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BONUS POD: Stu Responds to YOUR Hottest 2024 Election Takes! | 8/24/24 · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

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  All right,
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  welcome to the podcast.
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  You know,
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  we were
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  taking calls on the radio after Kamala Harris's speech,
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  and we got so many people calling in,
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  and we only had so much time on the radio to get to them.
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  And
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  there's a lot of different perspectives.
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  There was panic,
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  there was,
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  uh,
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  excitement for what's coming over the next 10 weeks.
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  It's going to be a very interesting time as we lead up to November,
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  but I
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  figured we could,
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  there were so many people who didn't get a chance to get on.
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  I,
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  I thought maybe we could take a bunch of the callers and and just drop it as a bonus pod
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  here.
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  So let's do that now,
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  we'll start with Jeff in North Carolina.
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  Hey Jeff.
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  Hey,
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  how are you doing?
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  Can you hear me OK?
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  I can hear you perfectly.
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  What's going on?
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  Um,
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  I,
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  uh,
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  first of all,
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  I didn't watch the convention,
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  so I,
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  I can't give any feedback on that.
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  I just couldn't stomach it.
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  Understandable,
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  understandable reaction.
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  I wanted to do the same exact thing except they pay me to watch it.
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  Right.
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  And that's,
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  that's what you're getting paid for.
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  I understand.
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  But,
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  um,
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  the thing is,
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  um,
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  You know,
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  the only joy that I see in the DNC or in the Democratic Party is Joy Reed,
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  but,
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  um,
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  and that's a,
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  that's an awful.
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  There's also Joy Behar,
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  and neither one exemplified Joy,
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  you know,
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  forgot about her.
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  Uh,
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  my,
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  my reason for calling was,
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  um,
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  I know,
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  um,
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  Glenn and,
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  and you guys have some connections to
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  the Trump
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  people,
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  and,
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  um,
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  one of the main talking points,
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  uh,
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  that I've seen and heard lately.
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  Is that,
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  uh,
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  Trump
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  squashed their
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  border bill,
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  you know,
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  with his influence.
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  And if my memory is not,
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  uh,
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  so bad,
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  I remember when he was
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  president,
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  I don't think he had a lot of,
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  uh,
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  cooperation from,
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  uh,
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  Congress or,
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  you know,
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  from the Senate or the House or anybody.
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  I think he had to do pretty much everything by executive orders.
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  Uh,
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  Am I,
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  am I wrong in that?
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  And if so,
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  I mean,
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  why,
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  why couldn't they have done the same thing?
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  Yeah,
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  it's fascinating.
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  They were,
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  they're all bipartisan now,
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  uh,
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  and
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  back when Trump was president,
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  they wouldn't even entertain any of his ideas.
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  You're right,
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  he had to do most of it that way.
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  And this is the problem,
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  this is the reason why Trump was not in support of the quote unquote bipartisan bill.
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  Part of it was that the bill wasn't that strong,
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  and he just didn't like it.
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  But part of it also was,
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  it was an obvious attempt by the Democrats to pass,
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  quote unquote something so they could make the argument to
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  the people that they did something on the border.
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  And he's,
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  you know,
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  look,
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  everybody saw through that,
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  you know,
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  he,
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  Trump was not the only one.
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  The fact that he opposed that bill was partially just because it wasn't a great bill,
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  but also because it was just
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  an excuse to say you did something,
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  that something would not solve the problem,
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  and then if Trump becomes president,
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  the,
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  there would be no more bipartisan energy there,
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  there'd be no way to get it done.
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  So,
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  that's why,
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  you know,
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  look,
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  this is a tactic by the left,
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  this is not real.
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  Obviously they don't care about the border,
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  they don't care about border security.
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  And I,
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  I will promise you this,
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  if Kamala Harris is elected,
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  she will not for one day pursue
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  that bill.
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  She will not do it.
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  She will no longer care about it
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  until maybe she comes down to re-election and once again
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  has to try to fool a bunch of people.
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  Jeff,
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  thanks so much for,
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  uh,
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  calling in.
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  Let's go to Connie in North Carolina.
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  Welcome,
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  Connie.
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  Hi Stu,
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  how are you?
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  Thanks for um taking my call.
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  It was a long wait.
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  I know,
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  I apologize that I,
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  we wanted to make sure that we,
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  we,
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  we took the call because I know there's so many people that
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  lined up and I appreciate you taking all the time and waiting.
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  No worries,
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  um,
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  just wanted to really just kind of share a testimony and hope that people,
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  your audience will listen.
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  And I'm sure a lot of people get this already,
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  but,
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  um,
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  because Glenn really
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  walks the walk,
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  I feel like and talks the talk with his faith,
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  I believe this is a great platform to share.
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  But
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  we were watching it last night,
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  and the main comment is,
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  no,
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  I did not watch her speak,
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  and I work in politics.
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  My,
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  the firm I work for is out of Texas.
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  So
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  I normally listen to everyone just so I can take notes.
