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"The Paradoxical Commandments" (FTTxJT Tue 092926 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders,
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  Speaker 1: we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goal.
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 2: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant.
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  Speaker 4: It's just that they know so much that isn't so.
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  Speaker 3: Joe works at a steel mill.
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  Speaker 5: He's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 4: Drops a kid to school and on the way.
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  Speaker 6: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 7: All the treasures that he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 8: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be your Joe. Thank you for letting me
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: want to touch on before we get too far afield here.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, everything is coming together on a couple of
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  Speaker 3: different levels there. I'm sorry. You know, people don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: There's like, well, Joe's on the air, so we can
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  Speaker 3: just talk to him right now. So apologies. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: not one of those guys who can write one thing
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  Speaker 3: and say another. So if I'm writing and talking at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, they're going to be the same. And
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  Speaker 10: But 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 3: Ellen, I think the line of the morning this morning,
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  Speaker 3: she said, Joe, Do you think these AI bots are
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  Speaker 3: going to demand their own pronouns too? I think we've
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  Speaker 3: think we've already come, we've crossed that Rubicon, Ellen. That's
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  Speaker 3: my kind of AI right there. 434-882-4217. Our first thing,
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  Speaker 3: speaking of AI, NVIDIA unveiled a new security platform designed
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  Speaker 3: to stop artificial intelligence agents from going rogue, saying it
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  Speaker 3: sets boundaries that could have stopped previous breaches. I presume
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  Speaker 3: they mean even the ones that were contracted to be breaches.
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  Speaker 3: An announcement of the company's open agent safety platform. I
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  Speaker 3: see they've hired somebody who writes the bill names for
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. House of Representatives as well to work on
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  Speaker 3: this project. They say it follows a series of revelations, etc., etc. OpenAI, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: said on Monday it is ditching plans to release its
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  Speaker 3: new AI model. GPT 6.1 Astra, which I think could
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  Speaker 3: easily be confused with one of those weight loss shots.
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  Speaker 3: The model was more capable than its predecessor and at
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  Speaker 3: completing challenging tasks. However, it showed a wobbly view of
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  Speaker 3: where boundaries were. Speaking of boundaries, Senate Majority Leader John
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  Speaker 3: Thune of South Dakota said the president may have crossed one. Quote,
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  Speaker 3: was taught a public service announcement was something a broadcaster
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Work to your moms, I came to drop bombs.
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  Speaker 3: I got more rhymes than the Bible's got songs. And
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  Speaker 3: just like the prodigal son.
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  Speaker 9: I've returned.
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  Speaker 16: I came to get down, I came to get down.
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  Speaker 9: So get out your seat.
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  Speaker 3: thank you, sir. How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 20: I mean, you know, Joe, I've been better, but I
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  Speaker 20: think our challenge is to keep everything in perspective. And
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  Speaker 20: I often say, and you've heard me say this, if
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  Speaker 20: I start complaining, I'm probably going to get struck by lightning.
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  Speaker 20: So I guess in the grand scheme, I'm pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: For those who are wondering, I said about half an
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  Speaker 3: hour ago, I was talking about a dear friend, a listener,
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  Speaker 3: a loyal listener, one of the most loyal listeners I've
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  Speaker 3: ever had passed away. over the weekend. One of the
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  Speaker 3: things she did as a loyal listener is introduce me
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  Speaker 3: to her son, who coincidentally happens to be on the
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  Speaker 3: phone with us right now. And he's been in all
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  Speaker 3: sorts of manners of repute since then. So I hope
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  Speaker 3: you are all doing well and hanging in there. And
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  Speaker 3: it seems like, anyway, you are doing what we all
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  Speaker 3: should do when we lose someone, which is celebrate the
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  Speaker 3: life had, not the the loss of their companionship.
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  Speaker 20: You know, when you get to go on that amazing
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  Speaker 20: Disney World vacation for two whole weeks, if you end
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  Speaker 20: the vacation by complaining that it's over instead of being
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  Speaker 20: grateful that you got to.
