跟读练习: This ENDS Mike's Majority - 通过视频学习英语口语

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Donald Trump has effectively killed the Republican Party and his entire MAGA movement, and it is because they are permanently tied to him.
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There is no ability for MAGA to create space between themselves and Donald Trump.
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It is why these midterms are going to be a wipeout, and it is why Mike Johnson is going to be losing his job.
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And considering how unpopular he is within his own caucus in MAGA, I don't think he'll ever have it again.
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And that is just hilarious to me.
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But that was before what Donald Trump said today.
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That reality that exists for Mike Johnson, it has only gotten worse after a shock admission from Donald Trump
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that I just cannot believe he made and continues to make.
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And it is also all made worse by the fact
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that there is a faction of MAGA or former MAGA trying to seize on this moment.
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That is what Marjorie Taylor Greene is doing right now.
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It's where I want to start before we get to Donald Trump.
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completely screwing Mike Johnson.
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Explaining to you guys how this is actually going to work.
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26 midterms and the 28 presidential race is not going to be anything like 2024, where there was so much support for MAGA.
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The coalition came in and got behind Trump.
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And here's why.
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When the president started telling his own supporters that he didn't want their support, remember that Truth Social post where he said,
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my past supporters, and he was calling the Epstein files a hoax.
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Yeah, these were women that were talking about
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and telling their stories about being raped by these elite rich men when they were 14 and 16 years old.
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And then the president fought me and Thomas Massey and all of us who were trying to release the Epstein files, and he called it a Democrat hoax.
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Yeah, that's going to be a problem in the midterms.
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You know what another problem in the midterms is going to be that is totally broken the entire coalition.
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It's calling affordability a hoax.
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Yeah, remember when the president called affordability a Democrat hoax?
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Same word he used to describe raping girls when they're 14 and 16 years old.
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Affordability is not a hoax.
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And it's not something that you shame young people like Gen Z, shame them for their work habits and shame them and tell them They need to,
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you know, pull themselves up by the bootstraps because it's a lot different for young people today than it was for, say, my generation and the baby boomer generation.
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The dollar actually had value 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago.
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Now the dollar isn't worth shit.
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And that's because Congress won't stop spending the money.
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And that's because we have leaders like President Trump who's gone full neocon and just can't back away from war, just can't back away from it.
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And that's the third issue there, folks.
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You want to know why 26 and 28 is going to be different?
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Because Donald Trump broke his big,
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big campaign promise of no more foreign wars and actually has got us embroiled in a war with Iran,
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a war that should not be happening and he's not backing off of it and it will probably get worse.
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So that has fed the affordability crisis.
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That's why people can't afford gasoline.
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That's why people's bills keep going up.
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Food prices are still going up.
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Beef is at all times high.
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It's ridiculous.
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And you don't lecture the people that got you in office.
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You don't lecture them and tell them the things they care about as a hoax.
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You don't lecture them and call them names like panicans
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and tell them that they better come in and pull the coalition together and stop the Democrats.
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No. You know what you should have done?
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You should have stuck to your campaign promises and you should have delivered for the people that put you in office, not the ones writing you the big fat checks.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is right that MAGA is dead.
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And of course, she's saying that because in my mind, and this is just the truth, she is a political opportunist who wants to seize this moment to say
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that she should take over the mantle of the real MAGA party
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and that Donald Trump has abandoned his values and MAGA would work if it had someone who actually believed it.
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Now, of course, this is bullshit.
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Donald Trump has run this same playbook he did in 2015.
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He did in 2024.
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Like, Donald Trump has done this a lot.
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This is what you always see with conservatives or wannabe authoritarians.
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We just need to go back to an older time when everything was good, wasn't it?
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Nostalgia doesn't really paint a full picture.
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But that's what Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to do because she is a political opportunist.
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But Donald Trump has given her countless opportunities to rag on her old party.
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And the latest one might be the stupidest yet.
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What Donald Trump had to say about one of the most unpopular issues out there, and that's data centers.
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There are several Republicans who are running for midterms this year who are starting to come out against AI data centers.
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Why do you think they're taking a different approach than you are?
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Well, who are they?
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Do you know?
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The Senate race in Ohio is one example where it's become a very hot topic.
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Well, the data center subject to me is a pretty simple one.
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If you pick the right location, and it's got to be not every location is perfect for it, but you pick the right location,
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what it means for a community is jobs and lots of money and lower taxes.
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And the data centers now are mandated by me that they build their own electricity, so they're not taking it from the grid.
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It's going to lower the electric cost because they're building electricity.
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And the extra, as an example, we talked about this once.
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I'm very proud of it.
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It was my idea.
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They're going to build their own electric producing facility.
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And that electricity that they have left over is going to the grid.
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It's going to lower the cost of electricity.
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So if I were a community, I would want the data center.
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It means jobs, it means income, and it means lower taxes.
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Do you want Republican candidates to take the same AI to take the same message on data centers that you are?
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No, I want them to do what they want.
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Some people feel differently.
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I really want them.
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If a Republican is against the data center, that's okay with me.
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I'm only saying that if I ran a community, now there are different types of communities, but generally speaking, if I ran a community,
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if I was a mayor or if I was a governor in the state, I would want to have the data centers because they bring tremendous income.
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They're clean.
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They produce their own energy.
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The new ones are producing their own energy.
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I would want to have data centers.
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Donald Trump coming out in support of data centers is maybe just the biggest mistake possible right now.
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I cannot think of many more things more unpopular than AI,
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data centers, flat cameras, all of which Donald Trump is completely on board with.
