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"More Religious Violence in UK" (Friday October 3, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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in the way of it? Why are we stuck in
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the mud. You mentioned this earlier. Israeli intelligence officials believe
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that Hamas is the organization behind the deadly Yam Kapor
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terror attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester,
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England yesterday, and bring it up, and I pointed out,
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mostly because this is more religion on religion violence and
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as if we couldn't get turned on each other enough
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just with our political issues. The idea that now the
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Marxists who need us to be at each other's throats
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and understand this is if you read it. It's not
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even that I'm making up some interpretation of Marx. Marx
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said you need to build the revolution on class warfare.
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This is why the nationalists Socialists of Germany went to
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the poor Germans and pointed to the middle class Germans
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and said, they're the reason. Of course they were mostly Jewish,
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they're the reason you are poor. To what Lenin did,
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it's but in the United States it has been a struggle,
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partially because of people like you and me, to get
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that class warfare going. They tried it during the Great Society,
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but then they realized quickly it would be easier if
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we did a race, and so they went after the race.
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And that's faded. So now it's religion. Your Christianity is
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better than my Christianity, or they're Jews and they're weird,
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or they're Muslims and they have Sharia law and we must.
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And it has driven us to this place where the authoritarians,
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will you use this stuff to take our liberties? And
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Hamas is ready to go with it, and they will
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pay for it. And if Hamas paid for it, that
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means Iran paid for it, because it's just a pass
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through government shut down in our first things this morning
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will likely continue into next week. Senate Majority Leader John
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Thune said that it's unlikely the Senate will do anything
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more than take another vote on the same CRS today
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before breaking for the weekend. I'm glad they have some
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time free. Memo titled a Compact for Academic Excellence and
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Higher Education has come out of the White House and
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been sent to nine elite US universities detailing several things
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the schools could do to put them on a list
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to receive preferential treatment when it comes to receiving federal money.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom, seeing this, immediately send out this missive.
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If any California university signs this radical agreement, they will
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Speaker 9: That goes on without me?
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voting and will be hurting, and a lot of folks
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are friends of people who are furloughed, and that kind
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of thing.
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Speaker 18: Well, Joe, I was reading this the other day that
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from the Cato Institute that there are twenty six hundred
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federal programs that provide benefits and subsidies to different individuals,
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different entities. Twenty six hundred, four hundred each for HHS
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that agency alone, four hundred from the Department of Agriculture alone,
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Benefit program subsidy programs that need to be looked at
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the spending needs to be cut. But we'll find out
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on November four here in Virginia. If Virginia suffered enough
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under Raff Northam when had full control government, they suffer
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enough under Biden when Democrats had full control government, or
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they want some more under Abigail Spanburger. We'll find out.
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Speaker 5: When she says let your rage fuel you and then
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turns around and says, oh, I didn't mean actually be violent.
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Yet when Donald Trump says something even less you know,
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pointed than that and obvious than that, they won't let
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him say I didn't mean that. And when you see
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the threats being made against public officials, like a couple
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of Houses of Delegates candidates Kim Taylor specifically, when is
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somebody going besides you and me going to say this
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isn't the Conservatives who are out there suborning violence.
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Speaker 18: I think the American people are seeing increasingly the evidence
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that the left and Democrats quite frankly, believe increasingly that
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political violence is an option to defeat your political opponents
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or to respond to your political enemies through physical arm
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through violence. You're seeing it. You're seeing calls for that,
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You're seeing encouragement of that. You're seeing praising of that.
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You're seeing, you know, diminishing the the the importance of
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what harm has been done to people like Charles Kirker Homever.
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But Abigail Spanberger is all in on the extreme policies
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of the Democrat Party. She's all in on the border invasion,
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she was all in on the transgender extremism. She's all
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in on the spending that is bank is bankrupt of
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the country. She's all in on the energy extremism, the
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climate extremism. She's all in on eliminating right to work.
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She voted for the pro Act in DC, despite her
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rhetoric when she's back here in the Commonwealth now trying
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to become our governor in Virginia. So she's she's an
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extremist and Democrats are extreme and that's why their popularity
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is so low, and hopefully Virginians and New Jerseyans will
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reject them.
