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"The Trappings" (Thursday, May 28, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We didn't Miniktok radio. We needed better. First thing today
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  Speaker 1: By Joe Thomas on the Chunk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: What does band von Ruthless do?
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  Speaker 2: Work said, steal me stem.
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  Speaker 4: You have a day at least for work when the
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  Speaker 4: sun comes up, drops a kid to scoop Nay joys everything, agenda,
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  Speaker 5: Media.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, thank you for letting us be of service to
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  Speaker 2: you each and every morning. We are your Joe of choice.
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  Speaker 2: Four three, four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you what happened last night. We'll give you our
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  Speaker 2: analysis of it, and we will give you a place
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  Speaker 2: so you can tell us how it's impacting you where
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  Speaker 2: you are from the cabinet meeting, whether.
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  Speaker 6: It's been nasty, they've lost their leaders, they've lost and
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  Speaker 6: it really is regime change.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we didn't set.
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  Speaker 6: Out for regime change. But by the fact that we're
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  Speaker 6: dealing with a totally different group of people than we
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  Speaker 6: were at the beginning, and frankly, I find them to
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  Speaker 6: be much more reasonable. I actually find them to be smarter.
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  Speaker 6: But I find them to be much more reasonable. This
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  Speaker 6: is regime change. One regime is gone, another regime is gone.
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  Speaker 6: We're dealing with the third pieces of it because some
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  Speaker 6: of them are gone too, and I find them.
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  Speaker 2: He finds them easier to deal with. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: Republican it's the Revolutionary Guardcore is who's apparently running things.
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  Speaker 2: And we knew that. We said that. That's from the
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  Speaker 2: Cabinet meeting yesterday talking about Iran. And Iran shot off
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  Speaker 2: some missiles towards Kuwait last night and American ships shot
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  Speaker 2: them down over the Strait of Horror Moves. They also
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  Speaker 2: launched a bunch of drones with missiles on them towards Kuwait,
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  Speaker 2: and Kuwait shot them down. So still swinging. And they're
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  Speaker 2: the ones who immediately and smartly, as President Trump said,
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  Speaker 2: went to the Strait of horm Mooz, took the territories
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  Speaker 2: over that bordered the Straits of Hormuz. They're in charge
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  Speaker 2: because they control the one thing that everyone wants to
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  Speaker 2: be able to ship things through the Straits of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 2: So while they're there, people are going to have to
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  Speaker 2: deal with them. And that's going to be the key
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  Speaker 2: thing in this is can they be trusted to be
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  Speaker 2: the government, because that's going to at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the game be The issue is will they be seen
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  Speaker 2: legitimately as the people who govern or just the guys
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  Speaker 2: who have the guns, because that's you know, unfortunately, how
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  Speaker 2: the case has been rolling is whoever has the guns
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  Speaker 2: runs this morning here on first thing today, Our first things,
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  Speaker 2: several of the things that we've been covering here, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll get back into the Ted cruise story. I don't
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  Speaker 2: need to belabor it anymore, but he along with Maria
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  Speaker 2: Cantwell of Washington, have a bill that's going to take
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  Speaker 2: over basically and set up the premise in which college
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  Speaker 2: sports can be bailed out by the federal government. I
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  Speaker 2: will explain coming up. He said. It's a stability bill
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  Speaker 2: because that's what we want Senate doing it. Bipartisan bill
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  Speaker 2: on regulating college sports. Meanwhile, overseas, China is doing naval
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  Speaker 2: exercises in the Western Pacific. This week, Japan said Beijing's
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  Speaker 2: first confirmed Pacific carrier on operation of the year. According
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  Speaker 2: to Defense Minister Sinjiro Koizumi on x this is the
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  Speaker 2: first time this year we've confirmed and announced the activities
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  Speaker 2: of a Chinese military aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean.
