, again, I think, a strategy change.

You know, the whole attitude of, I'm speaking now,

I'm speaking now, is so

annoying.

Sarah, is it just guys that feel that way?

I can't stand her voice.

She's worse than Hillary for me.

Yeah, okay.

I think that's very common.

Yeah.

I think that is very common.

Especially, like, there's something about her trying to yell forcefully that is so irritating.

But real.

But real.

I think that's her.

I think it is too.

I think it's much closer to her than the joy.

Like, I'm going on Oprah and here's your car.

I don't think that's her.

The joy didn't last very long.

Did it?

Well, because it did.

Because

the people who are currently institutionalized that worked in in her office for a year

that left and they're rocking back and forth going,

is she coming?

She's coming around the corner.

She's coming around the corner.

And isn't it like dozens of people that quit her employee?

Oh, she was

hard to work with.

Everyone but two.

Yeah.

And that was okay to talk about before she had the nomination.

Yeah, now those people have been snuffed out.

Now the mainstream media won't even discuss their own articles

printed about it.

Did you hear that Donald Trump said he's going to release the names in the Epstein diary?

I did hear him say something about that.

Love that.

You think he'll do it?

How does he have it?

Well, he doesn't, but the government does.

Oh, okay.

The FBI has it.

You know, so it's in safe hands.

Yeah.

You don't seem to believe that.

No.

Wouldn't it be terrible if there was a fire in that room?

Wouldn't he Donald Trump took over?

Oh, he lost it.

Dang it.

January 18th or 19th.

Darn.

You know, wow, that would be.

Jesus.

That would be awful.

Yeah.

That would be a real, real sad moment.

I think he'll do it.

I think he'll do it.

Don't you?

I mean, I think the guy is like, this is so far gone, it's got to be burned down.

You got to take all the bad guys, burn it out.

So you think he will release the Epstein names?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, he talked about trying to release some of the JFK stuff and got blocked on some of it.

I've only got a lot of money.

He blocked some of it.

He blocked it.

He did.

Yeah.

There were like a couple of big things that he left in

or, you you know, kept kept in the vault.

Okay.

And he said,

if you would have seen them, you would have done the same thing.

I don't think so.

Don't you think so?

But now, not only do you have the Epstein files, you got the Diddy files, too, that may be pretty telling and pretty incriminating for a lot of people.

Oh.

Yeah, I think.

I think definitely.

Maybe they got some information on some people who weren't at first, Usher, saying anything about who they support for president.

And now all of a sudden, now all of a sudden they're all over the Kamala Harris campaign.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Well, he was asked, I think, on the view, or was he asked about, and he didn't want to say, and

he just said, yeah,

I'm not disclosing that.

Well, now he's come out and endorsed her.

What are you implying?

I'm implying that he's on the Diddy list.

Yeah, that would be

great.

Apparently, I talked to somebody over the weekend for a fact.

Right.

No, you don't know.

You're in your guest domain.

You know, I don't know much about the Diddy parties either.

The only thing I know about them is there ain't no party like a Diddy party.

And I learned that from, of course, LeBron James, who said that exact thing.

There ain't no party like a Diddy party.

Quote, LeBron James.

Just wanted to point that out in case anyone was concerned about where LeBron stood on the issue.

Well, at least he wasn't lying.

Because that doesn't seem like there's a lot of parties like that.

Maybe there are, though.

Maybe that's part of our problem.

There are too many parties like Diddy parties.

So

I'm out of time and I want to play some of these a little later on in the program, but let me just play one thing.

Here's Elon Musk over the weekend doing rallies himself and taking questions from the audience.

The most awkward guy ever.

You know, he's,

you know, Asperger's.

And

so he's taking questions from the audience, and he's asked about,

you know, voting in California.

Listen to this.

Cutting.

A friend of mine went to vote in Palo Alto in California because he was like, is this real or not?

And he tried to show his ID and it was like presenting a cross to a vampire.

Like they're like, no,

no,

put the idea away.

You know, like they literally, they weren't allowed to look at his ID, even if he wanted to show it to them.

That is the extent of the madness.

