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Brad Johnson on Boris Johnson and Brexit

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Brad Johnson December 13th Boris Johnson

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has just won the UK election and as they

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use first-past-the-post although the

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actual number of votes wasn’t that much

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higher than Labor the number of seats

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was dramatically higher which the same

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way it works in Canada so they ended up

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with a clear majority out of three forty

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five seats out of whatever they needed

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three twenty eight something I’m mad

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numbers are off by half a dozen but they

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definitely won a clear majority of the

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seats and anti fight has already been on

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the streets protesting and calling

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everybody at Nazi at this point I think

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that I think that a dog walker that

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doesn’t also walk cats isn’t a so that’s

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sure how much meaning that really has

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but lots of video of anti felt they’re

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picking fights screaming at police and

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calling everybody a Nazi what’s your

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what’s your take on the election results

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well this is fabulously interesting this

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happened last night in East Coast u.s.

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Eastern Standard Time timeframe because

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it’s six hours ahead in London later in

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the day so new near 6:00 p.m. there so

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we got we were call these results came

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in last night for us so this morning

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woke up to a very very jubilant of Boris

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Johnson who has taken the majority as

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you mentioned so now what that means of

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course from his perspective is he just

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now has the government as which has been

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formed and they through the tradition go

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to the Queen to get the approval or

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blessing and he does not need to form a

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coalition government which provide

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British terms that is a big deal he goes

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straight to having his government he has

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enough votes to pass a majority assuming

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that he keeps everyone within the party

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in line for voting as party labor was

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just destroyed which is what you

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mentioned already they lost of many many

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many many seats and they’re they’re all

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stunned and speechless absolutely

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speechless out of this thing

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but one of the things it hasn’t gotten

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talked about a lot is that within

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the Conservatives they also won within

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those seats and outlasted a lot of the

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guys that are you know affectionately

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called the remainders so everybody knows

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brexit England leaving the European

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Union and there was a large very vocal

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important I should say powerful bloc

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that did not want to leave and that was

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within labour and also within the

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Conservatives and all of those got taken

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out so now Boris has his party far more

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attuned to him and brexit all of the

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people that were vocal vocally remain

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errs got ousted other people got voted

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in so very interesting it was a double

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win for for the Prime Minister and now

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he’s really in a position to go so

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Breck’s it’s a done deal and they got

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like like I said the remainders from all

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of the parties all of the power blocks

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that wanted to remain in the EU taken as

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a whole were absolutely devastated wiped

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out gutted so that message has been made

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clear now they’re still going to fight

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and then what you see with aunty fete is

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part of that fight there’s there is this

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large kind of coalition of overlapping

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interests where you’ll see cooperation

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between say and Tifa

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and the extreme left and the political

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scene in for the Brits and and so that’s

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all part of it but now has a place to

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operate and control and get money and

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organize England’s going to be a much

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tougher place for an Tifa which is why

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you see them out on the street so

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they’re doing what they could do now

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while they can before they start getting

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attacked London by the way it was one of

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the places where that’s one of the

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places where an teef is a little

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stronger and that’s still a hotbed of

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sort of leftist voters and people and

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all of that so interesting that the rest

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of England now those numbers haven’t

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come out yet at least that I’ve seen but

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the rest of England was was where this

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vote was won London is still kind of a

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safe haven for them if you will so very

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interesting how this plays out Breck’s

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it’s going to go forward those

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the opposition was absolutely crushed if

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they start agitating and want to have

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more votes they’ll get their rear ends

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handed to them once again and they will

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continue to destroy their own power base

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so it’s going to be interesting to see

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are they smart enough to figure out that

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that didn’t work and stop doing it are

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they going to be morons like you tend to

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see here in the United States with this

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persecution over the President of the

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United States

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it keeps killing and killing and killing

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but they keep doing thinking we’re

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winning stuff let’s see if that happens

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in England as well now one of the things

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President Trump tweeted out as he does

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that we’re gonna have a fabulous trade

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deal set up with the bread’s this is

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true they’re going to do this they’ve

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already talked about it that will go

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forward and what Trump has said is let’s

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just do an agreement where there’s no

