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"Evil" Means You Can Get Away with Lying and Cheating · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day,
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and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Thursday morning, sixth
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day of the six month. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Eightieth
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anniversary of D Day and a lot of D Day events and memorials and just
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opportunities to honor so many from eighty years ago at a time when I think
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people felt like they knew what they were fighting for. They were fighting for
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a certain set of principles and ideals and things that I think a lot of
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people still feel or true. They just are frustrated with the way that many
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of the things that seemed like common sense have just gotten brushed aside by so
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many people. And I can't help but just think of the significance of that
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day eighty years ago. I can't help but think about the significance of that
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generation. And they're mostly gone now we're talking about something eighty years have passed.
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There are still some of those veterans, but not many, and some
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of the great heroes of the world. It's not hyperbole. It's not people
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who fought for what they believed in, and it wasn't just what they believed
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in. It was what America stood for. It was what America represented,
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It was what you know, people around the world strived for. There was
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a lot and you know what, not only did they fight to oppress and
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suppress I guess the the war efforts of fascists right, and to push forward
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the things that were at stake that we all believed in. They certainly weren't
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fighting for folks rights to ignorantly protest on college campuses that the Jews must die
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so eighty years later, that's one of the and I talked about this the
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other day. We can honor, we can honor the fallen. We can
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honor those who gave all. We can honor those who fought next to those
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who gave all by actually up for something ourselves. Now, think of the
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courage, you know, let's go to the Let's go to Normandy eighty years
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ago. Let's think of the courage there when when I think just think of,
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you know, saving private Ryan, and you think of just think of
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knowing what's gonna happen. That's sort of what we face now, except not
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literally right. We feel like what we face now is this character assassination,
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this chance that the person that maybe you support for president, they want to
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put him in jail on Riker's Island, and you feel like, my gosh,
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if I poked my head up, I'm going to get whack them old.
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And eighty years ago it was literal, not whack them old. It
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wasn't literal, but it was literal bullets. And now we feel like we're
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facing that gunfire and that we're facing that in all these other ways. And
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they had courage with literal bullets. We have to have some courage to stand
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up for what's right and it's not literal bullets. All right, That's all
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I'm saying. Let's honor those that gave so much and honor those who fought
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next to those who gave so much by standing up for those things that were
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important. When people talk about when Ronald Reagan talked about making America great again,
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when Donald Trump talked about making America Reagan, and people go, oh,
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we know what they're talking about. Them racist times. It's like no
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a time when it was pretty clear what people were fighting for, what people
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were standing up for, that's what they're talking about. And here we are
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on the idioth anniversary and a lot of ceremonies, a lot of tributes,
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a lot of memorial services taking place, and it's eighty you know, five
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years ago. Obviously it was the seventy fifth year. And the number member
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is dwindling down of folks who were veterans from that time, and we're losing
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more and more from that generation. And it's you know, our opportunity now
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for them to still be honored while they're still with us. And I think
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about what we're facing right now in our country with things that should still be
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important to us to truth. Truth should still be important to us, and
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it doesn't feel like it is. It feels like we have this relative sliding
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scale of truth, of journalism, of our justice system now has been politicized.
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Science has been politicized, Medicine has been politicized. And it's not to
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say that these things haven't been politicized off and on, and we haven't had
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horrible atrocities in our history in the past. It's not to say that,
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but we're at a time right now where the first Lady of the United States,
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Joe Biden, went on the view and basically just laid it out that
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she's confident that voters in November will choose good over evil when they vote for
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president. Her husband Joe Biden the president. Obviously, I would think it
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would be the good that she's speaking about, and that Donald Trump is evil.
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That's the tactic, that's the ploy. If you're able to take someone
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and paint them as evil, You're able to call them a Nazi, You're
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able to call them a white supremacist. You're able to try to loosely connect
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them to Hitler and the Third Reich, all these different ways that we've talked
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about, and to say that it's really Trump supporters who don't like the Jewish
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people. It's really the Trump supporters that are the ones who are anti Semitic,
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and you're able to paint this picture of someone as being evil. Think
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of how absolutely absurd it is for anyone to label a political opponent as evil.
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Think about what that implies, and think about what that carries with it.
