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Friday 3pm hour 05/22/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: Heidi Ho, 306 here in the afternoon, NewsRadio 570, WDQN,
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  Speaker 1: and Ron Verp with you on a Friday, May 22nd.
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  Speaker 1: We are at 64 degrees, overcast, cloudy, and rain showers
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  Speaker 1: in the forecast. It's almost like it's a surprise when
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  Speaker 1: they're not in a forecast. And boy, they're talking about
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  Speaker 1: some significant rain coming between Friday and Saturday in my
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  Speaker 1: neck of the woods here. And it's just been, we've
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  Speaker 1: had so much rain, we're so saturated now, our ground
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  Speaker 1: is I mean, it's just been so overwhelming with rain.
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  Speaker 1: Ground's really saturated, and we're expecting a pretty significant amount
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  Speaker 1: of rain again Friday and Saturday here in my neck
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  Speaker 1: of the woods. Enough bellyaching, I know what you're saying,
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  Speaker 1: and to welcome one and all. Let me see. I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned yesterday, and Ted the Conservative was chiming in, there is,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to get into this today, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to take some time in the beginning of this broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: And I take some calls on this. I should find
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  Speaker 1: some of these emails that they highlighted for me where,
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  Speaker 1: let's see if I can find any of them. Let
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  Speaker 1: me see. And I'll pass some of them along to
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  Speaker 1: you as I go through some of these. But it
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  Speaker 1: has to do with It's clear to me that there
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  Speaker 1: are many people that are Trump supporters that I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to say check their brain at the door. But
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  Speaker 1: when you hear about their part of this cult, the
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  Speaker 1: mega cult, there's I think there's truth to that. It
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  Speaker 1: was interesting yesterday and I enjoyed my discussion with Ted,
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  Speaker 1: the conservative, because I do remember him saying that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say a couple of years ago, maybe
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  Speaker 1: Ted would have to clarify that. He can call in
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  Speaker 1: and clarify when he brought that up. But there is
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  Speaker 1: this there is this cult and I scratch my head
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  Speaker 1: about it. In other words, these are the folks who
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  Speaker 1: basically think that under no circumstances should you disagree with
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  Speaker 1: Trump on anything. It's almost like he's got these people hypnotized.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever he says, whatever he thinks, whatever he does is okay, acceptable.
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  Speaker 1: There's no criticism. It's okay. And it is very cult-like.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to have Ted explain that on when he
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  Speaker 1: first said that and what brought him to that conclusion
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  Speaker 1: when he gets on the program today. But it is
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  Speaker 1: very much true. Now, with that being said... I want
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  Speaker 1: to go into a couple of things with you. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: so those people I will never be able to please.
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  Speaker 1: I don't much care for people who have that mentality
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the Democrat Party or a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: leader any more than I do for the Republican Party
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  Speaker 1: or a Republican leader. So I don't much care for it.
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  Speaker 1: So when I look at the things that are going
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  Speaker 1: on over the years, and I say this, I think
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  Speaker 1: to a certain extent, we're almost turning on our own
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  Speaker 1: to a large extent. And I'm one of those guys,
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  Speaker 1: as I've said to you in the last couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's okay to disagree with Trump. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's okay to criticize Trump. Now, he might not like it.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't much care for that quality either. So,
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  Speaker 1: that's why when I sit here and say, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: cover a number of things with you, I voted for
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  Speaker 1: him once, twice, three times. I voted for him in
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  Speaker 1: the primaries as well, but also in the general elections. So,
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  Speaker 1: I voted for him. I certainly wouldn't vote for Harris
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  Speaker 1: or Biden, so don't misunderstand any of that. Nor do
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  Speaker 1: I think any of the people that are critical of Trump,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're saying they would be voting for
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  Speaker 1: a Democrat either. But they are willing to say there's
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  Speaker 1: some things that are going on that they're not crazy
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  Speaker 1: about and that they speak about or criticize him about.
