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"Conventional Wisdom" (Tuesday, February 17, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I love the spell of bad come in the morning
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  Speaker 1: on your to do list, Putting the radio on is
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  Speaker 1: the first thing today, Spell George.
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  Speaker 2: That's steal.
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  Speaker 3: Victory at least for work.
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  Speaker 1: When the sun comes up, drops a pet to scoops.
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  Speaker 4: Dream all the needs.
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  Speaker 3: No one the.
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  Speaker 5: Josh smile he on the eggs.
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  Speaker 4: Jo.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 6: this morning.
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  Speaker 7: On the radio program that isn't afraid to call itself
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  Speaker 7: a radio program, asking there you are in the frequency
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  Speaker 7: or amplitude modulation goodness of your favorite radio station, of
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  Speaker 7: serve you, not in that creepy twilight's own way, but
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  Speaker 7: going on in the world, because we will tell you
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  Speaker 7: what went on in the world, and then we will
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  Speaker 7: tell you our analysis of it. But moreover, we will
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  Speaker 7: find out how it's impacting you, Like hamp listening down
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  Speaker 7: the folks who tune in wherever you are our flagship station,
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  Speaker 7: Scott Nancy down from Hampton Roads listening to wnis for
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  Speaker 7: the first hour, and I appreciate it, Scott says. He
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  Speaker 7: then switches over to stream our flagship station. When the
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  Speaker 7: hour that we're on and every hour that we have
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  Speaker 7: are the KFAR up in Fairbanks carries the whole show.
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  Speaker 7: I know a couple of folks in Alabama listen on
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: There there are there are a few stations that carry
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  Speaker 7: all four hours as part of their web stream. So
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  Speaker 7: you find those. We should Can we make a page
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  Speaker 7: just see what people would.
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  Speaker 6: Tune in for.
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  Speaker 7: The danger in that, the peril in that is I
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  Speaker 7: don't want to detract from the stations that are carrying
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  Speaker 7: us for an hour because they might turn around and say, well,
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  Speaker 7: you're telling people to leave when our you know, other
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  Speaker 7: guy comes on and and that's not fair. And uh,
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  Speaker 7: you know, so you've got to be a good team
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  Speaker 7: player as well. But you can always go get the
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  Speaker 6: Can I download your podcast for free?
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  Speaker 3: Ji?
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  Speaker 7: I believe you can in any event. Our first things
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  Speaker 7: this morning, so you know what is going on. Horrific
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  Speaker 7: woman who shot up a hockey game as folks were
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  Speaker 7: Tina Gonsalez says, it appears that this was a targeted event,
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  Speaker 7: Iran are ready to sit down today to hold their
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  Speaker 7: second round of talks. Hopefully it lasts longer than a
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  Speaker 1: How we saying to America is being true of what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying on paper. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for letting us be of service. P you
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  Speaker 6: this morning.
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  Speaker 17: All across America talk radio and the voices of freedom.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, don't stop talking, Amen to that, stop sharing, don't
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  Speaker 7: stop laughing, don't stop caring. I think you mean caring,
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  Speaker 7: not Karen, because you know I might want to stop
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  Speaker 7: at Karen every now and then. And our friends at
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  Speaker 7: ninety w g H, so that Gunhill Road can.
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  Speaker 6: Be heard on Gunhill Road.
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  Speaker 7: And I know that because we used to drive to
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  Speaker 7: Greenwich every weekend and visit my grandparents.
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  Speaker 6: So there you go.
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  Speaker 7: Take that hometown's everywhere. And I'm not even a wandering minstrel. Well,
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  Speaker 7: I guess in radio, I was joining us one of
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  Speaker 7: the greats. And in my radio career there are people
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  Speaker 7: I've been honored to meet, and one of them is
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  Speaker 7: Mark Meckler. He's one of the founding voices in the
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  Speaker 7: Tea Party movement and he's the founder of the Article
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  Speaker 7: five convention attempts we call the Convention of States project,
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  Speaker 7: and Mark, welcome back to the program and congratulations on
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  Speaker 7: getting the twentieth state signed on to the Convention of
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  Speaker 7: States Compact.
