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Cease Fire Ceased · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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Speaker 2: We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the
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Speaker 1: It's time for The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott.
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Speaker 2: Is the Iran ceasefire in jeopardy? And what about the
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Speaker 2: ceasefire that's gone on in Gaza? for a very long time.
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Speaker 2: Is it about to end? I'm Booker. This is The
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Speaker 2: Truth Be Told. Thank you for joining us. I really
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Speaker 2: do appreciate it. We have a lot to talk about,
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Speaker 2: as always. And we will get to Iran and Gaza
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Speaker 2: here in a few minutes. But before we go there,
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about gerrymandering just a bit, because
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Speaker 2: the Democrats are losing their mind right now, especially over
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Speaker 2: what happened in Tennessee. The Tennessee legislature was in session
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Speaker 2: this week. They redrew the lines in the state of Tennessee,
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Speaker 2: and they have eliminated all Democrat representation in the House
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Speaker 2: of Representatives now by drawing the lines that they did.
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Speaker 2: It has passed both chambers in Tennessee's legislature, both the
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Speaker 2: House and the Senate, and now Governor Bill Lee will
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Speaker 2: sign that into law. What it did was they drew
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Speaker 2: three lines through Memphis, and if you look at one
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Speaker 2: of these lines, this district now goes from Memphis all
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Speaker 2: the way over to east of Nashville, which by car,
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Speaker 2: that's probably a two, two and a half hour drive.
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Speaker 2: That's how gerrymandering works. And Memphis, they want to secede
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Speaker 2: from the state of Tennessee. I'm not sure where they
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Speaker 2: think they would go. If you look to their south,
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Speaker 2: there's Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama. You look to the west, it's Arkansas.
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Speaker 2: Go north, Missouri. So I don't know what state they
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Speaker 2: think they would be able to go to to make
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Speaker 2: things better for them. But Representative Steve Cohen, who is
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Speaker 2: a jerk, and he has been for a long time.
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Speaker 2: I met him in 1986, 40 years ago. He was
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Speaker 2: a jerk then, and he has continued to be one.
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Speaker 2: But he will no longer be a member of the
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Speaker 2: House of Representatives as Tennessee gerrymandered him right out of
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Speaker 2: that seat. So Tennessee is a pickup of one for
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Speaker 2: the Republicans. Florida has already done that. They picked up
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Speaker 2: four Republican seats when they gerrymandered that state. Texas picked
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Speaker 2: up five, so that's about 10 extra Republicans that stand
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Speaker 2: to win in the upcoming primary. Alabama says they are
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Speaker 2: going to do the same thing. South Carolina and Louisiana,
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Speaker 2: Democrats all over the country are coming unglued about this.
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Speaker 2: That's hypocrisy. If you pay attention, look up in New England,
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Speaker 2: as an example, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, every
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Speaker 2: one of those states has all Democrat representatives. And we
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Speaker 2: all know that that's just not really the makeup, demographically, politically,
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Speaker 2: of those states. We know that 40 or 45 percent
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Speaker 2: are Republican or independent-leaning conservative And they have had no
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Speaker 2: voice for decades because the Democrats gerrymandered like this for
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Speaker 2: years and years. And now the Democrats don't like it
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Speaker 2: because finally the Republicans have said, we're going to do
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Speaker 2: the same thing they've done. Honestly, I don't really like
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Speaker 2: all of it, but I think it's well past time
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Speaker 2: that the Republicans actually caught up to it and have
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Speaker 2: done it. So I'm glad that they have. Maybe that
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Speaker 2: secures a seat or two for the midterm. I think
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Speaker 2: that it will. I still think the Republicans have their
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Speaker 2: hands full coming up in the midterm. And when you
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Speaker 2: look at things in the Middle East and the war
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Speaker 2: and what it has done to the price of gas,
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Speaker 2: as an example, and maybe some more inflation that will
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Speaker 2: come from it, when the price of oil goes up,
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Speaker 2: the price of everything will go up. And that causes
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Speaker 2: the inflation. And I think there may be some. But
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Speaker 2: as I've said before, I think Donald Trump maybe feels
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Speaker 2: like he's sort of backed into a corner here. He
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Speaker 2: knows this war needs to end. He doesn't want it
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Speaker 2: to continue. Politically, it's going to cost him in the
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Speaker 2: midterm if it doesn't end soon. The ceasefire started April 7th,
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Speaker 2: and on Thursday, we had a break in that ceasefire. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: Iran fired on an American ship, and America responded by
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Speaker 2: hitting a couple of ports. Donald Trump says the ceasefire
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Speaker 2: is still going on. there in Iran. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't trust negotiating with them. To me, it feels
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Speaker 2: like Groundhog Day here in this negotiation. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what we're negotiating. Donald Trump says no nuclear weapons, no
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Speaker 2: enrichment of uranium, and we probably all can agree that
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Speaker 2: Iran is never going to agree to that, the regime
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Speaker 2: that's there now. They have said it repeatedly that they
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Speaker 2: wouldn't We have seen this negotiation go on for well
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Speaker 2: over a year now. It was in the lead up
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Speaker 2: to Midnight Hammer in June of 2025. There was a
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Speaker 2: negotiation going on then, and now we don't even really
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Speaker 2: know who we're negotiating with. And I know that Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump and America really want to get out of this
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Speaker 2: But if they get out of it now, they really
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Speaker 2: haven't accomplished what it is they went there to do.
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Speaker 2: And that was make sure that Iran can never have
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Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon, because that is not the case. From
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Speaker 2: what I understand, they're already rebuilding the tunnels and the
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Speaker 2: infrastructure that they have underground that we have already bombed
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Speaker 2: this time, just like they did last year in June.
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Speaker 2: So unless that regime changes, probably nothing will change with Iran.
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Speaker 2: Now let's go to the West and let's go to
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Speaker 2: the Gaza Strip. It's something that I haven't talked about
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Speaker 2: in a while, and I don't really see it in
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Speaker 2: the news that much either. And this is something that
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Speaker 2: I have said for a long time, since the beginning
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Speaker 2: of this ceasefire in Gaza. Matt Palumbo and I have
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Speaker 2: talked about it as well. There were a couple of
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Speaker 2: parts of the ceasefire. One, there was just the ceasefire,
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Speaker 2: that we're going to quit bombing each other. And for
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Speaker 2: the most part, it has held. There have been some
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Speaker 2: instances where Israel has gone into the Gaza Strip with
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Speaker 2: troops and They have also bombed, but Hamas has also
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Speaker 2: done a little bit of that as well. But overall,
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Speaker 2: the ceasefire has held. The second part of that, and
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Speaker 2: this was the part that Matt and I both agreed
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Speaker 2: that Hamas is never going to give up their weapons,
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Speaker 2: and that was the second part of that ceasefire. And
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Speaker 2: that's where we are now. If you pay attention and
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Speaker 2: look into it, you'll find that Hamas is not going
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Speaker 2: to give up their weapons. And I don't know what
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Speaker 2: that means. Maybe Israel will begin to fire on Hamas again,
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Speaker 2: an Iranian proxy, there in the Gaza Strip. There was
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Speaker 2: a split ruling from the Court of International Trade on Thursday.
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Speaker 2: And it delivered President Donald Trump another setback in his
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Speaker 2: tariff agenda. And I have always been one that has
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Speaker 2: been supportive of tariffs. I thought it was a great
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Speaker 2: idea really to level the playing field and bring jobs
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Speaker 2: back to America. And also, it really put a wedge
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Speaker 2: between China and the BRICS countries, which if you look
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Speaker 2: right now, it seems like BRICS has lost a lot
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Speaker 2: of power. China is pulling away from Iran right now.
