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The Harris Problem Just Became More Complicated for BIden · 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 Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning,
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third day of July. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me. Aliens were
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already causing problems at this point in the movie. You know tomorrow is the
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day that we fight back and that the president gives that awesome speech. Today
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we celebrate our independence days. It becomes a world holiday. But at this
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point, this third day, they showed up. Yesterday they were blowing up
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buildings today. That's what they would be doing in the movie Independence Day.
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We rewatched that not too long ago. Well I rewatched it. I guess
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maybe Jill was rewatching and I don't know if she'd seen it before. To
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be honest, I'm trying to remember now the boys had not. So we
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celebrated an Independence Day a while back with that movie. All right, so
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it's the day before Independence Day. I'll be taking the day off tomorrow,
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as many of you will be. It's a holiday for most, but I'll
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be back on Friday doing hour strange and bizarre news for the week. So
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I hope you're able to get some and some people will be taking Friday off
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anyway, some people will be taking the day off and you know, been
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taking the week off anyway, because it's just one of those weeks where you
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get that free day during the week and then you can kind of, you
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know, piggyback it into some days off and even if you can't do the
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like, you know, take the whole week off and then you know,
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tack the weekends on it and then you're only burning like one less day you
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can do it. And I used to like to do this where you take
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like maybe Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, only two of those are actual vacation
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days, and you get like five days off, you know, when you
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throw in the weekends. But anyway, you know the way vacations work.
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I don't have to explain all that to you. Let's talk about the president.
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Dig into a few more things that have come up since as the fallout
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from the debate continues, as the fallout from the Supreme Court decision on Monday
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continues, and let's just kind of dive into a few things because there's some
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meet there is some meat for us to dive into, you know, like
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the kind of stuff maybe you're going to be grilling tomorrow as you celebrate Independence
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Day, but not like in the movie, like the regular way. Okay,
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enough references to the movie. Okay, So here we go. First
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and foremost, Monday night, several Democratic governors Democrat governors, I should say,
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got together and had a meeting. They wanted to talk about President Biden
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and the debate performance, and they wanted to basically, I guess there's frustration
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that they had not heard from the president since the debate to reassure them that
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everything is fine. They got together on Monday night. Now today, sometime
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maybe this morning. I don't know if they've said a time yet. At
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last check, there was no time for it. But sometime today they are
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going to be meeting with the president. So he is going to give them
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some time, and I assume it will be between ten and four, because,
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as we've referenced from the Axio story, that's the only times that he's
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productive, that's the only times that he's able to be had his sharpest.
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That's it. That's the window. So this comes, of course, as
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the first yesterday person from Congress, Texas Congressman Representative Lloyd Doggett out of Texas
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says that he hopes he says there's too much at stake, and his quote
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is, I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to
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withdraw. I respectfully call on him to do so. The first official Domino
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in that regard. Now, some of these governors that people think, oh,
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well, they're going to be the ones that would step in should he
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decline the nomination, some of them have said again that they don't want it,
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that he's going to be the nominee. They're not going to take it.
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One of those, of course, is Gavin Newsom, who has repeatedly
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said it's not going to be me. I think most people believe that if
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it is not Joe Biden, and it is not Kamala Harris, that it
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will be Gavin Newsom. They were grooming him, they were getting him as
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ready as they could get him. So but he says, no, it
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won't be me. And I remember him saying this in an interview that he
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did. He's really good friends, by the way, with Sean Hannity in
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real life, believe it or not, people with different political opinions are allowed
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to be friends in real life. And they were on the subject of liars.
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They were talking about people who tell lies, and Knewsom said it's despicable.
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And then that's when Hannady cornered him and basically said, so, you
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know, if it becomes an opportunity for you to be the nominee and Biden's
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not there, would you take it? And he said, I will not
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be the nominee. So I remember thinking, we're going to find out about
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maybe we could potentially find out his real stance on liars and lies and the
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liars that tell him or whatever that expression is. So now here's where things
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start to get really complicated because for him or Gretchen Whitmer or you know,
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Reverend Senator Erkele in Georgia, one of them to step in, that means
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they would have to bypass Kamala Harrison. I don't really think that Warnock is
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truly being considered. I think it's just they had to mention someone a person
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of color in the list, and there were a couple that they mentioned.
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He wasn't the only one. And I don't know that I've really seen many
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people bringing his name up, but I suppose maybe his name is coming up
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h and it's and I only mention that because now that word from the Kamala
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Harris camp reportedly is that she is in her her team are not going to
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be really going around, uh fighting the fight for Biden to stay on the
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ticket. I don't think that they're necessarily going to do anything to tank the
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campaign for him, but it sounds like they're not going to be out being
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the apologist for him. And they also say that she's just going to continue
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with fundraising and what that would tell me if this is true, and let's
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let's let's uh break down the reason for some of this so or what could
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be the reason for this if it's accurate. So, the money that's been
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raised by the by Harris campaign for the presidency, that money is for them.
