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Election Celebrations Obscure a Big GOP Problem · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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  Speaker 1: It's time for The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people are celebrating the defeat of Thomas
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  Speaker 2: Massey in Kentucky 4. One thing I look at is
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  Speaker 2: that there is still low voter turnout for the Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: It happened across the board on Tuesday, and it is
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  Speaker 2: a problem. I'm Booker Scott, and this is The Truth
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  Speaker 2: Be Told. Thank you for joining us. Why is it?
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  Speaker 2: Why is it that the Republicans aren't going to vote?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but we need to figure it out,
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  Speaker 2: and you have to get involved. You have to get
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  Speaker 2: involved with a local GOP, and that's where it all starts.
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  Speaker 2: And you have to ask the question, why do people
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  Speaker 2: not do that? I have on the program tonight Missy Marr.
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  Speaker 2: She is someone that got involved years ago in a
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  Speaker 2: local GOP, and she's going to be here with us
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  Speaker 2: inside a space on X. That's how we're going to
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  Speaker 2: do it. It's been a while since we've done that,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: things here. So stay with us tonight. And we're going
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  Speaker 2: to bring Missy in now. And Missy, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: What is it that people use as the excuse? What
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  Speaker 2: excuse are they using not to get to work and
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  Speaker 2: make a difference in this country?
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  Speaker 4: I don't have the time to do this. Or, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I tried to, you know, go through the GOP. But,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and we talked about this a couple weeks
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  Speaker 4: ago about barriers, right? You know, everybody's like, hits a
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  Speaker 4: barrier and says, oh, okay, throws their hands up and quits.
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  Speaker 5: And you know how I am.
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  Speaker 4: I find a barrier and I kick it down or
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  Speaker 4: I go around it because I'm not going to put
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  Speaker 4: up with that. And we have made huge changes here
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  Speaker 4: because I didn't stop. I didn't just quit. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: throw my hands up. I just kept fighting for what
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  Speaker 4: I wanted. Because we need to use every trick that
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  Speaker 4: there is. I don't care anymore. You know, these are
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  Speaker 4: the things that are in place. You can complain about
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  Speaker 4: them being in place, but until you get the power back,
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  Speaker 4: you can't change that. So start using what's in place.
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  Speaker 4: Your principles don't matter if you don't have any power.
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  Speaker 4: So early voting, ballot harvesting, whatever we have.
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  Speaker 5: To do to get the votes that we need.
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  Speaker 4: And the gun owners are one of the biggest issues
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  Speaker 4: in New York State. Had the gun owners turned out,
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  Speaker 4: we'd have Lee Zeldin as our governor right now.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about the NRA before.
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  Speaker 4: There's this misconception that if they speak up or they
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  Speaker 4: get active or they get involved, that the state's going
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  Speaker 4: to notice them and take their guns away. Well, sorry
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  Speaker 4: to tell you, they're going to take your guns away
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  Speaker 4: if you don't get involved, if you don't get active
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  Speaker 4: and you don't show up to the polls.
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  Speaker 2: I talk about churches and how that strategy can work.
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  Speaker 2: Another place that it can work the same way as
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  Speaker 2: in churches is at gun ranges. You typically don't have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of gun ranges, but everybody in that city,
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  Speaker 2: that county, they go to the same two or three
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  Speaker 2: gun ranges. That is a great place to register people
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  Speaker 2: to vote because people that own guns in the NRA,
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  Speaker 2: they're not even registered to vote, just like people sitting
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  Speaker 2: in the church pews on Sunday. But if you go
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  Speaker 2: back to what we talked about years ago about taking
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  Speaker 2: over the apparatus, the establishment of the RNC, which could
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  Speaker 2: have been accomplished by now, it really could. Back then,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know what the numbers are now, but
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  Speaker 2: three or four years ago, there were 400,000 precinct committee
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  Speaker 2: person chairs in the RNC. That number is still the same. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I know that it's different from one state to the other.
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  Speaker 2: They call it something different, but basically it's the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: So there's 400,000, and three or four years ago, 200,000
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  Speaker 2: of them were empty. If America First or MAGA people
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  Speaker 2: had gone and been a part of a local GOP, 200,000
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  Speaker 2: of them, then 75% of the RNC would now reflect us.
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  Speaker 2: But we didn't. We could have taken over the apparatus
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  Speaker 2: in the establishment. People talk about having a third party. Well,
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  Speaker 2: guess what? The Libertarian Party has been around since 1974,
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  Speaker 2: and they get 2% of the vote. It's not effective.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to work. It's not ever going to work.
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  Speaker 2: You have two parties. Be a part of one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Pick a side and go to work. And if we
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  Speaker 2: had done that four or five years ago, the complexion,
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  Speaker 2: these conversations probably wouldn't even be taking place. Because that's
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  Speaker 2: where the people that we vote for They get vetted
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  Speaker 2: and they are presented to you to vote for them.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why nothing ever changes. And then there's a
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  Speaker 2: way to go about it. Missy has done it herself
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  Speaker 2: up in New York. She has joined the establishment and
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  Speaker 2: she has become the establishment in her county. She's executive
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  Speaker 2: committee person now. Started off just knocking on doors, ended
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  Speaker 2: up working on Elise Stefanik's campaign the last time. That's
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  Speaker 2: how you do it. And that's the only way it
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  Speaker 2: can be done. You can't Talk about what you're going
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  Speaker 2: to do or what we need to do. That's what
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  Speaker 2: has to be done. And there were other things, too.
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  Speaker 2: I talked about the church yesterday when we just did
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  Speaker 2: a 15-minute space because we were in a chat room
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  Speaker 2: talking back and forth. And sometimes when you're typing, you
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  Speaker 2: miss the nuances of the voice and how it's really
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  Speaker 2: being conveyed. And it can get dicey. So I think
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  Speaker 2: it's easier just to have a conversation on the phone
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  Speaker 2: or in a space like this. Lauren Boebert, let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about her for a minute because Trump came down on her.
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  Speaker 2: pretty tough. Do you think that was warranted? Do you
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  Speaker 2: think that's needed? She's campaigning for Thomas Massey in Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people are running to Thomas Massey's help
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  Speaker 2: right now. And let me say this about Thomas Massey.