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  Um,
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  but I
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  said
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  something said,
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  no,
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  don't watch it.
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  And the only thing that kept coming to mind was
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  the past few days I
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  saw all of these clips,
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  you know,
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  which you played on your show.
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  I,
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  I had called before you even played these clips on your show
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  about joy.
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  And every time I saw that,
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  I literally just got sick because I realized that
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  The spirit,
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  the enemy was trying to use
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  joy
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  to deceive,
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  to deceive us and make a mockery out of how I live my entire life,
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  which is God's book of order,
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  and
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  the fruit of the spirit
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  is joy.
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  That's one of the fruits.
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  So I just,
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  you know,
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  my husband's like,
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  I can't believe you're not going to watch this.
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  I'm like,
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  No,
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  I,
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  I really don't want to watch it,
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  and
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  now I know clearly,
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  and that's what the enemy does,
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  the spirit of deception
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  is so strong unless you are
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  Filled with the Holy Spirit because there's a spirit of religion everywhere.
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  And those people are going to be deceived because,
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  I mean,
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  she sounds good.
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  I've heard her speak before.
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  I'm like,
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  oh,
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  she's,
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  she's good.
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  They're gonna love her just like,
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  you know,
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  Gavin and some of these others.
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  But you realize
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  Wow,
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  this is such a
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  spiritual battle that we're in,
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  and sometimes we just need to take action,
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  get out in our community,
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  and,
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  you know,
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  form,
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  you know,
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  help with voting and really do something about it
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  and really just pray because we don't even know.
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  I mean,
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  in North Carolina now,
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  I read where
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  you can now vote with your college ID,
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  the,
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  the schools now.
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  So there's just a lot going on and
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  it is scary.
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  Um,
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  my husband,
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  he and his family came here
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  years ago from South Africa for this great country.
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  So he has
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  seen
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  a lot of this.
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  And you know I have coworkers that live in,
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  you know,
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  Colombia that had to move their family from Venezuela,
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  and part of their family is still there.
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  They have seen this and they are
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  definitely,
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  you know,
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  not happy with the way that America is going and,
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  and really have said,
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  you know,
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  she's trying to come here and she's saying,
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  My friends and I,
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  we don't want to come there anymore.
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  Now
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  that's terrible and you hate to hear that because this is,
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  this is the place,
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  right?
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  It's,
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  it's the country,
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  it's the best place,
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  I think the best country that's ever
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  graced the face of the earth.
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  But that being said,
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  you know,
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  when you're talking about the joy part of it,
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  obviously some of this is just politics,
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  right?
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  They want to switch the narrative,
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  they,
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  they believe they can show a contrast between Donald Trump,
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  who,
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  you know,
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  look,
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  a lot of times,
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  Uh,
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  doesn't come off as super joyful.
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  They're looking to change the dynamic of the race,
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  but
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  as you point out,
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  uh,
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  Connie,
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  there are always much larger,
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  uh,
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  forces at play,
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  and,
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  uh,
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  thanks a lot for pointing it out.
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  Uh,
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  Mark,
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  uh,
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  in Georgia.
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  Mark,
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  welcome.
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  Hey,
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  how you doing,
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  Stu?
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  Really well,
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  thanks,
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  Mark.
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  I,
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  I,
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  you know,
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  I wanted to say
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  from the,
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  from the upset,
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  uh,
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  from the jump that,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  you let me down a little bit when,
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  when Glenn had his surgery because I kept waiting for one of
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  you guys to make a Marty Feldman reference and nobody ever did.
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  I,
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  I hate to let you down on such an important part of the broadcast,
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  but,
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  uh,
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  you just,
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  all I can do is apologize,
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  waiting
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  and waiting,
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  but anyway,
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  um,
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  all,
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  all the,
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  the joy stuff,
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  OK,
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  now I've counted.
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  I think about 300 times that they,
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  they
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  quoted or not quoted,
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  but they said Trump.
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  All this joy stuff is communist babble.
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  It doesn't matter a damn what she says.
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  It's
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  Designed to quell the masses.
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  It's,
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  uh,
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  like,
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  you know,
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  what,
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  what,
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  what did,
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  uh,
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  Stalin say?
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  Opium,
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  our religion is the opium of the masses.
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  Well this,
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  in this case,
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  that's what they wanna hear.
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  They wanna hear those
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  those soft words.
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  Everything's gonna be OK.
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  Remember Joe Biden ran as a as a center,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  uniter,
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  and they're just dusting off that playbook and going the same way,
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  um,
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  but
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  Trump is their white whale.
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  Uh,
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  they will never stop
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  chasing him.
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  He could come out tomorrow and say,
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  hey,
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  uh,
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  I'm for abortion.
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  I'm for,
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  you know,
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  let's just open the borders.
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  It would not matter.
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  They will never,
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  ever stop.
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  And
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  to us down here in the sticks,
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  um,
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  you know,
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  we,
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  I know Glenn is very,
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  very adamant about
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  We have to find a solution.
