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"C.O.S. and Effect" (Tuesday September 9, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: I've down two years, said and then brought the things
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that I'd later said because misunderstood.
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Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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the second most famous Thomas and Charlotte'smouth.
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Speaker 3: And George said, steal.
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Speaker 4: A day.
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Speaker 3: At least for work, when the sun comes up, drops
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a pet to school. Joe has everything a dream do,
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all the treasure needs.
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Speaker 5: No one that Joe's smile.
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Speaker 3: He only is.
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Speaker 6: Joe.
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Speaker 5: Joey's good days. When that pompous wind bag is around
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Al Sharpton, well, there might be things, you know, like
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when I said Tajana Brawley had been kidnapped by state
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troopers and we needed to burn down the the white
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patriarchy over something that didn't actually happen. They're oh good times,
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great oldies, classic news. When Al Al Sharpton, who amazingly
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to me, still has a television program, you know, you know,
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and maybe this is where people should be bend out
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of shape about some things. You know. There's there's people
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you know, get mad, they get fired, somebody loses their
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time slot, that kind of thing. But if Al Sharpton
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still gets to have a TV unless he's paying for
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the time, I don't know. We've got folks ringing in.
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I've tweaked some people by comparing Dan Bongino to Ken Starr,
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so I'll have to take the heat for that. And
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I'm not saying it just to get you know, some
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some click through. I'm not a clickbait kind of guy.
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But let me get our first things out here first
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before we get to you on the phones. At four
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the Chicago Bears blew a twenty point lead in the
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One big raid included one hundred and seventy one suspects
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Good morning, you are on the air first thing this
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morning with Joe Thomas. Who's this Good morning?
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Speaker 2: Just Joel?
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Speaker 5: Good Joel. How are you doing this morning? My friend?
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How were things in Florida?
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Speaker 2: Florida's okay.
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Speaker 7: I've had a change in job status. I'm actually looking
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for work.
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Speaker 5: So anyone needs a good nurse, give me a call.
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I'll hook you up with Joel. I'm serious. I mean,
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you know, what's the least I can do? And never
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let it be said I don't do the least I
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can do?
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Speaker 7: Thank you? What I'd like to comment? And I hope
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that makes sense saying this that you don't hear about
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politicians that really don't have a lot of means kind
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of like myself and I'm not a politician.
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Speaker 5: But maybe that's an idea. Maybe maybe you should think
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about that.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean getting on TV and promoting themselves and
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and getting out there and and actually, uh, you know,
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doing something for the country. The ones that I'm not
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saying all people that have the money are wealthy, but
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a lot of them when they get in office and
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they've built up a different accounts from I guess fundraising,
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which I guess they're not really supposed to use personally,
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but we know how a lot of it gets used
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personally that even when they're in office, they're they're making
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money off of their position. And I wonder if there
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is there any regulation or anything where they say, hey,
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when you're in office, you can't make money from your position,
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because it seems like a lot of the corruption that.
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I mean, there's Republicans that have done it too, but
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a lot of the Democrats that are promoting themselves are
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are doing it for the name. They're saying, oh, we're
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doing it in the name for our party, but they're
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they're benefiting off of it, and it just doesn't seem
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right to do that.
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Speaker 5: Well, in a couple of things you're sensing, and the
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first and foremost is the hypocrisy of all the people
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who scream in molly Men's clause every time Donald Trump
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does anything. Now they've got the G twenty coming to
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dral next year, and always violating the emoluments clause because
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you're not supposed to make money when you're president on
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things you make the decisions of being president. Yet somehow
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they skate this. And one of the reasons it happens
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is the same reason the guy got free to stab
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the Ukrainian girl in the neck on the Charlotte Subway,
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is that nobody's getting punished for this stuff. Nobody is
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going to jail. There's no purp walks happening, Joel, nobody is.
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Nobody is actually losing their position in Congress except George
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Santos over these kind of corruptions, and that's why it
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keeps going on. It's the same reason that crime keeps
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going on any place, crime because you don't think there's
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now moving at faster clip than we've ever seen before.
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Silver is dipped slightly below even so far today, down
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just about six cents to forty one dollars and thirty cents.
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So silver is still very strong, and we are we
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are making our way to fifty dollars, which is all
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Speaker 5: And if silver's you know, cracked down just even a
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That's exactly right.
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Speaker 21: We're always suggesting to stack silver, and that really just
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Speaker 5: A lot of our clients.