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  Speaker 1: When I said to you the other day, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really find it admirable that the people who helped you
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  Speaker 1: get elected, you're turning on them just because they don't
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  Speaker 1: agree with you on some issues. Now, just think for
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  Speaker 1: a second. I mean, Tucker Carlson helped him get elected.
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  Speaker 1: He was on stage with them. I mean, he was
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  Speaker 1: right there with Trump on the plane, on stage, doing
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff, helping him get elected. Then because Tucker
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  Speaker 1: Carlson disagrees with Trump on this war in Iran, disagrees
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  Speaker 1: with Trump that he hasn't done enough on the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Trump can't stand Tucker Carlson and
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  Speaker 1: calls him low IQ Tucker. Well, if he's so low IQ,
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  Speaker 1: was he low IQ when he was supporting you when
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  Speaker 1: you had him on stage and he was helping you
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  Speaker 1: get elected? Just as you said those vicious things about
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  Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Greene who was one of your earliest supporters,
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  Speaker 1: and was helping you get elected? So when you take
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  Speaker 1: a look at... I don't find that quality admirable at all.
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  Speaker 1: That the people that were actively involved in his political
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  Speaker 1: rise and getting elected, that he thought the world of
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden because they disagreed with him on...
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  Speaker 1: some issues, and you can disagree. You can say, this
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  Speaker 1: war isn't right, or you didn't do enough with Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever the issue might be. You can disagree. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean you still don't support him over the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: It just means you disagree on these issues. But if
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  Speaker 1: you do, and I think this is what is odd
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  Speaker 1: about Trump, it's all of a sudden, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: agree with everything he does, you're like a bum. And
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  Speaker 1: so then these insults start coming to Tucker Carlson, Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Greene, Massey, any number of these people that you've
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  Speaker 1: seen who've supported him. I don't think that's an admirable quality.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't sit here and say, oh, as a
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  Speaker 1: Trump supporter, that's okay with me. I don't. I believe
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  Speaker 1: each and every one of you as Trump supporters, or
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  Speaker 1: if you're not supporters, have a right to disagree, a
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  Speaker 1: right to your opinion and a right to disagree with
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  Speaker 1: the guy on issues. And still be a supporter. But
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  Speaker 1: there's these people in this, what Ted would refer to
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  Speaker 1: as a mega cult that must seem to think you
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't be able to do that. You must all only
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  Speaker 1: think as Trump thinks and agree with everything he does
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  Speaker 1: to be a true Trump supporter. And that's craziness. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's craziness when I would see it with the
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  Speaker 1: Biden supporters who supported everything about Joe Biden, even though
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  Speaker 1: it was a disaster. And I looked at him because
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  Speaker 1: there truly was a Biden cult as well. It didn't
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  Speaker 1: matter what he was doing. They supported him 100 percent.