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  Speaker 6: How are you doing, sir, I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 8: It's great to be with you, and thanks for all
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  Speaker 8: your support over the years.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it is such a compelling thing. I was just
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  Speaker 7: reading some stuff and I know that you and I
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  Speaker 7: have talked about the jerry mandering and here in Virginia,
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  Speaker 7: every national news out that is now you know, got
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  Speaker 7: our name in their mouth because of the way Virginia
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  Speaker 7: is trying to circumvent its own constitutional prohibitions on gerrymandering
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  Speaker 7: and having politicians go back to picking their own voters.
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  Speaker 6: But if there's.
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  Speaker 7: Ever been an example, and I've tried to make this case,
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  Speaker 7: maybe you can help me as to why the Permanent
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  Speaker 7: Reapportionment Act of nineteen twenty nine might be one of
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  Speaker 7: the worst things ever that ever happened to our constitutional
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  Speaker 7: representation and certainly to the black community. Mark, because it
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  Speaker 7: leads us to where we are right now, with communities
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  Speaker 7: being cut in half and sometimes cut into four pieces.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think one of the most interesting kidbits from
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  Speaker 8: history that very few people are aware of is that
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  Speaker 8: prior to the Reapportionment Act that every ten years, when
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  Speaker 8: we had the census, which actually is not referred to
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  Speaker 8: as the census, technically should be called the Enumeration, we
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  Speaker 8: re re enumerated. We counted the people in the United
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  Speaker 8: States of America, and we created new representation to make
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  Speaker 8: sure that the districts were now so huge that there
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  Speaker 8: was no representation if you go on the original formula, Joe,
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  Speaker 8: most people don't realize this. I haven't done the calculation recently,
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  Speaker 8: but I can tell you with one hundred percent certainty
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  Speaker 8: that we would have over seven thousand representatives in the
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  Speaker 8: House of Representatives. Now, some people might gas when they
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  Speaker 8: hear that, and they think, well, how would we get
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  Speaker 8: anything done if you had seven thousand, And my.
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  Speaker 3: Answer to that is, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 6: That's the point. Well, you know, and this was the thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I.
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  Speaker 7: Don't want to say I meet in the middle, but
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  Speaker 7: I said, well, even if we just went back, and
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  Speaker 7: I bring up the fact that when George Mason of
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  Speaker 7: Virginia scribbled down the Bill of Rights and presented it
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  Speaker 7: to the Constitutional Convention in an effort to get Virginia's
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  Speaker 7: support for the Constitution. The very first thing on it,
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  Speaker 7: the thing that George Mason thought was the most important
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  Speaker 7: thing to protect the citizen from an out of control
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  Speaker 7: central government, was an equation that didn't allow a congressional
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  Speaker 7: district to get past fifty thousand citizens each And to me,
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  Speaker 7: that tells you everything you need to know about this
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  Speaker 7: one particular arcane bit, because even George Mason said, this
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  Speaker 7: is how you protect the citizen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they understood.
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  Speaker 8: There was an intense debate about that item in the convention,
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  Speaker 8: and the debate was between thirty thousand and fifty thousand. Right,
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  Speaker 8: So you think about that. Today, the average congressional district
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  Speaker 8: is over seven hundred and fifty thousand, many of them
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  Speaker 8: now over a million for a single congressional district. And
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  Speaker 8: I want you to think about that in terms of
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  Speaker 8: what a representative, because they're supposed to represent us, and
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  Speaker 8: even at fifty thousand, that seems difficult, like how do
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  Speaker 8: you represent the entry for fifty thousand people? But now
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  Speaker 8: take that to seven hundred and fifty thousand and you
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  Speaker 8: realize it's impossible.
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  Speaker 3: They actually don't represent us. Anymore.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's like and I used to say, it'd be
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  Speaker 7: like trying to represent everybody at a Washington Nationals game,
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  Speaker 7: and then I realized that fell far short of fifty thousand,
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  Speaker 7: So maybe a Los Angeles Dodgers game. But you know,
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  Speaker 7: when we look at what Congress is doing now with
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  Speaker 7: the shutdown, and we can debate whether or not DHS,
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  Speaker 7: you know, should have existed. I did it with Tom
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  Speaker 7: Ridge before he left Pennsylvania to take over the newly
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  Speaker 7: formed Department of Homeland Security. You know what they're playing
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  Speaker 7: with is security, is the safety on airplanes?
