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A Conversation With Matt · Newsradio WGAN

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Steve, how are things? So, Matt, let's further explore
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the Orwell metaphor regarding Republicans, though.
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Oh, how surprising that you're going down that direction.
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Well, I don't know how much longer Matt Republicans can deny
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what they know down deep to be true, that under the charismatic
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Donald Trump, Republicans have, in the words of George Orwell,
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learn to love Big Brother. Big intrusive government.
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Big government intervening in. OK, I'm not.
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I'm not actually disagreeing yet.
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I'm not disagreeing yet, Steve. Big government intervening into
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multiple layers of our lives, into our economy, met into free
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market trade. Big government intervention into
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free. Press Do you care about those
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things, Steve? Free speech, intervening into
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other countries and even and even intervening into our own
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state-run election. Steve, sweetheart, do you
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believe in those things? Do you care about those things?
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I know that the Republicans are being hypocritical because
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they're they supposedly do and they clearly don't.
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But I'm curious if you do. Why do you think I'm I'm, I'm,
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I'm so ripped. At, at at, at, at, What are?
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Republic. So you care about like, like
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free, you know, markets and you care about civil liberties and
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you care, you care about those things.
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What I care about is what we have now is Republicanism turned
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upside down. No, no, I don't want you.
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I'm not here for political broadcasting, friend.
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I, I want you to answer the question because if, well, if
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you do, if you care about it and you're hitting the Republicans
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for this, I will just make note of the fact that while you are
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accurate and I agree that the Republicans no longer care about
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this at all and Trump is proof of that, the populist turn has
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been incredibly disappointing to me as somebody that actually
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does care about this stuff. But if you do care about those
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things, then you look at the Democratic Party and they have
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not cared about those things for longer and worse.
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So I'm it's interesting that you're picking the target that
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you're picking when the lack of freedom and respect for free
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marketing that exists far worse, far, far worse on the left right
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now, We now have no party that cares about it.
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That's the real take away from this is that neither party does.
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But the the Democrats abandoned it first, and they abandoned it
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longer ago and much, much more aggressively.
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Well, here's my cake that right now Republicans are believing
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that 2 + 2 = 5, and they really see that 5 now they really see
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that fifth light bulb and. At least they still believe in
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math even if they're wrong about their math.
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I mean, the, the Democrats proposals for, I mean, like just
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Medicare for all is an example of it.
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I mean, like there is not the tax revenue to fund that.
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There isn't. Like, I mean, it's just
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preposterous the amount of the amount of fairy dust that I'm
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expected to believe in. If I listen to AOC or Bernie
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Sanders. It's it's not you, not even
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math. It's not even math.
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So you're not wrong, Steve. You're not wrong.
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Hey, thank you. But and to add to everything,
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what about our exploding deficits?
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I mean, this is this is republicanism turned.
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On it. I'm not letting you get away
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with that. Yes, as I just said in the last
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statement you made, the Republicans don't care about
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deficits and they've proven it and they're awful.
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And it's the most thing that makes me the sickest about
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having a Republican majority in office now twice under the Trump
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administration, number one and two, and having done not only
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nothing about it, but making it worse.
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But if you really want to sit there and say that while the
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presidencies of Joe Biden exist and the presidencies of Barack
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Obama exist, then you have absolutely zero legs to stand
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on, Sir, because they were worse than this.
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I don't think so. I think they are.
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Explored. Let me tell you what $1.5
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trillion will do to the deficit for a military.
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How about 3? I mean, when you're talking
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about Biden, I mean, dude, that that he was proposing a $4
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trillion. He he didn't even get what he
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wanted. He had to chop that stupid
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infrastructure bill that did nothing for this country in half
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to make it $2 trillion. The but the deficit that year
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was 2 1/2 trillion, I think. I mean, it was it was an insane
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amount. I mean, we're already we're at
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an insane every year, yes, but like the the degree to which
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which Joe Biden did not care about the deficit was in advance
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of what Trump doesn't care about the deficit.
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Let's just agree here, Steve, that neither one of them care
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about it. But to to act the thing that I
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have for a problem with your calls, Sir, is not the point
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you're making because I've repeatedly said that I actually
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agree with most of what you're trying to say here.
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My my problem with your call, Steve, is that the focus of your
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ire is on the right. It's on the Republican side of
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the aisle and it is you have this blind spot for the
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Democrats, the progressives, the left.
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And you know, as you talk about the left and the right and all
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that stuff, every time, it's amazing to me how much of A pass
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you give to the reckless insanity of America's left wing
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of politics while you focus on the hypocrisy of the right not
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doing things that you claim you care about, but you clearly
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don't. If you support any left wing
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politicians, that's that's you solve that problem, Steve.
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Your calls will increase in quality by 2000%.
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Chris in South Portland. What's going on, Chris?
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Not much. Just listening to that in the
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morning, Steve calls, you know, every.
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It's always a fun experience. It is.
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He does make some points every now and then, but.
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Dude that was actually one of the most the calls that I agreed
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with the most of his. Like he's not wrong about a lot
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of it, it's just the motivation behind the call bugs me.
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Right. And then he jumps on he.
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Yeah, he jumps on the same train.
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Yeah, oddly enough, you and I have met Steve from.
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That is accurate. Brick in person.
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We have indeed. But let's hop on just a little
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fun train here. We got the nationally known
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Democrat with a Nazi tattoo, and AOC is just AOC and Bernie
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Sanders say the most nonsensical things because they're pandering
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to people who truly don't have an education of any kind.
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And the words sound big, but if you understand words, you're
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like, none of what you put together makes any sense.
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But he always rides on the Conservatives and you know.
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It's good, right? Look, I mean the Conservatives
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deserve. To hit the other side.
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Yeah, you do. I mean, the conservatives
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deserve, deserve to get whacked like they're, they are
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hypocrites and they're it's it's pathetic to watch the
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Republicans in Congress. It just is.
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But please don't insult my intelligence to if you care
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about the debt, if you care about math, I mean to actually
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say that the Republicans are the problem while the Democrats have
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been sitting there for the better part of 40 years doing
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what they've been doing. The the national debt has is
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true in my opinion, is a product of too much good feelings on
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each side. And like unfortunately we're
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going to people are going to have to suffer to get it under
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control. Otherwise the true suffering
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everyone will feel. But anyway, you guys have a good
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day. Thank you, Chris.
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Appreciate it.