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All that said, let me declare here and now with an almost plausible show of parents sincerity that I fully recognize the absolute historic importance of the current impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump.

If Trump was right and the election was stolen then he's still president and must be removed from office for saying the election was stolen as it must have been or he'd be gone already and this would be unnecessary.

Whereas if he's wrong and the election was not stolen then he would no longer be president and we would not be doing this as we clearly must.

Now I know there's some among you who think the impeachment trial is distracting the Senate from performing other urgent duties like spending money that doesn't exist or holding investigations with no results or passing a law that no one will have time to read before it utterly destroys whatever sector of the economy it was intended to reform.

However, if Donald Trump is allowed to get away with whatever nonsense they're charging him with this time what is to stop some future president from not doing the things we're pretending he did.

Obviously it is urgent that the Senate perform this useless duty rather than the usual useless duties at waste our time with less anyone take them seriously which would be of course absurd.

Now there are others among you who say whatever Trump did it could not be half as bad as the Democrats kneeling on the Capitol floor to show solidarity with the people burning Portland and Minneapolis to the ground.

But let me say in the immortal words of Trump prosecutor Eric Swalwell and I quote oh Fang Fang do that to me one more time and I'll tell you everything I know as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

So in conclusion let me just say to those of you who would attack the United States Congress leave them alone they're not doing anything which considering who they are is a best case scenario trigger warning I'm Andrew Clayton and this is the Andrew Clayton show.

All right we are back with the vast right wing conspiracy known as Klavenon it is good to be here I'm so enjoying this new show I hope you are too.

It is just giving me a chance to really revamp what I'm doing and rethink what's happening in the country which is hilarious if not tragic please if you are enjoying the show please go on and give us five stars on whatever platform you're listening to please subscribe to the show also you want to subscribe to our YouTube channel the Andrew Clayton YouTube channel where if you press that little bell we will deliver content to your home in person we'll slide down your chimney still your silverware but we're going to be able to do that.

We're still your silverware but we'll leave something of interest also if you leave a comment for us and it's bigoted and obnoxious and would be banned from Twitter we will include it in our commentary here because it'll fit right in today we have something from Joshua Van de Veld who says masks are no longer cutting it we need to mandate plastic bags.

It actually just comes directly from Anthony Fauci so that should be good you know in my opening I was joking about the fact that the Senate's meaningless impeachment trial is distracting them from their usual meaningless activities of pretending to spend money that isn't there or questioning some sinister deep state schnook and then sending them right back to his desk to go on doing whatever he's been doing or raising the debt ceiling ceiling from infinity to infinity plus gazillion to make sure they all continue to get paid for doing absolutely nothing.

But as hilarious as the whole kabuki show of Congress now is it's got a worrying side to it as well the fact that the federal government is performing government rather than actually governing tells us something about the state of the nation namely that the constitutional bodies that were handed down to us are now no longer there they're just pretending to be there they're just making a show of it.

We're experiencing the chaos and oppression of government by agency not the least the intelligence and law enforcement agencies who've decided they have the right to manipulate the news and spy on us and criminalize our speech and our candidates we've clearly reached the end of something I think this is obvious which means I hope that we're waiting for something new to come along the left with their childish gender fantasies and their ugly racial pathology and their weird tick of returning to some of the world.

The tick of returning to socialism like a dog returning to its vomit can't lay any serious claim to forging a truly American future I'm actually not as worried about them as some as I know some of you are.

I think we see in that the ridiculous Biden show is just just that it's just a show it's not really accomplishing anything much the right meanwhile seems to be lost in inter nesting quarrels and nostalgia for the dualism of Reagan cold war ideology.

A dangerous denial of the debt crisis and an overblown allegiance to what we still call capitalism but what has in fact evolved into stagnant cronism that crushes the little guy while it bales out and cow tows to irresponsible and undemocratic giants.

So where can we look to see the new thing we hope is coming and how can we help to build the new thing I think the answer is not going to come from philosophizing but from experimentation from doing that means it's not going to come from Washington but from individual.

Small businesses and from the states these next four years while our vinyl house plant of a president pieces his base with fantastical leftist executive orders these four years provide an opportunity for local defiance local action and hopefully local success.

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