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  And I'm,
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  I,
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  I just turned 60,
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  so Glenn and I are of the same age.
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  And I have 7 grandkids that have to grow up in this world.
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  And
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  I keep
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  saying,
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  you know,
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  it's going to get better,
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  it's going to get better.
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  We're going to find a way.
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  But,
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  uh,
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  I'm not the smartest guy in the world,
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  but I'm pretty smart.
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  And I just don't see
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  Uh,
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  a way out,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  not a good way out anyway,
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  and I don't want that.
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  I mean,
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  I mean,
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  you know,
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  I served my country.
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  Uh,
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  I spent
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  10 years in the,
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  in the army.
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  I spent 20 years as a sheriff's deputy,
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  and
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  I know what it's like
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  to see.
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  The bad side of people.
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  And I've always tried to be that person that sees the good in things.
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  But these people have no good in them.
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  They have one
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  word in their brain,
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  and it's power.
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  At any choice or at any price,
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  they will lie,
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  cheat,
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  steal.
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  I think we all know that.
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  And
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  You know,
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  uh,
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  like Georgia,
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  for example.
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  You know,
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  everybody thinks Georgia is Atlanta.
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  Uh,
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  we're not.
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  There's a lot of Georgia.
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  Georgia is the biggest state east of the Mississippi River.
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  Um,
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  There's more to Georgia than the,
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  the,
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  the flipping airport,
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  and
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  you know,
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  you know,
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  we,
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  we down here,
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  you know,
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  when,
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  when I say I'm from Columbus,
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  people go,
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  oh,
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  Ohio.
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  I'm like,
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  no,
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  not Ohio,
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  and
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  I guess my point being is that if
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  And,
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  and I talked to the local folks here,
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  uh,
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  uh,
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  uh,
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  in Trump's campaign about,
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  you know,
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  we may not win
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  Atlanta,
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  the,
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  the counties of Atlanta,
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  but we damn sure need to win every other county in the state.
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  My county is notoriously
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  blue
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  all the time
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  and
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  every county around us is red because
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  the way that the,
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  the congressional districts line up,
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  but
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  I think we are truly at that.
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  tipping point
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  of where,
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  you know,
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  it either goes the way we want it to,
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  and,
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  and regardless,
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  Trump could win
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  with 320
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  electoral votes,
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  and we all know what's going to happen.
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  And
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  I don't want it to happen,
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  but I,
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  I like to say I'm a realist.
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  Um,
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  And you know,
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  Glenn is a great guy.
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  I've,
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  I've followed him for years,
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  read probably every one of his books.
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  I'll be honest,
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  he kinda,
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  he,
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  he kinda,
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  uh,
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  back then when
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  Project or,
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  uh,
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  was it,
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  uh,
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  it's OK.
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  He's not listening.
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  You can say bad things about him,
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  it's fine.
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  Project 21,
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  you know,
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  oh,
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  Agenda 21,
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  yeah,
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  uh-huh,
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  yeah,
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  I was like,
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  is he,
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  is he on drugs?
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  Well,
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  yes,
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  but he's also right on a lot of that stuff.
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  Here we are
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  and uh I'm like wow
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  but you know I,
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  I have to,
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  I mean,
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  we have to think of the world we leave.
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  Yes,
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  I,
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  I agree.
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  And look,
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  you know,
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  you mentioned your grandchildren.
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  Of course,
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  you,
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  you want to grow up in a place where your grandchildren can thrive
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  and,
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  and live in the sort of,
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  in the sort of,
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  uh,
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  land of blessings that we've been able to grow up in.
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  And that's,
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  of course,
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  a priority.
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  I will say,
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  and you mentioned like what goes on in 2020 and Trump,
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  maybe he wins with a 320 electoral votes,
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  but we know what's gonna happen.
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  Uh,
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  you know,
• 12:33
  look,
• 12:34
  those,
• 12:34
  these are always concerns.
• 12:36
  The Democrats,
• 12:36
  of course,
• 12:37
  will do everything in their power to try
• 12:38
  to come up with whatever shenanigan they can.
• 12:41
  It is important I think to understand and to think about it,
• 12:44
  even if you fully believe some election's going to be stolen,
• 12:48
  if you,
• 12:49
  if we go into it with those thoughts,
• 12:53
  we will surely lose.
• 12:54
  Because
• 12:55
  you need to,
• 12:58
  to win an election like this,
• 12:59
  that they're pulling out every single stop up to and including
• 13:04
  going through essentially a coup to up to overturn their own primary.
• 13:09
  If they will go to those lengths,
• 13:11
  they'll go to whatever lengths they can.
• 13:13
  But if we don't look at this as an opportunity to win,
• 13:16
  if we look at this as a,
• 13:18
  as a guaranteed loss because of whatever shenanigans we think might happen.
• 13:23
  We'll surely lose.
