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"Democratic Democracy" (FTTxJT Mon 110226 hr3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Are we awake?
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  Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: We're not sure.
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  Speaker 4: Joe works at a.
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  Speaker 5: Steel mill, works damn near every day. Leaves for work
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  Speaker 5: when the sun comes up, drops a kid.
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  Speaker 6: To school and on the way.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 5: he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 7: He only aims to please you. Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I want to be your Joe. 434-882-4217. That
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  Speaker 1: is our phone number.
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  Speaker 8: And you use it either as text messages, which is
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  Speaker 8: very popular, because mornings are crazy.
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 8: This is the time in which everything you've put off
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  Speaker 8: till later comes due.
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  Speaker 1: This is later.
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  Speaker 8: So NBC used to have today, tonight, tomorrow. Wasn't it
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  Speaker 8: at one point they had a later?
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  Speaker 1: It was called later.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: It should be anyway. But now is later. Now you're
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  Speaker 8: trying to get everything done that you thought you had
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  Speaker 8: more time to do. Because whether the clock went back
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  Speaker 8: or not. You've got to get on with your day
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  Speaker 8: at some point. At some time, we're going to require
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  Speaker 8: you to get going. It is that weird period of
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  Speaker 8: time where all the news people are sleeping in because
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  Speaker 8: they supposedly have such a hard job tomorrow. To my observation,
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  Speaker 8: election day and election night and even the morning after
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  Speaker 8: is some of the easiest work I do. Do I
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  Speaker 8: have to go and dig up stories? I mean, they're
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  Speaker 8: just falling out of every computer screen and television. Oh, sure,
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  Speaker 8: there are things you have to do in terms to,
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  Speaker 8: you know, identify the bovine excrement or not. But for
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  Speaker 8: the most part, those stories write themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Who won? Who lost?
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  Speaker 8: All the interpretive dance that has gone on up until
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  Speaker 8: this point is over.
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  Speaker 1: What's the expression?
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  Speaker 8: It's all done except for the blood-curdling screams. So we
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  Speaker 8: will know in some cases, probably not California.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, guys.
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  Speaker 8: By this point, you know, Wednesday morning. So the press
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  Speaker 8: must rest their precious little heads, lest that they get
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  Speaker 8: caught covering an actual news story. Ask the question, should
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  Speaker 8: the Democratic Party get decertified for their crimes? And that's
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  Speaker 8: engendered a few text messages there. And we'll get into
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  Speaker 8: that with you coming up. Max got his notebook. Another
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  Speaker 8: weekend of craziness in college football. Chronicle all of that.
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  Speaker 8: But our first things this morning. You think things are
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  Speaker 8: bad here? Democrats using the phrase constitutional crisis too much?
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  Speaker 8: Chuck Schumer, Mark Warner, etc.? Real constitutional crisis when judges
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  Speaker 8: say no to dutifully elected officials and then the elected
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  Speaker 8: officials have the judges suspended. Is this what they meant
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  Speaker 8: when they said checks and balances? I don't believe so.
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  Speaker 8: But in Poland, questions over who's influencing who as Prime
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  Speaker 8: Minister Donald Tusk's government mad because some of their judicial
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  Speaker 8: appointments were not sat by the Constitutional Tribunal, has suspended
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  Speaker 8: the Constitutional Tribunal President Bogdan Sveikowski and has called for
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  Speaker 8: an intervention by President Karol Nowrocki to settle this mess
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  Speaker 8: that some are pointing across the border into Russia to
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  Speaker 8: say they may have something to do with this, or
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  Speaker 8: does it have to do more with the World Economic Forum,
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  Speaker 8: and who might be behind some of these machinations. President
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  Speaker 8: Trump was on the campaign trail again yesterday in Iowa
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  Speaker 8: this time, but he took some cracks north to talk
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  Speaker 8: about Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who some are arguing
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  Speaker 8: is living rent-free in President Trump's head, However, Haley Stevens,
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  Speaker 8: Democrat congresswoman from Michigan, who was one of those who
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  Speaker 8: lost to Al-Sayed in the primary, has stepped away from
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  Speaker 8: her party membership and endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for that,
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  Speaker 8: saying that Al-Sayed's connections with Hassan Piker are why she
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  Speaker 8: has left him aside. Apparently, it was North Korea's who
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  Speaker 8: supported the hackers that stole $ 6 billion worth of cryptocurrency.
