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All right. So we got to talk about the impeachment. Like that's the first thing that we have to talk

about is impeachment to electric boogaloo. Because I have a lot of, I have questions, I have concerns.

I have something that's more of a comment than a question.

Yeah, I think that's the right approach to impeachment part.

Because it was all going so well.

I mean, Joaquin Castro just sidled up there looking all like Castroy and

Wakini in his beard. I was like hey boo how

you doing and then he started talking I was like okay you're talking and saying smart stuff but hey call me

and so he did a great job and then Joe Nogus got up there. Hey, Boulder represent. Like Colorado in the house. Black people represent. I mean, you know how I am about Boulder and black people considering I'm thinking about moving to Boulder. So I need to find this man. And I got to join the black people in Boulder Club. I think it's six people and they meet at the local like Applebee's or whatever. We don't have it. Applebee's. Okay. Uh, uh, your local craft brewery place.

Definitely. Okay. So he was great. I mean, he laid out the impeachment case beautifully. And then Stacey

Plaskett, who is the representative for the, for the U.S. Virgin Islands, who like literally was wearing a cape. Like she came in. She might be superwoman. She literally might be superwoman. And she just walked through everything so calmly, so slowly. At first I was like, why is she talking so slow? And I'm like, oh, yeah, because she's black. And people like, when black women talk, they get a little bit anxious. Like, oh, so loud, so angry. Oh, my God. You're making me nervous. We got to placate the white folks when you're a black woman. So she did just that. I mean, walked through every bit of it, drew connections between Trump's rhetoric and the insurrection,

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