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"The Founders Tried to Save Us" (Saturday October 25, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: We'll do it making mornings great again. Well, the first
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Speaker 1: thing today on the Tunk media at Thomas.
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Speaker 2: We'll do it.
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Speaker 3: Lin Jord said, steal me. I think we're lying this morning.
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Speaker 4: Please for work when the sun comes up.
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Speaker 5: School memo, don't use that if we're not.
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Speaker 6: The one that Joe's smile the only eggs.
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Speaker 5: Joe, thank you for letting us be of service to
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Speaker 5: you this Saturday morning. Bob in Moscow, we were talking
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Speaker 5: about this, Will the Republicans keep the Affordable Care Act?
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Speaker 5: But remember there's punishments if you don't get the Affordable
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Speaker 5: Care Act that are still there if you lie on
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Speaker 5: your tax forms about having it.
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Speaker 7: Rich I understand, but the crazy thing is that only
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Speaker 7: applies to you if you're not a Democrat. Only Republicans
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Speaker 7: and Conservatives would be put in jail. Because we've all
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Speaker 7: seen how many Democrats have broken the laws in the
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Speaker 7: past ten years and nothing happens to them. About Hillary
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Speaker 7: Clinton and the ambassador in Benghazi that was killed. How
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Speaker 7: come she has never had to be accounted for that.
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Speaker 7: But it all comes down to, like, I had the
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Speaker 7: affordable character at one point when I you know, after
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Speaker 7: I'd left and moved to Russia, and I just dropped
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Speaker 7: it because it wasn't worth having something that I wasn't
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Speaker 7: ever going to be able to use living overseas and
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Speaker 7: getting my healthcare overseas because it was a lot cheaper.
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Speaker 3: Let alone.
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Speaker 7: The six thousand dollars deductible at the time, which was
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Speaker 7: six seven years ago, has probably increased now that six
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Speaker 7: thousand dollars deduct Okay, say well, for me, it was
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Speaker 7: six thousand dollars drug that's six thousand dollars deductibles. Then
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Speaker 7: percent for fifteen hundred dollars.
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Speaker 5: But it's the point I was making, Bob, and I
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Speaker 5: appreciate you checking in. I'm glad you're listening on a
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Speaker 5: Saturday too. Is that this is all feeding us to
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Speaker 5: a point where we say, you know what, Bernie, take
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Speaker 5: it all over, tell us what we can eat, tell
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Speaker 5: us where we can sleep, tell us you know what
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Speaker 5: we can get from our doctor. We're done trying to
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Speaker 5: deal with this. And that's where I feel like this is,
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Speaker 5: you know, the ultimate in overwhelming gas lighting, right, And.
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Speaker 7: I understand what you're saying. That's why when I called
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Speaker 7: in before we've talked, I said, right now, the Republicans
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Speaker 7: need to call a queen. Jefferies, Bernie Sanders, there's all
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Speaker 7: these Democrats plus Hey, okay, we're going to fund a
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Speaker 7: one item bill in the Senate and the House of
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Speaker 7: Representatives in Congress. A one item bill. That's it. We
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Speaker 7: will fund Obamacare, not allow the expenses to rise. Continue
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Speaker 7: with the level of it is with the caveats that
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Speaker 7: all federal employees and anyone that's contracted with the federal
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Speaker 7: government has to be on Obamacare. Two no illegal aliens
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Speaker 7: will be allowed to have Obamacare. And three do away
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Speaker 7: with the rule that says illegal aliens can walk into
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Speaker 7: the emergency room and get free healthcare.
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Speaker 3: I think it's a winning combination. You're elected.
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Speaker 5: There you go, that's your platform, Planks, Bob, you have
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Speaker 5: a great morning, sir, or after where you are.
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Speaker 5: I'm not going to read the email address because it
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Speaker 5: ruins the punchline. So I'm just going to read the email.
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Speaker 5: Dear Joe, love your program, listen to it every day. However,
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Speaker 5: It signed James Comey. Appreciate that, Alpha Dog. I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: There.
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Speaker 3: That was good.