• 13:24
  We have to go into this whether no matter what you
• 13:26
  believe is going to happen once those ballots are cast,
• 13:28
  you have to go into this believing
• 13:30
  that this is still a country
• 13:33
  that has
• 13:34
  reliable forms of democracy inside a constitutional republic.
• 13:38
  If you look at it any other way,
• 13:39
  I,
• 13:40
  I,
• 13:40
  I,
• 13:40
  you know,
• 13:42
  I believe that you kind of have no chance.
• 13:45
  So,
• 13:46
  You know,
• 13:47
  suspend disbelief if you need to,
• 13:50
  but
• 13:51
  look at this election as an opportunity
• 13:53
  to turn back a lot of the policies that could really hurt
• 13:56
  the country and hurt the country for your grandchildren going forward.
• 13:59
  Uh,
• 13:59
  Linda in Florida,
• 14:01
  welcome.
• 14:01
  I appreciate it,
• 14:02
  uh,
• 14:02
  you calling in,
• 14:03
  Linda,
• 14:03
  and thanks so much for waiting.
• 14:05
  That's OK.
• 14:05
  Um,
• 14:06
  I've been kind of struggling with
• 14:09
  the same issue that,
• 14:10
  uh,
• 14:10
  Glenn
• 14:11
  and you brought up earlier today about how do we shame the press
• 14:15
  into doing their job.
• 14:17
  I mean,
• 14:17
  how are we so many days into this and,
• 14:20
  and we know nothing about,
• 14:22
  uh,
• 14:22
  Kamala's
• 14:23
  policies except she's talking about raising taxes,
• 14:26
  which would be
• 14:27
  outrageous,
• 14:28
  the things that she's thinking about,
• 14:30
  and I'm,
• 14:31
  I'm a retired business owner.
• 14:34
  I owned a
• 14:35
  company that's all world,
• 14:37
  world-class salespeople,
• 14:38
  so I constantly think in terms of how do you sell an idea
• 14:42
  and so forth.
• 14:43
  And for weeks now I've been thinking about
• 14:46
  that Trump
• 14:47
  should try using
• 14:49
  the term rope a dope,
• 14:50
  that the press is allowing Kamala to play rope a dope,
• 14:54
  which is what,
• 14:56
  is what Muhammad Ali.
• 14:57
  Did if,
• 14:58
  if you're old enough
• 14:59
  to remember the I'll rephrazier fights and so forth,
• 15:03
  and
• 15:04
  I think it would give one of the things
• 15:06
  that Trump has to worry about is anything he says
• 15:09
  negative about Kalan.
• 15:11
  I mean,
• 15:11
  there's so many things to pick from,
• 15:13
  but anything he says often can make it look like he's
• 15:16
  the big guy beating up on the woman and so forth,
• 15:19
  and they just think of it as misogyny
• 15:22
  all the time.
• 15:23
  But Actually,
• 15:24
  if,
• 15:24
  if we start
• 15:25
  coining the phrase
• 15:27
  that the press is allowing and,
• 15:29
  and her,
• 15:29
  her,
• 15:30
  her staff and so forth
• 15:31
  is allowing her to play rope a dope,
• 15:34
  it,
• 15:34
  it has so many connotations.
• 15:36
  First of all,
• 15:37
  everybody understands
• 15:38
  what it means,
• 15:39
  you know,
• 15:39
  you've got your hands up so that they can't,
• 15:42
  can't hit you with anything.
• 15:43
  And then when they're not looking,
• 15:45
  you know,
• 15:45
  you can take one shot at them.
• 15:46
  But the,
• 15:47
  but the term dope
• 15:49
  is nice.
• 15:50
  in there because you don't have to say she's an idiot.
• 15:53
  You say she's playing rope a dope,
• 15:54
  and
• 15:55
  even if the people don't understand the term,
• 15:57
  it almost paints her with that,
• 15:59
  with that term.
• 16:00
  So I think if we can get Trump talking about rope a dope and,
• 16:04
  and when I heard that you were looking today for how can we,
• 16:07
  how can we shame the press,
• 16:09
  I thought,
• 16:10
  what a perfect,
• 16:11
  what a perfect way to categorize
• 16:13
  what rope a dope is really talking about and Only applies to her,
• 16:17
  but it especially applies to the press
• 16:19
  that they're,
• 16:19
  they're not doing their job,
• 16:21
  and we're only 80 days away or so.
• 16:23
  And,
• 16:24
  and the other thing I had in my mind today was I,
• 16:26
  I live in the villages,
• 16:27
  um,
• 16:28
  and,
• 16:28
  um,
• 16:29
  we get a daily paper here.
• 16:30
  We have our own TV station,
• 16:32
  radio stations,
• 16:33
  all this stuff.
• 16:33
  It's a big place,
• 16:35
  150,000 people,
• 16:36
  but,
• 16:37
  oh yeah,
• 16:37
  it's huge,
• 16:38
  and,
• 16:39
  uh,
• 16:39
  anyway,
• 16:40
  I'm looking at the Daily Sun this morning,
• 16:41
  and of course.
