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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: So predictable. Everything the left does is so predictable it ought to be easily nuked. By now, everybody opposing the left ought to have ways to just knock \u2019em out of the water. In this case, Ted Cruz, hey, no experience, he\u2019s too stupid, he\u2019s too dumb, he doesn\u2019t believe in climate change. The only thing the guy\u2019s done is shut down the government for 16 days. It\u2019s predictable and it ought to be, as a result of that, ineffective. <\/p>\n

Greetings, great to have you back. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Our telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Before getting back to this story, which intrigues me<\/a>, “Are Smartphones Making Our Children Mentally Ill?” I must have sound bites from, let\u2019s see, Mark Halperin, John — yeah, pretty much the left here reacting to Ted Cruz. All of this is predictable. Every bit of it is not gonna be a surprise to any of you. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start on the Today Show today. Now, this is before Cruz announced, but everybody knew he was going to. In fact, I, ladies and gentlemen, I knew of this Friday morning. I knew about it in a private phone call, and I was asked to keep it to myself, which I did. But a lot of people knew. And by yesterday it had leaked out anyway. So all that happened today was the formality of it. But the Drive-Bys, I\u2019m telling you, are nonplussed by it. <\/line><\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton could not even come close to doing what Ted Cruz did today. Maybe the Der Schlick Meister, Slick Willie, could go out. I don\u2019t think he would stay as focused. He\u2019d end up rambling all over the place. But he doesn\u2019t need a prompter, except for those moments where he\u2019s being policy specific. But there\u2019s not anybody who could do what Cruz did today. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just a matter of talent. It\u2019s what\u2019s in your heart. It\u2019s who you are. People that have problems with public speaking, the greatest way to overcome that is confidence. That\u2019s the big fear that people have when they think about having to make a speech in public. “What do I talk about?” Find something that you\u2019re passionate about, find something that you really believe, that will give you the confidence to do it. <\/p>\n

“Yeah, what if I forget? What if I forget?” <\/p>\n

Those are just normal butterflies, happens to everybody, and you will forget now and then. You have to have the talent to vamp during that. But Cruz didn\u2019t forget a thing today. Cruz said everything he intended to say without a teleprompter. It\u2019s such big news that TheHill.com<\/a> actually has a story out, the headline is: “No Teleprompter for Cruz.” It\u2019s that big a news. <\/p>\n

Anyway, here are the sound bites, the predictable naysayers. We\u2019ll start on the Today Show today, Savannah Guthrie talking to Mark Halperin about Cruz, and she said, “The book on Senator Ted Cruz is that he\u2019s whip smart, that he\u2019s a real conservative firebrand, he knows how to throw rhetorical bombs that the base loves. Do you consider him a top-tier candidate?”<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: I think he\u2019s a second-tier candidate. He captures part of what the Republican Party wants. They want someone to go to Washington and shake things up. You hear it again and again from voters, but they also want Washington to work better. And Ted Cruz\u2019s challenge is to continue to say, “I can change things,” but also, “I can manage things, I can make Washington work,” \u2019cause Republicans want that, too.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: How many people do you run into — honestly, now — with whom you discuss things like this? How many times do you — and I\u2019m asking open-ended honestly here. This is not rhetorical. How many of you sit around with your friends and say, “You know, we really need somebody that\u2019s gonna make Washington work”?<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ll answer that. I have a lot of friends, and I have a lot of political conversations with these people. Not all of them are politically adept, and not all of them are nearly as interested in politics as I am. I mean, my roster of friends crosses a wide spectrum. But I can tell you, none of \u2019em ever say to me, and I don\u2019t say to them, “What we need is somebody to make Washington work.” It\u2019s just not in the mind-set or vocabulary. Washington not working is by design. That\u2019s what gridlock is. <\/p>\n

Washington not working, believe it or not, is what the Founders intended. If you define it as government is slow and plodding, the Founders were suspicious of government. They knew that bureaucracies grow unchallenged. They knew that central command, control assumes power as quickly as it can and you don\u2019t want that. That\u2019s why they set up three branches, separation of powers, checks and balances, all that civics 101 stuff. It was designed to make sure that what\u2019s happening now wouldn\u2019t happen. It was the best safeguard against tyranny they could build in. <\/p>\n

