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"How Hard is it to Say; Antisemitic?" (Saturday August 30, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Long Island News Radio, right four three four eight eight
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two four two one seven, don't poke the don't poke
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the radio and ticklish. Yes, we're here live and it
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is a Saturday morning. You didn't oversleep, he doesn't. Oh,
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it's Labor day weekend. Oh ah, And I know spend
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enough time on Long Island during labor day weekends. This
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is usually the one where you know somebody is going
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to be out sick for a week or two after this,
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and it's it's just the nature of the beast. If
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you work in the industry, and you know, I would
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argue fifty percent of the population of Long Island right
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now is working for the other fifty.
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Speaker 7: You know, whether it's.
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Speaker 8: Waiting on Bill and Hillary Clinton in the Hampton's or
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you know, chasing around police calls because somebody's still playing
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music at four o'clock in the morning at eleven.
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Speaker 7: You know, you're working for it.
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Speaker 8: And that's why we're here, because it's not a five
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day work week world anymore.
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Speaker 7: Just isn't. And you know it would. It was great
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back in the day when I was.
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Speaker 8: On you know, one o three nine on Long Island,
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you have Saturday Sunday. We knew we were the only
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ones working. Everyone was out there for the beach and
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the bars and the bikinis. But now it's hard. I mean,
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it's just come back for the French Quarter, and the
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French Quarter isn't even what it used to be. I
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mean restaurants. If there's an example of how hard it's
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been in the hospitality business, the French Quarter's in walking
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around in this here where was this restaurant? I went
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and I realized it was a Capital One bank. Now,
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probably because the Capitol One Bank wound up with the
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building in foreclosure and I don't know, let's put a
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branch down here. There's so many of these great restaurants,
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the Cajun food and all that just can't get help anymore.
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So they celebrated the twentieth anniversary of Katrina. The bigger
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storm that's damaging them was COVID nineteen, and that was
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a self inflicted one. They all blamed George W. Bush
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for Katrina. Down there, nobody blamed and you know, the
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Biden administration for COVID nineteen, even though they were the
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ones sending the money there long before Trump ever became president.
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In twenty sixteen, remember Barack Obama said nope, we're.
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Speaker 7: Not going to spend any more tax payer money on
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gain of function research. And I remember the press conference.
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Speaker 8: Saying, hey, anyone know what gain of function research is
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and where were what were we doing and just seemed
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to fall out of left field.
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Speaker 7: And then all the money.
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Speaker 8: Now we have the paper trails showing all the money
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going from your pocket to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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And now all our restaurants struggle to get staff because
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we were told that we are loaded deadly weapons. President
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Biden said it himself on CNN, you won't have the
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right to kill me with your COVID. So you know,
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Labor Day is a different thing. You know, there are
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still the bars. God bless you people who are still
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out there serving folks, and and.
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Speaker 7: Maybe we come out of it. I don't know.
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Speaker 8: It might be that we come out of it on
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the other end, maybe unscathed as well, hopefully smarter for it.
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On the first thing today, on this Labor Day Saturday,
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are first things the news They are trying to sneak past.
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Speaker 7: You on a Friday night.
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Speaker 8: Robert Johnson, billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television, has weighed
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in in the Virginia gubernatorial race, dropping five hundred thousand
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dollars into the campaign coffers of Republican nominee Winsome Earl
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Sears in the wake of a racist sign held by
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a supporter of Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat, in which they
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compared transgender bathrooms to segregated white and black bathrooms at
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an Arlington County school board meeting. White House struck back
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Friday against Gavin Newsom's attacks on Donald Trump, saying the
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governor of California is more concerned about illegal immigrants than
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his own constituents. By claiming that ice officers will be
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stationed at voting booths in twenty twenty six to suppress
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voter turnout. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nomes said
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Friday there has been an IT breach at the Federal
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Emergency Management Agency, but no American citizens were directly impacted.
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She added qualified no sensitive data was extracted from any
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DHS networks, at least it wasn't labeled that. Two Virginia
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school districts on Friday sued the Department of Education for
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withholding federal funding over those gender policies. One of them
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was the Arlington School Board and the Fairfax School Board.