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  Speaker 10: Go, you're probably doing it wrong. So, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 20: Mean, she really likes you, but there's no accounting for taste.
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  Speaker 10: You've always said that.
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  Speaker 3: You've always said that, so. You know, maybe it's my
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  Speaker 3: white privilege, but I know you actually made a beautiful post.
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  Speaker 3: And actually, if you had understandably said, hey, listen, this
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  Speaker 3: is kind of fresh in my world, I was going
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  Speaker 3: to air your piece that you posted on social media
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  Speaker 3: about your mom and these existential facts, these truisms that
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  Speaker 3: she taught you, which I thought were brilliant in the
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  Speaker 3: first place. Now I understand you a little bit better.
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  Speaker 20: Well, I– so we talked off air, and if the
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  Speaker 20: on-air segment is as good as the off-air segment, it
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  Speaker 20: would probably be a pretty good segment. So what I
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  Speaker 20: think is that every great lie is steeped in some
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  Speaker 20: scintilla of truth, and we live in a world now
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  Speaker 20: where critical theory has really taken over our educational practices.
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  Speaker 20: And the scintilla of truth behind critical theory is that
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  Speaker 20: indeed some people through no– Nothing they've done are subject
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  Speaker 20: to greater opportunity and fortune than others by virtue of circumstance, right?
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  Speaker 10: It's a mathematical thing that we don't have a say in.
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  Speaker 20: But they've now taken that scintilla of truth and created
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  Speaker 20: the lie of critical theory where they say that's because
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  Speaker 20: you're white or that's because you're a man or that's
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  Speaker 20: because this, that, or the other. Look, privilege is absolutely
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  Speaker 20: positively real. I have really in the last 10 or
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  Speaker 20: 15 years and mostly, so eight and a half years,
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  Speaker 20: Become immensely grateful for my circumstance that, you know, I
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  Speaker 20: had parent privilege and it's a very real thing. My
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  Speaker 20: father was spectacular. I talk about him all the time.
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  Speaker 20: We lost him December 13th, 2011. I remember it like
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  Speaker 20: it was yesterday. We lost mama September 25th, 2026. And
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  Speaker 20: I imagine that in some period of time, I'll remember
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  Speaker 20: that very vividly as well. I was blessed to be
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  Speaker 20: with both of them when they passed, which is horrible
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  Speaker 20: and also like exactly what you would hope for. um
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  Speaker 20: but man they were so wise and if i have
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  Speaker 20: any sort of wisdom it's probably a result of that
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  Speaker 20: privilege of having been born in this country with them
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  Speaker 20: as my parents and so yeah um there's a there's
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  Speaker 20: a thing that dr kent keith wrote as a college
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  Speaker 20: student on um what he called the paradoxical commandments and
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  Speaker 20: it was really the embodiment of the encouragement that i
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  Speaker 20: got from my mom and so So I read that and,
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  Speaker 20: you know, and here's the thing, right? There's this poster
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  Speaker 20: that you see, you know, in college freshman girls' dorm
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  Speaker 20: rooms that says, you know, if a butterfly flaps its
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  Speaker 20: wings and moves the water, which bends a blade of grass,
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  Speaker 20: et cetera. And, you know, it's about that attenuated, that
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  Speaker 20: distant impact that you might have that might still change
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  Speaker 20: the world. But it's so true, right? So if I
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  Speaker 20: had great parents and my parents gave me some wisdom
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  Speaker 20: that maybe others weren't lucky enough to get, then how
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  Speaker 20: can I honor my parents except maybe share some of
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  Speaker 20: the things.
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  Speaker 10: That I think my parents were right about? So that was,
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  Speaker 10: that's it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, do you want, or should we just send
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  Speaker 3: folks to the social media platform to hear?
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  Speaker 20: No, I mean, look, I mean, I'm a social media
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  Speaker 20: person because that's how we message in the 21st century.
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  Speaker 20: I don't like social media. I'd love to read them.