The whole system of checks and balances is rooted around power. There\u2019s a lot of power in Congress, a lot of power at the White House, a lot of power over the judiciary. Founders believed that everybody in each branch would guard their power religiously and not let anybody usurp it. And they also knew that every branch would try to obtain power from the other branches. They knew that this would cause — the term didn\u2019t exist at the time — gridlock. <\/p>\n

It was supposed to be really hard to pass laws. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be easy. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be smooth as silk. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be something that was just rubber-stamped. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be, “I want this to happen, and if you don\u2019t, too bad. I\u2019m gonna make it happen.” That\u2019s not the way this was founded. The Founders of this country were suspicious of government. They put their faith and trust in the people, by and large. <\/p>\n

They were totally devoted to freedom of the individual because that\u2019s how they believed the individual was created by God, with an inherent yearning, a natural yearning for freedom. And that government would usurp it. It\u2019s human nature. And so they built all of these safeguards in to make sure that government had as tough a time as it could in restricting freedom, which is what a series of laws can be. Every time you pass a law, you\u2019re placing restriction on freedom. Some are good. Some are necessary. It\u2019s all for a matter of debate. <\/p>\n

The point is it was not supposed to be easy. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be easy to change the Constitution. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be easy to pass a law. Washington, in terms of making Washington work, was not the focus of the founders. Limiting Washington\u2019s role in everybody\u2019s lives was how they determined the country working, the founders. So my friends and I, we don\u2019t sit around and wring our hands over things that are wrong and say, “Washington isn\u2019t working.” <\/p>\n

Now, the left and people like Halperin here, they\u2019ve talked themselves into believing that this is what the American people want. And I, frankly, I don\u2019t think it is. I don\u2019t think that the American people go to the polls and vote the way they do hoping that when it\u2019s all over, that the Republicans and the Democrats will work together, and they will cooperate and act as one, interested in only the best for all of people. That\u2019s not how they vote. <\/p>\n

You vote because you want your side to win. You vote because you believe in things you want your side to dominate. So this idea that the people want Washington to cooperate, they want the Republicans and Democrats to work together. The hell with that. I\u2019m long past that, and many people are. The Democrats need to be beaten. The Democrats need to defeated, not worked with. Washington, by design, doesn\u2019t work. The way you fix that is diminish its role in everyday life. By definition, Washington isn\u2019t gonna work. Big, growing, out-of-control bureaucracies never do. You can\u2019t reform them and make them work. <\/p>\n

So this idea that people go to the polls, like Halperin says here\u2019s, “Well, they want somebody to go to Washington and shake things up.” Shake things up? We don\u2019t want to shake things up. We want to fix things. Shaking things up, what, just make a bunch of noise? Just win a couple surprise elections and shake things up? No, no, no. Maybe he means shake things up by getting rid of the dominant liberal culture there. If that\u2019s what he means, yeah. <\/p>\n

But then he says, “You hear it again and again from voters, they want Washington to work better, and Ted Cruz\u2019s challenge is to continue to say, ‘I can change things, but I can also manage things. I could make Washington work because Republicans want that, too.'” You better define what that means. Because when you start talking that way, when you say I want Washington to work and I want the people there to cooperate, that means Washington is a simple focus in your life, and that\u2019s what we do not like. <\/p>\n

My life, my day-to-day existence, my business, I\u2019m not focused on whether Washington\u2019s working, in and of itself. That\u2019s not the purpose. That\u2019s not why I would ever support a candidate: “I can make Washington work.” Washington can\u2019t work. As a result of that, Washington needs to be made smaller. Washington needs to be limited. Washington, government, needs to be more and more out of our lives.<\/p>\n

