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"Doors Win Wars" (FTTxJT Tue 110326 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at.
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  Speaker 3: The steel mill. He's damn near every day. Leaves for
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  Speaker 3: work when the sun comes up. Drops a kid to school.
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  Speaker 3: Joe has everything he dreamed of. All the treasures that
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  Speaker 3: he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 4: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 2: Let me be your Thank you for letting me be
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  Speaker 2: of service to you this morning. I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 2: went on last night. I will give you my analysis
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  Speaker 2: of it, of course, but I want to hear how
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  Speaker 2: it's impacting you, where you are. The single most important
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  Speaker 2: local aspect of the radio station is you. You with
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  Speaker 2: your knob in your hand. I mean, the radio tuner.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 2: Tom drops bombs, our friend. The podcaster. and videocaster, and
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  Speaker 2: at times he will turn a table in an elected office,
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  Speaker 2: a member of the oldest elected body on the planet,
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  Speaker 2: the Virginia General Assembly. But Tom, from where you sit,
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about the bait and switch, the gas lighting.
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  Speaker 2: We'll tell you we're for affordability, and then as soon
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  Speaker 2: as we get into office, everything goes up in price,
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  Speaker 2: like we were talking about electric bills and things like
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  Speaker 2: the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Is there a A playbook
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  Speaker 2: that they use where they sit there and say, listen,
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  Speaker 2: we'll make the law, but don't don't use it for
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  Speaker 2: six months or so, because it seems like we're getting
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  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of. When did that become legal or
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  Speaker 2: permissible anyway, Tom?
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  Speaker 6: Sal Alinsky wrote Alinsky's Rules for Radicals in the 60s.
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  Speaker 6: I'm dead serious. So that's the playbook. Right. And they
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  Speaker 6: lie with the plum. Let me give you some examples
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  Speaker 6: of that. The Affordable Care Act, since the Affordable Care
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  Speaker 6: Act passed, in real dollars, health care costs have tripled.
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  Speaker 6: Not very affordable. The Inflation Reduction Act under Joe Biden
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  Speaker 6: went parallel to 11.8% inflation.
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  Speaker 2: Tom? Tom, did we lose Tom?
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  Speaker 6: I hope not.
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  Speaker 2: Can you hear me? You were doing 11.8% inflation, and
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  Speaker 2: then you went bleep.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the Inflation Reduction Act increased inflation. The Affordable Care
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  Speaker 6: Act tripled the price of health care. The UnitedHealthcare CEO
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  Speaker 6: shot by a radical communist. Well, he supported the Affordable
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  Speaker 6: Care Act. So did Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, because
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  Speaker 6: they pushed all the marginal competition out of the way.
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  Speaker 6: And Abigail Spamber and her ilk have lined their pockets
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  Speaker 6: with data centers. and corporate energy money while demonizing data
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  Speaker 6: centers and corporate energy. I mean, I can go on
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  Speaker 6: and on. So the rule for radicals by Alinsky is
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  Speaker 6: the playbook. They will accuse you of exactly what they're doing,
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  Speaker 6: and we need to be smart enough to call their bluff.
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  Speaker 2: And that's kind of what I was getting at before.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't feel like I've got this intellectual
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  Speaker 2: heft of a Rhodes Scholar or something, but heck, I'm
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  Speaker 2: able to say that allowing somebody who's not a citizen
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  Speaker 2: to vote is a violation of my civil rights. Anyway, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: hang on to that. TomDropsBombs on YouTube is where you
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  Speaker 2: found him. We ran into the news before he could
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  Speaker 2: answer that question for us. So we sally forth into
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  Speaker 2: the news of the day, our first things. Apparently, there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be peace between Russia and Ukraine. I know
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  Speaker 2: this because according to Steve Witkoff, next Tuesday and Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: They will be meeting in Abu Dhabi to discuss what
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  Speaker 2: comes next. De-escalation, security arrangements, humanitarian efforts like the one
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  Speaker 2: Melania Trump just negotiated, Witkoff wrote. Good news? Stay tuned.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the end of an old Batman TV show.
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  Speaker 2: Our Caped Crusaders. Supreme Court Monday rejected an emergency request
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  Speaker 2: from the administration to hold thousands, 20,000 to be specific,
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  Speaker 2: California mail-in ballots while officials checked to make sure the
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  Speaker 2: voters were U.S. citizens before they were certified. The justices
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  Speaker 2: declined to intervene in a lower court ruling which said
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  Speaker 2: the administration had no standing in the case.