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  Speaker 20: I'd be grateful to read them. And this is for
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  Speaker 20: my mama. And this is the sort of stuff that
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  Speaker 20: I got on the long car ride to school or
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  Speaker 20: at the dinner table on Sunday evenings or, And so
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  Speaker 20: here we go.
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  Speaker 10: Dr.
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  Speaker 20: Kent Keith wrote these in 1968 as a student, I believe.
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  Speaker 10: They're remarkable. And you can get the book by Dr.
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  Speaker 20: Kent Keith, and I would commend it. So the first commandment,
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  Speaker 20: people are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. Number two,
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  Speaker 20: if you do good, people will accuse you of selfish
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  Speaker 20: ulterior motives. Do good anyway. Number three, if you're successful,
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  Speaker 20: you'll win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. Number four,
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  Speaker 20: the good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
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  Speaker 10: Do good anyway.
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  Speaker 20: Number five, honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable. Be
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  Speaker 20: honest and frank anyway. Number six, the biggest men and
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  Speaker 20: women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by
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  Speaker 20: the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think
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  Speaker 20: big anyway. Number seven, people favor underdogs, but follow only
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  Speaker 20: the top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. Number eight,
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  Speaker 20: what you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
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  Speaker 10: Build anyway.
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  Speaker 20: Number nine, people really need help, but they may attack
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  Speaker 20: you if you do help them.
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  Speaker 10: Help yourself.
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  Speaker 20: Anyway and number 10 give the world the best you
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  Speaker 20: have and you'll get kicked in the teeth give the
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  Speaker 20: world the best.
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  Speaker 10: You have anyway and um.
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  Speaker 20: You know, I mean, I'm so I'm so lucky because
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  Speaker 20: that is. And of course, when you're 14, you roll
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  Speaker 20: your eyes and when you're 20, you know everything. One
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  Speaker 20: of my mom's favorite expressions, one of my mom's favorite
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  Speaker 20: expressions taken from the Pennsylvania Dutch is too soon old,
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  Speaker 10: Yes. You know, wisdom is wasted on the elderly, isn't it?
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, it's I mean, there's sort of legendary comments in
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  Speaker 2: We've cut the cost of radio listening by, hell, it
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  Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 18: Hi.
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  Speaker 16: Wait, what?
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  Speaker 3: It's the way it rolls. I was thinking about privilege
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: after our chat with Tom there, and I've faced it.
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  Speaker 3: Our flagship city was for a while the cartoon caricature
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: of the Ibram Kendi movement. I even was invited to
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  Speaker 3: participate in a publicity video, which I'm sure Ibram Kendi
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: paid for on Gayle King's program. They sent Ibram Kendi
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  Speaker 3: to Charlottesville the year after the riots here. And it
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: was me and, ironically, the police chief who has been
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: investigating the staged hanging down in Mississippi. Rochelle Brackney and
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: a bunch of folks from the community. various levels, political leaders,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: faith leaders, that kind of thing. And I wound up
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: being the only one pressing back on the idea that
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: simply because of the color of your skin, you're a racist.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: And I believe I told Kendi the story. I said, dude,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Hawk Newsome, the president of Black Lives Matter, interceded on
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: my behalf with the phrase, no, he's cool, right before
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I started to have a fistfight with some 20-year-old that
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: was there with him. And he believed me racist simply
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: because of the color of my skin. And Hawk Newsome
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: saw past it. So why doesn't anyone else? And it
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: doesn't excuse what went on before. And there was a
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: very prescient, and we talk about Jefferson a lot around here,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: but Jefferson warned. And Lincoln, say what you will about Lincoln,
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Lincoln was a Jeffersonian scholar. He understood that the freed
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: slaves were going to need protection over their accessing and
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: creating of a new economy. And we failed at that.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: He was killed before it happened. He was killed by
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: the people who were afraid because they were told by
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  Speaker 3: people they trusted that the 40 acres and a mule
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  Speaker 3: were going to come from them, not somewhere else. And
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: so they killed him. And just like the Great Society,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: in comes a president named Johnson, and that's what he
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  Speaker 3: gave the black community. And I've told you this with pith.