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The Arlington school Board is where that racist sign about
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winsome seers and black's only bathrooms were held. They're among
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five systems designated as high Risk recipients because they violated
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Title nine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday that
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Russ Vote, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget,
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will take one of his many jobs. As he said
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it was a very funny line. This week, he is
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especially looking forward to Labor Day weekends since he has
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four jobs, but now he has one less as russ
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Vote will take over the oversight over the dismantling over
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the US Agency for International Development. Federal Appeals Court ruled
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Friday that President Trump had no legal right to impose
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sweeping tariffs, but left the tariffs in place for now,
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saying that they wanted to give the administration time to appeal.
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The Minneapolis shooter who shot up Annunciation Catholics who and
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killed two students there, reportedly had recently broken up with
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a romantic partner and was living on a couch with
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a friend, according to documents that quoted the shooter's father.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, no motive at all, except all the stuff he
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wrote about Hamas and hating Israel and all that was there.
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Even the US attorney, even President Trump's own US attorney
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for the Minneapolis District, said it just seems like he
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hates everybody. Well, no, there was a specific group he
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didn't hate. I've decided that though I have a standing
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policy not to use the names of these murderers, less
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to give them the celebrity that they desire, in this case,
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I feel like referring to the shooter as Bobby, mostly
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because it's diminutive and masculine and it was his name,
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but he didn't want it. So for now, unless you
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feel like that's just mean spirited and by all means
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your consult at.
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Speaker 7: Four three four eight eight two four.
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Speaker 8: Two one seven, when we discussed this murderer from Minneapolis
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his name shall be Bobby. This email came into the
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program on Friday. At the end of the show, Joe,
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I thought it was interesting that your story talks about
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the murderer in Minneapolis having killed two children, but just
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brushed briefly in the news articles past Russia killing twenty
15:52
one civilians in Kiev with missile and drone strikes. Which
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side of this are you on. I'm on the side
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that doesn't have innocent civilians killed with a missile dropping
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on their heads in the middle of the morning, and
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the bramble bush that is Russia and Ukraine. I think
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President Trump's administration is in process of finding out just
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how intractable Vladimir the Invader can be. But for the
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sake of those Long Island News Radio have never heard this,
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I will briefly bore the folks on our flagship station
16:31
have heard me say this ad nauseum a. You don't
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get to invade sovereign nations.
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Speaker 7: B.
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Speaker 8: If you claim that you don't recognize the sovereign nations border, well,
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we have an instance thirty years ago when you said, okay,
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we recognize the sovereign nations borders. C. Are the governing
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officials in Ukraine corrupt as the day is long?
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Speaker 7: Yes?
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Speaker 8: Are their labs just like the Wuhan Institute of Virology
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that may or may not still be standing in Ukraine
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right now doing gain of function research for US CDC officers.
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One would hope Bobby Kennedy would have stopped that. But yes,
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I mean, these are all truisms and they can all
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be true. My son uses this phrase pork nolo's dos
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why can't both? Russia claims that, you know, it's their
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country and all of this stuff that tries to wrap
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themselves in the raiments. And we've had this discussion. Raymond,
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my loyal you know, long time listeners, you know, points
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out that you know, though, that Russia claims that this
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is sort of like the Northern States trying to regain
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the Southern States in America's Civil War. That's their story
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and they're sticking to it and leave us not forget
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Barack Obama and Joe Biden's involvement into the elections that
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led to Voladimir Zelenski becoming the President of Ukraine. Let's
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not forget hunter Biden used to get security from the
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azof Battalion, which is a bunch of actual Nazis. We
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know this because the Charlottesville rioters after twenty seventeen, many
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of them fled the country because they were so brave.