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  Speaker 7: U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Immigration, meanwhile, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have announced yet
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  Speaker 2: more arrests of foreign nationals accused of voting. One said case,
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  Speaker 2: according to ICE, was a Mexican national who voted 15
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  Speaker 2: times between 2000 and 2024, including state, primary, and municipal contests.
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  Speaker 2: Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen said on Friday 300,000
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  Speaker 2: non-citizens have been flagged on state voter rolls, we can
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  Speaker 2: get access to the information, he told Newsmax. That's how
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  Speaker 2: we found them. He said the department is working with
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  Speaker 2: the Justice Department to get the names cross-referenced with voter rolls,
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  Speaker 2: but we can tell if they're registered to vote, if
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  Speaker 2: they're legally in this country or not. We just need
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  Speaker 2: strikes against Iran's Qeshem Island just outside of the Strait
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  Speaker 2: they've joined the ranks of CNN and MSNOW and haven't
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  Speaker 2: watched their audience crater over the past year or so,
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  Speaker 2: losing almost 30%. of its daily viewers, Lachlan Murdoch, son
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  Speaker 2: of Fox News founder Rupert, dismissed the figures as viewer
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  Speaker 2: fatigue while not answering any questions regarding what it was
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  Speaker 2: that had fatigued them about their programming. And those, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 10: Tonight's the night we'll make history.
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  Speaker 2: How many times?
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  Speaker 19: As sure as dogs can fly.
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  Speaker 2: The intent of the two-year congressional election cycle is, and
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  Speaker 2: they call it this because it will be I believe
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  Speaker 2: that we'll be seating the 120th Congress of the United
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  Speaker 2: States in January. That means extensively, though our permanent reapportionment
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  Speaker 2: act of 1929 has really put a monkey wrench into it,
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  Speaker 2: that we have technically overthrown our government without firing a
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  Speaker 2: shot 120 times. At least that was the implication of
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  Speaker 2: the founders when they designed the system to work this way.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the groups that's been working very hard
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  Speaker 2: to get everyone out to participate in partnership with our
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  Speaker 2: dear friends at Turning Point Action is the Citizens Alliance.
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  Speaker 2: You find them online at doorswinwars.org. Michelle Backus, Emmy Award
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  Speaker 2: winning journalist. And, you know, I've got to be an
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  Speaker 2: award for door knocking to Michelle. How are you doing
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  Speaker 2: this morning?
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  Speaker 16: I am good. It's a busy day for us, but
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  Speaker 16: we're excited. We've been on the ground.
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  Speaker 20: We hit our goal of 1.85 million doors, and we're
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  Speaker 20: excited to see how the results turn out today.
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  Speaker 16: We've been working hard. Our door knockers have been working
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  Speaker 16: incredibly hard as well.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you've been across the streets of Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire,
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  Speaker 2: and Pennsylvania, and you've been targeting specifically low-propensity Republicans, and
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  Speaker 2: these are easy to see. They're the ones who show
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  Speaker 2: up every four years when there's a presidential race to contest.
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  Speaker 2: How has, you know, even if it's just anecdotal evidence,
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  Speaker 2: been about getting through to these folks to highlight the
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  Speaker 2: importance of these midterms?
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  Speaker 20: Well, shockingly, in the age of digital media, a face-to-face
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  Speaker 20: conversation goes a very long way. And that's really what
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  Speaker 20: we've seen throughout these states and with our door knockers
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  Speaker 20: over the past few months.
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  Speaker 16: A lot of people just kind of want to tune
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  Speaker 16: out politics.
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  Speaker 20: A lot of people inundated with all the text messages,
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  Speaker 20: the calls, the ads. I'm sure we both received a
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  Speaker 20: lot of them. I work in politics and I don't
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  Speaker 20: even like seeing them. But having that face to face
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  Speaker 20: interaction with other voters really does move the needle.
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  Speaker 16: And that's exactly what our door knockers have been doing.
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  Speaker 16: They've been going out. They've been talking with voters.
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  Speaker 20: And look, we are targeting low propensity Republican voters.
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  Speaker 16: This is the same ground game strategy that Democrats have
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  Speaker 16: been doing.