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  Speaker 8: But despite that, the industry still has apparently $ 200 million
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  Speaker 8: to pour into congressional races.
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  Speaker 1: One political action.
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  Speaker 8: Committee fair shake has donated to 33 House candidates, 19
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  Speaker 8: Republicans and 14 Democrats, who will write legislation to help
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  Speaker 8: the cryptocurrency industry. And a federal judge Sunday dismissed the
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  Speaker 8: Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to block the certification of
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  Speaker 8: Alaska's Senate race over ranked choice voting and the use
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  Speaker 8: of a sound-alike candidate to sap votes away from Republican
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  Speaker 8: incumbent Dan Sullivan.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 8: So ranked choice voting, Alaska, and how they're going. And
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  Speaker 8: people across the country are hit with this. California, New York,
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  Speaker 8: as I mentioned, Zorhan Mamdani is mayor of New York
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  Speaker 8: because of ranked choice voting. And I talked with Jason
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  Speaker 8: Sneed from the Honest Elections Project. You can find this
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  Speaker 8: actually in video form at DailySignal.com. They're on, you know,
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  Speaker 8: what makes rank choice voting problematic.
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  Speaker 16: Great.
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  Speaker 19: Thank you for having me on the program. And thank
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  Speaker 19: you for the congratulations, although the credit really goes to
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  Speaker 19: Kansas lawmakers who just within this last couple of days
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  Speaker 19: became the 14th state to ban rank choice voting. And
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  Speaker 19: they also closed a crucial foreign funding loophole to help
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  Speaker 19: protect the integrity of their constitutional amendment process as well.
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  Speaker 19: So some big victories in Kansas and in states across
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  Speaker 19: the country.
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  Speaker 1: So here in Virginia, we're jealous.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not too shallow to admit it because I'm not
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  Speaker 8: necessarily speaking on behalf of them, but it passed a
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  Speaker 8: similar bill passed through. our General Assembly to put ranked
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  Speaker 8: choice voting into the Commonwealth Code, and the governor vetoed it.
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  Speaker 8: And I can only imagine what a different governor, wink, wink,
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  Speaker 8: starting next year might do if given the same General Assembly.
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  Speaker 8: Talk about the messaging that was necessary to make sure
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  Speaker 8: that these General Assembly members didn't fall prey to the
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  Speaker 8: siren song of, but.
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  Speaker 1: It's It's inclusive.
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  Speaker 8: I even have Republicans, Jason, telling me, no, Ranked Choice
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  Speaker 8: Voting gives Republicans a chance to beat Democrats in places
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  Speaker 8: like Northern Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Jason, tell us how you did it.
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  Speaker 19: Well, the first and most important thing to keep in
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  Speaker 19: mind is who is behind Ranked Choice Voting. That's a
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  Speaker 19: big tell. All of the money behind Ranked Choice Voting
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  Speaker 19: is coming from the left. It's coming from big left
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  Speaker 19: wing mega donors like George Soros and his friends. It's
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  Speaker 19: an idea that has been created by folks on the left.
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  Speaker 19: And of course, they're going to be pushing an idea
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  Speaker 19: that's going to help the left. And that's what range-wise
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  Speaker 19: voting really is all about. It's about fundamentally changing our
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  Speaker 19: elections in ways that are designed to push politics to
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  Speaker 19: the left. Now, what they have done, which is different
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  Speaker 19: from what the left has done in other fights in
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  Speaker 19: the election integrity space, like voter ID or non-citizen voting,
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  Speaker 19: they have put a concerted effort behind the attempt to
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  Speaker 19: convince Republicans and conservatives that right choice voting is actually
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  Speaker 19: a bipartisan idea. So they have created AstroTurf organizations that
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  Speaker 19: are nominally nonpartisan, but again, all of the funding is
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  Speaker 19: coming from the left. They have recruited former Republican members
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  Speaker 19: of legislatures and states all across the country, recruited lobbyists
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  Speaker 19: that have close ties to Republican officials. They have really
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  Speaker 19: made this concerted attempt to get the Campbell's nose under
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  Speaker 19: the tent.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why you're.
