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"The Schemes of the Do-Gooders" (FTTxJT Thu 101526 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We didn't make talk radio, we made it better. First
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  Speaker 1: Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at a steel mill, he's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 2: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the
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  Speaker 2: kids to school and on the way. Joe has everything
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  Speaker 2: he dreamed of, all the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 3: Ain't that the truth?
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  Speaker 4: Bless you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 4: this morning. On the radio program, the first and foremost
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  Speaker 4: us to make you satisfied enough with our efforts. I,
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  Speaker 4: for my part, will tell you what went on last night.
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  Speaker 4: I'll give you my analysis of it. But mostly, I
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  Speaker 4: Text messages at 434-882-4217. You can also use that for
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  Speaker 4: the traditional talk radio call-in. Or you can send emails
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  Speaker 4: to jtinthemorningradio at gmail.com. Hakeem Jeffries out there saying, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I've got a 100-hour agenda. We're going to hit the
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  Speaker 4: ground running. We're going to make America affordable again. That's
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  Speaker 4: their mantra. Really? Okay. Can we break that down a
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  Speaker 4: little bit here? Can we break down what has made
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  Speaker 4: America inaffordable? Because if you're going to claim, and this is,
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  Speaker 4: of course, thin on this stuff. If you're going to
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  Speaker 4: claim that somehow acts of Congress are going to make
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  Speaker 4: America affordable again, one like me would presume that you're
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  Speaker 4: admitting that you've made it inaffordable. Because I've seen no
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  Speaker 4: accusations as to who's made it unaffordable otherwise, except for
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  Speaker 4: the shadowy oligarchs that Bernie Sanders keeps talking about. Also,
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  Speaker 4: Ukraine is getting the short end of the stick. At
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  Speaker 4: least that's Volodymyr Zelensky's accusations that now Starlink and the
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  Speaker 4: veiled accusation under orders from above, I thought they were
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  Speaker 4: the orders above, has started throttling back the Ukrainian use
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  Speaker 4: of Starlink to conduct their battles against the Russian army,
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  Speaker 4: vaguely and veiled threats and accusations that Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 4: asked Elon Musk to cut into their abilities. We begin
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  Speaker 4: there with our first things. Ukrainian drones have been restricted
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  Speaker 4: on battlefield use of Starlink. Meanwhile, Ukraine is continuing to
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  Speaker 4: point fingers at, quote, Western partners because they did not
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  Speaker 4: receive intel that they claimed the Western partners in unnamed
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  Speaker 4: fashion knew of Russian ballistic missiles incoming to Kiev. President
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  Speaker 4: Trump was asked about that. He said, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: anything about that. I just want this war to be over.
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  Speaker 4: seized her telephone and issued more than a dozen grand
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  Speaker 4: jury subpoenas, including some of her relatives. According to members
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  Speaker 4: of the probe, the subpoenas were issued for grand jury
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  Speaker 4: collecting evidence in Minnesota as authorities probe fraud on her
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  Speaker 4: immigration paperwork. Mark Wayne Mullen has said, as much as
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  Speaker 4: confirmed that in discussions with the press. President Trump used
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  Speaker 4: in defense of the Second Amendment. He said to the
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  Speaker 4: crowd that it would be under siege if Democrats gained
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  Speaker 4: control of Congress in November. Hakeem Jeffries said he right
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  Speaker 4: out of the gate will be reinstating Affordable Care Act
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  Speaker 4: the Iranian war as part of his Making America Affordable
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by joe thomas on the following pre-recorded political.
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  Speaker 4: Tvs So the Democrats are going to make things more
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  Speaker 4: affordable again by instituting all the taxes that President Trump
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  Speaker 4: has cut back on, all the mandates that government has
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  Speaker 4: been imposing on you. How is that supposed to make
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  Speaker 4: things more affordable? It's not. And that's the thing that
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  Speaker 4: I hope that the opponents of this agenda are campaigning on.
