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"Really? All the President's?" (Monday, February 16, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Chris First thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas. First, I think you really don't like it,
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  Speaker 1: The second most famous Thomas and Sherlot's man Jewort.
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  Speaker 2: Said, steal mere stem a day at least for work.
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  Speaker 2: When the sun comes up, drops a pet of the
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  Speaker 2: school of Joey has everything a gender, all the treasures,
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  Speaker 2: needs no wonder Joe Zalis smile.
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  Speaker 3: He only is.
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  Speaker 4: Habby President's Day or almost President's Day. And we have
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  Speaker 4: the rest of that clip that's from the Munich conference
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  Speaker 4: over the weekend, at a panel that I'm not even
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  Speaker 4: sure why unless the Clinton Foundation paid for. It's starring
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  Speaker 4: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview with
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  Speaker 4: Czech Leadership.
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  Speaker 5: First, I think you really don't like.
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  Speaker 4: Him talking about Trump.
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  Speaker 6: You know that is absolutely true, But I really not
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  Speaker 6: only do I not like him, I don't like him
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  Speaker 6: because of what he's doing to the United States and
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  Speaker 6: the world.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, which is like lifting all of the regulations that
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  Speaker 4: made me and my husband tons of money over the time.
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  Speaker 4: Would that be a fair statement? Secretary Clinton? When I
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  Speaker 4: saw I said, why is she here? What is it?
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  Speaker 4: And it's the Clinton Family Foundation. It's you have to
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  Speaker 4: be there This is about, you know, the contributors. It's
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  Speaker 4: about the money. It's about the money changers. Remember the
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  Speaker 4: guy you know, showed up at the temple and found
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  Speaker 4: the money changers were selling indulgences around hard fast law
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  Speaker 4: got kind of upset, started tossing tables around, busting the
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  Speaker 4: place up. You've heard this story, right, Yeah, I'm not
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  Speaker 4: telling you anything you haven't heard before. But anyway, that's
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  Speaker 4: from the Munich and Marco Rubio's speech was stellar as well.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get into that controversy in the Olympics, I guess,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, curling had to be a thing. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sure how curling became the source of controversy. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you remember the old days when the controversies and the
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  Speaker 4: Olympics were about you know, the East German swim team
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  Speaker 4: and how they all seemed very masculine. I mean, nowadays
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  Speaker 4: that's not even a thing anymore. Now that's well, you
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  Speaker 4: can't say anything about that because that's that's shaming or
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  Speaker 4: something along those And on that Transoke trans Woke Highway,
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  Speaker 4: the guy who played the villain and Silence of the
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  Speaker 4: Lambs has denounced the movie because the trans community says
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  Speaker 4: it makes them look bad, makes them look like I
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  Speaker 4: guess serial killers. I don't know. I wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 4: be depicted as the bad guy in a Hannibal Lecter
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  Speaker 4: movie either. Anyway, onto our first things. As we begin
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  Speaker 4: this President's Day, Ukrainian drone strikes ignited fires at a
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  Speaker 4: black Sea port just before talks beginning were set to
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  Speaker 4: begin to end the four year old war. Meanwhile, drones
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  Speaker 4: being shot out of the sky actually damaged some of
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  Speaker 4: the transport infrastructure, roads and such around the Odessa region,
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  Speaker 4: causing power outages. Oscar Erickson of Sweden accused Canada's Mark
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  Speaker 4: Kennedy of breaking the curling rules apparently touched the rock twice. Seriously,
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  Speaker 4: that's the infraction. After releasing the stone to go down
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  Speaker 4: the ice, apparently they touched it again a second time,
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  Speaker 4: and then Britain was accused of the same double touching.
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  Speaker 4: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in the Hungarian
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  Speaker 4: capital to meet with Victor Orbon who's facing a contentious
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  Speaker 4: re election campaign heavily funded to want to undo the
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  Speaker 4: leader of Hungary and his relationship with Donald Trump. A
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  Speaker 4: glove containing DNA found two miles from the House of
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  Speaker 4: Savannah Guthrie's mother appears to match those worn by the
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  Speaker 4: masked person seen on video front door doorbell camera on
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  Speaker 4: the night she vanished. Mike Lee is calling for or
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  Speaker 4: the Senate to quote rip off the Zombie filibuster next week,
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  Speaker 4: Save America Act, the election integrity bill that would require
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  Speaker 4: travel across the US was disrupted several times over the
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  Speaker 4: weekend as funding lapses at DHFS left to delays at
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  Speaker 1: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today?