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  Speaker 1: And I found that just bizarre. Just as I find
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  Speaker 1: it bizarre if the Republicans do it. See, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you can just criticize one side for it. and
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  Speaker 1: have a different standard for that side than you do
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  Speaker 1: for your own side. That doesn't make sense to me. So,
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  Speaker 1: like I say, I do sit back and I do
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  Speaker 1: look at some of the stuff that's going on. I
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  Speaker 1: don't agree with this. I don't agree with this. And
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  Speaker 1: I ask you to think about this. So what if
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, just using him as an example, pick whoever
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  Speaker 1: you want, whatever Democrat you want. What if their personal
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  Speaker 1: attorney became the head of the Department of Justice and
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  Speaker 1: And their personal attorney gets a sweeping release under which
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  Speaker 1: the IRS is forever barred and precluded from pursuing examinations
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  Speaker 1: of Trump, related or affiliated individuals, that means mostly your family,
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  Speaker 1: and related trust and businesses. In other words, the IRS
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  Speaker 1: is forever barred From auditing or looking at anything in
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  Speaker 1: the Trump family or with Trump himself or any of
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  Speaker 1: his businesses. Now, that doesn't mean they can't do that
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  Speaker 1: and look at you. They can't do that and look
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  Speaker 1: at the vast majority of the rest of Americans. But
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  Speaker 1: you have to sit back and say, would you be
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  Speaker 1: approving that if that was, let's say, Biden's personal attorney
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  Speaker 1: was at a Department of Justice and gave the Biden
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  Speaker 1: family a waiver like that? Or would you be saying,
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  Speaker 1: that stinks, that's wrong? Because if you would, because I
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  Speaker 1: would say I wouldn't agree with that if it was Biden.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not going to agree with it when it's
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  Speaker 1: Trump that you get this waiver that was granted to
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  Speaker 1: from the Department of Justice because the guy that was
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  Speaker 1: your personal lawyer is now in charge of the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice. So as a Trump voter and Trump supporter,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and say I agree
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  Speaker 1: with that because I wouldn't agree with it if it
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  Speaker 1: was someone else. And I think you also have a
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  Speaker 1: right to disagree with this war situation and why he
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  Speaker 1: did Once again, this reversal from where he was to
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  Speaker 1: what is taking place now. Some very odd last-minute reversals
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  Speaker 1: on his stands. To the point where a lot of
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  Speaker 1: his supporters were shocked by it. His changing on the
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  Speaker 1: entire Epstein situation. People are concerned about Epstein because it's
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  Speaker 1: a double standard of justice. They refer to it as
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein class. It's just a double standard of justice
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  Speaker 1: that these people aren't being held accountable. And the focus
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  Speaker 1: should be on the victims. Now, we're talking about adult
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  Speaker 1: men here, whether they're influential business people or politicians that
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  Speaker 1: were engaging in sexual activity with minor children under the age.
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  Speaker 1: That alone is bizarre. Whether or not it's Prince Andrew
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  Speaker 1: or Clinton or anybody else, who knows? Thinks it's okay
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  Speaker 1: to have sex with a 14-year-old girl when you're a
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  Speaker 1: 50-year-old man. There's something wrong with that person. I don't
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  Speaker 1: give a damn what party they're with. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. Something's wrong with that. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: support it. And these files do not belong to the governments.
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  Speaker 1: They are our files. This is our government. And we
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  Speaker 1: have a right to see, as people have demanded, that
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  Speaker 1: they be open and released so justice can be done
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  Speaker 1: for the victims. But people know, as I've said numerous times,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein was created by the intelligence community. Now, just think
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  Speaker 1: for a second, whether that's Mossad or the CIA or both.
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  Speaker 1: more suspicious of the Mossad connection. But we know he
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  Speaker 1: had ties to the intelligence community. So can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: that whatever ties that are to an intelligence community, that
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  Speaker 1: they would think it's okay to recruit underage girls and
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  Speaker 1: get them to engage in sex with 50-year-old men? that
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  Speaker 1: any government or any agency would approve anything like that
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  Speaker 1: for the purposes of getting something on these people. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: everything was videotaped and who knows where these files are
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  Speaker 1: and who knows who was compromised or the power that's
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  Speaker 1: held over their heads. We know Bill Gates was hanging
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  Speaker 1: out there. We know Clinton was hanging out there. Letnick
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  Speaker 1: was on that island. A lot of people knew what
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  Speaker 1: was going on there even before just by the names
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  Speaker 1: of the Lolita Express and Pedophile Island and this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. A lot of people knew what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing makes that right. Nothing. Nothing. But what people are
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  Speaker 1: saying is, is there a double standard of justice here
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  Speaker 1: for the Epstein class and everybody else? And the answer
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  Speaker 1: at this point in time is yes. And for the
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  Speaker 1: victims there. And the reversal that Pam Bondi said with
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  Speaker 1: it on her desk and then it wasn't on her desk.
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  Speaker 1: Very odd, very strange. Who knows who has these videotapes
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  Speaker 1: or these files or this information? Who knows who has it?