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Speaker 21: Are doing that, and they're just they're cost averaging in
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Thanks showing you too. So, as I mentioned, Joel was
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hanging on the line frustrated that there's no there's no
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what was what they used to call the stocks where's
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the stockade out in the town square? And no repercussions
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for the behavior of Congress, right.
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Speaker 7: I just what what I'm saying is I wonder or
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is there any regulation that well.
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Speaker 5: What regulation is there besides self regulation And if there's laws,
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and there are laws already against this kind of self feathering,
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if those laws exist and we don't exact the punishments,
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then you shame on us. That's that's why there's no regulation.
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Speaker 7: It's kind of like everybody wants wants term limits on
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you know, Congress and the and the Senate, but they're
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not going to go for it themselves because it's going
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to take them out of the position.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's why I support the Convention of States. But
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the other people you need term limits are on these
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career staffers. I mean there's people you think some of
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these congress people have been in DC for a long time.
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There are there are chiefs of staff that have been
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circulating in between congressional offices for decades, and they make
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huge money, you know, and and they're completely unregulated, uh
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to this kind of thing. So yeah, you've got to
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You've got to look at all the different things. And
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the secret though, Joel, is our government wasn't supposed to
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in its construct have the kind of power to manipulate
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these markets. And if you if you rest that power back,
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then you sort of eliminate the corruption because there's no
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upside to the corruption.
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Speaker 7: When is that ever going to take place? It seems like,
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you know, I've been talking to you for what four years,
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five years, and we've talked about it in different you know,
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different UH venues, and it just doesn't seem like it's moving.
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Speaker 5: Like it's which which the Convention of States, each state
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has to call for it. And here's the corruption that's
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killing the Convention of States project is that each political
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party now controls all the people within it, and they
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do it through Congress. Congress has to go and raise
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money for the party in order to get committee seats.
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The party goes and helps give money to these state
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candidates under the promise of either a you'll be governor
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someday or you'll be congressman someday. So it's the power
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of the party that's keeping a lot of these state
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legislatures from passing Convention of States. What we need is
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almost a California style referendum system where the citizens can
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get something placed on the ballot whether or not the
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elected officials want to or not. But each state, the
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more red states we get, the more Convention of State
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support we wind up with.
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Speaker 7: I agree with you, but you don't see that there's
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any timeline fixed to it, or I understand what you're saying.
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The state, how many states have to agree.
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Speaker 5: It's thirty four. I think we're at twenty right now.
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Oh wow. And you know it's the same it's the
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same mathematics that goes into amending the Constitution in general.
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You have to get two thirds and then yeah, then
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that vote is so I mean, it's not an easy
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thing to do. And this is this is the other
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side of it. Though a lot of this stuff doesn't
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need an amendment to do, there are things structural, things
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like the Speaker of the House's dictatorial control over bills
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that get to the floor. There could be a cap
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palace coup if you could get a bill to the
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floor to rein in on some of this stuff. But
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the speaker, the speaker is a one man, one vote
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bill killing machine. It can pass through every subcommittee in Congress,
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and if the Speaker doesn't want to give it to
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the floor for a vote, it won't ever get there.
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And that's one of the big corruptions in the internal
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workings of Congress. Joel so and and I get your
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frustration because you will like the congressman. And then every
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two years a new congressman comes along and says, Congressman
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so and so hasn't done crap for you. And there's
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some good reasons that Congressman so and so hasn't done
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crap for you. And in a lot of cases, it's
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not for lack of wanting to. It's just they've got
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the system rigged. Right now, I agree, I agree, and
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thanks Jeff. No problem, Joel. And as I've said before,
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it's not a flaw. It's a feature four three four
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Speaker 2: Mund First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk
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Speaker 5: Four three, four eight eight two four to two one set.
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Did you ever hear the expression the long March through
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the institution? And it doesn't have anything to do with
28:53
a scene transition with Jack Nicholson and one throat flew
28:56
over the cuckoo's nest. No no, no, no no no. The
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long March through the institutionism umpapa mau mau premise. It's
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the one hundred years, the patient game, the long game.
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It was what Marxism was doing in the forties when
29:16
Joe McCarthy was right, albeit his process for fixing it
29:24
was wrong, and Edward R. Murrow blew a chance at
29:29
being an actual journalist and screwed the pooch on that
29:33
as well, because we're human and we make mistakes. But
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the long March is the patience. It's that you're not
29:40
going to get here under my watch, but you'll get here,
29:44
and I'll have played my role to get us to
29:46
a point. And this is the frustration you heard in
29:49
Joel's voice which is damn it. We all see what's wrong.