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  Speaker 4: I wish there were some Democrats that would call this
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  Speaker 4: lie out. I wish that during primary season there were
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  Speaker 4: members of the Democratic Party who I know for a
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  Speaker 4: fact understand this Lyndon Johnson great society double down is
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  Speaker 4: exactly what it is. And, you know, even back at
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  Speaker 4: the very beginning of the Great Society, we knew.
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  Speaker 17: When the government tells you you're depressed, lie down and
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  Speaker 17: be depressed. We have so many people who can't see
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  Speaker 17: a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming
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  Speaker 17: to the conclusion the fat man got that way by
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  Speaker 17: taking advantage of the thin one. So they're going to
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  Speaker 17: solve all the problems of human misery through government and
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  Speaker 17: government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had
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  Speaker 17: the answer... And they've had almost 30 years of it.
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  Speaker 17: Shouldn't we expect government to read the score to us
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  Speaker 17: once in a while? Shouldn't they be telling us about
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  Speaker 17: the decline each year in the number of people needing help?
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  Speaker 4: No, they can't. And now it's been more than that.
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  Speaker 4: It's been 90 years. And we have more poor people
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  Speaker 4: than we've ever had. And you know why that's not
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  Speaker 4: a flaw but a feature? You tell me if you disagree.
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  Speaker 4: because it gets Democrats elected. Democrats have figured out that
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  Speaker 4: calling you stupid, calling you incapable, calling you untalented, ill-conceived, overburdensome, excess,
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  Speaker 4: somehow wins for them. Now, to be fair, only about
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  Speaker 4: 25% of the United States population believes that. But the
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  Speaker 4: other part of the Democratic, and really it's the progressive tactic,
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  Speaker 4: and it's not just because the Keynesian Marxists infect the
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  Speaker 4: Republican Party just as much. This is what Ronald Reagan
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  Speaker 4: was calling out as he quit the Democratic Party in
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  Speaker 4: 1964 and endorsed the Republican Barry Goldwater for president. still,
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  Speaker 4: still to this day, and there are folks who have
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  Speaker 4: emailed me behind the scenes when we play clips from
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  Speaker 4: this famous time for choosing speech. Apparently at the time,
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  Speaker 4: there were a lot of people that thought Goldwater completely
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  Speaker 4: screwed up by doing it, partially because there were Republicans,
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  Speaker 4: I know shocking this will be, to hear that a
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  Speaker 4: Democrat endorsed Barry Goldwater, well, then I definitely can't vote
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  Speaker 4: for Barry Goldwater. Because they never bothered to listen to
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  Speaker 4: Reagan's message as to why he was quitting the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 4: They just heard, Democrat endorses Goldwater, Goldwater must be Democrat.
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  Speaker 4: Post hoc ergo propter hoc. But then there was also
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  Speaker 4: a percentage that thought Reagan did a better job explaining
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  Speaker 4: the campaign than Goldwater did. Therefore, they all wished Reagan
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  Speaker 4: had run for president against Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society.
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  Speaker 4: What a different world. And as a sci-fi fan, and
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  Speaker 4: particularly in the milieu of time travel, what a world
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  Speaker 4: it would be if you and me could jump into
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  Speaker 4: our TARDIS and Go back to 1963 and 64 and
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  Speaker 4: convince Governor Reagan that instead of endorsing Barry Goldwater, it
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  Speaker 4: would be better that he ran himself. You know, bring
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  Speaker 4: back some smart guys, some great campaigners. Zach Worrell would
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  Speaker 4: be one that I'd throw into the TARDIS with me.
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  Speaker 4: He said, come on, Zach, you run the campaign for him.
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  Speaker 4: Get some of these winners involved. Stephen Miller, get some
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  Speaker 4: of these folks back there, policy people, Susie Wiles. Let's
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  Speaker 4: go back there and win one for the Gipper in 1964.