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  Speaker 19: Hearing even from some Republicans, even from some rock-ribbed conservatives,
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  Speaker 19: very nice things about ranked choice voting. They don't ultimately
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  Speaker 19: always understand where this idea originates, where the funding for
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  Speaker 19: it is coming from. And one of the things I
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  Speaker 19: often tell folks is, you know, some of this money
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  Speaker 19: is coming from George Soros and people like him. What
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  Speaker 19: interest does George Soros have in getting a conservative elected
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  Speaker 19: anywhere in this country? The answer is zero. And ranked
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  Speaker 19: choice voting is one of these ideas which is designed
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  Speaker 19: to make That ambition of having essentially zero conservatives anywhere
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  Speaker 19: in government happened.
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  Speaker 14: But there's a lot of also real policy.
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  Speaker 19: Problems that we can get into hopefully as well about
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  Speaker 19: why ranked choice voting makes it harder to vote, makes
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  Speaker 19: it harder to trust the results. And as you said,
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  Speaker 19: it basically turns elections into a black box where people
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  Speaker 19: can't even necessarily remember who they voted for, much less
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  Speaker 19: know who their ballot actually was counted for.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and that's one of the examples.
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  Speaker 8: And we've talked to our mutual friend Hans von Spakovsky
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  Speaker 8: on this subject. You know, I grew up in New
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  Speaker 8: York City and New York City is not a trusting bunch.
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  Speaker 8: And they they have watched ranked choice voting for their
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  Speaker 8: city offices just turn into a nightmare time and time again.
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  Speaker 8: And they're backing away from it. Tell us tell us
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  Speaker 8: about some of the horror stories in ranked choice voting.
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  Speaker 8: So people realize it's a siren song.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, so ranked choice voting, for anyone that doesn't know
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  Speaker 19: what this is, it replaces one-person, one-vote elections, which we
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  Speaker 19: think of as pretty much the standard election in this country,
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  Speaker 19: with a system where you have multiple candidates running. Usually
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  Speaker 19: it's what they call a final five system, so you
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  Speaker 19: have five people running in an election, but there's not
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  Speaker 19: any absolutely necessary reason it has to be five. New
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  Speaker 19: York City, for instance, doesn't have that limit, so you
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  Speaker 19: can have any number of candidates running. And then you
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  Speaker 19: rank them in order of preference. And the idea here,
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  Speaker 19: according to the RCV proponents, is that you should win
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  Speaker 19: elections with majority support. So what they want to do
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  Speaker 19: is basically only get majoritarian candidates elected. But the problem
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  Speaker 19: is that with any election system, if you don't get
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  Speaker 19: an actual majority of the votes, then you have to
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  Speaker 19: basically manufacture an artificial majority.
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  Speaker 8: And that is the key right there. Manufacture an artificial majority.
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  Speaker 8: Because you look at runoff elections in Georgia and in
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  Speaker 8: places like that, and what happens when you don't get
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  Speaker 8: to a majority and will make one. And how does
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  Speaker 8: that work? Well, the government then tells you who the
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  Speaker 8: winner is. And that's a dangerous, dangerous premise. I have
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  Speaker 8: dear friends who think that the state.
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  Speaker 8: Running the board of elections is a dangerous precedent. That
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  Speaker 8: this should truly be a nonpartisan county-by-county accounting service. You hire,
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  Speaker 8: you know, some accounting company. Your local counties and municipal
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  Speaker 8: governments would pick the accounting firm and they would have
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  Speaker 8: access to joint software but it wouldn't be the state
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  Speaker 8: appointees of of some political government. Now, some places have
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  Speaker 8: rules regarding partisanship, that the board of election has to
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  Speaker 8: have members from both political parties involved. Unfortunately, what they've
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  Speaker 8: also done is said if both political parties are not available,
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  Speaker 8: we'll assign somebody to play the role of that political
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  Speaker 8: party in these discussions and negotiations or whatever. Scott in
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  Speaker 8: Virginia Beach texts to 434-882-4217. Ranked choice voting sounds good
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  Speaker 8: in theory. I get tired of seeing good candidates dilute
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  Speaker 8: the vote only to stick us with the candidate the
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  Speaker 8: majority doesn't want. In practice, it seems to make places worse. Well,
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  Speaker 8: it's partially because it's a system that's rife with opportunity
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  Speaker 8: to manipulate. And we're watching that in Alaska right now
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  Speaker 8: by throwing a lot of squirrely sounding or people who
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  Speaker 23: Or a 14-year-old girl who signs up to every after-school activity,
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  Speaker 11: Or a retiree who fell ill and.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 8: If you can read his handwriting, he is our sports director,
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  Speaker 8: Mac McDonald, program director at the Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting.