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  Speaker 1: And who can use it to blackmail influential political figures
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  Speaker 1: and or business people. Do you think it just disappeared?
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  Speaker 1: But where's the justice for it? That's what people want it.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Trump wanted. That's what's. And then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden he did a 180 when it was time
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  Speaker 1: to pony up on all of this kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: a 180 to say, you're talking about that story, that's
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  Speaker 1: old news by now. Literally in the blink of an eye. Well,
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  Speaker 1: why did he do that? People are asking questions, why
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  Speaker 1: the sudden reversal? Why the sudden reversal on your stand
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  Speaker 1: when it came to regime change in the Middle East
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  Speaker 1: and forever wars in the Middle East? And from the
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  Speaker 1: bunker buster, took care of everything, solved the problem, mission accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: Why the sudden reversal? What is the influence of Israel
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  Speaker 1: and the lobbyists? They're questions that deserve to be asked
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  Speaker 1: and answered for the American public. You have a right
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  Speaker 1: to disagree with your country on this war and to
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  Speaker 1: disagree with Trump on it. That debate should be taking place.
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  Speaker 1: I'll come back. I want to talk some more. I'll
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  Speaker 1: get to calls. Stay tuned. We've got a long day.
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  Speaker 1: 570 WKBN. 324 in the afternoon. News Radio 570 WKBN
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  Speaker 1: and Ron Furb. So that's just an example, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when you take a look at the Epstein situation. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why he all of a sudden couldn't stand Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Greene and couldn't stand Thomas Massey and couldn't stand
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. Because they think that we have a right
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  Speaker 1: to know what went on here and justice should prevail
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  Speaker 1: for the victims. That's an old story. That's a reversal
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  Speaker 1: from where you stood on this issue. And who has
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  Speaker 1: that information? Who's holding it over whose heads? It's something
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  Speaker 1: that we all should be concerned about as Americans. Not
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  Speaker 1: as Democrats or Republicans, but Americans. When I think about
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  Speaker 1: this war situation, it reminded me of something the other day.
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  Speaker 1: I can remember my father, as many of perhaps your fathers,
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  Speaker 1: a World War II veteran. I can remember him arguing
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  Speaker 1: with many people back in the day of Vietnam how
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  Speaker 1: he was totally and completely opposed to Vietnam, and there
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  Speaker 1: were all those people who really were upset by it,
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  Speaker 1: thinking that whatever the country said, whatever the president said,
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  Speaker 1: you should support it and just go fight for that cause.
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  Speaker 1: My father never agreed with that situation from day one.
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  Speaker 1: And I can remember him having those discussions with some
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  Speaker 1: of his World War II colleagues at the time. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't buying a lot of what was being peddled then.
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  Speaker 1: It reminds me of this situation. You know, you can
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  Speaker 1: have differing opinions on this. You can see them from
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  Speaker 1: military experts. Take a look at General McGregor and where
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  Speaker 1: he is. A very knowledgeable man. An extremely smart man.
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  Speaker 1: Militarily and history speaking. And he's really against this situation.
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  Speaker 1: And he thinks Trump's in a terrible situation. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he's a dummy. I think he's a really smart guy.
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  Speaker 1: And he thinks this was a major mistake. And then
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  Speaker 1: you have people on the other side who do not.
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  Speaker 1: So people are entitled to their opinions, but it seems
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  Speaker 1: so odd for Trump. I mean, we dropped the bunker
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  Speaker 1: buster and supposedly that took care of everything. Mission accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: See you later. Now we dropped all these other bombs
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  Speaker 1: and supposedly that took care of, they're not launching any missiles.