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  Speaker 2: As a constitutionalist, I agree with everything that he says.
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  Speaker 2: But let me tell the story. My mom, 88, she's
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  Speaker 2: visiting me right now. We went to have seafood last night.
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  Speaker 2: She loves one particular seafood restaurant, and she will go
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  Speaker 2: there every night if I let her. But Last night
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  Speaker 2: we went and had seafood, and we were talking, and
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  Speaker 2: I was talking religion and politics because those are my
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  Speaker 2: two favorite things to talk about. And, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: start looking back at the history of this country, and
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  Speaker 2: you look at someone like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
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  Speaker 2: When it came time to write the Declaration of Independence,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you know the history around that,
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  Speaker 2: but John Adams is a fantastic writer. He also had
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  Speaker 2: a huge ego. He was from New England. And it
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  Speaker 2: came down to those two writing the Declaration of Independence.
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  Speaker 2: Who's going to do it? Well, John Adams knew that
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  Speaker 2: it was important enough for this country that it be
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson, that he relinquished at that point the job
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  Speaker 2: to Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence. And
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  Speaker 2: the draft was sent to three or four other people,
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  Speaker 2: one of those being Ben Franklin, that changed some very
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  Speaker 2: important words there at the very beginning. We hold these
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  Speaker 2: truths to be self-evident, is Ben Franklin, where he's basically
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  Speaker 2: flipping the middle finger to King George and the crown.
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  Speaker 2: But you look at John Adams, an egotistical man that
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  Speaker 2: became the president of the United States, who was a
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  Speaker 2: very eloquent writer. He knew that for the future of
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  Speaker 2: this country, if it was going to be a country,
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  Speaker 2: that they needed the state of Virginia, because most of
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  Speaker 2: the people in Virginia were still loyal to the crown.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why a Virginia in Thomas Jefferson was chosen
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  Speaker 2: by Adams. He relinquished it when they had the conversations. No,
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  Speaker 2: you do it. We need Virginia. When I look at
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Massey, I see an obstructionist. I don't see someone
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  Speaker 2: like John Adams. I just see an ego who's out
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  Speaker 2: there for himself. And that's my problem because as I
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  Speaker 2: see things from 30,000 feet, It's not about Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: It's about this country going into communism. We just came
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  Speaker 2: through four years of mandated vaccines. We came through four
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  Speaker 2: years of them wanting to have a misinformation board to
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  Speaker 2: censor our speech. Solar, wind, DEI. Those are the things
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  Speaker 2: that they want to take us to within a new
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  Speaker 2: world order. which our neighbors to the north in Canada
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  Speaker 2: just declared allegiance to China and the New World Order
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  Speaker 2: in January. By the way, Alberta, they were trying to
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  Speaker 2: get enough signatures on a petition to secede from Canada.
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  Speaker 2: The court ruled this week that that failed because they
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  Speaker 2: did not have the input of the indigenous people there
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  Speaker 2: and the tribes that had a signed treaty with Canada.
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  Speaker 2: So That failed for the people of Alberta. Unfortunately, they're
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  Speaker 2: stuck there in the New World Order in Canada. That
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  Speaker 2: is what should create the fear to make us go vote.
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  Speaker 2: Since we lost abortion, it's handled. The border appears to
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  Speaker 2: be handled right now, but that can change as well.
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  Speaker 2: And there has to be a fear to energize people.
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  Speaker 2: But that's kind of the way I see Thomas Massey.
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  Speaker 2: He's an obstructionist. He is far from someone like John Adams.
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  Speaker 2: who was a true statesman and giving up his ego
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  Speaker 2: so that Thomas Jefferson could write the Declaration of Independence
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  Speaker 2: so that they could get the people of Virginia to
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  Speaker 2: join them. Because if they didn't, we would not have
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America. Now that's about to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: 250 years. Thomas Massey is not John Adams. We need
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  Speaker 2: more John Adams, not more Thomas Masseys. Where else do
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  Speaker 2: we want to go? I started talking about Bovert. They
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  Speaker 2: gerrymandered Colorado. They gerrymandered the seat that she was in
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  Speaker 2: three years ago. She was going to lose, so she moved.
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  Speaker 2: Very similar to what Marjorie Taylor Greene did. Marjorie Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Greene did the same thing in Georgia. She was running
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  Speaker 2: around the Atlanta suburbs where she lived. She was not
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  Speaker 2: going to win. She wasn't going to win the primary.
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  Speaker 2: The gentleman in northern Georgia, Dalton area, where she was seated,
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  Speaker 2: he retired. So she went there. She shopped that seed,
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  Speaker 2: went there, and was elected on the coattails of Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump at that time. So she was always who she
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  Speaker 2: appears to be now. I was on her for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. A lot of people, maybe some of you,
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  Speaker 2: got onto me because I was onto Marjorie Taylor Greene
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  Speaker 2: about three years ago, and everybody was very protective of her.
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  Speaker 2: Is Lauren Boebert another Marjorie Taylor Greene? She shopped her
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  Speaker 2: seat since they gerrymandered in Colorado. She moved. She got reelected.
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  Speaker 2: The last time she won where she was, she won
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  Speaker 2: by 600 votes, which again is why it's so important
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  Speaker 2: to go out and vote because The House of Representatives
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  Speaker 2: is decided by about 25 seats there in the middle
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  Speaker 2: that are decided by 5% or less of the votes.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of them, 90, what is that, 410 other seats,
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  Speaker 2: they're blue or red. Nothing's going to change. They're 25,
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  Speaker 2: they're 30% wins. It comes down to 25. The Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: they've honed in on 44 that they think they can flip.