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  Speaker 4: What a world it would be if Reagan took on
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  Speaker 4: Lyndon Johnson, because Reagan, I believe, could have overcome the,
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  Speaker 4: but he was Kennedy's VP, because there were a lot
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  Speaker 4: of Democrats that really didn't like Kennedy's choice of Lyndon Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of Democrats that just didn't like Lyndon Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: So you had that too. Oh, what a different world
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  Speaker 4: it would be if Reagan was able to take the
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  Speaker 4: time for choosing and make it a time for choosing
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  Speaker 4: between him and the great society. Because by the time
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  Speaker 4: Reagan does win the presidency, 16 years later, a generation
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  Speaker 4: has lived under welfare. A generation has been told, don't try.
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  Speaker 4: Trying equals not having as much stuff as you could
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  Speaker 4: have if we give it to you. Oh, what a
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  Speaker 4: different world it would be. And think about it. Gameplay
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  Speaker 4: this out just for fun. I know it's early in
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  Speaker 4: the morning, but just for giggles. Think about this. Reagan
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  Speaker 4: beats Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Does he make Nixon? You're
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  Speaker 4: not going to have two Californians on the ticket. You
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  Speaker 4: can't even begin to imagine who the VP would be,
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  Speaker 4: but he's definitely getting two terms. Reagan also wanted us out,
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  Speaker 4: as did JFK. Reagan agreed with JFK on Vietnam. Are
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  Speaker 4: we out of Vietnam long before? Do we get Vietnam settled?
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  Speaker 4: So Reagan wins in 64, wins in 68. So now
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  Speaker 4: do we have Watergate? Does Watergate ever happen? Does the
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  Speaker 4: press not become this imaginary knight in shining armor with
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  Speaker 4: Woodward and Bernstein on their family crest out there specifically
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  Speaker 4: trying to tear down anyone they politically disagree with. And
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  Speaker 4: by that, I mean who aren't populists who just say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I could get you some free stuff because we in
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  Speaker 4: the media, we traffic in free stuff. That's how we
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  Speaker 4: get you to listen or watch or tune in. We'll
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  Speaker 4: give you free stuff. or will promote the people who
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  Speaker 4: are giving you free stuff. What a different world you create.
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  Speaker 4: So Reagan's president until 1972. Do you get Nixon then?
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  Speaker 4: Who comes out of the Republican Party in 72 who
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  Speaker 4: serves as his vice president? Rockefeller? I mean, that could
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  Speaker 4: be bad wrapped in awful. Reagan picked George H.W.
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  Speaker 1: Bush.
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  Speaker 4: George H.W. Bush was busy spying on everybody at this point.
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  Speaker 4: Does he pick Nelson Rockefeller? So now you've got a
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  Speaker 4: Rockefeller running for president in 72? You open up a
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  Speaker 4: whole new can of worms that could go just as
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  Speaker 17: Three million families in this country are poverty stricken on
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  Speaker 17: spending 10 times greater than it was in the dark
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  Speaker 17: million poor families, we'd be able to give each family $ 4, 600
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  Speaker 4: Now, I've taken the opportunity because of my New York
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  Speaker 4: allow calculators in the classroom? Now it's artificial intelligence. But
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  Speaker 4: I did a little arithmetic at the urging of then
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  Speaker 4: Governor Reagan. And do you know that based on the
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  Speaker 4: amount of families that still live underneath what is considered
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: the poverty level in the United States, if you take
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: the amount of welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, all of the social programs,
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: the safety, net that has become more like a fishing net,
• 29:43
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  Speaker 4: the poverty line in 2000, well, technically, I did the
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  Speaker 4: arithmetic in 2025. The arithmetic pencils out the same. Nothing's changed,
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  Speaker 4: even through Reagan's administration. Although now we're starting to try
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  Speaker 4: to roll it back. So Hakeem Jeffries says the first
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  Speaker 4: hundred hours, never mind the first hundred minutes, the first
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: hundred hours of the Democrat-controlled of Congress expect every single
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• 30:43
  Speaker 4: then do but veto it all? And these are the
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• 30:59
  Speaker 4: Care Act tax breaks, which in and among themselves alone
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: proves the lie of 2009. The lie of 2009 was
• 31:10
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  Speaker 4: here in Virginia running for return to Congress under the
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: banner of fixing a broken healthcare system, which he broke,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: and nobody is calling him on it. I guess the expression,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: if you broke it, you bought it, has some application there. Anyway,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: just one of the many things here. I don't know
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: if you saw this story or not. James Comer on
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Tuesday said, opened an investigation into Harriet's wildest dreams and
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: Free D.C. He's issued subpoenas looking for their records in
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: what they call jury training activities and the funding that
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: goes into that jury training. The House Oversight Committee of
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: which our friend John, who actually was on the show
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: the other day and was calling Perry Ello out for
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: breaking the health care system, and actually, believe it or not,
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: echoed what this show has been saying all along about refine, baby, refine.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: It's weird because often I say things, because especially the
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  Speaker 4: political type, you know, they're in the midst of campaign.