• 16:42
  I didn't listen to
• 16:43
  her speech.
• 16:44
  I already knew what it was going to be about.
• 16:47
  And,
• 16:48
  uh,
• 16:48
  but the headline in the paper
• 16:50
  of the Daily Sun in the Villages today said the FBI,
• 16:54
  US faces many threats all at once.
• 16:58
  And,
• 16:58
  and I'm thinking,
• 17:00
  in fact,
• 17:00
  another thing they said is
• 17:02
  there was a Taiwanese official
• 17:04
  that
• 17:05
  made kind of a
• 17:07
  clandestine trip.
• 17:09
  To the,
• 17:09
  to the US,
• 17:10
  I think this week.
• 17:11
  So obviously she wasn't in Washington
• 17:13
  to hold any meetings.
• 17:15
  And,
• 17:15
  and you're thinking about
• 17:18
  if we're facing all these threats that we're all aware of,
• 17:21
  um,
• 17:22
  would we want her in the meeting room with any of these?
• 17:25
  I mean,
• 17:25
  what could she possibly
• 17:27
  add
• 17:28
  to it?
• 17:28
  And I mean she has nothing presidential
• 17:31
  about her.
• 17:32
  And then of course the next headline is Harris
• 17:34
  invites voters to chart a new way forward.
• 17:37
  And I think that goes right back to our rope a dope.
• 17:40
  Nobody knows what that is.
• 17:41
  Yeah,
• 17:41
  I like it.
• 17:42
  Uh,
• 17:42
  Linda,
• 17:42
  thanks so much.
• 17:43
  Uh,
• 17:44
  and honestly,
• 17:44
  I feel like now I'm a subscriber to that newspaper.
• 17:47
  Like I felt like I read the entire thing.
• 17:49
  Um,
• 17:49
  that's awesome,
• 17:50
  Linda.
• 17:50
  And I think like I like the innovative thoughts.
• 17:52
  I like,
• 17:52
  you know,
• 17:53
  trying to figure out a way to,
• 17:54
  to make this happen.
• 17:56
  Uh,
• 17:56
  and
• 17:57
  it is,
• 17:58
  you know,
• 17:59
  partially,
• 18:00
  we can help with this one,
• 18:01
  right?
• 18:01
  If you are online and you are
• 18:04
  retweeting,
• 18:05
  uh,
• 18:06
  you know,
• 18:06
  these claims against Kamala Harris,
• 18:09
  when you,
• 18:09
  when you find a good policy,
• 18:11
  something that you want answered,
• 18:13
  pushing that stuff out,
• 18:14
  I mean,
• 18:14
  the media
• 18:15
  does tend to eventually react to something that goes really viral.
• 18:19
  They feel almost like shamed into,
• 18:21
  all right,
• 18:21
  let's just get it out of the way,
• 18:23
  we'll ask and
• 18:24
  Anytime you can put Kamala Harris in a situation where she's off balance,
• 18:28
  this is where she makes her mistakes.
• 18:30
  Uh,
• 18:30
  this is something,
• 18:30
  and I,
• 18:31
  let me give you another quick sports analogy,
• 18:33
  um,
• 18:34
  off of the rope a dope idea.
• 18:35
  But,
• 18:37
  you know,
• 18:37
  I,
• 18:37
  I think a lot of people going into this,
• 18:39
  and I tried to,
• 18:40
  to say this on the air a zillion times,
• 18:43
  a lot of people went into this election and when Kamala Harris
• 18:46
  took over
• 18:47
  thinking that she sucks,
• 18:48
  she's just terrible.
• 18:49
  And look,
• 18:50
  she's not great.
• 18:51
  She's not amazing.
• 18:52
  But in comparison to Joe Biden,
• 18:54
  I mean there is no comparison,
• 18:55
  she's much,
• 18:56
  much better than Joe Biden.
• 18:59
  She can do
• 19:00
  the basics.
• 19:01
  And I think a lot of people went into this just thinking,
• 19:03
  to use a basketball reference that she's just terrible at basketball.
• 19:05
  She can't make a shot to save her life.
• 19:07
  That's not really true.
• 19:08
  The media is trying to make her into Steph Curry right now.
• 19:11
  That's not true either.
• 19:13
  She,
• 19:14
  she really is more Seth Curry than Steph Curry.
• 19:17
  Seth Curry is Steph Curry's brother.
• 19:19
  He's also an NBA player.
• 19:21
  And I,
• 19:21
  you know,
• 19:21
  he's an effective NBA player in certain circumstances.
• 19:25
  If you run an offense and you run,
• 19:27
  uh,
• 19:27
  Seth Curry off of a couple screens,
• 19:30
  you know,
• 19:30
  you think of the media,
• 19:31
  a couple of media screens,
• 19:33
  and you get,
• 19:34
  get her some open shots,
• 19:36
  she can make an open 3.
• 19:38
  She is a,
• 19:38
  she can do the basics.