This is a real thing in California right now.

And if the dams win nationally, they'll do it nationwide.

Obviously, that's what's going to happen.

And there will be no democracy.

It's amazing how clear-eyed some people are.

And

now he is, I mean, he's, as he said this weekend, in fact, where is that?

Here, cut six.

Listen to this.

Hopefully, I don't get shot.

I was just on the cover of some big, like, I think it's the biggest magazine in Germany called Dar Spiegel,

which is like their Time magazine or something, saying that I'm enemy number two.

You know.

Yeah.

And I'm like, enemy number two of what?

Democracy?

I mean, I'm pro-democracy.

All I'm literally trying to do is uphold the Constitution and ensure we have a free and fair election.

I'm definitely upgrading my security.

You know, it's like.

So

guess I better cancel that open cop parade.

Just kidding.

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Senator Mike Lee, how are you, sir?

John, great.

It's good to be with you.

Thank you.

You know what?

I saw Jeff Flake's

tweet and then

your epic response to it

over the weekend.

And I just, if I may,

I just want to quote it here.

Let me just pull it up on X.

It was so great.

He,

come on, open.

Okay.

He writes, I'm voting for Kamala Harris, not in spite of being conservative, but because I am a conservative.

Conservatives believe in the rule of law.

Wow.

Just that says a lot.

It does.

It does.

And I've known Jeff for a long time, and he's a friend.

But I could not disagree more with this assertion.

Look, if you don't want to vote for Donald Trump, it's your right to vote for whomever you want.

But for somebody to actually vote for Kamala Harris and to say that they must vote for Kamala Harris because they're a conservative, I don't know how one justifies that.

Now, maybe

what I've written will invite a response, but I've identified a number of things that Kamala Harris wants to do, like entirely gut the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Okay, hang on just a second.

Hang on.

Say that again and explain it because I think people will roll their eyes when you say, oh, she wants to gut the First Amendment and all the religious freedom.

They'll roll their eyes because they don't know.

Right.

All right.

So Carla, as a senator, she spent four years in the Senate.

She and I were colleagues in the Senate.

She was there for four years.

One of her top legislative priorities as a U.S.

Senator focused on a bill called the Do No Harm Act.

Google it if you're curious.

The Do No Harm Act,

ironically named like so many other Democratic show pieces,

because it would do immense harm.

What the Do No Harm Act would do is essentially say that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act does not apply, cannot offer any protection to the free exercise of religion if somebody

experiences what they call dignitary harm.

If they experience harm, including dignitary harm, meaning you have insulted my dignity as a person by doing X, Y, or Z.

So let's say if you go to a, I don't know, like a religious hospital, for example.

and you want a late abortion or you want a sex change operation or something like that.

And that religious religious hospital says, sorry, it conflicts with our religious beliefs and policies to perform that procedure.

We're not going to do it.

And then that person sued to try to enforce them.

This seems to be a favorite trick of the left.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act would do you no good there and would disappear because Kamala would have neutered it.

Look, there is very little left of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act if her bill passes.

So if you have a conservative move.

Let's

are a church, you don't, you know, you have only male priests

and you don't marry gay people.

Would you be forced to marry gay people and would you be forced to have female priests?

Okay, this is a good question.

I'm glad you're raising this because the left loves to point to this and they love to point to Barack Obama's promise when Obergefeld was decided, look, I'm not going to force any of your clergy to perform gay weddings they don't want to perform.

They love to say we're not going to do that and we couldn't get away with that anyway.

Well, look, maybe that's true.

That's usually not where they're going to go anyway.

They're usually going to go in the direction of

religious institutions and religious

individuals.

for not complying with what it is that they want.

So it might not be a court order saying, you clergyman, X, Y, or Z must perform this ordinance.

It's more like, yeah,

if you want the ability to participate in this government program, if you want to maintain your tax exempt status for that matter, you cannot do certain things that we regard as discriminatory.

Therefore, comply or be punished.

That's usually how it manifests itself.

And Kamala Harris would be just fine with that.

How do we know that?

Well, because she wrote a bill that would do that.

