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Protecting Federal Elections - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Just shy of 7.06 here at 55KRC Talk Station. Brian Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: wishing everyone a very happy Wednesday. And so many things
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  Speaker 1: in the world to be thankful for. At this moment
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  Speaker 1: in time on the 55KRC Morning Show, roughly 7.05 on
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  Speaker 1: a Wednesday means we get the benefit of a man
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  Speaker 1: with an extensive career in broadcasting and author. He's a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: He's a historian. He is Jack Adler. And welcome back,
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  Speaker 1: Jack Adler, for another edition of The Big Picture. Good
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  Speaker 1: to have you back on.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. Thanks so much, brother. All right, let's just
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  Speaker 2: say it. On this 250th anniversary of our independence, Democrats
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  Speaker 2: want to destroy America by scrapping the Constitution. To do that,
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  Speaker 2: they're using a kind of jujitsu, turning a basic principle
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  Speaker 2: of America against ourselves. I'm talking about federalism, the system
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  Speaker 2: that combines national and state governments. It's a system that's
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  Speaker 2: now imploding. So that everybody's included in this, kids, and
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  Speaker 2: we have some very bright kids who are listening. If
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  Speaker 2: you're getting ready for school where you will not learn
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  Speaker 2: about federalism in an old-fashioned civics class, I'll try to explain.
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  Speaker 2: 250 years ago, the brand spanking new United States of
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  Speaker 2: America turned the world on its head, literally. Instead of
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  Speaker 2: having a head of state, some divine right monarch like
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  Speaker 2: King George III imposed a top-down government benefiting the privileged few.
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  Speaker 2: The United States of America became a bottom-up government that
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  Speaker 2: got given rights of, eventually, every individual would be protected
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  Speaker 2: by a national government limited by constitutional checks and balances.
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  Speaker 2: Democratic socialists want to drop those checks and balances. They
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  Speaker 2: want to pack the US Supreme Court with progressives so
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  Speaker 2: that a new, what they call, living constitution will rubber
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  Speaker 2: stamp woke principles. Democrat socialists also call for abolishing the U.S. Senate,
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  Speaker 2: the elected presidency, and replacing them with a European-style parliament,
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  Speaker 2: whose leader would be chosen by the party in power,
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  Speaker 2: which would always be the Democrat Party, because to guarantee
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  Speaker 2: their majority, Democrats will reopen borders, grant mass amnesty, and
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  Speaker 2: make Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico reliably blue states. How
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  Speaker 2: are they going to do all this? Here's where federalism
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  Speaker 2: comes in. To fundamentally transform America, as Barack Obama said,
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  Speaker 2: into a one-party big state, Democrats are exploiting the right
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  Speaker 2: of each existing state to run its own elections, both
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  Speaker 2: state and federal elections. That lets deep blue states like
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  Speaker 2: California mail-out ballots to anyone and everyone, citizen and non-citizen,
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  Speaker 2: resident and non-resident, dead or alive. Federalism is America's founding principle,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a very good thing. But states' rights have
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  Speaker 2: always been subject to abuse. Ask anyone who suffered under
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  Speaker 2: Jim Crow. Where did we get federalism? Well, let's go
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  Speaker 2: back in the Wayback Machine. On July 3rd, 1776, America
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  Speaker 2: was just a string of 13 separate English colonies with
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  Speaker 2: very different interests. The biggest divide, of course, being slavery.
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  Speaker 2: Those different interests were possible because starting with the Pilgrim's
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  Speaker 2: Mayflower Compact, each colony always enjoyed some degree of self-government.
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  Speaker 2: But not enough. Taxation without representation in the British Parliament
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  Speaker 2: forced the colonies to declare independence from the kings. The
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  Speaker 2: trouble was, separately, the colonies were too weak to win
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  Speaker 2: independence on their own, so they had to unite. But
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  Speaker 2: not entirely. Each colony delegated to the new national government
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  Speaker 2: only the powers necessary to promote defense, trade, and other
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  Speaker 2: national interests like a common currency. All other powers not
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  Speaker 2: explicitly delegated to the national government were retained by each state.
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  Speaker 2: That's made clear in our Constitution's 10th Amendment. For better
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  Speaker 2: or for worse, one of the powers not delegated to
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  Speaker 2: the national government was and is today the right of
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  Speaker 2: each state to run its own elections. This led right
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  Speaker 2: away to all kinds of chicanery, property requirements, literacy requirements,
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  Speaker 2: gerrymandering of congressional districts. Both parties still exploit that, but friends,
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  Speaker 2: and political opponents if you're the least bit open-minded. There
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  Speaker 2: is no moral equivalence between the parties. Republican redistricting in Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: even more in Texas, may have gone too far. I
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  Speaker 2: think it did. Still, you can't compare that with California, Oregon, Vermont,
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  Speaker 2: eight states so far and counting, that mail ballots to everyone,
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  Speaker 2: that allow endless time to cast a ballot, count a ballot,
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  Speaker 2: and then change the rules even after ballots have been
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  Speaker 2: cast in a national election. You remember Bush v. Gore's
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  Speaker 2: hanging dimple chads. It took a U.S. Supreme Court to
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  Speaker 2: throw those out. I think the high court needs to
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  Speaker 2: step in again. It did last week, putting in a toe.