But to people like this, your life isn\u2019t complete if Washington is not a central figure or role player in it. And that\u2019s the difference. And Cruz — I haven\u2019t heard him say — he might talk about making Washington work, I don\u2019t hear him say that, though. I\u2019ve never heard him utter the phrase. He may have. I haven\u2019t heard everything he said. But this whole notion that — they\u2019re putting words in our mouths. That\u2019s not what people I know — I don\u2019t know about you. How many of you, wherever you go, socially or with your families, how many you sit around wringing your hands over Washington not working in the context of you want the next candidate to go there and make it work? <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gotta define the terms, but making Washington work, most people that I know, that means it\u2019s so insignificant we don\u2019t talk about it very much. Now all we do is talk about Washington. We\u2019ve gotten to the point that everything that happens in that town has a direct effect on us, and that\u2019s not the way it was supposed to be. And because it has such a central role in so many people\u2019s lives, that\u2019s where you get this talk, “We need Washington to work.” What does that mean? <\/p>\n

“Well, we need Washington not to screw up.” Well, Washington can\u2019t run health care. It\u2019s gonna be a mess. Get Washington out of health care. If that\u2019s making Washington work, then I\u2019ll agree with you. But Washington can\u2019t run health care. This Washington can\u2019t run anything. By design. <\/p>\n

You know, there\u2019s a column, Michael Goodwin. This Iranian and Israel stuff, folks, this is getting serious now, this business with Obama and Netanyahu and Israel and so forth. Michael Goodwin had a column in the New York Post<\/a> yesterday: “Israel: Beware of Obama.” <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll give you the opening paragraph: “First he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department, spies on journalists, tries to curb religious freedom, slashes the military, throws open the borders, doubles the debt and nationalizes the Internet.”<\/p>\n

“He lies to the public, ignores the Constitution, inflames race relations and urges Latinos to punish Republican ‘enemies.\u2019 He abandons our \u00c2\u00adallies, appeases tyrants, coddles \u00c2\u00adadversaries and uses the Crusades as an excuse for inaction as Islamist terrorists slaughter their way across the Mideast. Now he\u00c2\u2019s coming for Israel. Barack Obama\u00c2\u2019s promise to transform America was too modest. He is transforming the whole world before our eyes. Do you see it yet?”<\/p>\n

Now, this is a brilliantly constructed three-paragraph analysis of Barack Hussein O, and we\u2019re gonna talk about making Washington to work in the context of all this? We don\u2019t send people to Washington to make Washington work. This is an absolute disaster we have on our hands. First he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department. The Constitution doesn\u2019t exist now and then and from day to day. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s much more at stake here than just making Washington work. But this is how they\u2019re gonna go about criticizing and disqualifying Ted Cruz. “Well, you know, we don\u2019t know, manage things, he\u2019s gonna continue to shake things up but, well, can he manage things?” <\/p>\n

Can the guy in there now manage things? Well, yeah, depending on what you want managed. Depending on what your objectives are. But this is an abject, absolute disaster that we\u2019ve got going on. And people continue to look at this circumstance as though it\u2019s just traditional Republican versus Democrat. We are so beyond that. The people I know who are hell-bent on getting rid of liberalism, the Democrat Party, never even talk about making Washington work in the sense that Halperin means it. <\/p>\n

Now, here\u2019s John King over at CNN. This was on New Day this morning. Daily Beast<\/p>\n

senior politics editor Jackie Kucinich and Lisa Lerer of AP talking about Ted Cruz\u2019s announcement today. John King asked the question, “If he\u2019s so well known among the conservative base and so well liked for standing up against the President and against his own leadership, why is Ted Cruz in the single digits in the approval numbers?”<\/p>\n

KUCINICH: Nothing actually happens. He makes a fuss, and then it actually goes back to how it was. So, you know, the fact that he does kick up a lot of sand, at the end of the day, it\u2019s the same, it\u2019s the same result.<\/p>\n

LERER: I think there will be an electability question. And Republicans want to win.<\/p>\n

