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"In the 'Spirit' of Capitalism" (Monday, May 4, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave.
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  Speaker 2: Our state are like super overblown.
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  Speaker 3: And if you know the ones that leave, like by
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  Speaker 3: the first.
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  Speaker 4: Thing today on the Talk Median Network by Joe, Thomas
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  Speaker 4: Jeword said, steal men.
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  Speaker 5: You have a day at least for work when the
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  Speaker 5: sun comes up, drops a pet to school.
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  Speaker 6: Joe is everything a dream? Do all the.
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  Speaker 4: Needs the one that Joe's smile.
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  Speaker 7: He only ex.
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  Speaker 6: Joe, thank you for letting us be of service to
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  Speaker 6: you all humans. Seally writes into four three four eighty
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  Speaker 6: two four two one seven, identifying that Arthur Fonzarelli can
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  Speaker 6: fall into the Mandela effect just as well as anybody. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: it was, and I went checked you, seile just to
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  Speaker 6: make sure. But water skis was what Phonsie was riding,
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  Speaker 6: not his motorcycle. But he was wearing his leather jacket,
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  Speaker 6: which makes it goofy in and of itself. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: what's what's Phonsie doing done? You know, sharks and such.
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  Speaker 6: It had the indication of jumping the shark means you've
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  Speaker 6: run out of ideas the show, the premise, whatever it
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  Speaker 6: is you're doing doesn't work anymore. When that seventies show
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  Speaker 6: became that eighties show and everyone had Foreman had kids
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  Speaker 6: and things like that, and Tofrah Grace was back as
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  Speaker 6: a you know, kind of doofy dad, you know, and
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  Speaker 6: dealing with his own dad. And it's like, okay, can
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  Speaker 6: we write a news show about this or do we
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  Speaker 6: just have to recycle the old stuff? You know, at
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  Speaker 6: least some of these programs. It's Star Wars here on
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  Speaker 6: May the four Star Wars kind of goes through the
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  Speaker 6: same thing. Were they always heading to the place where
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  Speaker 6: you know, Luke has to learn that the forces in everyone.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's one of those moments. Unfortunately, very
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  Speaker 6: few Star Wars fans. It's stuck around through the ninth
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  Speaker 6: movie to get the thorough punchline, which was everybody has
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  Speaker 6: the force, shut up and sit down, and yeah, you
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  Speaker 6: know that was worth it to somebody who had seen
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  Speaker 6: it all. But there was a point in those final
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  Speaker 6: three movies where you're like, I've seen this already, and
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  Speaker 6: I know that apocryphally Lucas denies it, but there was
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  Speaker 6: the story that he had basically a notebook pad with
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  Speaker 6: nine outlines of the nine stories. But again, you know,
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  Speaker 6: you say, okay, is it is it still serving its purpose,
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  Speaker 6: you know, at that at that later point in its life,
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  Speaker 6: you know, what story is it still telling? What add
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  Speaker 6: on to the society? Is it creating for us? What
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  Speaker 6: things did we not know before that we know now
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  Speaker 6: because of these stories? What things are we thinking of?
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  Speaker 6: I mean? And the wonderful thing about theater and all
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  Speaker 6: of that is that you're really not retelling a story.
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  Speaker 6: We were talking about Leonardo DiCaprio character and Django Unchained
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  Speaker 6: and the drive home last night, and how he's a
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  Speaker 6: great example of all the things that you know that
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  Speaker 6: become when you know, kids grow up not understanding the
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  Speaker 6: role of the world and things like that. A wonderful
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  Speaker 6: part of the story, and how it's a vehicle to
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  Speaker 6: tell the story of what happened in the United States
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  Speaker 6: and avatars and whatnot. But there are stories to tell,
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  Speaker 6: and there is news to tell, and we'll begin there
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  Speaker 6: with redistricting in America. Alabama's General Assembly meets today to
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  Speaker 6: begin redrawing their congressional district in the wake of Supreme
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  Speaker 6: Court ruling on majority minority districts Mississippi. In the next
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  Speaker 6: couple of weeks, Florida adopted their maps Louisiana has suspended
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  Speaker 6: primary voting, although Georgia and South Carolina said we will not.
