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"Vote Suppression?" (FTTxJT Mon 102626 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We've got to protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen. We
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  Speaker 1: must do something about this immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately.
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  Speaker 3: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 4: That would work better if it was in Spanish.
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  Speaker 5: Just saying.
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  Speaker 6: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 7: All the treasures that he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 8: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 3: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Then I could claim it was a clip from Brazil.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 10: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 4: This was recorded, allegedly, in the president's palace just before
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  Speaker 4: he announced that they were going to keep voting until
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  Speaker 4: he won. Dan writes into the text message hotline 434882. 4217,
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  Speaker 4: if you're joining us in progress, da Silva, quote, won, unquote,
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  Speaker 4: re-election in Brazil as their president. Again, in air quotes,
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  Speaker 4: defeating Bolsonaro by a percentage point and change after deciding
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  Speaker 4: to that they were just going to keep the polling
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  Speaker 4: places open a few extra hours on election night. And
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  Speaker 4: if you ever wondered what the phrase banana republic means,
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  Speaker 4: and Brazil's not one of these, I mean, it's not
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  Speaker 4: a backwater, there's There is a good reason a lot
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  Speaker 4: of these international competitions have changed their mind about going
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  Speaker 4: to Rio.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to protect our phony baloney jobs, gentlemen. We
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  Speaker 1: must do something about this immediately, immediately, immediately.
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  Speaker 4: But his text is, I think, important. He says, what
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  Speaker 4: sort of mandate does Silva have with a 51% victory? Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: half of Brazil's voters don't agree with his policies. Would
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  Speaker 4: he reach out across the lake? And I thought about it,
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  Speaker 4: and I said, you know, in a lot of these countries,
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  Speaker 4: it's about who controls the guns, right? Now, Brazil actually
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  Speaker 4: has a fairly large population. Nine million people own firearms
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  Speaker 4: in Brazil. mostly unregistered because the government controls them very.
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  Speaker 11: Thoroughly.
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  Speaker 4: You're only allowed to own a firearm in your home.
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  Speaker 4: You're not allowed to take it out of your home,
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  Speaker 4: that kind of thing. So the thing De Silva has
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  Speaker 4: is he runs the guns. So you don't have to
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  Speaker 4: worry about coalition building. Coalition building means hands in the
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  Speaker 4: air until you tell me how you're going to vote.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a big country. Anyway, back home, speaking of voting,
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  Speaker 4: Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked on State of the Union,
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  Speaker 4: on CNN, about the Justice Department's pursuit of Alaska's voting
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  Speaker 4: records in their lawsuit over the Senate race, saying the
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  Speaker 4: challenge seeks to address potential voter confusion. Rejecting suggestions, the
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  Speaker 4: lawsuit was intended to help Republicans retain the seat or
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  Speaker 4: give President Trump a way to overturn an unfavorable result. Quote,
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  Speaker 4: we're not saying the federal government is going to decide
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  Speaker 4: who the next senator from Alaska is, Blanche said. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 4: a panel of judges from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court
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  Speaker 4: of Appeals in California met for a rare weekend get-together
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  Speaker 4: questioning the timing, constitutionality, and authority of the Justice Department's
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  Speaker 4: demand that California election officials set aside thousands of mail-in
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  Speaker 4: according to Kevin Hassett, according to a Bloomberg story, citing
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  Speaker 4: Hassett's comments on Fox News Sunday. All the while, President
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  Speaker 4: Trump on the campaign trail, Saturday in Georgia, Sunday in Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: In Michigan, he said that Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul
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  Speaker 4: El-Sayed is obviously tied to the Islamic extremism and rallied
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  Speaker 4: support for Republican Mike Rogers in the state. Then in
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  Speaker 4: to begin construction on a plant that will produce 200,000
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  Speaker 4: But on the subject of voting... I think you're the
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  Speaker 4: one that said some time ago, parentheses, I listen to
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  Speaker 4: a lot of talk radio, that it seems like the
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  Speaker 4: more we have time to vote, the less we vote.
