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In the Barbershop · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day and you're listening to the West Carol Morning Show Tuesday morning, sixth day
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of February ms Thanks for joining me. Didn't really talk about it yesterday,
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but you know, the South Carolina primary happened for Democrats. Biden won.
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They acted like he won the presidency. They went crazy over it. Was
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it ever really a question? It's interesting, isn't it the way that it
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gets covered, almost like it's a big news story and it's really not.
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One of the things that did come out of the South Carolina primary, though,
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is the fact that MSNBC decided to do an event where they sat down
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inside a Charleston, South Carolina barber shop and discussed with black voters in South
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Carolina their plans for voting in this year's election. And I don't know what
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the expectation was for MSNBC. I don't know if they were expecting to hear
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what they heard from those in attendance, many of them in attendance. And
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I don't think that this is the kind of thing that I've been talking about
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that I'm hearing from my friends, my acquaintances, people in my circle and
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specifically the black community that is possibly that maybe voted last time for Biden.
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I don't know. Some of them I think may have actually voted for Trump
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a last time as well for similar reasons. So this isn't a shock to
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me to hear it. It's a shock to me that MSNBC did this,
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I guess live and didn't cut the feed and come up with some emergency reason
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that they needed to bail out on this particular event, so they went to
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Charleston, South Carolina. This is all part of the primary process, and
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Trimain Lee is the host's name who sat down and did this and basically the
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general consensus. And there were two things that came out of it. One
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that the voters who were going to vote for Biden again weren't excited about it.
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They were not like they might just have to do it because they feel
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like they have to do it, but they weren't looking forward to it.
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The other side of that, and that's not a surprise. Is that a
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surprise? That's that's what I feel like. All of my friends who vote
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Democrat are getting ready to do the ones that feel like they can't vote for
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anything else. So that's what they have to vote for. It's an obligation.
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They are all in, they have to do it. And then the
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other part that comes out of this. It's interesting and again not a surprise
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interesting that it was on MSNBC, though, is hearing from black men who
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are basically saying, I'm looking at Trump because when he was president, we
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had money. We weren't broke all the time, and we are now we
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had money. There were you know, four years where we were doing well
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and now we realize one this is a quote from one of these guys,
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well, we were broke with Biden, we weren't with Trump. And that's
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kind of the general consensus among him and his group of friends is that they
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feel like that's what's changed, that Trump has the reputation of being the money
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man, and that's another quote from one of these guys, and they just
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feel like Biden isn't the guy and that Trump is. And it is very
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interesting that this is the kind of the consensus. People that aren't excited about
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Biden, people that are excited about the possibility of voting for Trump and maybe
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having money again at the end of the week after paying bills. And then
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the group that they believe are probably just going to sit it out and not
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vote again. The people who you know, maybe voted once, maybe twice,
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and they're done. They're not going to come back. They don't want
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to vote for anybody, and they'd rather not vote at all than vote for
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Biden. This has been the trend that we've seen in some of the polling.
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Now, this doesn't mean that Trump would win the black vote for the
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whole, but it does go to a point that we've discussed now many times
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before. Why is that not even a possibility? Why is this something that
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isn't seriously being considered. And I can't tell anyone how to vote. I
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can't tell anyone what to do, but I do marvel sometimes often, really
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at this concept that we've heard now repeatedly from the left, from Democrats,
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from the president, from the vice president, from the most recent previous Democrat
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president, and his wife, who many think is going to jump in and
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try to save the day at the last minute, if that's the course that
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they end up taking, and I don't know what's going to happen. A
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number of people that have asked me, do you think Michelle Obama is ultimately
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going to be the candidate for Democrats, and I say, I don't know,
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you're asking the wrong guy. I mean, in my gut, I
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would say say no, probably not. I can't imagine that she wants it.
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I can't imagine that she wants to go through any process of all of
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this. I can't imagine that she wants the job, none of that.
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I mean, I really can't imagine that that's the case, but perhaps it
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is. I don't know. I can't sit here and tell you the number
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of things that I have been very wrong about concerning elections in the past,
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and I've told you I don't really make predictions anymore because I'm just not good
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at it. I'm not good at it at all. The only thing that
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I could have predicted for you with any amount of kind of certainty was that
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we were not going to have a Super Bowl that did not have Taylor Swift
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somehow involved in it. By getting the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. That's
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the only thing I could have predicted for you. And I'll also predict it.