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They didn't want to face retribution for destroying my hometown
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in front of me, so they could have a little
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LoveFest with their grand Puba or whatever they call them,
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to the Dark Knight or whatever it is. The White
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Sheet pouba David Duke here in Charlottesville on August twelfth
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of twenty seventeen. The Great and powerful Dave, please rehashing
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the hits like David Lee Roth. So all these things
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are true in Russia and Ukraine. And the most important
19:18
truism to me are the Russian I mean the Ukrainian
19:22
civilians taking up arms against the Russian army. And here's
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why this is important to me, because it should be,
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and this is what they don't want you talking about
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my personal analysis of the point. They don't want you
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talking about all the Russian Ukrainian civilians that are fighting
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off the Russian army with their own firearms. Because it's
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a reminder of why we have the Second Amendment. Oh,
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here we are again in Minneapolis where the mayor is
19:54
insisting we need nationwide gun bands. So what when the
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Mexican drug cartels invade because Mexico claims that Southern California
20:04
has so many Mexican national citizens that it's really their country. Anyway,
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go to Southern California and tell me there aren't people
20:13
who it's our country. Look at all the protesters with
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Mexican flags. The analogy is Mexico invade southern to the
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southeastern United States for the same premise that Russia invaded Ukraine. Well,
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we've got a lot of my citizens in there and
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they're facing ice officers and go back, go back to
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Russia's rationale that there were so many Russian nationals living
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in these sections of Ukraine, and there were, you know,
20:45
not all the Obama administration wouldn't even let them vote,
20:50
even though in this country just being here it gives
20:52
you permission to vote. Apparently, according to Gavin Newsom, who
20:56
says ice officers looking for non citizens trying to vote
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is somehow voter suppression. It's on the docket today as well,
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So I wasn't glossing over yesterday. I hope you're listening
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again today. Porkue Nolo's dose. Missiles raining down on a
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city just because one country has declared war on another
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because they want to invade and capture the land.
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Speaker 7: You don't have a right to do that.
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Speaker 8: And watching civilians fight off an army with their own
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personal firearms is the part of the story they don't
21:35
want talked about, because we have a second amend in
21:38
here that guarantees our right to keep in bare arms
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for just what the Ukrainian civilians.
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Speaker 7: Are doing with theirs now.
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Speaker 8: On the downside, Voladimir Zelenski has told all those Ukrainian
21:50
civilians that they'll be coming to collect those guns at
21:52
the end of the war, and I hope he has
21:55
a cold, dead hand moment when he tries to get them.
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Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in first thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 7: So I've got a question for you.
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Speaker 8: Thank you for joining us on our special Saturday editions,
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because you know you're not working a five day work week,
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so why should the loud mouth talk show host in
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the morning.
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Speaker 7: Right?
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Speaker 8: And thanks to the folks who are signing on to
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be weekend affiliates testing the water. I think we're going
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to be on Monday as well as a lot of
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holiday makers. There will be State College where we used
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to be here on Long Island, where we used to be.
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It's a lot of old home for me as we
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go around, a lot of vacation fill ins. That's okay,
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it's okay, I'll keep your seat warm. I won't spill
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anything on it. So it puzzled me as I was
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kind of going through the news this morning getting ready
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for the program, and there's a story here and I
29:26
want you to, you know, backfill if you need, But
29:32
it's about Long Islanders very concerned about mercury in the
29:42
padding in the rubber ice flooring on Long Island School
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District's gymnasiums, and a fair thing to be concerned about
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discovering that, you know, the school has spent all this
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money to put in, you know, the padded.
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Speaker 7: Floors in the gyms and whatnot. Is it glen Cove.
30:07
Speaker 8: Which I you know, arguably a lot of folks say,
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you know.
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Speaker 7: That's glen Cove. Is Queen's Joe?
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Speaker 8: Come on, no, that's all right, said egg Serbia gets
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where it can get to.
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Speaker 7: Glen Cove.
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Speaker 8: Mercury vapors emanating from the old rubberized.
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Speaker 7: Flooring off gassing is what they call it.
30:30
Speaker 8: And now parents are up in arms that there was
30:32
mercury in these padded floorings and it strikes me as
30:40
certainly not inappropriate to be concerned. And this was the
30:48
interesting thing as parents raised this north Shore University Hospital.
30:52
I'm sorry, north Well Health's north you know that used
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to be you know, you'd get a sponsorship PC Richards
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brings you the hospital or whatever. PC Richards north Shore.
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Now it's this is the.
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Speaker 7: Big national insurance slash medicine company that owns the hospital.
31:10
North Shore University Hospital. Doctor Jacqueline Molein came out to
31:16
spin it.
31:16
Speaker 8: Oh no, no, no, nothing to be worried about. Over
31:19
the time, the body will get rid of the mercury.
31:28
And then one of the qualified statements in the reports.
31:32
So it's vaporized mercury. So the health effects related to
31:36
this are predominantly neurological.
31:41
Speaker 7: But don't worry about it. Don't worry.