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Speaker 2: India has pulled away as well. So BRICS, to me,
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Speaker 2: is not as scary as it was a few years ago. Well,
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Speaker 2: this ruling there in the Court of International Trade, and
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Speaker 2: I don't know what this court really means to Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump and America. The full scope of the ruling wasn't
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Speaker 2: really clear either, but it is expected to immediately invalidate
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Speaker 2: all or part of Donald Trump's effort to impose a
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Speaker 2: 10% tariff on goods from around the globe. The legal process, however,
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Speaker 2: it will continue. Trump is expected to appeal. The higher
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Speaker 2: courts are expected to weigh in as well as this
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Speaker 2: goes through the process. We don't know what that means either.
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Speaker 2: And before we get off Iran here, before I leave
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Speaker 2: this subject, let's go to Marco Rubio. He was doing
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Speaker 2: the press conference earlier this week at the White House,
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Speaker 2: and here's something he said about Iran.
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Speaker 3: I don't know of any country in the world where
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Speaker 3: there's a bigger difference between the people and the people
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Speaker 3: who run the country. This country is run by radical
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Speaker 3: Shia clerics. And that's not what Iran and the Iranian
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Speaker 3: people are. Now, they may be Shia, but they're not
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Speaker 3: radicals and they're not clerics. And they just want a
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Speaker 3: normal life and a regular life and in many ways,
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Speaker 3: a very cosmopolitan country with an incredible history, incredible history
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Speaker 3: and incredible legacy and the like. So there's this huge
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Speaker 3: divide between the people of Iran whom we sympathize with
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Speaker 3: and who the president sympathize with because they're the ones suffering.
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Speaker 2: And he's right. It is the Iranian people that are suffering.
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Speaker 2: Let's go back to January and remember what happened there
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Speaker 2: that It was the government of Iran that killed thousands
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Speaker 2: of Iranian people that stood up for the things that
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Speaker 2: they wanted. And a big part of that also was
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Speaker 2: inflation at the time that was 50 percent, over 50 percent.
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Speaker 2: Now it's over 100 percent as the embargoes, the sanctions,
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Speaker 2: the blockade. the Strait of Hormuz being shut down, it
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Speaker 2: is taking a toll on the people of Iran. And
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Speaker 2: the only hope I guess we have for them is
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Speaker 2: that they do have an uprising and they take their
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Speaker 2: country back. I think that's really where the regime change
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Speaker 2: will come in, and hopefully they will get to that point.
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Speaker 2: I saw this story in Florida, and I thought it
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Speaker 2: was interesting because we see these activists, radical judges all
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Speaker 2: over the place. And In the state of Florida, there
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Speaker 2: was one, and I can't believe what she did, actually.
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Speaker 2: And there's some pressure building now to impeach her. That's
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Speaker 2: a really good possibility in the state of Florida where
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Speaker 2: you have Governor Ron DeSantis and you have a supermajority
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Speaker 2: of Republicans in both chambers of that house in the
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Speaker 2: state of Florida. Well, the judge is Tiffany Baker, and
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Speaker 2: she released a known sex offender. And this known sex offender,
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Speaker 2: this guy gets out and he kills a five-year-old. He
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Speaker 2: should have never been let out of jail. And this judge,
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Speaker 2: Tiffany Baker in Tallahassee, Florida, released him to kill a five-year-old.
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Speaker 2: Here is Governor Ron DeSantis. You need to incarcerate them.
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Speaker 4: You don't release them back into the community when you
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Speaker 4: have the option of remanding them to custody. So that
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Speaker 4: was a situation where I don't understand how there could
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Speaker 4: have been that big of a breakdown when this guy
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Speaker 4: obviously had a checkered past. He was doing something that
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Speaker 4: I think a lot of people would find very troubling
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Speaker 4: by going traveling to meet someone he thought was an
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Speaker 4: underage girl, you know, that he was going to sexually abuse.
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Speaker 4: So the fact that the judge released and and then
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Speaker 4: this tragedy happened, this was avoidable. This was preventable. This
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Speaker 4: was a tragedy that should have never happened.
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Speaker 2: And when you think about that and you think about
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Speaker 2: Lake and Riley and all of the other ones that
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Speaker 2: were killed by illegal immigrants, none of that should have happened.
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Speaker 2: They should be alive today. And it's sad. And we
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Speaker 2: have activist judges who, for some reason, allow this person
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Speaker 2: out of jail. And I think there should be consequences
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Speaker 2: for judges like this. This is Judge Baker, Tallahassee, Florida.
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Speaker 2: Maybe she has some accountability with impeachment. There is always
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Speaker 2: that possibility. And I'm not sure why Our government, our
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Speaker 2: legislators in states and federal government, they don't use their
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Speaker 2: power to impeach these judges more than they do. In fact,
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Speaker 2: they hardly ever do it.
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Speaker 4: And it's caused a lot of pain for a lot
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Speaker 4: of people. And I just, you know, it's law enforcement.
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Speaker 4: If you're on the beat, it's not easy. If you're
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Speaker 4: a prosecutor, it's not easy. You know, honestly, judges... you know,
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Speaker 4: a lot of them I think could do a lot
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Speaker 4: better in our country, but, but it's always, it's not
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Speaker 4: always an easy thing to, to even be a judge
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Speaker 4: on it. But on these situations, man, can't we all
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Speaker 4: agree that you got to do what it takes to
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Speaker 4: protect the public? And, and that was a, that was
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Speaker 4: a breakdown. That was a, that was negligence. It was
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Speaker 4: a neglect of duty.
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Speaker 2: And I agree with Rhonda saying this, we should be
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Speaker 2: able to all agree on that. If the, A person
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Speaker 2: is a bad person. Let's keep them in jail. Why
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Speaker 2: is that rocket science? Why is that so difficult for
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Speaker 2: these liberal activist judges? We just want to be safe.
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Speaker 2: We want to be secure. If they do something bad,
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Speaker 2: put them in jail. That's what we build them for.
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Speaker 2: That's what we make them for. Governor Ron DeSantis is
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Speaker 2: at the end of his second term. He will be
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Speaker 2: leaving office. I'm not sure what the future holds for him,
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Speaker 2: what he will do politically. I have heard that he's
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Speaker 2: interested in becoming a Supreme Court justice. And I wonder
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Speaker 2: if Samuel Alito, if he decides to retire before Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump leaves office, if they may appoint him. And then
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Speaker 2: you have to look at the midterm election coming up,
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Speaker 2: because if the Republicans lose the Senate, then the confirmation
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Speaker 2: process is completely different. And maybe you try to get
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Speaker 2: Alito to hang on. You have to think politically way
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Speaker 2: out in front of things. That's another reason why this
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Speaker 2: midterm election coming up is so very important because of
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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. Alito has made comments that he may retire.
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Speaker 2: And if he retires, you would want Donald Trump to
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Speaker 2: appoint someone like, I don't know, Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis.
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Speaker 2: Either one of those would be maybe a good choice. Well,
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Speaker 2: if the Republicans don't have 50 or 51 in the Senate,
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Speaker 2: then it really doesn't matter because you're not going to
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Speaker 2: get the type of Supreme Court justice that you really want.
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Speaker 2: So keep that in mind. That's another reason to go
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Speaker 2: vote in the midterm as we continue to watch low
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Speaker 2: voter turnout for Republicans. And let's go to that because
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Speaker 2: there was an election Tuesday. A lot of people are
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Speaker 2: talking about what happened in Indiana. Indiana, you know, if
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Speaker 2: we go back to gerrymandering for a minute, the way
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Speaker 2: we started this hour, Indiana refused to gerrymander. They refused
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Speaker 2: to make the districts where it would be more Republican.
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Speaker 2: And they have a Republican House and Senate in Indiana.
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Speaker 2: They could have done it with a Republican governor as well.