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  Speaker 6: Ukraine launched a wave of strikes against Russian oil targets,
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  Speaker 6: hitting a key loading port in the Aaltic Sea and
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  Speaker 6: two tankers. The Ukraine alleges were being used to transport
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  Speaker 6: illicit Russian crude oil. The collapse of Spirit Airlines followed
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  Speaker 6: years of financial struggles that could have been ended in
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  Speaker 6: twenty twenty three when Jet Blue offered to pay three
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  Speaker 6: point eight billion dollars for Spirit, but the Department of
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  Speaker 6: Justice ruled that this sort of created an incompetitive air
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  Speaker 6: travel landscape and driven up costs for Americans. Treasury Secretary
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  Speaker 6: Scott Besson says that energy prices should start coming down
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  Speaker 6: very soon once everything is settled in between the United
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  Speaker 6: States and Iran. Meanwhile, Opak, having just lost one of
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  Speaker 6: its largest oil providers, United Arab Emirates, said on Sunday
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  Speaker 4: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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  Speaker 6: So when you when you climb out and you get
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  Speaker 6: into it and you're trying to figure out you know
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  Speaker 6: who's pushing who around, and you realize that it's a
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  Speaker 6: live action role play of the things we've talked about
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  Speaker 6: Bread and Circuses yesterday or the last segment or yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not sure they run together during the commercial break,
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  Speaker 6: Tony writes in Bread and Circuses were designed to keep
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  Speaker 6: the Roman population from realizing how much their society had
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  Speaker 6: been degraded by the emperor and their behavior by allowing
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  Speaker 6: them to behave in some very Roman things and even
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  Speaker 6: to be in the company of some of their political royalty.
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  Speaker 6: Roman citizens were stated, and took them hundreds of more
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  Speaker 6: years to catch on that things had gone wrong. Well
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  Speaker 6: that's exactly, I mean, that's exactly. The point of bread
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  Speaker 6: and circuses is to keep you from paying attention to
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  Speaker 6: what's happening. So it's redistricting. Oh okay, well that's racist.
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  Speaker 6: Why is it racist because people in the past and
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  Speaker 6: this is the fun bit, you know. So as all
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  Speaker 6: these general assemblies are going to start talking about redistricting
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  Speaker 6: this week, they will claim that gerrymandering is racist, having
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  Speaker 6: been the one that did all the jerrymandering, especially the
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  Speaker 6: racist stuff. The original gerrymandering comes out of the nineteen
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  Speaker 6: twenty nine Permanent Reapportionment Act, and then instead of fixing
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  Speaker 6: that at the Supreme Court, they just said, how about
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  Speaker 6: we and they open up a whole other can of worms.
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  Speaker 6: How about we just give you a district of your
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  Speaker 6: own instead of getting rid of the concept of partisan redistricting,
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  Speaker 6: let's just give the black community a guarantee that they're
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  Speaker 6: going to have at least one community in each state,
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  Speaker 6: which again led to a Democratic Party not caring about
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  Speaker 6: the constituents anymore, because they had been so thoroughly gas
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  Speaker 6: lid into believing that the only way to move forward
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  Speaker 6: in their lives, to achieve more, to have more, was
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  Speaker 6: to have friends. In Congress formula, trouble is determining something
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  Speaker 6: on the basis of race is racist. Go figure, Oh
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  Speaker 6: my gosh, how did we not catch that? So now
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  Speaker 6: everyone's running back. Now here's the peril. This is the tightrope.
