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"Is Rage a Biofuel?" (Monday September 29, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the talk Median Networks.
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  Speaker 2: Your words that steal me have a day at least
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  for work.
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  Speaker 3: When the sun comes up, drops a pet of.
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  Speaker 4: The scoop.
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  Speaker 1: Joey all the treasure sees.
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  Speaker 3: No wonder Joe's smile, He only eggs.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, thank you for letting me be of service to
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  you this Monday somber time. As it seems like too
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  frequently Monday mornings are met with h recount, recalibration, and
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  grasping at straws regarding something horrific that happened over the
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  weekend and yet again, and with affiliates in Provo and
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  Salt Lake City, but also flagging from the Shenandoah Valley
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  of Virginia, which has one of the largest populations of
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  followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day
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  Saints outside of Utah. This hits a lot of people
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  that I know, very very directly. And when a gunman
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  storms into a church, to any church, regardless of the denomination,
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  and I know that the media is out there trying
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  to make some connection over the and at some point,
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  can we stop referring to the Church of Jesus Christ
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  of Latter Day Saints is something weird, you know, whether
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  it's the Book of Mormon, play or the show what's it?
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  Mid century modern? You know, being a member of the
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  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is not
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  you know, but they treat it like, oh, well, he
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  went off to some camp or something. There's too many
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  people just wind that kind of it's a cult kind
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  of thing into it, and it's just I'm not being
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  a member myself. But like I said, here in the
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  Shenandoah Valley of Virginia outside of Utah, a massive population
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  of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
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  day Saints. This Grand Blanc Michigan horror, and I think
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  we well, we talk about Portland in a little bit.
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  I understand, you know, Freedom nine seventy will get there
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  to Portland and the National Guard because the phrase domestic
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  terrorism was used there as well. But let's call it
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  for what it is. What this Sanford guy did in Michigan,
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  that's domestic terrorism. If you've ever wondered what domestic terrorism
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  or terrorism in general, looks like somebody storming into a church,
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  opening fire, then setting fire, and then taking it on
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  the run, people asking me, well, was this suicide by cop? No,
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  he was trying to get away. This guy was trying
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  to get away with it. Who's trying to take it
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  on the run, you know? And the straw grasp and continues.
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  Was that his sick son was?
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  Speaker 6: You know?
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  Speaker 5: Because the human mind has to rationalize the irrational. We
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  just we can't plug it into a box because it's
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  not box shaped. But it is what it is. And
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  we have to say, thou shalt not murder. And regardless
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  of what church you go into, whether you're Hasidic Jew
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  or remember the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints,
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  it doesn't make a difference. Thou shalt not murder. Our
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  first things. This Monday morning, police still trying to piece
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  together information. Marine veteran stormed into the Church of Jesus
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  Christ of Latter day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan.
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  Ran engaged police in gunfire and was killed in the shootout.
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  Hundreds of people inside the church at the time. At
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  least four people are dead eight others minimum injured. As
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  they still search the rubble from the fire, they believe
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  there are still people missing. President Trump is called leaders
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  in Congress together to the Oval Office today to talk
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  about tomorrow's deadline for federal funding. Senate Democrats rejected a
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  undue cuts to healthcare programs. President Trump is coming to
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  Virginia on Tuesday to attend War Secretary Pete Hegsith's all
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  hands gathering of military leaders at Marine Corps based Quantico,
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  and on Saturday, President Trump announced that two hundred and
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  seventy four agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation quote
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  against all rules, regulations, protocols, and standards, were part of
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  the crowd. On January sixth, The President asked truth social
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  if these agents were acting as agitators or insurrectionists, but
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  they were certainly not acting as law enforcement officials. The
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  President is sending troops, National Guards, troops full force if necessary,
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  into Portland, Oregon to handle domestic terrorists. He made the
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  as President Gustavo Petro was in New York leading a
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 5: Quick for you.
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  Speaker 3: From Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
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  Speaker 15: And you can see no reason, no reason, what Eathan,
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  do you.
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  Speaker 5: Need to be? So saw this somber and puzzling again
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  as evil brings down the hatred and the violence and
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  the pain and the suffering that it's there to do.
