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What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom – protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the removal of the regime – plain and simple.

Bassem Youssef

By the way, I follow the American elections, and I have never seen someone who is that offensive. I have seen people who are stupid. But stupid and offensive, that’s new.
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Himself New Offensive Stupid Support Worry
I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it’s a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn’t usually go smoothly.
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Event People Struggle
Make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.
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Agent Conspiracy Country Course Government
I don’t care about Donald Trump himself. I care and I worry about the very big base that supports him because this kind of language would have been absolutely nonexistent maybe 15, 20.
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People Stupid Worry
Donald Trump is not stupid. He knows exactly what he’s saying. And he’s just saying out there – I mean, forget about Muslims. He said I could go down on Fifth Avenue in New York and shoot someone in the face and people – and the voters will have no problem with it.
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Country Mean Stupid
Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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Cinema Country East Mean Middle
What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom – protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the removal of the regime – plain and simple.
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Doctors Jobs Simple
It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.
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Difficult Imagine Years
I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.
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Country Military Religious
There are people who believe in Egypt that I – I’m actually – I’m getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.
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Believe Country Government
I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It’s a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.
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Egypt Office Thinking
The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.
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Disappoint Trying Worst
We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.
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People Stupid War
People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.
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Believe Order People
The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.
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Denial Facts Way
And of course there were clashes there because people, they tried to remove those protesters from Tahrir. And I was, like, doing my job as a doctor treating them.
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Clash Course Doctor Protester Remove Treating

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