Okay, so you start with Jeff Flake and say, Kamala wants to gut the religious freedom,

gut your religious freedom.

That's not conservative, nor is it okay.

Then you go on.

Yeah, I go on.

Say she likes price controls.

That's not conservative.

That's what Marxists do.

Price controls don't work.

Price controls buy into the Marxist theory of economics, which doesn't work.

And it's certainly not conservative.

I can point out that she's got an unhealthy preoccupation with abortion.

Not conservative.

She wants to imprison her political enemies, as she's been just fine with this lawfare campaign against Trump.

not conservative.

She's been hiding Biden's dementia for nearly four years, not conservative.

Wants to raise taxes, not conservative.

She's all about the Green New Deal.

She was its principal advocate in the Senate, Green New Deal, not conservative.

She wants to pack the Supreme Court, same description.

She tells Christians at her rallies, you're at the wrong rally.

That's not conservative.

I go on.

There are about 20 of these I point out.

I cannot identify a single thing that she does that can be reconciled with conservatism, much less compel a conservative to vote for her.

I just want to go on.

Kamala wants to shut down X for not suppressing conservative content.

Kamala let in 10 million illegal aliens, also let in enough fentanyl to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans while enriching international drug cartel to the tunes of tens of billions of dollars a year.

Kamala thinks it's a good

idea to use taxpayer money to pay for sex change operations for prisoners.

Kamala believes it's okay for elected federal bureaucrats to make 100,000 pages of new law every year.

Kamala wants to tax unrealized capital gains.

Kamala wants to ban fracking.

Kamala wants to give free health care to illegal aliens.

She wants to force women to compete against biological men in sports rather than a tortured reading of Title IX.

Kamala actively encourages lawless, violent protests in 2020, pledging to give money to rioters to pay for their bail.

Kamala said she wants to decriminalize immigration offenses.

Kamala believes there should be no restriction on abortion up until the moment of birth.

Kamala backed tyrannical policies punishing Americans for not getting the COVID vaccine, even if they had legitimate medical or religious reasons to avoid it.

I can't identify a single conservative reason to vote for Kamala Harris, not even one.

I have to tell you,

you look at that list.

I mean,

like, how does somebody,

how does a religious person

not just see the Democratic Convention and the free abortion vans that they had parked outside and say, oh no, this is cool to attend this?

I mean, you'd never go to a concert if they had free abortion vans out.

You would just go, this is kind of evil.

Would you?

No, heavens, no.

He was treating,

the Democratic Party was treating abortion as if it were a sacrament,

as if that were just some holy right that they had to participate in.

They had to make it available that week, of course.

Look, you don't do that.

And you certainly don't vote for that candidate and call it conservative.

So, look,

I implore all within the sound of my voice.

If you've got issues with Trump,

I understand that, but for heaven's sakes, look at what we're looking at the other end of this.

Look at Kamala Harris, and do not tell me that your conservatism compels you to vote for Kamala Harris, because on no planet can that be true.

It just isn't.

Mike, let me switch topics.

Who do we really need to pay attention to in the Senate races?

Who are the ones that you're like,

I got to have them?

Please, please vote for this person.

Well, look, obviously, let's

start with a couple of incumbents.

Ted Cruz and Rick Scott are both up for re-election this year.

They're both in tight races in Texas and in Florida.

Is Rick getting any help from Turtleface?

Well, if you're asking whether he's getting any help from the Mitch McConnell-run Senate Leadership Fund, I heard he was not, and neither was Ted.

Unbelievable.

Neither did I when I was in a tight race in 2022 beyond

some advice, but I didn't get it done.

And my understanding is that neither Ted nor Rick have either.

Yeah, no, Ted hasn't for sure, but I haven't talked to Rick about it.

Yep, yep.

Then let's move on to

the other races involving potential pickups.

So we've got a significant opportunity.

Look, we're going to to win West Virginia.

Jim Justice will win there.

I think we've got a decent shot at winning in Montana.

Tim Sheehee is coming very close to John Custer.

And I think

he's got a really good shot of beating him.

Bernie Moreno in Ohio.

I just got back from Ohio where I was campaigning with Bernie Moreno.