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  Speaker 6: This is where you've got to have some real nerves
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  Speaker 6: of steel. You do this, You know there will be
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  Speaker 6: protest marches. You do this, and you know that people
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  Speaker 6: will call you a racist, but you have to do
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  Speaker 6: it because you know it's the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 6: And if you do it because it's the right thing
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  Speaker 6: to do, nobody is going to harm you. They'll scratch
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  Speaker 6: the surfaces, but they won't harm you because you'll have
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  Speaker 6: them dead to rights. And that's why a full telling
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  Speaker 6: of American history has been taken away so that you
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  Speaker 6: don't say, hold on a second here. I remember when
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  Speaker 6: this happened, and I was talking with you on the
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  Speaker 6: drive back from New York. We were talking about the
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  Speaker 6: Permanent Reapportionment Act, but how it worked altogether with the
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  Speaker 6: founding of the Federal Reserve and the creation of elected
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  Speaker 6: senators and the creation of the income tax, and all
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  Speaker 6: of these things were perversions of how the Constitution was
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  Speaker 6: supposed to work. So when a young person says to you,
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  Speaker 6: the system doesn't work, well, yeah, this system does not work.
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  Speaker 6: The constitution seemed to be working fine until people came
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  Speaker 6: along and decided they were smarter than the Constitution. Therefore
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  Speaker 6: they knew better what to do and how to do it.
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  Speaker 6: So you have to realize that people are afraid and
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  Speaker 6: praying on that fear is what the Marxist does, what
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  Speaker 6: the authoritarian does, because the authoritarian will say, we will
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  Speaker 6: take care of the stuff that daunts you, and hope
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  Speaker 6: that it'll take too long for you to actually want
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  Speaker 6: to do something on your own, and realize that you
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  Speaker 6: can't do that anymore either. In exchange for the surety
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  Speaker 6: of an authoritarian state telling you how to organize things,
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  Speaker 6: you will lose the ability to follow your own hopes, dreams,
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  Speaker 6: even if you know it takes you a long time
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  Speaker 6: in your life to just determine them. This is why
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  Speaker 6: we fight Marxism. It's not just because we want Republicans
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  Speaker 6: to win. I couldn't care that. I mean, we've talked
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  Speaker 6: at length about the fabian Republicans, the Republicans that are
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  Speaker 6: there simply to have a Republican version of a government
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  Speaker 6: that does what you know you wanted to do democracy.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm hopeful that as long as we keep talking
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  Speaker 6: about the one hundred nineteen twenty nine Permanent Reapportionment Act,
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  Speaker 6: which really was the coup de gras. It was the
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  Speaker 6: capstone of the the income tax and the Federal Reserve
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  Speaker 6: and the elected Senators, and then the Permanent Reapportionment Act
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  Speaker 6: and boom about of being America had been completely remade
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  Speaker 6: and nobody knew it. So we have an opportunity. Somebody
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  Speaker 6: brings the Voting Rights Act into Congress and to the
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  Speaker 6: Supreme Court and they overturn it. They overturned one of
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  Speaker 6: the key portions of it. So now these states can
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  Speaker 6: redraw districts that make somewhat sense. You know, there are
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  Speaker 6: some states where you really have to work to find
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  Speaker 6: a majority minority district And so you have to keep
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  Speaker 6: keep pushing because you look at where you've been, the
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  Speaker 6: dauntingness of the task at hand ahead of you will
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  Speaker 6: keep you distracted from looking over your shoulder and saying,
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  Speaker 6: oh my god, well we all the way back there
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  Speaker 6: like two years ago. So you have to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: keep yourself within yourself because the other thing the authoritarians
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  Speaker 6: try to do. If bread and circuses doesn't help, then
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  Speaker 6: they will just straight out to press you. They'll say
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  Speaker 6: you're never going to win, you're never going to have
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  Speaker 6: representation in the state House, You're never going to be
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  Speaker 6: able to do these things. Until you say, maybe I'm
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  Speaker 6: not going to It's not the most efficient form of
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  Speaker 6: vote suppression, but it's up there. It's up there, and
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  Speaker 6: they have to gaslight you with it so that you
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  Speaker 6: give it up. Because the only way they can take
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  Speaker 6: authority is if you give it to them. So don't
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  Speaker 6: give it to them. It's oh well, Joe, if it
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  Speaker 6: was as I But you see it in this Spirit
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  Speaker 6: or you name it, Joe. How are we supposed to
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  Speaker 6: protect ourselves against monopolies? Rights in Marcus, Well, Marcus, thank
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  Speaker 6: you for emailing JT in the Morning Radio at gmail
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  Speaker 6: dot com. You protect yourself against monopolies by allowing monopolies
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  Speaker 6: to collapse, because the bigger a company gets, it becomes
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  Speaker 6: exponentially harder to keep each operation within the company living
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  Speaker 6: up to the very business model that existed when it
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  Speaker 6: was first founded, maybe by a mom and a pop,
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  Speaker 6: and they said, oh, it's and then it grows and
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  Speaker 6: it grows, and then they get investors, and then there's
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  Speaker 6: an IPO and everyone's and by that time you've got
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  Speaker 6: a company that's already paying more attention to the people
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  Speaker 6: who have purchased the IPO than the people who come
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  Speaker 6: into the store to buy the stuff. And that's where
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  Speaker 6: the opportunity comes in, because they're not serving the custom
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  Speaker 6: them or the way a small, nimble, impassioned employer can.
