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"I Told You So Redistricting Edition)" (Monday October 27, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 3: Let them be Joe. What a glorious autumn Monday. We
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Speaker 3: to win those. You know how I'm loath to say this,
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Speaker 3: but from Saturday Morning's program, we have the clip of
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Speaker 3: Saturday Morning. I know it's quick turnaround. The man behind
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Speaker 3: all this is former Attorney General Eric Holder. So we
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Speaker 3: were talking about these redistricting manias, the Prop fifty in California,
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Speaker 3: whether you go that route, you go what's going on
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Speaker 3: in Virginia where they're trying to circumvent a constitutional amendment
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Speaker 3: that the Democrats themselves begged and pleaded for not five
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Speaker 3: years ago. All of it, and we have proof now
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Speaker 3: contributions from Eric Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Organization totally three
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Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars going to the Virginia Democrats who are
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Speaker 3: going to to try to gather this one up. So
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Speaker 3: you think, right, you would, and you'd probably be rightful
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Speaker 3: to think that a constitutional amendment is a pretty high
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Speaker 3: bar to overturn. That's the whole point of making something
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Speaker 3: a constitutional amendment is though, that it doesn't just get
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Speaker 3: changed every couple of years for spurious reasons. You know,
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Speaker 3: something that rises to the level of a constitutional amendment
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Speaker 3: is supposed to be the utmost and serious right. But
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Speaker 3: in Virginia, they're trying to take what is supposed to
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Speaker 3: be a two to three year process and do it
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Speaker 3: in two to three months by playing games and using
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Speaker 3: Eric Holder's money to circumvent the very things with all
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Speaker 3: irony intended that they begged for five years ago. Then
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Speaker 3: you've got Prop fifty in California trying to redraw their
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Speaker 3: election districts. All of it is avoidable as well, and
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Speaker 3: So all the President is in Southeast Asia and turing
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Speaker 3: our allies there and perhaps making a trade deal with China.
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Speaker 3: The bigger economic question in the United States, obviously, is
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Speaker 3: the core of it is the value of the dollars
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Speaker 3: you bring home from a day's travail, hopefully doing something
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Speaker 3: so that you don't really see it as toil. You
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Speaker 3: that as it may. You're going to be compensated for it.
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Speaker 3: It's how capitalism or the free market is supposed to work.
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Speaker 3: You do something based on what somebody else values. That's
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Speaker 3: it's certainly not in business. Everything is about how you
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Speaker 3: it to me straight, tell me what you need me
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Speaker 3: to do and will, and how much you're willing to
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Speaker 3: compensate me for it, and have an honest discussion about it.
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Speaker 3: But we don't want to do that. And the subtextual
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Speaker 3: reality of America's economy is that we don't want to
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Speaker 3: pay a lot for things. And for a while that worked.
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Speaker 3: You know, we outsourced and went to places where it
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Speaker 3: was cheaper to make this stuff because we didn't We
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Speaker 3: wanted to pay as little as possible for our technology,
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Speaker 3: our computers, our smartphones, our tablets, our laptops, our cars,
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Speaker 3: our kitchen appliances, those sorts of things. We didn't want
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Speaker 3: the least for it. That's not a crime to want
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Speaker 3: to pay the lowest price possible. But what we've done
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Speaker 3: now is we've passed the point in the arc where
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Speaker 3: we're coming down the other side where we're not making
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Speaker 3: enough money regardless of how inexpensive things are. So we
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Speaker 3: could go find the cheapest damn thing for the cheapest
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Speaker 3: amount of money on the planet, where the employees tasked
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Speaker 3: with making the product make next to nothing, and we
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Speaker 3: still can't afford it. And that's where we are economically,
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Speaker 3: And a lot of it has to do with the
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Speaker 3: COVID stimulus money and just keep pumping money into people's
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Speaker 3: pockets while American factories were closed. Remember whose factories weren't
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Speaker 3: closed during COVID nineteen, the Chinese, because the Chinese wanted
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Speaker 3: to make sure that nobody, nobody from the Wuhan region
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Speaker 3: traveled internally in China. Oh, you were a travel allowed
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Speaker 3: to travel all around the world, but don't go anywhere
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Speaker 3: in China. So we were spending money on stuff and
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Speaker 3: not having a job to make any because it was
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Speaker 3: just appearing because the government's premise was you need to
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Speaker 3: stay home because you'll kill everyone you come in contact with.
