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"Civil Rights?" (FTTxJT Fri 090426 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We've cut the cost of radio listening by, hell, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't cost anything in the first place. So let's say.
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  Speaker 2: $ 1 million.
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  Speaker 1: And call it even.
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  Speaker 3: First thing today, my children are going to talk to me.
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  Speaker 4: I have a suggestion for the group. Our management team
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  Speaker 4: should take this up at the next board meeting. Right
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  Speaker 4: about the time I become bored. We should rename the
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  Speaker 4: company Thomas Media LLC is boring. I think it should
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  Speaker 4: be like a duck productions. And it's catchy, and people
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  Speaker 4: will say, what does he mean by that? Because I'm
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  Speaker 4: sitting here like a duck, looking calm and reserved, waiting
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  Speaker 4: for my first cup of coffee this morning at Common Ground,
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  Speaker 4: this great event space here in our flagship city that
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  Speaker 4: hosts the weekly City Elders Get Together, as we promote
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  Speaker 4: the idea of two things. There are two things. that
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  Speaker 4: we here at the Spanish Inquisition know. Among the things
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  Speaker 4: that we support, the two things that I am most
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  Speaker 4: ardently in favor of moving forward is finally getting somebody
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  Speaker 4: to hold a convention of states, an Article V convention. Conventionofstates.com,
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  Speaker 4: this particular call that we're working on, is for budgetary
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  Speaker 4: concerns to get the budget under control because, well, drunken
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  Speaker 4: sailors are on the phone and saying, you're giving us
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  Speaker 4: a bad name, man. And the other is to get
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  Speaker 4: city elders chapters in all the cities around America, starting
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  Speaker 4: with the ones that hear the program. Of course, the
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  Speaker 4: subtext of that is I want more cities hearing what
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  Speaker 4: we do here. The Virginia way has got to be heard.
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  Speaker 4: Just like Jefferson rode forth from Charlottesville 250 years ago,
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  Speaker 4: we ride forth to show you that life, liberty, and
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  Speaker 4: the pursuit of happiness is not racist or fascist or
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  Speaker 4: any other ist that you can label it with. That
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  Speaker 4: being said, here we are. We sit, and there are
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  Speaker 4: plenty of things to get into this morning as we
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  Speaker 4: weigh in on a lot of the matters of the
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  Speaker 4: day and wonder what would happen if we had ethical
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  Speaker 4: people sitting in those offices, because that's really the crux
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  Speaker 4: of where we are right now. We have people who
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  Speaker 4: are checking their ethics at the door rather than their
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  Speaker 4: party politics. But here are the first things as we
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  Speaker 4: have collected them for you. The Trump administration Thursday has
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  Speaker 4: asked the Supreme Court to reject an order by a
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  Speaker 4: federal judge that stops it from implementing rules regulating mail-in ballots.
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  Speaker 4: This is just hours after being unable to tell that
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  Speaker 4: judge whether the computer system that would govern the entire
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  Speaker 4: project was operational yet. The administration filed its appeal the
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  Speaker 4: afternoon before mail ballots were scheduled to be sent out
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  Speaker 4: by North Carolina, which kicks off a wave of states
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  Speaker 4: shipping ballots out for the midterm election. The issue at
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  Speaker 4: hand is whether or not the voter rolls are clear
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  Speaker 4: of people who are no longer citizens of that state.
