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"Governing From Behind" (Wednesday, December 31 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 2: Today by Joe Thomas and Thomas Media l I'll see
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  Speaker 2: preparing all of the necessary applications to become a childcare
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  Speaker 2: provider in Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 1: So just what.
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  Speaker 2: All right? And yes, I stole that from the Babylon Bee. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: guilty is charged. I saw it yesterday and it's just
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  Speaker 2: a ad like you announcement big block letters. Babylon Bee
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  Speaker 2: has applied for application to be considered a childcare well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're handing out millions of dollars I could
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  Speaker 2: use the scratch. Apparently you don't have to take care
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  Speaker 2: of any kids anyway. But that's just the tip of
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  Speaker 2: the iceberg. And I hate to be that guy because
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  Speaker 2: everyone's having the fun and frolic, you know, bashing on
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  Speaker 2: shaved down Grover if you remember, or maybe he's Fozzy Bear. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he looks a little bit more like if you shave
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  Speaker 2: down the Muppet Fozzy Bear. But Tim Walls, everyone's having
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  Speaker 2: the fun and frolic. I get it, and I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: And they're a few people on the planet who deserve
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  Speaker 2: it more than Tim. But there's so much more fraud
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  Speaker 2: and abuse going on in Minnesota. The Somalis are not,
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  Speaker 2: and what the Marxists are doing is trying to make
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  Speaker 2: their case for the Nazification and the fascization of the
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  Speaker 2: Republican Party. Be careful, you're being sucker punched. I'm you know,
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  Speaker 2: I will be the one out here and you'll say,
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  Speaker 2: but Joe, I want to.
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  Speaker 5: Feel Yeah, I understand that nast a feeling of Kristolph
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  Speaker 5: and oh and it's just an it's a spasm of
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  Speaker 5: but but I'm watching people who are not racist, not Islamophobic,
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  Speaker 5: become is start to sound islamophobic.
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  Speaker 2: Over something that really has You know, these are people
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  Speaker 2: who avoided becoming islamophobic after September eleventh, two thousand and one,
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  Speaker 2: and we had Islamists actually kill a three thousand people.
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  Speaker 2: This is they stole a few million dollars from a
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  Speaker 2: dumb ass governor and his dumb ass state. And I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: I know Katie is and I love the people, but
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  Speaker 2: you're being done dirty by a bunch of people who
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  Speaker 2: don't think anyone cares. And the sad part is now
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Party is already Yeah, yeah, us too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're mad too. What anyone trying to do any oversight?
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  Speaker 2: And I received this because we brought this up yesterday
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  Speaker 2: that there are those who don't feel like it's fair
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  Speaker 2: to bring up the Republican Party of Minnesota for any
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  Speaker 2: complacency in this really because they hold such a small minority.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever watched Democrats when they're in the minority
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  Speaker 2: and what they do. We'll get into that this morning.
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  Speaker 2: It is it if you haven't done what you need
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  Speaker 2: to do for twenty twenty five year time as a tiken.
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  Speaker 2: As New Year's Eve is nigh, President Trump's administration announced
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday that it is freezing childcare funds to Minnesota from
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  Speaker 2: the federal budget and demanding an audit of daycare centers
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  Speaker 2: after the fraud schemes came to light. Deputy Secretary of
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  Speaker 2: Health and Human Services Jim O'Neil said via his social
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  Speaker 2: media platform on x quote, blatant fraud that appears to
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  Speaker 2: be rampant in Minnesota and across the country is why
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  Speaker 2: this response has been made. Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz pushed
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  Speaker 2: back on his ex account, saying fraudsters are a serious
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  Speaker 2: issue that the state has spent years cracking down on.
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  Speaker 2: National Guard members have arrived in New Orleans to help
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  Speaker 2: with safety measures ahead of this New Year's Eve celebration.