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Speaker 2: But they chose not to. And there were several members
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Speaker 2: in the legislature there that voted against it. Donald Trump
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Speaker 2: went after them. And they all lost Tuesday.
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Speaker 5: Of the seven races, incumbent state senators who had rejected
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Speaker 5: the president's push five months ago to redraw the maps,
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Speaker 5: all losing to Trump-backed challengers.
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Speaker 2: And I want to get to this race because of
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Speaker 2: the raw vote total. And I know everybody's excited. A
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Speaker 2: lot of people are excited that Donald Trump put his
15:03
Speaker 2: endorsements behind these people that won this election. And hopefully
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Speaker 2: they will win also coming up in the midterm in November.
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Speaker 2: But when you look at the raw voter turnout on
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Speaker 2: this election in Indiana, pay attention to the Republican number
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Speaker 2: compared to the Democrat number. The Democrats are really energized
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Speaker 2: right now to go vote. They are voting, and Republicans
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Speaker 2: are still voting at about 7 or 8 percent of
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Speaker 2: total registered Republicans. And that has to change between now
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Speaker 2: and November. I don't know about you, but I don't
15:36
Speaker 2: want to go back to having vaccines mandated. I don't
15:40
Speaker 2: want to go back to censored speech. I don't want
15:44
Speaker 2: to go back to having electric vehicles mandated, to wind
15:47
Speaker 2: and solar and DEI and wokeness and Those things should
15:51
Speaker 2: put the fear into the conservative base coming up in
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Speaker 2: November and in all of these primaries to get out
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Speaker 2: and go vote. You have to go vote regardless of
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Speaker 2: how you think things are going, whether you think Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump is doing the right thing or not. You have
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Speaker 2: to look at the big picture here and what all
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Speaker 2: of this actually means for the future. You can't just
16:14
Speaker 2: sit home and do nothing. And you kind of see
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Speaker 2: that in Indiana. Tuesday. I think you can take that
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Speaker 2: away from Indiana. It's a great thing. Those seven that
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Speaker 2: beat the people that held up the gerrymandering in Indiana,
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Speaker 2: that would secure more seats in the House of Representatives. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's a good thing they're all gone. But
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Speaker 2: look at the voter turnout. This is what concerns me
16:41
Speaker 2: going into the midterm. Because the Democrats, they're going to
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Speaker 2: do everything they can Here is Congressman Benny Thompson. He
16:49
Speaker 2: was the J6 committee chairman, if you remember him. And
16:53
Speaker 2: he is calling for insurrection and a second civil war
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Speaker 2: if Mississippi decides to redraw their lines. Listen to this.
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Speaker 6: With every fiber in our body.
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Speaker 7: We're going to have to take this system on at
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Speaker 7: every election, because it's not just members of Congress. We're
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Speaker 7: talking about state legislatures. We're talking about union commissions. We're
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Speaker 7: talking about city councils.
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Speaker 2: Down to city councils, yeah.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: So he thinks that the Democrats have to get after
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Speaker 2: it here in the midterm. And they are energized right now.
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Speaker 2: I agree with what he is saying there, that the
17:31
Speaker 2: Democrats are going out there to try to block everything
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Speaker 2: the Republicans are doing. And honestly, I get sick of
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Speaker 2: all of it. The Democrats have done this forever. The hypocrisy,
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Speaker 2: as I said earlier in the hour already, it's mind-blowing
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Speaker 2: to me. Look at New England. Look at a map
17:47
Speaker 2: of New England. Look at California. Look at New York.
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Speaker 2: Look at Illinois. The Democrats have done this for decades,
17:54
Speaker 2: the Republicans are catching up, and the Democrats don't like it.
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Speaker 2: And I would say that, you know, we'll keep an
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Speaker 2: eye on Florida as well, because there was a law
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Speaker 2: passed in 2010 by the people that added to the
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Speaker 2: Constitution an amendment that makes redrawing illegal if it's for
18:13
Speaker 2: a political ideology purpose. And I think that argument could
18:17
Speaker 2: be made, and there is a lawsuit coming from Norm
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Speaker 2: Eisen there in Florida today. to get them to reverse
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Speaker 2: that redraw on the gerrymander.
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Speaker 9: Wake up America, can't you see?
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Speaker 6: What's going on here.
18:34
Speaker 9: In the land of the free? Many women and men
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Speaker 9: have died for the freedom.
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Speaker 10: For you and me.
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Speaker 9: Wake up America, can't you see?
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18:55
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20:00
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20:04
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20:26
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Speaker 2: in the 24th Congressional District in Miami. She's not affiliated
20:46
Speaker 2: with any party this time, but she is running against
20:50
Speaker 2: Frederica Wilson down in South Florida. I'm going to play
20:55
Speaker 2: her post for you. Some of it may be offensive
20:58
Speaker 2: to you. But I think her message is very important.
21:03
Speaker 2: We're going to have a conversation with her in just
21:05
Speaker 2: a minute. But first, here is her social media post.
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Speaker 6: Hi, I'm Laverne Spicer.
21:10
Speaker 11: And I read a post yesterday on X where someone
21:14
Speaker 11: was talking about it's okay to start calling black people niggas.
21:21
Speaker 6: People, don't do that. That's just so disrespectful.
21:26
Speaker 11: It's like you walk around and you see a white person,
21:29
Speaker 11: you're going to call them a cracker. Or if you
21:31
Speaker 11: see a Hispanic person, you're going to call them a
21:33
Speaker 11: wet bag. And you're going to go walk up to
21:36
Speaker 11: black people that you.
21:37
Speaker 6: Don't know and call them a nigger.
21:40
Speaker 11: Oh, I really wouldn't advise anybody to do that, not
21:43
Speaker 11: unless you really want to get fucked up on the
21:46
Speaker 11: bullshit and tilt.
21:48
Speaker 6: Don't do it. Do not do it. We have come
21:51
Speaker 6: so far as people.
21:53
Speaker 11: I mean, for the first time in history, we have
21:56
Speaker 11: black people that are out here that are representing the GOP.
22:01
Speaker 6: And we are doing.
22:02
Speaker 11: Positive things in our community to uplift each other. So
22:07
Speaker 11: let's not go as backwards by doing dumb shit like
22:11
Speaker 11: that that's uncalled for and really unnecessary. Because what you're
22:15
Speaker 11: going to do, you're going to drive that wedge in
22:18
Speaker 11: against that voter vase. So do not do that. Do
22:22
Speaker 11: not do it. You know, we've come so far as people.
22:26
Speaker 11: Just don't do that. So I'm saying this to say,
22:29
Speaker 11: let's have some R-E-S-P-E-C... Let's get this shit together and
22:36
Speaker 11: let's do better as people.
22:38
Speaker 6: We got a country to save.
22:40
Speaker 11: It's no longer whites against black and all that bullshit
22:44
Speaker 11: that used to go down like that.
22:45
Speaker 6: It's no longer that kind of shit because we got
22:48
Speaker 6: a whole.
22:49
Speaker 11: Influx of illegals that are here that are going to
22:53
Speaker 11: take over this country while we are still on the
22:56
Speaker 11: elementary level doing dumb shit. So let's get past the
23:00
Speaker 11: dumb shit and let's get Trump elected. Let's get him
23:04
Speaker 11: in office so we can restore this country back.
23:07
Speaker 6: To the way it needs to be.
23:09
Speaker 11: And remember, let's respect each other. Let's respect each other.
23:14
Speaker 11: Don't let people talk y'all into doing dumb shit that's
23:18
Speaker 11: going to get a foot stuck straight up your ass.
23:21
Speaker 6: Don't do it. Take it from me, Laverne Spicer. I
23:24
Speaker 6: know my shit.