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  Speaker 4: Two Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Trump administration release
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  Speaker 4: nearly $ 40 million in election security funding ahead of the
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  Speaker 4: midterm elections. These are Senators Alex Padilla of California and
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  Speaker 4: Congressman Joseph Morrell of New York, both Democrats. They demand
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  Speaker 4: that Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen and Nick Anderson,
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  Speaker 4: acting head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, released
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  Speaker 4: the funds to their state boards of election. Missouri Supreme
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  Speaker 4: Court has unanimously blocked new congressional districts backed by the
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  Speaker 4: administration from being used in the November election and ordered
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  Speaker 4: a statewide vote on whether to uphold or reject the
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  Speaker 4: new map, which would then make it go into effect
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  Speaker 4: for next year's elections. Justice Department is preparing an election
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  Speaker 4: monitoring effort according to Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
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  Speaker 4: Harmeet Dhillon, unprecedented levels. We are observers similar to observers
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  Speaker 4: for campaigns, observers for the League of Women Voters, the ACLU,
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  Speaker 4: and other groups like that, Dhillon told Newsmax. NVIDIA has
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  Speaker 4: purchased Hugging Face. That's the open source AI site that
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  Speaker 4: was hacked earlier last month by Anthropic. The asking price, $ 12. 9 billion,
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  Speaker 4: the company announced yesterday. The deal puts the world's most
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  Speaker 4: valuable company in a position to expand its control of
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  Speaker 4: the AI ecosystem beyond just supplying the semiconductor chips. And
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  Speaker 4: Congressman Andrew Clyde of Georgia is leading more than 60
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  Speaker 4: House Republicans filing an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 4: to rule that bans on AR-15 semi-automatic rifles are unconstitutional.
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  Speaker 4: And freshman Brandon Gill of Texas introduced a bill Thursday
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  Speaker 4: that would prohibit restaurants from accepting SNAP benefits. Those are
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  Speaker 4: our first things this morning. And don't forget, we're packing
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  Speaker 4: up the gear. We're here on location in our flagship
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  Speaker 4: city out at a place called Common Ground. It's an
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  Speaker 4: amazing place. event space. You can have meetings, revivals, concerts,
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  Speaker 4: whatever you want, full sound system, bar, coffee, everything you want. Here,
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  Speaker 4: I'm brewing a cup of coffee for myself as we're
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  Speaker 4: getting ready for a City Elders get-together. You can find
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  Speaker 4: out more about starting a City Elders chapter where you are. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I guess first you should find out if there is one.
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  Speaker 4: Go to cityelders.org And you can look up and see
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  Speaker 4: if there is. If there isn't, it's really easy to start.
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  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, our host here, Kevin Harris,
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  Speaker 4: says you can email him, kevin at cityeldersva.org to ask
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  Speaker 1: On your to-do list, putting the radio on is the
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  Speaker 1: first thing today.
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  Speaker 17: Here's to the babies.
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  Speaker 4: In a brand new world Here's to the beauty of
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  Speaker 4: the stars Here's to the travelers on the open road.
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  Speaker 4: Here's to the dreamers in the bars. Here's to the
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  Speaker 4: soldiers of the bitter war. Here's to the war that
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  Speaker 4: bears their name. So already it comes. And I appreciate
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  Speaker 4: it because the reason we do this is people say, well,
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  Speaker 4: so early in the morning, who could possibly? Well, you know,
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  Speaker 4: this is the best time personally to get anything done
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  Speaker 4: because it's before everyone else starts asking you to do
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  Speaker 4: stuff for them. You can come up with a list
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  Speaker 4: of things you want other people to do for you.
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  Speaker 4: but Dan is listening to us up in Joliet on
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  Speaker 4: WJOL and I appreciate you. He says, I heard the
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  Speaker 4: news story about Harmeet Dhillon. How is she able to
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  Speaker 4: equate herself with a list of nonprofits like the League
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  Speaker 4: of Women Voters? They're the government. This is sending stormtroopers
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  Speaker 4: to intimidate voters, Joe. Okay, and I can understand why
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  Speaker 4: that would be your impression, but election officials, now she
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  Speaker 4: is the civil rights director, and this is where a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people have been mixing up, and maybe it's intentional,
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  Speaker 4: maybe the, let's call it incomplete script writing at the
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  Speaker 4: news desks are.