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  Speaker 4: Looking at these turnout numbers, and it seems to be
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  Speaker 4: the one thing the Democrats in Texas and Tallarico, et cetera,
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  Speaker 4: are counting on is low Republican enthusiasm. How do we
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  Speaker 4: fix that? I've heard you be critical of Republicans over
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  Speaker 4: the past, and don't you fear that that just encourages
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  Speaker 4: Republicans to throw up their hands and say, oh, the
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  Speaker 4: heck with it? I'll tell you what, that's a perfect,
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  Speaker 4: that's a great question. It makes my job very difficult
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  Speaker 4: because am I supposed to be a spokesperson for the
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  Speaker 4: Republican Party or am I supposed to be trying to
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  Speaker 4: help you make sense of it all? And there's a
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  Speaker 4: reality in there, and I will get to that in
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  Speaker 4: a moment. But great dear friends of mine, family business,
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  Speaker 4: and I was saying this earlier, Even if you are
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  Speaker 4: your gold dealer that you're being upsold on something, call jcsgold.com.
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  Speaker 4: in gold and silver. And I imagine they're going to
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  Speaker 4: be a little busy this Monday as they send out
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  Speaker 4: orders for placed because gold took a big discount on Saturday,
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  Speaker 4: at least from what I saw Saturday morning. James Luck
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  Speaker 4: is on with us from JCSGold.com, fourth generation. How are
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  Speaker 4: you doing, James? I'm doing well, Joe, and you're right.
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  Speaker 8: Gold and silver really took a little bit of a
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  Speaker 8: discount there going into the weekend. I'm sure our clients
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  Speaker 8: have took advantage of that discount because this morning, gold
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  Speaker 8: and silver have popped back up just slightly. Gold is
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  Speaker 8: up about half a percent back above $ 4, 000 at 4,017.
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  Speaker 8: And silver is up about two tenths of a percent
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  Speaker 8: to $ 54. So finding some support there, you know, that's
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  Speaker 8: been typical for gold over the past couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 8: it gets a little dip, slight dip below 4,000 and
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  Speaker 8: pops right back above. So At JCSGold.com, our prices update
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  Speaker 8: automatically every minute. So as soon as you see that
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  Speaker 8: little dip, you can place your order and lock in
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  Speaker 8: your price there. And we want to make sure that
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  Speaker 8: our clients get the best deal possible.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the interesting part of it. Because you have
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  Speaker 4: this live price aggregator, if you wake up in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of the night, let's say you're a man of
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  Speaker 4: a certain age and you wake up in the middle
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  Speaker 4: of the night for whatever reason, and you want to
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  Speaker 4: check and see how gold and silver are, then you
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  Speaker 4: can do it. And you can say, oh, wow, because
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  Speaker 4: get on your computer are functions that you get on
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  Speaker 4: your phone as well. So wherever you are, football game,
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  Speaker 4: tailgate party, whatever it is, you can take a look
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  Speaker 4: and see how things are going there and find those
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  Speaker 4: moments there. But as I said, the advice that you
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  Speaker 4: get is more important because I don't want somebody just
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  Speaker 4: buying silver because they saw the price drop a lot,
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  Speaker 4: not if they don't have money for it or they
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  Speaker 4: need to be focusing on some other things as well.
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  Speaker 4: And that's part of why I like what you guys
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  Speaker 4: do at JCS Gold because it's advice about where each
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  Speaker 4: individual caller may be in their journey. Because the answer
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  Speaker 4: for me is not an answer for thee, as I say.
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  Speaker 4: You're absolutely right, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: And that's why a lot of other competitors online will
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  Speaker 8: advertise a low price. And when you click into the
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  Speaker 8: website and you find that low price, it's for a
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  Speaker 8: large quantity of gold or silver. It gets you that
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  Speaker 8: bulk discount. So if you buy, you know, say over
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  Speaker 8: 10 ounces of gold, you get the cheaper gold discount.
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  Speaker 8: But a lot of people are out there and maybe
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  Speaker 8: they're just trying to afford a fractional piece of gold
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  Speaker 8: or just one ounce of gold. And at JCSGold.com, we
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  Speaker 8: don't have tiered pricing options. We offer our best price
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  Speaker 8: for one ounce or just one item because we really
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  Speaker 8: do really want to give our clients the best deal possible.