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  Speaker 1: We got everything done. Okay. See you later. Led to
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  Speaker 1: believe we're going to drop more bombs. And I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if that accomplishes anything more. But we shall see.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I certainly hope that it's, that as an American,
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  Speaker 1: we can reach, in agreements here to move on from
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  Speaker 1: this situation and concentrate on the things that matter most,
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  Speaker 1: America first, the economy, energy independence, the things that are
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  Speaker 1: affecting everyday people right now in this listening audience, financially,
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  Speaker 1: more so than the threat of Iran and a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Because I know better than anything, a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: people that are pro-Iran weren't even thinking about Iran and
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon before they were kind of sold on
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  Speaker 1: it by the media coverage. They weren't up at night
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  Speaker 1: concerned about Iran or thinking they would be bombed by
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon or any of this nonsense. They started
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  Speaker 1: just mouthing what they heard on Fox or somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, it's become the big issue. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think the big issue is inflation. I think the
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  Speaker 1: big issue is the cost of gasoline. the affordability issue
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  Speaker 1: these are big issues that are going to affect all
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  Speaker 1: of our lives foreign aid these are all big issues
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  Speaker 1: the influence of lobbyists on our government so it's okay
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  Speaker 1: to disagree with Trump And you can still support him.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not okay if you're a member of the cult.
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  Speaker 1: A few more thoughts and phone calls ahead. Dot com.
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  Speaker 1: News Radio 570.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just making that point. I mean, you can
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  Speaker 1: debate the war and whether it was a good idea
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  Speaker 1: or a bad idea. And you should. And you can
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  Speaker 1: listen to various informed opinions, whether that's McGregor or other
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  Speaker 1: generals that have a deeper understanding than you and hear
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  Speaker 1: their sides of it, because there's debate within their ranks.
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  Speaker 1: And you can listen to that, and you should. But
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  Speaker 1: this idea that somehow, unless you agree with all of this,
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  Speaker 1: you're no good, Tucker Carlson says, or Massey or Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Greene or any of these other supporters is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: You just disagree on some of those issues. And that
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  Speaker 1: is America, and that is using your brain. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't sit around, as I said when I started, and say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay for Trump and his entire family to get
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  Speaker 1: a complete banning and waiver from the IRS, something none
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  Speaker 1: of you would ever get. And you'd be bitching if
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  Speaker 1: Biden pulled the same thing or someone from the other party.
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  Speaker 1: Or if somebody else would have started this war, if
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  Speaker 1: you weren't a part of the Trump cult, as Ted says,
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  Speaker 1: would have started this, you'd say, well, here we go again.
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  Speaker 1: You know, because we weren't going to get into these
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  Speaker 1: Middle East situations and regime change. And it seems like
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  Speaker 1: that's what it's all coming down to. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: we've done all of this and they haven't surrendered. They
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  Speaker 1: haven't given up. And it seems like, okay, well, let's
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  Speaker 1: go back and bomb some more. Well, is that going
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  Speaker 1: to change anything? I hope it does. And then it
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  Speaker 1: can come to a conclusion and we can get focused
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  Speaker 1: on the border again and get people out of our
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  Speaker 1: country that don't belong here. And we can get focused
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  Speaker 1: on lowering inflation and energy costs and making life easier
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  Speaker 1: on Americans. And I'm not going to sit and attack Massey.
