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How Democrats See People / Venezuela - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven oh six, Bitty five kersee the talk station. Very
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  Speaker 1: happy Wednesday, Action packed Wednesday here on the Bitty five
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  Speaker 1: Kerse Morning Show, packed with guests, and today I always
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  Speaker 1: look forward to for a variety of reasons, not the
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  Speaker 1: least of which is right now the Big Picture with
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  Speaker 1: Jack added in the brilliants of Jack adit in coming
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  Speaker 1: through every Wednesday at this time. It is appointment listening,
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  Speaker 1: and I hear from listeners all the time. Jack. They
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  Speaker 1: love your commentary. Welcome back, my friend, in a very
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  Speaker 1: happy new year to you and your beautiful bride, Ainsley.
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  Speaker 2: Sin Jackson, that's what you call me. Thank you, Bril,
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  Speaker 2: and happy new year everybody. We're planning to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the completely opposite way Democrats and Republicans see people. The first, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: can I offer a few thoughts about Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: Love to hear him, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: There is a legitimate dispute, even among Trump supporters, about
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  Speaker 2: a president's powers as commander in chief under Article two
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  Speaker 2: of the Constitution. Yeah, but remember, as I know you do,
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  Speaker 2: Congress under Article one has not declared war since Pearl
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  Speaker 2: Harbor eighty four years ago. Harry Truman, a Democrat, relied
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  Speaker 2: on the UN not Congress to fight the so called
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  Speaker 2: police action in Korea that killed fifty four thousand Americans
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  Speaker 2: over three years. Lyndon Johnson, another Democrat, was knee deep
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  Speaker 2: in Vietnam by the time Congress passed not a declaration
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  Speaker 2: of war but relatively the Gulf of tom Kin Resolution.
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  Speaker 2: The Vietnam War killed at least fifty eight thousand Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Closer to Venezuela in every sense. Republican George H. W.
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  Speaker 2: Bush the Elder invaded Panama with twenty four thousand US
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  Speaker 2: troops on the ground, extracted and prosecuted Panama's Manuel Noriega,
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  Speaker 2: and installed an opposition leader, all without seeking Congressional authorization
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  Speaker 2: and with the courts upholding his actions. Noriega had been
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  Speaker 2: accused is sound familiar. He'd been accused of drug trafficking
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  Speaker 2: and threatening America's interest in the Panama Canal. For Senior
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  Speaker 2: called his invasion operation just cause there's more. Democrat Bill Clinton,
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  Speaker 2: with authorization from NATO not Congress, bombed the hell out
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  Speaker 2: of Slobodon Belosovich in Yugoslavia. Slobo only gave up when
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  Speaker 2: Clinton threatened without Congress to put US troops quote back
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  Speaker 2: on the table. Then, Yet another Democrat before were teacher
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  Speaker 2: of constitutional law. You figure knew something about this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Barack Obama launched more than five hundred and forty separate
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  Speaker 2: drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, killing soldiers and civilians,
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  Speaker 2: including American citizens. And that's not including strikes in the
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  Speaker 2: undeclared war zones of Iraq, Afghanistan, Seas, and Libya, all
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  Speaker 2: without a peep from big mouth congressional Democrats. Last, and
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  Speaker 2: by all measures least, Joe Biden or his auto pen
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  Speaker 2: raised a bounty on the head of Nicholas Maduro. Good
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  Speaker 2: old Joe would never kill anyone. He just hires somebody
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  Speaker 2: to do it. And hiring somebody to kill an head
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  Speaker 2: of state probably is an act of war. Fellow Democrats
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  Speaker 2: once again said nothing, folks. My point is that undeclared
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  Speaker 2: wars for seventy five years have been made, waged when
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  Speaker 2: it was still at least the possibility of bipartisan authorization
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  Speaker 2: now in twenty twenty six, No one who follows politics,
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  Speaker 2: certainly nobody in your brilliant audience, Brian, believes Democrats would
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  Speaker 2: ever back any action by Donald J. Trump. As recently
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  Speaker 2: as a year ago, I would have bet against New
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  Speaker 2: York Senator Chuck Schumer selling out Israel to Hamas, Yet
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  Speaker 2: the Senate Minority leader cannot or trying to retain power,
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  Speaker 2: will not even back Trump peace agreements in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 2: So where does that leave us in a constitutional mess?
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  Speaker 2: The president is not only commander in chief. Article two,
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  Speaker 2: section three of the Constitution also requires that presidents take
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  Speaker 2: care to faithfully execute the laws, including drug laws allegedly
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  Speaker 2: broken by Narco terrorists, as pushed it against Noriega. So yes,
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  Speaker 2: Congress has the power to declare war, but the need
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  Speaker 2: to declare war is still debated, even under the nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy three War Powers Resolution. Personally, Brian, I believe in
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  Speaker 2: the Constitution, but I also believe the Constitution is not
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  Speaker 2: a suicide pact barring any possibility of consensus of compromise.
