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en debunked is heating it to a temperature that doesn't hurt the structure of the mask the same way the chemicals do but kills all the bugs. And the suggestion, I'm not a scientist, I'm not recommending it, don't try it at home, I'm just passing it along so you know what people are talking about. The heating an oven at 150 degrees for 30 minutes would remove any risk from the mask, except that I d…

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here it's going. Let's say both of them are right, because I think they probably are. I think both sides are right, meaning that neither side is acting responsibly in terms of the construction of this bill.

Now even the president said I don't want to give money to people that are just going to do stock buybacks. Basically that's just transferring it to management. The benefits. So even the president isn't seeing the Congress as giving a holy consecrated bill. So let me say it as clearly as possible. Under normal times, non-emergency times, I could put up with quite a bit of pork and I can put up with shenanigans and stuff because if you haven't heard the argument in favor of pork, there actually is one. There's actually an argument in favor of pork, which is that the senators from the states are trying to maximize what's good for their state. That's our system. Each of the representatives get to maximize what's good for the state and fight for funding for their defense industries and fight for funding for their stuff. So it's supposed to work that way in normal times.

If you've got a funding bill and there's some clever senator who can get some pork in there to fund a military base in their property, we kind of say we don't love it but we can put up with it. All right, so that's in normal times. We're not in normal times. We're not in the time where waiting a day is okay because we'll get to it tomorrow. We're not in those times. We are in a crisis situation in which every minute makes a pretty big difference. Most problems I've got are long-term nagging chronic problems and I'll get to it tomorrow. We don't have a get-to-it-tomorrow kind of a world at the moment.

At the moment we have politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, who are not giving us what everybody knows we need, which is immediate financial relief and checks to people who don't have a paycheck this week. And as I watch this I say to myself, well surely the people behind this will pay some price for so grotesquely and obviously not doing the people's bidding. And so I look to the news and say okay who are the names of these people? Give me some names, because these people need to lose their jobs. They need to be fired because they're

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not doing the job for the people. Not even close, right? And so I look to the news and it's like Democrats say this and Republicans say that. And I say well okay yeah that helps me a little but I don't like either side at the moment. Give me a name. And then you see tweets and Representative Crenshaw saying look at what these Democrats are trying to do. And I look at that and they go okay that's…

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