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  Speaker 6: We're wrecking our air travel.
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  Speaker 7: I think this weekend was just a mess because connecting
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  Speaker 7: flights weren't making because we were watching a blue flu
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  Speaker 7: kind of slow down at TSA because they know they're
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  Speaker 7: not getting paid. Because half of Congress, it seemed, flew
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  Speaker 7: off to Munich to watch Hillary Clinton talk Mark. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: this is this is insane. And they all said, oh, well,
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  Speaker 7: the rules were midnight was the deadline.
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  Speaker 6: You guys voted for those rules. Unvote for them and
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  Speaker 6: stay and work. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look the intent and this is the part that frustrats
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  Speaker 3: me so much.
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  Speaker 8: Show the intent of a shutdown specifically is to punish
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  Speaker 8: the American people.
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  Speaker 3: That's their intent. Some of them say it openly, Democrats
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  Speaker 3: states openly.
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  Speaker 8: The more pain that they can cause the American people,
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  Speaker 8: the more leverage they think they have over the end
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  Speaker 8: the other party.
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  Speaker 3: And I just consider that foul. That's evil. It's not
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  Speaker 3: the way our government is supposed to work. But that's
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  Speaker 3: what they're doing. They're imposing pain in order to gain leverage.
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  Speaker 7: Well in Mark Mecklarison with this Convention of States dot com.
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  Speaker 7: But you know, one of the things is they've they've
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  Speaker 8: And then at that point we would become slaves or
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, that is And it's interesting, you know when
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  Speaker 6: Article, because that's what it is.
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  Speaker 7: It's the escape patch so that the citizens can rest control,
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  Speaker 7: because it is us that are broken. It's us that
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  Speaker 7: with this Convention of States tea party founder, and where
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  Speaker 7: do people go. Let's before we get ahead of ourselves.
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  Speaker 7: We're up to twenty states have signed into the Convention
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  Speaker 3: Call.
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  Speaker 6: We need to get to thirty four. Correct, Yeah, that's correct.
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  Speaker 8: People want to learn more about that, get the basics,
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  Speaker 3: They can get everything there.
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  Speaker 8: So it takes thirty four states to call. It's never
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  Speaker 8: been done before in American history. Often people ask you, well,
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  Speaker 8: why is it taking so long, And the answer is
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  Speaker 3: That It was very measured, and so it takes years.
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  Speaker 8: It takes millions upon millions of people in support all
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  Speaker 8: across the country. It takes the super majority of the states.
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  Speaker 8: It's literally the hardest thing in our system of governance.
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  Speaker 8: But it's time to break the glass and pull that
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  Speaker 8: cord right. And it's time that we're in trouble. And
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  Speaker 8: there's a thing that there's sort of a blend of
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  Speaker 8: what you're saying that that I want to bring out
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  Speaker 8: a little bit of nuance.
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  Speaker 3: The system has been broken. This is true. So when
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: people say the system is broken, there is some truth
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  Speaker 3: in that we have done things we meaning the people
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  Speaker 3: broadly speaking.
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  Speaker 8: The courts have given the federal government expansive authority that
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  Speaker 8: it was never intended to have. And that's part of
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  Speaker 8: the break in the system that the founders didn't expect.
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  Speaker 8: The Framers didn't expect that people would serve in Washington,
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  Speaker 3: For forty years.
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  Speaker 8: They didn't expect the Mitch McConnell to be wheeled out
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  Speaker 3: They didn't expect the Dianne Feinstein's to die in office.
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  Speaker 8: They didn't expect that we would ever impose They didn't
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  Speaker 8: even know the number trillion. They didn't expect we would
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  Speaker 8: impose thirty eight trillion dollars in debt, and so they
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  Speaker 3: And that's what the Article five Convention of States is
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  Speaker 3: all about.