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  Speaker 2: We can talk about that in a couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 2: But even beyond policing elections, federalism also breaks down when
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  Speaker 2: cities and entire states define national immigration laws. Or when,
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  Speaker 2: not Congress, but Democrats' woke lower court judges block Republican
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  Speaker 2: foreign policy, not Democrat foreign policy, just the Republicans. Partisanship, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: is killing us. Our founders knew the American experiment in limited,
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  Speaker 2: decentralized government could only work if we brought to government
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of good faith compromise, the kind of compromise
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  Speaker 2: Democrats will outlaw when they impose Orwellian big government. Look
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  Speaker 2: what Biden and Fauci did during COVID. To prevent that,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have to rely on do-nothing Republican senators who
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  Speaker 2: won't even support voter ID. We don't have to rely
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  Speaker 2: on a shifting majority of the Supreme Court. Our Constitution
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  Speaker 2: can be amended again, as when the 17th Amendment in
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  Speaker 2: 1913 allowed the direct election of senators instead of having
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  Speaker 2: them appointed by state legislatures. That's the way it used
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  Speaker 2: to be done. Or when women were finally granted the
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  Speaker 2: vote in 1920. And the voting age was lowered to
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  Speaker 2: 18 as recently as 1971. I say amend the Constitution
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  Speaker 2: to nationalize federal elections. But we gotta be realistic. Given
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  Speaker 2: how we've allowed universities and now public schools to be
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  Speaker 2: taken over by socialists, given the woke takeover of media
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  Speaker 2: and pop culture, can we achieve enough consensus to amend
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  Speaker 2: the Constitution again We won't know till we try. Meantime,
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  Speaker 2: don't let Democrats use federalism to bring us centralized socialism,
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  Speaker 2: which has failed everywhere it's tried. The whole point of
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  Speaker 2: America was to oppose top-down power. Why in the world
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  Speaker 2: would we ever bring that back? What do you say,
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  Speaker 2: my freedom-loving friend?
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. And I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about this. The first thing when you were talking about
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  Speaker 1: the division between the parties that popped into my mind,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, this may be a new revelation for someone,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought, you know, the teachers unions are now
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  Speaker 1: fully on record that they only care about the teachers.
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  Speaker 1: They don't care about the students' well-being. They care about
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  Speaker 1: the teachers. And I guess if you're a union, you
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  Speaker 1: care about the best interests of your union membership. So
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  Speaker 1: it's what they care about, but that's at the cost
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  Speaker 1: of what's going on in the classroom. The federal government now,
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  Speaker 1: you've got Republicans on one side, and there's all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of problems I can go down the road in terms
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  Speaker 1: of how Republicans approach the size and scope and spending
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  Speaker 1: in federal government. But The Democrats seem to be in
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  Speaker 1: a turf war. They're not looking out for the best
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  Speaker 1: interests of the constituents, the American public. They're interested in
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  Speaker 1: protecting and expanding the size, scope, and power and control
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  Speaker 1: of the federal government. They want an all-encompassing control over America.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't view that as being responsible in a
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  Speaker 1: representative form of government. I mean, we don't need more
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  Speaker 1: power and control exercised over us. We need to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: our freedoms and liberties, which have been the recipe for
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  Speaker 1: success in this country for 250 years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like the autoworkers union deliberately designing cars that
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  Speaker 2: will crash so there'll be more need for autoworkers. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just insane. Yeah, I mentioned the Supreme Court has
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  Speaker 2: dipped into this question about elections just last week as
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  Speaker 2: regards mail-in voting. The Trump administration has been enlisting every
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  Speaker 2: agency from Homeland Security to the Postal Service to monitor
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  Speaker 2: illegal ballots to show what's actually going on. Well, last week,
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  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court, you know this, minus the three liberal justices,
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  Speaker 2: of course, refused to block that monitoring for now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's a procedural question.
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  Speaker 1: Standing issue, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But the court will, you know, continue to overlook. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the fight is going to continue because Democrats claim that
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  Speaker 2: Trump is interfering with each state's right to run its
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  Speaker 2: own elections. That's why we need an amendment protecting not
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  Speaker 2: state elections, not local elections. Let Cincinnati go to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where on its own, but we got to protect federal elections.