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So if Joe Biden decides I'm going to pass on the nomination and someone
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else can take it. If it's not Kamala Harris, whoever it is,
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does not get to use the Biden Harris money. If it is Harris,
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she's able to use the Biden Harris money should she become the nominee when the
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convention rolls around. So presumably that's the reason that she's basically saying, Look,
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I'm not gonna try to explain anything about him, but I'll keep,
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you know, campaigning for the ticket, and I'll keep working on fundraising.
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She's got some incentive to do that. Now. Now, that's one of
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those things that's been reported. A couple of places have said that. I
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don't know that anyone has officially said that from the camp. What I do
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know that the Harris Can campaign has said officially is that she's not happy with
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the thought of her being pushed aside for someone else, especially if that person
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is a white man. She's not happy if it would just be a white
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person period, but a white person or a man. So yeah, this
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is something that can she basically like. According to the report, it's laid
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out, they would not be happy with that for obvious reasons, and that
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it would not go over well with black support. That's already dwindling. I
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hate to break it to all of them, but all support is dwindling.
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As Trump's numbers continue to go up and Biden's have dropped since the debate,
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and his overall approval rating thirty six percent, I guess this is his all
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time low. So that's another factor in all of this. Representative James Cliburn
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out of South Carolina. The quote unquote kingmaker, if you will. He
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says that should Biden decide, And I've seen a couple of interviews with him
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since the debate where he says Biden should stay on, but if he were
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to go, it should be Kamala Harris. That's who he would support on
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the ticket. So that's where we are on that side of things. That's
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where things are currently. And Biden spoke yesterday basically I guess, in DC,
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and the planned speech was supposed to be about the hurricane. We've got
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a hurricane that's working its way towards I guess Texas at this point, and
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it seemed like he was going to talk about Hurricane Beryl category five. Everyone
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thought, okay, well this is going to be some sort of a heads
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up, a warning, preparation something. Oh, it was a campaign speech
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about climate change. Big shock, right. He spoke off of a teleprompter.
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Anytime he seemed to try to deviate from it, he did have stumbles.
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He also a few times even reading the prompter had some stumbles. Another
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aspect of all of this is like it's that, you know, not wanting
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to waste a tragedy, not a potential I guess in this case, because
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here's something to say, Oh, well, let's talk about climate change.
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He attacked Republicans. He said that because Republicans didn't sign some legislation that he
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wanted them to sign, that makes them climate deniers, climate change deniers and
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dumb, called them stupid. Again, not a good strategy. You know,
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it was always kind of a Trump's thing since he came on the scene,
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since he came down the escalator. He was the one that attacked opponents
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and called him name and made fun of their hands and their wives and parents
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and all that stuff. He seems the more composed one now, not that
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he's not still kind of doing that, but you know, when he gets
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the right opportunity. But he hasn't really been attacking Biden the way that you
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would think that maybe he would. Here we had President Biden calling anyone who
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has a different stance on climate change and the way that he thinks, or
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at least whoever's telling him what he thinks about how to deal with climate change
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is stupid. It's that you have one single way to do it my way,
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and everybody else is dumb. That's a little like Anthony Falci a little
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bit. I am science, I am the way to fix climate change.
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So, no, not all Republicans are climate change deniers. I'm sure there's
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some in there. There's elements of all of it that many of us on
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the right have questions about. Doesn't mean we're deniers, doesn't mean that we
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don't think that there are some things that we need to be doing better.
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It just means that we don't think that financially, it's our responsibility as Americans
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to handle correcting the climate problems for the entire world and not asking the rest
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of the world to participate in it. That's the first and foremost thing.
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Second of all, it's not America's money to just throw around anyway. It's
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our money. Our government doesn't have money. It's got our money. It's
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taxes. And if we're signing away, Republicans are doing their job and not
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signing away our money and not expecting other because let's be honest, there's two
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or three countries that do significantly more damage to the planet by their standards,
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by Democrat standards, by climate science standards, and they're doing more damage than
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we are as a country, and they're not making it changes. They're sitting
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back waiting on us to make changes to make things more expensive for us so
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that they will be more profitable and we'll have to buy more goods from them
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and things. But that's another topic altogether. So Biden had another speech,
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another speech by the way, where he was coated in makeup or spray tan
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or orange paint. I don't know. I don't know if he's trying to
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look more like Trump. We don't know what the I know why they said
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that he was the makeup artist at the debate did a terrible job, and
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then he looked pale, and then he looked terrible, and they're trying to
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put some color in his face now as every time he makes an appearance.