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  This is this is why the devil goes amongst us,
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  because this is what his dominion is there for people say,
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  how can God let these things happen? He's not the
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  one that runs the joint down here. This is the
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  down here that is the dominion of the deceiver, the
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  one that tells you that there are things that you're
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  being kept from, that you've been duped out of, that
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  turn you on your neighbor. Joel writes in why don't
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  why don't Americans just call these acts demonic evil? Because
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  we have this fetish for not calling it out for
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  what it is. So when somebody crashes a truck through
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  the door of a church, and regardless of the denomination,
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  too many of my brother and sisters are spending too
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  much time on this being a church of Jesus Christ,
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  of Latter Day Saints, and I watched one who seemed
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  to think that Lea Remedy's docu series was about the
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  LDS Church. I'm like, dude, that's the scientology. Can you
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  can we at least because he was going on and
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  on about how you know Lea Remedy bro No, And
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  believe me, sometimes I think it's too easy to get
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  a YouTube channel. But then you know, we have political leaders.
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  Do we have the clip of Abigail Spanberger, former CIA
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  case officer, telling a crowd in Virginia she's running for
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  Virginia's governor, to let your rage fuel, your.
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  Speaker 16: Rage fuel your reach to you.
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  Speaker 5: She repeats it.
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  Speaker 16: You know it sometimes every bit of pension and the
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  things that you think are wrong, there's things that we
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  want to improve, the things we want to make better,
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  the things that we know are right that we want
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  to see in Richmond or that we want to see
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  pushed back against in Washington. And so anytime you think
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  you might want to turn off the television, or you
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  think it might just be too.
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  Speaker 17: Much, let it fuel you.
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  Speaker 18: Is not.
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  Speaker 5: Let your rage fuel you. This is supposedly the centrist candidate,
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  the reasonable Democrat for governor of Virginia.
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  Speaker 16: Let your rage fuel you.
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  Speaker 5: And what is that rage? What is the rage she's
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  speaking of. She's talking about this idea that if a
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  Republican gets elected, you're going to go hungry, You're going
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  to go homeless, You're going to go sick and die.
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  Your kids are going to get sick and die. Your mom,
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  your dad are going to get sick and die if
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  Republicans get elected. And it's despicable, but this is what's happened,
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  and this is why learned debate over things like the
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  Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or even the Great
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  Society Programs you know that marshaled this mess sixty years ago.
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  But people need help, Joe, Yeah, and more and more
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  of them need help since this all started. I mean,
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  this is the thing that I just it baffles me
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  to a degree. And I and part of me wants
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  it to baffle me because I don't want to grow cynical.
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  I don't want to grow used to this. I don't
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  want this to become just the way businesses conduct did
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  to me. I want this to infuriate me, embarrass me,
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  drive me to you know, point it out and drag
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  it out into the town square for all to see
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  because if we don't, it's just going to get worse.
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  Like I said, this isn't some you know, squad member.
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  This is somebody who spent six years in Congress pretending
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  to be bipartisan telling a crowd let your rage fuel you.
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  Speaker 19: And it was.
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  Speaker 5: And she said it twice, talking about how all the
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  things that you're not going to get from the government.
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  Let me get to you at four three four eight
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  eight two four two one seven. Like we said, we'll
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  tell you the news, will tell you how I see
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  the news, but I want to hear how it's impacting you.
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  Good morning, You're on the air with Joe Thomas. First
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  thing this Monday. Who's this?
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  Speaker 19: Hey, this is Moscow Bob, And I'll tell you how
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  it's affecting me.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Hey, easy way.
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  Speaker 19: To solve this is that all private security personnel for
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  all these celebrities, these politicians, and everything else have to
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  follow the state laws. So if they are in a
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  state where there is no concealed carry, they cannot concealed
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  carry weapons, they cannot be armed. All these politicians will
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  stop this rhetoric because now they're going to be in
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  the sights of people's own firearms. That they have the
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  security to protect them that will no longer be present.
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  Speaker 5: So you think that that would drive them to stop
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  doing so many crazy gun grabbing gun restricting legislations.