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  Speaker 4: I won't even say it's intentional, even though I'm pretty
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  Speaker 4: sure it's intentional. When they talk about the Department of
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  Speaker 4: Justice sending officers to be election monitors, most places will
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  Speaker 4: roil at the idea that this is a states' rights issue.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sorry, this falls under the same category of
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  Speaker 4: George Wallace's saying who gets to go to what school
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  Speaker 4: is a state's rights issue. And I know it makes
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  Speaker 4: people uncomfortable when I compare one thing to another. But
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  Speaker 4: this is a civil rights issue of whether somebody's vote
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  Speaker 4: is being diluted. Especially, you know, it's interesting. I was
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  Speaker 4: looking at a poll, came a CNN poll, that said
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  Speaker 4: over 70% of the black community supported all the things
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  Speaker 4: that are in the Save America Act. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: think that gets reported nearly enough, because this was the
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  Speaker 4: community that was told they were only three-fifths of a
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  Speaker 4: person at the founding of this nation. As a matter
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  Speaker 4: of fact, that's something that guys like Ibram Kendi, knee
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  Speaker 4: Harry Rodgers, will go on ad nauseum about is that, oh,
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  Speaker 4: the founding of the nation, just for apportionment's sake, blacks
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  Speaker 4: are only three-fifths of a person. So diluting the power
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  Speaker 4: of your vote has been something the Democratic Party has
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  Speaker 4: been doing since the end of the Civil War in ways,
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  Speaker 4: including the 1929 Permanent Reapportionment Act, which kept growing prosperous
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  Speaker 4: black communities from getting more and more and more and
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  Speaker 4: more and more seats in Congress because that kept whitey scared. What?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not allowed to say whitey? I'm Caucasian. If I
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  Speaker 4: can't say whitey, who can? Why are you shaking your head?
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  Speaker 4: Because I've said it three times now. All right, so honky, cracker,
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  Speaker 4: what phrase should I use? Let me get to you.
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  Speaker 4: They'll sort it out at the business end of the
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  Speaker 4: Standards and Practices Office. Good morning. You're on the air
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  Speaker 4: with Joe this morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Joe. It's Kareem.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Kareem. Happy Friday. How are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 4: What part of the God's green earth are you driving
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  Speaker 4: through this morning?
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  Speaker 8: I'm on the outer loop in D.C.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, all right. Now I have to ask you, it
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  Speaker 4: is 524 Eastern Daylight Time. Is there already traffic backing
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  Speaker 4: up on the outer loop around D.C.
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  Speaker 8: Today, yes. Now, yes. I've been here.
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  Speaker 4: This is so bad.
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  Speaker 8: I've been through here two in the morning, and I've
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  Speaker 8: had to stop for traffic. Two in the morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 4: It's so bad. This is so bad. Somebody told me
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  Speaker 4: once that if you don't leave work by 3 o'clock
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  Speaker 4: on any given afternoon, you're going to sit in traffic
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  Speaker 4: trying to get around D.C., It says rush hour begins
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  Speaker 4: at 3 and ends at about 8 or 9, but
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  Speaker 4: apparently starts at dark 30. Well, while you're sitting there
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  Speaker 4: having some time to think about it, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 8: Joe, just to bolster your support of our civil rights,
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  Speaker 8: I've got historical examples. I'll try to be brief. I
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  Speaker 8: know I get long winded sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: You can be boxer if you want.
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  Speaker 8: You're too kind. The election observers are literally observers. They're
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  Speaker 8: not armed. They're not going in to stop the proceedings
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  Speaker 8: as they go on. They're just there to watch. And honestly,
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  Speaker 8: if you need a historical example of civil rights and
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  Speaker 8: who does the enforcement, we have a couple examples of
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  Speaker 8: Ole Miss and Arkansas. We can look to Eisenhower and
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  Speaker 8: what he did. He sent in the 101st.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And that was my example. That's that's why I brought
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  Speaker 4: up Governor Wallace in Alabama. You know, it's a state
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  Speaker 4: fraud issue. Who goes to what school? And I don't
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  Speaker 4: want these folks intermingling. And and we had to do
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  Speaker 4: something about that as well.