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Speaker 5: On November four, Bob, God bless you, sir, and I
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have a great weekend. Enjoy you know this are the
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leaves changing down there in Buckingham.
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Speaker 18: Yet just starting to change here in Farmville. It's getting
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and I've said this before and I'm gonna say it again,
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that the violent rhetoric, use your rage, stop them, no
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matter what the cost, is showing you what's happened. And
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it's like the drug addict is being told by the
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pusher to, you know, help them avoid arrest, or their
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drugs are gonna go away. So you know, Popeye Doyle
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is coming down the road and going to bust the
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drug dealer. So the drug dealer says to the addicts
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that are addicted to their meth, Hey, if Popeye Doyle
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arrests me, your drugs go away.
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Speaker 3: So I need you to go get rid of Pompeye Doyle.
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Speaker 5: That's what's happening because we've become addicted to government. We've
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become addicted to the idea that rather than go and
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actually have to even ask for help, you know, we
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realize that so much of this is built on the
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idea of a gray edifice, a bureaucracy driven on form
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filling out is better than your local faith based organizations.
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Now we're turning against each other on the faith community
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as well. And this is a whole existential new level.
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Speaker 3: Of bad.
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Speaker 5: Because you used to the whole point of community service
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and contributions to your that if you needed help homelessness, poverty, hunger,
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all have been there your churches. See, the Salvation Army
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Speaker 3: Help you out.
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Speaker 5: Well, the government came along under the bullying of people who.
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Speaker 3: Said that's a separating their judging date.
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Speaker 5: So the government said, we have lots more money than
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the Salvation Army will help you, and we won't ask
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you to get down on your knees and pray or
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Speaker 3: On Sunday or anything like that.
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Speaker 5: You just have to fill the form out right and
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will send you something. And we sell out to that.
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We would rather some gray bureaucrat that we probably think
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we can con into giving us something we don't deserve
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warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
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Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
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personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
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Speaker 11: Uh oh, bra, that's buzzed.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 12: And now a speech.
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Speaker 13: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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heart and brain.
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Speaker 9: Who's with me?
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Speaker 13: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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Speaker 14: Somebody call me a ride.
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Speaker 11: Love that guy, me too.
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Speaker 4: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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it's time to go home.
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Speaker 2: The First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by
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Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 5: Say Email JT in the Morning Radio at gmail dot com.
28:36
Jerry writes in religious violence is the oldest kind of violence, Joe,
28:41
You're not going to stop it simply by saying it
28:44
doesn't make any sense. The idea that one religion can
28:49
eliminate another religion is what drives this kind of violence.
28:57
And I and I understand your point, Jerry, and I'm
28:59
not denying You're absolutely right that there is always going
29:02
to be this competition.
29:05
Speaker 3: I get it.
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Speaker 5: If all I do is mention Martin Luther on the air,
29:09
I'll get emails from people who can't stand to even
29:13
think that I would mention Martin Luther and his ninety
29:17
five theses. I mean, at least we've reached a point
29:23
where most of us accept the idea that Jesus existed.
29:32
But it has to be and it's inexplicable to a
29:37
lot of us because we weren't raised in some sect
29:41
that said you have to eliminate all the other people.
29:45
But there are whether and in all faiths. Either you
29:51
don't deal with others, or you have to eliminate others.
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Speaker 3: You have to.
30:00
Speaker 5: You cannot allow for somebody to think differently or worship
30:06
differently than you do. And this is one of the
30:11
things that Hitler, the real Hitler, not imaginary modern twenty
30:16
twenty five. Hitler, the real Hitler and Rommel you know,
30:20
used to their benefit as when they got into the
30:23
Middle East, they said, well, you Islamists, you you don't
30:29
like the Jews. We're on a campaign against the Jews.
30:33
Why don't we join forces? And that it was the
30:39
King of Persia, no Palestine, it's the Umpa Lumpa, the
30:45
King of Palestine or whatever his name was. The King
30:47
of Palestine was the first one, and Hitler and Rommel
30:50
came to him and said, well, we'll give you lawyers,
30:53
guns and money to help us get rid of the Jews.