29:53
Why don't they fix it? Well, because it doesn't profit
29:56
them to fix it, It doesn't help them to fix it.
30:01
They're they're quite happy in the system the way it is.
30:05
Why should they change it? And his frustration boiled over
30:09
in the case because I because I opened my mouth
30:12
about the Convention of Stage, which is the one attempt
30:15
you have because of George Mason in Article five of
30:19
the US Constitution to do it ourselves. We still need
30:22
politicians to join in join together with the band. And
30:27
as we spoke, local grassroots coordinator for US here in
30:32
our flagship city of Central Virginia, Nancy Kernig, called it
30:37
and Nancy, I'm sorry where your ears burning when you
30:40
and Joel and I were talking about the Convention of States.
30:45
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I listen for it all the time. Thank you
30:49
so much for everything that you do. And I am
30:53
calling not only to talk about it, but to invite
30:56
everyone who is near enough to Charlottesville to celebrate the
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Constitution on Saturday, Saturday, September thirteenth, at First free Coffee
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from ten until twelve, and you'll get a free slice
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of Princess cake and you'll get to hear Joe Thomas host.
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Speaker 5: I love her. I love it. Sometimes I listen to
31:23
his whole show. Sometimes not all the time.
31:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it does help to listen to yourself so
31:30
that you know what you're saying. But anyway, Gary Porter,
31:36
who is a constitutional scholar, I always forget the name
31:41
of his institution, but anyway, he's going to talk about
31:46
citizenship and answer questions about the Constitution. And then, of course,
31:51
since Convention of States is sponsoring this, we will talk
31:56
about the.
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Speaker 5: Call for a convention, and it is getting closer. But
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I mean, my point is that Mao and the Marxists
32:09
have this long, patient march through the institutions. They they'll
32:15
pick it off one, you know, and they don't get impatient.
32:19
They don't say how come this hasn't been fixed yet?
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And maybe it's because they count on they count on
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us losing patients because we have other things to do,
32:33
that kind of thing. But we need to we need
32:38
to match them patients for patients because a campaign is
32:43
little by little, and they don't want to talk about
32:46
the Convention of States because if they do, then they
32:49
normalize it, and they don't want to normalize it. They
32:52
want to marginalize it. They want they want to make
32:55
us seem like kooky tea partiers and and and and
33:00
which tea partiers weren't kooky either, but they successfully managed
33:04
to brand them as that. And little by little, wherever
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you are, whether it's San Francisco, I bet you that
33:13
you know you can get your California Convention of States
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crew together there or Colorado Springs or Portland. Yeah, they're
33:22
all there. They're in every state. And as a matter
33:25
of fact, I was, you know, sadly most of the
33:27
states you can hear this show have already ratified a
33:30
Convention of States call. But as Nancy will probably point
33:33
out in a second, you have to keep the pressure
33:36
on because it's just one bad election away from having
33:39
somebody undo that call. Right.
33:43
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we were lucky enough in Texas site. I don't
33:48
think you're heard in Texas, but they had a sunset clause,
33:52
but it was not easy to get rid of that.
33:55
But we did get rid of that this year. So
34:00
their resolution is firm and in.
34:05
Speaker 5: San Antonio, so that I believe that's in Texas.
34:08
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think so, I think so well. Persistence,
34:14
As you said, persistence is what we need. Uh, we're
34:18
in our twelfth year. I think it was October that
34:23
the idea came from tea party people, when tea Party,
34:28
the Tea Party was corrupted. This was in twenty thirteen.
34:32
And Mark Meckler and Michael Ferris, Michael Ferris of the
34:37
homeschool litigation, right, yeah, they they were the ones who
34:47
started this knowing that it was the only bloodless way
34:51
to go. And we are meeting next weekend, not not
34:57
this coming one, but next weekend in India, Napolis for
35:01
our for our national summit. So well it will re
35:08
energize us.
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Speaker 5: Well. And here's the thing. And I was just checking
35:12
the progress map and I and I may have overspoken.
35:15
Oregon doesn't have hasn't passed, California hasn't. There is legislation,
35:22
uh in places like many Minnesota, believe it or not. Ohio,
35:26
you guys in Youngstown, get behind this. Idaho up in
35:31
northern Idaho where they're listening to us. You guys can
35:35
all have a big impact on this right now today
35:40
and bring it about Connecticut. There's a legislation. You guys
35:44
in gh and Lowell, Massachusetts, You've got stuff afoot there
35:50
so you can you can join in and each one
35:52
of these states. If you go to Convention of States
35:54
dot com, there's a state. There's a nationwide progress map.