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  Speaker 2: And if you look at the historical averages of what
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  Speaker 2: the president's party loses at a midterm, regardless of who
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  Speaker 2: that president is, on average, they lose 25 since the
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  Speaker 2: Civil War. Sometimes, and I compare Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan,
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  Speaker 2: I say this a lot, but I think there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of similarities. Reagan had Jimmy Carter with the
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  Speaker 2: highest inflation, highest gas prices. He had a problem in
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  Speaker 2: Iran when he took over. And he comes into office,
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  Speaker 2: and then in 1982, the things that Ronald Reagan did,
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  Speaker 2: they were not felt at the kitchen table yet. And
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  Speaker 2: he lost 35 seats in the House, and he had
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  Speaker 2: to work with Tip O'Neill. And he did, effectively. And
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  Speaker 2: the things that Ronald Reagan did, they changed the trajectory
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  Speaker 2: of this country for a couple of decades. Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 2: doing the same thing. The Democrats and Joe Biden wrecked
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  Speaker 2: this country. Highest inflation since Jimmy Carter. The highest gas
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  Speaker 2: prices in history. And we've got problems all over the
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  Speaker 2: world from Ukraine, Russia to Iran. And that's because of
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  Speaker 2: his weakness and the weakness of the Democrats where they
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  Speaker 2: think everybody can get along with each other. It's just
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  Speaker 2: not the case. We can't. We never will. So if
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump loses what Ronald Reagan lost, which is 35 seats,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody's excited about the gerrymandering, again, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a net of 7 to 10 seats for the Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: They have a three-seat advantage right now. That puts them to, say,
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  Speaker 2: 10 advantage. They lose 35, and guess what? They're down 15.
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  Speaker 2: And Hakeem Jeffries is your speaker. Donald Trump is impeached.
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  Speaker 2: Will he be removed? Probably not until a second impeachment,
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  Speaker 2: which in 2027 could come. And those are the things
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  Speaker 2: that should create the fear in people to get them
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  Speaker 2: to go vote. if you consider that this country is
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  Speaker 2: truly on a path to socialism and communism, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that anybody could argue that it isn't, when
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  Speaker 2: you look at places like New York and Mamdani. And
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  Speaker 2: if you believe that that is the case, and you
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  Speaker 2: know what we just came through in four years, then
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  Speaker 2: doesn't that motivate you and energize you to go vote?
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  Speaker 2: And shouldn't other people feel the same way? But when
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  Speaker 2: you look at every election since November to New Jersey
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  Speaker 2: and Virginia governor races to right there in Missy's backyard, Syracuse,
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  Speaker 2: for the first time in 50 years, it flipped from
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  Speaker 2: red to blue in their government. On that same night,
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  Speaker 2: there were two statewide races of incumbents in Georgia, both
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  Speaker 2: of them Republican. They both got beat. Every race has
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  Speaker 2: been about a 25-point swing from Republican to Democrat. Because
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats are voting, Republicans are not. And it's scary
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  Speaker 2: to me. I look down in Florida. Miami mayor is
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  Speaker 2: now a Democrat. It was a Republican. Boca Raton, Florida,
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  Speaker 2: of all places. It also is a Democrat mayor now.
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  Speaker 2: Just had an election a couple of months ago. And
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  Speaker 2: at that same time, there were two special elections in
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  Speaker 2: Florida for replacements for the statehouse. Both of them, one
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  Speaker 2: of them was in Mar-a-Lago, representing Mar-a-Lago, Democrat. In Tampa, Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: flipping both of those seats in the House in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't just November. It's been every election since then.
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  Speaker 2: And now as we go into November and we have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about $ 4. 50 gas prices, which will be the
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  Speaker 2: motivation for Donald Trump to not bomb Iran again. He
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  Speaker 2: needs out of there. He's looking for a way out
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  Speaker 2: of there. Maybe trying to get China to help. Who
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  Speaker 2: knows whether they will or not. You can't believe anything
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  Speaker 2: China says. So don't worry about what that meeting was about.
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  Speaker 2: It was for the national stage, the world stage. We'll
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  Speaker 2: just wait and see. And I'll give you an example
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  Speaker 2: of that. Last year, if you remember... Donald Trump, over
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  Speaker 2: the trade and the trade war and the tariffs, he
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  Speaker 2: got Xi to agree to buy $ 14 billion in soybeans,
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  Speaker 2: which was really going to help the American farmer. Well,
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  Speaker 2: China bought $ 2 billion, and now they're going to buy
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  Speaker 2: more soybean. They say, well, our soybeans rotted in grain
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  Speaker 2: silos last year. So don't believe anything China says. They lie, cheat,
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  Speaker 2: and steal about everything. That's all we know about China.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't put much into what happened there. When it
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  Speaker 2: comes to the midterm, I think there is something that
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  Speaker 2: is very important ahead of us. And we just came
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  Speaker 2: through this government shutdown. We had 43 days back in
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  Speaker 2: the fall. And we just went through 76 days over
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  Speaker 2: ICE funding. And those were both record-breaking shutdowns. People blame
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats. And ultimately, I guess you can put the
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  Speaker 2: blame at their feet. But the responsibility was that of
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans to have 12 appropriations passed before September 30th.
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  Speaker 2: of last year, and none of those government shutdowns would
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  Speaker 2: have ever happened. It's the responsibility of whoever is holding
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  Speaker 2: the gavel to put those 12 appropriations through committee and
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  Speaker 2: then have them passed in both chambers. And since 1997,
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  Speaker 2: the only way that we do that is with reconciliation.