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  Speaker 20: For years and years and years, what Citizens Alliance is
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  Speaker 20: doing is finally meeting Democrats where they are and beating
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  Speaker 20: them at their own game. You know, you mentioned it.
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  Speaker 20: This obviously is midterms. It's not a presidential year. A
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  Speaker 20: lot of people want to sit home. But what people
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  Speaker 20: don't understand is that we, as Republicans, if we sit home,
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  Speaker 20: we're going to have a massive problem in 2028. And
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  Speaker 20: that includes what's happening right now with the Senate and
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  Speaker 20: the House. Of course, we're watching a ton of those
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  Speaker 20: congressional districts to see how they pan out today. And
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  Speaker 20: it's going to be extremely important to continue to pass
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  Speaker 20: an agenda.
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  Speaker 16: Otherwise, I'll tell you what, for the next two years,
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  Speaker 16: we're going to have a.
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  Speaker 20: Lot of subpoenas and investigations, and you're not moving the
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  Speaker 20: needle on anything.
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  Speaker 2: And government shutdowns. I will guarantee you that by the spring,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have had at least one massive partial government shutdown
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  Speaker 2: that will all be like the gold medals at the
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  Speaker 2: Olympics hung around Donald Trump's neck. Michelle Back is on
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  Speaker 2: with us from the Citizens Alliance. DoorsWinWars.org is where you
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  Speaker 2: find them. Michelle, I wanted to ask you, though, we
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  Speaker 2: just had a story. It's in the news. Lachlan Murdoch
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  Speaker 2: is out there whining that his programming on Fox News
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  Speaker 2: has made people fatigued. They've watched a hemorrhaging of ratings.
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  Speaker 2: MS Now and CNN have already been there and done that.
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  Speaker 2: They've already been at the basement of the garbage chute. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're out there talking to people. Are people
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  Speaker 2: tired of hearing about it or are they tired of being,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just bored with the same old thing over
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  Speaker 2: and over again? And they want to engage people on
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  Speaker 2: the real issues.
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  Speaker 20: You know, it's an interesting component because in general, I
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  Speaker 20: think that.
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  Speaker 16: The media landscape is changing. Before, you had to depend
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  Speaker 16: on cable television in order to get your information.
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  Speaker 20: We're in a new era now where people are depending online.
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  Speaker 20: With that comes a great responsibility to spread truth and
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  Speaker 20: actual facts as anyone.
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  Speaker 16: Is able to spread anything. Nonetheless, though.
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  Speaker 20: I think what you're seeing from a lot of Americans
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  Speaker 20: right now, especially when I'm out on the campaign trail,
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  Speaker 20: is that they're inundated with so many ads and their
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  Speaker 20: representatives talking at them rather than working with them. You know,
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  Speaker 20: so many politicians want to point the finger and play
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  Speaker 20: the blame game. And what really needs to happen, especially
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  Speaker 20: at the local level, is politicians coming face to face
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  Speaker 20: with the people they represent, understanding their issues and talking
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  Speaker 20: about how they're going to move forward together.
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  Speaker 6: So.
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  Speaker 2: What is the sweet spot? Is it the affordability? Is
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  Speaker 2: it the gas prices? Have they been gas lit into
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  Speaker 2: thinking that? And I made this case earlier. Yeah, gas
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  Speaker 2: prices are higher than they were when President Trump was
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  Speaker 2: sworn in, but they were they're still lower than they
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  Speaker 2: were when Joe Biden was in office. And Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: wasn't trying to end a 240 year old battle with
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  Speaker 2: radical Islam by going after the head of the serpent
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  Speaker 2: in Iran. So all that being said, I'll take these
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  Speaker 2: higher prices than the ones from four years ago.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 16: And that's a phenomenal point that you're making.
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  Speaker 20: Look, every single president since Bill Clinton has said that
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  Speaker 20: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. This was a situation
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  Speaker 20: that was bubbling over. And eventually, at one point or another,
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  Speaker 20: someone had to intervene. Now, obviously, President Trump has never
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  Speaker 20: been one to roll over when it comes to foreign
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  Speaker 20: policy because we want to assert our dominance as a nation.
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  Speaker 16: Nonetheless, though, when you talk.