23:25
Speaker 2: So there you have Laverne Spicer sharing some real feelings
23:29
Speaker 2: on a social media post on X. And we have
23:32
Speaker 2: her now here with us as a guest. Laverne, welcome
23:35
Speaker 2: to the program.
23:37
Speaker 11: Thank you so much for inviting me on.
23:39
Speaker 2: Well, that was quite spirited. But I think it, and actually,
23:44
Speaker 2: I don't even think, I know that it comes from
23:46
Speaker 2: your heart. And there is a good reason that you
23:49
Speaker 2: did that. Can you tell us what motivated you to
23:54
Speaker 2: make that post? What was it that you saw? What
23:56
Speaker 2: was that social media post that you said, okay, this
23:58
Speaker 2: is ridiculous, we're not going to have this?
24:01
Speaker 11: Well, someone had brought it to my attention that the
24:05
Speaker 11: Hodge twins had did a podcast, and they were saying
24:10
Speaker 11: to people, it's okay for people to call black people
24:15
Speaker 11: the N-word.
24:16
Speaker 9: Yeah.
24:17
Speaker 11: And, you know, and when they said it to me,
24:21
Speaker 11: it just didn't sit well with me in my spirit.
24:24
Speaker 2: Yeah.
24:25
Speaker 10: So I said, okay.
24:26
Speaker 2: Why is that okay? Why does anybody think that's okay now?
24:29
Speaker 10: It's not okay.
24:30
Speaker 11: And then on top of that, someone that I had
24:34
Speaker 11: worked with last year when I was running for Congress,
24:38
Speaker 11: I also saw this person on Facebook, not Facebook, on Instagram.
24:45
Speaker 11: Teaching their baby, our baby, that's about seven or eight months,
24:51
Speaker 11: how to say the N-word.
24:54
Speaker 10: And of all people, I was like.
24:57
Speaker 11: Okay, why would she do that?
24:59
Speaker 10: You know, why?
25:00
Speaker 6: What's the purpose?
25:02
Speaker 11: Why would you raise kids and teach them to hate
25:06
Speaker 11: someone based on their color of their skin? Yeah.
25:12
Speaker 10: So.
25:13
Speaker 11: You know, they just pushing a great divide these days
25:18
Speaker 11: and I didn't like it. So I said, okay, I've
25:22
Speaker 11: got to do something about this.
25:23
Speaker 2: Yeah. And they are, that's what this is all about.
25:26
Speaker 2: And I think you made some great points. We gotta,
25:29
Speaker 2: we have to quit doing what we're doing because we
25:32
Speaker 2: are playing right into their playbook. They want us divided,
25:36
Speaker 2: whether it's race and gender, transgender, LGBTQ community, they want
25:40
Speaker 2: all these little communities. feel like they are oppressed instead
25:45
Speaker 2: of having us united. Because if we are united, they
25:49
Speaker 2: can't stop us. And they know that. But we are
25:52
Speaker 2: stopping ourselves because we are allowing ourselves to be divided
25:56
Speaker 2: over stupid things.
25:58
Speaker 11: Right.
25:58
Speaker 10: Exactly.
26:00
Speaker 11: And we all know that the Democratic Party has used
26:04
Speaker 11: the race card for years, especially, you know, with the
26:07
Speaker 11: black community. So far as relating to the.
26:10
Speaker 6: GOP, oh, they are racist.
26:13
Speaker 10: All of them are racist.
26:14
Speaker 11: And that's the card that they use because they know
26:17
Speaker 11: they're not doing nothing for the black community at all.
26:21
Speaker 11: So they use that. to try to make up and
26:24
Speaker 11: cover the fact that, you know, once you vote for
26:27
Speaker 11: them and once they're.
26:28
Speaker 6: Elected, they don't give back.
26:30
Speaker 11: They don't help. They do nothing. They do absolutely nothing.
26:34
Speaker 11: So that's why they use the race car all the time.
26:37
Speaker 11: And they're using that to divide us. And we can't
26:40
Speaker 11: allow that to happen. I feel like we've come too
26:43
Speaker 11: far as people. And with everything that's taking place in
26:49
Speaker 11: this country right about now, it's just a distraction.
26:52
Speaker 2: And you bring up the illegal immigrants that have come
26:55
Speaker 2: across the southern border, and you're bringing attention to the
26:59
Speaker 2: fact that we need to see them, maybe not as
27:02
Speaker 2: an enemy, but as a threat to our way of
27:05
Speaker 2: life and the American way of life, the American dream.
27:09
Speaker 2: And it's affecting all of us, regardless of whether you're Hispanic,
27:12
Speaker 2: you're black, or you're white, whatever it is, it is
27:15
Speaker 2: having an effect on all of us. And I think
27:18
Speaker 2: That was something else that you said too, wasn't it?
27:21
Speaker 11: Yes, I did say that because the Biden administration is
27:24
Speaker 11: putting those illegals first. I mean, if they're in Chicago,
27:27
Speaker 11: they're giving them $ 10, 000 a month, a place to stay,
27:31
Speaker 11: a car, and everything else. And the same thing with
27:34
Speaker 11: New York. They're giving them $ 5, 000 a month, a place
27:38
Speaker 11: to stay, a car. They're helping these people get on
27:41
Speaker 11: their feet. While we still have veterans that are homeless,
27:47
Speaker 11: staying in the streets. We got the seniors that have
27:50
Speaker 11: worked all of their life and still can't find a
27:54
Speaker 11: place to stay that'll stay in the streets. You know,
27:56
Speaker 11: we should take care of America to come first. The
28:01
Speaker 11: people in this country that have worked and paid their
28:03
Speaker 11: dues into society should be the ones that come first
28:07
Speaker 11: and not these illegals that are just leaving their countries.
28:11
Speaker 11: And then you see them all the time on social media.
28:14
Speaker 11: They get them a place to stay and they are
28:16
Speaker 11: complaining about it. They're not happy with that. So if
28:20
Speaker 11: they're not happy with that, why come here in the
28:23
Speaker 11: first place.
28:23
Speaker 2: To try to oppress us? Yeah, go back to where
28:27
Speaker 2: you came from. Go back to where.
28:29
Speaker 11: You came from. You're already sucking the life out of
28:31
Speaker 11: our subsidies and out of our system. I mean, the
28:34
Speaker 11: health care system and every other system. They're getting everything
28:38
Speaker 11: when the people that have worked and paid away can't
28:41
Speaker 11: even get it.
28:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you bring up a great point.
28:43
Speaker 11: And I'm a nonprofit organization. I work with these type
28:45
Speaker 11: of people, so I know what these people, the challenges
28:48
Speaker 11: that people are facing in the hard times that they're
28:51
Speaker 11: going through.
28:52
Speaker 2: And the Biden administration and Bidenomics has made that even
28:55
Speaker 2: harder on especially the people you're talking about. When you're
28:58
Speaker 2: talking about low-income or fixed-income people, it's killed them. It's
29:02
Speaker 2: crushed them. And, yeah, the middle class is shrinking, but
29:06
Speaker 2: the people that need the most help are hurting the most,
29:09
Speaker 2: aren't they? And really, that's what we need to focus
29:12
Speaker 2: our attention on. It's not the names that we call
29:15
Speaker 2: each other. It's not the division that they are trying
29:18
Speaker 2: to put on us. It's us coming together to overwhelm
29:22
Speaker 2: the ballot box on November 5th. That's what it's all about,
29:26
Speaker 2: so that we can get this country back on track.
29:28
Speaker 2: And I think you made a brilliant point in your post.