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  Speaker 2: We will continue to closely monitor relevant developments while ensuring
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  Speaker 2: utmost vigilance in our warning and surveillance activities in the
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  Speaker 2: surrounding sea and airspace of our country. Alabama called on
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  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court to step in and allow them to
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  Speaker 2: use a congressional map favoring Republicans. The state's Republican leadership
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  Speaker 2: filed an emergency appeal the day after a three judge
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  Speaker 2: court in Alabama refused to let the state use a
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  Speaker 2: map it adopted three years ago that has a majority
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  Speaker 2: black population in just one of its seven districts. Oil
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  Speaker 2: Iran and Iran strikes back at Kuwait Turning Point. USA
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  Speaker 2: with her at an anti ice protest, has now filed
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  Speaker 2: restraining orders against her and is attempting to stop her
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  Speaker 1: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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  Speaker 2: Don't get lost because the Marxist wants you to exchange
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  Speaker 2: your liberty for the things your liberty has created. Thus
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  Speaker 2: is the case with this crazy situation with Ted Cruz,
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  Speaker 2: of all people considered to be the arbiter of things
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  Speaker 2: conservative right along with You know, and I haven't heard
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  Speaker 2: Maria Cantwell's statements on why they have this government takeover
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  Speaker 2: of college athletics coming. But it's pandering. It's pandering to
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  Speaker 2: the sports fans, it's span pandering to sports book. You
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  Speaker 2: might as well just say, we want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: there's college athletics so that DraftKings has something to make
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  Speaker 2: money on. Here's a quick fun fact. There were no
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  Speaker 2: college football playoff scenarios in seventeen eighty nine. We had colleges,
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  Speaker 2: many of them had extracurricular athletic activities. There was no
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  Speaker 2: NCAA when the United States was founded, and we got
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  Speaker 2: on just fine. Colleges opened. Thomas Jefferson himself opened one,
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  Speaker 2: and they newly made it into the college football playoffs
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  Speaker 2: last year. These are the fruits of that tree I
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  Speaker 2: was talking about the last couple of days, that apple tree.
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  Speaker 2: We love the apples. Oh, we love our Saturdays and
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  Speaker 2: our college footballer, we love going to our alma mater, intailgating,
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  Speaker 2: and we love all the things that go along with
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  Speaker 2: college athletics. Sure, but are they because America exists? Or
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  Speaker 2: proof that America exists? Do we need to defend it?
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  Speaker 2: So that we defend America or do we allow it
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  Speaker 2: to take its own chances. And this is to me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this has been a story since the drop
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  Speaker 2: of the Green flag this morning because I couldn't believe
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  Speaker 2: Ted Cruz was part of this. I mean, you know
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  Speaker 2: there are people who are counting on this text message
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  Speaker 2: came on said, come on, Joe Bato O'Rourke would have
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  Speaker 2: been much worse than Ted Cruz. I don't know when
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  Speaker 2: Ted Cruze says stuff like this.
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  Speaker 5: Of seeing a handful of giant super schools with all
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  Speaker 5: the money recruiting all the top talent, and the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the schools being left in the dust. And that's
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  Speaker 5: not good for the fans, that's not good good for
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  Speaker 5: the sport. And I think there's a real need for
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  Speaker 5: Congress to act and set some uniform rules.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what's the difference. You're gonna tell me Cullen
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  Speaker 2: Allred couldn't have done that. At least you would have
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  Speaker 2: expected it from Beato O'Rourke or Cullen Allred or one
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  Speaker 2: of the other Democrats that have run against Ted Cruz.
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  Speaker 2: And I know we've got listeners in Beaumont. I know
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  Speaker 2: I've heard from some of the listeners in Dallas and
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  Speaker 2: San Antonio as well, that he's sure ted Cruz might
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  Speaker 2: in most cases. And I cannot, to my shock and awe,
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  Speaker 2: believe that this is the same guy that took, you know,
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  Speaker 2: offense that Tim Caine said that rights don't come from God.