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Speaker 5: I appreciate the punchline to that. No, we're not blocking
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Speaker 5: the stream. And you know, honestly, what do we talk
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Speaker 5: about here that I imagine if you took something out
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Speaker 5: of context. Hell, if the Steel dossier can say the
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Speaker 5: president paid hookers to jump up and down on a bed,
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Speaker 5: Barack Obama slept, and you name it.
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Speaker 3: Maybe that's what Barack.
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Speaker 5: Obama and Donald Trump were talking about at the funeral.
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Speaker 5: Remember the famous picture like they're talking to each other
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Speaker 5: and laughing. Maybe he was telling you, you know, Barack
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Speaker 5: I actually did that. Meanwhile, Barack Obama's attorney general slash
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Speaker 5: attack dog, Eric Holder, came into my mind yesterday. We
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Speaker 5: were talking about all this mania going on across the
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Speaker 5: country about redistricting. Here here in Virginia, it's gotten so bad.
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Speaker 5: We're challenging Wisconsin for the most crazy attempt to rewrite
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Speaker 5: voting laws in the history of the United States, or
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Speaker 5: at least since Teapot Dome, because Virginia is trying to
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Speaker 5: compress a two to four year requirement for constitutional amendment.
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Speaker 5: As many states, our voting redistricting laws are written into
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Speaker 5: our constitution specifically to make it hard to change them.
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Speaker 5: And Virginia Delegate former Congressman Tom Garrett told us what
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Speaker 5: they're trying to do.
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Speaker 21: Well, that's not some of these states we're talking about Virginia,
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Speaker 21: but Virginia matters to every other state because again, this
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Speaker 21: is quite illegal in Virginia because the non partisan redistricting
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Speaker 21: process in Virginia is voted in the Virginia Constitution, and
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Speaker 21: to amend the Virginia Constitution, you have to have a
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Speaker 21: vote of the majority of the members of the General
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Speaker 21: Assembly of both chambers, and then you have to have
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Speaker 21: a second vote with an intervening election. Now, this is
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Speaker 21: intervening elections very key here. So their argument is that
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Speaker 21: the November fourth election would be the intervening election.
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Speaker 5: So they're trying to say that an election that we've
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Speaker 5: already been voting for almost two months on and I
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Speaker 5: know Long Island, you guys are just starting to vote today.
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Speaker 5: Today's the first day of your early voting window. Oh,
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Speaker 5: we're so jealous here in Virginia. They're trying to take
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Speaker 5: something that's supposed to take at minimum two years and
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Speaker 5: in many cases three or four and compress it into
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Speaker 5: just a few months time. Because what they'll do is
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Speaker 5: they'll they'll claim that Tuesday's election, Tuesday, November fourth election
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Speaker 5: is the intervening election. Then when they gabble in the
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Speaker 5: General Assembly in January, the new one with new members,
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Speaker 5: they'll vote for it again, claim figuring they have a majority,
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Speaker 5: and then send it to the voters in a special
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Speaker 5: election in April. Then once the special election referendum is held,
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Speaker 5: they will redraw the districts before the twenty twenty sixth election.
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Speaker 5: Now imagine you compress that down so people won't know
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Speaker 5: what congressional districts they're running in or voting in. Tell
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Speaker 5: me that doesn't sound like it's a violation of the
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Speaker 5: Voting Rights Act. Perhaps poll tax people won't know until
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Speaker 5: the spring who they're voting for or what district they're
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Speaker 5: in in November of twenty twenty six, and who would
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Speaker 5: think of something like that?
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Speaker 3: I give you.
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Speaker 5: Barack Obama's former attack dog, the man who told us all.
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Speaker 2: She says that, you know, when they go low, we
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Speaker 2: when they go low, we kick.
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Speaker 3: Eric Holder? Or is he told? What's her name? I can't.
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Speaker 5: I never remember her name. You know, the whole NBC Face,
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Speaker 5: the Nation, meet the press. Stuff has gone sour for
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Speaker 5: me ever since Tim left.