• 19:41
  She,
• 19:41
  when
• 19:42
  inside of a scripted offense,
• 19:44
  is an effective player.
• 19:46
  That is who Kamala Harris is.
• 19:48
  She's very good behind the scenes.
• 19:50
  You saw the way she wrangled
• 19:52
  the presidential nomination in about 48 hours.
• 19:55
  She can do some stuff
• 19:57
  where she struggles,
• 19:59
  you know,
• 19:59
  Steph Curry can break down an offense by himself.
• 20:02
  Seth Curry doesn't really do that.
• 20:04
  Seth Curry is more like,
• 20:05
  she's gonna run off screens and gonna make some shots,
• 20:07
  and that's more like Kamala Harris.
• 20:09
  Inside the structure of an offense,
• 20:11
  she's actually effective.
• 20:12
  But once you take her off out,
• 20:14
  out of structure,
• 20:15
  when you take,
• 20:16
  put her in a position where she needs to break down a defense by,
• 20:19
  on,
• 20:19
  off the dribble,
• 20:20
  she's probably gonna turn it,
• 20:21
  turn it over.
• 20:22
  And it's up to you as a defense.
• 20:24
  This is the Trump,
• 20:25
  uh,
• 20:26
  campaign.
• 20:26
  This is Donald Trump itself.
• 20:27
  It's JD Vance,
• 20:28
  it's conservative media.
• 20:30
  It's you and I online.
• 20:32
  It's putting her into positions
• 20:35
  where she has to
• 20:38
  step out of the structure of that offense,
• 20:39
  where she has to beat somebody off the dribble.
• 20:42
  You know,
• 20:43
  I mean,
• 20:43
  it's moments like Joe the Plumber from back in the day with Barack Obama.
• 20:47
  Get her in those moments.
• 20:49
  We have to find a way to do that.
• 20:51
  It's up to us to do it.
• 20:52
  The media's not gonna do it for us.
• 20:54
  We have to force the media to try to do it out of shame
• 20:57
  or to figure out ways to do it ourselves
• 20:59
  because that's the way you're gonna beat Kamala Harris.
• 21:02
  Um,
• 21:02
  a couple more calls before we go.
• 21:04
  Lucy in Ohio.
• 21:05
  Lucy,
• 21:06
  thanks so much for waiting.
• 21:07
  I appreciate it.
• 21:08
  What's up?
• 21:09
  Hi,
• 21:09
  can you hear me OK,
• 21:10
  because you're on speaker.
• 21:11
  I have a lousy phone.
• 21:12
  Can you hear me?
• 21:13
  No worries,
• 21:13
  we can hear you.
• 21:14
  Yeah,
• 21:14
  go ahead.
• 21:15
  OK,
• 21:15
  I want to send
• 21:16
  a lot of Buckeye joy from Ohio,
• 21:19
  but,
• 21:19
  um,
• 21:20
  I,
• 21:20
  the,
• 21:20
  I was on for a little while and it was regarding the last show,
• 21:23
  but
• 21:25
  You know how the media likes to say that Kamala speaks in word salads.
• 21:30
  Feeling watching night,
• 21:32
  which I,
• 21:33
  I just was a screaming maniac,
• 21:35
  was a
• 21:36
  piece in concept salad.
• 21:39
  It's all,
• 21:40
  it's nothing concrete.
• 21:42
  It's all salady fluff.
• 21:44
  Yep.
• 21:45
  You know,
• 21:45
  my father,
• 21:46
  uh,
• 21:46
  these,
• 21:46
  these,
• 21:47
  her and Big Mike all say,
• 21:49
  my mother said,
• 21:50
  my father said,
• 21:51
  Joe Biden,
• 21:51
  my grandpa always said at the dinner table,
• 21:53
  this is,
• 21:54
  well,
• 21:54
  here's what my deceased beloved father,
• 21:57
  may he rest in peace,
• 21:58
  say.
• 21:59
  Politicians speak
• 22:01
  in nebulous realms of tangible abstractions.
• 22:05
  And,
• 22:05
  and that sticks with me from when I was a kid,
• 22:09
  and the older I get,
• 22:10
  the truer it is.
• 22:11
  This idea when she spoke last night
• 22:14
  about,
• 22:15
  you know,
• 22:15
  you know,
• 22:15
  I'm a small business owner.
• 22:17
  This.
• 22:17
  The idea that she wants to have opportunity economy.
• 22:21
  The whole thing
• 22:22
  is nonsense.
• 22:23
  It's communist speak
• 22:25
  for the government
• 22:26
  will pick the winners and the losers.
• 22:28
  And when it comes to small business,
• 22:30
  and,
• 22:31
  and,
• 22:31
  and they will give cheap government loans
• 22:33
  to the people that they,
• 22:34
  the government feels should get them.
• 22:36
  And when 75% of those businesses default or go out of business,
• 22:41
  they'll walk away,
• 22:42
  probably to a government job
• 22:44
  and we'll be left
• 22:45
  holding the bag of their failure.