31:43
Speaker 8: There's predominantly neurological effects because of vaporized mercury. But eventually
31:49
it goes away. Why would she go to such great
31:54
lengths to poop woo? The neurological damage that could be
31:58
caused to a bunch of school kids that you're told
32:01
have to go to the public schools otherwise they lose
32:04
all the Department of Education money. Oh, I understand, And
32:08
maybe there's a correlation or causation. Maybe this is why
32:11
so many boys want to use the girl's bathroom, although
32:14
when I was in high school, there were a lot
32:16
of boys who wanted to go into the girls bathroom too,
32:18
but for other reasons. But with that, I circle back
32:25
to that cabinet meeting where you heard Marco Rubio's quote,
32:29
because there was another interaction in this past week's cabinet
32:33
meeting that I think is notable. Because as parents are
32:37
up in arms about the mercury in the flooring.
32:49
Speaker 7: In the schools, there's the that's the core, all right.
32:52
Speaker 8: So President Trump turns after the Yucks, after Marco Rubio
32:57
said I'm here all week, try the liver, Trump turns
33:02
to Robert F.
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Speaker 7: Kennedy Junior.
33:04
Speaker 11: A tremendous horror show.
33:06
Speaker 5: What's happening in our country and.
33:08
Speaker 7: Some of the country talking about autism?
33:10
Speaker 11: How are you doing on that?
33:11
Speaker 23: We are doing very well. We'll have announcements as promised
33:15
in September. We're finding interventions, certain interventions now that are
33:22
clearly almost certainly causing autism, and we're going to be
33:26
able to address those in September.
33:29
Speaker 5: It's such a big day.
33:31
Speaker 23: I'm looking forward to the day.
33:33
Speaker 8: And I think we all are, mister President, as the
33:36
numbers and there is some some, and this is where
33:39
it becomes so maddening, because yes, are we and have
33:44
we over the past twenty years expanded what we consider autistic? Yes,
33:51
I'm here in Charlottesville area of Virginia, our patron, Saint
33:56
Thomas Jefferson. Most people now clearly say, well, he would
34:00
have been considered on the spectrum. Would that have kept
34:03
him from public service? Would he have been elected a
34:07
representative of Virginia? Would he have never been in the
34:13
Continental Congress? For John Adams and Ben Franklin to Dragoon
34:19
into writing the Declaration of Independence. If his political opponents,
34:27
who before he was elected, complained that he was just
34:32
a rich kid with no body of work, why would
34:36
we be sending him to Philadelphia?
34:39
Speaker 7: What does he have?
34:41
Speaker 8: His political opponents, Well, he's got this, he's got a
34:46
medical condition. He's autistic. You can't send an autistic person,
34:50
and I can hear the negative TV ads. Now you'd
34:53
have all sorts of whisper campaigns and character assassination when
35:01
you know none of it is, you know, based in fact,
35:04
and that you know what. We've expanded the spectrum to
35:09
mostly to gather up federal monies create greater ADA situations,
35:25
rather than saying, hey, what's what's possibly causing all these
35:29
folks to have these greater issues because understanding there was
35:37
a body of evidence that says the bigger we spread
35:41
the net of ADA, and the more we get people
35:45
to sign up for, you know, a sticker or a
35:48
window hanger, the more we can restrict their use of
35:56
social media or perhaps ownership of a fire or any
36:01
other consumer products. We decide that perhaps somebody on that
36:04
spectrum shouldn't have Rather than saying, hey, this seems to
36:11
be happening to a lot of people. Let's go find
36:13
out what it's doing. And how long has it taken
36:15
Robert F. Kennedy Junior to do this? Seven months? Six months,
36:19
maybe all while, you know, having folks come and go
36:23
at the CTUO hoe.
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Speaker 7: You just the conspiracy DearS. I'm quitting.
36:31
Speaker 8: CDC director is out cutting the funding for the National
36:36
Institute for Health and their DEI driven agenda. Remember these
36:42
these are the very same people who wanted states to
36:46
be able to sterilize black people and they passed the
36:48
Permanent Reapportionment Act.
36:50
Speaker 7: These are the same people.
36:51
Speaker 8: It's just their great grandchildren now are coming up with
36:54
all of these medical interventions that are designed to diminish
36:58
minority community. Yet somehow you and me, as conservatives, we're
37:03
the racist ones. I'm looking forward to at some point
37:08
in September hearing from Robert F. Kennedy Junior on this.