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  Speaker 4: Who is who is behind the door? And why why
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  Speaker 4: are they behind the door. Why aren't they out in
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  Speaker 4: front of the door. Why aren't they standing in front
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  Speaker 4: of you telling you what you're doing? These are the
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  Speaker 4: questions that burn and itch and appreciate all the folks
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  Speaker 4: who may or may not be picking up the show
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  Speaker 4: because of holidays. And that's okay, President's Day. You know
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  Speaker 4: it's funny. Over this weekend, you hear a lot about
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  Speaker 4: Valentine's Day, and I'm sure you've got some curmudgeonally souls
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  Speaker 4: in your world that don't know the story of Saint Valentine,
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  Speaker 4: and they call it a made up holiday. Today this
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  Speaker 4: is the made up holiday President's Day. For some reason,
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  Speaker 4: it became problematic to have George Washington and Abraham Lincoln's
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  Speaker 4: birthday be holidays, as if the two of them didn't
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  Speaker 4: deserve such notability. They're like some name on a school
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  Speaker 4: from somebody who didn't do enough during the forties and
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  Speaker 4: fifties to fight racism. So we've got to cancel them.
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  Speaker 4: And they were original cancelations. Washington and Lincoln. We had
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  Speaker 4: birthday celebrations for each and then, and as I warned
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  Speaker 4: people about three day weekends, if you have something and
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  Speaker 4: you want to honor it, don't give it a three
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  Speaker 4: day weekend, because as soon as you do, it begins
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  Speaker 4: the process of cheapening it, weakening it, and eventually eliminating it.
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  Speaker 4: And Lincoln in Washington's birthday were some of the first
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  Speaker 4: examples of it turned into a three day weekend each
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  Speaker 4: and then you know it's like, well, it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: every other week there's a three day weekend. And there
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  Speaker 4: was all the common sense leadership saying now, maybe we
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't have and then all of a sudden they were gone.
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  Speaker 4: And now we're celebrating all presidents as if that branch
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  Speaker 4: of the triumvirent that makes up the American government is
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  Speaker 4: somehow more important than the other ones. We will have
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  Speaker 4: a holiday for the presidents like James Buchanan and Rutherford B. Hayes,
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  Speaker 4: Gerald Ford, them all holidays. Would you have a three
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  Speaker 4: day weekend to celebrate Gerald Ford's birthday or Jimmy Carter's
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  Speaker 4: depending on your partisanship, Richard Nixon get a holiday? I'm
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  Speaker 4: asking you because it's what we're told. It's presidency. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: onwards and upwards. Who is behind the door. Many of
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  Speaker 4: my friends started emailing me on Sunday, livid, livid because
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  Speaker 4: there were ads running all through the Olympics and number
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  Speaker 4: one notability. A lot of folks in my audience watching
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  Speaker 4: the Olympic Games over the Okay, what's your take on
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  Speaker 4: the controversial cheaters amongst the Canadian curling team. If I
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  Speaker 4: was the International Curling Organization's leadership, I'd be happier in
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  Speaker 4: the clam right now, all this coverage you never hear
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  Speaker 4: about curling during the Olympics. It's the two am sport.
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  Speaker 4: It's a well, we got to show some of it.
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  Speaker 4: Put it on at two am during the you know,
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  Speaker 4: live time. So he's curling those It was when the
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  Speaker 4: guy you know did the marksmanship and he didn't aim,
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  Speaker 4: he didn't have any special gets it, pulled out his
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  Speaker 4: gun and just started shooting freehand. That kids coverage in
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  Speaker 4: the Olympics when the curlers are touching their stone too
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  Speaker 4: many times. You know, maybe it's the inner middle schooler
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  Speaker 4: in all of us that draw our attention to he
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  Speaker 4: touched his stone too many times? What's going on with curlers?
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  Speaker 4: But while many of my listeners were watching the Olympics,
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  Speaker 4: they were inundated with Adsteners who live in the Commonwealth
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  Speaker 4: of Virginia ads promoting vote Yes. April twenty first, Virginians
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  Speaker 4: for Fair Elections paid for this ad. Virginians for Fair
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  Speaker 4: Elections mysteriously has five million dollars to buy ads. Just
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  Speaker 4: this weekend spent two point seven million dollars on advertising
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  Speaker 4: in Washington, D C. And Norfolk and Richmond, all the
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  Speaker 4: TV markets Lynchburg. Big money was made by TV stations.
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  Speaker 4: But where did it come from? And here's the second part.