30:57
And it's still going on because Hitler took the coward's
31:01
way out in his bunker and left everyone else kind
31:05
of work in the machinery. That's how you still wind
31:10
up with some poor kid from Ohio who joins a
31:16
club because they'll have him talking about blood and soil.
31:22
I've seen them I've experienced them. It's how you have
31:33
small children told their immortal souls are already committed to
31:38
hell because their father supports a government. I mean, there's
31:43
a daisy supports a government that allows people to be gay.
31:50
And those were Christians. Those were the Westboro Baptists to
31:54
my kids. So you know, whether it's violence violent rhetoric.
32:03
You call it hate speech.
32:05
Speaker 3: I don't call it violence. They're just words.
32:07
Speaker 5: But now we have a society full of people that say,
32:11
if you disagree with me, that's violence.
32:14
Speaker 3: You've committed violence against me.
32:18
Speaker 5: And we called it out from the moment as nutty,
32:20
but too many people allowed that to be normalized, that
32:26
disagreeing with somebody on American soil, never mind British soil.
32:31
Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 5: Text message on the massacre at the synagogue in Manchester, Joe,
32:39
it's good to see those gun free zones are working
32:42
so well, like they do in England. No guns, used, vehicles, knives. Sadly,
32:52
it's proved the point that we made every time somebody
32:55
talks about a gun free zone, you're forgetting that the
33:01
gun isn't going to commit a single act of violence
33:04
without a human holding it.
33:07
Speaker 3: Oah. But we can't talk about human violence. Oh no, no, no,
33:11
that's victim shaving.
33:15
Speaker 5: You know, we cannot say you shouldn't get you're only
33:18
committing the violence because the gun majia or Isaac and
33:26
ishmael majia, thou shalt not murder. It's pretty straightforward. But
33:37
we won't do it anymore because we imagine that we're
33:40
soldiers in some battle that or in order to defeat
33:51
the enemy, you have to treat them like you're a soldier.
33:57
And when these people that just want the crowds to
34:03
cheer for them say this stuff, it's irresponsible and it's yes,
34:10
I'm all for self responsibility and we all should be
34:15
held to account for our own actions, and I believe
34:17
that we are and we will be. But because we
34:23
do such a pathetic job treating people who are in
34:28
let's just say, tenuous possession of their last good marble,
34:33
somebody hears this, who's wandering around. Maybe they were supposed
34:36
to be on medication and they didn't take it. Maybe
34:46
they needed to be in the care of a doctor,
34:48
but no one wanted to say that because civil rights.
34:54
So you get a stabbing on a train in Charlotte,
34:57
you got some Islamists supposedly paid for, according to UK sources,
35:04
paid for by Hamas, which means paid for by Iran
35:08
driving into a mosque in the middle of their highest holiday.
35:12
This is the Jewish community's version of Christmas and just
35:22
reigning terror down as they do all over the place.
35:30
And so you know when you hear somebody I was saying,
35:32
I want to be congressman, or I want to be
35:34
city councilor, and you need to help me vanquish these.
35:39
Speaker 3: Evil doers who are.
35:42
Speaker 5: Is it abhorring to think that, you know, a state
35:45
might permit a mother to decide at the moment of
35:49
childbirth that she wants to abort the baby that's in
35:53
process of transitting from the uterus to the living world.
36:02
But I don't think you know the people who are
36:04
doing it. I look at them and say, you're going
36:07
to have a long discussion with Saint Peter. That ledger
36:12
is going to be thick, because I believe that's where
36:17
your judgment comes and that's how we keep from being
36:23
turned on each other. So we don't drive into a
36:27
church of Jesus to Latter day Saints because you hate them, Okay,
36:36
you can, And this is the thing is if you
36:38
don't like somebody's beliefs, that's fine. It's when it turns
36:41
into action it becomes an American. It's a simple truism.
36:47
My right to be angry about your religion ends when
36:50
it harms someone else. But we don't punish it that
36:53
way anymore. We all want to have a reason. We've
36:56
been we've been mini series to death to the point
37:01
where the you know, the perpetrators are the victims.