KING: His biggest challenge is that a lot of, even Republicans, see him as a protester, as an opposition figure. Not as a president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it\u2019s amazing, it\u2019s predictable, but it\u2019s still nevertheless amazing the way they go about disqualifying and choosing our candidate. That\u2019s what these people are doing. They\u2019re setting themselves up once again to choose the Republican nominee by telling us he can\u2019t win. This guy just kicks up sand. He\u2019s just a protester. He\u2019s just a raconteur. He\u2019s not going to change anything. This guy doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. Republicans wanna win and Ted Cruz, he doesn\u2019t know how to win, not even a lot of Republicans think he can win, and this is how they immediately set out to disqualify. Here\u2019s Jerry Brown. I mentioned this sound bite earlier.<\/p>\n

BROWN: What he said is absolutely false. Human activity, the industrial activity, the generation of CO2, methane, oxides and nitrogen, all the rest of those greenhouse gases are building up in the atmosphere, they\u2019re heat trapping, and they\u2019re causing not just warm drought in California, but severe storms and cold in the East Coast. And that man betoken such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of existing scientific data. It\u2019s shocking, and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Gotta go to the break, folks. We\u2019ll be right back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s true, I don\u2019t depend on government for anything, either. I mean, that\u2019s a factor in my belief that, you know, making Washington work — see, that\u2019s the problem, though, folks. Too many people depend on Washington to protect \u2019em from rapists, it seems. Too many people depend on Washington to feed them. Too many people depend on Washington to clothe them. Too many people depend on Washington for their retirement. Too many people depend on Washington for their health. Too many people depend on Washington for their energy needs. To those people, Washington working does matter. <\/p>\n

And you know what it means? The gravy train never stops. Wanting Washington to work means the transfer of wealth becomes more efficient, that taxes get raised, that people who are producing get taxed more so their money can be given to those who aren\u2019t working as hard or aren\u2019t producing as much, so that we can have a fair country. So I will admit, there are a lot of people to whom Washington working matters. But I\u2019m not one of them. And I\u2019m not trying to be insensitive with this. <\/p>\n

But I\u2019m telling you, the idea that there are Republicans galore out there looking for a candidate who can go to Washington and make it work, there aren\u2019t any conservatives looking for that. Not real conservatives, if they even know what conservatism is. Washington working in that context, that\u2019s liberalism. It isn\u2019t conservatism, and that\u2019s not how Washington\u2019s supposed to work in the first place.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s right. They want Washington to work better, and Ted Cruz\u2019s challenge is to say that he can make Washington work. Okay. Let\u2019s examine this in a little bit more detail, because Snerdley thinks that I have swerved here into a profundity, if you will, even though it\u2019s nothing I haven\u2019t said before. But the fact is, Washington working is not a concern to me because I don\u2019t depend on it for anything other than national defense, the highways. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t misunderstand. I don\u2019t get any money from Washington. The way I live, all Washington does is take from me. Now, that in and of itself doesn\u2019t make me bitter. I want to be perfectly clear about this. Washington working, in liberal circles in the media, really means nothing more than Washington has become the central most important aspect of way too many people\u2019s lives. People depend on Washington — I just went through the list of things, and it\u2019s endless — instead of depending themselves. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, liberals, because they have very little faith in people to do well, they\u2019re all for Washington working in the sense of providing this and that for people, be it a cell phone, be it food stamps, you pick it. Because they don\u2019t believe people have the ability on their own to be self-sufficient, and therefore they claim that they are compassionate and big-hearted because they want to use other people\u2019s money, which is what government is to them, to try to improve people\u2019s lives. <\/p>\n

My question is this. We have a national debt approaching $18 trillion. The vast majority of that, six trillion of it, seven trillion of it, just in the last six, seven years. Obama\u2019s one-third of that, since the beginning of time. With that much money that we\u2019ve spent that we don\u2019t have, we\u2019ve spent $18 trillion that we don\u2019t have. Why isn\u2019t there utopia already? How in the world can this be made to work, if $18 trillion doesn\u2019t do the job? Why is there so much anger, rage, and hatred among the primary beneficiaries of all of this Washington help? <\/p>\n