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  Speaker 7: Well, and it's the understanding of human nature that any
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  Speaker 7: number of people are going to come to Washington or
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  Speaker 7: Whether it's greed, you know, jealousy, anger, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 7: the checks and balances system them is so mischaracterized in
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  Speaker 7: our area schools as checking all the House checks the judicial,
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  Speaker 7: and the Senate checks the judicial, and then the House
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  Speaker 7: checks the executive. And no, the checks and balances system
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  Speaker 7: asking for indulgences. And it's not that we're wrong to
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  Speaker 6: How do I get some?
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  Speaker 7: And that's the corrosive part, is this idea that the
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  Speaker 7: federal government has this unending supply of money. Mark, it
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  Speaker 7: seems going back to your days and the Tea Party
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  Speaker 7: taxed enough already in two thousand and nine, we already
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  Speaker 7: had a multiple trillion dollar tax collection every year, and
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And what you're describing their put in very simple, succinct terms,
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  Speaker 8: is human nature. It's not something we don't know about.
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  Speaker 8: It's always been the same, it is unchanging, it always
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  Speaker 8: will be this way. And what the Framers did so
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  Speaker 8: brilliantly is they built the system of checks and balances
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  Speaker 8: taking into account human nature. The problem is that we've
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  Speaker 8: broken that system of checks and balances through things.
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  Speaker 3: That we've done.
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  Speaker 8: Again by we, I mean broadly the people. For example,
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  Speaker 8: we impose the seventeenth Amendment. Most people are not even
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: familiar with this. Prior to nineteen thirteen, United States senators
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  Speaker 8: were appointed by the state legislatures. And this is really
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: important because they weren't there to represent the people. And
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  Speaker 8: we feel like, well, that's my state senator, and I
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  Speaker 8: founding era, if one of those senators had come home
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  Speaker 8: you're fired, and they would have put in a new senator.
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  Speaker 8: The senator's main job, Joe, was to say no to
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  Speaker 8: the federal government on behalf of the states. And now
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  Speaker 8: the senator's incentive is to say yes. Why because their
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  Speaker 8: power comes from Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 3: Not from the state.
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  Speaker 7: Well, and they are super legislators because even if you
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  Speaker 7: And that's the part that that's the double whammy on it.
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  Speaker 7: Not only do they now pander for votes, but once
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  Speaker 6: And so they can do whatever they want once they've
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and so what get there is this long term
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  Speaker 8: sinecure of people in the Senate who think very highly
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  Speaker 8: of themselves and very little the people in their states.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you've been visiting with Tim Kaine, have you.
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  Speaker 8: That's just It's again. I don't want to necessarily point
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  Speaker 8: to anybody individually. It is the nature of human being
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  Speaker 8: to be this way. And most of the Senators that
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  Speaker 8: I've met, not all of them, I know some exceptions,
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  Speaker 8: but most of the senators that I've met are high
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: on their own supply, so to speak. They love themselves
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: way too much. They're surrounded by people who tell them
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: how important and how special they are every day, and
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: they're not.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: They're just human beings.
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: Like you know and Mark you know. And I was
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: just looking at the map.
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: If you go to Convention of States dot com, they
• 35:51
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• 36:56
  Speaker 7: But first, Mark, it takes a member of your legislature
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: The way it works is that there is a model
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  Speaker 3: That's really important, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: That means the deep state staffers, bureaucrats, possibly the judiciary. Second,
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  Speaker 3: These are things that need to impose on the federal government.
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  Speaker 8: And then then finally, anything that would take power away
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  Speaker 1: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Jonas for the fifty.
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  Speaker 8: Six men who signed the Declaration of Independence in the
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  Speaker 7: Who signed the constitution is to you, mister Jeffson will
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  Speaker 7: miss you that you will know. God lets you please,
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  Speaker 6: Heaven help these fools the legislates.
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  Speaker 3: Right some way.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 7: So visiting with Mark Meckler Convention of States dot com
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  Speaker 7: is where you go for it. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 7: Democrats and Republicans like I know that we've got some
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  Speaker 7: great you know, uh like Tom Hartman coming up on
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  Speaker 7: our station there in Youngstown. And I think if you
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  Speaker 7: stop and you think about it, especially considering how the
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  Speaker 7: left feels about Donald Trump, you should be joining us
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  Speaker 7: in the Convention of States Compact as well. But Mark,
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  Speaker 7: are more people I know, I asked you this before
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  Speaker 7: and I forgot. Are more people catching on as Kansas
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  Speaker 7: joins the lists.