37:07
Speaker 3: I don't want to know why Darth Vader is a villain.
37:10
He's a villain.
37:13
Speaker 5: Don't show me little Anakin Skywalker and make me feel like, oh,
37:16
you know, maybe all those people he killed, you know,
37:19
he deserved it.
37:22
Speaker 3: Evil is evil.
37:24
Speaker 5: So it's like the text that Bob sent us at
37:26
the beginning of the show, send me a great graphic.
37:30
First we overlook evil, then we permit evil, then we
37:35
legalize evil, then we promote evil, then we celebrate evil.
37:39
Then we persecute those who still call it evil. That's it,
37:45
I mean, in a nutshell, that's where it is. And
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if you stand in the way of the drug dealing
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Speaker 2: Quit First thing today by Joe Thomas on the TUNK
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Media Network.
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Speaker 5: Thank you for letting us be of service to you.
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Tomorrow we're going to be coming to you live. While
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we're always coming to you live on Saturday morning.
44:29
Speaker 3: That's one of the reasons we do this. Saturday morning,
44:32
we're going to be.
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Speaker 5: At the setup for the walk to end Alzheimer's in
44:37
my particular neck of the woods, many of them going
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on all over the place at the same time. This
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is the Greater Augusta Walk, but walks going on Santa
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Way that's going to be in a week's time, November
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one on the Treasure Coast. There so many of the
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places that are tuned in Greenwich. Someone has asked me
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about Greenwich, and I think you have to go up
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up the pike a little bit to find yours in there.
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It's like nor Walk Fairfield County. But that's or you
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can cruise over to Westchester County, which is Sunday this week,
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not far from Greenwich. There in the walk to end
45:26
Alzheimer's raising money. My walk is at ninety percent of
45:32
goal already, and oh the Westchester ones, that's seventy five percent.
45:37
Speaker 3: Good on you.
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Speaker 5: Lots of money raised to help beat this heinous affliction
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that's taking so many of our loved ones from us.
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Find out more at alz dot org slash walk. Teresa
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asked if I'm concerned for being in public given the rhetoric.
45:56
I hate the idea that you even have to think
45:59
of stuff like that, but it is something ever since
46:04
the assassination of Charlie Kirk, I do think of.
46:07
Speaker 3: I do think.
46:08
Speaker 5: About it, and it's something that I try to be
46:12
situationally aware. Ever since the riots of twenty seventeen here
46:16
in our flagship city, I'm aware of situations. I had
46:20
some a couple of sessions with great organization, tried and shield.
46:25
I think you can get them anywhere in the country
46:29
to help you with all that. But yeah, I mean
46:32
I do try to be situationally aware of what's going on.
46:37
John Reid is on with us running for lieutenant governor
46:40
here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and I know that
46:44
now we have dueling polls. One says it's margin of
46:47
error and is very close, and that seems to be
46:50
indicative of the way they're slinging mud at you and
46:53
the reason everyone across the country knows who John Reid
46:56
is is. All these blogs like the Huffington Post keep
46:59
picking up on these stories, and fascinatingly, some of them
47:04
are just rehashing some of the stuff that went on
47:08
during the nomination process back in the spring.
47:11
Speaker 3: Of this year.
47:12
Speaker 5: John, In all the years you've covered, you know, government
47:16
as a talk radio show host, newsman and TV anchor,
47:21
does this stuff surprise you anymore? Or do they sink
47:24
to new levels that even you wouldn't have expected.
47:28
Speaker 3: Oh?
47:29
Speaker 21: Well, I guess it doesn't surprise me because I know
47:32
that I'm dealing with very deceitful people, and I think
47:36
that's been on display. I mean, they've done it to
47:40
you know, a score of different candidates Republicans. You just
47:45
got to know that they're going to attack you. And
47:47
then you know, I am a unique candidate as a
47:50
gay candidate. I knew when I got into this there
47:53
would be people who would try to destroy me. And
47:56
they are trying to destroy me. And you know the
48:00
the stories that have come out of late to your point,
48:04
it's a reash of the kerf fluffle as we call it,
48:07
that happened back in April. But I you know that
48:10
was discredited back then and this has been discredited now.