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  Speaker 8: Joe, there's a lot of stories that people, like I said,
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  Speaker 8: three generations for people to forget what historically happened. One
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  Speaker 8: of the first counties in Arkansas to integrate was where
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  Speaker 8: Sheridan is. And they integrated so quickly because they only
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  Speaker 8: had three black students. So there's a reason why they
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  Speaker 8: were able to adapt so quickly. It's because they already
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  Speaker 8: had it baked in. Arkansas has a lot of sunset towns.
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  Speaker 8: I'll leave it at that. But going to what our
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  Speaker 8: current civil rights is doing, Legal women voters, Democrats, Republicans,
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  Speaker 8: all these people have– you remember 2020 election.
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  Speaker 4: Detroit.
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  Speaker 8: Observers, yes, observers. 2020 election, Detroit had people putting on
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  Speaker 8: cardboard blocking the windows. That ain't legal.
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  Speaker 4: Well, remember the Black Panthers in– was it 2012 outside
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  Speaker 4: of the polling places in Philadelphia?
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  Speaker 8: Joke. History, it may not repeat, but it rhymes. So
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  Speaker 8: when we look at civil rights, the people who can
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  Speaker 8: actually– they have to control their speech. They have to
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  Speaker 8: make sure when they talk, they're not speaking as a
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  Speaker 8: private or personal people. They're speaking as part of that institution.
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  Speaker 8: So they have– they might have their P's and Q's.
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  Speaker 8: They are pedantic. They do have to be– follow certain procedures.
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  Speaker 8: And right now we have people in the civil rights
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  Speaker 8: that are doing things that they have not– they haven't
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  Speaker 8: exercised their power for all Americans before. And so I
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  Speaker 8: do get where there's concern about them forcing their way and, oh,
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  Speaker 8: was that a vote for Trump? I do get that. Now, granted,
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  Speaker 8: that may be a straw man I'm presenting, but.
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  Speaker 4: Well, but I think the thing here about the Department
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  Speaker 4: of Justice watching over the elections and the reason there's
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  Speaker 4: such a hue in crime from one particular political party
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  Speaker 4: is that the implication is that law enforcement is there
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  Speaker 4: to stop bad things from happening. And it's not the case.
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  Speaker 4: So why do they have to do all these things?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a bunch of ballads for you. And
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  Speaker 4: a love letter to Harmeet Dhillon. Not creepy at all.
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  Speaker 4: So the question, and let me just stick the landing
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  Speaker 4: here on our floor exercises. The point I was making
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  Speaker 4: about us being an experiment, I know that's a phrase
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  Speaker 4: that the left likes to use. Our experiment in democracy
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  Speaker 4: is because they want to do it the Marxist way.
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  Speaker 4: We have lots of examples of Marxism. And we have
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  Speaker 4: a few countries that play patty cake with our form
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  Speaker 4: of liberty-driven government. They pay lip service to it, but
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  Speaker 4: there's an authority figure at the end of the chain.
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  Speaker 4: You have free speech up to a point. There's a column,
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Shapiro, long time, I think he's 117, been covering
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  Speaker 4: Virginia politics since Jefferson Davis was governor.
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  Speaker 12: He.
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  Speaker 4: Wrote a column about speech that I want to get into.
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  Speaker 4: If not saying something is protected speech, which is an
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  Speaker 4: interesting concept to it as well. But the idea that
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  Speaker 4: your liberties are sacrosanct above all else, and that you
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  Speaker 4: have rights that cannot be infringed by other people, and
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  Speaker 4: your right to have your vote cast as one whole
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  Speaker 4: vote is one of those civil rights. The left loves
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  Speaker 4: to flog away at parts of the 14th Amendment, the
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  Speaker 4: ones that suit them, but then when we point out
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  Speaker 4: that we have a right to have our vote count
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  Speaker 4: as one whole vote and not get diluted by people
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  Speaker 4: who aren't citizens and aren't qualified to vote in our elections,
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: they lose their bowel control. Clean up on aisle five.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: Another leftist pooped all over the aisle. Because we dared
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  Speaker 4: to say that the conservatives are protected. Apparently the 14th Amendment,
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  Speaker 4: in the mind of the left wing, the Adam Schiffses
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  Speaker 4: of the world and the like, and the Nancy Pelosi's,
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: the 14th Amendment is only applicable to Democrats or Democrat voters.
