So I want to welcome everyone to the eighth Ron Paul Institute Washington conference.

If you can believe it, Washington, D.C. it's terrible and it is terrible, but that's why we come here.

Because there's the one thing the regime doesn't want us to do is to get together.

And we're getting together in their own front yard, in their own backyard.

If you look around this corridor, the 28 corridor, that's where the military industrial complex lives,

those are the people who suck us dry and bomb the rest of the world.

They don't want us to do what we're doing, which is to be here, to talk to each other, to get together.

That's why they want to silence us.

And that's why we are determined to come here in their face and continue to meet as long as we can because getting not allowing us to meet is the

goal of the regime.

So that's why we're here and today we're thank you.

That's why this year is also a little bit different because usually we talk about war and peace and we talk

about civil liberties and those are all very important but this year this is the

year of a Republican platform the Kamala platform this platform the other what

about the liberty platform?

That's what we're here for.

And it's beyond just foreign policy.

It's beyond civil liberties.

We're talking today about food freedom, about medical freedom.

It's all together.

It's all interrelated. And that's the reason why we're doing things a little bit different today

I do want to say also this is an analog event. This is not digital. This is real. This is the real world. You know, I don't know about the rest of you, but I often feel like I'm living in the matrix where everything is fake. Our food is fake. Our politicians are fake. Our government is fake. We have a fake person. We have two

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