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  Speaker 2: I do not believe in paralysis. Ultimately, I believe in
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  Speaker 2: the ballot box, as Maduro and Putin and Jijiungping do not.
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  Speaker 2: If voters disagree with an American president about these disputed issues,
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  Speaker 2: they can vote for a new Congress every two years,
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  Speaker 2: including this year, and a new president every four years. Meantime,
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  Speaker 2: the inability the unwillingness of Congress to act at least
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  Speaker 2: when a Republican is in power, I believe stems from
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  Speaker 2: something other than the Constitution. Congress is driven by the
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  Speaker 2: entirely different way Republicans and Democrats see people. So maybe
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  Speaker 2: we can talk about that next.
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  Speaker 1: But I did want to pass on to you or
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  Speaker 1: my comment in response to judgment of Paul Aitana's column,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm going to be talking with him about a
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  Speaker 1: day thirty and not surprisingly the same subject matter, the
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  Speaker 1: extra constitutional waging of warrens by what the Constitution say.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I said to you, asking him sort
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  Speaker 1: of rhetorically, are you and I merely dinosaurs with our
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  Speaker 1: respect for the Institution? I said, I speak with so
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  Speaker 1: many people on the topic of war and always end
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  Speaker 1: up runningto the same conclusion decades as you just went through,
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  Speaker 1: of unchecked consequence free unilateral decision making on matters of
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  Speaker 1: war now serve as a legal justification for further unilateral decisions.
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  Speaker 1: I even suggested to it's almost like the concept of
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  Speaker 1: waiver estopel or latches. You know, if you let something
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  Speaker 1: go long enough, you can't assert the law as you know,
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  Speaker 1: as a vehicle to stop that from happening again. No,
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing this for so long you've waived your
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  Speaker 1: right to make the argument. You get back to mazag
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  Speaker 1: Day and in fifty three Ellen Days seventy three you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Norjegen eighty nine. You could go through a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of others. I mean, even the Bay of Pigs.
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  Speaker 1: Was that an authorized military force to overthrow castor after
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  Speaker 1: we helped them, you know, win in Cuba, don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, Brian, in fairness, I didn't include
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  Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan and Grenada exactly. Of course, a much more
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  Speaker 2: limited action.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, go ahead, now, you and I could
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  Speaker 1: put our minds together and talk about a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of actions along those same lines. That's an excellent additional point.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems that all the you know, the designated
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  Speaker 1: strikes in these foreign lands with missiles, as you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: with Obama and everybody else seemed to doing. And I
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  Speaker 1: concluded with it seems that congressional in action, in other words,
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  Speaker 1: ignoring the Constitution is perhaps the desired accepted norm across
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  Speaker 1: the political spectrum. The Democrats do it when they're in power.
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  Speaker 1: The Republicans scream and wail and moan about the Constitution,
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  Speaker 1: yet do nothing by way of congressional action or anything
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  Speaker 1: else to stop it from happening. And then look who
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  Speaker 1: put the bounty on Medoro last year, Joe Biden? Was
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  Speaker 1: it twenty five million or fifty million dollars? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if there's a bounty on someone's head, doesn't that mean
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  Speaker 1: you expect someone to go and collect the bounty after
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  Speaker 1: grabbing the head and bringing it forth. Who's going to
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  Speaker 1: do that? Nobody but the American military is going to
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  Speaker 1: enter into a foreign country and grab the leader. Yet
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  Speaker 1: there it was the dangling carrot of a bounty out there.
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  Speaker 1: So we make good on it through the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 1: and they scream and yell about it, and yet you
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  Speaker 1: don't see really anything happening in respond. So it's sort
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  Speaker 1: of this inaction and it allows for the expedient mechanism
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  Speaker 1: of dealing with what you talked about that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want the Constitution to just you know, turn
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  Speaker 1: us into this easy sitting target. But it is still there.
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  Speaker 1: The authority rests with in Congress. I just think they
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  Speaker 1: prefer it this way because it's well, they have to
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  Speaker 1: face the voters. They may get voted out of office.
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  Speaker 1: If they do vote in favor of military action or
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  Speaker 1: against military action, they don't want to have to deal
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  Speaker 1: with it. They wash their hands of it, blamed it
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  Speaker 1: Trump or whoever the sitting president is, and go about
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  Speaker 1: their merry business.