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  Speaker 8: And we understand that there's a lot of people out
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  Speaker 8: there that can't afford 10 or 20 gold coins all
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  Speaker 8: at once.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the only way you know that is having
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  Speaker 4: a conversation with somebody. It's heartening to hear as I
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  Speaker 4: sliding pricing, I guess AI is scanning grocery store customers
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  Speaker 4: to see, you know, what you can afford to pay
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  Speaker 4: for different things. I just find that to be, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if I walked into a grocery store and they didn't
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  Speaker 4: have prices listed on the shelf, I'd turn around and leave.
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  Speaker 4: But apparently that's happening. And I can't believe we allow
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  Speaker 4: it to go on. But I guess some of us
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  Speaker 4: do there, James. Bless you, sir, and everyone. and we'll
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  Speaker 4: good morning, sir. Thanks, Joe. You too.
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  Speaker 22: So the question was raised and seconded, so we must address, is,
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  Speaker 22: you know, are people like me part of the problem?
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  Speaker 4: And I can't—I certainly see why that is the accusation,
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  Speaker 4: that if we complain that the SAVE Act— let' s just pick
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  Speaker 4: the SAVE Act for whatever reason— that the SAVE Act couldn't
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  Speaker 4: be passed— Are we helping or hurting? My dad used
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  Speaker 4: to have, and I don't know where this expression comes from.
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  Speaker 4: It may have been one he heard growing up with
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  Speaker 4: my grandfather. But apparently it was very popular because at
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  Speaker 4: his funeral service, I mentioned my dad used to always
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  Speaker 4: say to me, chide me when I was a kid,
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  Speaker 4: are you being a help or a hindrance? And when
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  Speaker 4: I said that, the whole room kind of chuckled. And
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  Speaker 4: I realized that I wasn't the only one my dad
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  Speaker 4: would say that to. But that was his go-to. Are
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  Speaker 4: you going to be a help or a hindrance? And
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  Speaker 4: I think about it now, and I think that it's
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  Speaker 4: kind of impacted my life in general because I want
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  Speaker 4: always to be a help. But what does help mean?
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  Speaker 4: Does just helping you win an election, are we any
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  Speaker 4: better than the Brazilian Supreme Court Chief Justice that just says,
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  Speaker 4: you know what? Yeah, keep the polls open for a
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  Speaker 4: while longer. See if the president can't get enough votes
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  Speaker 4: to win. Is that being helpful or is protecting each
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  Speaker 4: individual's God-given rights being helpful? Because I believe that in
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  Speaker 4: this world, we have to be truthful with one another.
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  Speaker 4: And if somebody is not doing the best they can do,
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  Speaker 4: saying it to somebody is actually trying to help them.
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  Speaker 4: I know in this world of democracy, Hey.
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  Speaker 4: You're on, you know, Mike Lee. Thank you. And Mike Lee,
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  Speaker 23: Well, let's say, Hey, you've been to many high school
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah.
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  Speaker 23: So like a favorite cheer, the cheerleaders will, I'll say number,
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  Speaker 13: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 23: You tracking?
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  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: I'll say extended. You say vote.
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  Speaker 23: I'll say count. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 24: Extended.
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  Speaker 4: Vote.
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  Speaker 20: Count. Extended.
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  Speaker 9: Vote.
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  Speaker 24: Count.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 23: We can do this for a while and then go yay,
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  Speaker 23: But if you had pom-poms, you can put them down.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Okay. So, what at least two things do we know? No,
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  Speaker 4: three things.
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  Speaker 23: What three things do we know every time there's an
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  Speaker 4: What three things do we know? That somebody knows he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have enough votes?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 23: The side that extended it knew they weren't going to win.
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  Speaker 4: Stop or the voting will always stop.
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  Speaker 23: Once they have enough votes to win, it's over.
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  Speaker 8: We won. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 23: So I guess there's a fourth thing we can know
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  Speaker 23: every time it's extended.
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  Speaker 23: Yes, which is exactly why, you know, the more you
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  Speaker 23: extend either early voting or late voting or extended counting...
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely. I mean, faith is the most important thing that
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  Speaker 23: Well, we know for a certain fact that decreased voter
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  Speaker 23: Same thing. Okay, I say cheaters, you say Democrats.
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  Speaker 15: Okay.