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And I think there was a kind of a reorganization of MAGA against the tech elite
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that have now come into bed with Donald Trump and his administration that is playing out right now, right?
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For the longest time, MAGA was, you know, anti the surveillance state, or at least again, they claim to be.
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They were anti big tech.
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They didn't want them to have their data, you know, to stay out of my life, you know, the big government, all those things.
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That was their message.
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Now they're doing complete data surveillance.
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The Palantir guy picked the vice president and tells Trump what to do.
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And he's going full data center.
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This is insanity.
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Why?
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It's because Larry Ellison has given him lots of money.
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He bought CBS for him.
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He bought TikTok.
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Larry Ellison is doing everything he can to help Donald Trump.
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And Oracle has benefited tremendously by these data centers.
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And so are the rest of the oligarchs.
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And so Donald Trump is endorsing data centers.
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Maybe the most unpopular thing right now.
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And that is just driving a stake into Mike Johnson
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and any effort that Republicans could have at this point to keep the House.
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It's just not going to happen.
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If Donald Trump is aligning himself on the side of like the most unpopular thing right now, it's really done for them.
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Like this is an admission that kills.
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This is this is like you could call it a gaffe.
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But like Donald Trump is a walking gaffe.
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All he says is stupid.
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But if I was a Democrat, I would run that again and again and again.
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I would want a data center, says Donald Trump, who doesn't have a data center by Mar-a-Lago.
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And he doesn't have a data center by the White House.
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And he doesn't have a data center in New York nowhere
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that Donald Trump goes or will go has a data center near it.
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And he doesn't care about electric costs because he stole $3.2 billion during the presidency.
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So that is a clip as a Democrat that I would run over and over and over and over again.
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And you know it's bad because Republicans are trying to run away from the data centers, at least publicly, but they're getting caught.
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And Abdul Al-Sayed exposed his opponent, Mike Rogers, in his lies.
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This is what our party should be doing.
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Opponent Republican Mike Rogers is calling for a one year moratorium.
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This is new.
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What do you think?
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Tell us about for people who are just tuning into this race
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and trying to understand how this issue is playing in states across the country.
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How is that going to sit with the people of Michigan?
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Where do you stand on it?
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How are how are Michigan voters digesting this issue?
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You know, let me just step back and set this up.
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This comes just a couple of days after there was some really embarrassing reporting in Lever News about the fact
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that this guy and his wife are knee deep in investments in the AI industry.
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And the article was specifically about how much money they might
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make from a data center bonanza with this no holds barred approach that we've got right now.
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And so he's at this press conference where he's touting all eight Democrats who support him in somebody's front yard
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and he gets asked by a really smart, enterprising local reporter, Craig Mogher, from the Detroit News about his position on data centers.
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And the man clearly hasn't actually thought about his position on data centers
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because he does whatever Donald Trump or the corporations tell him to do.
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And he's like, I think we should take a pause.
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And then his team trying to make up for the fact
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that he just made policy from the hip because he hasn't taken the time to think about it, issue a press release calling for a statewide moratorium.
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But guess what?
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He's running for U.S.
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Senate, meaning he can't actually do anything at the state level.
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These aren't serious people.
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These are corporate shills who are bought off by the companies who stand to benefit at our loss.
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And he's stuck, again, between what the voters actually want and what Donald Trump and the corporations who control him want.
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And so he's shooting from the hip because, for him, he'd rather not actually answer questions.
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This is what happens when he doesn't dodge.
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He took one question and it ended up in, like, policy turmoil.
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So this clown car of a campaign trying to tout their
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support from Democrats gets caught not having an actual position Proposes a position they can't actually do anything about
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which is Contrapositive to what he actually has said his entire campaign
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and we benefits from So all of that is to say
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that at the end of the day
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if we're not serious about getting money out of politics We're not going to be serious about solving real problems.
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I've been clear from the jump I believe in a terms of engagement We need to make sure
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that any data center proposed at any level in any place follows the following terms that they use union labor,
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all union labor, that there is no increase in our utility rates, that they don't touch our water supplies,
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that the money that is taken by utility is invested in improving our reliability,
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and that there is a clear community benefits agreement so that every local community gets made rich if, in fact, they choose to include one of these in their community.
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That's real policy, unlike the clown car shoot from the hip public policy from corrupted Mike Rogers.
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That's why you need a debate.
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He's not going to pull punches.
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Like, I think Abdul wants to get in the pads and, like, run an Oklahoma drill with this guy.
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He fucking hates him.
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And I love that because he's a bad person who has worked for the pharmaceutical companies in and out of Congress.
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He moved to Florida.
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He's not a Michigan guy.
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And of course, he's going to let the data centers pop up all over your community
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because he doesn't give a shit and it will only help him and his rich friends.
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So, yeah, this is the issue that Democrats should obviously be running on.
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And the fact that Donald Trump is team data center is not a surprise, but it probably is to Mike
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He's probably not happy about it because again Republicans can't escape Donald Trump Republicans are Donald Trump.
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Nobody can argue against that And so our party needs to tie these things together
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Every single person with an art of their name should be tied to Donald Trump.
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They should be tied data centers They should be tied to the files They should be tied to the war
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and that's gonna tie him down and they're gonna lose
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and that's beautiful to me and that's that's That's a career ending for Mike Johnson.
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So we are going to keep on calling it out on this show.
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If you want to support that, as always, you can hit that subscribe button, leave a like on this video.
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If you stuck around at the end, drop a blue heart in the comments.
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Keep on fighting, y'all.
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Don't let them silence you.
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And until next time, I'll see you soon.