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tariffs we just trade back and forth and

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whatever makes sense to trade will trade

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and if it’s you know too expensive to

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ship and so you can’t compete you know

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we don’t trade and I think that’s going

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to appeal to everyone and it would be a

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big deal and England is you know it’s

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not a big economy compared to the United

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States but it’s still a big economy by

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European terms so and it can grow they

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need a lot of help in that area so this

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would be kind of the first step for

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England to a more a capitalist system

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and it would be very interesting to see

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I think the long-term ramifications in

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England are enormous I think it’s going

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to go far beyond what anybody’s

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envisioning now and England just as by

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example housing is such a sore point

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they’re so screwed up in housing since

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before World War Two housing has been a

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problem after World War Two with all the

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bombing and destruction of course it’s

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always been a problem and they’ve never

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recovered from this sort of communal

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socialist take on housing they’ve never

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unleashed the economy to just go build

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you don’t have enough houses turn people

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loose to build them and they’ve never

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done it instead they control it and dole

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them out and they treat it’s handled

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through socialism and you see all of

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these communities and how they’re

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organized they need to break the back of

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all of that

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turn the economy loose let the Brits go

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out and those who know how to build

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build and let those people who want to

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buy a house buy a house and make them on

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all the various prices expect price is

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expensive and cheap and so on

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instead the socials for years have been

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running these laws in such a way that

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it’s like if you have a vacation home

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they’re going to take it away from you

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and so they’ve just been doing just

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immensely destructive things to the

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economy and I think this deal as it goes

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forward with the United States is going

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to chip away at all of those things

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because people will start to understand

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where wealth comes from and doing

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increased business and people coming up

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with new ways of doing jobs that’s where

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money is created and it’s it’s supported

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with the banking system that loans

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people money that have ideas they start

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the business it’s a success they hire

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more people they make more money that is

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where wealth is created that’s where the

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wealth of the United States came from

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and that is pure capitalism and that’s

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what we need to unleash in England

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that’ll fix the housing and the job

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market and all of these ills that are

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that are that have faced England and

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made their economy shrink and be not as

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not very strong I think we will see the

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beginning of fixing all of that I think

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Boris Johnson understands this

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understands the ramifications and that’s

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why I’m fully convinced he’s immediately

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going to jump into this deal with Trump

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and I like I said I would you know I

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would say there’s a very good chance

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that the deal will be simply free-trade

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in the sense of no tariffs we’ll just

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trade and you know if it’s better for us

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to buy from you that or make it here

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that’s let the economy run the run the

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deal which is is the way it should be

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done so I think it’s deeply significant

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and also here in the United States it’s

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a good deal to have the trade both

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economies will grow but also the freedom

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movement that you’re starting to see

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across Europe is now going to blossom we

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our friend Rasmus paladin in in Denmark

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is is is trying to go against basically

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the socialist movement he’s gaining in

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popularity we have a similar movement in

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Norway starting to gain pop

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you’re seeing this resurgence in England

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and that is going to spread to some

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other European countries there’s been

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talk of these things in Italy so I think

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it’s going to be very significant in

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that sense and there will be ripples

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that will work themselves out word in

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Europe and Europe is under assault under

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assault from Russia

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using energy as a weapon they weaponized

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gas natural gas for example for heating

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and oil and these things and that’s

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where they have gained a lot of control

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over Europe and on the other side you’ve

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got Turkey Russia’s old adversary who is

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now using other political pressure and

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working with Muslim Brotherhood and all

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that to also put pressure on Europe so

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Europe is a battleground and Paris of

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course is attempting to take greater

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control of the EU to establish

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themselves as a as a greater power bloc

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within the entire EU so the forces are

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all aligned fighting each other now it’s

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it’s going to be a very interesting few

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years watching how this all plays out in

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Europe does Russia gain ascendancy does

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turkey gain ascendancy does Paris gain

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ascendancy does the free market and

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capitalism gain of Senden see and that

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would be the kind of longer shot but I

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think the odds are going up with this

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deal so that’s where I would put my

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money is is hoping that that’s the the

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horse that wins in this in this race so

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the beginning of a very interesting

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future for Europe

 
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