Why Elected Officials Are Powerless* (De Jure vs. De Facto)

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TLDRThis content explores the political awareness of the Muslim community, particularly in light of the Gaza situation. The speaker asserts that many do not grasp the complexities of politics and unintentionally oversimplify disputes, categorizing them as purely 'good' or 'bad.' Through a detailed case study of running for mayor, they explain how political power works, emphasizing the transactional nature of endorsements and the necessity of understanding political dynamics to navigate power relationships effectively. The discussion extends to international relations, specifically the contrast between the power of the United States and countries like Iran, ultimately advocating for political unity among Muslim nations to gain true autonomy in global politics.

Conclusões

  • 🔍 Understanding of political complexity is crucial.
  • 🗳️ Endorsements play a significant role in elections.
  • 💼 Political power is often transactional.
  • 🌎 Global politics reflects power dynamics between nations.
  • 🤝 Aligning incentives is vital for successful governance.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker reflects on the low political awareness within the ummah regarding the situation in Gaza and discusses the importance of understanding political dynamics. He emphasizes that politics is a science and compares it to learning calculus without mastering basic arithmetic. He criticizes postmodern thinking, underscoring that there are clear distinctions between good and evil, right and wrong, which need to be acknowledged. He intends to provide a foundational understanding of political structures and dynamics, citing the example of running for mayor.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker delves into the mechanics of political elections, explaining how candidates rely on endorsements from influential figures rather than solely on policy agreements. He articulates that politics is fundamentally transactional, where candidates align their agendas with the interests of power brokers to gain support. This perspective reframes the electoral process as one where endorsements are akin to shares in a company, signifying a quid pro quo relationship rather than merely ideological alignment.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Continuing the exploration of political power, the speaker explains how elected officials often have limited authority, emphasizing the necessity of securing alliances with various societal influencers to enact their agendas. By examining the transactional nature of politics, he illustrates how candidates must negotiate with unions, community leaders, and other stakeholders to achieve their goals, highlighting that no lone figure can effectively push through their mandate without the backing and cooperation of others in the political realm.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:22:45

    Finally, the speaker contrasts the perceived power of nations with the actual political dynamics at play. He uses Iran and the United States as examples to illustrate how public rhetoric may not reflect true intentions. He underscores that nations often navigate power hierarchies while managing their interests carefully. The discussion culminates in the notion that in order to change these dynamics, the ummah must unify and strengthen, drawing parallels to the early Muslim community, which thrived when it could establish itself as a significant power in its own right.

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  • What is the main focus of the discussion?

    The discussion focuses on the low political awareness in the Muslim community regarding geopolitical issues, particularly the situation in Gaza.

  • Why is it important to understand political principles?

    Understanding political principles helps to comprehend the complexities of power dynamics, both locally and globally.

  • What analogy does the speaker use to explain political power?

    The speaker uses the analogy of running for mayor to illustrate how political power operates and the importance of endorsements.

  • What does the speaker say about the relationship between endorsed candidates and power brokers?

    Endorsed candidates often must align with the incentives of power brokers to secure their support, which is a transactional relationship.

  • How does the speaker describe the power dynamic between the U.S. and Iran?

    The speaker describes a significant power gap, indicating that despite Iran's rhetoric against the U.S., it cannot challenge American dominance.