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  Speaker 2: It is the one year anniversary of the truck attack
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  Speaker 2: on Bourbon Street that left fourteen dead. Environmental journalist and
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  Speaker 2: activist Tatiana Schlosberg is yet another gone too soon tragedy
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  Speaker 2: childcare centers, though Shirley is not a member of Immigrations
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  Speaker 2: First thing today, This Tedsday morning, the final TEDS Day
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five. I see I'm already trying to
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  Speaker 2: scenes is about, you know, stuff that's coming up in March.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, December is long since been done for us.
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  Speaker 2: We're still out there trying to make our case for
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  Speaker 2: but I like your show talking about, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: people screwing us over in government. I said, we're still
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  Speaker 2: and nobody sits down and says, wait a second, why
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  Speaker 2: do I have to pay more electric costs because they
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  Speaker 2: use more electricity. That's like saying I have to pay
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  Speaker 2: higher grocery bills because my neighbor had two pizzas last night.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, technically that is the premise of Obamacare. But
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  Speaker 2: so let's get back to Minnesota for a second. Republican
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  Speaker 2: chair the party chair was on Newsmax yesterday and, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, a lot of folks kind of pushing back
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  Speaker 2: on the idea that they have some culpability or some
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  Speaker 2: some position of responsibility to this because they hadn't done more,
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  Speaker 2: and some people pushing back to that's not fair. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they don't have a very big caucus, and it's like
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  Speaker 2: asking Oregon Republicans to do more. Have you ever watched
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  Speaker 2: have you ever experienced what it's like when the Democratic
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  Speaker 2: Party is a minority position. I mean, good golly, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't even have to be Nancy Pelosi, who's the wicked
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  Speaker 2: witch of the West when it comes to it, And
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  Speaker 2: you're not an agenda too. Hakeem Jefferies is slick. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he's great at it yet, but he's got skills.
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  Speaker 2: These people can run the table from behind better than
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  Speaker 2: any These are backseat drivers because unlike Republicans, they understand
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  Speaker 2: that our system is designed to make sure the minority
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  Speaker 2: has a say. And you know what happened the last
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  Speaker 2: time a Republican tried this, he was met with a
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  Speaker 2: primary challenger that Kevin McCarthy himself was fundraising for to
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  Speaker 2: get him out of the House Freedom Caucus. And that's
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  Speaker 2: our friend. The host of the Good for America podcast,
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  Speaker 2: Bob Good. Bob said, Hey, this is the stuff they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: They're using the rules. They're not breaking the rules. They're not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, circumventing the rules. They are, you using the
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  Speaker 2: rules that are on the books regarding how legislative process works.
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  Speaker 2: So let us do the same thing. Let us do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing from the majority position should be easier.
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  Speaker 2: And for some reason, and I think I know the reason,
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  Speaker 2: it's a really sad human failing. They don't want to
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  Speaker 2: do it. And if there is a good case in
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  Speaker 2: my dear friend Nancy Kernig from the Grassroots Action Team
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  Speaker 2: at Convention of States talks about term limits on elected officials,
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  Speaker 2: and I always push back saying I have no problem
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  Speaker 2: with term limiting elected officials. If we term limit the
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  Speaker 2: career DC and state capital types. If you've got some
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  Speaker 2: guy who's been chief of staff for eighteen different ledgis
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  Speaker 2: in Saint Paul, Minnesota, they're the problem. They know all
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  Speaker 2: the connections, they've got all the money, they know who
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  Speaker 2: to call to get funding for whatnot. So if you're
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  Speaker 2: a freshman member of the Minnesota House, you get there, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is Tim. Tim's been chief of staff for sixteen
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  Speaker 2: other people. He knows where the money is, he knows
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  Speaker 2: where the connections are, and so you've changed your representative.