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  Speaker 8: No, I mean, everybody's starting to really notice. President Trump
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  Speaker 8: recently posted something about it in the administral Yeah, that
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  Speaker 8: was about two months ago. In the administration itself. Marco
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  Speaker 8: Ruby is a supporter, Pete Hegsath's, Brooke Rowlins and AG
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  Speaker 8: Mike Hockabee over in Israel now, Caroline Levitt. These are
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  Speaker 8: all people who publicly supported Convention of States. So it's
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  Speaker 8: risen to a mainstream position. And the position, simply put,
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  Speaker 8: is this, do we want d C telling us what
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  Speaker 8: to do? Or do we want to take that power
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  Speaker 8: back for ourselves and our local government center states?
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  Speaker 6: And it's I think it's becoming obvious that DC can't
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  Speaker 6: be trusted with the stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and the framers knew this. That's why this provision
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  Speaker 3: is in the Constitution.
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  Speaker 8: You mentioned Mason previously, I think the greatest unsung framer
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  Speaker 8: and founder.
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  Speaker 6: Not here, not on this program.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thank god, you know this is a man who
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  Speaker 8: actually helped bring the Virginia Plan to convention. He spoke
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  Speaker 8: the third most of anybody at convention. I mean really,
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  Speaker 8: he was a mentor to Mason, a mentor to Washington.
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  Speaker 8: His importance cannot be overstated. And he said a convention
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  Speaker 8: that if we didn't give the power to the states
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  Speaker 8: to call a convention and propose amendments, that are making
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  Speaker 8: a grave mistake, Because he said, do we actually believe
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  Speaker 8: that a federal government that becomes tyrannical is going to
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  Speaker 8: propose amendments to restrain its own tyranny. So that's how
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  Speaker 8: this provision gets in the Constitution. Is Mason is so wise.
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  Speaker 8: He looks into the future. He understands the federal government's
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  Speaker 8: going to get out of control, and he understands they
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  Speaker 8: will never restrain themselves, not because they're particularly evil, but
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  Speaker 8: because they're human beings, and human beings don't restrain themselves.
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  Speaker 7: That is such a brilliant point because I talk to
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  Speaker 7: young people who shrug and say the system is broken,
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  Speaker 7: and like, no, we are broken.
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  Speaker 6: We've developed.
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  Speaker 7: If we finally have a system where we are in charge,
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  Speaker 7: we have to be what is it, John Adams said,
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  Speaker 7: a moral society. If we're going to be self governing,
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  Speaker 7: we kind of have to be self governing, don't we.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That strives me crazy too.
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  Speaker 8: I hate the nihilism in that the system is broken,
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  Speaker 8: everything's out of our control, and that's just not true.
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  Speaker 8: We are set up as a self governing nation, and
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  Speaker 8: if things are broken, we have to look at ourselves,
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  Speaker 8: and we have to look at the tools that we
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  Speaker 8: beget then given and ask ourselves are we using those tools?
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  Speaker 8: And in the case of Article five, I have in
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  Speaker 8: the ability to call a convention to propose amendments to
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  Speaker 8: return power to the people, we have not used that tool. Well,
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  Speaker 8: whose responsibility is that you know, you've got a tool
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  Speaker 8: in the garage, in the toolkit, it has the potential
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  Speaker 8: to fix many of the major problems facing our society.
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  Speaker 3: If we haven't used it, we got to look in
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  Speaker 3: the mirror.
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  Speaker 7: Well when you look, and here in Virginia, not only
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  Speaker 7: are we doing this crazy redistricting jerrymandering attempt that quietly
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  Speaker 7: last week a bill was put into the General Assembly
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  Speaker 7: to have Virginia sign into the National Popular Vote Compact.
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  Speaker 7: And it just stunned me. But it shouldn't, I guess,
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  Speaker 7: because this is what they want to do. They want
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  Speaker 7: to abdicate their authority. They want to become truly just
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  Speaker 7: flyover votes and La Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles will
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  Speaker 7: pick every president.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Virginia should be to everybody. It's such
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  Speaker 3: a big state at all.