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  Speaker 2: Do we have a right to college athletics? How is
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  Speaker 2: this the same human being. It's populism, it's I want
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  Speaker 2: to get reelected. I'm going to say things that you know,
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  Speaker 2: sound like I'm defending America when it's just a trapping
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  Speaker 2: of America. It's like when the Grinch gets to the
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  Speaker 2: top of Mount Crumpet and he turns around expecting to
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  Speaker 2: hear the who's down in Whoville upset that he's stolen
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  Speaker 2: Christmas from them, when he hadn't stolen Christmas. He just
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  Speaker 2: stole all the babbles and beads that hang around because
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  Speaker 2: you know, we like to decorate a Christmas. But it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't stealing Christmas. College football on a Saturday is going
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  Speaker 2: to continue, whether the Senate acts or not. But this
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  Speaker 2: is setting them up to now have the authority to
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  Speaker 2: bail out the schools when the advertising money goes away.
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  Speaker 2: This is telling the drunken sailor. Don't worry. I'll make
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  Speaker 2: sure the officer of the deck doesn't notice you sneaking
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  Speaker 2: back on on stage. This is protecting american Ism versus
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  Speaker 2: protecting America. These are the visual trappings of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: And it will it will get worse and worse and worse.
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  Speaker 2: And if you can't count on guys like Tim ted
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  Speaker 2: Cruise to defend it, you're certainly not going to get
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  Speaker 2: guys like Tim Kane to. I mean, that's the part
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  Speaker 2: that I really, you know, I feel frustrated about in
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  Speaker 2: this is that it's not.
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  Speaker 5: Rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government,
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  Speaker 5: but come from the creator.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the Iranian government believes.
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  Speaker 2: It's not anymore. We've blown them out of smithereens. But
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  Speaker 2: that's Tim Kane. That's what I have to rely on.
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  Speaker 2: And this is we can't be rewarding this because this
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  Speaker 2: is how we are in greater debt than even the
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  Speaker 2: amount of money we generate anymore. We have more debt
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  Speaker 2: than we generate in collections each year. Our GDP is
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  Speaker 2: lower than the amount of money we owe other people.
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  Speaker 2: And does it make Americans feel good? Sure? And I
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  Speaker 2: guess that's the bigger problem. We're approaching a midterm re
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  Speaker 2: election cycle where the Republicans are desperately trying to make
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  Speaker 2: Americans feel good so that they'll vote for Republicans. Lower
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  Speaker 2: the gas prices. You have a majority in the House
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  Speaker 2: and Senate. Stop the gas tax for six months. Open
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  Speaker 2: the Straight of Hormuz. Send naval vessels to guard each
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  Speaker 2: tanker as it goes down the Straight of Hormuz. Trump
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  Speaker 2: says he's president is discussing things with the Iranian Revolutionary
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  Speaker 2: Guard Corps. Okay, great, they're in charge now, Great, get
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  Speaker 2: them to open the strait of horror moves. I'd rather
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  Speaker 2: see the Iranian people with a bunch of rifles of
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  Speaker 2: their own, because then I'll see if this Iranian Revolutionary
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  Speaker 2: Guard car actually has the will of the people or
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  Speaker 2: just the people are afraid to say anything because they
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  Speaker 2: have all the guns. This email, how is any of
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  Speaker 2: this maga, Joe. I mean there's a case to be
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  Speaker 2: made for some certain not Tim, not to Ted Cruz
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  Speaker 2: and the bailout of the athletics campaign. But Iran, I
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  Speaker 2: think is what you're getting at. Tim. Tim writs into
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  Speaker 2: JT in the Morning Radio at gmail dot com. How
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  Speaker 2: is any of this? I believe you're referring to Iran
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  Speaker 2: and Venezuela and all that. How is this maga? I'll
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  Speaker 2: get into it next.
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  Speaker 2: have been killed in the illicit drug trade through Venezuela.