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He's evil. What would you do if you knew someone to be truly
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evil? Think of the things that you could justify doing to someone because you
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believe them to be evil. There's a lot of things you could justify because
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they're evil. There's often a conversation that comes up. It's one of those
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hypotheticals if you could, if you had a time machine, would you go
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back and would you kill baby Hitler? You know people talk about that.
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Think about what that carries with it. I mean, it's one of those
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sort of fun exercises where you say, you know, what are the things
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that you might have changed in history if you were able to go back in
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time. And this idea, this notion that you could go back in time
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and kill an infant because you knew that it wasn't going to grow up to
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be evil an infant because you knew the atrocities that it would someday commit.
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If you say that your political opponent or your husband's political opponent is evil,
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and you make these accusations that, oh, it'll be the last presidency we
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ever have, he'll never step down. He stepped down before when the election
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was lost and Joe Biden became president. So we have a historic record of
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Donald Trump stepping aside during a transition period from one presidency to the next.
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So we don't have any hard evidence that would say otherwise. Now, that's
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not the only person that that's been said about. I knew people who said
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Obama will never leave. He's going to stay president. He'll come up with
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some reason that he has to be president forever. He'll never leave the White
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House, right. I think I remember people saying it about George W.
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Bush, which is absolutely absurd. I'm pretty sure there were people then who
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said, oh, he's going to keep these wars going in the Middle East.
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And he didn't really win in twenty twenty, I'm sorry, in two
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thousand, he didn't really win. In two thousand. He had to get
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you know, the Supreme Court involved so that he could win the state of
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Florida and become president. He didn't really win. You know, John Lewis
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one of those strong election deniers from the two thousand election, and then they,
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you know, name some election integrity stuff after him because you know,
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he wouldn't acknowledge that George W. Bush won. He wouldn't acknowledge that Donald
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Trump won. A big election denier that John Lewis. But anyway, and
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apparently now though you're not supposed to be an election denier in any capacity or
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even question it. You just have to accept the results and move on.
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But they say that Trump, you know, would not give up the presidency,
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and that's been said, that's been said over and over again, and
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Trump is the only one. It's obviously in this position of running again after
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losing, But as a candidate who's lost and given up the presidency, I
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think it's pretty easy to see that, yes, he would give up the
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presidency. He gave it up once before when he lost. So you call
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him evil, you could justify doing a lot of things you say. He
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would mean the end of our democracy. He would mean the end of our
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electoral process in America because he's evil. He's not going to do the things
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that you're supposed to do. He's evil. He's a fascist, he's a
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Nazi, he's Hitler esque. Wait a minute, when you start calling him
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a fascist or a Nazi or like Hitler, are you not lumping him into
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this category of should you go back in time and kill him as a baby?
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Because keep in mind, there aren't many people that we have that hypothetical
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discussion about. How many people have you ever heard someone say, would you
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go back in time and kill that person as a baby? Did they do
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it about Stalin? Did they do it about Mao? I mean, we
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could go back in time and take care of you know, millions and millions
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of deaths. We could do that, but they don't get talked about,
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really do they at least not hear they talk about it with Hitler. So
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if you can compare Trump to Hitler and call him a fascist enough that people
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start to believe it, even though they probably don't even know what fascist means.
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And again take away some of what our World War Two veterans were doing
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heroically saving the world from Hitler and fascists and Nazis and Mussolini, and they
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like, nobody wants to go back and kill baby Mussolini. Nobody wants to
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do that. But if you can associate with that, or if you can
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associate Ron de Santis right when it looked like Rond de Santis had a real
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shot, if maybe Trump had moved aside and it was going to be all
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of a sudden, Trump is the worst, but DeSantis is somehow even worse.
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I don't know that they understand what worse means. But if you can
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call him evil, you can justify a sham trial to prosecute him, label
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him a felon. Let people sit back and go, well, he's a
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felon. He's a felon. You know what else? You can do if
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you can justify. You can justify by calling someone evil, as you can
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justify lying about their accomplishments. I've heard a couple of people talk about how,
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hey, maybe the economy was a little better during Trump five years ago,
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but jobs were terrible. No, they weren't. You know, when
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jobs became terrible during COVID. That had nothing to do with the Trump presidency.