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  Speaker 2: I always feel, as I bet you drew two pell
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  Speaker 2: when we're talking about the good Judge Napolitano, that I'm
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  Speaker 2: back in law school, and I certainly don't want to
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  Speaker 2: disagree with the professor. It's hard enough just to try
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  Speaker 2: to answer his questions. But a few thoughts. Judge Napolitano,
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  Speaker 2: who's probably about my age, doesn't remember Jefferson sending the
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  Speaker 2: Marines to the shores of Triple Le, Libya to free
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  Speaker 2: Americans and fight Barbary pirates. But sumably he would have
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  Speaker 2: opposed that two hundred years ago, not long after the
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  Speaker 2: Monroe Doctrine was propelled by President James Monroe. And I
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  Speaker 2: assume that Judge Depolitano was against the idea of refusing
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  Speaker 2: to let Europeans colonize our hemisphere as today Cuba, Russia
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  Speaker 2: and Red China and Iran. I have tried installing surrogates
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  Speaker 2: in Venezuela, and that's what we put a stop to
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  Speaker 2: you know the thing. It seems to me, Brian, and
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  Speaker 2: maybe we can talk about this next week. There are
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  Speaker 2: certain people who remind me of my old friend, the
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  Speaker 2: ancient Greek philosopher Zeno, who can prove to you why
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  Speaker 2: it's impossible to move from point A to point B.
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  Speaker 2: I won't give away the answer to that famous riddle,
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  Speaker 2: but we cannot, as I say, paralyze ourselves. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sure that I agree with the premise of what
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  Speaker 2: you're saying, that the Constitution is clear on the president
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  Speaker 2: not having the power to act militarily. I do agree
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  Speaker 2: with the idea that kN whereas not necessarily with conscious deliberation,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously setting a pattern, do not oppose presidents when
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  Speaker 2: they simply don't want to get involved.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pause, will bring Jack back. He had a comment
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  Speaker 1: or two that we didn't get to yet. How democrats
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  Speaker 1: see people. Will pause, bring Jack Avidani back with the
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  Speaker 1: big picture. We'll call it Volume two. This morning, First
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  Speaker 1: add in, we pivot over to his perception of how
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  Speaker 1: Democrats see people just real quick, the Monroe doctor. And
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't a legal document, it wasn't a treaty, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a statute. It was a foreign policy statement by
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  Speaker 1: President Monroe, which, of course, if you want to agree
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  Speaker 1: with and follow through with that foreign policy statement involving
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  Speaker 1: matters of war, you might expect some measure of Congressional involvement.
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  Speaker 1: But now you've got the donro doctor where he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to shore up this hemisphere and keep the Chinese out
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  Speaker 1: and keep the Russians out. I understand the concern and
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  Speaker 1: the predicate for that, but you know, it is a
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  Speaker 1: foreign policy statement. He is responsible for foreign policy. But
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  Speaker 1: along with that comes well taxpayer dollars and military resources
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  Speaker 1: and all the things that go along with, you know,
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  Speaker 1: establishing and following through with any given foreign policy statements.
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  Speaker 1: I'd had to say that out loud, Jack, because we
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Monroe doctrine. Is if it's almost part
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  Speaker 1: of the Constitution, but it never was.
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  Speaker 2: Big Don is acting on the Don Rohe doctrine, and
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  Speaker 2: if Congress doesn't like it, they can act as exposers,
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  Speaker 2: of course, can act in November, and I'm afraid they
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  Speaker 2: might in a way that we don't like. But we'll
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  Speaker 2: see anyway. Let's move on from war and talk about
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  Speaker 2: something really important. Tis the season for losing weight, or
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  Speaker 2: at least for resolving to do that so we feel
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  Speaker 2: better and also so people see us differently. Let's consider
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  Speaker 2: this in the context of politics, the very different way
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  Speaker 2: democrats and Republicans see people. You and I and most
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  Speaker 2: folks who tune intend to agree about most things were
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  Speaker 2: constitution conservatives and libertarians. Many of us are Trump supporters,
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  Speaker 2: Maga populists. Those are not just labels. They define how
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  Speaker 2: we see the world. While we may differ sharply on
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  Speaker 2: certain issues, including Venezuela, we embrace what I call the
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  Speaker 2: American idea that power tends to corrupt, and absolute power
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  Speaker 2: corrupts absolutely. Therefore, like the Founders, we demand a government
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  Speaker 2: that protects the god given rights of individuals and allows
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  Speaker 2: us to pursue happiness and prosperity as we see fit,
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  Speaker 2: so long as we don't infringe on the rights of others.