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Speaker 3: You super spread. Are you staying home and just being
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Speaker 3: sent money for staying home was safe and effective. So
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Speaker 3: the ensuing inflation that came along with it has led
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Speaker 3: us looking for more and more ways to find cheaper
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Speaker 3: and cheaper stuff. So while the president is touring a
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Speaker 3: lot of the countries that make less expensive stuff, we
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Speaker 3: really need to give ourselves a hard look. To pardon
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Speaker 3: the phrase, what we do for money, honey, what is
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Speaker 3: it worth to you? That's the secret to a free market.
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Speaker 3: What's it worth to you? And because we have become
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Speaker 3: addicts from where I sit anyway, we've become addicts to democracy.
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Speaker 3: Everything has to be popular. Nobody has hard conversations with
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Speaker 3: anyone because we all have to be popular. And of course,
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Speaker 3: you know, the easiest way to be popular is tell
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Speaker 3: everyone what they want to hear. God, that's infected radio forever.
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Speaker 3: You love the song coming up. Even if you don't
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Speaker 3: love this song, we're telling you. It's on your favorite
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Speaker 3: hit music station, so you must love this song. And
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Speaker 3: if you don't love the song, all your friends do.
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Speaker 3: That's been the implication of my industry forever. What's the
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Speaker 3: most popular TV show? Nobody's watching, but all your friends are.
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Speaker 3: You don't want to be left out on Monday, when
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Speaker 3: the big story is being discussed over the water or
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Speaker 3: do you? And that's what they go for you. They
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Speaker 3: go after you for the whole idea of you don't
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Speaker 3: want to be left out, but economically nobody says, hey,
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Speaker 3: what you do isn't worth a whole lot of money
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Speaker 3: to me. That hurts somebody's feelings until there's nobody working,
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Speaker 3: until the whole damn company moves out. Huntington Ingles signing
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Speaker 3: a deal to have Hyundai make your navy. Now the
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Speaker 3: story is auxiliary navy ships. So I presume these are
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Speaker 3: some of the support vessels and things like that. It's
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Speaker 3: not like Hyundai is building our next line of aircraft carriers, right,
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Speaker 3: he says, winking at the microphone as if you can
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Speaker 3: hear that. This should be a sound effect, Like Victor
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Speaker 3: of the I lid flapping when I wink at you.
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Speaker 3: Because you know, no South Korea. You know Hyundai isn't
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Speaker 3: going to be making it. And I had to chuckle
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Speaker 3: when I read this story because I've got enough miles
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Speaker 3: and they decided they wanted to be the first Hundai dealer.
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Speaker 3: And their ads were two guys, I mean two guys.
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Speaker 3: It's like it's stereotype. I mean, if the Italian American
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Speaker 3: Is this a how do you say this?
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Speaker 3: Hyo hi? Hyahuiah? It's Hyundai? And they ad the punchline
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Speaker 3: of the ad was it's Hyundai like Sunday or Monday.
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Speaker 3: And that's how the New York metropolitan New Yorkers bought
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Speaker 3: Hyundai's like crazy, because they were cheap. They were hell
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Speaker 3: of a lot cheaper even than the Japanese imports, and
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Speaker 3: they were starting to move into Tennessee and North Carolina
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Speaker 3: to build. But at some point we need to be
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Speaker 3: working so that we can make enough money to even
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Speaker 3: pay for the less expensive stuff. And right now the
21:53
Speaker 3: American economy is struggling, and this is why it's important
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Speaker 3: to make the American workforce great again, so we will
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Speaker 12: There is no off season in redistricting for you.
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Speaker 2: From Joe Thomas, It's first thing today.
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Speaker 3: You know, it was funny Saturday morning. We were doing
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Speaker 3: because so much gets done on Friday afternoon, so that
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Speaker 3: du lists and stuff like that to do, but not us. No, no,
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Speaker 3: if some of this may be familiar ground to some
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Speaker 3: on Saturday morning, boy bat shape. But and our friends
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Speaker 3: on Long Island, I think New Hampshire, Massachusetts hurt it
29:37
Speaker 3: as well. But if you don't get us on Saturday morning,
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Speaker 3: oh that's a nice little letter saying, hey, you know,
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Speaker 3: Joe Thomas is live on Saturday mornings. But being said,
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Speaker 3: we we were all pining for those who were looking
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Speaker 3: at all of these redistricting efforts going on around the
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Speaker 3: country as to what the heck is going on, And
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Speaker 3: I said, there's an agent provocateur who, after leaving the
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Speaker 3: desk of the Attorney General of the United States, took
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Speaker 3: up the mantra of redistricting, and he is Eric Holder.