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  Speaker 4: They're in probably the most ultimate bubble you can ever,
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  Speaker 4: Because the most awkward moment in radio is when Joe
• 32:55
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  Speaker 4: headed to next? And they're like, I don't know. We
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  Speaker 4: pull up and the guy who's working with me tells me, hey,
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  Speaker 4: this is San Luis Obispo and you're going to be
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  Speaker 4: talking to. It's live in the now. I mean, it
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  Speaker 4: is the ultimate in live in the now. But Jamie Comer,
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  Speaker 4: looking into Free DC and Harriet's Wildest Dreams, two groups
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: that he says work on jury training. Comer's oversight committee
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  Speaker 4: alleges the groups encourage prospective jurors to conceal political biases
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  Speaker 4: during selection and undermine prosecutions through predetermined acquittals. Now, We
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: talk frequently, probably at distraction. You guys get sick of
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: hearing me talk about coming from Charlottesville and the importance
• 34:00
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• 34:06
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  Speaker 4: But some of the gravity that we pull in here
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: is one of the great left-wing things chroniclers, one of
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: the great left-wing bards of the 20th century and still
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: hanging around into the 21st, John Grisham. And this is
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: right out of Runaway Jury, isn't it? That these two
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: anti-gun zealots get themselves onto a jury to screw up
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Gene Hackman's jury consulting operation and get a massive verdict
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: against into the liability of the evil gun manufacturers. But
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: apparently John Grisham was writing nonfiction when he wrote about
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: this kind of stuff. And even more so, this is
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: a couple of groups that collect money. And that's what
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: he's looking into is partially where they get their money.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Does it come through the ultimate Democrat money laundering machine,
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  Speaker 4: Act Blue? Does it come right from the Open Society Foundation?
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: Does Alex and George Soros cut the checks to them themselves?
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: The groups in their defense describe their workshops as education workshops.
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  Speaker 4: about jury service and fairness. Is there anything in the
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  Speaker 4: task of a jury to try to come up with
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: a fair verdict? Have you ever served on a jury?
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  Speaker 4: I have. And it's fascinating, really. I did it almost
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: as a social experiment because everyone in my business is like, oh,
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: I want to get out of jury duty. I've got
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  Speaker 4: I want to serve. I want to see what this
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  Speaker 4: is like. And so I actually did serve on this jury.
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  Speaker 4: And the process, it's very interesting. But one of the
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  Speaker 4: things you're not asked to do is come back with
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: a fair verdict. But these groups, they want these jurors,
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  Speaker 4: these trained jurors who are trained on first on how
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: to get on a jury and then come up with,
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: that's the allegation, is screw up or create activism through
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Would you grab decaf.
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  Speaker 20: This morning?
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  Speaker 16: No.
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  Speaker 4: As we gather in and we unpack the schemes of
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• 44:41
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  Speaker 4: for you. This is what's on the ballot for some
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  Speaker 4: of you in a few weeks, for some of us
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  Speaker 4: currently ongoing. And here's a great story about it. Nicholas
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  Speaker 4: Riccardi writing for the Associated Press. And this is one
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  Speaker 4: of those things, this is a news story? No, it's
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  Speaker 4: a campaign hit piece, masquerading as opinion, masquerading as news,
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: because it's been laundered through the Associated Press. With anger
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  Speaker 4: spreading over the Iran war, says the reporter or the
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  Speaker 4: headline writer, Democrats hope to flip Republican seats with veterans' helps.