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Speaker 18: But anyway, I want to start off by asking you
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Speaker 18: this morning, the homepage of the group you lead, the
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Speaker 18: National Democratic Redistricting Committee, says, quote, there is no off
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Speaker 18: season in redistricting. Jerry Mandering poses a critical threat to
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Speaker 18: our democracy. But now you're arguing that Democrats are going
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Speaker 18: to have to use jerry mandering quote in order to
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Speaker 18: save our democracy. So let me ask you, how can
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Speaker 18: jerry mandering both be a threat to democracy and also.
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Speaker 20: The way to save it?
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Speaker 5: Now, if you're listening, I want you to think about
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Speaker 5: historical times when other leaders in other countries used similar statements.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's no question that jerry mandering is a threat
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Speaker 2: to our democracy. It allows politicians to pick their voters
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Speaker 2: as opposed to citizens. Choosing their representatives. But we are
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Speaker 2: now in a situation where we find ourselves where authoritarian
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Speaker 2: moves are being made by the White House through various states,
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Speaker 2: Texas most prominent among.
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Speaker 5: Them, and nobody in the young Lady who hosts to
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Speaker 5: meet the present I would never bothered to say, which
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Speaker 5: authoritarian moves are you speaking of, mister Holder.
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Speaker 2: And there has to be a response to that. What
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Speaker 2: I've said is that we have to pret detect our
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Speaker 2: democracy now if we ultimately want to be able to
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Speaker 2: save it, and so taking the reasonable steps that have
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Speaker 2: been proposed in California, I think it makes a great
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Speaker 2: deal of sense in this moment, a temporary way in
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Speaker 2: which to respond to that which is happening in Texas,
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Speaker 2: with the thought that after this crisis has passed, we
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Speaker 2: get back to the fight against gerrymandering by anybody.
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Speaker 5: So you might recognize some of the themes in that
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Speaker 5: statement if you're a study of let's say, ancient history.
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Speaker 5: This is ostensibly what Julius Caesar told the Roman Senate
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Speaker 5: when he seized power, that his descendants and future emperors
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Speaker 5: didn't give up for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's
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Speaker 5: It's only only temporary. So when you wonder who's behind
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Speaker 5: all of this Prop fifty in California and Kathy Hochels
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Speaker 5: attempts to circumvent the legislative process even in New York State,
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Speaker 5: there's your man, Eric Holder, the man who who learned
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Speaker 5: very quickly and taught Merrick Garland all he needed to
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Speaker 5: know about wielding power. And one would argue that we
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Speaker 5: know a lot about what Merrick Garland did as Attorney General,
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Speaker 5: job is not to establish rights and freedoms, it's to
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Speaker 5: codify the ones that they are being protected. And how
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Speaker 5: do you protect somebody's rights by making sure that government
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Speaker 5: does not grow authoritarian and centralized. So here's the actual
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Speaker 5: text of the original First Amendment, and yes, it would
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Speaker 5: create a Congress of I think it's sixty four or
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Speaker 5: one hundred people in the US House of Representatives. But
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Speaker 5: imagine for a moment that big red map with all
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Speaker 5: eighty five percent of all those counties that voted for
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Speaker 5: Donald Trump over Kamala Harris and the and the other
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Speaker 5: maybe five percent that were within a point So maybe
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Speaker 5: it was fifty one, forty nine, fifty point five to
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Speaker 5: forty nine point five. So there's a lot of very
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Speaker 5: very pale blue counties as well. Imagine all of them
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Speaker 5: having congress people of their own. I mean, fifty thousand
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Speaker 5: people is barely the population of the city of Charlotte. No,
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Speaker 5: the city of Charlottesville is twenty three thousand. So maybe
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Speaker 5: the city of Charlottesville and the county that surrounds it
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Speaker 5: gets a congress person of their own. Better to be
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Speaker 5: a Democrat. Guess what. Lots of Democrats live in the
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Speaker 5: college town. I bet you parts of Suffolk County would
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Speaker 5: have a Democrat representative. Guess what, that's what representative means