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Speaker 1: Question the jerrymandering is a threat to our democracy. It
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Speaker 1: allows politicians to pick their voters, as opposed to citizens
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Speaker 1: choosing their representatives.
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Speaker 3: So that's what we're doing. We're letting politicians pick their voters.
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Speaker 3: It's exactly what Eric Holder is supporting. And then later
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Speaker 3: on Saturday, we received confirmation of it. As I'm not
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Speaker 3: sure if it's correlation or causation, but investigators in Virginia
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Speaker 3: unearthed three hundred thousand dollars worth of campaign contributions from
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Speaker 3: Eric Holder's redistricting pack. The National Democratic Redistricting called the
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Speaker 3: commission three hundred thousand dollars, one hundred than fifty thousand
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Speaker 3: dollars to Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger and another
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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the House of
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Speaker 3: Delegates races. Now that's important because the speaker of that
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Speaker 3: House of Delegates has just called for a special session
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Speaker 3: of the Virginia General Assembly to convene today. And here's
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Speaker 3: what they're trying to do. And Tom Garrett was telling
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Speaker 3: us about this on Friday Mornings program. They're going to
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Speaker 3: try to circumvent the very constitutional amendment that they jumped
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Speaker 3: up and down and threw a tantrum over getting a
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Speaker 3: nonpartisan redistricting commission five years ago, which failed. But within
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Speaker 3: it they wrote in so should this not achieve its
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Speaker 3: stated goals, the Virginia Supreme Court will appoint special masters
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Speaker 3: to oversee. So basically, two guys, two people, two folks,
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Speaker 3: sit down and hammer out districts, one Democrat, one Republican.
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Speaker 3: In the most recent case, the Democrat was from California,
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Speaker 3: because apparently there were no Democrats in Virginia able to
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Speaker 3: draw map sad considering how many of our founding fathers
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Speaker 3: were cartographers and surveyors. The Republican at least was from Virginia,
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Speaker 3: and they readrew, you can't have good congressional districts at
32:33
Speaker 3: this level of underrepresentation. Ever since the racist drawn nineteen
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Speaker 3: twenty nine Permanent Reapportionment Act, drawn by the Dixiecrats to
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Speaker 3: keep the black man down, to keep them from gaining
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Speaker 3: power in Congress as their population of free men grew,
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Speaker 3: they redrew the districts decently. But now they made this
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Speaker 3: commission a constitutional amendment. I said this earlier. You think
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Speaker 3: a constitutional amendment is done so that, Bro, you can't
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Speaker 3: just have a new legislative body undo it like that.
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Speaker 3: I mean, look at what we're going through with the
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Speaker 3: Convention of States. We're trying to amend the Constitution simply
33:24
Speaker 3: to have fiscal controls and more transparency in the turnover
33:29
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Speaker 3: the way, however, I mean, it's taken us a good
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Speaker 3: number of years just to get to nineteen of the
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Speaker 3: thirty four states to sign in. It's been forever since
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Speaker 3: there's been an actual congressionally led amendment. I mean supposedly,
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Speaker 3: of course, long past the Statute of Limitations. They finally
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Speaker 3: had a show vote. Ironic here in Virginia to ratify
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Speaker 3: the Equal Rights Amendment didn't get ratified because it had expired.
34:10
Speaker 3: There is a shelf life on these things. It takes
34:13
Speaker 3: a lot to amend the constitution of your state of
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Speaker 3: the United States, and that's good because you don't want
34:21
Speaker 3: those kind of things done haphazardly. So after jumping up
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Speaker 3: and down and insisting that this be a constitutional amendment,
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Speaker 3: what they're trying to do is now circumvent the constitutional
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Speaker 3: amendment process at the monies, using the monies of Eric
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Speaker 3: Holder to pay for one thousand dollars an hour lawyers
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Speaker 3: to sit there and say, Okay, here's what we can do.
34:46
Speaker 3: And this is where people get so angry with lawyers.