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    know I'm going to give you the short end
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    of the stick now now that I'm in power
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    name versus the reality the Practical
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    elected and to carry out your mandate as
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    an elected official you need the buying
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    influentials in society who have like
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    you know Community organizers bishops
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    priests right you you need those kinds
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    of people on your
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    side so why am I explaining all of this
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    am I trying to get you am I trying to
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    get you elected mayor no but Power work
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    power has principles politics has
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    principles if you understand those
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    principles here just for like a city
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    you'll understand them on the global
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    know um different
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    context but the principles always stay
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    look at the United States dour meaning
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    in name these are two states they have
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    two presidents they both have a seed
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    that the United Nations they're both
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    Sovereign countries one of the 190
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    whatever almost like their peers the de
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    facto reality could not be further from
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    the
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    truth let alone one of them economically
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    dwarfs the other let alone one of them
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    militarily dwarfs the other let alone
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    that one of them uh dwarfs the other
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    from an intelligence gathering
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    perspective from a technology
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    perspective uh one of them dwarfs the
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    other from a regional influence
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    perspective
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    see when you only look at the names of
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    things and you look at Iran is coming
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    out and saying coming out against the US
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    and the people of Iran are chanting
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    death to America and stuff like this you
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    have to understand like what is the
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    purpose of all of this like there are
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    certain ways that you approach politics
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    number one what are the incentives of
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    these
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    people incentives are not communicated
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    in speech because someone might be
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    saying something like death to America
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    but who who who is the audience for that
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    speech and what is the intended effect
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    of that speech right not every
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    communication as people should know
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    anyone with high emotional intelligence
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    is going to be good at political
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    analysis or not necessarily good but
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    they're going to have a good leg to go
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    off of because the politics of the
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    office
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    politics office politics has the same
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    principles right some people are never
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    going to advance in the corporate ladder
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    because they don't understand office
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    politics they don't understand that
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    certain Communications have certain a es
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    with certain objectives that might not
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    be reflective of the reality of the
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    position of the person right so people