36:00
Guys in Fairbanks, you guys passed it already. But again
36:04
you've got to keep the pressure on otherwise you lose
36:06
it because you look. I mean, it's it's Georgia and
36:09
Florida and Alabama and Mississippi and in Louisiana and Texas
36:14
and all these great places that are listening to us,
36:16
Hannibal Mo. But you've got to keep it Utah. And
36:21
but check click your state and it will take you
36:23
to the sign up page for he or I am,
36:26
you know, welcome to cos Oregon. Uh And you can
36:30
sign up. And then somebody like Nancy there in in
36:35
Corvallis or Portland will get with you and get on it.
36:38
And and it's I'm sorry, it's every time everyone who
36:42
likes to demagogue this Nancy, they missed the point. It's
36:46
the only constitutional way to fix the constitution. It's written
36:53
into Article five of the US Constitution. It's there. It's not,
36:57
you know, some crazy scheme, it's not some parliamentary procedure.
37:02
It was left there as a in case of emergency
37:05
break glass kind of thing.
37:08
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and that is what they all knew, the founding fathers.
37:13
It was pasted. George Mason's second clause to Article five
37:17
was passed unanimously. And I've been listening to the Federalists
37:22
on Hillsdale, and they knew that we were corrupt. I
37:30
can't remember, oh ambitious, yeah, yeah, And they set up
37:36
the whole system because they knew that, and there was
37:39
nothing that could be done about human nature. So they
37:45
put in balance after balance after balance to counteract our
37:50
human nature. So please, yeah, we we've got to get
37:56
back to the grassroots. That was the main point. Hi.
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Speaker 25: In this dismal absolute.
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Speaker 15: For you. From Joe Thomas, it's first thing today.
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Speaker 5: Four three four eight A two four two one seven.
44:24
That is the phone number, text message on the long Game, Joe,
44:30
why do they have patients and we don't because they've
44:35
sold out to uh an ideology, So the they're using
44:44
our individualism against us. Marxism isn't just a government, it's
44:52
it's a it's an ideology of state over self. It's
44:59
why doesn't it? And authoritarianism in general. Marks Marx just
45:04
codified a lot of things he had seen in other
45:12
in other ideologies over time and came up with a
45:19
paradigm of all the different ways he had seen authoritarians
45:23
try to take and hold power. And so that's all
45:34
Marx did in his manifesto. Don't give him gravitas for
45:37
inventing some political system. We've had. We've had dictators forever,
45:41
we've had dehumanizing, slavery driven forms of government as long
45:47
as you faster than you can say the Enlightenment. The
45:50
whole point of John Locke and then his children like
45:54
Thomas Jefferson, was that that wash rints repeat, humanity went
46:00
through this cycle of tyranny. Liberty won with the blood
46:05
of patriots, then prosperity reigns in the liberty. But then
46:10
that prosperity leads to apathy, and then that apathy leads
46:14
to disparity and poverty, and then anarchy and then tyranny,
46:21
and there we are on the cycle again. And that
46:25
we were trying in seventeen eighty nine to come up
46:29
with a system that might forest all that cycle, and
46:32
we certainly retarded it. Two hundred and fifty years we're
46:36
still doing this. Nancy Kernig is on with us from
46:39
the Convention of States project here in Virginia, but nationwide
46:44
Convention of States. As I said, you can find your
46:47
state branch online at Convention of States dot com. Nancy,
46:51
you were talking about all the steps that you know
46:54
we have to go through to get that convention, but
46:58
it's working, it's getting there.
47:00
Speaker 1: We what our country run away, and we've got to
47:08
go back to what is happening in the States, and
47:14
one of the most important things that I think needs
47:17
to happen is to repeal the seventeenth Amendment so that
47:22
we know that the states have the power, because they're
47:27
acting like they don't. And the seventeenth Amendment was what
47:33
did that and that's why we've got that swamp in Washington.
47:36
Speaker 5: So Netflix has got to think, so, what's this going on.
47:42
There's a streaming extravaganzam, there's watch parties, the Race for
47:48
Freedom is it's going to be Mike Brawn is part
47:51
of it. And this is all going on during the convention, right,
47:56
So Netflix is actually going to have some live reports
48:00
from the convention.