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  Speaker 8: at Full Sail University. And, Mac, what do you got
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  Speaker 24: It's Overreaction Monday. Welcome to November. Here are the stories
• 28:38
  Speaker 24: we are following on this day. Week number eight in
• 28:41
  Speaker 24: the National Football League, the Buffalo Bills are now 6-1
• 28:45
  Speaker 24: after a 36-10 win over the Ravens. Baltimore lost starting
• 28:49
  Speaker 24: QB Lamar Jackson with a thumb injury on the first play,
• 28:53
  Speaker 24: and he will undergo surgery.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: His hand got hit by Rousseau. That can be very
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: painful for a quarterback.
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  Speaker 16: On the first play from scrimmage for the Baltimore Ravens,
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  Speaker 16: Lamar Jackson injured.
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  Speaker 24: Backup Tyler Huntley took over and hurt his toe while
• 29:09
  Speaker 24: being sacked. QB3, Joe Fagnano, the undrafted rookie from UConn,
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  Speaker 24: finished the game for the Ravens. Baltimore fell to 4-4.
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  Speaker 24: The Lions knocked off the.
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  Speaker 19: Mac?
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  Speaker 8: Where'd he go? What happened to him? Can you get
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  Speaker 24: The Lions knocked off the Vikings 19-15. Jared Goff tossed
• 30:11
  Speaker 24: the game winner to Jameson Williams.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: With four and a half minutes left. Minnesota lost its first.
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  Speaker 1: Game of the year.
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  Speaker 24: The Steelers proved dominant over the Browns 27-6. Pittsburgh is 6-2.
• 30:23
  Speaker 24: And the Bengals escaped the Titans in overtime 43-36. We'll
• 30:27
  Speaker 24: deep dive into Sunday's games at 7-30 when we open
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  Speaker 24: the Notebook. Sunday at Martinsville, William Byron won his first
• 30:34
  Speaker 24: race of 2026. Kyle Larson salvaged his Sunday though with
• 30:39
  Speaker 24: a ninth place finish. Larson lost only six points off
• 30:43
  Speaker 24: his massive lead. He has a 67 point advantage over
• 30:46
  Speaker 24: Christopher Bell heading into next week's chase finale in Miami.
• 30:51
  Speaker 24: For Byron, plenty of relief with the Martinsville win.
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  Speaker 20: Man, it's been a freaking long road this year.
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  Speaker 19: This team's worked really hard and I just appreciate them.
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  Speaker 19: You know, we, uh, Man, we never quit, so there's
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  Speaker 19: something to be said about that.
• 31:05
  Speaker 24: The Chase standings now following Larson and Bell. Denny Hamlin
• 31:08
  Speaker 24: is third. Chase Briscoe is fourth, ahead of Joey Logano
• 31:12
  Speaker 24: and Tyler Reddick. Ryan Blaney rounds out the top seven.
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  Speaker 24: That's our sports update for this hour. We'll see you
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  Speaker 8: Of course not, because he's got early class this morning,
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  Speaker 1: But, you know, we do with what we can for you.
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  Speaker 8: Information is information, right? Ranked choice voting. Everyone's up in
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: arms about it in Alaska because they're like, well, how
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: is it that, you know, Alaskans are so easily duped?
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  Speaker 1: It's not that.
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: It's manipulating the use of ranked choice voting. So you
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: look and let's just say you're a Dan Sullivan voter
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  Speaker 8: and you vote for Dan Sullivan, but it's the wrong
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  Speaker 8: Dan Sullivan. And Mary Pilatus says, voters all vote for
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: her because they don't look for her name. They just
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: look for the letter D next to her name.