29:32
Speaker 11: Oh, thank you so much. And that's absolutely true, because
29:35
Speaker 11: you know, the Biden administration has basically destroyed everything that
29:40
Speaker 11: was going well in this country. We have gases at
29:43
Speaker 11: an all-time high. Food, food almost like triple up, you know,
29:49
Speaker 11: so people can't even afford to buy food out of
29:51
Speaker 11: the grocery store. A lot of people can't afford to eat,
29:54
Speaker 11: don't even know how they're going to eat while we're
29:56
Speaker 11: giving everything to these people that are coming here, just
29:59
Speaker 11: crossing the border. So the Biden administration has like just
30:04
Speaker 11: put this country in total chaos. turmoil and that's why
30:08
Speaker 11: it's so important come november that everybody show up to
30:12
Speaker 11: the polls and just come by yourself bring other people
30:15
Speaker 11: with you we all need to make sure that we
30:18
Speaker 11: vote you know we can't just sit back and say
30:21
Speaker 11: well so and trump is gonna win.
30:23
Speaker 10: No we can't we can't do that we.
30:25
Speaker 11: Got to come out and record numbers and make sure
30:28
Speaker 11: that we vote them.
30:30
Speaker 2: Out that's the only way no We know it's no.
30:34
Speaker 11: Way that 81 million people voted for him.
30:38
Speaker 2: Laverne, how do we get the message out to the
30:41
Speaker 2: people that are undecided? How do we make that message
30:45
Speaker 2: about Donald Trump and not just Donald Trump, but a
30:48
Speaker 2: conservative way of doing things that is better than what
30:53
Speaker 2: we are living in right now? How does that message
30:55
Speaker 2: go out to those people to make them come vote
30:59
Speaker 2: and vote for Donald Trump on November 5th? Have you
31:01
Speaker 2: given that any thought?
31:03
Speaker 11: Well, one thing that I see taking place now is,
31:06
Speaker 11: you know, people that were really passive about their thoughts
31:10
Speaker 11: and about voting in the first place are really getting
31:15
Speaker 11: involved in politics right about now. You know, everybody is watching.
31:19
Speaker 11: I don't know who could just sit back and agree
31:22
Speaker 11: with what they see taking place now. In this country
31:25
Speaker 11: right about now. I mean, we got so many issues.
31:27
Speaker 11: Look at the trans issue. Look at the books that
31:30
Speaker 11: they put in the library for these elementary kids to read.
31:37
Speaker 11: It's a total disaster. I mean, who would even support
31:41
Speaker 11: something like that? And let alone the sex change issue.
31:46
Speaker 11: thing that they're trying to put in schools, you know,
31:51
Speaker 11: so far as giving kids the right to make that
31:54
Speaker 11: type of decision. When you have to be 18 to
31:57
Speaker 11: buy cigarettes, you've got to be 21 to buy alcohol.
32:02
Speaker 10: But they want to.
32:03
Speaker 11: Give a kid that's five years old the right to
32:06
Speaker 11: make a gender change on their body. So we got
32:13
Speaker 11: people trying to take away our rights, our freedom of speech,
32:16
Speaker 11: the Second Amendment rights. We got all type of things
32:20
Speaker 11: that are taking place in this country.
32:23
Speaker 1: So now it's not the time.
32:25
Speaker 6: To just sit back. Everybody needs to be taking a stand.
32:30
Speaker 11: Everybody needs to be standing up right about now.
32:34
Speaker 2: And you need to get loud, too. People, I think,
32:37
Speaker 2: have been too quiet over the last three or four
32:39
Speaker 2: or five years. And maybe they haven't been awake, or
32:42
Speaker 2: maybe there's been a fear to say anything because they
32:45
Speaker 2: didn't want to ruffle anyone's feathers. Well, it's time to
32:47
Speaker 2: ruffle feathers, I believe, before it's too late. And, you know,
32:51
Speaker 2: you and I are about the same age, and I
32:54
Speaker 2: have never really in my life seen systemic racism. But
32:57
Speaker 2: that's another thing that the Democrats throw out all the time,
33:01
Speaker 2: systemic racism. And I just don't see evidence of it.
33:05
Speaker 2: In fact, I put a post out this week. that
33:07
Speaker 2: said there are now 62 members of Congress that are
33:10
Speaker 2: black from the black community. That is a record. And
33:15
Speaker 2: it's only a record because of black people representing majority
33:21
Speaker 2: white districts. If it was a systemic racist country, that
33:25
Speaker 2: would not be the case. 62 members of Congress are
33:30
Speaker 2: now black. That says a lot. It doesn't match with
33:33
Speaker 2: the story of that the Democrats try to say when
33:36
Speaker 2: they say it's systemic racism. And I know through my
33:40
Speaker 2: life at 58 years old, it's just not what I saw.
33:43
Speaker 2: And we're about the same age. We're both Gen Xers.
33:46
Speaker 2: And I don't think you saw that either, did you, Laverne?
33:48
Speaker 11: Well, one thing that I did see is for the
33:51
Speaker 11: politicians that are black and pushing their race narrative, the
33:56
Speaker 11: strangest thing is that all of them are married.
33:58
Speaker 10: To white people.
33:59
Speaker 11: Kamala Harris, married to a white man. The same one, Ms. Beetlejuice,
34:04
Speaker 11: that was the mayor in Chicago, married to a white woman.
34:09
Speaker 2: Beetlejuice, Lightfoot, Mayor Lightfoot.
34:12
Speaker 10: You got it, bingo.
34:13
Speaker 11: So all of them, all of them that are pushing
34:16
Speaker 11: that narrative, merit.
34:18
Speaker 6: To white people.
34:20
Speaker 2: That's strange.
34:22
Speaker 11: Omar, you know, doing the same thing.
34:25
Speaker 12: All of them, all of them.
34:26
Speaker 11: They say one thing with their mouth. But of course,
34:30
Speaker 11: we that read and we that are on point with everything,
34:34
Speaker 11: we know what is going on out here. So we
34:36
Speaker 11: see the handwriting on the wall. So they saying one thing,
34:40
Speaker 11: but they're doing another.
34:42
Speaker 2: Laverne, do you sense a pendulum is changing? Is it
34:45
Speaker 2: swinging back? toward the conservative side right now. Can you
34:48
Speaker 2: feel that momentum?
34:50
Speaker 11: The momentum is moving.
34:53
Speaker 10: It is here, people.
34:55
Speaker 11: It is moving. And I can tell you that because
34:58
Speaker 11: the first time I ran for Congress in 2020 as
35:01
Speaker 11: a conservative, On my ex-platform, people were always in my
35:07
Speaker 11: inbox calling me all type of names. How could you
35:09
Speaker 11: do that? How could you lead the Democratic Party? You
35:13
Speaker 11: are Sambo, and you are this, and you are that. Now,
35:17
Speaker 11: every platform that I'm on, I hear so many people say, yes,
35:22
Speaker 11: I'm supporting the Republican Party. I am a conservative.
35:27
Speaker 10: And these are Black people.
35:28
Speaker 11: Yes. These are black people that I'm seeing expressing themselves
35:32
Speaker 11: that way. And that's because so many of us came
35:36
Speaker 11: forward and we said, listen, it's time out for believing
35:40
Speaker 11: the Democrats' lies. We have been lied to.
35:43
Speaker 10: As people for years.
35:45
Speaker 11: You know, it started with that project system with Lyndon B.
35:49
Speaker 11: Johnson when they started those projects that destroyed the black community.
35:54
Speaker 11: took the fathers out of the home. And then we
35:57
Speaker 11: got a career politician, Joe Biden, that's been in office
36:01
Speaker 11: for 47 years. And him and Clinton, they did the one, two,
36:05
Speaker 11: three strikes, you're out. The crime bill, they helped incarcerate
36:10
Speaker 11: so many Black people. And we could go on and
36:13
Speaker 11: on with this, you know? So all of this is
36:15
Speaker 11: contributing to the fact that black people are finally waking
36:22
Speaker 11: up because one thing Trump let us know that the
36:26
Speaker 11: news media was reporting so many, so much fake news.