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  Speaker 19: Not the gun grabbing gun and restricting legislation, it'll stop
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  their rhetoric and them coming out and saying you should
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  kill people because now they don't have the security with
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  guns to protect them. So they say all these professionals
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  to make it that the only people that are allowed
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  to carry guns are those that are either in the
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  military and working under the military's direction, or those that
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  are police officers. So all these celebrities, all these people
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  that are making these comments like Whoopi Goldberg, Now she
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  can't have security, but are security cannot have weapons?
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  Speaker 5: Certainly not if they're in a gun free zone. Yeah,
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  I see that. You make a great point. Yeah, yeah,
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  if you.
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  Speaker 19: Get rid of them having the ability to have armed
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  security around them and put them in sights of other
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  crazy wackles that they've been out with their rhetoric saying
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  Nazi Nazi, kill them, get in their face, shoot them,
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  kill them. If you remove their protection with firearms, you
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  think they're going to keep doing that rhetoric?
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  Speaker 5: Heck, no, no, unless they're insane too. And that's you know,
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  that's certainly a reasonable thought, especially when you watch Maxine
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  Waters get all riled up and start screaming at people,
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  and uh, you know I feel for her because you know, hey,
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  you know she she's trying to protect her phony. Blooney job,
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  well thought, Bob, You have a great morning, sir, You
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  Is there responsibility for this stuff? Your rage kill you?
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  That's your rage shooting you say it twice?
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  am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
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• 24:22
  nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
• 24:26
  reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
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  The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
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  has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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  cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
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  in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
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  healthy cells even from radiation. Totalwellness dot com where we
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  help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
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  Speaker 9: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
• 25:05
  warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
• 25:10
  Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
• 25:13
  will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
• 25:16
  personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
• 25:21
  are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
• 25:25
  threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
• 25:29
  call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
• 25:33
  your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
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  or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
• 25:42
  or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
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  Speaker 21: Uh oh, bra, that's buzzed. Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting
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  with the woots.
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  Speaker 11: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 13: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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  art and brain.
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  Speaker 5: Who's with me?
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  Speaker 11: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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  brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody call.
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  Speaker 22: Me a ride.
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  Speaker 21: Love that guy, me too.
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  Speaker 4: Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
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  it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 14: Did you know that more than half our household energy
• 26:25
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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  the second most famous Thomas and Charlot.
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  Speaker 17: Feel you, let's yours you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. And then and then
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  fain that, oh I didn't mean to. There was actually
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  a threat made against a member of Virginia's House of
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  Delegates right after that statement and correlation causation. But what
• 29:02
  was this guy in Michigan, this murderer, this terrorist thinking?
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  What was what was his grievance? What last good nerve
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  was plucked by somebody claiming to need his support to
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  get whatever or had abandoned him in his mind? And
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  you know all the folks who are running around trying
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  to find something horrifically dire about this. I mean, it
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  could be just as simple as he was mad at
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  somebody in the church. We you know, every story, every
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  single news story, it's like, oh, was this guy triggered
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  by this? Because we have to fill the time the
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  police were unseen within thirty seconds. And by the way,
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  the police in this case just amazing response time. But
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  it tells you how much can happen in thirty seconds.
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  And all of course, all the gun grabbers are out
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  there saying, well he shot this many times in the
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  and the heroic actions of the church members who are
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  protecting kids, helping people get out when the fire started,
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  and the pain of a community was still wondering because
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  because there are still people missing in Michigan, but it
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  will reignite more people saying we need to get rid
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  of the guns. Of the local newspaper here in our
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  flagship city just rattling off more gun violence. As if
• 30:55
  this guy didn't need the firearm. He've used his pickup
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  truck to start it, crashed through the doors of the church,
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  then lit the place on fire, So he didn't need
• 31:11
  a firearm to do the dastardly deeds that he did.