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    on the streets of Iran chanting death to
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    Israel who who's or death to America
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    who's the audience of that is it the
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    American state department is it the
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    American public is it the Arab
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    public uh it could it could have
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    multiple different
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    objectives um how you understand the
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    incentives of these people you have to
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    look into their histories
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    you have to look into their actions
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    their actual political actions right we
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    know for example that America flew from
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    Paris to Iran and and and allowed that
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    to happen without shooting down no plane
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    they they help provide that plane we
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    know for example that when Iran wants to
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    strike American military bases they call
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    ahead of time and they say you know we
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    just want to get your and Trump even
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    kind of flubbed this one he he spilled
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    the beans on some interview he said you
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    know the Iranians they call us and they
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    say we just got a save face and we you
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    know pull your people out we just want
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    to do a retaliation strike to save face
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    right we know for example in this recent
  • 00:15:12
    strike from Iran to to Israel um the
  • 00:15:16
    they called the head to the American
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    Consulate and they said you know America
  • 00:15:20
    was
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    forewarned of the attack right so what
  • 00:15:25
    does all that what does all of that tell
  • 00:15:26
    you it tells you Iran does not want to
  • 00:15:28
    challenge Amer America even though they
  • 00:15:30
    might say death to America and so on the
  • 00:15:33
    reality is they don't want to challenge
  • 00:15:35
    America and they don't want to challenge
  • 00:15:36
    America
  • 00:15:38
    because they're they don't exist on the
  • 00:15:40
    same plane one of them can easily crush
  • 00:15:43
    the other right
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    so it's hard to discern underlying
  • 00:15:48
    motivations for people right it might be
  • 00:15:52
    that the Iranian
  • 00:15:53
    regime uh has an ideology has an agenda
  • 00:15:57
    and they're being quote
  • 00:16:00
    pragmatic that the US is here and we
  • 00:16:02
    kind of need to maneuver that and
  • 00:16:05
    maneuvering that means sometimes cow
  • 00:16:07
    Towing to America's agenda right and to
  • 00:16:11
    America's interests in the region uh and
  • 00:16:14
    not Crossing certain red lines that
  • 00:16:16
    America has for foreign policy in the
  • 00:16:17
    Middle
  • 00:16:18
    East um you know sometimes they might
  • 00:16:21
    play with that sometimes they might test
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    the
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    waters uh you know as any uh as as any
  • 00:16:28
    regime would as any because any regime
  • 00:16:30
    has its own kind of agenda but at the
  • 00:16:32
    end of the day they have to kind of play
  • 00:16:34
    Within the perimeter of the United
  • 00:16:35
    States or at least they see that they do
  • 00:16:38
    they see that they have to play Within
  • 00:16:39
    the perimeter of the United States right
  • 00:16:42
    um the reality is if the Muslims United
  • 00:16:45
    if we created a power block then we
  • 00:16:48
    would have the military economic and and
  • 00:16:51
    hopefully technological resources to act
  • 00:16:55
    independently right uh unfortunately
  • 00:16:58
    it's just
  • 00:16:59
    and this is what you need to understand
  • 00:17:01
    hopefully you have some insight
  • 00:17:03
    now that when there's a huge power gra
  • 00:17:08
    power gap between two
  • 00:17:10
    Nations the the one that's the inferior
  • 00:17:13
    cannot be cannot be independent by
  • 00:17:15
    definition because the interests of the
  • 00:17:17
    dominant will just crush the the the the
  • 00:17:21
    the inferior Nation right some Banana
  • 00:17:25
    Republic uh like Costa Rica or Cuba
  • 00:17:29
    can't just like act on its own it has to
  • 00:17:32
    align itself with a world power right so
  • 00:17:35
    any nation is either a world power you
  • 00:17:37
    know like Russia or China or the United
  • 00:17:39
    States or Europe as a block because
  • 00:17:41
    Europe can behave as a block um it's a
  • 00:17:45
    world power it can it has a certain kind
  • 00:17:47
    of Independence to execute its agenda
  • 00:17:50
    and push push the envelope against
  • 00:17:53
    stronger powers that they still exist in
  • 00:17:55
    some kind of similar league with or
  • 00:17:58
    they're like a state