36:31
Speaker 11: They were showing us what they wanted us to believe.
36:34
Speaker 11: They was telling us things the way they wanted us
36:37
Speaker 11: to see it. So we had basically been hoodwinked and bamboozled.
36:41
Speaker 11: So right about now, people are opening up their eyes
36:44
Speaker 11: and They are doing their due diligence. They are searching
36:48
Speaker 11: for knowledge, wisdom and understanding. So hopefully, hopefully they will
36:55
Speaker 11: continue to do so. And we because as a conservative,
36:59
Speaker 11: we all we believe in God.
37:01
Speaker 6: We believe in God putting God first.
37:03
Speaker 11: We believe in families. You know, we believe in generational
37:07
Speaker 11: creating generational wealth and everything else. So, you know, how
37:12
Speaker 11: can you not?
37:14
Speaker 10: Want to be a conservative at the end of the day.
37:17
Speaker 2: Yeah. Laverne, thank you for the conversation. It's been wonderful.
37:21
Speaker 2: And I think you just said it perfectly. And I'm
37:24
Speaker 2: not going to add anything to it because I will
37:26
Speaker 2: ruin what you just said. But in your video, you
37:30
Speaker 2: said respect and you spelled it out. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Yeah. And
37:35
Speaker 2: there is time for some respect for the American people,
37:39
Speaker 2: not not people in boxes, not in that box, this box.
37:43
Speaker 2: All of us together. It's time to unite, come together,
37:47
Speaker 2: and make a difference in this country. And, you know,
37:50
Speaker 2: when I saw that video, I heard you say that.
37:52
Speaker 2: It reminded me of Aretha Franklin's respect. So I'm going
37:57
Speaker 2: to go into this commercial break with Aretha Franklin because
38:00
Speaker 2: of you. What about that?
38:02
Speaker 11: Okay, that's wonderful.
38:05
Speaker 2: Thank you, Laverne. I appreciate you coming on.
38:07
Speaker 11: Thank you.
38:08
Speaker 6: Thank you so much for inviting me.
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39:40
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39:43
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39:46
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39:59
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40:00
Speaker 10: Thank you, Booker. Thank you for having me.
40:02
Speaker 2: Ann, I want to have a conversation about what you did.
40:05
Speaker 2: You had an idea. You and I think one other
40:07
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40:14
Speaker 2: Talk about the start of that, and then we'll just
40:17
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Speaker 10: All right, that sounds fair enough.
40:22
Speaker 8: I actually was born into a family that really enjoyed
40:28
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40:31
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
40:31
Speaker 10: I had a mom.
40:32
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry that that was your life. I'm sorry
40:37
Speaker 2: to interrupt you, but go ahead.
40:39
Speaker 10: At the time, we were too.
40:41
Speaker 2: As kids.
40:41
Speaker 10: You're rolling your eyes going, oh my goodness.
40:44
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40:47
Speaker 2: I understand.
40:48
Speaker 10: You can relate.
40:49
Speaker 8: Um, we, I had a mom that nowadays I think
40:52
Speaker 8: would be referred to as an activist. You know, we
40:54
Speaker 8: would drive past the Texaco sign and she'd see a
40:56
Speaker 8: red star and right away she'd talk about communism and we,
41:00
Speaker 8: you know, she pulled us out of the public schools
41:02
Speaker 8: cause she felt that they were indoctrinating us. And this
41:04
Speaker 8: was years ago, like decades ago and put us into
41:08
Speaker 8: a school where it is now worldwide with its homeschooling
41:11
Speaker 8: and nationwide with its curriculum, uh, Christian Liberty Academy. And
41:15
Speaker 8: when she put us in, we were in a church
41:17
Speaker 8: basement and I saw a huge change in what we
41:20
Speaker 8: were taught. We were taught politics in that we talked
41:23
Speaker 8: about loving our country, being.
41:25
Speaker 10: Conservative, and loving God first.
41:28
Speaker 8: And it just left a real mark on me.
41:31
Speaker 10: So, you know, you get busy, you get married, you
41:33
Speaker 10: have children, you have businesses, you're working, you're busy.
41:36
Speaker 8: And you kind of get away from the politics a little.
41:39
Speaker 8: My first president I voted for was President Reagan, and
41:42
Speaker 8: we all loved him and saw what he did. But,
41:44
Speaker 8: you know, you're not always on top of everything like
41:47
Speaker 8: you should be. So, In 2018, I decided to start
41:52
Speaker 8: an account on Twitter. I wanted to support President Trump
41:56
Speaker 8: and just keep up on what was going on. And
41:58
Speaker 8: I thought, you know, this will be great. We'll connect
42:00
Speaker 8: with other patriots. And within a year, I had 120,000 followers.
42:04
Speaker 8: I had a nice voice and was able to have
42:06
Speaker 8: a lot of cool people following me who I really liked,
42:09
Speaker 8: true patriots. And I really enjoyed that voice. But in 2019,
42:13
Speaker 8: Trump died.
42:16
Speaker 10: Retweeted me. He actually quote tweeted me and thanked me
42:19
Speaker 10: for a tweet that I did. And boy, all heck
42:22
Speaker 10: broke loose. And I thought, oh, this isn't good.
42:24
Speaker 8: You know, it's not good to get that kind of attention.
42:27
Speaker 2: I didn't ask for this, did I? I know that's
42:30
Speaker 2: what you were thinking.
42:31
Speaker 10: Yeah, exactly.
42:32
Speaker 8: It was, most people thought it was great. I was
42:34
Speaker 8: panicking because of course it brings out all the trolls.
42:37
Speaker 8: So in 2020, I just knew in 2020, I knew that,
42:42
Speaker 8: that the election was not going to go smoothly because
42:45
Speaker 8: as we all know, he got in very much as
42:49
Speaker 8: a fluke, a very good fluke, but a fluke in 2016.
42:53
Speaker 8: And so in 2020, I just knew they weren't going
42:56
Speaker 8: to let him have this easily. And I knew our
42:59
Speaker 8: accounts would be in peril. I could see trolls coming out.
43:01
Speaker 8: We blocked more people on the account after he had
43:05
Speaker 8: retweeted us or quote tweeted us.
43:08
Speaker 10: Than we ever did.
43:09
Speaker 8: So with that thought in the summer of August, it
43:13
Speaker 8: was of 2020. Um, I started thinking about, I really
43:17
Speaker 8: wanted to.
43:17
Speaker 10: Do a website and I had become really good friends.
43:20
Speaker 10: You know, a lot of people do podcasts.
43:22
Speaker 8: A lot of people are very busy putting in their opinions,
43:24
Speaker 8: which is great. You know, especially people that want to
43:27
Speaker 8: stand up for truth. And I thought, you know, I'm
43:29
Speaker 8: not sure I want to get on a podcast or
43:31
Speaker 8: anything quite like that.
43:32
Speaker 10: I mean, we're retired. We're supposed to be enjoying life,
43:35
Speaker 10: kicking back and with our toes in the sand.
43:37
Speaker 8: And, uh, Instead, I thought, you know, a website would
43:39
Speaker 8: be really great because I enjoy writing. And I had
43:43
Speaker 8: happened to become a really good friend with a really
43:45
Speaker 8: neat guy who is a legal immigrant from Israel. And
43:52
Speaker 8: in my past, I've noticed that the people who love
43:54
Speaker 8: our country, I don't want to say they love it
43:56
Speaker 8: the most, but they get the freedom the most. It's
43:59
Speaker 8: the legal immigrants. And so I asked, he's the tech guy,
44:04
Speaker 8: and I said, what would you think of this? And
44:06
Speaker 8: he thought that'd be great. Just to add in, and
44:09
Speaker 8: this is a whole different context, so I won't go
44:12
Speaker 8: into it in detail, but another thing that took me
44:14
Speaker 8: to this point of wanting to get involved in this
44:18
Speaker 8: was I wanted to write a book about how I
44:20
Speaker 8: saw our.