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  Speaker 4: I've made the case that Virginia's new state fish should
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  Speaker 4: be the catfish, especially in light of how Governor Spanberger
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  Speaker 4: didn't tell us all the things she wanted to do
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  Speaker 4: when she became governor, nor did the General Assembly members
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  Speaker 4: tell you what they wanted to do they were running
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  Speaker 4: back in twenty twenty five. But now the catfish has
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  Speaker 4: even gone to television. Because if you search, if you
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  Speaker 4: Google search the Virginians for Fair Elections, do you know
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  Speaker 4: what comes up? Virginia's Fair Elections. Virginia's Fair Elections is
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  Speaker 4: a group led by folks like me, And I was
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  Speaker 4: a little annoyed that groups that I am participant in
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  Speaker 4: are somehow in this group, and guilty as charge, I
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  Speaker 4: was not necessarily able to spend a ton of time.
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  Speaker 4: But vafair Elections dot org is the first website that
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  Speaker 4: comes up if you ask our friends at alphabet who
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  Speaker 4: this is. This group is Virginians for Fair Elections. So
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  Speaker 4: you click on there and the website starts and here's
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  Speaker 4: Ken Coochinelli and the Virginia Institute for Public Policy and
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  Speaker 4: all of these groups. So I'm getting phone calls from
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  Speaker 4: people saying, what the hell are you doing? Joe? I
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  Speaker 4: thought you were part of the Election Integrity Network and
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  Speaker 4: there's Heritage Action. This is another deal with this guy
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  Speaker 4: Kevin Roberts, right and the Virginia Voters Alliance. Isn't that
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  Speaker 4: the Virginia Institute for Public Policy. What are you playing at, Joe?
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  Speaker 4: Why are you involved with these people who are saying
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  Speaker 4: vote yes? And I've had to correctify saying Virginia Fair
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  Speaker 4: Elections via fair Elections dot org is not the same group.
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  Speaker 4: But they smartly picked a website and they don't have one.
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  Speaker 4: You go search for them, they don't have a website
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  Speaker 4: to go to, so you can't find them. So automatically
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  Speaker 4: they knew how to play Google Analytics, smart, devious, and
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  Speaker 4: the group that gave them the five million dollars is
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  Speaker 4: called the House Majority Forward, who used words like forward
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  Speaker 4: in their campaigns. The Clinton's Hillary Yes, Hillary's campaign was forward.
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  Speaker 4: It's part of the House Majority pack and will peel
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  Speaker 4: apart those folks. But for all the folks who have
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  Speaker 4: been in my inbox and on my telephone this weekend,
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  Speaker 4: you got catfished again by a smart group who made
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  Speaker 4: a web address and named their organization close enough.
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  Speaker 4: So this dark money group is Forward Group is developed
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  Speaker 4: five million dollars to buy all the airtime in the
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  Speaker 4: of Virginia over the redistricting vote is part of the
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  Speaker 4: And this is why I was getting torched yesterday. But
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  Speaker 4: And this is the dark magic behind this dark money.
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  Speaker 4: million dollars just laying around waiting to buy a whole
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  Speaker 4: hundred and twenty one million dollars they've raised has been
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  Speaker 4: million dollars laying around because conservatives don't give like that.
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  Speaker 4: donors want to screw this and they have and they haven't.
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  Speaker 4: said no, I'm done. It's vote suppression. That's what they're supporting.
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  Speaker 4: And this is the dark kind of vote suppression, which
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  Speaker 4: I'll say, show me yours. But the theory that I
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  Speaker 4: work off of is that we believe our answers are
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  Speaker 4: so buttoned down that we shouldn't need to have one
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: hundred and twenty one million dollars just laying in the
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: bank to buy ads saying hey, being free is good,
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: and that's a little bit of our problem, because it
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  Speaker 4: is worth our time and our treasure to battle this stuff,
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: and we just wait, We wait until the issue of
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  Speaker 4: rears its ugly head, and then we try to scramble
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  Speaker 4: around and raise the money to oppose it, and some
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  Speaker 4: of it. You know, Mark, not to slag on my
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  Speaker 4: own industry. The success of people like Rush Limbaugh and
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  Speaker 4: Joe Thomas in the morning, notice how he slided myself
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: into that lose. But the success of conservative leaning talk radio,
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: I think leads people to think we've got this, which
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: is funny because we are but like one percent of
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: all amassed media, and yet we still manage to be
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: seen as a great day jury to democratsy in America. Anyway,
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: it sounded like doctor Clark on the line with us
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  Speaker 4: at four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  Speaker 4: What's your theory as to why Republicans don't have a
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  Speaker 4: one one hundred and twenty one million dollar ward chest
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  Speaker 4: just waiting around for an issue to pop up?