• 32:30
  Speaker 25: And if 10% of Dan Sullivan's supporters vote for the
• 32:36
  Speaker 25: incorrect Dan Sullivan, he maybe falls to second in the
• 32:41
  Speaker 25: first ballot pass-through.
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: But then as they drop off people, who drops off?
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: That's the issue is when you dilute somebody's vote and
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: then they start dropping people off of the ranked choice
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  Speaker 8: ballot as they go through it and trying to what
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: they call either wasted. And some people, they don't like
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: the word wasted. So some states use the word exhausted ballot.
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: That exhausted ballot now gets thrown out because you just
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: voted for Dan Sullivan and And it was the wrong
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: Dan Sullivan. And that's the issue, as Scott was bringing
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: up in his text message from before. It sounds just
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  Speaker 8: like a lot of the stuff in liquid democracy. Sounds
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: like a good idea. sounds like something, well, why wouldn't
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: we want, Joe, haven't you said you want everyone to vote? Well,
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: I want everyone to vote for themselves. What winds up
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: happening under liquid democracy is you have proxy voting, where
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: you or the government can assign somebody to vote for you.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: I could say to my wife, hey, I'm out of
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: town this week. Can you go vote for me? And
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: she would be able to as long as I signed
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: over my vote to her. You could have conceivably somebody
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: in a neighborhood voting for seven, eight, nine people. It
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: legitimizes the idea of the, what's the classic, the event
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  Speaker 8: coordinator at a senior living community. This is where a
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: lot of the political parties go to corrupt the elections.
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: So they'll go to the event coordinators at all these
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  Speaker 8: senior living facilities that get government subsidy and say, you know,
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: those government subsidies, they might not be coming so much
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  Speaker 8: if I don't get reelectified. So why don't you get
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: absentee ballots for all the folks in your care and
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: vote for them? We've had people actually honestly get elected,
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: get arrested for that.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Because that's voter fraud.
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: Under this, if you adopt the policies in liquid democracy,
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: written philosophically, I guess, or as a primer by Charles
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: Dodgson in the late 19th century, part of the boom
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  Speaker 8: of technocracy, that government in its aggregate would be smarter
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  Speaker 8: than the population in its individualism. A A regular listener, Steve,
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  Speaker 8: writes in and says, Joe, who is the guy that
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: Charles Dodgson is also? You've heard me say this before.
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: Charles Dodgson is the actual name of the political Scientologist.
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  Speaker 8: He made money, though, and notoriety under his nom de plume,
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  Speaker 8: Lewis Carroll. So if you stop and think about it,
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: the idea of liquid democracy came from the same mind
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: that gave you Alice in Wonderland. This should also tell
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: you a lot about liquid democracy and the idea that
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: we all should just vote. And the government promotes it
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: under this idea of, well, then you can have faith
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: that the voice of the people were heard because we
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: had 100% of them vote. No, we had 100% of
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: the people vote that the government assigned it to vote.
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: And the funny thing is it's promoted by the same
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: people who sit there and rail about partisan gerrymandering.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's politicians choosing their voters.
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: That's kind of what liquid democracy is, too. And ranked
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: choice voting is one of those places where this rears
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: its ugly head. It's one of its policies.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: And it is.
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: It's rife with fraud and because its con is that
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: it's trying to make sure everybody votes. And it's only
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: really possible post-COVID because we're no longer voting together. We
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: don't all show up in a polling place on one
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: day and in the manner of a 12- or 13-hour window,
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: all show up and vote secretly but in public. So
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: that we can say, oh, I just saw Joe vote.
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: What do you mean Joe voted at the other place?
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: That's not possible.
• 38:01
  Speaker 18: According to a new report from Discovery Education, 92% of
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  Speaker 18: in the classroom. Although 63% of students agreed that students
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• 38:45
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  Speaker 21: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: Hi, I'm Dr.
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  Speaker 21: Mitch and nitric oxide is a gas that's readily made
• 39:17
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• 39:21
  Speaker 21: the blood vessel walls. By doing this, our circulation is increased,
• 39:26
  Speaker 21: bringing blood, oxygen, and nutrients to every part of your body.