44:22
Speaker 10: Family who homeschooled our children.
44:26
Speaker 8: Back when we did it, it was not at all mainstream.
44:29
Speaker 8: A Christian family. We've been married forever. We had a
44:32
Speaker 8: couple of kids here. And we thought, this will be great.
44:35
Speaker 8: We'll do it this way. And we saw our daughter
44:38
Speaker 8: get pulled into something, an organization, where she got really indoctrinated.
44:43
Speaker 8: And it was told to us that this organization was
44:46
Speaker 8: about empowering young women.
44:49
Speaker 10: And what we saw was anything but. And they'd really.
44:53
Speaker 8: Been going rough on some of these young women for
44:56
Speaker 8: 10 years, and nobody stood up and did a thing.
44:58
Speaker 2: What year was that, Ann? Was that 2020? That's going back.
45:03
Speaker 10: No, that was going back 10 years before.
45:05
Speaker 8: So like I said, I'm not trying to digress, but
45:08
Speaker 8: in the back of my mind, the whole idea, I
45:10
Speaker 8: didn't get on Twitter for that reason, but the whole
45:12
Speaker 8: idea I wanted to do a website besides having a
45:14
Speaker 8: voice because I was worried about not having a voice
45:17
Speaker 8: anymore on Twitter. But the main reason, the underlying factor
45:22
Speaker 8: was I saw our family get run through the mill
45:26
Speaker 8: for standing up to an organization. Everybody would know this organization.
45:30
Speaker 8: It is world famous.
45:31
Speaker 10: It's been around 100 years.
45:33
Speaker 8: And we saw what it did to our family. So
45:36
Speaker 8: indoctrination is not just in the schools, it's in organizations
45:40
Speaker 8: as well. So that together, that feeling, and I was
45:43
Speaker 8: working on a book at the time, and that feeling
45:46
Speaker 8: of what happened to us together with knowing what Trump
45:49
Speaker 8: was going to go through, because we just knew it
45:51
Speaker 8: would not be handed back to him, even if he
45:54
Speaker 8: won legally, this election in 2020 really spurred us on
45:59
Speaker 8: to start this website. So I asked this friend of
46:01
Speaker 8: mine that had become really good friends with. And he said, sure,
46:04
Speaker 8: let's do that.
46:05
Speaker 10: And Patriot Parents came about in that way.
46:09
Speaker 8: And we really wanted to make sure that we would
46:12
Speaker 8: inform and inspire and ignite people to want to get involved,
46:19
Speaker 8: to want to be a voice for faith, family, and freedom.
46:24
Speaker 8: So this is how Patriot Parents came about.
46:26
Speaker 2: That's how it started. And it has grown and grown.
46:29
Speaker 2: You have a newsletter that comes out monthly. And I
46:32
Speaker 2: want you to tell people how they can get that information.
46:36
Speaker 2: And then talk a little bit about the inspiration, what
46:40
Speaker 2: you're trying to do with it. You also have resources available.
46:43
Speaker 2: So people can go to PatriotParents.org and find out more
46:49
Speaker 2: information about all types of things when it comes to
46:52
Speaker 2: your child, protecting your child, educating your child, and all
46:56
Speaker 2: of those things.
46:57
Speaker 10: Sure.
46:58
Speaker 8: Well, anyone who wants to subscribe to our newsletter, we
47:01
Speaker 8: don't just put people in there.
47:02
Speaker 10: They have to subscribe. It's free.
47:04
Speaker 8: And you just go to our website, patriotparents.org, and hit subscribe.
47:08
Speaker 8: We never share the emails or farm them out or
47:11
Speaker 8: sell them or anything.
47:12
Speaker 10: We're very protective of people.
47:14
Speaker 8: And it's neat because we get a lot of feedback
47:16
Speaker 8: from people through our email in that manner.
47:19
Speaker 10: And so we know what people are interested in.
47:21
Speaker 8: But what we did, it was we started realizing a
47:23
Speaker 8: lot of people felt overwhelmed, like I said, raising.
47:26
Speaker 11: Families, working.
47:27
Speaker 8: They don't get in on the real news of things.
47:29
Speaker 8: So our goal was to put out the news. When
47:31
Speaker 8: we do our newsletter, it's kind of our take on
47:34
Speaker 8: what's going on, just food for thought sort of a thing.
47:37
Speaker 8: We do an opening, which we call the rant, which
47:40
Speaker 8: sets the tone for the newsletter. And then we do
47:42
Speaker 8: blogs that will go into specific topics. And sometimes they're
47:46
Speaker 8: even more a little bit, I don't want to say
47:48
Speaker 8: psychology based, but day to day living based rather than
47:51
Speaker 8: just news, you know. But we like to provide, we
47:54
Speaker 8: have topics, we have resources for people. We have, you know,
47:57
Speaker 8: under resources, movies and documentaries and a Patriot library and
48:01
Speaker 8: a place that you can find things for kids. And
48:04
Speaker 8: we do a stay informed area where there's election integrity
48:09
Speaker 8: and election fraud and COVID-19, things like this. And we
48:14
Speaker 8: have words from the wise, which we have something from
48:16
Speaker 8: you on there, Booker. And we do put Save Your Republic.
48:20
Speaker 8: So what we like to do, we're not trying to
48:21
Speaker 8: promote ourselves publicly. We're trying to really promote like-minded patriots
48:26
Speaker 8: who have the same worldview, not just in our country,
48:30
Speaker 8: but worldview as we do. And we see what's going
48:33
Speaker 8: on and we want them to have some recognition as well.
48:36
Speaker 8: So we like to work with other people who are
48:38
Speaker 8: trying to do what we are. Uh, we have a
48:40
Speaker 8: call to action where there's donations and prayers. We just
48:44
Speaker 8: met up with Roger Stone, had a fundraiser with him
48:47
Speaker 8: recently and put them in our newsletter, um, and call
48:51
Speaker 8: to action to help him out. You know, this is
48:52
Speaker 8: for people who've gotten in trouble sometimes, or just trying
48:55
Speaker 8: to do the right thing. Petitions and phone calls, if
48:58
Speaker 8: there's something going on in the government people should know about.
49:02
Speaker 8: We promote heroes, people, everyday people we see as heroes,
49:05
Speaker 8: like a Mike Lindell and Steve Friend, any whistleblowers that
49:08
Speaker 8: we feel have stood up to be truth tellers.
49:11
Speaker 10: We have a section with truth tellers where.
49:13
Speaker 8: We put people that we really respect and like, Tucker,
49:17
Speaker 8: Matt Gates, Peter Schweitzer, Rajiv Gabriel, people who are really
49:21
Speaker 8: out there saying the truth and not afraid to do
49:24
Speaker 8: so because we all need that. And then recently, a
49:27
Speaker 8: couple of years back, we decided to do a candidates
49:29
Speaker 8: page and we vet.
49:31
Speaker 10: Everybody we put on there.
49:32
Speaker 8: And we have not just for Trump and for nationwide candidates,
49:36
Speaker 8: but also for.
49:38
Speaker 10: People who are local. but we do go through all
49:41
Speaker 10: of them.
49:41
Speaker 8: Uh, right now we're really heavily supporting Brandon Gill, who's
49:45
Speaker 8: Dinesh D'Souza's son-in-law.
49:46
Speaker 10: He's just a wonderful young man. He stands for everything.
49:49
Speaker 2: He just won Tuesday night.