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  Speaker 20: About affordability, obviously, That's coined as a socialist term, but
• 19:38
  Speaker 20: it is the thing that's on everyone's mind. Like every
• 19:41
  Speaker 20: single cycle, it's always going to come down to what's
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  Speaker 20: in your wallet and the economy is going to be
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  Speaker 20: the number one issue.
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  Speaker 2: Now, aside from... her... Go ahead. I'm sorry. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: mean it.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, go ahead. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was just going to point to your gravitas
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  Speaker 2: on this. Having spent some time in Happy Valley myself,
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  Speaker 2: I know that your degree, not just in journalism, but
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  Speaker 2: in economics, gives you that touch to understand you know,
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  Speaker 2: that my dollar doesn't buy 10 cents worth of what
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  Speaker 2: it bought when I was born. And that might play
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: a role in why my gas prices are so high
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  Speaker 2: and the energy policies are driving up my electric bills.
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  Speaker 2: What is, you know, what is working to these low
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  Speaker 2: propensity voters to say, listen, this is where we are
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  Speaker 2: on the course. If we derail the train right now,
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  Speaker 2: the course isn't going to get Insert what the terminus
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  Speaker 2: of this train is going to be, Michelle, towards making
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  Speaker 18: Yep.
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  Speaker 20: And you look at what President Trump has already done
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  Speaker 20: of jobs.
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  Speaker 16: And that really is just the tip of the.
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  Speaker 20: inevitably going to happen. And as many presidents have been
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  Speaker 20: all talk, President Trump has been in a very different
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  Speaker 20: situation in which he actually took action. And look, that's
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  Speaker 20: not going to be something overnight. And you look at
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  Speaker 20: is something inevitable that ultimately was going to happen sooner
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  Speaker 20: You know, you look at the economy right now and yeah,
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• 21:44
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  Speaker 10: Tonight's the night we'll make.
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  Speaker 3: History, as sure as dogs can fly.
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Backus on with us in his, again, Doors Win
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Wars show. and Turning Point USA and your partnership with
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Charlie and Turning Point and the young people. Talk about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, have we seen them, you know, walk away
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  Speaker 2: from what they were able to accomplish in 24 and
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  Speaker 2: even to a smaller degree in 22 years?
• 29:27
  Speaker 16: That's a phenomenal question.
• 29:28
  Speaker 20: And I truly think that many people are trying to
• 29:30
  Speaker 20: embody Charlie's way. You see a lot of younger conservatives
• 29:33
  Speaker 20: going to college campuses, having those conversations that Charlie was having.
• 29:37
  Speaker 16: Uh and inspiring others to have that open forum as i.
• 29:40
  Speaker 20: Mentioned earlier the face-to-face interaction counts but you look at
• 29:44
  Speaker 20: what happened in 2024 i mean you had so many
• 29:47
  Speaker 20: young people that were sick of being lied to i
• 29:49
  Speaker 20: mean we had a president That was barely capable of
• 29:52
  Speaker 20: forming a sentence. And he's leading our free world. I mean,
• 29:56
  Speaker 20: it was extremely evident. Then you would see how he'd
• 29:58
  Speaker 20: be treated. I mean, the media would ask him what
• 30:00
  Speaker 20: his favorite ice cream flavor was. That's how big of
• 30:02
  Speaker 20: a joke it was here in our country. And then,
• 30:05
  Speaker 20: of course, they replaced him with Kamala Harris, who then thought.
• 30:08
  Speaker 20: that she could get all of the vote by pandering
• 30:11
  Speaker 20: to the African-American communities and some of the younger communities that,
• 30:15
  Speaker 20: quite frankly, she didn't really understand and didn't resonate with.
• 30:18
  Speaker 16: She tried to roll out Cardi B and a bunch
• 30:20
  Speaker 16: of rappers. And I'll tell you what, I think younger
• 30:22
  Speaker 16: people woke up and they were sick of it. They
• 30:24
  Speaker 16: were sick of being lied to. They were sick of
• 30:25
  Speaker 16: being treated like they were, to be quite frank, morons.
• 30:28
  Speaker 20: And they wanted change and they wanted someone that wasn't
• 30:32
  Speaker 20: afraid of that change. President Trump was fearless. He did
• 30:35
  Speaker 20: not back down. I mean, the guy survived two assassination attempts.
• 30:39
  Speaker 20: And I think the younger generations really took note of that.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Are they?