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  Speaker 8: Want to call it the canary in the coal mine,
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  Speaker 8: maybe the gorilla in the coal mine. And the reason
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  Speaker 8: I say to that is Abigail span Burger ran as
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  Speaker 8: a moderate, I mean, he should not hit the campaign
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  Speaker 8: right and this is absolutely unbelievable to me.
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  Speaker 3: And the moment that she sits in that seat.
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  Speaker 8: She becomes a radical left winger and we should take
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  Speaker 8: this as the model for the entire United States.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you paid attention.
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  Speaker 8: I try not to, but I paid attention to what
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  Speaker 8: Hillary Clinton said about immigration this last week. She sounded
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: like President Trump, borders need to be closed, unfettered migration
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: is dangerous and destabilizing. They're gonna say these things because
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: they know their positions aren't popular, and then they're gonna
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  Speaker 8: become the Abigail span Burgers and wherever they are, and
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  Speaker 8: they're going to be as radical as they've always been.
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  Speaker 7: We have some fun with metaphor mark And there is
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  Speaker 7: a breed of catfish called the blue catfish. You know
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  Speaker 7: where it lives, No, the James River that conveniently goes
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  Speaker 7: right past Richmond, Virginia.
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  Speaker 6: And that's what we have now. We have a whole
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  Speaker 6: government full of blue catfish.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. This is just outrageous.
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  Speaker 8: And the reason I bring this up is I want
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  Speaker 8: people to pay attention because I think some people voted
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  Speaker 8: for Abigail Svanberger believing she was going to be a moderate.
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  Speaker 8: We're going to see this playbook played out all across
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  Speaker 8: the United States of America. It's amazing to watch Democrats,
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: how they all sing from the same hymnal. No matter
• 50:25
  Speaker 8: what the issue is, they all change it at the
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  Speaker 8: same time. Flip pages, and their page right now is
• 50:29
  Speaker 8: they're going to sound completely moderate and they're returning everything
• 50:33
  Speaker 8: to normal. And I want people to understand the cat
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  Speaker 8: change it stripes. The tiger can't change it stripes. They
• 50:41
  Speaker 8: are radical leftists. You vote for them, you're going to
• 50:43
  Speaker 8: get radical leftism.
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  Speaker 7: Mark mccluyer. It is a Convention of States dot com. Mark,
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  Speaker 7: we've got to run the clock on the wall. Our
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  Speaker 7: cruel mistress is saying we've got to go. But I
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  Speaker 7: appreciate it as always Convention of States dot com.
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  Speaker 6: You have a great morning shot. Not so long in between,
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  Speaker 6: next visit.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, absolutely, thanks to appreciate your support.
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  Speaker 6: Let me get this text message came in here somewhere
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  Speaker 6: in Virginia at present.
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  Speaker 7: The only way I see to get better representative accountability
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  Speaker 7: is count should be based on only current active, federally
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: legal voters in each state. You know you're telling about
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: census and that's I mean, technically the letter of the law.
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: But they don't follow the letter of the law. They
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  Speaker 7: play in the gray areas. They write their own gray areas.
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  Speaker 7: So that they can, you know, play in these loopholes.
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  Speaker 7: The more laws you have, the more loopholes you have,
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: the more things countermand each other and which law is
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  Speaker 7: presidential and they and they play in this game and
• 51:53
  Speaker 7: they let the clock be there, buddy, so that you know,
• 51:56
  Speaker 7: calendars and oh we have to I'm sorry, we can't
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  Speaker 7: figure that up because the clock says we got to
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  Speaker 7: go home? Really and who set the clock? Well, we did,
• 52:06
  Speaker 7: so you get unset the clock. Well yeah, technically, but yeah,
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  Speaker 7: we don't want to because that's a bad precedent and
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  Speaker 7: all of that.
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  Speaker 6: So as we head on out again.
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  Speaker 16: First sort of maze stream African American here who is
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  Speaker 6: And oh Jesse was mad about that till tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Joe, so long and thanks for all the fish.
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