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I haven't seen maybe there's been an update, but I still feel like
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she's going to get on a private jet and zip back to Vegas for the
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Super Bowl, just so she can be on TV and promote her new CD
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that just came out and all that. I feel like that's that's probably gonna
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happen, even though she tells us not to drive cars at burn gas and
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fuel and carbon footprints and all that stuff. But I digress. I can't
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tell you what's gonna happen. But I know that President Obama, his wife,
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the current president, and the current vice president have told us race relations
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have gotten worse. I don't know that they've actually used the term they're an
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all time low. It feels like they're trying to say that. I don't
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know. Maybe they have said it, and we know that that's absurd.
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That's one of the most ridiculous things anybody could say. But when we hear
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that they've gotten worse, when we hear repeatedly that they're not better than they
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were in the nineteen sixties, the question that we should start asking ourselves,
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just like these gentlemen in this barber shop in Charleston, South Carolina, were
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forced to question, why would you consider voting for someone who's not making anything
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better for you? If Democrats have had plenty of time to be in control
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since nineteen sixty. If they've had plenty of time since I don't know,
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we'll jump ahead and say little Lyndon Johnson, maybe not nineteen sixty specifically,
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but we'll jump a few years ahead. If they haven't been able to make
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things better, then why should anyone continue the course? That whole notion of
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doing something over and over and over again with the same result. At some
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point you have to step back and say, maybe we should try something different
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and hope for a different result. In some ways, that's who Donald Trump
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was for a lot of divisions within the black community in America. He did
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things that no Democrat president has done, including unemployment for black Amai Americans,
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including working on making changes or pardoning people that should have been pardoned long before
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that were in the prison system as black Americans. Trump did those things,
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it was noticed, it was noted, and then of course anyone who noticed
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and noted it were you cast out from the black community. Can't do that,
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can't say something to support Trump, can't do that. So why would
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you continue the course if things aren't better? If things haven't gotten better,
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let me ask you this question, And this is just something that I think
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people should at least think about and consider. Okay, and I know this
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isn't going to be a popular thought and people are going to say, oh,
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you can't say that. So if the Barack Obama presidency, there's some
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that say that is point where race relations got worse. We were promised they're
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going to get better. And that's what we were promised. Bringing him into
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the White House was going to make things better. We all were told that.
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Many of us even just believed it, even if we didn't vote for
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the man. We thought, well, at the very least, we're gonna
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break through this particular glass ceiling. We're going to do something that a lot
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of people said will never happen. We all knew it would happen one day.
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I don't know that I knew it would happen that soon in my life.
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I assumed it would probably happen in my later years. I'm glad that
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we were able to do that. I wish would have been a better president,
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a better candidate. I didn't like the things that he wanted to do
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when he was in the White House. So we were told that race relations
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got worse while he was in the White House, that things got worse in
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America for racism. Things got worse for Black Americans in that time. Now,
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of course they blame Republicans for it, But if you're in charge and
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you have control of at least that branch of the government, and over the
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course of the next few years, keep in mind, when Biden took over,
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they were in a great position to do things for Black Americans. Did
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they do very much well? No, we keep getting told no, things
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are worse than ever. So if Barack Obama's presidency meant that things got worse,
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why would we do anything like that? Again, why would we say,
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let's bring Michelle Obama in. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have a
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black president. I absolutely look forward to having a really good black president that's
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looking out for all Americans, that wants to look out for the middle class,
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wants to look out for everyone, and not just How can we push
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the middle class down into the lowest possible tax bracket. How can we create
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more people that will seek handouts as many as possible so that it'll help keep
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certain government control in place. So why would you even consider like a second
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presidency for that family? If things got worse? Don't we want things to
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get better? Shouldn't we want things to get better. Well, one of
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the ways that we can make sure that things do get better, where our
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options being ultimately Biden and Trump, is we can work on making sure that
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everybody has a little bit of extra money in their pocket. Right. We
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can make sure that families are able to feed themselves. We can make sure
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that people are able to build a better life for themselves. We came through
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COVID and got a president who did everything possible to make things worse at a
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time when that's not what we needed. Politics should have been put aside,
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things should have been done to try to get economic recovery where it needed to
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be instead of making it worse in the name of the special interest group that
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is the environmental contingency. Right, That's all this was about figuring out a
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way to come up with whatever language you needed to sell enough votes to get
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the Green New Deal passed, calling it the Inflation Reduction Act, and just
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shoving it through and finally breaking down the last bastion of hope to keep that
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at bay in Joe Mansion. So why would we want to continue the path
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that we're on When things are bad economically, they're bad and I've said this
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before, and I will say it again and again and again. So I
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have a friend who, for the most part, would probably agree with more
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conservative things than liberal things. But he supports environmental issues. He supports climate
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issues, he supports natural park, national parks, he supports state parks.