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So that's the first goal, is to make him look more lively. After
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first the excuse was he's got a really bad cold, that's why he did
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badly, And then it was none of the makeup artists tanked him. It
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didn't have anything to do with the fact that he, you know, flubbed
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words, got very confused, clearly has cognition problems. Is it some in
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the dementia process. I mean, I don't think anybody at this point can
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doubt that in spite of I guess yesterday, the White House says no,
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I mean someone asked could he do it? And also here's the other question,
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And I mean I touched a little bit on the whole twenty fifth Amendment
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thing. Remember, they wanted Trump to face this. They wanted Trump out
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when he was president. And a lot of the logic behind trying to invoke
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the twenty fifth Amendment on Trump was there were elements of his temper. There
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were elements of one time he slipped in some slippery shoes. There was he
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drinks too many diet cokes, He eats too much McDonald's. They were saying
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that diet cokes and McDonald's might be having an effect on his brain. So
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they wanted him out. There's not really a lot of twenty fifth Amendment talk
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right now. I don't necessarily think that's the way to go. I think
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that would be bad for us economically, and we're already in a bad place.
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The people that start screaming about anytime a president gets selected they don't like
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and they say, oh, they got to be impeached. These are things
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that are not good for us as a country. And at some point you
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got to put the country out there first. And that's something that I want
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to say now. If you are someone who was a Biden supporter four years
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ago, maybe you were a Hillary Clinton supporter eight years ago, and maybe
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you feel like I voted a certain way my whole life, and this is
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what I have to do. I'm obligated to do that, and then you
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look at Joe Biden and you go, he can't do the job. Because
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I know people right now that are really they don't want to say it,
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but you can tell that they're thinking it. They're disgusted by it because they
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feel like they hate the original Orange Man. They don't know that the current
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the new Orange Man, can do the job, and they just don't know
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what to do. So again, I don't try to tell you what to
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do. I don't tell you how to vote. I don't That's not my
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job here. I just ask questions and point things out. That's what I
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try to do. And what I want to point out today is it's okay
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if you change your mind. It's okay if you don't vote Democrat for the
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first time ever in your life. It's okay if you put the needs of
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the middle class and the lower class in America ahead of your own needs.
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Your own desire to vote for somebody based on the fact that you hate the
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other person. And I know you get told by you know, folks in
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the Democrat Party. Biden tried to say it, he flubbed through it the
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other night, But they try to tell you that the only thing that Republicans
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and Trump does is try to cut taxes on the rich folks. And the
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reality here right now is the people who are suffering the most with inflation are
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and we've taught we discussed this back when the inflation thing was really coming on.
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So folks that are in the lower class, and there are some people
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in that group that are struggling every day. Okay, they struggle, they're
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just they're working hard, they're to got multiple jobs, are doing everything that
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they could do. They're suffering the most right now. That group is in
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this economy, the people that are getting some assistance from the government, and
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the government's saying we're going to take care of you. You keep voting our
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way and we're going to take care of you. They're still struggling. But
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it's not the same. The people that are trying to do it on their
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own are the ones that are drowning in it. And I'm not saying things
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are great for people that are getting assistants. But if the government is constantly
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helping you out versus the people who aren't taking any help, then you got
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the middle class that maybe things were going pretty well four years ago, five
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years ago, and it's changed drastically for them, And a lot of studies
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are saying it's it's that lower middle class that's suffering right now. It's the
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upper lower class and the lower middle class. But it's okay if you decide
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right now, hey, this is it's time for me to do something for
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them. It's time to do something to help them. Let's get them at
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least as close to back to the way things were five years ago as we
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can, right before COVID, right before all hell broke loose. Let's try
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to get things back on track for them. That's okay. If that's what
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you decide to do, you don't have to feel guilty for it. You
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know, you can go back in four years and go back to the I
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must vote Democrat. You go back to that if that's what you want to
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do, it's okay. This time, it's okay to look at the two
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options and say one side has lied to us about his ability to do the
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job. One side has hidden him for us. Even four years ago they
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were hiding him. So how much, I mean, how much has this
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progressed? I guess in four years? That's what I want to know.
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How much worse is it now than it was then? How bad was it
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four years ago? I guess that's a fair question also to ask. So
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as they're making excuses for him now and telling you things that just are not
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true, just take a deep breath and know you do have options. You
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do what you gotta do. You vote the way that you think you need
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to vote. You vote for what you think is the right thing to do.