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: Because the world has had so much more experience with
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: authoritarian government, we of course fall prey to it because
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: what winds up happening is people like Mark Zuckerberg or
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: his progenitor, William Randolph Hearst, will point around and say, well,
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: everyone else does it that way. And we've forgotten, Clark
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: brought this up, things we've forgotten from our childhood. Have
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: you forgotten, well, if everyone else jumped off the Chattahoochee Bridge,
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  Speaker 4: would you? And, I mean, Jefferson understood that. When he
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: put it into our cornerstone, he chiseled it into our cornerstone.
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  Speaker 4: All experience hath shown, he wrote, that mankind are more
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  Speaker 4: disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right
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  Speaker 4: themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe your business has figured out how to work amongst
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  Speaker 4: the EPA and OSHA and all those other things. Maybe
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: you've got a great accountant that can figure out the
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: tax law to your benefit. But, The point of the
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  Speaker 4: order is that's not how the country is supposed to operate.
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  Speaker 4: But we were more accustomed to authoritarian centralized governments. So
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: as people said, well, I think I should be able
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: to determine what goes on around here. We said, okay,
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: I guess so. Our cousins back in Scotland seem to
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: think that's how things are supposed to work. I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to bring this story up. Because I think it's important,
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  Speaker 4: and I will let you weigh in. I think you
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  Speaker 4: So a 13-year-old just after starting school. Tell me if
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  Speaker 4: you don't wonder why people aren't asking. a 13-year-old football
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: player named Caden Sorrell died after suffering cardiac arrest during
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  Speaker 4: practice on August 30th. Now, he just had his funeral
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: the other day. 500 people gathered in. Obviously, the tragedy
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: of a life out of order is what the ministers
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  Speaker 4: will talk about. A 13-year-old certainly isn't supposed to die.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: It might be God's will, though, to say this 13-year-old
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  Speaker 4: should smack some people in the face and say, what
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  Speaker 4: are you sticking into your kid at 13 that might
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  Speaker 4: be causing them to have cardiac arrest? According to the
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: stories I'm reading, they had no health issues, had never
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: had any sort of issues with that. But what generally
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: happens right before a school year I told you yesterday
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  Speaker 4: about an advertisement I saw on my smartphone with a
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: bunch of teenagers, big afros and long, blown-out, feathered hair
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  Speaker 4: flopping around in the backseat of a 70s-era station wagon
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  Speaker 4: playing a game of, you know, potato sack with the
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  Speaker 4: driver sticking their heads out of the window. And the
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  Speaker 4: caption on the ad was, you survived this. And I'm
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: chuckling because I'm like, yeah, I remember all that. And
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: it said, but COVID is still out there. And I
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: about near dropped my beverage on the floor. I'm like,
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: you got to be kidding me. And then it's like, well,
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: you know, people who are over the age of 50
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: with all, and the list of things that you have
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: to have happen to you in order for there to
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: be a problem with COVID-19 is, I mean, sure, it's
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: a serious flu. It is no joke at all. And
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: I'm not joking about getting the flu, but the series
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: of comorbidities we have discovered is stunning. And being 13
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: years old is not one of them. However, we don't
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: know about this young fellow's school district, but a lot
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: of schools and a lot of athletic teams require you
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  Speaker 4: to get your COVID-19 booster shots right before you go
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: back to practice. And here we have another 13-year-old who
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: just went, and somewhere in the back of his head,
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: he's like, hold it. This isn't supposed to happen until
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: I'm like 55 or 60. No autopsy results. Oh, it's
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: a tragedy. We need to investigate whether football has started
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: too young. That's the question in North Carolina. That's the
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: question the foghorn leghorns out there are saying. I say,
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: I say, we need to look into why this youth
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: football is starting so early. I think we need to
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: wait a little bit. You know, they signed with the
• 52:45
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