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make
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okay
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let’s make
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things make america
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yes yes we can do that
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make
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america
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great
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right
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okay
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now we’re getting somewhere make america
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great again
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make america great
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again so
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like implying it’s not great now but
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once was
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when was that
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way back before laws and regulations
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before
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okay
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let’s go back there back before before
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this president or
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that president before
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the virus locked us down masks on our
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faces millions of positive cases before
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babies in border cages
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before marriage equality or that
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hurricane called katrina or that one
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named maria before ferguson or eric
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garner or trayvon martin or brianna
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taylor george floyd
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sandra bland and and and and and and and
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and
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and and and and
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before september 11th or iraq and
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afghanistan
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before the prison industrial complex
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before the internet made us all perverse
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before
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read my lips
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iran contra nuclear arms race vietnam
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and bras were burned watergate
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before before 1968 that fateful year of
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assassination assassination and
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assassination before the back of the bus
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let’s go back to when america’s great
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with the capital
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when was that exactly oh right before
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the crow named jim flew the coop before
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the world war an internment and
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depression and of that other world war
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before women suffering through suffrage
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back when it was great pre-industry
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before emancipation
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and civil war back before western
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expansion and trail of tears before new
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hampshire was new
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before revolution and tea parties too
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and the ships
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those ships like to take their trips
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packed with people back
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then back and forth from the west coast
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of that place to the east coast of this
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let’s make america great make
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america
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great like it used to be before refugees
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stumbled on a rock in plymouth before
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columbus got lost and found
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unowned land before the vikings before
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borders were drawn before the earth
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warmed and cooled and warmed and cooled
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before the tectonic plates shifted
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when america was europe and asia and
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africa before the great asteroid when
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giant lizards roamed further back when
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amphibians were bacteria when bacteria
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was nothing when everything was stardust
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even earlier
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before the stars exploded dirtying up
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space how truly great how truly great
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how truly great
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how truly great america was back then
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[Music]
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you
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