• 47:18
  Speaker 23: I want to Jinsaki around to that. So, okay, the
• 47:22
  Speaker 23: fair elections, Joe. I did not know this until you
• 47:26
  Speaker 23: started talking about it and I looked. But you can
• 47:30
  Speaker 23: go to your search engine and put in nineteen eighty
• 47:34
  Speaker 23: four news Speak translator and you can type in anything
• 47:41
  Speaker 23: you want and it will tell you what they mean.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting.
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  Speaker 23: I know that I didn't either. I just wanted to
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  Speaker 23: make sure I had news Speak right. And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 23: so fair elections, that's good thing, elections, Joe. And uh,
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  Speaker 23: you know, here's the thing. There was no love at
• 48:03
  Speaker 23: the Ministry of Love. There was no truth at the
• 48:05
  Speaker 23: Ministry of truth, and there will be no fairness if
• 48:09
  Speaker 23: y'all get chairry elections. And that's the way that is. Now,
• 48:14
  Speaker 23: let's move on from orwell to the Cohen brothers. You
• 48:18
  Speaker 23: remember raising Arizona, will Neville and Gail were robbing the
• 48:24
  Speaker 23: Hase Bank. Yeah, vague using code name, right, you just
• 48:32
  Speaker 23: have to recognize that Chairy elections is a code name. Now,
• 48:38
  Speaker 23: how come Republicans aren't sitting on piles of cash to
• 48:43
  Speaker 23: spend on ads like the Democrats are? Because Joe Conservative
• 48:49
  Speaker 23: donors are folks like you and I that can afford
• 48:52
  Speaker 23: to give what we can afford to give. What is
• 48:56
  Speaker 23: Acblue all about? They take billionaire and try to make
• 49:02
  Speaker 23: it look like it came from regular volks. They smurf it. Okay,
• 49:07
  Speaker 23: now here's the thing. If you vote yes for fair elections,
• 49:14
  Speaker 23: you're just doing Blowfell's bidding. If you want to go
• 49:19
  Speaker 23: along with the would be billionaire bond billions that want
• 49:22
  Speaker 23: a global domination deal, go ahead and vote for it.
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  Speaker 4: It's what you're doing. But so, what they're basically trying
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: to do is disenfranchise and and then there's a subtext
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: to it. They've also introduced legislation to join in the
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: National Popular Vote Compact, which which would abdicate any importance.
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: Virginia would have it all or Ohio or Washington or
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: Arizona or Alabama because we are flyover country. National Popular
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: Vote Common Pact is should be called the Flyover State
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: Elimination Act, so that we could just ask New York, Chicago,
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: and LA who they think should be president and they'll
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: tell us and you'll get the predictable results of that.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: So these two abdications, and they're so racially biased as well.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I wish people would be hammering on that
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  Speaker 4: as well, that they're trying to eliminate the black voices,
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  Speaker 4: just like they did in nineteen twenty nine.
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  Speaker 23: Yes, so think about what they're saying in essence here, Joe,
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  Speaker 23: your state representatives, the people that represent the people of
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  Speaker 23: your state. Uh huh, are saying, we don't really care
• 50:48
  Speaker 23: how the people in our state vote.
• 50:51
  Speaker 24: We want to go along with what everybody else does.
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  Speaker 24: Wait what, I don't want my vote to be heard.
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  Speaker 24: I want I want to be part of the big group.
• 51:02
  Speaker 24: I want to I want to be different just like
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  Speaker 24: everyone else. We don't need a voice.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: There's a there's a great Sandra Boynton cartoon. It's a
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: whole ice flow of penguins and uh and uh. One
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: of them has like a yellow crest and all the
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: other ones are just black and white and the and
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: the and the caption is be different, just like everyone else.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: And uh, you know that's the message is, you know,
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: shut up, sit down and join the big group and
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: pat yourself on the back because of your quote patriotism
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: whatever that would mean to somebody on the left. And
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: they use the terms they they they manipulate, they'll call
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: it patriotic. They will say it's free and fair elections
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: and and don't don't don't fall for the gerrymandering and
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: all of this and put the voice back in Virginia.
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: I listened to one of one of these people offending it,
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: saying we should have our elective officials choosing the maps.
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: We voted for those elected officials, So we want our
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: elected officials choosing their districts, not some some shadowy group
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  Speaker 4: of judges that nobody had any say. And it is
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  Speaker 4: crazy the gas lighting that has gone on, Clark.
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  Speaker 23: There's a lot of gas lighting.
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there is one more thing, real, Quie.
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  Speaker 23: You know, I'm doing the whole tree thing right now,
• 52:28
  Speaker 23: so I'm learning to prune.
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: Hang on, hang on to that thought. One second. You
• 52:32
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