Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden, and I want to welcome you to episode 178 of my podcast, who's paying attention.

Interesting.

I went to the dentist yesterday and had some relatively major dental work done.

Anyway, my tooth hurt and my jaw hurt and it hurt last night and it was still hurting this morning. And I realized that that's what America's suffering from. We've got a toothache. You know, it's not, oh, sorry about that. It's not debilitating pain. It doesn't stop you from operating. But it's a constant annoyance it's always there you know

that that's what we're suffering from so let's get into this episode 178 by now um and here

here's the thing this this is what i'm calling this episode or maybe the theme of this episode or whatever, what have you.

If someone tells you who they are, listen.

I think that I first heard that in some relationship advice thing where they said,

like, you know, if a person is abusive, then they're an abuser. They're telling you

who they are. If a person lies to you, they're a liar. If a person steals from you, they're a

thief. They're telling you who they are. And quite often, we are blinded by love or emotion

or something else, and we refuse to accept who someone is and we deny who they are

even though they're telling us and and that seems to be our and when I say our I mean the United

States relationship with Donald Trump Donald Trump tells us who he is and we we refuse to believe it for some odd reason. So

Trump bombed Syria last week. He bombed Syria. He got permission from Putin first. He called

Putin first. Didn't call Congress. He called Putin. Said, we're going to bomb Syria. You, you okay with that? And he said, where we're going to bomb and to get the Russian soldiers out of the way and get the Syrian planes out of the way. And of course, we didn't bomb the runway, which would stop the planes from taking off. We bombed planes that were already disabled and a couple of taxiways. But here's

my point about Donald Trump telling us who he is. Okay, first of all, when he gave that speech about

it's about the Syrian people being gassed and it's about the babies, the beautiful babies.

Well, he didn't care about the beautiful babies when he was blustering about denying

Syrian refugees entrance into the United States when he had a whole list of Muslim countries

that people aren't allowed to enter the United States from.

Not even the babies are allowed to enter.

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