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I mean, other than the fact that it happened then. But keep
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in mind, the current president of the United States said that no one who
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allowed as many people to die during COVID as Trump did should be president of
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the United States. And then since Biden took over as president, even more
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people have died on his watch. He's not making that case anymore. That
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case goes away. Was just campaign conversation. Oh well, he shouldn't be
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allowed to be president if you let that many people die. So, no,
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the economy was doing fine until COVID. Jobs were doing fine until COVID.
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That's when things changed, and a lot of Democrat lawmakers did everything they
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could to make sure everything was shut down for as long as possible. Because
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again, as we've said, that's when they said, Now, this is
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how we get him. This is how we get him. We can get
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Trump. Now, that's what we're going to do. We're going to use
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this pandemic to get him. How about the fact that the current president of
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the United States has told a couple of eyes that he's been caught telling.
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He says that inflation was a nine percent when he got into the White House.
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It was one point nine percent. But he says, no, it
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was nine percent when I got in. Not true. He's been told that's
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not true, but he keeps saying it because you know, we got no
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journalistic integrity. We don't have a press that's actually calling him out for it,
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not as much as he should be called out for it. Nine percent,
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he says, that's what it was. No, it got to nine
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percent during his presidency, and it had everything to do with what happened once
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he took over. Largely it had to do with fuel issues. It had
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to do with you know, we've heard this administration say, well, the
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price of gas just went up because oil companies were greedy. Doesn't have anything
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to do withduction in our country, doesn't have anything to do with us not
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allowing drilling in certain places or doing everything we can to slow it down,
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which of course was directly part of the problem with inflation and the economy.
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And to say, also, yeah, jobs are great now. They were
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terrible when Trump was in. Now they're great. It's the same jobs.
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Jobs went away from COVID, jobs came back, and the Biden administration says,
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we created all these brand new jobs. No, those jobs that were
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there before came back. You didn't make new jobs. The old jobs came
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back, and not all of them even came back. And then how about
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this story the U. And this has been a little battle that's going on
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now between the Trump White House, I mean the Biden White House and John
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Roberts from Fox News. As John Roberts basically pointed out that the Biden administration
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has been lying and Biden's been lying about what he calls his success when it
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came to insulin costs. And he says that it was during the Trump administration
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that insulin costs were capped. And this is a report from Washington Posts.
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His administration has broken agreement between insulin manufacturers and some Medicare recipient truck plans that
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would lower costs for some seniors. Beginning in twenty twenty one, by capping
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Cope's at thirty five dollars for a monthly supply, a figure that administration officials
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said would lead to roughly a two thirds drop and out of pocket costs and
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would encourage seniors to continue taking insulin. This is something that came from a
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Trump policy in executive order, an executive order that came from Trump. Biden's
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been taking credit for this. Now, the reality here is that Trump's executive
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order Executive Order one three nine three seven that Biden canceled and then pushed the
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thirty five dollars insulin price cap into the Inflation Reduction Act. It was already
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there, he took it away and then pushed it through in some legislation that
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was basically the Green New Deal with a different name that had nothing to do
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with inflation. So trying to call out a Fox News anchor for pointing out
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the fact that it was in fact Trump who pushed this thirty five dollar insulin
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price cap, only to know that the Biden administration canceled it and then pushed
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it through themselves and took credit for it. This is the kind of stuff
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that if you can call someone evil, if you can call someone hitler,
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if you can compare somebody to the most evil person to ever walk the planet,
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right, Hitler, he's the only one. They say, would you
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kill baby Hitler? Then you can justify saying anything. People will buy your
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lives and they won't call you out on them because you've already declared they're evil.
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They have to be stopped. They're a threat to democracy. They're a
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threat. How about the people that are trying to have a direct impact on
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the presidential election? Tampering if you will, by saying, look, we're
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going to try to keep someone from being president. We're going to try to
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keep someone from having the opportunity to even run for president. We're going to
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do everything that we can to do that. That's tampering with an election,
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isn't it. We're going to prosecute. We're gonna impeach him twice, with
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no chance of convicting him. We're just gonna impeach him because we want to
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be able to say he was impeached twice. We're gonna try to see how
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many different trials we can put him through, keep him off the campaign trail,
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put him in jail so that he can't campaign at all. Who's the
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threat to democracy in this Who's the threat to the whole democratic process in America?