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  And I doubt he heard Abigail Spanberger, running for Virginia governor,
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  say let your rage fuel you. But a lot of
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  people did a lot of people have. Tyler O'Neill, my coworker,
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  my compatriot at the Daily Signal, who's written an amazing
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  book called Making Hate Pay, pointing to the corruption of
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  the Southern Poverty Law Center. And why do they engage
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  in this? Why do politicians get out there and start
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  saying because they need passion, and there's nothing passionate about it.
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  This is the last act of a desperate man, as
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  it were. These politicians have been caught out there by
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  all of the people who have called fraud on their
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  actions because they have no constitutional authority. Now there's a
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  poll on socialism and it's illuminative because it's showing greater
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  and greater acceptance and even some coveting of the idea
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  that take from the makers and give to the takers.
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  Was it Fetterman called the morons couh plus John Fetterman,
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  He actually called people embracing socialism morons. But with polling
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  that now shows more and more, especially members of the
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  Democratic Party, saying this. This is it's taken a long
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  time because we don't have the kind of dictatorial rule
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  that they had in Germany in the thirties or Russia
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  in the teens of the twentieth century, So it's taken
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  longer to convince people that the middle class are the rich,
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  and that the poor must rise up against the quote
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  unquote rich to take their birthright place in it amongst
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  those greedy oligarchs, who aren't the oligarchs, the oldigarks, are
• 34:01
  the ones laughing their ass off in some gated community
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  in northern California and far outside of Portland, where the
• 34:13
  National Guard may be there soon. By the way, quick
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  note on Portland, they still have the National Guard still
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  hasn't arrived in Memphis yet. I think that's supposed to
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  be this week. So everyone in Portland, Oh, he's declared
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  war on Portland. We'll get there, we'll get into the
• 34:27
  he's declared war on Portland. Somebody's declared war in Portland
• 34:33
  a long time ago. And a lot of it has
• 34:35
  to do with your Democratic socialists, but the idea that
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  you don't have what you think you should have, and
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  the irresponsibility regardless of you know. And it's fun here
• 34:56
  in Virginia to take shots at Abigail Spanberg because she
• 35:00
  wants to be known as this centrist, this, this unifier,
• 35:05
  this you know, bipartisan, not like all the others. When
• 35:09
  she says, stuff your rage and overall this is yeah,
• 35:18
  this is indicative of whatever a Democrat you're talking about
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  that's claiming to be some bipartisan bridge building deal maker.
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  That's what they really think. Spanburger is one of the classes.
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  I mean, she took the book right from Obama's playbook.
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  Cast no dangerous votes, vote against things in committee, so
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  you can say you voted against them even when you
• 35:48
  vote for them when they come to the floor of
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  the House. Oh, she's a master's class and how to
• 35:54
  make yourself, how to launder your reputation. And every state
• 35:58
  has them, every city has them. And they're lying to
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  you because they they're out there font fanning the flames
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  of this grievance culture, playing on our seven vices, especially jealousy.
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  Oh you you don't have an iPhone fourteen. That's because
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  those rich guys that own the deli down the street
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  have one. They can afford it. It's the same thing
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  they did in Germany in the thirties. It's the same
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  thing they did in Russia in the teens. The rich
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  guys give all their money to the communist. The communist says, listen,
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  I will protect you, so you never lose your money again.
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  You never have to worry about it. What we have
• 36:56
  to set this up so that there's a collectivist state
• 36:59
  for the middle class and below, and then they protect
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  the wealthy behind this sort of stasis bubble, and that's
• 37:08
  what kills the economy. There's no movement of funds and
• 37:13
  monies and energy and innovation, and it becomes sclerotic. It's
• 37:19
  why communism fails as an economic process, and it devolves
• 37:24
  into a tutalitarian, militaristic fascism. Make more stuff or go
• 37:33
  to prison. But the Democratic Party is becoming more and
• 37:41
  more the party of the brown shirt, saying, well, you know,
• 37:47
  you know, a few middle class people might lose their money,
• 37:50
  that's a small price to pay for me getting this
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  cushy government job with a staff and a driver and
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  all the other perks that come along with Oh, I
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  can fly places.
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  Speaker 8: So cool.