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  Speaker 1: I've said for years when they attack him, we shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be doing any foreign aid. I agree with that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't give a damn if it's Egypt, Israel, or any
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  Speaker 1: other country. We are broke as a country. We are
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  Speaker 1: $ 40 trillion in debt, and we are broke. And I
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  Speaker 1: just am convinced, many people have no clue, we take
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  Speaker 1: in $ 4. 5 trillion a year in federal income tax. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you're spending way more than that, you're just making
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  Speaker 1: a debt and deficit bigger, as we are. It's growing
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: in astronomical numbers. And as that number grows, the interest,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: just paying the interest is our second biggest expense, soon
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: to be our first. Just paying the interest, not lowering
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the amount that's owed, just paying the interest. Is that
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: good use of our tax dollars to pay interest? Is
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that fair to future generations to stick them with that
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: debt for money spent now that they'll be on the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: hook to pay for? Should we be doing foreign aid
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: when we have serious issues with the solvency of Social
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Security and Medicare and Medicaid? Is it wrong to put
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: our American citizens first for a change? To say, I
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: believe we should take care of these programs like Social
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Security and Medicare to make sure that they remain solvent
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  Speaker 1: for our senior citizens and the promises that were made
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  Speaker 1: to them. As opposed to give billions to Egypt or
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Israel or any other country. Or Ukraine. Pick whichever one
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you want. Just as I was offended when we were
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: funding all of this stuff into Ukraine. We were funding everything.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Their small businesses, their first responders, their pension system was
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: all funded by the American taxpayer. Everything in the Ukraine
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: was funded by it. At the same time, we were
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: crapping on American citizens. Funding all of this stuff in
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the Ukraine for, and this is insanity. We're broke as
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: a country. We have problems in our own country that
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: could use that financial support as opposed to any of
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: these other countries. But how many people even knew that
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: was going on? How many people actually knew that we
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: were doing something like that? How many were even cognizant
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: that the country was doing something like that? That we
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: were paying for all this stuff. We were paying for
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the first responders in Ukraine. We were paying for all
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the fertilizers for their farmers. We were paying for their
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: small business supplementing all of this stuff. It's just insanity.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: The reality is you can't afford it. And my concern
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: is it's going to reach a point where the rest
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of the stuff that matters most to my fellow Americans
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: just implodes because of this ridiculous spending, how much interest
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: is eating up of our tax dollars coming in for nothing,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and programs that will implode. So there's always more to
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: a lot of these issues, I suspect, than meets the eye.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: But I don't always believe, and I never have, what
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the government's telling me. I don't care if it's Democrats
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: or Republicans that are in charge. I understand the great
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: effect lobbyists have on our system. And there's things that
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I will disagree with Trump. Doesn't mean I'm going to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: vote for Sherrod Brown or a Democrat. It just means
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I'm disappointed with him in many of these areas. I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: do think he's in a quagmire trying to figure out
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: how to get out of this. I mean, he'll never
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: admit to it. He thought this would be over much
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: sooner than it is. And it isn't. And it continues
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to go on with no end in sight. Only problems
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: that are coming from it. And problems are serious in
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: other parts of the country. Starvation. Energy problems. Lack of
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: fertilizer when it comes to the food and our farmers. Inflation. Shortages.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: So we shall see. I mean, we shall see as
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: time goes on. So that's the bottom line. It's just
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: like A lot of times people pick on J.J., the liberal,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: but J.J. at least would call from time to time,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and he would disagree with Biden on the open border.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: He supported Biden. I didn't understand it. But he says, listen,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I don't go for the open border. I don't go
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: for this transgender stuff. When he supported Biden, he just
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: didn't support that other crazy stuff of Biden. So he
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: wasn't a cult-like member. of supporting Joe Biden. But there
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: were people that were like that. Whatever Biden did, whatever
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the Democrats do, it's always okay. The corruption or whatever
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: looked the other way. I can't understand them any more
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: than I can understand anybody that's the same way with
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the Republicans. Mike DeWine's a Republican. I think he's terrible.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I think many of the Republicans in Congress are just...
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: not concerned about the debt and where the country's going
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: but upset let's take some calls rights again i could
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: go on and on and on all right so news
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: radio five so do you.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Know if you're in your own ear which the pharmacist
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: excuse me said that whether you agreed or disagreed with
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: the war we should all rally around the flag in
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: support the war i'd rather support anyone who supports a
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: war against inflation. And you correctly told the unknown caller
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: that CEOs of private corporations and the heads of government
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: bureaucracies require two different skill sets. For example, when a
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: boss tells an employee to do something and they refuse...