• 22:47
  You know,
• 22:48
  I'm supposed to feel joyful that I'm gonna pay for their dream that I pay for
• 22:52
  in,
• 22:52
  in the long run.
• 22:54
  Yeah,
• 22:54
  uh,
• 22:54
  you know what,
• 22:54
  first of all,
• 22:55
  Lucy,
• 22:55
  you had a smart father.
• 22:56
  I mean,
• 22:56
  that's a great,
• 22:57
  that's,
• 22:57
  that's an intellectual dinner table talk,
• 22:59
  but it's completely right.
• 23:00
  And,
• 23:01
  you know,
• 23:01
  a great example of this is opportunity economy.
• 23:04
  Opportunity economy kind of sounds good,
• 23:06
  right?
• 23:06
  Like,
• 23:07
  it sounds like something a conservative would say.
• 23:09
  It's like,
• 23:09
  you know,
• 23:10
  Tim Scott,
• 23:11
  you did the opportunity zones with with Donald Trump.
• 23:13
  It's the type of thing that kind of sounds like that.
• 23:15
  Maybe that's part of that philosophy.
• 23:17
  It's something though that is designed to hide what the policy actually is,
• 23:22
  and uh this is what they're doing,
• 23:24
  this is their entire philosophy,
• 23:25
  and if
• 23:26
  the American people don't figure it out,
• 23:28
  it probably will be successful.
• 23:29
  Lucy,
• 23:30
  thanks so much
• 23:30
  for the call.
• 23:31
  Amy in Pennsylvania,
• 23:33
  Amy,
• 23:34
  welcome.
• 23:35
  Hello Steven,
• 23:36
  how are you?
• 23:36
  Good.
• 23:37
  How are you?
• 23:38
  I'm wonderful.
• 23:40
  Um,
• 23:40
  I just have a question
• 23:43
  real quick.
• 23:44
  Back in 2016,
• 23:45
  whenever Mr.
• 23:46
  Trump was first running,
• 23:48
  a lot of the,
• 23:50
  um,
• 23:51
  down ballot,
• 23:51
  down ticket,
• 23:52
  um,
• 23:53
  congressmen and senators
• 23:55
  were all,
• 23:55
  you know,
• 23:56
  give us all three branches,
• 23:57
  give us all,
• 23:58
  all three branches,
• 23:59
  you know,
• 23:59
  we'll,
• 23:59
  we'll,
• 24:00
  we will
• 24:01
  repeal
• 24:02
  Obamacare and we'll do all this fabulous.
• 24:05
  Things
• 24:06
  and
• 24:07
  nothing happened.
• 24:09
  I mean,
• 24:09
  they,
• 24:10
  nothing.
• 24:10
  Um,
• 24:11
  they didn't repeal Obamacare.
• 24:13
  Um,
• 24:14
  in fact,
• 24:14
  I don't even think they even voted to have a vote.
• 24:17
  And I know that's thanks to John McCain and
• 24:20
  the likes of Paul Ryan.
• 24:22
  Um,
• 24:22
  but
• 24:24
  All I,
• 24:24
  I hear a lot of,
• 24:26
  I think Mr.
• 24:26
  Beck has said this maybe once or twice,
• 24:28
  but I mean,
• 24:29
  I know
• 24:30
  Mr.
• 24:30
  Hannity and a lot of other commentators are like really pushing this,
• 24:34
  and I'm just,
• 24:35
  I'm just like,
• 24:37
  why
• 24:38
  is it,
• 24:38
  is it gonna be different this time,
• 24:39
  or,
• 24:40
  or why should we
• 24:41
  being politicians,
• 24:42
  like,
• 24:43
  I don't believe anything they say,
• 24:44
  even Mr.
• 24:45
  Trump.
• 24:45
  I mean
• 24:47
  that might be
• 24:48
  always have a healthy skepticism.
• 24:49
  That's the right way to approach it.
• 24:51
  But,
• 24:51
  um,
• 24:52
  so why should we give them all three branches again?
• 24:57
  Well,
• 24:57
  I mean,
• 24:57
  it's a good question and a fair question.
• 24:59
  I,
• 24:59
  I would say that,
• 25:00
  you know,
• 25:01
  first of all,
• 25:01
  the alternative is worse.
• 25:03
  So,
• 25:04
  I mean,
• 25:04
  I,
• 25:05
  I think that is
• 25:06
  true.
• 25:07
  Um,
• 25:08
  you know,
• 25:08
  the Republicans,
• 25:09
  and I was making this point a lot leading up to the 2022 election,
• 25:13
  the Republicans with a strong 2022 had a
• 25:15
  real chance at a filibuster-proof majority here,
• 25:19
  but they had,
• 25:20
  they did not do their job in 2022.
• 25:22
  And I honestly,
• 25:23
  I don't think it looks all that spectacular for
• 25:25
  2024 in the Senate and down ballot either,
• 25:29
  which is,
• 25:30
  you know,
• 25:30
  kind of embarrassing.