37:11
But it's funny how there's no real concern about the
37:15
mercury in your vaccines, but everyone's up in arms when
37:19
you find out there's mercury in the padded floors at
37:22
glen Cove High School. Mercury's mercury if mercury is bad
37:30
in your kids gymnasium floor. It's bad in your kids vaccines.
37:37
Speaker 7: Period.
37:40
Speaker 8: Even the doctor from North Source said, well, I mean
37:43
predominantly it's neurological stuff that would because of it, But
37:48
it eventually leaves the body. Anyway, I'm not sure if
37:50
the neurological She didn't say if the neurological damage leaves
37:54
the body, but she said the mercury eventually leaves the
37:58
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Speaker 8: Oh and we now know, actually we meaning you and
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the habitual users of the Joe Thomas in the Morning
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Entertainment program complex have known for some time Who's behind
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the Door. By the way, about time that new record's
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out fiftieth anniversary of Zebra. I heard a few songs
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from the new album in a show they did here
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in Virginia, not all that long ago, looking forward.
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Speaker 7: To it should be very soon.
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Speaker 8: Also Long Island Boys made Good Trans Siberian Orchestras new
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No it's irritable bow syndrome, although probably in Belmont you
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know that part of Floral Park and all that.
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Speaker 7: Probably some IBS.
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Speaker 7: I decided to hear that. Stay tuned.
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Speaker 8: You might have a chance to win some tickets if
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I pull my strings correctly here on first thing today
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by Joe Thomas. But that being said, who is behind
45:35
the door? You've heard the name George Sorows. Oh you're
45:39
as I received an email during the break. You're one
45:42
of those people, you mean, one of those people that says, well,
45:48
I understand the science of giving somebody a little bit
45:51
of a virus to help them build immunity to it,
45:54
but I think it's gone over the other side too much,
45:59
poor Kilos does. So who's behind these doors? Well, you've
46:05
heard the name George Soros, more chilling. You've probably never
46:09
heard the name Alex Soros unless you got invited to
46:12
his gala wedding to Huma Aberdeen.
46:16
Speaker 7: Oh, I wonder where Wiener is these days.
46:20
Speaker 8: He's obviously been kicked to the curb by Huma Aberdeen.
46:23
Speaker 7: Huma is probably out here.
46:25
Speaker 8: I saw Bill and Hillary Clinton landing at East End
46:29
Hampton's airport, but that's shut down air traffic for a while.
46:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got George Clooney on the fine. What do
46:39
you mean you can't land restrict at airspace? It's George
46:41
freaking Clooney.
46:44
Speaker 8: But maybe Huma and Alex Soros are out in the
46:48
Hampton's as well. Alex as by George, his dad's own admission,
46:54
is much more politically active than George was. George is
46:59
the money behind Arabella Advisors, and George and Alex lost
47:03
a whole big bag full of money.
47:05
Speaker 7: This week.
47:06
Speaker 8: We were out at the State Policy Network annual meetings
47:10
in New Orleans broadcasting from them this week, and ran
47:14
into Kristin east Lick of the Capitol Research Center Capital
47:18
Research Center has published a book on how Soros does
47:22
it with the money and the influence peddling. But he
47:26
just lost the Bill Gates Foundation and all of whatever
47:29
money Melinda Gates has left Bill is gone by by
47:34
from the Soros bank account. And first I wanted to
47:38
get with Christen. This is New York Times story about
47:42
Bill Gates pulling out of the George Soros Arabella Advisors group.
47:46
So who are Arabella Advisors? And this was from my
47:51
visit with Kristin earlier this week.
47:53
Speaker 19: We like to describe this as kind of a pyramid
47:56
of information. So sitting at the top is Arabella and
48:00
then the second tier. They manage organizations that are nonprofits.
48:05
So some of them are classified as charities five on
48:07
one C threes. Others are classified as social welfare groups.
48:12
And they can do unlimited lobbying. They can also tell
48:16
people who to vote for. They can pursue party politics.
48:20
But these groups often work in tandem. So the charity
48:24
part of the group, the education fund angle will put
48:28
out the studies, they will build some sort of infrastructure.
48:31
They'll get people talking about an issue like let's say
48:34
healthcare for America. Now that stuff that works for the
48:37
C three and then they have the Healthcare Action Now
48:41
that then gets to lobby on healthcare issues. It gets
48:45
to push Medicaid expansion, or it gets to give money
48:49
to campaigns to help elect people who will do those things.