He's doing really well,

but he needs every little bit of a push that he possibly can.

Those guys are in a very good position.

And we've jumped down a tier of people who are not necessarily right on the verge of victory and could close the deal, but still could get there.

You've got Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania, Eric Hovey in Wisconsin, Terry Lake in Arizona, and Sam Brown in Nevada.

Those are probably the next most likely to win.

I think we are in a good position.

I think we could easily get the Senate majority.

That would be a dream come true.

The Nebraska thing, they're doing in Nebraska exactly what they tried to do to you.

Yes.

Oh, thank you for reminding me of Nebraska.

I neglected to mention Nebraska.

So

my friend and colleague, Deb Fisher, faces a challenger somewhat reminiscent of the guy who ran against me.

She's facing a guy named Osborne who was running against Deb Fisher as an independent, but he's actually pushing leftist policies and getting away a lot with just saying, well, I'm an independent, so I'm different than everybody else.

Vote for me.

He's got socialists.

Show up and help Jeb Fisher.

He actually has socialists working for him.

I mean, from Democratic socialist

organizations.

I mean,

it's just nuts what these people are trying to get away with.

And I don't know if you heard this, but Bernie Sanders over the weekend,

Bernie Sanders came out and said, look, you know, Kamala flip-flopping on major issues her goal is just to defeat Trump that's what she's doing

wait wait what

so he's admitting that she hasn't changed on anything are we that stupid Mike

well we're not but they think we are and that's yet another reason why no person who has any sympathies toward conservatism should ever vote for Kamala Harris.

But they really are that transactionally minded.

And you saw John Fester recently, the Democratic senator from Montana, was being interviewed and asked

why he wasn't going to Kamala rallies.

And he said, because I'm up for re-election.

So it's just very transactionally minded, very open about saying, well, yeah, I can't act like the liberal that I am because I've got an election that I've got to face.

So

that's not cool.

Look, the Democrats do think we're dumb.

They do think that they can rest on the fact that we've all been marinating in Marxist indoctrination for our entire lives because, well, we have is primary education, secondary education, higher education, news media,

and entertainment media have all been under the control of leftists for pretty much all of our lives.

We've been taught the language of politics in the terminology used only by the left.

Mike Lee, thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Godspeed.

Thank you very much.

Good to talk to you.

Good to talk to you.

Mike Lee from the great state of Utah.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr.

How are you, sir?

I'm doing great.

Good to be with you, Glenn.

Yeah, great to have you on.

So can you explain what the FCC's FCC's role is on something like CBS news and their quote-unquote license?

Because I don't believe they have one.

Yeah, that's generally right.

I mean, one of the things that we've seen recently, as you noted, is there was a complaint filed at the FCC regarding CBS's coverage.

It was a complaint filed under something called the News Distortion Rule.

And this is a rule that's on the books.

It's been on the books for over 50 years.

But it's really something that in, you know, one case out of a million, is there any legitimacy to a claim?

Most of the time we get people that bring news distortion complaints, but it's really about editorial decisions they disagree with,

First Amendment protected positions of journalists.

The mind run of cases are just complaints about people not liking the news and they're sort of dismissed out of hand.

Where it's a little bit different sometimes is when you bring forward some extrinsic evidence that an outlet intentionally

did something that was just

really inaccurate.

So, for instance, there's been cases where

actually a news program

put explosives on a car and made it explode and claimed that it was a problem with the car.

But there's also been other cases, for instance, where,

so again, we're talking about stuff that's like, you know, pretty far out there because we don't want to get into like authenticating news or becoming a ministry of truth.

Right.

But the doctrine does have some application.

Another case was where an outlet took an answer that someone gave as yes to a question, and they replaced it with them saying no to a different question.

So we're talking about really high bar, really egregious stuff that requires evidence.

In this particular case, I don't think this should be a federal case.

I think, you know, Catherine Harris, who used to work at CBS, said that in her view, it just makes journalistic sense to release the full transcript.

And I agree with Catherine Herrod.

There's plenty of precedent for CBS to do that.