• 25:31
  They're really the,
• 25:32
  the,
• 25:32
  the map is very much tilted their way here in the Senate election.
• 25:36
  If you can get to 60 votes,
• 25:37
  you can really make
• 25:39
  major differences.
• 25:40
  It's when the,
• 25:41
  you know,
• 25:42
  Democrats have been able to do a lot of their sort
• 25:44
  of large structural changes is when they get to that position.
• 25:47
  Republicans aren't going to get there.
• 25:49
  Um,
• 25:49
  what you can do is,
• 25:51
  uh,
• 25:51
  you can get judges in,
• 25:52
  and that was something that Trump was able to do and
• 25:54
  obviously made a pretty large difference in the Supreme Court,
• 25:58
  and honestly all the way down through the judicial system.
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  That's a big part of why you really care about
• 26:04
  the Senate.
• 26:04
  You'll get some good things out of that.
• 26:06
  I will also say that one of the big things,
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  and this has been a big push for me
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  when it comes to primaries,
• 26:11
  is making sure where you have
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  really red states
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  in primary elections,
• 26:18
  making sure you get good candidates out of them.
• 26:20
  You don't need a Mitt Romney in freaking Utah.
• 26:23
  Like that is,
• 26:24
  it's,
• 26:25
  it hurts you more than having a Susan Collins in Maine.
• 26:28
  Yeah,
• 26:29
  Susan Collins is gonna vote wrong a bunch of times,
• 26:31
  but it's Maine,
• 26:32
  and maybe Susan Collins is the best you can do in Maine.
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  Mitt Romney is not the best you can do in Utah.
• 26:37
  You know,
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  Mike Lee might be,
• 26:39
  but Mitt Romney is not.
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  And if we focus on those primary elections a little bit earlier,
• 26:45
  And get good candidates in those bright red states.
• 26:48
  When you get to 55,
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  56,
• 26:50
  60 senators,
• 26:52
  you can get a lot more done.
• 26:53
  I think this happens in the House as well.
• 26:57
  And,
• 26:57
  you know,
• 26:58
  what happens,
• 26:59
  and it has happened a lot
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  is
• 27:01
  we've chosen to run.
• 27:04
  candidates in states that aren't bright red,
• 27:07
  that wind up losing in the elections,
• 27:09
  and I think we're facing a lot of that again this year.
• 27:12
  So,
• 27:13
  there's a lot to improve there.
• 27:15
  I think
• 27:16
  the best thing you can say,
• 27:17
  and you could say this about the House right now.
• 27:20
  What they have been able to do is block the worst instincts
• 27:24
  of Joe Biden.
• 27:25
  That's it.
• 27:25
  That's all,
• 27:26
  that's all they've been able to do is just block the worst instincts.
• 27:29
  That is though,
• 27:30
  a big improvement over an unfettered Joe Biden
• 27:34
  or an unfettered Kamala Harris.
• 27:35
  So
• 27:36
  that is an advantage
• 27:38
  and,
• 27:38
  uh,
• 27:38
  Amy,
• 27:39
  thanks so much for the call.
• 27:40
  I wish I could give you more on that,
• 27:41
  it's not gonna be perfect.
• 27:43
  Even when you get 60 senators,
• 27:45
  about 12 of them are gonna be probably
• 27:47
  pretty horrible,
• 27:48
  and another 20 are gonna be mediocre,
• 27:50
  uh,
• 27:50
  if,
• 27:50
  if things are going well.
• 27:52
  But
• 27:53
  it is your only hope and you have to kind of push these things through.
• 27:56
  We have a system
• 27:57
  of checks and balances.
• 27:59
  It's one that I think is the best system ever developed,
• 28:02
  but it,
• 28:03
  it,
• 28:03
  it,
• 28:03
  they don't make it easy.
• 28:04
  That's the design of the system.
• 28:06
  It's not supposed to be easy.
• 28:07
  All right,
• 28:08
  we got a,
• 28:08
  uh,
• 28:08
  through,
• 28:09
  through a bunch of the calls and I appreciate everybody
• 28:11
  holding on and hanging out.
• 28:12
  Uh,
• 28:12
  thanks so much for subscribing here.
• 28:14
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• 28:14
  you've done that on the Studios America feed.
• 28:17
  If you missed it,
• 28:18
  uh,
• 28:18
  you know,
• 28:19
  this a couple of days ago,
• 28:20
  was it yesterday or a couple of days ago,
• 28:21
  we released a state of the race episode
• 28:23
  about RFK.
• 28:24
  Junior and what the impact of that will be.
• 28:26
  We do a state of the race podcast,
• 28:28
  uh,
• 28:28
  right here on the Studios America feed to kind of break
• 28:31
  down the more nerdy aspects of the election if you,
• 28:33
  if you happen to really wanna do deep dives.
• 28:36
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• 28:39
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• 28:40
  tuning in.
• 28:42
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