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: he or she can fire that individual. But when the
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: president tells the heads of bureaucracies to do something, they
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: can simply ignore him and stall and delay until his
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: term is up and he is no longer in office.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: And I would say to the unknown caller that Trump
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: would be the worst businessman to be president because he
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: bankrupted all 13 businesses he ever started and is working
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: on bankrupting number 13 and is working on bankrupting the country,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: like you said.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's... It's a difference in being a
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: CEO of a company where you can bark orders and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: things are happening. I mean, there is Congress. There is
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: a check and balance system that does go on here.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: And that's just how our system is set up. And
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you have to acknowledge that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Well, also, Jacob DeZinus thinks Margie Taylor Greene is a
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: bad person hypocrite because she is making money in the
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: stock market when she should have... represented the little guy
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: or gal, I looked at all of her trades, and
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I guarantee you she did not make those trades. Only
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: a professional portfolio manager made those trades. And I disagree
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: with Jacob. Everyone has a right to invest in the
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: stock market, including Donald Trump and his sons, but no
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: one has the right, Jacob... to abuse their position in
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: government to gain an unfair advantage over the little guy investor,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: like Trump and his family are doing. And Ron, if
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Margie Taylor Greene had a million dollars in the market,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: for example, made lots of money, then began withdrawing money
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: or earned interest or dividends, she would pay a lot
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: more in taxes if she successfully grew her money And
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: that would help Jacob. There would be more tax money
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: to kick the can down the road for Social Security
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: so he could get his check before he died. Now,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Jacob also repeated the new Massey hater talking point that
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Trump targeted Massey because even though Massey voted for the
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Trump agenda the vast majority of times, that he deserved
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: to be tossed out because he voted against the big,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: beautiful bill. But, Ron, Trump supporters like Margie Taylor Greene
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: and Tucker Carlson supported his big bill, and he attacked
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: them as well. You can't oppose Trump on a single issue,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: or he will target you. You must march in lockstep. And, Ron,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: the big, beautiful bill is one of the reasons the
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: feds are now almost $ 40 trillion in debt.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Well, that was a massive object to the Big Beautiful Bill,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: for one, because it just continued to make the debt
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: and deficit bigger. It continued and increased the Biden-era spending,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: was the argument it was making. At what point do
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: we deal with this particular situation? That's a fair argument
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to make, because the country is broke and it's going
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: down this road. Everyone thinks that these numbers mean nothing.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: The people don't understand the amount of your tax, how
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: much tax dollars we take in, how much goes to
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: interest payments, and you get nothing for it when that's
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: your second biggest expenditure. You're not lowering the debt or deficit.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: You're just, your tread water is what you're doing. So
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: it's foolish. And at the same time, you're not propping up,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: whether that's Social Security or Medicare, or quite frankly, even Medicaid,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: for we do have poor people that need health coverage
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: in that sense, or any other program in America for Americans.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I would rather start there than in any other country.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: And didn't Trump run on the promise to balance the budget?
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: national dept job put ron paul in charge of the
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: fed in order to stop inflation you know during the
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: administration's of brocco bombing joe biden how many times did
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: we hear about how republicans were the answer to all
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: those big spending Democrats who are bankrupting our country.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Conservatives, smaller government, lower taxes, raining in spending. Remember Ronald Reagan?
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: We don't have a taxing problem, we have a spending problem. Well,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: we still do. And it's getting worse. Not better. Not better.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if only American voters would put those fiscally responsible
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Republicans in charge of both houses of Congress and the presidency...
