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Mike, I have to bring up your harshness.

You seem to be in an unforgiving spirit.

We got these nice kids, boys and girls.

That are involved.

In their 30s and 40s.

Involved and trying to be.

They are good kids.

They may not leave seconds at the table,

but they're good children, good kids,

and they're calling black people, monkeys,

and talking about how we got to gas people in the gas chambers

and kill a lot of people, but they don't mean it. The vice president, you seem to have objected

and have pointed out in a way that could be a sign of your mental illness,

if I follow the new rules, that you've observed this situation,

and you've come to the conclusion that, wow, the vice president defending the 30 and 40-year-olds, whatever they are, who are apparently Nazis,

seems to be covered in a understated fashion to say the least.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, you know, a couple of things here.

So one, I think if you are a Republican member of Congress or you're the vice president of the United States and you've been lecturing us about how we call you a fascist or how some people call them Nazis, I generally don't call them Nazis. But if you'd like to not be called a Nazi, maybe don't hire them. Maybe don't defend them. Maybe don't create a culture where people feel comfortable putting a swastika in the background of their Zoom meetings. When you do those things, people are going to make assumptions about what you believe based on what you say and what you do. I think that's perfectly reasonable. In the same that, like, if I had staffers that had signs in the back of my offices that said, you know, thank God Charlie Kirk died. Or they were celebrating something like. Or you have some folks on the left that are celebrating what happened on October 7th in Israel forever ago, and not forever ago, but two years ago. And, you know, I would be looking at myself and going, what kind of culture am I creating? What kind of rhetoric am I allowing? What kind of people am I hiring? And there's no self-reflection there from the Republican Party whatsoever.

Instead, J.D. Vance is outright lying. These are people, these are adults. They're in their 20s, 30s, and some of them are in their fucking 40s, Steve. Like, some of them are older than me, and I'm fucking old at this point. So I don't know. And, you know, it's a culture that Donald Trump is created, but it's one that J.D. Vance defends aggressively.

And I'm, I've had enough of it. Like, it's just bullshit.

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