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  Speaker 2: We can no longer do a budget. The last budget
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  Speaker 2: was with Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich. We haven't had
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  Speaker 2: one since. This is the way we run. And then
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  Speaker 2: the government shutdowns come into it because you need a
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  Speaker 2: When you use a continuing resolution, you are then giving
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  Speaker 2: some of that power back to the other party. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why the Republicans blame the Democrats, because what the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans did was relinquish their power with the reconciliation of
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  Speaker 2: 51 votes to 60 votes, which means the Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: going to get something out of it or they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to do it. I say all that to set
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  Speaker 2: up what's coming in this upcoming midterms. The fiscal year
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  Speaker 2: will be over September 30th of this year. A new
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  Speaker 2: one starts October 1st for 2027. If the Republicans don't
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  Speaker 2: pass a reconciliation, an omnibus of all 12 appropriations by
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  Speaker 2: September 30th, then you're going to have a government that
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  Speaker 2: is shut down because the Democrats will never do a
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  Speaker 2: continuing resolution at that point because you're five or six
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  Speaker 2: weeks away from an election in November. So more important
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  Speaker 2: than the SAVE Act right now is getting on the
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  Speaker 2: phone and calling your House of Representative member and your
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  Speaker 2: senator to get to work on this appropriations and this
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  Speaker 2: reconciliation that will have to be passed by September 30th
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  Speaker 2: or that number of 25 on average losing House seats
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  Speaker 2: by the opposite party of the White House. And I
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  Speaker 2: say 35 comparing it to Ronald Reagan. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be much worse with another government shutdown because the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: say the Republicans can't govern. They say it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: You can Google it and you'll see plenty of stories
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  Speaker 2: about it. The Democrats own the mainstream media where most
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  Speaker 2: of America still gets their news. And if what they
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  Speaker 2: are hearing at the time, if the Iran war doesn't
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  Speaker 2: end and gas prices don't come down, they have four
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  Speaker 2: and a half dollar gas and they have a shutdown government.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think will happen? That's why this is
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: much more important to me than the SAVE Act. The
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: SAVE Act, I've talked about it a lot. I think
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: it should be passed because 80% of Americans want it.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: So it should be passed. I just believe that your
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: expectations on what it actually can do is a little
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: bit different than what it will do. There is 18 U.S.C. 611,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: which makes it illegal for an illegal to vote. Over
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: the last 21 years, it's only been prosecuted 35 times.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I think everybody in this room would probably agree that
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: more than 35 illegal immigrants have voted in elections over
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: the last 21 years. If we just create another law
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: that will be another law that we don't actually prosecute
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: and enforce, then what is the point? And when you
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: look at the layers of election law against state law,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: then you realize that 36 states have voter ID already.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: The 14 that don't are Democrat two-to-one states, California, New York, Illinois. Now,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I would love it. I want it to pass. I
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: think nuking the filibuster is the dumbest idea in American politics.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Standing filibuster? Absolutely do it. That's the way it should
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: be done anyway. You shouldn't just be able to say,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do a filibuster and do a filibuster.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: You should have to do the way it was before
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: they changed the rules by adding cloture. And then in
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: the 70s, they changed how they did a filibuster. You
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: should make them work, make them stand and talk. When
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: a bill is brought to the Senate, they have to
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: continue debating it until they vote on it. That's the
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: way it was meant to be. Cloter allows them to
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: put that motion on the table so that they can
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: debate it later.
• 19:37
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• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Someone asked me the other day, how do you even
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: get a sense of what's going to happen next? It's hard.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know that we can, the way the news
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: moves so fast. But you know what I told them?
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I said, I've been checking out PolyMarket a little bit.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: It's extremely insightful. You're basically watching how thousands of people
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: are betting on outcomes. Political elections, big policy moves, even
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: events you wouldn't expect. It's kind of like a live
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: pulse on what the public actually believes. And you can
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: see trends before they even happen and before they even
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: make the mainstream news. For me, it's not about gambling.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: It's about understanding the probabilities and where the momentum is shifting.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: If you like or love the news like I do,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: maybe you're a news junkie, but you want to take
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: a little deeper look at what people really think, go
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: to Polymarket. It's a fascinating tool. Polymarket.com. Let's talk about
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the unconstitutional law that Senate just passed. It's probably a
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: law that you love. And that law was not paying
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: themselves when there is one of those government shutdowns. It's illegal.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: You can't do that. The 27th Amendment says that the
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Congress legislature cannot change a law about their pay going
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: into an election. Think about that. And the other thing
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: that the 27th Amendment says is you cannot get paid.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: It's illegal. You cannot not get paid if you are
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: in Congress. The only way to do that is amend
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the Constitution on the 27th Amendment. You can't just make
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: a law. That's political messaging. See, that's what they do.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: They think you're stupid, but they can't pass that law.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: And if you look at the law, they actually are
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: continuing to get paid all of their paychecks going in escrow.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: These are millionaires that are not going to miss their paycheck,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: but when it's over, and more than likely it's probably
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: an interest-bearing escrow account, So they're going to get more
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: money than they would have if the government had not
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: been shut down. I don't know if anybody has any
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: thoughts on that. I just found that interesting that they
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: passed a law against the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Nobody's really talking about that, are they? Missy, do you
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: have anything?
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: I listen to you to get educated on a lot
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: of different things. But, you know, I kind of feel
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: the same way, like at a state level. You know,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I'm worried about people not going out and voting and
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: the consequences of that in New York state are really,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: really detrimental. The things that the, you know, the legislators
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: are doing in the state, people don't wake up.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, I'm out of here after this election. No,
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: you're not.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: No, you're not. You say that all the time. You
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: say that every week.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: We've been looking at properties.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, again, if we don't have good voter turnout,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: I really feel that they could get the supermajority in
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: the Senate and then it's game over for New York State.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: The things that they're doing right now are just absolutely insane.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: And if you think it's not going to get worse,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I don't know what to tell you. And I don't
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: know what it's going to take to get you to
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: the polls. Obviously, that's our big focus this year is
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: get out the vote. You were we were talking about
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: the gun owners and going to the ranges. Well, I'm
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: going to tell you, just like I said earlier, the
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: fear that gun owners have if they pop their head up.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: that the guns are going to be taken away, which
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: is going to happen in the state if we don't
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: wake up.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: The gun rages don't want anything to do with it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: They don't want any politics.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: They don't want us going there and trying to get
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: people registered. They don't want anything to do with it.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: And it's a struggle here in the state. Again, gun
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: owners had come out and voted. We'd have Lee Zeldin
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: as our governor. So I don't know what it's going
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: to take, but we're.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Going to keep going.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Let me give you an idea. Let me give you
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: an idea on that. If the gun ranges, they shut
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: you out. Who would not shut you out? It would
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: be the people that sell the guns. So the people
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: that buy guns go to the gun ranges. If I
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: were you, I would go to the gun sellers that
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: don't want to go out of business when New York
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: takes guns away from everybody and they're out of business.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: they would probably be willing to maybe share a list
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: of customers with you on, you know, the Second Amendment.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Because they're going to be big Second Amendment people because
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: it's their business. So that's an idea for you, a
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: way to get around the gun ranges. Because everybody with
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: a gun in New York that is at a range,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: they got it from someplace. They bought it from somewhere
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: because New York has very strict laws on registering guns.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: We know that from Dexter Taylor, a guy that is
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: sitting in prison in New York for 10 years. I
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: did a show with him back months ago, and he
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: told his story. He built guns. They're called ghost guns
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: in New York. He didn't register any of them, and
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: a SWAT came in at 6 a.m. They arrested him,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: and they convicted him, and he sits in prison. He
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: says the only thing that he needs as an American
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: citizen to own a gun is the Second Amendment. That's
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the license he needs. He fought them and he lost.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: He had an opportunity to take a deal, but he
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: thought it was important for him, for his teenage daughter,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: that he tried to teach about convictions and about this country.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: It was more important for him to fight for his convictions,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: end up in prison for 10 years, than it would
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: be to take a deal to admit that he did
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: something wrong when the Second Amendment says he didn't. So
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: maybe you go to the gun shops instead of the
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: gun ranges. I don't know. What do you think?