• 30:42
  Speaker 16: Charlie Kirk came.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: No, no. Finish what you're saying about Charlie. Then I
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: have a follow up question. I just I jumped the
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: gun on you.
• 30:52
  Speaker 20: Yeah, I you know, I would just say that Charlie
• 30:55
  Speaker 20: always came to the table with common sense rationales. And
• 31:00
  Speaker 20: I think that was a very refreshing thing, especially as
• 31:03
  Speaker 20: we were dealing with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, in
• 31:06
  Speaker 20: which most people could see that wasn't common sense. We
• 31:09
  Speaker 20: were blatantly being lied to. And it was demeaning. It
• 31:13
  Speaker 20: was degrading for a lot of younger people.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and they do have a good sensor. I
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: know that even younger than that. But so the question
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I have is, Sure. President Trump is on the ballot.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: And I've made the case loud and long that so
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: is President Obama. This is that showdown between the Obama
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: agenda and the Trump agenda. OK, that's said and done.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: How come it seems like whether it's, you know, the
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: ones that wouldn't pass the SAVE Act like Lisa Murkowski,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: it's so hard to get these congressional folks to grasp
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: that and to pick up the baton and run with it?
• 31:54
  Speaker 16: Yes, it's a good question. I think there's definitely a disconnect.
• 31:58
  Speaker 20: I think that it's important for everyone on the ballot
• 32:02
  Speaker 20: to resonate with voters. Look, we have to continue to
• 32:05
  Speaker 20: go back to all of the accomplishments of the administration.
• 32:08
  Speaker 20: And that's tough, right? When you're the president in office, Historically,
• 32:11
  Speaker 20: you look at midterms. Typically, you do lose a few
• 32:14
  Speaker 20: House seats. That's been the thing since World War II.
• 32:16
  Speaker 20: But nonetheless, you look at President Trump right now.
• 32:19
  Speaker 16: I mean, look at the border, right?
• 32:21
  Speaker 20: We have had the lowest number of border encounters. We
• 32:25
  Speaker 20: also are looking at inflation right now. And, you know,
• 32:27
  Speaker 20: you talk about the gas, the national average for gas
• 32:30
  Speaker 20: at a four year low under Trump in December 2025. Obviously,
• 32:33
  Speaker 20: right now we have a temporary disruption. And that's something
• 32:37
  Speaker 20: that President Trump, the admin, has acknowledged and said that
• 32:39
  Speaker 20: they're working to fix. But nonetheless, I really do think
• 32:43
  Speaker 20: that at this point, we need to come to voters
• 32:46
  Speaker 20: where they are. You know, we're talking about the largest
• 32:48
  Speaker 20: tax cuts in American history. That's the working families tax
• 32:52
  Speaker 20: cut as well. I mean, it's extremely important to understand
• 32:56
  Speaker 20: where voters are and meet them there. It's always going
• 32:58
  Speaker 20: to be the economy. There are a lot of younger
• 33:01
  Speaker 20: kids that are frustrated. They see where their parents were.
• 33:03
  Speaker 20: You know, I mean, I've been there, right? Your parents
• 33:06
  Speaker 20: bought a house when they were 25 years old and
• 33:08
  Speaker 20: you're wondering why you can't afford the same thing. So,
• 33:11
  Speaker 20: you know, those are the massive issues that politicians need
• 33:14
  Speaker 20: to be tackling this cycle and looking ahead to 2028
• 33:17
  Speaker 20: as well.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Well, Michelle Backus, it is Michelle with two L's. Backus
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: underscore on X. Follow her there. Keep knocking doors. We've
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: got all day. there but we appreciate your work in
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Arizona and Nevada and Pennsylvania and all those places and
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: by the way you were talking about you know ice
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: cream there you made me think you know it used
• 33:38
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  Speaker 2: if you're door knocking through Virginia look me up and
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to take you to the Split Banana in
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: downtown Stanton okay.
• 33:51
  Speaker 16: I'm going to hold you true to that. I'm going
• 33:53
  Speaker 16: to hold you accountable.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I know you would. You don't win Emmy Awards
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: for not holding people's feet to the fire. Michelle Backus,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: it's doorswinwars.org. You have a great morning.
• 34:02
  Speaker 14: Thank you.