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  Speaker 23: But, you know, yeah, so that's where this is. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 26: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Did anyone bite on that time change bill yet? How
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  Speaker 4: many bills were passed this year? Let's vote them in again. Well, Hamp,
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  Speaker 4: and here's where, and I hate to be pedantic about this,
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  Speaker 4: but Congress that votes for the least amount of stuff
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  Speaker 4: is okay by me. I'd rather them not save college
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  Speaker 4: football from themselves. And I just think that as bills
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  Speaker 4: like the College Football Protection Act and the Permanent Daylight
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  Speaker 4: Savings Act and all the other stuff is designed to
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  Speaker 4: keep us from highlighting things like The SAVE Act and
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  Speaker 4: why people would be against the SAVE Act. And why
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  Speaker 4: fraudulent people like Lisa Murkowski, for our friends listening up
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  Speaker 4: about some guy named Dan Sullivan hanging out. Guess what?
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  Speaker 4: But these misrepresentations, the SAVE Act, the 1929 Racist Permanent
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  Speaker 4: Reapportionment Act, and I call it that because apparently I
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  Speaker 4: need to remind people that it was written by racists
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  Speaker 4: for racists, to keep black people from having congressional representation.
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  Speaker 4: But Joe, how could, because they were, they were worried
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  Speaker 4: that prospering, growing black communities were going to overwhelm Congress.
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  Speaker 4: It was the same reason they didn't want black men
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  Speaker 4: marrying white women. And I'm just giving airtime to it
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  Speaker 4: because nobody brings this stuff up. And yet we sit
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  Speaker 4: here like Jefferson predicted and gave us a hall pass.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, just like
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  Speaker 4: forgiveness in the eyes of God, he says, Prudence indeed
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  Speaker 4: will dictate that governments long established should not be changed
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  Speaker 4: for light and transient causes. Amen, brother. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 4: to overturn the 1929 Permanent Reapportionment Act. This is what
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  Speaker 4: freezes Congress at 435 seats. or the House, anyway. And
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  Speaker 4: he goes on to say, and accordingly, all experience hath
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  Speaker 4: shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils
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  Speaker 4: are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms
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  Speaker 4: to which they are accustomed. We are used to, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we're approaching 100 years of being used to a Congress
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  Speaker 4: of 435 people. It's predictable. It's quantifiable. We rearrange the
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  Speaker 4: deck chairs on our municipal Titanic every 10 years when
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  Speaker 4: we do a census. And we, in my industry, gleefully
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  Speaker 4: love the idea of not having to work hard and
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  Speaker 4: just pull the story off the wire of, which states
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  Speaker 4: lost seats and which states gained seats. We have three times,
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  Speaker 4: more than, I'm just trying to be conservative here, we
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  Speaker 4: have more than tripled our population since the 1929 Permanent
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  Speaker 4: Reapportionment Act went into effect. That means your vote, regardless
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  Speaker 4: of whether you cast it or not, is one-third of
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  Speaker 4: the value as it was before. Look at it like
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: a U.S. dollar. Buying power, a 1961 U.S. dollar, buys
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  Speaker 4: about 10 cents worth of stuff in 2026. Your vote
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  Speaker 4: only gets about 33% of the representation that it did
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  Speaker 4: in 1929. So I would be fine even if we
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  Speaker 4: don't do it George Mason's way. George Mason said no
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  Speaker 4: congressional and understand George Mason thought this was the singular
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  Speaker 4: most important thing to add to the U.S. Constitution to
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  Speaker 4: protect citizens from an out-of-control centralized government which was congressional
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  Speaker 4: districts no larger than 50,000 citizens. Now at that point
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  Speaker 4: The voting public was white property-owning males. So let's expand that.
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  Speaker 4: Let's say Mason is undercounting because at the time he
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  Speaker 4: wrote that, there was only a small percentage or smaller
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  Speaker 4: percentage of the population that could vote. So make it 100,000
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  Speaker 4: to account for the fact that we have suffrage now.
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  Speaker 4: make it 150,000 because we allow non-property owners to vote?
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  Speaker 4: Both things were not true in 1791. But think about
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  Speaker 4: your congressional district if it was only 150,000. Do you
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  Speaker 4: having congressional districts that were 20, 30, 40% to one
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  Speaker 4: political party or another would be more common? This is
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