48:03
Speaker 1: Yes, you can. There are streaming opportunities during the entire convention.
48:10
So again that is on our main page. Just go
48:13
to Convention of States dot com and you can watch
48:16
all of the plenary sessions, that's the speeches by these people.
48:22
And listen Rick Santorum again because he has joined us.
48:31
Kevin Roberts, the president of Heritage Foundation.
48:36
Speaker 5: He's great on this, he is. So, I mean, it's
48:38
just an honor to write for a daily Signal as
48:41
well in and of this. But and it all begins
48:46
the day after Constitution Day, September seventeenth, so that you
48:52
can tune in and watch this all happen right before
48:56
your eyes. Is I think a great partner ship. And
49:00
if you go to Convention of States dot com, it's
49:03
the first it's the first banner right there on the website.
49:06
You can't miss it live from Indie. Uh there, and
49:12
it I think. I think we're at that cusp. And
49:14
you know, and I wish, and I know this is
49:17
going to tweak some people, but I wish it wasn't
49:21
a partisan issue. I wish friends of mine who you know,
49:25
sit there and pretend like they want to do something
49:27
about gun violence or or teachers or something like that,
49:30
realized that this would be their chance to take that
49:34
centralized government away. Maybe that that lesson from the Trump administration.
49:39
You know, you don't want the centralized government to be
49:42
dictating to your schools. Okay, join us at the Convention
49:45
of States. Let's win back local control of all this
49:49
stuff from centralized Washington.
49:53
Speaker 1: There's no reason for this to be partisan. We're talking
49:56
about our constitution. That is what is so messed up.
50:01
And it's not It is not just the progressives who
50:07
are against Convention estates and who are saying, oh, this
50:13
is a problem, and that's a problem, and the convention
50:16
won't work, and you're going to rewrite the whole convention. No,
50:20
it's everybody with misinformation, including some of our most conservative
50:27
organizations like the the John Birch Society, will not listen.
50:34
It's such a shame because they they are so good,
50:37
and they advertise on your program. It's a wonderful advertisement.
50:43
I just wish we could convince them.
50:45
Speaker 5: Well, some people, you know, it's because they get an
50:47
you know, and power is that corruption and then you
50:51
lose grip. You say, oh, now I have a friend
50:54
in the White House. This was my concern when President
50:57
Trump was reelected in twenty four was that people are like, wow,
51:00
we got Trump in there. Now, we don't have to
51:01
worry about it. Yeah you do. We still need to
51:04
worry about it just as much as we did in
51:06
nineteen ninety eight.
51:08
Speaker 17: Much.
51:09
Speaker 1: And it's proven, Joe, because that is exactly what people
51:14
said in twenty sixteen, we don't need to worry about it. Well,
51:19
look what happened.
51:20
Speaker 5: Yeah, twenty twenty four happened. Nance Again, thank you for
51:24
inviting me to speak on the on Saturday. For those
51:29
who are wondering, the princess cake is for me because
51:32
it's my birthday. No, it's not really, it's for the
51:34
It's for the Constitution. But come on out if you're
51:38
in the Charlottesville area. This is where you can get
51:41
first free in the morning coffee brewed for you over
51:43
the counter as well, instead of ordering it from one
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two seven Dot Coffee. But I know airfare is expensive
51:49
at this time of day. Nancy, you have a great morning.
51:53
Convention Estates dot com.
51:56
Speaker 1: Thank you. Jill god Bless just.
51:58
Speaker 5: Got a text message twenty Yeah. I meant to say
52:00
twenty twenty happened. Apologies for that convention, and it isn't
52:06
And I misread the press statement. They're taking a shot
52:09
at Netflix and the House of Cards and everything else.
52:12
The stream is not on Netflix. It is at Convention
52:15
of States dot com, where you just click and watch
52:18
the live stream. You know, every time I've said, hey,
52:23
can I come to the convention in broadcast live, we
52:25
were just at the State policy. No no, no, no, no,
52:28
we don't want to do that. You know, maybe they've
52:30
changed their mind. Maybe we should go to Indy for
52:33
the convention. It's a little short notice. It's only eleven
52:36
days away, but you tune in on the live stream
52:40
at Convention of States dot com four three four eight
52:44
eight two four two one seven. That's the phone number
52:47
to get to us this morning.
52:54
Speaker 27: Hi, I'm Mark Falter with the Financial Fitness Show. Have
52:58
you been keeping up on the Big Beautiful Bill. There's
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