• 39:32
  Speaker 21: Both age and poor diet can lead to a loss
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  Speaker 23: We depend on our drinking water supply daily, but where
• 41:37
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• 41:40
  Speaker 23: to get to know your local water source so together
• 41:43
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• 41:47
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• 41:50
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• 41:53
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  Speaker 7: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would
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  Speaker 11: By their clothes?
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  Speaker 20: Their age?
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  Speaker 3: The way they speak?
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  Speaker 14: Would you notice a 16-year-old boy who got.
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  Speaker 9: His first job?
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  Speaker 6: Not for extra spending money, but to help feed his
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  Speaker 23: Or a mother who's in between jobs and sometimes goes
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  Speaker 23: to bed hungry so her kids can have dinner. Or
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  Speaker 11: Or a retiree who fell ill and.
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  Speaker 7: Had to choose between getting medicine or groceries.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 8: this morning.
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  Speaker 1: 434-882-4217 is the phone number. Text messages come in there
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  Speaker 1: as well. We love the conversation as well.
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  Speaker 8: Texting in on the idea of ranked choice voting, not
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  Speaker 8: ranked choice, on the subject of the Polish coup d'etat
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  Speaker 8: and who's behind it and who's manipulating it. European Union
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  Speaker 8: got ticked off when the Polish president razzed them, talking
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  Speaker 8: about not having the immigrant riots there. The EU said,
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  Speaker 8: oh yeah, we'll fix.
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  Speaker 1: That and open your borders for you.
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  Speaker 8: And the European Union is coming apart in almost predictably so.
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  Speaker 8: I remember when the European Union was founded, and I
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  Speaker 8: was but a lad, and my mother came back from
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  Speaker 8: the pronouncement of it. She actually was there. She was
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  Speaker 8: a high-ranking official in a German bank. Don't judge. Ah,
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  Speaker 8: now we know, Joe. German banker, are you? Well, my
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  Speaker 8: mother was letters of credit, German bank, so she was there.
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  Speaker 8: and brought me somewhere in my stuff is a euro,
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  Speaker 8: one of the first euros, all commemorative. And I remember
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  Speaker 8: asking her, I said, well, mom, it sounds like they
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  Speaker 8: just basically copied our Articles of Confederation. And she said,
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  Speaker 8: it's very much like that. I said, but didn't the
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  Speaker 8: Articles of Confederation fail pretty badly? And we got into
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  Speaker 8: an argument about it, as we always did. But my
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  Speaker 8: point was that the Articles of Confederation were coming apart.
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  Speaker 8: That's why we had the Constitutional Convention that we did.
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  Speaker 8: And I guess we didn't burn all the copies of
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  Speaker 8: the failed Articles of Confederation because that's what the European
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  Speaker 8: Union based their system on. And the same things, same things,
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  Speaker 8: that befell the U.S. Confederacy, the pre- I guess it
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  Speaker 8: was the government of these United States under this article
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  Speaker 8: of Confederacy. Not to be confused with the Confederate States
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  Speaker 8: of America, which was, you know, the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: Way to trivialize the Civil War, Joe, the other thing.
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  Speaker 8: But the Articles of Confederation were falling apart because each
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  Speaker 8: individual state started trying to screw over the other states.
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  Speaker 1: If you had a.
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  Speaker 8: Bunch of people in your state that were doing cryptocurrency,
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  Speaker 8: let's just say, and you wanted to make sure your
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  Speaker 8: state was the best state in the union for cryptocurrency,
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  Speaker 8: you would go out of your way to write laws
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  Speaker 8: that would prohibit things like other states using the internet
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  Speaker 8: that passes through your state without paying a tariff. Some
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  Speaker 8: of our longest held beliefs regarding tariffs are about how,
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  Speaker 8: for example, Virginia would tariff the furniture industry made in
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  Speaker 8: North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Because we.
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  Speaker 8: Were both sending them up to New York to get
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  Speaker 8: shipped out somewhere, or maybe Baltimore. But we wanted our
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  Speaker 8: furniture to cost less, even though it was basically the
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  Speaker 8: same forest, same trees, just from the southern Virginia Piedmont
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  Speaker 8: into North Carolina's Piedmont. So we wanted their... Furniture to
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  Speaker 8: be more expensive. So we levied a heavy tariff on
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  Speaker 8: furniture that had to pass through our state.