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  Speaker 2: We believe in bottom up government. In sharp contrast, today's
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  Speaker 2: big government socialists see individuals very differently as members of
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  Speaker 2: their collective. In his inaugural speech, New York's new mayor,
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  Speaker 2: Zoran Mamdani just promised to replace quote the rigidity of
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  Speaker 2: rugged individualism with a warmth of collectivism and in New
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  Speaker 2: York if he gets his way. Democrats claim they care
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  Speaker 2: about people, especially needy, downtrodden people victims, but they do
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  Speaker 2: not seek to empower them. Take education. Democrats and power
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  Speaker 2: not students and parents, but teacher unions, which benefit from
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  Speaker 2: keeping children illiterate. The worse their test scores, the more
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer funding they demand. In Baltimore, a Democrat run city,
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  Speaker 2: as most big cities now are, including Cincinnati and Dayton,
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  Speaker 2: public schools spend more than twenty one thousand dollars per pupil.
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  Speaker 2: Teachers make on average between seventy two and ninety nine
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars plus gold plated pensions, and yet the overwhelming
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  Speaker 2: majority of students in Baltimore cannot read or do math.
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  Speaker 2: When the schools push them through graduation anyway, the kids
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  Speaker 2: lack basic skills to support themselves. So as Democrats intended
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  Speaker 2: all along, these students will be wards of the state,
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  Speaker 2: and Democrats will rake off the top a hefty percentage
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  Speaker 2: of the welfare spending students received throughout life because the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat collective collects campaign contributions, kickbacks, crony contracts for donors,
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  Speaker 2: and outright bribes. Nancy Pelosi's father was mayor of Baltimore.
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  Speaker 2: That's where Nancy learned the racket. That public servant and
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  Speaker 2: her husband Paul are now worth more than four hundred
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  Speaker 2: million dollars. We could connect the dots in the same
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  Speaker 2: way when it comes to big government spending on healthcare, housing, food,
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  Speaker 2: the entire life of Julia. That's what you remember Obama
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  Speaker 2: called his cradle to graves spending plan for voters rich
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  Speaker 2: and poor, who were thereby made totally dependent on totalitarian government. Folks,
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  Speaker 2: think of the irony, the despicable irony Democrats not that
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  Speaker 2: long ago, with a party of slavery Africans being kidnapped
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  Speaker 2: and shipped here so they could work. Now, Democrats support
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  Speaker 2: millions of illegal immigrants invading this country so they can
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  Speaker 2: live off the collective. Representative. Ilan Omar's net worth has
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  Speaker 2: jumped from approximately zero when our Somalian family were granted
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  Speaker 2: asylum to thirty million dollars with their husband today is
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  Speaker 2: it coincidental that fraudulent government funds for Somali preschools and
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  Speaker 2: other programs in Minnesota total more than nine billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: in counting. Democrats, who used to shackle slaves now enslaved voters,
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  Speaker 2: from illiterate inner city students without fathers, to academics enslaved
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  Speaker 2: by liberal orthodoxy, to so called journalists who have to
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  Speaker 2: tow the liberal line, to multi national business owners who
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  Speaker 2: defend so called free trade that ships vital industries off
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  Speaker 2: to US China with its starvation wages and terras on
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  Speaker 2: American imports. Brian, the essence of Democrat politics is to
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  Speaker 2: dehumanize individuals and make them abjectly dependent on the state.
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  Speaker 2: For now, I can come on your show and talk
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  Speaker 2: about this, But what will happen if Democrats win Congress
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  Speaker 2: this November and the White House in twenty twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: and America returns to the British model of outlawing free speech,
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  Speaker 2: which is what they're doing right now. Look, Republicans are
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  Speaker 2: not perfect, and when we champion the American idea, when
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  Speaker 2: we resolve as our founders did to protect individual rights
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  Speaker 2: and responsibilities, America can still lead the entire world into
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  Speaker 2: a golden age, including those dictatorships that are attacking America
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  Speaker 2: as Maduro did with the aid of Cuba, Russia, Iran
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  Speaker 2: and communists China. Until that happens, it's not enough to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate seventeen seventy six. We need to speak out, donate,
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  Speaker 2: and work. You do this every morning. So what do
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  Speaker 2: you say, my friend?
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  Speaker 1: I say, There's not a word I could utter that
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  Speaker 1: can improve upon what you just got done saying. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna encourage my listeners to grab a hold of
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  Speaker 1: that podcast link at fifty five krs dot com and
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  Speaker 1: share Jack's words with your friends. Jack Atherton as always
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  Speaker 1: profoundly brilliant. A love you man, Happy New Year. Will
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  Speaker 1: do this again next Wednesday with another big picture and
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  Speaker 1: I can't thank you for being on my program.
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  Speaker 2: Can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian, Happy New Year again. Seven twenty six,
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