You see, the left only wants their good intentions to be examined and acknowledged, but never the results. We\u2019re never supposed to look at the results of their programs because when we do, all we see is abject failure. And the people that they have convinced to set aside their own self-reliance and instead rely on them, look at \u2019em. They\u2019re filled with rage. They are angrier today than I can remember them ever being in my lifetime over issues and problems that have, in many ways, been solved. Certainly have been have been addressed in phenomenal ways. And yet they are angrier, they\u2019re more bitter, they\u2019re more unhappy than ever. And yet welfare and other forms of Washington care and concern have never been higher. <\/p>\n

The evidence is all around us it doesn\u2019t work. The evidence is all around us that Washington cannot work. And where the left revels in attacking people like me for saying things like this, they love to say that the words I just used prove to you that I have no heart, that I have no compassion. And, you know, it\u2019s the exact opposite. I\u2019m really worried about this country, and I\u2019m worried because the “Washington works” crowd has robbed how many millions of people in this country the opportunity for self-reliance? And in that denial, how many people have been robbed their dignity? How many people have been robbed of their self-respect?<\/line><\/p>\n

How many people will never know the good vibe of achievement and accomplishment, of doing something, of getting better at something, maybe even being the best at something or among the best? How many people will never know it, because they are now mired in a pit of rage and anger because there just isn\u2019t enough to give away to make everybody prosperous and wealthy? And there never will be, and there has never been a system devised, in the course of humanity, that can accomplish what today\u2019s left claims they can accomplish. It\u2019s never worked; it will never work; it cannot possibly work. It is impossible. <\/p>\n

Barack Obama has grown government. He has grown transfer payments. He has given away more money, and the people getting it are angrier than they\u2019ve ever been. And they\u2019re unhappier than they\u2019ve ever been, and they\u2019re more miserable. They\u2019re not even close to contentment and they\u2019re looking for somebody to blame because they believed all these promises. All of these years they\u2019ve believed the promises, take your pick, from FDR forward, to every Democrat that\u2019s made them. “I can make Washington work for you.” <\/p>\n

They\u2019re protesting. They\u2019re angry. They\u2019re still living in poverty, relative terms. They do not know the first thing about self-reliance. They\u2019ve even been taught to resent that. They\u2019ve even been taught to hate that. They have been taught to be suspicious of genuine success. They\u2019ve been told that the real cheats in our society are the successful. They have been told that the people that are really gaming the system, that the people that are really unfair, are the achievers and the people who are working and have been successful. <\/p>\n

And the Democrat Party and the American left continues to keep people subservient and in a constant state of need by promising them what? That they\u2019re gonna go get even with the successful. They\u2019re gonna get even with \u2019em and they\u2019re gonna raise their taxes and they\u2019re gonna take money away from \u2019em and they\u2019ve got more than they need, and we\u2019re gonna get it, and we\u2019re gonna get it for you, because they have stolen it from you for too long. <\/p>\n

It stands to reason 50, 60 years of hearing this crap, you believe it. What I don\u2019t get is voting for this crap 50 or 60 years and being angrier and more unhappy than ever, why you keep doing it. But they do, and in part because they\u2019ve got no other choice. The government opens job training centers to help people go out and find work. But they\u2019re not job training centers. They\u2019re community organizing locations, and they\u2019re taught how to protest. They\u2019re taught how to riot. They\u2019re taught grievance. They\u2019re taught anger. They\u2019re taught rage. They\u2019re taught resentment. And all of this is to benefit the power of the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

In my case, you know, I cringe at the destruction of all of this human potential, all of these human beings that have bought into this notion that the Democrat Party can make Washington work by providing this or that or getting even with those people. Those people will never know achievement, they\u2019ll never know self-accomplishment. They\u2019ve grown to resent it, they\u2019ve grown to not believe in it, they\u2019ve grown to suspect it, and, as such, they don\u2019t even have their dignity, all because they vote Democrat. <\/p>\n