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  Speaker 2: But the people pulling the strings are the same. So
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  Speaker 2: you get me a term limit on those people, the
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  Speaker 2: ones you never hear of. The chiefs of staff and
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  Speaker 2: the communications directors and the legislative liaisons bought elected officials
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  Speaker 2: because all they really have to do in life is
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  Speaker 2: stay jazz a little bit more popular than anyone else
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  Speaker 2: in their district, have a tendency to duck and cover
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  Speaker 2: when controvert issues come up. This is why they hate
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  Speaker 2: talk radio. It's well, it's a love hate relationship because
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  Speaker 2: you and me we talk about stuff, and we talk
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  Speaker 2: about the common sense solutions to this stuff, and we say, well,
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  Speaker 2: why don't you do that, and then inevitably I get
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  Speaker 2: the well you don't understand or you know, well this process.
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  Speaker 2: Yet the Democrats they just walk into office and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: all right, parliamentary procedure are four points, says, so we
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  Speaker 2: can derail all of this stuff without ever having a majority. Right, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: oh okay. So everyone in Minnesota who says it's not
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  Speaker 2: fair to get harsh on the Republican Party because they're
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  Speaker 2: in a minority have never watched Democrats when they're in
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  Speaker 2: the minority. Because when Democrats are in the minority, they
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  Speaker 2: don't care. Sometimes it looks like they actually enjoy it
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  Speaker 2: more because it's frustrating to conservatives, especially on the grassroots level,
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  Speaker 2: They're like, hey, we want over ask ask Glenn Youngkin.
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  Speaker 2: What happens when Glenn Youngkin vetoed in four years, four
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  Speaker 2: hundred pieces of legislation they may all come back and
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  Speaker 2: get signed into law. I just published a piece in
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  Speaker 2: the Daily Signal dot com newspaper about what we will
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  Speaker 2: know depending on what Abigail Spanberger vetos or not Glen
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  Speaker 2: Youngin understands. What happens when the Democrats play parliamentary procedure
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  Speaker 2: with you. Their their chief political consultant is Sean Connery
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  Speaker 2: from the Untouchables. If you bring a stickball bat, they
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  Speaker 2: bring a knife. If you bring a knife, they bring
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  Speaker 2: a gun. So do I have time before the news?
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  Speaker 2: Here just a little taste test of the GOP chair
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  Speaker 2: from Minnesota being asked, can we get this money back?
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  Speaker 19: What is our capability of clawing effect?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 19: I think a lot of this money I'm told has
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  Speaker 19: gone overseas or to other states. We're definitely gonna try.
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  Speaker 19: The party itself doesn't have any clause to do this,
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  Speaker 19: but the legislature and law enforcement certainly does.
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  Speaker 2: Alex Pleckish, Is that how it's going to as? Pleckish?
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  Speaker 2: He's the GOP chair in Minnesota, and I'll blame him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's wrong for getting out on TV
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  Speaker 2: saying you know, we got to do something about this immediately, immediately, immediately.
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  Speaker 2: But to claim that they didn't sit there and fiddle
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  Speaker 2: while Tim Waltz burned is just another example of Republicans
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  Speaker 2: learning nothing from watching democrats, especially Democrats. Look at Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Look at Texas. Democrats have a majority in Texas.
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  Speaker 8: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas? Yes?
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  Speaker 8: Actually three known gas is I'm doctor Mitch, and nitric
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  Speaker 8: oxide is a gas that's readily made all day long
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  Speaker 2: with the Minnesota Somali community, there's so much more fraud
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  Speaker 14: I'm pretty sober.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 3: First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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  Speaker 3: the second most famous.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas and Sharnasville.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of emails here on the subject. Joe, you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about law fair, and lawfair is not a conservative principle.