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: we were repeatedly told fiscal responsibility returned to the federal government. But,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: you know, during Trump's first term in office, when Republicans
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: did control both houses of Congress, the federal debt increased
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: by almost $ 8 trillion.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it certainly is a problem. All right, Frank,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: thank you. You're on the air. Hello.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Hey there, good afternoon. You know... This process, or were
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: the conservative Republicans, because I am a Republican, but I'm
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: not a conservative Republican. I would never be that way.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: And our dear friend in the morning, him and I
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: would go around about that, and he just couldn't understand
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: what I was saying. Conservative Republicans, as far as I
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: was concerned, were the rhinos. Take in point, 10 years, 15,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: or maybe 10 or 12 years ago, when House Senator,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I think it was, was the Speaker of the House,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: here in Ohio, got caught, and they went to put
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: another guy in there. And some of the Republicans agreed
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: with the Democrats on who should take his place. And
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: for the first thing, started screaming out of those conservative
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Republicans are, they're nothing but a bunch of rhinos. They're
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: nothing but a bunch of rhinos. Till three days later,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: one of the Republicans called up and said, let's get
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: this straight. We as a group voted together as we
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: should to make a new to put another speaker the
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: house yet it had nothing to do with being a
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: rhino they just wanted their way and they didn't care
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: now that's and all and now ghost is trying to
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: get rid of that uh... uh... uh... judgment or court
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: thing for the whole state university pedophile doctor he wants
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: to drop that whole thing and the whole state university
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: which is the one Jim Jordan was at, have paid
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: over $ 30 million in hush money or to compensate for
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: what that doctor did to them people.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Well, it comes down to, listen, the Republicans are in charge,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and apparently we got a lot of fraud going on
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: here with some of the people here. We hear about
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: it in Minnesota, whether it's Somalis or Haitians or whatever
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the situation is in Ohio. But apparently we got a
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: lot of corruption that's been taking place here, money that's
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: been stolen that we hear about in Minnesota, very much
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: here in the state of Ohio. Well, where's our Attorney General?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Where is our All East Republican office holder? Stand by.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I'll get back to you in a minute. And other callers,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: stand by. Back with more in a bit. 3.52 in
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: the afternoon. Ron Furb, back in a minute. All right.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Back to it. News Radio 570 WKBN. And let's see.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Where was I here? Where was I? All right, so
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: you take a look at DeWine as a Republican, and
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I don't care for him. For example, he made a
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: decision that when data centers build and buy their materials,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: they don't have to pay sales tax on it. As
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I say, if you build a garage, you've got to
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: pay sales tax on the materials. But a data center,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: which is spending tons of money, is waived on it?
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense to me. And so..
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: It don't make any sense to me either.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Stand by. I got my news and I come back
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: to you. Just bear with me here.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: From ABC News. I'm Mike Dabusky. The case against Kilmar
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Abrego-Garcia has been dismissed, with a judge saying the federal
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: government's case against him had a vindictive motive. Abrego-Garcia had
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: been facing human smuggling charges. He was also wrongfully deported
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: to El Salvador last year and served time at that
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: country's notorious Seacott prison. The Trump administration's so-called anti-weaponization fund
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: is now facing a second federal lawsuit, this time from
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: a coalition of nonprofits and individuals, including a former January
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: 6th prosecutor. They allege the fund bypasses Congress's authority over
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: federal spending. ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: says it's not the only place the idea is facing pushback.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: Republicans are demanding answers and refusing to approve more funding
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: for the president's immigration crackdown until they get them. Acting
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: Attorney General Todd Blanch scrambling to the hill. For over
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: two hours, Blanch getting an earful. Republicans yelling at him.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: Some of the president's most ardent supporters telling the acting
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: attorney general that the president's fund... will cost them the
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: majority in the upcoming midterms.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Kevin Warsh sworn in today at the White House as
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: chairman of the Federal Reserve.
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: Our mandate at the Fed is to promote price stability
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: and maximum employment. When we pursue those aims with wisdom
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: and clarity, independence and resolve, inflation can be lower. growth stronger.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: The World Health Organization is warning that Ebola is spreading
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: rapidly across the Democratic Republic of the Congo, upgrading the
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: national risk there to very high.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Dr.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Kent Brantley became infected with Ebola during the 2014 outbreak.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: He spoke with ABC News.
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: Although we've developed lots of therapeutics and vaccines for Ebola,
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: they've not been targeted at this strain. This is a
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: different strain, the Bundabugio strain. And so we don't have
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: the usual tools that have been used over the last
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: 10 years or so to fight these outbreaks.
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