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Speaker 5: if there's an area with lots of Democrats living in it,
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Speaker 5: they're going to have a Democrat leading it. But these
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Speaker 5: areas have grown so large congressional districts are averaging in
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Speaker 5: excess of seven hundred thousand people. This is what George
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Speaker 5: Mason originally said. After the first enumeration required by the
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Speaker 5: first article of the Constitution, the census, there shall be
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Speaker 5: one representative for every thirty thousand until the number shall
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Speaker 5: amount to one hundred. So for every thirty thousand citizens
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Speaker 5: after we count, there will be a congress person until
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Speaker 5: that number gets to be one hundred. Now they're taking
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Speaker 5: into effect that more people were going to be moving
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Speaker 5: to the country. So after we reached one hundred members
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Speaker 5: of Congress and another census was taken, there shall be
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Speaker 5: no less than one hundred represented, no less than one
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Speaker 5: representative for every forty thousand persons, until that number then
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Speaker 5: reaches two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so
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Speaker 5: regulated by Congress that there shall not be less than
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Speaker 5: two hundred representatives, nor more than one representative for every
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Speaker 5: fifty thousand persons. So in a Congress that actually represents
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Speaker 5: all that quote flyover country, and this is where it's
49:42
Speaker 5: difficult to conceive what I'm talking about, because even I
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Speaker 5: can hear inside my head my debate training taking the
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Speaker 5: other side saying, but Joe, I said I thought we
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Speaker 5: were for small government. I never said I was for
49:55
Speaker 5: small government. I want representative government. I believe representative of
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Speaker 5: government becomes small government. And the districts of what are
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Speaker 5: what have grown large. You're further away from your congressional
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Speaker 5: representative than you ever have been before. And another argument,
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Speaker 5: but Joe, nothing will ever get done six thousand, Well,
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Speaker 5: you still have to vote on stuff. There's fifty one
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Speaker 5: percent of six thousand, so there will still be votes
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Speaker 5: taken in Congress. There will still be committee hearings. It'll
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Speaker 5: be harder to corrupt that many congress people. And you
50:42
Speaker 5: know what else you might wind up with other political
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Speaker 5: parties besides Republicans and Democrats. This is why something like
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Speaker 5: this has to be brought up through the Article five conventions.
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Speaker 5: And I'm thinking a part of me, and you know,
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Speaker 5: I'm a huge advocate for what we're currently trying to
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Speaker 5: do Invention of States dot com, but part of me
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Speaker 5: is thinking, I want to start an Article five convention
51:07
Speaker 5: drive just simply based on bringing back this first Amendment
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Speaker 5: and getting rid of the racially based Permanent Reapportionment Act
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Speaker 5: of nineteen twenty nine, because once the white sheets had
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Speaker 5: been pulled off of the Democrats, they were the ones
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Speaker 5: that supported this, and it was supported and built specifically
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Speaker 5: to keep the growing black population from overwhelming Congress with representatives.
51:47
Speaker 5: So everyone who yells at me about Thomas Jefferson and
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Speaker 5: Sally Hemings and James Madison slaves saying that the country
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Speaker 5: is based in racism, look at the Permanent Reapportionment Act
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Speaker 5: of eighteen twenty nine that capped the size of the
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Speaker 5: US House of Representatives at four hundred and thirty five
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Speaker 5: and set us on this Eric Holder driven mania about
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Speaker 5: redistricting and jerrymandering, and look at the racial underpinnings of that.
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Speaker 5: Don't holler at me about racism baked into the cake
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Speaker 5: of the United States. Anyway, Enjoy your weekend. It sounds
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Speaker 5: like Halloween weekend is going to be a mess. But
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Speaker 5: we'll be back here on a Saturday morning then as well.
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Speaker 5: But time for us to roll out of here. I've
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Speaker 5: got a Turning Point USA event to go to today,
52:38
Speaker 5: in an Alzheimer's event to go to tomorrow, so I'll
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Speaker 5: recap that for you on Monday if you happen to
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Speaker 5: get the Monday version of the show at five am.
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Speaker 5: Until then, I'm Joe Thomas. So long and thanks for
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Speaker 5: all the fish.
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