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  Speaker 2: It is what Saul Olinsky and his ilk use when
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  Speaker 2: the scholarly debate fails them. Mike listening to us, and
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 25: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Mike tuning in in San Antonio this morning at a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful city, and you shouldn't be asked to spend so
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  Speaker 2: much money on re developing it, by the way, just saying,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, if there's parts of San Antonio
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  Speaker 2: that are unvital you should come to some of the
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  Speaker 2: places like Minneapolis and see what unvitalized looks like before
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  Speaker 2: you start spending money to revitalize things. But regardless, so
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about law fair, Yeah, and there are conservatives
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  Speaker 2: that blanche at the idea of law fair. And my
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  Speaker 2: argument is this, that's what the courts are supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be there for our dear friend Wilson Fouber, the realatore,
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  Speaker 2: who was done in by his association. Then you would
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  Speaker 2: say at the first blush, well, I mean, it's an
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  Speaker 2: internal matter. It's the National Association of Realtors and his
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  Speaker 2: local ago. They they're the ones who want to take
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  Speaker 2: his license away because he quoted Leviticus of all things
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  Speaker 2: my God literally. But it wasn't because it was an
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  Speaker 2: organization that had become so ubiquitous in his industry that
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  Speaker 2: if he lost his membership and that he lost his
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  Speaker 2: ability to do it. And he won in court and
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  Speaker 2: the founding Freedom's Legal Center at the Family Foundation went
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  Speaker 2: into court pro bono because you need these pro bono
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  Speaker 2: organizations to take your liberty message up because the people
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  Speaker 2: who are coming after your liberty got lots of money.
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  Speaker 2: And it's funny, they're always the people are like, why
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  Speaker 2: does that have to be about money all the time?
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  Speaker 2: Because you have all of it. That's why it has
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  Speaker 2: to be about money all the time. You know, these
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  Speaker 2: people are like, I want to get Bondi out of politics.
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  Speaker 2: Are the same ones who will spend eighteen million dollars
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  Speaker 2: to win a House of Delegate seat in Virginia. People
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  Speaker 2: make me queasy, like in my inner ear is getting
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  Speaker 2: played with. But that being said, the system is there
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  Speaker 2: to defend your rights. They haven't taken it away. They've
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  Speaker 2: covered it on a pile of paper. They've written law
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  Speaker 2: after law. We've talked about the density, this gravitational field,
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  Speaker 2: this dead star that is this pile of legislation all
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  Speaker 2: designed to create law that give them the right to
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  Speaker 2: do things. But the essential laws of life, liberty and
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  Speaker 2: the ownership of property still exists. And if you get
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  Speaker 2: them and you get into court. This is why the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing Donald Trump will ever have done in
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  Speaker 2: the United States will be the appointment of conservative originalist judges,
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  Speaker 2: because long after Donald Trump's Last Will and Testament is read,
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  Speaker 2: his judges will be ruling on the matters of law
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  Speaker 2: regarding what the US Constitution says, not what these progressive
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  Speaker 2: Olynskyites wish it said. Oh they'll take you to court.
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  Speaker 2: They will, Oh yeah, they will. You're not wrong, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: So we have to roll up our sleeves and say
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  Speaker 2: we have the ultimate in law on our side, the
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  Speaker 2: Bill of Rights and the Ten Commandments, and we will
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  Speaker 2: take that into court. And we we need good lawyers.
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  Speaker 2: We need strong lawyers to do it. Remember when Shakespeare,
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  Speaker 2: Shakespeare's character said kill all the lawyers. He was trying
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  Speaker 2: to bring about anarchy so that he could become king.
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  Speaker 2: Be careful of these things, because it's an easy hit.
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  Speaker 2: You need the lawyers. You need them because otherwise the
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  Speaker 2: people will screw you to their benefit, whether it be
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  Speaker 2: a business level, but certainly on a political level. Let
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  Speaker 2: me get to you at four three four eight eight
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  Speaker 2: two four two one seven here on this New Year's
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  Speaker 2: Eve morning, good morning. You're on the air with Joe.
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  Speaker 2: First thing this morning.
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  Speaker 26: Who's this Hey, Good morning, Joe's Joel, Joel Happy New
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  Speaker 26: Year's Eve, Happy.