34:50
Speaker 3: So what they're going to try to do is say
34:53
Speaker 3: that the early voting window in Virginia and you all
34:57
Speaker 3: have them. Many of you have already started voting for
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Speaker 3: whatever elections are coming along in your area, culminating on
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Speaker 3: November fourth. I think New Jersey just started its early
35:10
Speaker 3: voting period. Virginia, we've been voting since September nineteenth. However,
35:15
Speaker 3: what there God bless the lawyers, and they're thousand dollars
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Speaker 3: billable hours, all paid for by Eric Holder, the man
35:23
Speaker 3: who knows how to use the awesome power of the
35:27
Speaker 3: Attorney General's office to kick him when they're down. This
35:32
Speaker 3: is like J Jones, hero I bet J Jones. Virginia's
35:36
Speaker 3: candidate for Attorney general has posters of Eric Holder like
35:40
Speaker 3: Rambo with a neck tie. Around his head holding an
35:44
Speaker 3: AR fifteen. No, actually, Eric Holder would probably be holding
35:49
Speaker 3: a veto pen and a subpoena, like a handful of subpoenas,
35:54
Speaker 3: and bandolier Eric Holder funding all the lawyers that went
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Speaker 3: around and said, well, technically, this is just called an
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Speaker 3: early voting period. Election day is only November fourth, so
36:11
Speaker 3: we can claim if you pass a constitutional amendment, which
36:17
Speaker 3: you only need a majority of the House and Senate
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Speaker 3: to do, pass it, but then it has to pass
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Speaker 3: twice with an intervening election. So if the legislative body
36:28
Speaker 3: passes an amendment, it sits and waits for all the
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Speaker 3: seats in the legislative body to go through a re
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Speaker 3: election cycle, ostensibly giving the voters a chance to say, hey,
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Speaker 3: you voted for something I really don't want to see
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Speaker 3: elevated into the constitution. I'm voting you out, Jack. And
36:50
Speaker 3: once Jack has been ousted, then presumably the next General
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Speaker 3: Assembly session will reopen the constitutional amendment and vote yay
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Speaker 3: or day on it. And if the voters didn't like it,
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Speaker 3: all the people who voted DA fourth the first time
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Speaker 3: will be gone and it's out and it doesn't pass,
37:08
Speaker 3: and it doesn't go to referendum, and it generally will
37:13
Speaker 3: take three or so years to take that at least.
37:19
Speaker 3: But what they're trying to do is pass it today
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Speaker 3: or tomorrow, count November fourth as that intervening election, and
37:27
Speaker 3: then in January, when the General Assembly convenes, pass a
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Speaker 3: new constitutional amendment, send it to a special vote in April,
37:37
Speaker 3: and then this is the fun part, try to redraw
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Speaker 3: the Virginia congressional maps in time for next November's election.
37:50
Speaker 3: Also that they can pick their own voters.
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Speaker 1: Right to Eric, Well, there's no question that jerry mandering
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Speaker 1: is a threat to our democracy. It allows politicians to
37:59
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Speaker 3: So, if you consume the news, and I don't know
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Speaker 3: what the networks that you're being subjected to are saying,
44:43
Speaker 3: but most of the networks are calling this crisis at
44:49
Speaker 3: the air traffic control towers be due to the government shutdown,
44:59
Speaker 3: and that's all they're saying because they don't have enough time.
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Speaker 3: Well we do, and we're going to call the lieout
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Speaker 3: on this. So it's happening. And Sean Duffy addressed this
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Speaker 3: yesterday as well. So lax Los Angeles International Airport, one
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Speaker 3: of the biggest in the country, busiest, Chicago O'Hare all
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Speaker 3: seeing shutdowns temporary if not, but I mean, when you
45:25
Speaker 3: talk about a house of cards built on this plane
45:30
Speaker 3: needs to be here at this time so these passengers
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Speaker 3: can get to that place at this time, and so
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Speaker 3: on and so forth. A few hours of shutdown because
45:41
Speaker 3: all the air traffic controllers called in sick bill eyes
45:50
Speaker 3: a bigger problem. So they're calling in sick because they're
45:55
Speaker 3: on their essential workers, but they're not being paid soldiers.
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Speaker 3: And this is the snit therein is that they're mad
46:04
Speaker 3: because the Pentagon found money for the soldiers to pay them.
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Speaker 3: Pay the soldiers until I think the fifteenth of November
46:17
Speaker 3: and that's when that runs out. Hag Sith said that
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Speaker 3: over the weekend. But the air traffic controllers also essential.
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Speaker 3: They are currently not taking home any money because the
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Speaker 3: government is shut down. There's no nobody's getting any money
46:34
Speaker 3: out of the federal government. Oh yeah, I mean except
46:37
Speaker 3: for congressmen and Women's my favorite Babylon B headline picture
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Speaker 3: of Hakeem Jeffries. Congress assures Americans that they're still being
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Speaker 3: paid during the government shutdown. But remember this is shut
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Speaker 3: down one. Shut down one oh one is based on
47:04
Speaker 3: not just what is determined essential or not. And it's
47:16
Speaker 3: my stand on this that this is another air traffic
47:21
Speaker 3: controller situation that is going to need a Ronald Reagan
47:25
Speaker 3: kind of response because they're holding the country hostage. And
47:32
Speaker 3: if you're going to be considered an essential employee, that
47:35
Speaker 3: comes with a certain amount of responsibility not to just
47:41
Speaker 3: get your union on and stage of blue flu I
47:49
Speaker 3: know they were all using legitimate sick time. None of
47:53
Speaker 3: them were None of them were staying home without permission.