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  Speaker 3: in the past, if you ever in your life are,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't care if it's Mike Johnson or
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Navin Johnson or Howard Johnson, if somebody is running for
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: president named Johnson, our track record is not good for
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: the black community. Because both Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: single-handedly in those two presidencies did more damage to the
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: black community than than had been done prior to emancipation even.
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  Speaker 3: And then you start to get into, you know, the
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Black Wall Street and the riots there and the torching
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: of black prosperity there. You get into the Jim Crow laws,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: but then beyond just the local laws, you start to
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: get into the Permanent Reapportionment Act of 1929. which was
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: designed to keep black communities from having more Congress people.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: And these were all done by the Democratic Party. Can
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: we agree to at least undo these things that were
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: done simply because they wanted to keep the black community down?
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: How about that? How about that? You want to talk
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: about reparations and all that stuff. I want legislative reparations.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: All of these laws, all of these things, why I
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: found out, and we've talked another sadly ignominious bit of
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: our past as we were also the home of Buck
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: versus Bell, very infamous Supreme Court decision in which my
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: home state's ability to sterilize black women because they were
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: on public assistance. I mean, technically, anyone who was on
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: public assistance for too long was going to get sterilized.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: The law didn't say just black women. But here was
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: the issue is because of the other Jim Crow laws,
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: lots of black women needed to be on public assistance.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: So it see how one sets up the other. that
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: you wind up with lots of black women on public
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: assistance and therefore you can sterilize them because the law
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: said so. And Oliver Wendell Holmes himself said, sure, that
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: sounds fine. That sounds constitutional for all you zealots that
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: believe the Supreme Court can do no wrong. Read the
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Buck versus Bell decision. And part of the reason wasn't
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: because Oliver Wendell Holmes was an idiot or a racist
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: or whatever. It was how the case was brought. It
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: was the cunning lawyers down the pipe upstream from the
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Supreme Court ruling that said, let's make it about the process.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Let's make it a states' rights issue.
• 34:38
  Speaker 10: Hold it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: That sounds familiar.
• 34:40
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Is the host going to bring up the SAVE Act
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: and somehow try to compare it to Buck versus Bell?
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: And you can get out your keyboards, get out your
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: smartphones and start complaining about this. But because the lawyers
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: for the Commonwealth of Virginia argued Buck versus Bell, not
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: on the not on the premise, is it constitutional that
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: a state mandatorily sterilize their citizens? No, no, no, no.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: The argument was, it's a state's rights issue. And that's
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: where Oliver Wendell Holmes came down and said, well, yeah,
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, it kind of is. And that's how they
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: got their ruling in favor of sterilizing. But I discovered,
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: that it was, I think, the early 90s, 1990s, before
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: they actually repealed that law. It was still on the books.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: And a Democrat saw it and said, do you realize
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: this is still technically the law? And so he repealed it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Thank God. What a horrific thing. You want to talk
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: about slow-moving genocide. Real, you know, not this imagined stuff
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: that they come up with. And this feeds back into
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: what we were saying earlier in the program. We have
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: to stop because that's what they wanted, the authoritarian, racist
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: leaders of the slave-owning South wanted the citizens to vote
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: for them so that they would protect them. We need
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: to unprotect ourselves from the government. We need to be
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: the people who will stand up and say, no, no, no, no,
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: we'll fight abortion on ourselves, on our own. Just don't
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: have laws that make it impossible. We'll provide health care
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: on our own. Just don't have laws that make it impossible.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: We'll make jobs on our own. Just don't create laws
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: that make it impossible. Because that's where we are. This
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: is why Donald Trump needed to have the Indian Steel
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Company in the Oval Office... announcing that they were going
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: to build a steel factory. Why is that anything the
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: president of the United States needs to be involved in
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: if it's not for the fact that we have built
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: up so many laws and so many regulations that would
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: have stopped that steel factory from being built in the
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: first place?
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Mark Falter with the Financial Fitness Show. Have
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  Speaker 19: is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 16: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
• 42:55
  Speaker 16: first date?