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  Speaker 21: According to a new report from Discovery Education, ninety two
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  percent of students say that engaging lessons make school more fun,
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  and more than ninety percent of educators said engagement is
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  critical for student achievement. Student engagement is essential for learning,
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  but gaps remain about how to achieve, measure and sustain
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  student's interest in the classroom. Although sixty three percent of
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  forty five percent of teachers and fifty one percent of
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  principles surveyed agreed with the same statement. Educators disagreed on
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  the top indicators of engagement. Seventy two percent of teachers
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  said asking thoughtful questions was the strongest indicator of student engagement,
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  while fifty four percent of superintendents rate performing well on
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  assessments as a top engagement indicator. Also, two thirds of
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  Speaker 13: You were strolling along in Goodwill when just past that
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  mid century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them
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  nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings. Oh yes, yes,
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  your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all day dessert food
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  made into your favorite form of ear candy. Oh my,
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  those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger within you.
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  Speaker 4: Shh do you smell that?
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  Speaker 13: That's the sugary center of shopping success. For this is Goodwill,
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  Speaker 12: Exercise is hard, so is maintained a healthy diet. Of course,
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  Speaker 21: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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  Freedom of speech, freedom of.
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  Speaker 23: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble.
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  Speaker 5: Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 15: No word in English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 17: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 5: Sure?
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  Speaker 4: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 5: Probably, it's been twenty three minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 3: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 13: You should wait thirty minutes. Okay, I'll tell me what
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  to do.
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  Speaker 5: Can it ball?
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  Speaker 8: Cramp?
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  Speaker 20: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: I have a cramp. I can probably hit the green
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  from here?
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  Speaker 3: Probably?
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  Speaker 5: Can I get a mulligan ready to go?
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  Speaker 23: Hey?
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  Speaker 17: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 20: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 15: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 3: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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  Speaker 5: In my conversations.
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  Speaker 23: Directly with President Trump and Secretary Noon, I have been
• 44:22
  abundant with clear with them that we can manage our
• 44:25
  own local public safety needs.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: That's not why the National Guard is going to Portlandia.
• 44:31
  By the way, that's the governor. And the most controversial
• 44:37
  thing that Tina Kotek said she's spoken to Ice Barbie.
• 44:47
  I mean she's has lost any re election hope she's
• 44:50
  had in Oregon. She spoke to Trump, didn't she burst
• 44:56
  into flames she spoke to Ice Barbie. The National Guard
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  deployment to Oregon is very much like it was in
• 45:11
  twenty sixteen, where the President's trying to protect federal buildings.
• 45:16
  This is about the Ice protests. This is about continuing
• 45:23
  siege on offices of Immigration and Customs enforcement and not
• 45:34
  about walking the streets looking for crack dealers like it
• 45:37
  was in Washington, d C. And gangbangers. Because I asked
• 45:43
  this one, how is it going in Memphis. We haven't
• 45:45
  heard any news about the Memphis National Guard deployment. It
• 45:49
  hasn't happened yet. I think they're due in Memphis this week.
• 45:58
  But this is about protecting federal buildings which the National
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  Guard can be used for. And it was done in
• 46:07
  what was at twenty seventeen, late twenty seventeen, early twenty
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  eight during all the chop and chaz zones and all
• 46:14
  these occupy movements where entire neighborhoods were going under siege
• 46:20
  by fascists and Marxists, and they were burning courthouses. You know, amazingly,
• 46:32
  these are the justice warriors burning down courthouses. And this
• 46:37
  struck me back in twenty seventeen, while I was still
• 46:39
  trying to get the pepper spray out of my eyes
• 46:41
  from the Charlottesville riots. And all the people who write
• 46:48
  all the stuff about the Charlottesville riots, I'm the only
• 46:51
  one who was there. I wish I had been there.
