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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Two.

My fellow Americans greetings, it is Eric Erickson here across the United States of America.

Glad to have you with me today. We have a lot going on. And I, your brave host, I think I get to call myself brave and courageous. I'm going to touch a third rail for many of you.

Some of you are about to be horrified and deeply offended by what I'm about to say.

We're probably not going to take phone calls on what I'm about to say because I suspect many of you will be thoroughly enraged. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

It says nothing to do with Donald Trump except ancillarily, and it's a good thing on

Trump's part.

See, Donald Trump and Pete Higgseth have actually pulled off a brilliant maneuver.

Let's step back.

In the United States of America in the 21st century with the embrace of

cancel culture

there are rules at play here

there are rules that you yourselves

may be unaware of

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