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  Speaker 6: Sure. We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 5: Probably?
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 3: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 19: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, don't tell me what to do.
• 43:09
  Speaker 19: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 10: Cramp!
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 20: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 7: Probably.
• 43:24
  Speaker 20: Can I get a mulligan?
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 15: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
• 43:29
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm pretty sober.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
• 43:35
  Speaker 19: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
• 43:39
  Speaker 19: and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
• 43:42
  Speaker 19: or a friend. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. A message
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  Speaker 19: brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
• 43:48
  Speaker 16: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
• 43:50
  Speaker 16: also know this law protects teens. Find out more at DontServeTeens.gov.
• 43:56
  Speaker 16: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
• 43:58
  Speaker 16: the Federal Trade Commission.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: We could tell you what 6-7 means. Where's the fun
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: in that? First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 20: And history.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Gene writes in to 434-882-4217, so I see what you're
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: getting at when you say we're not going to fight
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: a new civil war, we're just going to fight the
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: old one all over again. It's the same, this is where,
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: what is it, the expression we like to use, history
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. When we point out
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: that the Third Reich... Arguably not a group you want
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: to be associated with, right? Reich?
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Reich.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: The Third Reich, when sitting down to come up with
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: the legislation that had to become the final solution, said, okay,
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: we need laws. We need to have that gives us
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: permission to do the things we're going to do. Let's
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: see what the Americans did to write laws to get
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: rid of the black population. And what they did, almost literally,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: was take our Jim Crow laws from all the different
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: states and all the different places in the... post-Reconstruction South,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: took those laws, scratched out the word Negro, and wrote
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: in the word Jew. I'm sorry. So why would we
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: want to do these things? That's the question. Why do
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: you defend these kind of people? 434-882-4217 is the phone number.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: These are the Dudley do-rights who are out there saying,
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: vote for me and I will fix things for you.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: This is what you get when you ask the government
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: to fix things for you. Dr. Clark is on the line.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Thanks for hanging, Dr.
• 46:47
  Speaker 11: Clark.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: What's on your mind, sir?
• 46:50
  Speaker 9: Well, let's talk about the reduced participation or the lower
• 46:54
  Speaker 9: turnout with the easier it is to vote.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 46:57
  Speaker 9: I think there's Three things come immediately to mind. One,
• 47:01
  Speaker 9: just election integrity. 2020 could not have been more blatantly stolen.
• 47:07
  Speaker 10: Sure. And it's been six years.
• 47:11
  Speaker 9: And as far as I can tell, absolutely no consequences
• 47:15
  Speaker 9: so far.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, let's see.
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: What do we have? Crossfire, hurricane, et cetera, et cetera.
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: No consequences there. That's got to diminish. Faith and confidence
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: in a system. Why would I participate if this is
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: the way things are going to be? It's got to
• 47:33
  Speaker 9: be what a lot of people think. Then you have messaging.
• 47:35
  Speaker 9: You know, there's constant messaging from the left. It's about
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: all lies, but they never stop messaging. The right, there's
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: not a whole lot of messaging going on from the
• 47:51
  Speaker 9: political right. And then lastly is delivery. And I got
• 47:57
  Speaker 9: to give them credit. The Democrats never disappoint. They promise
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: to take the country to hell, and they do everything
• 48:03
  Speaker 9: in their power to deliver on that.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: And they tell you you should like it, too. And
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: by the way, messaging on the right, one of the
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: reasons is this reaction to the Trump ads. So a
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: lot of conservatives don't want to message on what they've
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: accomplished because they don't want to have to deal with
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: some anchor saying, well, if you've done this, explain this,
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: and they'll make some leap of premise that, you know,
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: will try to, all designed to make you look bad.
• 48:36
  Speaker 9: Does the left control the mainstream media? Yes, they do.
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: They have total control of.
• 48:43
  Speaker 10: The mainstream media.