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: I actually think that's a great idea, and it's funny
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: because there's one right down the street from me, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: when I was passing it the other day, I had
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: that exact thought in my head, just stopping in and
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: talking to them.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I would do a Google search of gun dealers in
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: the state of New York, and I would create a
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: coalition of those gun dealers because this is a Second
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Amendment thing, and they're all going to be 2A guys
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and girls. I guarantee you that. And they would probably
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: help in any way they could to make sure the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: people of New York can maintain their Second Amendment right
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: to own a gun. And when it comes to the
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Second Amendment, and I was talking about the Declaration of
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Independence Constitution earlier, you hear the left a lot of
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: times say, well, these aren't weapons of war. No, they
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: absolutely were when they wrote the Second Amendment. So muskets
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: were weapons of war. I would argue that I should
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: have an F-15, a missile launcher, and maybe some mines.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I want all of that stuff because the Second Amendment
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: is to protect our rights against a tyrannical government. And
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: even if that government is our own, we have the
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: right to protect our rights against that tyrannical government. That
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Constitution was written from the position of oppression. A lot
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: of people forget that. The people were oppressed. A lot
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: of people on the left will say, well, it's imperialism.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: They were slave owners. Well, they were oppressed by a
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: tyrannical government in King George and the crown in England.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Individual rights of those oppressed, not those in boxes, which
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: is what intersectionality is. I talked about it earlier. I've
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: talked about it for years. That is what is needed
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: for socialism to come into the country. They separate us
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: by race, sex, and gender. LGBTQIA + + +, what
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: does a lesbian have to do with a gay man?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: A lesbian likes a vagina, and a gay man likes
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: a penis. Individually, they have nothing in common. You put
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: them in a box together, tell them they are oppressed,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: and their voice becomes louder, and they get more things
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: that they want, even though our Constitution is written for individuals. Individuals,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: in this case, that have nothing to do one with
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: the other. It doesn't really make sense. But they have
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: to do that. They have to do it in race,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: in gender, in sexuality. I talked about this earlier, Missy
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: brought it up, is that we are doing that to
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: ourselves right now in the conservative side, the Republican side,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: because we're digging at each other over things that are
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: inconsequential for a midterm election that could mean everything for
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the future of this country. We need more John Adams
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: that can step away from their ego and give it
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: to a guy like Thomas Jefferson, who Thomas Jefferson even
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: knew when he wrote the Declaration of Independence it wasn't perfect.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: That's why he sent the Declaration of Independence drafts to
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: about three or four different people, and they could make
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: changes or suggest the changes that needed to be made. Anyway,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: that's just some thoughts. I don't know. Senate passed an
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: unconstitutional law this week that everybody loves, but you don't
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: really look at the constitutionality of it. There's so much
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: political messaging that comes out of Congress, they try to
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: fool us with it. And Thomas Massey, to me, is
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: a perfect example of that. Nothing that he puts forward passes,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: and that's the objective of a legislator, one of 435
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: that comes to Washington, D.C. to represent his constituency of 800,000 people.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: He doesn't represent all the libertarians in the country. And
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: when he obstructs the Republicans, Donald Trump, and his vote
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: is the deciding vote to prevent something from the agenda
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: going forward, then in my view, he is obstructing America's
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: freedom and he is helping socialism. That's the way I
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: see Thomas Massey. And like I said earlier, as a constitutionalist,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: everything that he says and does is great, but I
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: would suggest that he has learned since 2020 that it's
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: a great way to raise money. Because if you look
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: into his donations since 2020, when he pulled what he
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: pulled to make all Congress come back to vote in
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: in the CARES Act during COVID. If you remember that,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: nobody knew who Thomas Massey was until then. And the
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Republicans and Democrats on both sides, they attacked him really
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: hard for doing that. They were going to do a
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: voice vote, if you remember, back in 2020. This was
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: March 2020, right after, maybe April, right after COVID started.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: They shut down everything. Nobody had any money coming in.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: We couldn't go to work. Where was it going to
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: come from? The We really didn't know about COVID at
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: the time. We didn't know if it was going to
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: kill us or what was going on. And so they said, well,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: we'll do a voice vote and we'll get this done.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Thomas Massey stood up and said, no, that is unconstitutional.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Come back here, vote in person. I kind of agreed
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: with him at the time, in a way. But from that,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: if you look at his fundraising since that moment, he
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: has become this libertarian that raises money off those gimmicks.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: because he has not passed one piece of legislation for
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: the people of Kentucky for since 2014. He got into
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: office in a special election in 2012, and he won
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: another election right after that in 2012. It was 2014
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: the last time that he passed any legislation for his
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: constituency of 800,000 people that live on the Ohio River
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: just south of Cincinnati. And that was legislation that had
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: to do with 276 miles of the Ohio River. Since then,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: he hasn't passed anything that would help his people. He's
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: doing political messaging, and if Thomas Massey is still raising
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: money today for an election that's a day away, then
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: it's probably for his future, not for this election. And
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: then that could get me into election reform talk, and
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: I can go on for an hour talking about election reform.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: I think we need that more than anything else in
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: this country, and We need it more than term limits.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I used to be a huge term limit guy. I
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: just don't see it happening through the Convention of States.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Election reform is probably the only way we're ever going
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: to get true term limits where we level the playing
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: field for anybody that wants to represent people, you know,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: to be in government. And until that happens, we're going
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: to have this mess that we have. And unfortunately. I
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: don't know. Does anyone else have anything to talk about? Missy,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: do you have anything else on your mind? We can
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: change the subject.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Election reform is something I totally agree with. So we
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: have the state matching funds here. I'm not sure if
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: you're aware of how that works here. But if you're
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: running for a statewide race, they use tax dollar money to....