• 34:05
  Speaker 16: You too.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Andy is on the line with us this morning from Florida.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: And Andy, thank you for checking in. And how are
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: you doing this election day morning? Are you glad it's
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: finally here?
• 34:17
  Speaker 26: Well, I thought it was last week, and I celebrated by.
• 34:23
  Speaker 11: Having some grouper there, just a local place. I had
• 34:29
  Speaker 11: not tried before, but the food was good as well.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Well, if you're going to have seafood, not to pretend
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to be a foodie, but if you're going to have seafood,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: you know, along the Gulf Coast is where to have it.
• 34:44
  Speaker 26: You know, a lot of that stuff, when they were
• 34:47
  Speaker 26: dumping the stuff out of Lake Okeechobee, that actually happened
• 34:50
  Speaker 26: while I was having my house built during the summer.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: It's just nasty.
• 34:56
  Speaker 26: I mean, it almost killed the entire life in the
• 35:01
  Speaker 26: Gulf and some of that. I mean, it's like crazy what,
• 35:06
  Speaker 26: you know, these Gates people were, you know, they're behind
• 35:09
  Speaker 26: the chemtrails and the other things as well.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all for your good. It's to make you
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: more healthier.
• 35:16
  Speaker 26: 20 inches of rain, like here, I don't pay a
• 35:21
  Speaker 26: whole lot of attention to it, but it's unbelievable the
• 35:26
  Speaker 26: amount of rainfall.
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: And it's all chemtrail driven.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, this past weekend, Florida was just getting a
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: soak down top to bottom there. So glad you made
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: it through there. So when you voted, And I don't
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: want to know who you voted for. I just want
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: to know, was it simple enough? How long is Florida's window?
• 35:47
  Speaker 11: It was incredible.
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: Actually, the local person who runs the elections is competent.
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: I think the other thing I find to be really
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: interesting is that at least the Republican side of things
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: Gave you a pretty decent voter. And I'm a registered
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: Republican when I moved down here. And so I'm really
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: a free market capitalist. I don't believe in any of
• 36:15
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• 36:17
  Speaker 2: We need more of you.
• 36:18
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• 36:22
  Speaker 26: So it was pretty easy to go through there. I
• 36:27
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• 36:31
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• 36:37
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• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, dear. I'm sorry.
• 36:42
  Speaker 11: And he's been bounced around to a couple places, but
• 36:46
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• 36:50
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• 36:54
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• 36:57
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  Speaker 19: Exercise is hard. So is maintaining a healthy diet. Of course,
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  Speaker 9: Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org.
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  Speaker 23: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 24: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 26: Sure.
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  Speaker 23: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 1: We've cut the cost of radio listening by, hell, it
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  Speaker 6: Can't wait.
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  Speaker 21: Well, there's an awful lot of issues important to me.
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  Speaker 25: Education, arbitration, equalization, United.
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  Speaker 2: On this election day, exercise your franchise, otherwise it might
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  Speaker 2: are trial balloons out there and each step is an
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  Speaker 2: incrementalist step towards full-on just tear the band-aid off and
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  Speaker 2: be honest about it Marxism. And this isn't Joe Stalin
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  Speaker 2: hiding in your closet. This is democratic capitalism. We were
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  Speaker 2: talking about this yesterday. This is, sure, you can vote.
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  Speaker 2: Here are the two people you can vote for. Choose
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  Speaker 2: between them. Well, where'd they come from? They're high-ranking party officials. Oh, okay. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what if I don't like either of them? It's not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just pick one. They're both going to do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. But you'll have the illusion of voting.
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  Speaker 2: If they're smart, they'll, you know, get their bread and
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  Speaker 2: circuses in gear. and parade them out as if they
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  Speaker 2: were really debating one another. Hold it. That might be
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  Speaker 2: what's happening already. And then a guy comes along who
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  Speaker 2: doesn't need that, and that makes them all angry. And
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  Speaker 2: now all the Fabians that have sort of been playing
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: slap and tickle with your money and mine and our
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: property and our opportunities were called out, and then The
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  Speaker 2: far left, the radical left, said, hold it. You guys
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  Speaker 2: haven't been helping us get the free stuff we're expecting
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: from those other people. So why have you not done that?
