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Welcome to the Benjamin Dixon show.

I am your host Benjamin Dixon.

Today is Thursday.

It is May 14, 2020.

Thanks so much for joining us.

As always on Thursdays, the unemployment numbers are out and

2.98 million more Americans have successfully filed for jobless claims for unemployment insurance. And of course every week we state this we have to give the

caveat that this does not include the people who could not successfully get through because the system is so inundated.

But just with the people who are able to file for unemployment,

we are looking at 36.5 million Americans who have lost their jobs in the last two

months.

This is a crisis.

This is a crisis that history will look back on and wonder why the hell were American leaders not only doing

politics as usual but engaging in the most ridiculous and the stupidest type of politics

imaginable.

I just want to give you a comparison of what's happening in the minds of our president as well as some of our top

leaders as it pertains to this crisis. I mean not only is Donald Trump an

effing moron but we have no opposition no meaningful opposition from the Democratic Party.

In fact they're complicit with with the country not doing what's absolutely

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