48:14
These these liars, deceitful, nasty, disgusting liars are out there
48:19
trying to destroy the Republican gay candidate.
48:23
Speaker 3: I'm the perfect person to try to.
48:25
Speaker 21: Destroy because they know that I am not going to
48:29
return fire with the same garbage that they spew.
48:34
Speaker 5: Well, you know, a ticket as you said, as you said,
48:38
it's a ticket with a black woman who upgraded from
48:41
Jamaica for governor, gay man for lieutenant governor, and the
48:47
son of a Cuban immigrant for attorney general. And those
48:51
are the Republicans And somehow we're not the party of
48:54
inclusive in their mind.
48:57
Speaker 21: John and the Democrats have got to try to just
49:00
us why, because that's their whole narrative to hold onto
49:04
power is that Republicans are bigots. So if we're successful
49:09
this year, that blows up everything they have used for
49:13
what over a decade to try to hold onto power.
49:16
It proves that Republicans aren't. It proves that everybody sees
49:20
this for what it is. The conservative principles in the
49:25
economy and culturally are the principles that deliver a robust,
49:31
prosperous and peaceful society, the exact opposite of what the
49:35
Democrats are peddling. And they know they're in trouble, that's
49:38
why they're doing this stuff well.
49:39
Speaker 5: And it's all of what we see in Washington. In
49:42
just two years of majority control in Virginia, they enacted
49:47
all sorts of heinous and horrible things, with more on
49:50
the way. If we don't have a life raft for it.
49:54
John talking about the House of Delegate races that you
49:58
interact with, because I need we need to flip that
50:02
as well to protect life in Virginia, I mean unborn
50:07
life there. You know, how are those house races and
50:11
are your coat tails big enough to kind of help
50:13
some of these folks across the line.
50:16
Speaker 21: Well, it's one reason that they fielded so many great
50:19
candidates across the state within the Republican Party, because you know,
50:23
sometimes people sit back and think, oh, well, my vote
50:27
doesn't matter. You know, in my district, my delegate David
50:32
Owen only one out of thousands and thousands of balance
50:36
casts by about seven hundred votes last time. That was
50:40
the margin of victory, and he was running against a
50:42
very flawed candidate who didn't run a very good campaign.
50:47
So you know, if you're sitting at home thinking, well,
50:50
Trump's in the White House, this is too dirty for me,
50:53
I don't really want to go do it. You're handing
50:56
victory to the Democrats who want to crush you, crush
51:00
your church. As you point out, they want day of
51:03
birth abortion. You know, we're not even This is how
51:06
radical the Democrats have become. In the eighties and nineties,
51:10
you were around, Joe. We were discussing first and second
51:14
trimester abortions and the limits and you know, what should
51:17
we do, and the life of the mother and rape
51:20
and incest, which everybody kind of agreed those are the
51:23
places that we would offer exceptions. We have gone to
51:26
the point where the Democrats of Virginia today are saying
51:29
they want day of birth abortion with no questions one
51:34
doctor who is the abortionist signing off and terminating the
51:38
life of a child on the day the child's going
51:41
to be born. And I think that if people are
51:43
aware of that, even women who are pro choice generally
51:49
think that that is.
51:50
Speaker 3: Too much, too far.
51:52
Speaker 21: John, anybody who's sitting back better get into it, Get
51:55
into the game.
51:56
Speaker 3: John. What's your website address?
52:00
Speaker 21: Yo Red for Virginia dot com R E I D
52:03
is my last name? John Reid for Virginia dot com.
52:10
Speaker 3: Oh yes, it does.
52:12
Speaker 5: For our friends in Washington who are fearing the fact
52:16
that we're catching on that they don't know that we
52:21
realize life goes on without them. We do need somebody
52:24
to secure our rights. Let's not forget that in this discussion.
52:29
But as we go into shutdown, we will see you
52:32
tomorrow morning, five six Eastern.
52:39
Speaker 3: Life goes on without me.
52:42
Speaker 5: I am Joe Thomas and this is first thing today,
52:47
So long and thanks for all the fish.
52:51
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53:04
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