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Here's another reason why we need to separate the blue states from the red states. It's just

really simple. Down in Florida 15 years ago they had this whole you know after the

2005 what was it SARS I guess it was in 2005. After that, Florida, the state actually put together an

emergency response system to respond to a pandemic, to a SARS epidemic, and

started stockpiling, you know, masks and stuff like that, you know,

a personal but but then came Governor Rick Scott and he said we don't need this

stuff, we've got to balance the budget, we've got to reduce our expenses so we can lower

taxes on multi-millionaires like me right says Rick Scott so he put an end to it

and Ron DeSantis never started it up again and now you've got the

mayor of Miami who's a Democrat polling way higher than the governor of Florida who kept the beaches open and then over in Georgia

you've got Brian Kemp the guy who stole the election from Stacy Abrams

because he was Secretary of State and he could control who could vote and who couldn't

and he kept a

half a million people from voting and he won by 50,000 votes. That idiot, yeah,

Brian Kemp, that idiot who a couple of days ago said, wow I just learned that you could transmit this virus without actually of that the Republicans put in charge of their red states because they want

compliant idiots who are not very thoughtful who are not very smart so when the

Koch brothers and their billionaire buddies tell them what to do tell tell them how to jump, they simply say how high sir.

I mean why am I subsidizing these people?

So anyhow we've got callers from both red states and blue states on the board.

Let's start with the blue state Paul in Woodinville, Washington.

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