47:57
Speaker 3: They were all allowed to buy their union agree mins
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Speaker 3: use sick time so they can shut down the entire country,
48:12
Speaker 3: cripple large swaths of the population. Notice these happened on
48:17
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday, busiest travel days of the year, regardless.
48:27
Speaker 3: But the mainstream media, the legacy media, the corporate media,
48:31
Speaker 3: however you want to deride them, is out there making
48:36
Speaker 3: it seem like it's Donald Trump's fault because he's in
48:39
Speaker 3: Southeast Asia. Saw one story that said President able to
48:44
Speaker 3: fly to various countries of Southeast Asia. Americans not so much.
48:52
Speaker 3: A yellow journalism is on the phone and they watch
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Speaker 3: you to cease and desist and giving them a bad name.
49:00
Speaker 3: Nobody's mentioning Chuck Schumer except to quote Chuck Schumer who
49:06
Speaker 3: said that the President had abandoned his post to go
49:13
Speaker 3: visit world leaders that we trade with. I thought that
49:17
Speaker 3: was an important thing, Chuck. That was why Joe Biden
49:20
Speaker 3: this is so. I mean, okay, you're the minority leader
49:27
Speaker 3: in the Senate, show some leadership instead of just sitting
49:31
Speaker 3: there like a backbencher. Congress person who's just trying to
49:34
Speaker 3: get some hits on Facebook or social media, trying to
49:39
Speaker 3: get a TikTok video shared. Gosh, President has nothing to
49:48
Speaker 3: do with the government shutdown. Chuck, you need to meet
49:52
Speaker 3: with Mike Johnson and maybe even John Thun. How about
49:55
Speaker 3: John Thun. Let's not even worry about getting Chuck Schumer
49:58
Speaker 3: in the same room with Mike Johns. How about you
50:02
Speaker 3: call John Thune, the Senate majority leader. But they're not
50:09
Speaker 3: speaking to one another, then therein lies the problem with
50:14
Speaker 3: the partial government shutdown. But there's no money to be sent.
50:23
Speaker 3: But if you're an essential employee, how is it you're
50:26
Speaker 3: able to just have half or three quarters of your
50:29
Speaker 3: staff call in sick. That doesn't strike me as a
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Speaker 3: contract worthy of essential government employees. What I would do is,
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Speaker 3: if I was a governor of one of these states,
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Speaker 3: I'd say, hey, listen, we're hiring air traffic controllers. We're
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Speaker 3: taking over We're taking over the tower in our state.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure some people who work for the various airlines
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Speaker 3: know how to do air traffic control work an American
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Speaker 3: and United and Spirit well, I don't know, maybe send
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Speaker 3: some guys up into the tower to watch the radar
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Speaker 3: and talk the planes in and push the tin. Oh no,
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Speaker 3: we can't go in there. It's a union shop. This
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Speaker 3: is a classic example of how we're killing ourselves with
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Speaker 3: the way we allow labor unions to operate in this
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Speaker 3: day and age. Whether it's the teachers, the truckers, or
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Speaker 3: the telephone operators, the butchers, the bakers, the candlestick makers,
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Speaker 3: they all have to work because they're doing it for
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Speaker 3: their own dime. But these unionized government employees who know
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Speaker 3: that their employer can never be driven out of business,
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Speaker 3: unlike a unionized butcher or bakery or candlestick makery, government
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Speaker 3: can't go out of business, quote unquote, so they're just
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Speaker 3: they just keep piling on, getting worse and worse and worse,
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Speaker 3: more draconian morduke. And then when the excrement hits the
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Speaker 3: air handler like, you know what, I'm staying home. I'm
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Speaker 3: going to watch the Texas football game. And America grinds
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Speaker 3: to a halt and civilians are left stuck in airports,
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Speaker 3: sometimes having to you know, sit there and figure out,
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Speaker 3: you know, how to sleep in one of those airport
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Speaker 3: chairs while they wait for another flight to pick them
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Speaker 3: up and take them where they have to go. It's crazy,
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Speaker 3: but this is what we allow to happen in today's
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Speaker 3: troubled world.
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