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  Speaker 1: Jack on, on the idea of the postal service involved
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  Speaker 1: in the integrity of the elections. I, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: go back to what I view as a collective fare
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  Speaker 1: of the postal system. I mean, delivering mail on time,
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  Speaker 1: getting it from point A to point B without any problems.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even a business model. I mean, it's the
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  Speaker 1: only way it continues to survive after losing billions every
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  Speaker 1: single quarter is because I guess we're propping it up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how that ultimately would work in practice,
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  Speaker 1: but I honestly don't trust the postal system, a government-run agency,
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  Speaker 1: to do anything properly or efficiently or make it work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. hesitate to weigh in on this because a good friend, Chad,
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  Speaker 2: our postal worker, is one of your biggest fans.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, this isn't an insult. Chad did not create the
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  Speaker 1: business model. He did not keep mail in his bedroom
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  Speaker 1: for four years and not deliver it. He didn't steal
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  Speaker 1: things from people. But listen, like everything, government agencies, even businesses,
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  Speaker 1: people are partisan and sometimes they do things, might not
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  Speaker 1: be within the best interest of everybody, but In the
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  Speaker 1: best interest, at least in the mind of that individual person,
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  Speaker 1: that's the reality of everything involved in the Postal Service.
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  Speaker 1: Chad's going to do it right. How about the other
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  Speaker 1: guys down the street? How about the flaming commie Democrat
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  Speaker 1: postal people that are out there? This is the problem
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  Speaker 1: you face and the challenges you face anytime you put
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  Speaker 1: the decision-making in the hands of a person.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, or anytime that you hired too many persons. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: under the Biden administration, all of the private sector hiring
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  Speaker 2: was down what was up. was illegal immigrants getting jobs
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  Speaker 2: and also public worker jobs, especially people working in the
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  Speaker 2: federal government. When you see the new jobs numbers coming
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  Speaker 2: out under Trump and you see the jobs are sometimes down,
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  Speaker 2: they're getting rid of a lot of those workers. But
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  Speaker 2: getting back to the biggest question that we keep posing
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  Speaker 2: now every week, the ultimate question, do you want to
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  Speaker 2: be free or do you want to be fed crumbs
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  Speaker 2: by an all-powerful central government That's what the November election
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  Speaker 2: is going to be all about. The states originally were
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  Speaker 2: a bulwark against a top-down national government. Now blue states
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  Speaker 2: are using their power to bring us big brother socialism.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot let it happen.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely cannot, which is why I've been harping how long
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  Speaker 1: now about educating people and getting out there and challenging
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  Speaker 1: this far-left party that the Democrat Party has been becoming.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that enough people really fully appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: overall cost of all this. I don't think they appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the intrusion on liberties and freedoms. You know, all they know,
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  Speaker 1: I guess the uneducated, not paying attention mess is like,
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  Speaker 1: I hear free stuff and things. I'm, well, falling into
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  Speaker 1: the class warfare envy thing because someone somewhere has got
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot more than me. And that's just not right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm personally struggling with the grocery bill. Ergo, I need
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  Speaker 1: free government groceries or something. But The next step is
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  Speaker 1: where everything falls apart and people don't appreciate that next step.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it can't be done. It's never, ever worked.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime anybody's tried this litany of socialist programs, the DSA
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  Speaker 1: is behind that. It even appeals to anyone, Jack, in
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  Speaker 1: the face of all in face of the reality that
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  Speaker 1: we could look at over history is just beyond me.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I got to go back to the fact
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  Speaker 1: that our education system, I think, has failed us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And that's why education has to start at home.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody listening right now, good for you. I think you've
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  Speaker 2: made a great choice on how to start your morning.
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  Speaker 2: Now share that with your kids.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly right, and I'll double down on that. It's
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  Speaker 1: something I told my friend yesterday who's got two toddlers
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  Speaker 1: at home, and he does. Read to your children. Even
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  Speaker 1: before they can read, sit there on the lap with
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  Speaker 1: a book. Read to them. Point out little Elmo, and
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  Speaker 1: soon enough that kid's going to know and can point
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  Speaker 1: to it. And all the other things in the book,
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  Speaker 1: like they learn the meaning of words. They associate images
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  Speaker 1: with words. They learn to read before they even enter
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  Speaker 1: the education system if you want to send them off
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  Speaker 1: to K-12 education publicly. I think it's the best thing
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  Speaker 1: you can do for your kids. It worked in my family, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: and I know it worked in yours. God bless you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the wonderful job you do every Wednesday here
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  Speaker 1: on The Morning Show. And so my listeners know if
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  Speaker 2: Jack?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, for all that you do for us
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  Speaker 1: and sharing your knowledge and experience. And as always, best
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  Speaker 1: of health and love to you and your better half.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do this next Wednesday.