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: To match funds. So if somebody donates.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: $ 25 to your campaign, you get $ 300 from the taxpayer.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: They donate $ 50, you get $ 600 from taxpayers, which of course,
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: you know, we hate it, but it's in place. So obviously,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: you know, we're going to use it. But it's funny
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: because You know, we talk about how they flipped our
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: county legislature for the first time in 50 years.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: Well, because they.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Changed the election law to even years, all those candidates
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: are running again this year. So we have a chance,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: we have a hope to take it back. But those
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: people are not, obviously, they don't qualify.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: For matching funds.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Here's what I've said for about a year, year and
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: a half probably, about election reform. I think everything should
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: come from the government. And I know some of you
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: are going to say, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Are you some kind of socialist? No, I'm not. But
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I want to get all of the money out of elections.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: You know, you were talking about donations and then matching funds.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Forget the donations. No dark money, no PAC money, no
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: super PAC, no campaign money. Right now, our representatives, as
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: soon as they go to Washington, D.C., if they are
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: newly elected, they go into a cubicle and they start
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: raising money. That's their job is to raise money for
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: the RNC, not to pass legislation and work across the aisle,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: because that's what you have to do. You can't just
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: get everything your way all the time. You have to
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: be able to compromise. That is effective government. Somehow we've
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: lost sight of that. When it comes to the House
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: of Representatives, you know probably 40 of them. There are
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: 435 there. The other 390 that you never hear from,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: they're actually pretty decent guys, whether they're Democrat or women.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: whether they're Democrat or Republican. They're just going there to
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: represent their people, but they have to raise money to
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: win the next election. If that mechanism was gone, could
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: we get more done? And our government wastes so much
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: money now, I don't have a problem with our government
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: handing the check to a qualified candidate to run, and
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: it levels the playing field. No longer does an incumbent
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: who raises money and creates that war chest have the
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: upper hand. It then levels the playing field for all people. Yeah,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: you may say, well, the government shouldn't give all the money. Well,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: let's do this, too. Let's have two election days. You
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: have an election day for anyone running for office, and
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: then you have an election day for all issues. If
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: you want people to, PACs and super PACs to exist
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: to advertise for issues, I think that's pretty important. But
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: you can't have the elections at the same time because
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: when that window comes open for advertising, which is, by
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: the way, six weeks prior to an election day, When
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: that window comes open, you can't have issues or PAC
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: money coming into that window. It has to be only
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: about the people running for government offices. And I'm okay
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: with that at this point. I think that creates term limits.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: It gets senators who are 80 years old out of office.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I think it gets bad representatives in the House out
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: of the way when they're not effectively governing like they
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: should be for their constituents. And as long as there
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: is money of any type other than set limits, which
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: real quick, let me explain how issue and pack money
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: and super pack money works. When you hear the commercials
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: that say paid for by me and you hear that voice,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: that is paid for by the campaign. All other political
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: advertising is paid by a pack, dark money, super packs.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Most of the time, those can be really ugly and
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: make politics an ugly scene. more so than what the
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: campaign itself runs. They're usually pretty good ads, and they're
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: about substance, about solutions. But the PAC money and the
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: dark money is where all this comes in. That's where
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: George Soros gets DAs elected across the country. He was smart.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: He realized that using $ 20 million 25 years ago to
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: affect a presidential campaign would do nothing. But if he
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: takes that and divides it up in $ 2 million for
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: a DA in St. Louis or Manhattan, then he's buying
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: those elections. And then we have things happening that have
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: been happening in our courts for years. And let me
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: say this, too, about the courts. I know everybody gets
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: upset about the activist judges. I think our system is
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: working because Donald Trump has incredible success at the Supreme
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Court level, even though there are these lower courts that
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: make a determination because there is an activist liberal judge
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: in that seat. By the time it gets to the
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court, I think Donald Trump, I'm not sure what
• 37:27
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• 37:28
  Speaker 2: at it, he's 21-4. He's won 21 Supreme Court decisions
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: and lost four.
• 37:35
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• 38:52
  Speaker 2: The birthright citizenship that still hasn't been decided yet probably
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: will come this summer, I would think. And actually, I
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: don't think that Donald Trump will win that one. I
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: think that it's going to go the other way. And
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to come back to that case
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: in 1898 with the Chinese guy that was born in America.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: His parents were Chinese. He went to visit his grandparents.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: And when he tried to come back into America, they
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: would not let him in. And he sued, and they
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: made the determination then. There was precedent at that time.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: This guy was born in America to Chinese parents, and
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: he is an American. So I think that's going to
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: be the problem with the birthright citizenship. You may not
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: like that answer. too, by the way. I understand that. Well,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: I'm about talked out, Busy, unless you've got something else.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was going to go back to the money part.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: You know, that's one of the things that I always say,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: like the part of the campaign, that's the dirty part
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: of the campaign. Obviously, you know, that's what we're focusing
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: on right now is fundraising because we have to.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: You know, he's an incumbent, and they're worried about his seat, so.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: They're throwing a ton of money behind him, and he's
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: got a lot of union money behind him.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Like, it's the horrible part. And I'll give you a
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: perfect example.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: When interviewing candidates, one of the first questions asked is,
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: how much money have you raised?
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: How much money can you raise? They want to know
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: if you're going to be able to raise money to
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: determine whether you're a good candidate.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: And real quick, Missy, that's part of the vetting process
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: that I was talking about earlier. When someone's rubbing elbows
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: that wants to run office and he's doing cocktail parties,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: that's the number one thing that matters. Can you raise money?