• 48:45
  Speaker 9: Can they win elections without cheating in spite of that control? No,
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: they can't. So, We're just going to have to get
• 48:53
  Speaker 9: up off of that excuse and look down between our
• 48:57
  Speaker 9: legs and get some intestinal fortitude and go ahead and
• 49:02
  Speaker 9: say what's what.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: This is true.
• 49:07
  Speaker 9: If I go out and say these things, the media
• 49:09
  Speaker 9: is going to come after me. Yeah, well, you probably
• 49:11
  Speaker 9: don't need to be our politicians then.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: I want to make this point about the media's reaction
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: to the Trump ads, by the way. He talks about
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: going after socialism, getting rid of Marxism. Notice how they're
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: not complaining about that. Notice how they're not debunking the
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: fact that President Trump has had to go after Marxism
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: and socialism as it marches through the country trying to
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: keep us from becoming servants or politicians. farmers or whatever.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: They're going after whether or not taxpayer dollars were spent
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: on these ads. They're not talking about the content of
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: the ads, which I think is an important point.
• 49:53
  Speaker 9: Well, what would be more important for American taxpayer dollars
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: to be spent on besides retarding Marxism?
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: I can't think of anything. Well, I thought it started retarded,
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: but anyway.
• 50:04
  Speaker 9: So, Is Trump on the ballot this election cycle?
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: No, he's not. Well, he says he is. Is that
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: going to affect turnout? Well, he wants to be.
• 50:15
  Speaker 9: He needs to make it about him. And why does he.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Need to do that, Joe? Why is it.
• 50:19
  Speaker 9: Crucial that people think the Trump agenda is on the ballot?
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Well, because not only will it be derailed by a House,
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: it will be removed from office by a Senate. As
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: soon as they're impeached, if they lose control of the
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: House and Senate, Not only will Donald Trump be impeached,
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: he will be voted out of office by the Senate.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: He will be convicted of said impeachment. What you say
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: is true.
• 50:45
  Speaker 9: What you say is true. But the real reason that
• 50:48
  Speaker 9: it's crucial that it appeared that Donald Trump is on
• 50:52
  Speaker 9: the ballot is because people will turn out to vote
• 50:56
  Speaker 9: if Donald Trump is on the ballot. This is also
• 50:58
  Speaker 9: not the case. This is not the case. for the
• 51:02
  Speaker 9: rest of Republican politicians. And why is that? Because Donald
• 51:06
  Speaker 9: Trump makes promises and does his level best to deliver
• 51:11
  Speaker 9: on them. And we do not see or perceive that
• 51:15
  Speaker 9: from the remainder of the Republicans. Like I say, the
• 51:18
  Speaker 9: Democrats promise to take the country to hell. They do
• 51:21
  Speaker 9: everything in.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: Their power to do it.
• 51:23
  Speaker 9: And the Republicans, squishy don't get it.
• 51:27
  Speaker 10: Go read your Bible.
• 51:29
  Speaker 9: Lukewarm will get spit out.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: Lukewarm is not one of the books of the Bible.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: Last point, though, Dr. Clark, in defense of the Republicans,
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: they did protect college athletics from, well, college athletics. So
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: there's that.
• 51:47
  Speaker 9: No.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: War Eagle. I'll talk to you later.
• 51:52
  Speaker 9: I guess we get daylight savings time, but not the
• 51:54
  Speaker 9: Save Act. So I'm not impressed.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Daylight Save Act. Maybe we can put them both together
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: and get a vote on it.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: This is the final battle.
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state.
• 52:07
  Speaker 18: We will expel the warmongers from our government.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: We will drive out the globalists.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists.
• 52:15
  Speaker 9: We will throw off the sick political class that hates
• 52:18
  Speaker 9: our country. We will rout the fake news media, and.
• 52:22
  Speaker 18: We will liberate America from these villains.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: Once and for all. That is the ad that has
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: them all upset because it says paid for by the U.S. government.
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: and the administration's defense is Obama ran one about Obamacare,
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: Biden ran one about COVID, which I think might have
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: been a mistake anyway. You tell me. Time for us
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: to go. Until tomorrow, so long, and thanks for all
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: the fish.
• 52:54
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