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Is it the guy who is having all of these things done to him
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or is it the people who are literally having an effect on the democrat process.
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I mean, one side is in action, the other side is having
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the actions done to them. But you can justify it if you tell everybody
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break, all right, let's talk about the elephant in the room in the
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soft drink wars, as Doctor Pepper has now moved into a second place tie
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with Pepsi for most popular soft drinks in America. I've even seen a couple
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of reports, so they actually pass Pepsi, but either way, at least
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tied for second place now sharing a eight point three to one market share with
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so uh oh, no, here we go. Eight point three four is
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actually Doctor Pepper, so technically they are ahead. There you go Pepsi eight
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point three one. Uh. Coke, for the record, has nineteen point
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one eight percent share of the market, so uh yeah, and you know
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doctor Pepper having this big surge in the soft drink wars. I don't know,
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maybe you could make a case that the pickle slices at Sonic has some
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help with us. I don't know. I mean, maybe people are just
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still going that nuts about the dill pickles in the UH in the Doctor Pepper's
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at Sonic. I don't know, but it can't couldn't have hurt, right,
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I mean, I don't know. If you can do it with you
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you do, you buy cans and throw in some deal pickles. Hey,
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speaking of dill pickles, they've got some new pickle flavored uh spicy dill pickle
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Specifically, the Oldfish crackers are coming soon as limited edition goldfish with the spicy
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dill pickle flavoring will be described as a perfect balance of tangy deal pickle flavor
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with the spicy kick of red chili peppers on the Goldfish original crackers that'll be
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showing up nationwide later this month. I'll try it. We don't eat a
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lot of goldfish anymore in our else my kids are now, you know,
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I've got a teenager and then an almost teenager, so there's not a lot
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of goldfish being eaten in the house. They moved on to cheese its,
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and that's kind of the progression, right, You move on to cheese its,
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and then you know whatever, else and one just eats tortilla chips anyway.
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I mean, I think that's a big you know, that's where also
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one of the next steps that you go through. And then he's not quite
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slamming energy drinks and having tortilla chips all the time. He's not doing energy
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drinks. But that's his one vice really is the you know it likes ice
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cream too. All right, So athletes that'll be attending the Summer Olympics in
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Paris later this month will have the options of a lot of great French food,
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but not so much French fries as they're in the Olympic area because of
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safety, they say. The folks in charge at Charles the two people in
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charge, I guess Charles Gilroy and stiff Stephanie Shikiri. I'm not really good
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on the spanis the French pronunciation, but they're saying they're planning healthier safety and
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environmentally conscious menus of five hundred different dishes for the athletes, including vegetarian schwarma,
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grilled eggplant, a beat root for laffel well that sounds tasty, vegetarian
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hot dogs quene wa musiali. Gilroy told The New York Times that the staff
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wasn't so much concerned about the healthy athletes when it comes to the French fries.
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They were just worried about the deep fryer dangers of trying to make French
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fries there in the Olympic village. So yeah, I guess they can't.
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I mean, you would you want to go to You have real French fries
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in France, right? Don't they just call them fries there? I don't
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know. Nervous flyers who like to have alcohol help them relax and then grab
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a nap on a plane could be putting themselves at a greater risk for a
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heart attack. A new study finds that the combination of inflight alcohol consumption and
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cabin pressure can be harmful to the heart when you are asleep. Researchers say
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it can lower your level of blood oxygen, which can increase the heart rate.
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The more alcohol that's consumed, the higher the risk of heart problems,
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especially for flyers with pre existing conditions. Researchers have suggested that airlines stop offering
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alcoholic drinks on long flights. Good luck with that. I mean, that's
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it's a challenge. Good luck with that, that's all. It seems that
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new survey. Despite the fact that millennials are the generation most likely to grade
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themselves as an A plus when it comes to sustainability, they actually average the
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most trash in a day, tossing about fifteen things away. Respondents on the
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whole averaged about twelve items of trash today, adding up to about three bags
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of trash a week or one hundred and fifty bags of trash a year.
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No surprise that the room in the home of the most trash is the kitchen,
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four times more trash in fact, than the second room seeing the most
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waste, which is the bathroom. We don't want to talk about that waste
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at all. That'll do it for this Thursday edition of the show. Thanks
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