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: How much have you raised? How much do you have?
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: And it really shouldn't be about that.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not the quality of the candidate.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: And that's, you know, and not only that, because this
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: person's an incumbent, he also gets to use tax dollars
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: to promote himself. You know, I get a mail a
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: week from him, all this other stuff, and that's on
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: the tax dollars. And I didn't know this until recently
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: because they hold the majority in our legislature. Any piece
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: of mail, anything that the Republicans want to send out
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: to their voters has to be approved by the Democrats.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: And I didn't know that that was a thing, you know.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: So so what they do is they they create the
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: mail that they want to send out. They send it
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: to the Democrats and the Democrats just, you know, remove everything,
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: edit the crap out of it. They won't approve anything.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: And it's like, are you kidding me right now? So
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: they get to spend our dollars on promoting themselves. It's
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: I'm just so sick.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Of the money part.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Well, you're saying that the Democrats then have control over
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: the messaging of anything that goes out. So if you're
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: a Democrat in New York in the statehouse and you
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: want to add political messaging to get you reelected, that
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: will go by. But if you're a Republican, you better
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: stick to what was passed, what was legislated in the week,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: the news of the day in New York, or the
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Democrats will edit it right out. So that's an unfair advantage, too.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: And again, that's why I say just take all that
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: money out of it. Take it completely out of the picture.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: and level the playing field for all good people. In
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: some ways, I think an actual term limit wouldn't be
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: a good thing when you have someone that's one of
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: those good people that you want to see stay around
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: for a while. You look at a guy like Josh Hawley.
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I like him. I think he does a good job.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: What if he was term limited and he could only
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: run two terms? He's the type of guy that I
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: would like to stay around for four or five, but
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: if you put term limits on him, he's gone. Who
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: are you going to get in his place? That's a
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: part of it too. And real quick, let me go
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: back and on the windows of political advertising. Here's the
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: way that worked. And I, the first political campaign I
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: ever worked on was 1988, a guy named Steve Nunn,
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: who's now in prison, by the way, had nothing to
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: do with me, but he killed his girlfriend in Lexington.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Look it up. It's a sad story. In political advertising, uh,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: For television and radio, here's the way it works. On
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: the internet, it's a little bit different. It's a wild
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: west out there. But there are very strict FCC laws.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Anyone in this room can go to your local radio station,
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: and I would encourage you to do this, and ask
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: to see their political file. And they have to keep
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: a political file there. And it shows everyone who is
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: spending money on issues. Issues is a completely different story,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: and an issue is a pack. They can be supporting
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: a candidate in issue funding and issue advertising. You see
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: and hear a lot of those. They are completely different.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Issues is the most expensive ad that will ever be
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: sold by a television or a radio station because they're
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: allowed to. On the other hand, if it's being bought
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: by the campaign, it's the cheapest. When a political window starts,
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: a company like iHeart or any of the ABC, NBC,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: or CBS is They have to go to a rate
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: card specifically for a candidate, and it is the lowest
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: price that anybody will ever pay for an ad. And
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: that is a law by the FCC. A lot of
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: people don't even know how all that works. But go
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: to your local radio station. Just ask them. Let me
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: see your file. They also have to keep one for
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: public service announcements, too. So that's part of the FCC.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: So go do that sometime. Go see who's supporting who
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: in the radio station file or the television station. They
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: have to let you see their file. They keep it.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: It's very important. They lose their FCC license if they
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: don't have it. That may be fun for you one
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: afternoon to go look at that. Go in unannounced. Say,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: I want to see your political file. and see what happens.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: And what other runoff do we have coming up? Oh yeah, Texas.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: We have Cornyn and Paxton coming up. Paxton, it looks
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: like he's leading barely right now. And really, there's no
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: reason for Cornyn to win. I really used to look
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: at this race in a different way because the Democrat, Talrico,
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: could be a problem in Texas and actually could potentially
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: take that seat. And the fear was that if Paxton
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: is nominee from the Republican side, he doesn't have a
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: lot of middle people voting for him. And that if
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Paxton wins, then Talrico could possibly win the seat and
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: take one away from the Republicans. But at this point,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: I really don't care. Cornyn needs to go. Let's, you know,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: I say get behind Paxton and let that race handle it.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: I think in the end that Paxton would win anyway
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: in Texas. They were saying the same thing about Cruz
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: in 24, that Cruz was in danger of losing that seat.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: He won by a million votes. They said the same
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: thing about Rick Scott in Florida, that he was in danger,
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: and he won by 1.6 million votes in 24. So
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: don't pay attention to the talking heads on television. Use
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: your own discernment when you're waiting through this. But the
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: last thing I'll say about Thomas Massey, and this is
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: what really bothers me, and I don't know if you
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: guys are seeing this, is... there just seems to be
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of people that have been heavily influenced by
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: people like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. And quite frankly,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: there's no other way to say this, they are anti-Semitic
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: at this point. And that makes me very uncomfortable. I'm
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: very uncomfortable with any form of bigotry. I was that
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: way with the Somalians in Minnesota. People close to me
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: know that, and I did stories on this, I wrote articles,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: I did shows on it. You know, it wasn't all
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: the Somalians. It was There were 80,000 Somalians there. You
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: can't deport them. 58,000 of them were actually American citizens
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: born here. They started coming here in the early 90s.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Black Hawk Down, if you remember that, that was Somalia.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: That's when those people started coming here because of the
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Civil War. Is there fraud there? Absolutely. But there's fraud everywhere.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: And it's not just Somalians. But when you paint somebody
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: with a broad stroke like that, then you're getting to
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: a point of bigotry and racism. And I'm uncomfortable with that.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: As a Christian and a believer, I just don't think
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: that that's where we should be. I don't think that
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: that's helpful to anyone's cause. And I see that a
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: lot right now with Thomas Massey. And I don't think
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: the people of Kentucky 4, that represents who they are.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: But for some reason, because Thomas Massey talks about AIPAC,
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: and there are some people on this app that think
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: AIPAC runs this country, which they don't, but they believe that.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: And they're just anti-Semitic. If you go to Zechariah 14