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  Speaker 6: So when you say, oh, it's a failure of capitalism,
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  Speaker 6: no it's not. No, it's not. It's a failure of
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  Speaker 6: cronyism because they made the case that they have oversight
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  Speaker 6: into this industry that costs a fortune to do. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: let's not forget the costs of fuel oil for a jet,
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  Speaker 6: staffing a jet, dealing with half empty jets. And that's
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  Speaker 6: the one that's the most troublematic is that there are
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  Speaker 6: still sea packs political action committees out there working to
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  Speaker 6: encourage governments port for contributors to their campaigns rather than
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  Speaker 6: just letting us decide I don't like this business anymore.
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  Speaker 6: And the bigger the business becomes, the more powerful their
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  Speaker 6: political action committee becomes. But the opportunity is for the
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  Speaker 6: small guy to come in and innovate and change the landscape.
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  Speaker 6: And I've done this. It's starting to slow down. But
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  Speaker 6: if you go back to the day I was born,
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  Speaker 6: the fifty wealthiest Americans are completely different than the fifty
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  Speaker 6: wealthiest Americans now. And that's just that's the way it
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  Speaker 6: is supposed to be. You're supposed to have creative destruction.
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  Speaker 6: People lose fortunes, people start fortunes, and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 6: So capitalism has to work that way. As soon as
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  Speaker 6: government messes with it, it starts to pervert and poison
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  Speaker 6: the process. Where we are today, Good morning, you're on
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  Speaker 6: the air. They went away. There's somebody was ringing in
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  Speaker 6: there right at the end, probably one of those spam
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  Speaker 6: calls telling me I missed jury duty and I have to,
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  Speaker 6: you know, send a prepaid phone card to cover the
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  Speaker 6: cost of the jury duty, whatever it may be. But
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  Speaker 6: so when people say capitalism is what's broken in, especially
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  Speaker 6: in the wake of the spirit airline things, and say no,
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  Speaker 6: it's the crony capitalism that has grown up, especially acutely
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  Speaker 6: around the airline industry, and use the Merrit Garland decision
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  Speaker 6: at the Department of Justice, you know, under the autopen administration,
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  Speaker 6: as an example of what happens when those things go down.
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  Speaker 6: Mark Mix coming up tomorrow on the program. We're going
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  Speaker 6: to get into other things, but right now, the two
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  Speaker 6: biggest ones of this redistrict thing. We'll see what missus does.
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  Speaker 6: I still say, you know, and once we get to
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  Speaker 6: this point, if you want minority majority districts, you need
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  Speaker 6: to get rid of the nineteen twenty nine Permanent Reapportionment Act,
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  Speaker 6: or you need to go back and ratify the First
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  Speaker 6: Amendment to the Constitution, which had nothing to do with
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  Speaker 6: free speech. What George Mason thought the most important thing
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  Speaker 6: to keep a population protected from an out of control
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  Speaker 6: federal government was a very small number of constituents for
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  Speaker 6: each elected office. We'll get into those things and more
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  Speaker 6: for you coming up in the morning, but until then,
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  Speaker 6: I am Joe Thomas. Thank you for joining us along
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  Speaker 6: the talk media network until tomorrow morning at five. So
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  Speaker 6: long and thanks for all the fish.
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