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  Speaker 2: When you have Ted Cruz, who most of us count
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  Speaker 5: You've got a situation where athletes are engaged in a
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  Speaker 2: Which is not a problem. Shouldn't be a problem. Now
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  Speaker 5: But tell me this is I'm seeing a handful of
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• 46:26
  Speaker 2: forty million dollars in gold bars were not stolen from
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  Speaker 2: the Sheikh of Arabique, they came from the CIA. He
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  Speaker 2: requisitioned them. What exactly is your operation that you're involved in?
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: And this is where the phrase official comes in. Is
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  Speaker 2: he an officer? Is he a field agent? Is this
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: something he was using for undercover operations designed to make
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  Speaker 2: him look like some drug kingpin or something like that? Then,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I mean I thought he would have had bitcoin then
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  Speaker 2: more than gold bars. But that's just me. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a trained CIA officer. But the the issue to me
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  Speaker 2: right now is the question of what was this guy doing.
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  Speaker 2: Was he just like Louise Lucas or Congressoman McCormick, defrauding
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  Speaker 2: the government because the government was defraudable, or is this
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  Speaker 2: an instance where an op went bad and the government
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: is cya by having the guy run you into federal
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  Speaker 2: penitentiary where he'll quietly be released in you know, six months,
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: but there'll be a big hoop de doo about the
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  Speaker 2: arrest and whatnot. What was he supposed to be doing
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  Speaker 2: and where? Because the parts of Virginia I've seen where
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  Speaker 2: he's his home is does look like the place going
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: to find a lot of spy activity. But then this
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  Speaker 2: one on another locally adjacent story to our flagship state
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  Speaker 2: having to do with the Commonwealth of Virginia and federal monies.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Going on to the electric utilities, a column I wrote
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  Speaker 2: for The Daily Signal asking you know where, in you know,
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  Speaker 2: what way should the Virginia regulatory authorities be looking at
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  Speaker 2: this merger of these two companies Minion is being purchased.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Terry asked the question about the electric utilities and why
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it should be a fear. Well, do
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  Speaker 2: I think we should have smaller regional electric utilities. Yes.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: More competition equals better competition always, But they're merging because
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: of all the federal authorities trying to get in the
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  Speaker 2: way of what they're trying to do, which is generate
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: electricity for you and sell it to you. Now, there
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: are some perversions in the system that leaves electric utilities
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: more interested to their customers on Wall Street than they
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: do with their customers on Main Street. And that's a
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: problem because when you when you've got people more interested
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  Speaker 2: in Wall Street than Main Street, wall Street will generally
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: win because there are larger bags of money than you know,
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: the aggregate from just you know, one spot, you know,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: one group of even if at the end of the
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: day there are more people, you know, to create more revenue,
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: and you don't have Wall Street investors without that's just
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: you know, the way it winds up fleshing out. There's
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: a couple of stories we're working on right now that
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: we're investigating. Louise Lucas said harsher things yesterday about the
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  Speaker 2: Governor of Virginia than she said in the last five years.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I think she had some very harsh words about the
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  Speaker 2: governor of Virginia, who, by the way, in case you're
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: keeping score, is in her own political party. The governor
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: and the House are the ones that are gambling with
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: our future, allowing data centers to expand without concern for power,
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: water or paying their fair share of taxes. This is
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: the leader of the Virginia Senate Data Center of vilification.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: The governor should be honest and tell the public what
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: she won't do. She won't tax billion dollar corporations to
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: provide long term revenue. I mean, it's so boiler plate.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: But there's a schism because apparently, and I'm hearing this
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: from operatives, that there are people who are workings behind
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the scenes to get these trouble making Democrats out of
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. So there's fun and frolic there because
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: you know that when this stuff happens in the Republican Party,
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: everyone everyone wants to cover it, everyone wants to have
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: it on the front page. Oh look, Republicans in disarray.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: But now that there are investigations into whether or not
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Louise Lucas was ripping off the federal government or not,
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: she's scrambling to try to taint the governor. She's never liked.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: She hasn't liked the governor since Terry mcculloff was around.
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