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: and you read that prophecy that is also reflected in Revelation,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: it says that all nations will turn against Israel. All nations.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: All would include the United States of America as a nation.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: If you believe the Bible, if you believe that prophecy.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: But then I ask the question to a lot of
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: people on X, who or what is Israel? Is it
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: that place that's been there since 1948? Or is it
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: something else? Because if you read Romans 11 and the
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: letter that Paul wrote to the Romans, he talks about
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: an olive tree that the 12 bad branches were ripped
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: off of it, representing the tribes of the Jewish people.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: And he says that 12 were grafted into that tree,
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: representing the apostles. And as a believer in Christ, I
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: happen to be a legacy of those apostles. So we
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: as believers are Israel. We are Israel. And all nations
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: turn against believers. There is no Jew nor Gentile. There
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: are believers and non-believers. That kind of is my lens
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: and the way that I look at the world. And
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: that's why I'm bothered by what I see with this
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Thomas Massey stuff right now. Don't have a different opinion
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: than those people because I can show you my DMs
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: and I can show you all my comments online. what
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: people say to me because I feel the way that
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: I do about Thomas Massey being an obstructionist. And I
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: wrote the article a couple of weeks ago about it.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: It's been published three or four different places about Thomas
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Massey because I don't think he's effective for his people.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with him as a constitutionalist,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: but he's one of 435. He's one of 535. He
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: has a very small voice, but his voice has become
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: greater for those that are anti-Semitic. And to me, that's bothersome.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: And as a conservative, you know, what do you think
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: a conservative is? They're not just Republican. And I think
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: sometimes we put ourselves into boxes. You know, the word
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: conservative actually means adhering to traditional values. There are a
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: lot of people that are Republicans that do not adhere
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: to traditional values because I would argue that being anti-Semitic
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: is not a traditional value and it's not founded in
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: biblical principle. That's what I would argue. And that's what
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: a conservative truly is. It has become something else. If
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: you happen to vote Republican, you are just a conservative.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: But that's not factual. You can be a Republican without
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: being conservative. I've talked for about an hour, Missy. Hour
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: and a half. You got anything else?
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: The only thing I want to say is, you know, please, please,
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: please get involved. You know, I know people's lives are
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: busy and, you know, they have a lot going on. But, geez,
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: five hours a week can make a huge difference. And,
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: you know, I mean, focus on getting out the vote.
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: If you can't excite people... to get out the vote
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: because of national politics. Get them excited about local politics.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: Get them excited about the people that are running in
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: your own neighborhood and.
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: The things that they can do. Educate people. We need
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: to give civic lessons and explain to people.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: Again, I go back to people focusing on top-down politics
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: when really it should be bottom-up politics. And you've got
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: to be paying attention to your local politicians because they
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: have a.
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: Lot of power.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: New York State, everybody wants to talk about who's running
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: for governor and getting rid of Kathy Hochul. But again,
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: if they get the supermajority in the Senate, it does
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: not matter who our governor is. So start paying attention
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: to the down-ballot candidates. If you can't get people excited
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: about the top, get them excited about the bottom.
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: And get out there and do something.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: And Missy, we did have some more hands up. I
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: got some DMs I just checked. So I gave a
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: mic to a couple of people. So before we close,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: we'll go to them. Marquis, go ahead.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: I just wanted to, one of my questions I had
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: was dealing with the state parties. I know that they
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: do not get involved in primaries.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: I understand that.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Why can they not do simple messaging about simply getting
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: out the vote? Because we all see that as a
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: concern for this primary season. So why do these state
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: parties don't realize that importance?
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Well, they all should. And that's the most important thing.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: It's the most important thing in any election. And a
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: lot of times that's why we get beat by the
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: Democrats is because we are not effective at getting out
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: the vote. That's a responsibility of each one of us.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: I talk about the church strategy. We talked about the
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: gun strategy on places to go harvest for Registrations and votes,
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: both of those are very effective tools. But if you're
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: going to vote, take somebody with you that you know
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: will vote the way you are that would not typically
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: go vote. Because in midterm elections, a lot of people
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: don't vote. And like I said at the beginning of this,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: I think where there are governor races, it's going to
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: be important for the vote turnout for Republicans being at
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: the top of the ticket. Unless, like Missy was talking
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: about in the state of New York, where you have Blakemore,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: who really is not going to draw any Republicans to
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: go vote because nobody really cares for him or knows
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: who he is. But in other states, like maybe in Florida,
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: where you have Byron Donalds, who will probably be against
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: a guy named David Jolly, who was a Republican just
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, and a U.S. Congressman. As
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: a Republican, he's flipped, so he's a very moderate guy
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: and could could pose a problem for Byron Donalds in
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: the state of Florida, but that race will generate more
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: people coming to go vote, which will help down-ballot races
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: for Republicans and also help in the U.S. House of Representatives.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: Well, let me suggest to folks, and some people in
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: here have heard me say this before, we often use
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: what I call the power of 10, and that's where
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: we reach out to each individual, reaches out to 10 people,
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Just like you said, take somebody to vote with them.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: But they follow through through early voting and through the actual,
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: you know, up to where it's Election Day. And they
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: just make sure their friends or family have gone and voted.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: If all of us did the power of 10.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: We would get that vote out. But we all need
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: to do the power of 10. Yeah, and if you
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: look at the election since November and look at the
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: terrible turnout for Republicans, that's been the difference. And you
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: can't bury your head in the sand and think that
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: things are going to be okay in November if things
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  Speaker 2: don't change. And from November and what happened in Syracuse
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  Speaker 2: to the Tennessee special elections to the election, special elections
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  Speaker 2: in Florida, the mayor race in Boca Raton and in Miami,
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  Speaker 2: all of them flipped. And they flipped for one reason.
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  Speaker 2: It's not because the Democrats have a solution that's better
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  Speaker 2: than the Republicans. It's because the Republicans did not go vote.
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  Speaker 1: There is only one truth. You've been listening to The
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  Speaker 1: Truth Be Told with Booker Scott on America Out Loud.