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: So now you have the Zorhan Mamdani's and the Abdul
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: El-Sayed's out there on the far left. Guys like James
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Tallarico playing the dangerous game of footsie. And I was
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: mentioning this. We were talking with Tom. Tom drops bombs.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: He was talking about. Obamacare and the death of the
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  Speaker 2: UnitedHealthcare CEO. And I pointed out to him.
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: On the roof of the building in Pennsylvania at the
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  Speaker 6: Trump rally by a Secret Service sniper. I mean, this
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  Speaker 6: is so this is important. I've gotten horrific death threats.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 6: God will take me when he wants me. And in
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  Speaker 6: the interim, my job is do the best I can
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  Speaker 6: with the limited talents I've been given. And that's what
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to do. And I'm going to tell the truth.
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: And we can win because we have the votes. But
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: people stay home. They don't show up. And the lies
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: are so loud that we need to be able to
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  Speaker 6: tell the truth just as loudly. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, get out to vote. I presume you voted already,
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  Speaker 2: or at least your dog has.
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  Speaker 6: I voted a long time ago, and all the dogs
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: I've ever owned are long since dead. But wait.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, why not? There's precedent. Hey, you know what they
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  Speaker 2: say in the mid-Atlantic anyway around hunting season? That dog
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: won't hunt.
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, somebody needs to tell Abby.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: So the point about the dangerous game is, you know,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: whether it's the UnitedHealthcare CEO that was part of the
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: cabal of insurance providers that loved them some Obamacare because
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: it seemed like in their short-term view was, well, the
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: government's going to make people buy our insurance. And then,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: you know, once that kind of settled out, they're like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: especially during COVID. And understand when COVID comes, COVID was
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: a bioweapon designed to attack a country that had passed
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Why would you
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: attack a country that had just been told for two, three,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: four years up till the passage of the Patient Protection
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  Speaker 2: and Affordable Care Act? Why would you unleash a bioweapon
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: that made people really, really sick and needed immediate medical
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: care to break a system that was built around this? Again,
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: pattern recognition. I wish I had been better at seeing
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: it as COVID started to unfold, what was the pressure point?
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: Who was demanding vaccines? Who was demanding all of the Tony,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: take the shot, leave the cannoli, Fauci machinations, the insurance
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  Speaker 2: industries that wanted rules. There were no guardrails. People were
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  Speaker 2: showing up at hospitals with COVID that needed enormously expensive treatments.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: that the insurance providers couldn't find a way out of
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  Speaker 2: because they were not of the kind that were already
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: baked into the deniability of care plans. Remember, Paul Krugman,
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  Speaker 2: one of the economic architects of Obamacare, said, oh, yeah,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: we'll have deniability, we'll have advisability of care panels. Remember,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Sarah Palin called them death panels. These were the panels
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: that were going to determine, at Paul Krugman's own quote,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: whether or not you qualify for certain expensive medical interventions.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: The government was going to decide whether you lived or died,
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: but there was nothing in the Obamacare build-out that said, well,
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  Speaker 2: they have a respiratory virus. We don't know where it
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: came from. You can't tell them you're denying their claim.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: They didn't do anything to violate your claim. So the
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Chinese hit our economy broadside while theirs was going into
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: the dumper anyway. So this is a double win for them.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: This is like, you know, a battleship in the midst
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: of sinking fires all of its torpedoes at the aircraft
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  Speaker 2: carrier and sinks that too. And of course, buys them
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  Speaker 2: the time to patch up their destroyer and chug away.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: So now you've got this dangerous narrative that's been sold
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: to people, we'll go out and get the billionaires. Bernie
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Sanders says two days ago, more billionaire tax, California's billionaire tax,
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: all of these people being told that somewhere there is
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: somebody that has made your life miserable. Why do you
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: think we're mad at them? Why wouldn't I be mad
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: at someone somewhere out there that has made my life
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: more difficult, if not downright impossible? It's a dangerous game.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: They're playing it because they only see till the end
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  Speaker 2: of today, and then it's fun frolic for them. They
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  Speaker 2: don't need to worry about what happens to the country
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  Speaker 2: or to anyone else after that fact. They just want
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  Speaker 2: you to vote for them. So you vote. If you vote,
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  Speaker 2: then they don't have nearly the power because they can
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: only phony up so many of them. We'll recap it
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow morning. So long and thanks for watching.
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  Speaker 12: Hi, I'm Mark Falter with the Financial Fitness Show. Have
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