My wish would be to get hold of these people a lot earlier in their lives and start hitting them with high expectations, not the soft bigotry of low expectations. The Democrat Party feels sorry for every minority group out there. They feel sorry for \u2019em, and the sympathy is what governs. Sympathy makes everybody think they have compassion. They look at minority groups as incompetent and incapable. Minority and race, minority gender, minority number, I don\u2019t care how you define minority, they look at every minority as in need of the Democrat Party. The minority exists as a bunch of victims because some invisible successful people over here have taken what they have and they won\u2019t give it back. <\/p>\n

So when I say I don\u2019t have any interest in Washington working, what I\u2019m really saying is, I want to change things, or have things change in such a way that people who are currently lost and aimless because they\u2019re totally dependent on a freaking political party, I would rather those people be inspired and ignited with enthusiasm about providing for and succeeding on their own terms by themselves, and I do not think it\u2019s mean-spirited to say that. I say that out of love for people, not because I don\u2019t like them. I say that because I want everybody to be the absolute best they can be. <\/p>\n

I want everybody to experience the absolute most wondrous life possible being an American offers. And I just cringe when I look at all of this rage and anger, and I look at what\u2019s causing — Look, just one recent example, “hands up, don\u2019t shoot,” it did not happen. The entire Democrat Party perpetuates a lie. The media joins them in perpetuating the lie that a young black kid tried to surrender and was gunned down in cold blood by a mean-spirited racist white cop in St. Louis. It did not happen. And yet how many Americans believe that it did because it was to the political advantage of the Democrat Party to spread that lie? <\/p>\n

So those people that believe this are running around enraged further, angrier than they\u2019ve ever been. They are beside themselves with rage at how this country is so stacked against them, when it isn\u2019t. This country\u2019s not stacked against anybody, except its enemies. Well, except maybe not even that now, because America\u2019s enemies are becoming its friends, and America\u2019s friends are running the risk of becoming enemies at the hands of this administration. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not mean-spiritedness to want the best for people. And it\u2019s not mean-spiritedness to realize that government working is not how we achieve the best for the most. We achieve the best for the most with the most engaging in self-reliance and self-interest. But boy, when you utter the words “self-reliance,” it\u2019s like showing Dracula the cross. Those are fighting words to Democrats. You know what the reaction to that? “Oh, easy for you to say. Easy for you to say. But not everybody can be.” <\/line><\/p>\n

“Why is that?” <\/p>\n

“Well, look at all the people with disabilities.” <\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah.” <\/p>\n

“And look at all the victims of institutional racism and sexism.” <\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah.” <\/p>\n

“And look at all the people who want to get into the country not being allowed into the country.” <\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah.” <\/p>\n

So the Democrats construct all of these excuses for people to fail. The Democrat Party, the American left constructs all of these justifiable excuses for people to rely on to explain their anger, to explain their unhappiness and misery. If this were some totalitarian Regime, I can understand this. The United States of America, where potential and opportunity are limitless, door\u2019s open to everybody. But if you\u2019re told your entire life and your kids are told for their entire lives that not only is the door not open, that it doesn\u2019t exist for you, what are you gonna think? <\/p>\n

If that\u2019s the way you\u2019re educated, if that\u2019s the way you\u2019re raised, if that\u2019s the way you vote, then somebody like me comes along and says, “No, no, no, no, no, that door is right over there, all you gotta do is open it.” <\/p>\n

“That\u2019s not for me because when I open that door I\u2019m gonna be discriminated against. I\u2019m not gonna get a fair shake.” <\/p>\n

No, the fact is that every human being in America, if he or she wants, has an excuse for failure. We can all blame something. We can all blame some phantom discrimination. The obese can blame discrimination against the fat. The stupid can blame discrimination against the stupid. Women can explain it because of the glass ceiling. You\u2019re always gonna be able to construct — everybody can have an excuse, everybody, if you want to blame somebody else, you can do it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So predictable. Everything the left does is so predictable it ought to be easily nuked. By now, everybody opposing the left ought to have ways to just knock \u2019em out of the water. In this case, Ted Cruz, hey, no experience, he\u2019s too stupid, he\u2019s too dumb, he doesn\u2019t believe in climate change. 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