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But I'm just telling you right now, if you're just really right there
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on the line, just think about those people that are struggling right now.
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It's an opportunity to try to get the economy somewhere back to something some energy
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forty five hundred O dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after
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the break. My two boys have been telling me that they're seeing a lot
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of campaign ads whenever they are on YouTube trying to watch you know, video
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game videos and things like that. Yeah, they like to I guess,
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get tips and things, and they watch people play certain games or learn about
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new games coming out or whatever. Watching those and they're seeing a lot of
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campaign ads, all Democrat campaign ads, and they were kind of just I
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was getting a feel of what some of the ads were saying, some of
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it really concerning. But they're young, they're not voting. So why those
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ads are running in the particular videos, I don't know, but I guess
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this is about moving things for the future. I suppose I mentioned this because
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some new research from Google that basically talks about where z gets their news from,
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and in they say that it comes from the comment section, basically Google
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saying that young adults trust other people's comments about an article as a reliable source
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of news. How scary is this. Most often they read the headline of
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a news piece and then scroll to the comments where they get a sense of
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the story. If the article's too long, they're not going to read it.
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I don't bother with it at all. The research found that gen Z
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values different perspectives and the interactive nature of the comment sections, preferring them to
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actual news. I suppose this is a byproduct of the fact that a lot
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of the news that we get does come with commentary. I mean, think
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about some of the people that people think of as news anchors, and they're
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not even news anchors aren't necessarily always news anchors. Some of them are.
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But when you have a bias about you, that makes you more like the
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comments of the article. Right, all right, there's gonna be some grilling
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going on tomorrow, maybe some today. I don't know what your Friday,
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whenever you're gonna do your grilling. A new survey says fifty three percent of
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respondents believe that women are the unsung heroes of the grill and aren't getting the
25:18
correct amount of praise that they deserve for their grilling skills. And they say
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it's long been thought of as a man's domain, but not really anymore.
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It says. Half of those surveys said the idea of a grill being male
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dominated is very outdated, and that seventy eight percent said grilling should be just
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as common for women as for men. Hey, I'm all for its hot.
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Standing by the grill. I mean I like to do it. I
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don't grill a lot, but it's hot, so yeah, I mean,
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my wife wants to grill sometimes. If she wants to grill something like pineapple
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or watermelon or vegetables, you could do that. That's not what I'm here
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to do. That's not what I'm here to do at all. I'm just
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kidding. All right, let's talk about money, because we know this big
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discussion right now the economy as we get closer to the election, Inflation,
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all that stuff. So people are trying to have something that they can hold
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on to and maybe be able to retire one day. But the question now
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just kind of from the folks at bank Rate. They did a survey and
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they asked Americans how much they would need to earn every year so that they
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would feel financially secure that year. And apparently the magic number is one hundred
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and eighty six thousand dollars. And that's more than double the average full time
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workers typical salary, which is about seventy nine thousand dollars according to the Census
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Bureau. And they said to feel rich, the average American feels they need
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to earn five hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year so that they would feel
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wealthy. So you're going to be doing it a traveling over this Independence Day
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period, some of the folks at smartertravel dot com have offered some suggestions for
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packing a carry on bag. And I mean this, maybe if you're getting
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ready to fly maybe today, and you're doing this little sort of short trip,
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maybe you're only doing the carry on bag and you're not packing a full
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suitcase, or you know, maybe you do need that carry on bag for
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some of your necessities. Well, a couple of things that they want to
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remind you as you get ready to travel. They say, make sure your
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carry on bag isn't too heavy and that you can actually carry it and lift
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it up in the overhead bin. They say, make sure to check the
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TSA rules pertaining to liquids and restrictions. Of course you got to do that.
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Check the TSA rules about what other items might be banned. They say,
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be aware of the very strict weight limit that you may have to be
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charged for your bag if you go over that limit, and be prepared if
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there's not enough room when you try to put it in the overhead you're going
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to have to prob we check it while you're there on the plane. They
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may have to take it from you, right then and there, and that's
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just what you're going to have to do, so be prepared for all of
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those things. I don't think any of this is new information, but it's
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just a little reminder. Researchers in Greece assembled a bunch of young men and
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they say that these men about the size of warriors back around fifteenth century BC,
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to test some replicas of the battle armor from the Bronze Age. The
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researchers were trying to figure out if the battle armor was actually used in war
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or if it was just ceremonial. The young guys went into a simulated battle,
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pretending they were fighting enemies for eleven hours. The scientists concluded that the
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stuff is the real deal, as real warriors were wearing this stuff in real
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battles and the armor would have been a very advanced piece of military technology for
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the time. How about that. That'll do it for this Wednesday edition of
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