本课的词汇与口语要点

这节 B2 级别的口语课以视频“This ENDS Mike's Majority”为素材。 视频中反复出现的词有:Trump, center, Donald, Maga。 这段视频共有 199 个句子、2481 个单词可供跟读。 讲话部分时长为 13:31。 说话人语速较快,每分钟约 184 个词,会出现较多连读和弱读。 86% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词,其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中最难的 15 个单词,附发音和释义:

单词发音释义
hoax 名词/hoʊks/騙局 /骗局, 惡作劇 /恶作剧
midterm 形容词/ˈmɪdˌtɚm/期中, 中期
unpopular 形容词不得人心
lecture 名词/ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/演講 /演讲
gaffe 名词/ɡæf/失態 /失态, 出醜 /出丑
moratorium 名词/ˌmɔ.ɹəˈtɔ.ɹi.əm/暫停 /暂停, 中止
opportunist 名词/ˌɒpə(ɹ)ˈtjuːnɪst/變色龍 /变色龙
seize 动词/ˈsiːz/抓獲 /抓获, 攫取
clown 名词/ˈklaʊ̯n/小丑
supporter 名词/səˈpɔɹ.tɚ/支持者
voter 名词/ˈvoʊtɚ/投票者, 選民 /选民
surveillance 名词/sɚˈveɪ.ləns/監測 /监测, 監視 /监视
grid 名词/ɡɹɪd/網格 /网格, 格子
opponent 名词/əˈpəʊ.nənt/對方 /对方
embarrass 动词/ɪmˈbæɹəs/使…尷尬 /使…尴尬, 使…困窘

视频中出现的短语动词

单词释义
go up 动词上昇 /上升, 上去
pop up 动词弹出
take over 动词接管, 接手

值得反复跟读的句子

视频中简短而完整的句子,可以直接用在日常对话里:

  • You know what you should have done?
  • Why do you think they're taking a different approach than you are?
  • I'm very proud of it.
  • What do you think?
  • Where do you stand on it?

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构,并附上视频中的原话:

结构视频中的用法
条件句 if + 从句,will/would + 动词 — 条件及其结果if I were a community, I would want · if I was a Democrat, I would run
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事has only gotten · has fed · has abandoned
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么,而不是谁做的being raped · are mandated · are bought
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物someone who actually · people who are · person who has

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 47 次缩略和弱读形式,例如 they're, doesn't, can't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: admission /ədˈmɪʃən/, faction /ˈfæk.ʃən/
  • 长单词——注意重音位置: moratorium /ˌmɔ.ɹəˈtɔ.ɹi.əm/, opportunist /ˌɒpə(ɹ)ˈtjuːnɪst/, authoritarian /əˌθɑ.ɹəˈtɛɹ.i.ən/, insanity /ɪnˈsænɪti/, pharmaceutical /ˌfɑː.məˈs(j)uː.tɪ.kl̩/

中文母语者容易读错的音:

  • /v/ — 不要读成 /w/,上齿轻触下唇: voter /ˈvoʊtɚ/, surveillance /sɚˈveɪ.ləns/
  • 词尾辅音 — 要读清楚,后面不要加元音: hoax /hoʊks/, gaffe /ɡæf/, opportunist /ˌɒpə(ɹ)ˈtjuːnɪst/, tout /taʊt/, seize /ˈsiːz/
  • /r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: embroil /əmˈbɹɔɪl/, oligarch /ˈɑləɡɑɹk/, drill /dɹɪl/

如何用这段视频练习

  1. 先完整听一遍视频,不要开口,记下不认识的单词。
  2. 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读,熟练之后再回到正常速度。
  3. 录下自己的声音并与原声对比,特别注意 hoax, midterm, unpopular 这类单词。

什么是跟读法?

跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧,最初开发用于专业口译员的培训,并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大:您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同,跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性,语调,节奏,连读,听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。

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