49:51
Speaker 11: Yes. Yes.
49:52
Speaker 10: And we're just so happy.
49:52
Speaker 8: He has, you know, of course he has Trump some, uh,
49:56
Speaker 8: support and, and we just, we just want to see
49:59
Speaker 8: other really good America first Patriots get in. And if
50:02
Speaker 8: there's any way we can help, we do so. And
50:04
Speaker 8: of course we have a little merchandise, uh, page, but
50:06
Speaker 8: that's mostly, um, You know, mugs, backpacks and things, T-shirts.
50:10
Speaker 8: We put Trump's mugshot in one on a T-shirt about
50:13
Speaker 8: retribution and decide that whatever we make from that goes
50:16
Speaker 8: back to his campaign. But we just like the idea
50:21
Speaker 8: of keeping people in under going back, not back in
50:26
Speaker 8: time in a negative way, but going back to the
50:29
Speaker 8: fundamentals of this country was built on. And we've gotten
50:35
Speaker 8: so far away from that. And the best way is
50:37
Speaker 8: through our children and our families. But we don't just
50:41
Speaker 8: say this is for parents because there's many people down
50:44
Speaker 8: here where we are that are fighting for children. And
50:46
Speaker 8: some of them don't even have children of their own.
50:48
Speaker 8: And they're very effective. So this is what our goal is,
50:52
Speaker 8: is to get people together and make a difference and
50:56
Speaker 8: be truth tellers and let other people know what's going
50:59
Speaker 8: on so they can wake up and get on board
51:01
Speaker 8: with what we're trying to do here, which is elect children.
51:03
Speaker 8: the real next president of the United States, Donald J.
51:06
Speaker 10: Trump.
51:07
Speaker 2: And you are listening to Patriot, and the website again
51:11
Speaker 2: is patriotparents.org. Go there and subscribe. It doesn't cost anything.
51:16
Speaker 2: It's free. And get the monthly newsletter and find out
51:19
Speaker 2: what they were up to. You mentioned homeschooling, and it
51:23
Speaker 2: really seems like homeschooling is growing in the country. And
51:27
Speaker 2: I did see some stats on that, but It's amazing
51:30
Speaker 2: how many people are now homeschooling, but it sounds like
51:33
Speaker 2: you did it a long time ago. What are you
51:36
Speaker 2: hearing from the homeschooling community?
51:39
Speaker 10: Well, it's changed quite a bit.
51:41
Speaker 8: It's so mainstream now, and they have videos and DVDs,
51:45
Speaker 8: and they have online classrooms where people can get on
51:50
Speaker 8: there and do actually with other people, with other kids.
51:56
Speaker 8: And it's so changed when we did it. It was
51:58
Speaker 8: so unpopular when we did it. And now it's, like
52:02
Speaker 8: I say, become very mainstream. Erica Donalds runs a homeschool
52:07
Speaker 8: group and we put her on our, the information of
52:11
Speaker 8: her homeschool groups on our website to support her and
52:15
Speaker 8: what she's doing. But it's changed so much because when
52:18
Speaker 8: we did it, it was almost looked at as offensive
52:21
Speaker 8: to other people. Why don't you want your children with ours?
52:25
Speaker 8: Why do you think you're a better teacher? You're not
52:27
Speaker 8: a teacher.
52:28
Speaker 10: Why this?
52:28
Speaker 2: Why that? There was a stigma, wasn't there, with homeschooling?
52:34
Speaker 11: Yes.
52:35
Speaker 8: And what we found was, unfortunately, I have to say,
52:38
Speaker 8: we were part of a couple homeschool groups where maybe
52:41
Speaker 8: once a week we got together and did teaching of
52:43
Speaker 8: each other's kids. And I kind of understand the stigma.
52:48
Speaker 8: And the reason I do is there are a lot
52:50
Speaker 8: of women there, and I will say women, men do
52:53
Speaker 8: homeschool too, but They really weren't teaching kids. They'd have
52:57
Speaker 8: a school day like, hey, let's learn about snow. Let's
53:00
Speaker 8: go have a snowball fight. Well, no, you can't do
53:03
Speaker 8: that with your children because it's a serious deal. And
53:05
Speaker 8: so we fashioned a real school room, a bar garage
53:09
Speaker 8: in our home, and we really did it the right way.
53:11
Speaker 10: We prayed every morning.
53:12
Speaker 8: We pledged allegiance to the flag. And they learned every
53:17
Speaker 8: bit of curriculum had a Christian base to it.
53:21
Speaker 10: And that's why we did it.
53:23
Speaker 8: And nowadays it's so much more accepted and you don't
53:27
Speaker 8: get that stigma anymore of, oh, your children won't fit in. Well,
53:31
Speaker 8: you know, as parents at this point, we should be
53:34
Speaker 8: glad for that, that we're raising children that are independently
53:37
Speaker 8: minded instead of just.
53:39
Speaker 10: Going along and being indoctrinated like sheep. So it's changed. Yeah,
53:43
Speaker 10: it has.
53:44
Speaker 2: And we also see that Christian and Catholic schools, they
53:48
Speaker 2: are growing as well, which I think is a good sign.
53:51
Speaker 2: And you mentioned that you were homeschooled, and that was
53:54
Speaker 2: a long time ago. We're about the same age. Ann
53:57
Speaker 2: and I speak from time to time, so we know
53:59
Speaker 2: each other outside the world of social media and outside
54:03
Speaker 2: the world of either one of our organizations, which I
54:06
Speaker 2: can tell you, as she is speaking and talking about
54:09
Speaker 2: this website, there is also a misconception among so many
54:13
Speaker 2: people in the population that believe that if you have
54:16
Speaker 2: a website, you somehow are making money on it. And
54:19
Speaker 2: from my experience, and I think from Ann's as well,
54:23
Speaker 2: it is not a money-making proposition most of the time.
54:26
Speaker 2: In fact, it drains resources. And I know that's been
54:30
Speaker 2: my experience, and I know that it's yours too. But
54:33
Speaker 2: let's go back a few minutes ago in the conversation.
54:36
Speaker 2: When you were talking about your mom pulling you out
54:38
Speaker 2: in homeschooling, I can say from my experience in public education,
54:43
Speaker 2: because I was thinking about this the other night, back
54:45
Speaker 2: in the fifth grade, I can remember to the fifth
54:47
Speaker 2: grade that we would actually read a scripture in public
54:51
Speaker 2: school every morning, we would do a Pledge of Allegiance
54:55
Speaker 2: and sort of have a conversation about the scripture that
54:59
Speaker 2: we just read in public school. And that would have
55:02
Speaker 2: been in the 1970s, mid-1970s. And wow, have things changed
55:07
Speaker 2: since then.
55:07
Speaker 10: Yes.
55:08
Speaker 2: Patriot Ann is who you're listening to. And I know
55:10
Speaker 2: she mentioned being down here, and she's in southern Florida.
55:15
Speaker 2: She goes down there to retire, her and her husband.
55:18
Speaker 2: and you're working more than ever. Thank you so much
55:20
Speaker 2: for all the work that you do. She's heavily involved
55:23
Speaker 2: in politics, and that's what it's all about, folks. You
55:26
Speaker 2: have to get involved to make the difference, and you're
55:28
Speaker 2: listening to someone that has done that. It is patriotparents.org
55:33
Speaker 2: is that website, and thank you so much for joining
55:36
Speaker 2: the conversation.
55:37
Speaker 10: It was my pleasure. Thank you so much, Booker.
55:39
Speaker 2: And remember, you were told 2,000 years ago that you
55:42
Speaker 2: are the salt of the earth, and salt without flavor,
55:45
Speaker 2: it has no value. So whatever you do, keep being salty.
55:48
Speaker 2: Have a great night.
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