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  Speaker 1: Vide Year's Eve.
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  Speaker 26: I just wanted to tell everybody in the good old
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  Speaker 26: USA here in Florida that I'm okay. I haven't been
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  Speaker 26: hit by any following iguanas yet.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what, are we having barbecued iguana?
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  Speaker 1: There?
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  Speaker 2: If extra points? If anyone knows the song I'm referencing,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 26: But no, I just had to put some humor into it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we try to satirize for your own protection.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's because the worst thing these puffed up
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  Speaker 2: do gooders hate is to be mocked, to be not
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  Speaker 2: taken seriously. Because, believe me, while they're brushing their teeth
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  Speaker 2: in their bathroom right now, and they're flossing, and they've
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  Speaker 2: got their little fancy you know, sharper image trying to
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  Speaker 2: clean the muck out from inside their gum line, they're
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  Speaker 2: they're taking themselves seriously enough for all the rest of us.
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  Speaker 2: So a little bakery is exactly what America needs.
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  Speaker 26: So so jo's that called radio profile axis?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, if you put one of those
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  Speaker 2: on the radio, we'll throw into.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit more like growth.
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  Speaker 2: But that's okay, I mean, you know, barrier protection is oh,
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  Speaker 2: profhyle Axis, I'm sorry, I did. You're in you know,
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  Speaker 2: see you use these medical terms and me, I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: of the dime store barrier protection that nobody wants to
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  Speaker 2: use anymore because we want to make money for the
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  Speaker 2: pharmaceutical industry, you know, in either making abortion pills or
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  Speaker 2: STD treatments. But no, no, we can't promote barrier protection
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  Speaker 2: if you want to engage in Congress this morning. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: he dragged me into a place I didn't expect to
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  Speaker 2: go this morning.
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  Speaker 1: So what else is on anybody? Well, there's two things.
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  Speaker 26: First of all, that why can't Congress come up with
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  Speaker 26: a balanced budget? Make it it, put it in his
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  Speaker 26: an amendment? And the other thing is why can't the
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  Speaker 26: states have to balance their budgets? The only one that
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  Speaker 26: doesn't I read is Vermond. But part of showing a
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  Speaker 26: loss again, and a loss is usually required by the states,
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  Speaker 26: and so you know, we have Minnesota going on, we
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  Speaker 26: have California. But I think it it's I'm not sure,
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  Speaker 26: but I think it's a requirement in order to get
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  Speaker 26: federal funding or show where the need is. But as
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  Speaker 26: a requirement, I thought we're not supposed to pay for
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  Speaker 26: their deficits. But you know that's a whole other issue.
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  Speaker 2: Well, bailouts. I mean, this became you know, the cool
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  Speaker 2: kids thing in COVID is the federal government, because it
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  Speaker 2: can just keep printing money, is going to cover your deficits.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in the states that were bribing people to
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  Speaker 2: lock down and paying for agents to go wander and
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  Speaker 2: contact trace and all this other stuff. Plus with the
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  Speaker 2: loss of tax revenue from the shuttered businesses, the federal
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  Speaker 2: government just started sending bags of money into these state governments.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, the.
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  Speaker 2: Biggest problem we face is the amount of money that's
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  Speaker 2: out there, and now we're finding out millions of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a big percentage, but millions of it are
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  Speaker 2: in Somali hands paying for a lord knows what, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, Isis is working out there, and al Qaeda
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  Speaker 2: is working out there, and terrorism happens, And is the
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  Speaker 2: reason people are trying to seek refuge from Somalia is
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  Speaker 2: because it's a hot mess and we've just sent hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of millions of taxpayer dollars there. I almost would rather
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  Speaker 2: have had that money go to a Plan Parenthood than
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  Speaker 2: to some murky organization in Mogadishu. But that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're saying, ah, we don't know where it is. Oops,
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  Speaker 2: bad on us.
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  Speaker 1: Oops.
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