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And I asked him when he says, well, I think when Trump was
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in the White House, he was taking money away from environmental issues and then
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giving it back to people in these tax cuts. I don't know where the
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logic was in that. Someone told him that. I don't know exactly what
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the chain of thought was on that. But I asked him, how much
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money do you have in your pocket now? How much more money do you
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have in your pocket in a month than you had during the previous presidency?
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And he said, you know, one hundred bucks. He said, give
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that hundred bucks to or maybe every check. Give that one hundred dollars to
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whatever cause you want to give it to. If you don't want it and
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you would rather it go somewhere else, you can make a much bigger impact
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giving that to someone at the local level, where it doesn't go through bureaucrats,
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doesn't go through people that have been hired to decide who gets it and
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how much they get, and ultimately it gets dwindled down to a fraction of
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that hundred dollars. You can make a big impact. You want to go
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to I'll just give an example, Oxmomettow's Environmental Learning Center in Columbus. Go
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to them and give them a hundred bucks a month. Tell them, hey,
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I'm going to give you twelve monred bucks for the next year. You
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think they're not going to get excited, Encourage your friends to do the same
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thing. You know, make a big difference for them. You think they
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couldn't use an extra hundred bucks a month given to them, directly donated to
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them. Yes, they would take that, They would be happy to have
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that. How much do you think they would get out of that hundred bucks
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that was being taken from you and spread out amongst all the people that sit
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back and make the decisions and all the bureaucrats and the red tape. How
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much of that do you think they get? So here we go, as
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we have one particular barbershop, one group of men sitting in a barbershop saying
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to another man, Look, my friends aren't excited about Biden they're not necessarily
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excited about Trump, but they're excited at the possibility of being able to vote
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for somebody who's going to make sure that we've actually got some money in our
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pocket and again, do what you want to do with your money. See,
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that's the conservative side of this, that's the selling point for conservatives.
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Conservatives believes that you should have your money and you should decide what causes you
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want to support. That shouldn't be decided for you by someone else. You
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should be able to decide where you want to donate it. And if you
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want to donate it to a cause, it spreads it out to a bunch
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of different causes. That's your right. You want to give it to your
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church who can use it to help people directly, that's your right. But
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just to be taxed so that it can be given to you don't really know
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where. There's no direct accountability. You don't know where your money goes.
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When you give blood Red Cross, they send you an email and they say,
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hey, your blood was given to someone at this hospital on this date
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and you helped them in their cancer recovery. That's not what we get with
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our tax money. We just know it goes away and we don't get it
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back, and we don't really know exactly where it goes. We don't know
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what country it gets sent overseas too. We don't know directly where our money
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went. We just know that our money isn't in our possession anymore. Someone
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else has it. So hopefully this growing sentiment is this is this little cross
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section in this barber shop. Hopefully is something that's picking up some steam and
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we'll continue to do so as we get closer to November. Can't keep doing
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break. So can you still call it dry January if you are smoking weed
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during the month. Well, according to research, it says yes, alcohol
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And they say it's some of the biggest US liquor chains. Alcohol sales fell
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you call it dry January. If you're doing that, I mean, isn't
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know. I don't know what the what the story is exactly on that.
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But so top selling video games for twenty twenty three results have been released,
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and the number one selling game of the year was Hogwarts Legacy follow after controversy.
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You know, this was one of those games where they said, oh,
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I think Madden's always going to be in the top five, isn't it.
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two of the movies, sorry, two of the games in the list are
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she says, you shouldn't say anything other than no thank you. You'll understand
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