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  Speaker 1: We called it a toll.
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  Speaker 8: And so what was happening is you had states like
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  Speaker 8: Georgia were cutting their own trade deals with Britain. South
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  Speaker 8: Carolina was trading cotton directly with Great Britain.
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  Speaker 1: On the side.
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  Speaker 8: And then Pennsylvania got salty about it, and it all
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  Speaker 8: came apart. The cats didn't like being herded under this.
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  Speaker 8: So we came up with a better way to do it. Imperfect, certainly,
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  Speaker 8: because some things like prohibitions on what the government could
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  Speaker 8: call its own purview weren't clear enough, leaving Alexander Hamilton
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  Speaker 8: to invent the concept of implied powers. But I think, Ellen,
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  Speaker 8: you're right on when you talk about the European Union
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  Speaker 8: and its role in what's going on in Poland. There's
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  Speaker 8: a lot of people in the European Union are pointing
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  Speaker 8: at Russia saying Russia is doing this because they want
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  Speaker 8: Poland back just as much as they want Ukraine back.
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  Speaker 8: And this is the EU that is basically NATO without
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  Speaker 8: the United States. Wasn't there a time under Obama? I
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  Speaker 8: distinctly remember, and it might be the Mandela effect, but
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  Speaker 8: I recall that there were some discussions when Greece was falling.
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  Speaker 8: Remember when the Grecian economy was collapsing and they were
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  Speaker 8: afraid the European Union was going to be down with
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  Speaker 8: it and all the other countries. And there was discussion of,
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  Speaker 8: the United States entering the Eurozone. And it was barked
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  Speaker 8: down here, saying, no, we're the United States. Their union, ostensibly,
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  Speaker 8: was to create a single currency strong enough to compete
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  Speaker 8: with the yen at the time and the dollar. And
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  Speaker 8: it never really worked out, so Greece is bankrupt, France
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  Speaker 8: is bankrupt, now France is they're talking about just canceling
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  Speaker 8: their debt. I don't think the Germans will like that
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  Speaker 8: too much since most of what you owe is to them.
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  Speaker 8: Some folks in France said maybe we should just let
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  Speaker 8: the German government make the decisions.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, in France? Really? You're going to say
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  Speaker 1: that in France?
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  Speaker 8: I guess it's gotten to that point where nobody remembers.
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  Speaker 8: And it's the oldest joke about the European Union.
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  Speaker 3: Hold it.
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  Speaker 8: Europe fought and died to stop Germany from taking over Europe,
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  Speaker 8: and now we're just going to let Germany take over
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  Speaker 8: Europe economically? That didn't seem to make much sense. Why
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  Speaker 8: did everyone go and fight the Nazis then? Oh, that's right,
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  Speaker 8: because Helmut Kohl and the rest of the Germans didn't
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  Speaker 8: come in with panzer divisions and goose-stepping. They came in
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  Speaker 8: with a checkbook. See, if they had only done this
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  Speaker 8: in 1940, we wouldn't have had so many problems. See,
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  Speaker 8: that's what Hitler's mistake was. Hitler didn't come in and
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  Speaker 8: offer them money to take over their economy. No, no,
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  Speaker 8: Hitler came in with the Panzer Division and said, we're
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  Speaker 8: taking over here. See, just not thinking ahead, not thinking
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  Speaker 8: outside the box. But Ellen, I think, has a great
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  Speaker 8: point that it's a lot of the European Union perhaps
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  Speaker 8: saber-rattling in a country that doesn't seem like it quite
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  Speaker 8: wants to give up its sovereignty anymore. Because Poland, like
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  Speaker 8: Ireland and Germany, have an economy. They do things.
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  Speaker 1: They make things. They ship things.
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  Speaker 8: And So the European Union needs Poland to not try
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  Speaker 8: to flex its Brexit kind of attitude, which has been
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  Speaker 8: bubbling to the surface in Poland. Can't have a pexit,
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  Speaker 8: or maybe we'd have to come up with a better
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  Speaker 8: word for it.
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