• 46:55
  We had planned to be in Washington to broadcast on
• 46:58
  January sixth, twenty twenty one. Lord only knows what might
• 47:02
  have happened to me. My cell phone would have been
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  pinged on some tower somewhere. Two hundred and seventy four
• 47:09
  FBI agents. I thought it was only a couple of dozen,
• 47:14
  and even that even that was whoa because remember the
• 47:19
  timeline of January sixth, twenty twenty one, was at least
• 47:24
  six people that I know bore testimony to me on
• 47:28
  this program of a crowd of people that they saw
• 47:33
  oddly not joining the rest of the pro Trump crowd
• 47:37
  at the rally part, and we're just milling around the
• 47:43
  Capitol building wearing MAGA hats and American flag vests and
• 47:49
  things like that. And so at least a half a
• 47:54
  dozen people that I know thought it was queer as
• 47:59
  an un usual. By the way, for those who just
• 48:01
  freaked out for a second, now we've find two hundred
• 48:06
  and seventy four FBI agents and or confidential informants. But no,
• 48:18
  it was the crazies on the right. And yeah, there's
• 48:22
  part of this that goes into it. The crazies. It's
• 48:24
  always the crazies on the right. They still go back
• 48:27
  to January sixth when they want to talk about seventy
• 48:31
  percent of violence done by a kid from Virginia Tech
• 48:34
  last week from the first Turning Point USA event. The
• 48:41
  FBI report he was The DOJ report that he was
• 48:44
  citing was done by Merrick Garland about the difference between
• 48:51
  the Unite the Right people. These are the David Duke
• 48:56
  no border, you know, no non Caucasians allowed people are
• 49:02
  the Is that a conservative principle? Go read your Russell Kirk,
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  The Sun Source of Conservatism. Go read Russell Kirk. Finds
• 49:10
  something in there about racial purity. Go find something where
• 49:16
  in Russell Kirk's ten Conservative Principles, whereas Jews will not
• 49:20
  replace us, it's not there. So these right wingers that
• 49:26
  Merrick Garland called them or anything bought, they're fascists. They
• 49:30
  are They literally want the police rounding up anyone who
• 49:35
  doesn't look like him. Not a conservative principle. And again
• 49:41
  Fetterman called out sloppy use of language over the weekend,
• 49:46
  and he's right, right and left is just as sloppy
• 49:49
  of use of language. That's how the group in Charlottesville
• 49:56
  got to say, oh, we're unite the right. You've got
• 49:59
  the Antifa people out in Portland daily assaulting federal buildings,
• 50:06
  this time the ice facilities there. This is why Trump
• 50:09
  called them domestic terrorists. But they are domestic and they
• 50:12
  are committing acts of terror against federal buildings, so he's
• 50:16
  sending in the troops. Here's the pole. US News, World
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  Report and Associated Press both reporting on this gallop Pole.
• 50:33
  Members of the Democratic Party US adults overall are more
• 50:42
  likely to have a positive view of capitalism than socialism. However,
• 50:49
  when you get into whether or not Democrats thing, it's
• 50:58
  sixty six percent of Democrats view socialism positively. This is
• 51:06
  a political ideology that requires body bags, requires people to
• 51:11
  be arrested if they don't comply in its founding documents,
• 51:20
  says that it has to be built on class warfare.
• 51:24
  And this is what you support, no wonder. Abigail Spanberger,
• 51:28
  the centrist for Virginia governor, said, let your rage fuel you.
• 51:34
  You know, Lenin said the same thing in a different way.
• 51:38
  I mean that could have been, you know, right there
• 51:42
  Moscow nineteen fourteen. Let your rage fuel you. Aren't you
• 51:50
  mad that you're poor? And some of this not causation,
• 51:58
  maybe correlation, but I think its causation. When Lyndon Johnson said,
• 52:03
  if we pass this thing. The beeps will vote for
• 52:06
  us for two hundred years. He said, the bad word
• 52:10
  about African native, brown skinned Americans. The beeps will vote
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  for us for two hundred years. Lyndon Johnson said, hero
• 52:21
  of the Democratic Party, replacing Thomas Jefferson in many of
• 52:25
  the Democratic Party annual fundraising dinners. Now it's the Johnson
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  Clinton banquet instead of the Jackson Jefferson banquet. That he
• 52:38
  knew that in order to establish Marxism, you had to
• 52:41
  normalize Marxism. We'll keep this going when we get back
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  from our news coming up here at the top of
• 52:48
  the hour.
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