In fact, Catherine Herrots did a, I believe, a Trump interview back in 2020, and they ended up releasing the full unedited transcript.

And so, in my view, you know, that's the best way forward here.

Release a transcript, and there's no reason to even have this before the FCC at that point.

So I agree with you.

There's no federal case here.

That's why I suggested to the audience that they write their local CBS affiliate and say, you know, you're doing a great

disservice to our local community when we can't trust the news you're getting from CBS.

Can you please call

CBS News and ask them so our local community here knows what's true and what's not, what to believe or not to believe?

I suggested going to the local affiliates to put pressure on them to

put pressure on, because you do have, I mean, they have inspections for their license.

Yeah, that's actually part of the news distortion policy is we say, look, as a first step, as an initial matter, we encourage people that have a dispute with a broadcast to go to the actual broadcast or the licensee and see if they can sort of get the concerns addressed without the federal government getting involved.

Again, as this particular complaint, I haven't reached a view on the merits, but in terms of whether it's sort of frivolous on its face, I don't think anybody can reach that conclusion either.

But again, that's why I just think the best way forward here is simply to

release it.

Now, maybe CBS has a position, it

violates our First Amendment rights to do that or whatever well they've they've done it several times before right right and you have an exclusive interview with somebody who doesn't do interviews at that time uh and you've got 40 minutes i know they've done this before too see the entire interview at cbs.com you know what i mean they they've released the transcripts when asked and they also release full interviews uh you know if they have to cut them down and it's a big interview it doesn't make any even business sense why they wouldn't release the full interview.

Yeah, again, I go with Catherine Harridge, who worked at CBS, she put out a post, I think, this morning where she said, releasing the full unedited transcript is consistent with journalistic transparency and it stands behind the integrity of the entire Kamala Harris edit,

not just the clips under scrutiny.

I think that's, you know, the best way forward.

I think, you know, CBS should just release the transcript.

Can I switch topics here with you?

Elon Musk was on the campaign trail, and he was talking about the loss of freedom of speech

and

the First Amendment going awry if

the election goes towards Kamala Harris.

Can you tell me, because I just, I could hear people's eyes roll when you say things like that, because people just don't think that could ever happen here.

What are the dangers?

And I'm not asking you necessarily to pick aside, but what are the actual dangers that you see on the horizon for freedom of speech?

Yeah, your point, putting aside, you know, this particular election, which I have to do under the Hatch Act, I think you can look at the ghost of Christmas future in Europe and in Brazil, right?

We just saw an instance where the Lula administration in Brazil is engaging in a full-scale crackdown on free speech.

You had the government of Brazil sending secret orders to social media companies, including Facebook and X, demanding that they censor the posts of their political opponents.

We only know about this because X objected and Facebook did not.

So think about this for a second.

At the very moment that Mark Zuckerberg was writing a Maya Culpa letter to our Congress saying, we're so sorry that we secretly censored in the past.

We're not going to do it.

At that exact same moment, his company was knuckling under in Brazil to secret orders to censor core political speech.

So the idea that the First Amendment is there and that's been enshrined forever is not something that you can take for granted because globally right now, again, whether it's Europe or Brazil, there is a strong movement towards censorship that doesn't necessarily stop short of our shores if we're not careful.

Brendan, I thank you, as always, for everything you're doing.

It must be tough being in the minority and

being a conservative that is more constitutional.

At least that's the policies that I hear from you are the constitutional things.

Just keep it fair, keep it balanced, keep it

with the law and the Constitution.

And I thank you for your fight.

Yeah, thanks so much.

Look forward.

Always, always glad to talk to you.

But again, I mean, to this point of censorship, we're still seeing it right now where there's been a lot of attention recently on the fact that Vice President Harris has been leading this $42 billion

Internet infrastructure program for over a thousand days and hasn't connected even a single person.

Well, there was a quote-unquote fact check run on that over the weekend.

And as a result, Facebook is now censoring posts that simply point out that fact.

I get that it's inconvenient, but it's a truthful post.

And I think it's important that people hear the information that both Facebook and Harris officials don't want them to know right now.

Yeah.

Thank you so much, Brenda.

I appreciate it.

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