  • 00:18:00
    lit like Egypt or Iran or Saudi Arabia
  • 00:18:03
    or Lebanon or any of these states to be
  • 00:18:06
    very Frank do not exist even in the same
  • 00:18:09
    universe of power military Manpower all
  • 00:18:12
    of that kind of stuff right it's like
  • 00:18:15
    you know a sixth grader fighting a fully
  • 00:18:17
    grown
  • 00:18:19
    adult you know the sixth grader is going
  • 00:18:21
    to eventually do what the adult has
  • 00:18:24
    tells them to do cuz you know otherwise
  • 00:18:26
    we you know we and so so might someone
  • 00:18:28
    might ask okay so let's say one of these
  • 00:18:30
    countries says screw you United States
  • 00:18:33
    or screw you Russia or screw you China
  • 00:18:36
    screw everybody I'm going to go do
  • 00:18:38
    whatever I want to do what would what
  • 00:18:41
    would one of these powers do let's say
  • 00:18:43
    the United States there's many ways that
  • 00:18:47
    a world power can can exert leverage
  • 00:18:50
    over a nation to bring it in
  • 00:18:54
    line so let's say you have a rogue a
  • 00:18:56
    rogue state like Saddam was a rogue
  • 00:19:00
    State like saddam's irq was a rogue
  • 00:19:02
    State um you know went against America
  • 00:19:05
    so they had to come in and correct
  • 00:19:06
    things so that's one way America can
  • 00:19:09
    correct a rogue State direct Invasion
  • 00:19:11
    but that's not their preferred method
  • 00:19:14
    their preferred
  • 00:19:15
    method understand that every nation
  • 00:19:18
    every nation in the world has a power
  • 00:19:20
    struggle sometimes that power struggle
  • 00:19:22
    is clear and obvious sometimes that
  • 00:19:25
    power struggle is more like hidden right
  • 00:19:28
    every na has a power struggle so if the
  • 00:19:31
    if if the current regime goes Rogue the
  • 00:19:34
    United States knows that in that Nation
  • 00:19:37
    there is a competing party there's a
  • 00:19:39
    competing faction that that's struggling
  • 00:19:41
    with power for for power with that with
  • 00:19:44
    with the uh current regime and because
  • 00:19:47
    many of these countries are already
  • 00:19:48
    unstable the United States doesn't need
  • 00:19:51
    to do much in order to further
  • 00:19:53
    destabilize the country to the extent
  • 00:19:56
    where a public opinion for the current
  • 00:19:58
    regime goes
  • 00:19:59
    down B they they they empower the
  • 00:20:04
    competing faction with
  • 00:20:06
    intelligence uh with resources if they
  • 00:20:09
    want to escalate it into an armed
  • 00:20:11
    Insurgency with
  • 00:20:12
    weapons uh and with
  • 00:20:16
    propaganda uh and they will use all the
  • 00:20:18
    resources that they have at their
  • 00:20:19
    disposal to bet on this new horse right
  • 00:20:22
    so so America has kind of like an
  • 00:20:24
    unspoken deal with these people either
  • 00:20:27
    you're our horse that we bet on you get
  • 00:20:30
    to have some freedom in domestic policy
  • 00:20:32
    you get to have some Freedom where our
  • 00:20:34
    interests are not relevant like if we
  • 00:20:36
    don't care about something go do what
  • 00:20:37
    you want with it and you guys get to be
  • 00:20:39
    the guys in the Palaces and the
  • 00:20:41
    rolls-royces and all that kind kind of
  • 00:20:43
    stuff but if you don't like that
  • 00:20:45
    Arrangement I'm sure there's someone in
  • 00:20:47
    your country who
  • 00:20:48
    will so that's how it works um it's it's
  • 00:20:52
    a very disgusting situation and it might
  • 00:20:54
    sound very demoralizing but hey that's
  • 00:20:57
    the reality of power
  • 00:20:59
    and if you want to if you want to end
  • 00:21:01
    that reality you need to have power who
  • 00:21:04
    would have th right so you need to you
  • 00:21:07
    don't need to be as powerful as the
  • 00:21:09
    United States but you need to at least
  • 00:21:11
    be a fully grown adult to fight a fully
  • 00:21:13
    grown adult right like they might be
  • 00:21:16
    Mike Tyson but you but you don't have to
  • 00:21:18
    be Mike Tyson you can be like some
  • 00:21:20
    weaker guy and but you're really
  • 00:21:22
    determined and you have courage and you
  • 00:21:23
    can go Bam Bam Bam right uh but if
  • 00:21:26
    you're a sixth grader it's not going to
  • 00:21:28
    happen happen right there there are laws
  • 00:21:31
    to life and just enough
  • 00:21:34
    determination from a very very weak band
  • 00:21:38
    isn't going to cut it right when the
  • 00:21:40
    Prophet The Prophet Alam did not fight
  • 00:21:43
    for that reason until Medina was
  • 00:21:45
    established when Medina was a city state
  • 00:21:48
    it could compete with its Regional
  • 00:21:50
    Rivals and when it could compete with
  • 00:21:53
    its Regional Rivals and it was able to
  • 00:21:54
    kind of cap you know unify Arabia now
  • 00:21:58
    now it could compete with the Roman
  • 00:22:00
    Empire and the Persian Empire were they
  • 00:22:01
    as powerful as them no not by a long
  • 00:22:04
    shot from a material perspective but at
  • 00:22:07
    least it was state to state and you know
  • 00:22:11
    pretty powerful state to pretty pretty
  • 00:22:13
    powerful state right like it wasn't the
  • 00:22:16
    Gap that we see today between say Egypt
  • 00:22:18
    and the United States right it's not
  • 00:22:21
    even comparable uh you know especially
  • 00:22:24
    considering that the Roman and the
  • 00:22:25
    Persian Empires were heavily weakened by
  • 00:22:27
    fighting
  • 00:22:29
    right Allah kind of organized that
  • 00:22:31
    situation so that the Muslims could
  • 00:22:33
    expand rapidly at that
  • 00:22:35
    time anyway I'm waffling now so I'll
  • 00:22:38
    sign off if you have any questions leave
  • 00:22:39
    them in the comments
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