48:54
So that's the layer in the middle. And what happens
48:57
is that the Healthcare for America. Now they're at the
49:00
very bottom of the pyramid, and it's hundreds and hundreds
49:02
of groups. One of these nonprofits, the one that gets
49:05
a lot of Gates money is the New Venture Fund.
49:08
Uh it was the Arabella's president or New Venture Funds
49:12
president admitted that Gates gives two percent of their entire
49:16
revenue through New Venture Fund. That's the group that would
49:20
run Healthcare for America.
49:22
Speaker 11: Now.
49:23
Speaker 8: So when you tell you and these the difference is,
49:26
you know, the C three, C four, you know, and
49:29
then you become a political action committee. But unlike in
49:33
our space where the political action committee is like Spirit
49:36
of Virginia and everyone knows it and they you know,
49:39
and you've seen their placards and whatever else, these are
49:42
five oh one C fours that nobody has ever said
49:45
their name except for Kristen and the other folks at
49:48
Capitol Research center out there, and they don't want it
49:52
because they want all of these groups pardon me, to
49:57
appear grassroots. Oh it's it's just a bunch of old
50:03
you know, you know, cute kids, you know from college
50:06
saying we want healthcare and we want it now, when.
50:09
Speaker 19: It really is exactly And the interesting that why would
50:14
the Gates Foundation, who can give money directly to a
50:17
five h one C three charity and they do that,
50:19
why would they need to pass the money through a
50:22
democratic consultancy. And it's because there's a lot of coordination
50:25
that happens between and amongst these groups. You could have
50:28
a situation where there's a letter out there supporting some
50:31
public policy issue and it has twenty signers that are
50:35
all Arabella related entities. So it looks like you're absolutely right.
50:39
It appears as though we call this AstroTurf. And the
50:42
scale of the way that this organization operates, it's usually
50:46
per political cycle, a roughly two billion dollar organization, give
50:52
or take a few million. And again they do receive
50:55
money from many many foundations that could otherwise give directly
50:59
to organization, but they do it.
51:01
Speaker 8: To launder their as rico this I mean, if this
51:06
was a criminal enterprise. If they were smuggling heroine rather
51:09
than Marxism into the country, there'd be RICO investigations, you'd
51:14
have FBI agents.
51:15
Speaker 7: And so on and so forth. I mean, unless it's.
51:18
Speaker 8: In like a big blue city and then it's like
51:20
hug and release. But that's what this is. It's about
51:25
reputation laundering. It's about plausible deniability. You can read or
51:33
listen to and read a little bit about the whole
51:36
thing at Daily Signal dot com. You can get the
51:40
book on Arabella. I've got my copy of it here
51:43
that Hayden Ludwig wrote for the Capital Research Center.
51:47
Speaker 7: It's just it's.
51:48
Speaker 8: Chilling how it all works, because you'll have people tell
51:52
you that, oh, George Soros is just a curmudgeonly old hotelier.
51:57
Oh you you you crazy see crinkly conspiracy theory. No,
52:03
it's conspiracy analysis because you know when Bill Gates and
52:09
I presume Melinda Gates and the Clinton Family Foundation and
52:13
all these people are tossing money into this, and then
52:16
Arabella does the dirty work of getting the organizations and
52:21
organizing for America and all these groups together. So it
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just looks like a bunch of plucky college kids out
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there saying, you know, we want your hands off our healthcare.
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Oh wow, they just happened to all show up outside
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the Tesla dealership in town. Oh that's kind of weird.
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Hey did this happen anywhere else? And they were all
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counting on local news not covering it.
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Speaker 11: My name is Bobby.
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Speaker 21: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
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My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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weightlifting champion.
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Speaker 11: I'm Sam, I'm a veteran.
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Speaker 21: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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of and supporting my family.
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Speaker 6: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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of their lives.
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Speaker 11: I'm a veteran.
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Speaker 7: My victory was going from homeless to hall. At DAV.
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Speaker 6: We're on a mission to help veterans get the benefits
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they've earned.
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Speaker 10: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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Speaker 6: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
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for victories great and small.
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Speaker 11: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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Speaker 10: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
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Speaker 6: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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they face and conquer their challenges.
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Speaker 12: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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Speaker 6: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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more victories for veterans. Go to dav dot org