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  Speaker 4: And it caught my attention because Elaine Luria is the
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  Speaker 4: cover girl for this particular article. She's trying to get
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  Speaker 4: back into Congress, just like Tom Perriello, to fix the
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: things that she broke. The legislative branch needs to put
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: up guardrails from President Trump, said Colonel Lou Christensen in
• 46:20
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  Speaker 4: Star Spangled Banner as its play. The registered Republican, 28-year
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  Speaker 4: We need another branch of government that stands up and says, uh, boss,
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  Speaker 4: that's not constitutional. And herein And Christensen's point and his
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  Speaker 4: statement belies everything that is problematic with the military and politics.
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  Speaker 4: Because the military is constructed differently than the American society is.
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  Speaker 4: The military is hierarchical. You have boss. You have an underboss.
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  Speaker 4: You have an under-underboss. I mean, you have bosses. And
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  Speaker 4: the citizens of your area, not your commanding officer. And
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: Trump is not the boss. The president is not the
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: boss of Congress. This is a dangerous situation, though, because
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: they're going after military veterans who saying Trump started new wars.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: It's the Tucker Carlson mania. I don't know. It seems
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: like most of the veterans I speak to get the fact,
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: and I'm alone in this.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: I heard.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, who's the guy on the morning... Oh, gosh. I
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: actually did an event with him, and I'm forgetting his name,
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: from Fox TV. But... He's the only other person I've
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: heard say, this is the oldest war in American history,
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: and Trump's just trying to end it. Kilmeade, thank you.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: I'll give Kilmeade credit there. And not just because he
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: came and did an event with me here in Charlottesville
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: back in the day. It's part of my redacted history
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: that I can't talk about, so don't tell any lawyers.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: But they're using this war in Iran... As a way
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: to get veterans to say he lied about not starting
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: new wars. Did he? 434-882-4217. You tell me. Good morning.
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: You're on the air with Joe first thing this morning.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: Who's this?
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Hey, Joe.
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  Speaker 14: It's Clark.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Clark. As a representative of a red state, Alabama,
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: and a veteran, did Trump lie to you? Are you
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: going to vote for a Democrat in Alabama because Trump
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: lied and people died?
• 49:17
  Speaker 8: Well, let's just go a fuzz deeper. than that. A
• 49:21
  Speaker 8: veteran of Beirut. We are eight days from October the 23rd, Joe.
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: Maybe if we'd have paid attention to 23 October 83,
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: we wouldn't have had 9-11.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: There's a case to be made for sure.
• 49:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that was Iran. So, hey, if I'm paying more
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: at the pump and we're toppling that regime, how's that
• 49:49
  Speaker 8: ad go? Like, this cost this much and this cost
• 49:54
  Speaker 8: that much? Toppling the IRGC priceless? There you go.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: Well, and remember, we were paying a whole lot more
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: three years ago, and we weren't toppling this regime that's
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: been causing trouble. So, I'm just pointing this out. So,
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: I'm just pointing this out.
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: The choke point is the commodity traders and the way
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: we allow oil to be done. But the reason I called,
• 50:20
  Speaker 8: you had mentioned Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act. Do just
• 50:24
  Speaker 8: a little bit of research there and look at what
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: they did to private practice doctors.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God. Oh, it's awful. And you know what?
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: The sad thing is this guy, Perriello, was the tie-breaking vote.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: His whole family were private practice doctors, his sister, his father.
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: You know, what they did was, through regulatory pressure, they
• 50:47
  Speaker 8: pretty much made it to where you couldn't afford to
• 50:50
  Speaker 8: have a private practice as a doctor. You had to
• 50:53
  Speaker 8: join a hospital group, which puts you in a corporate structure. Now,
• 50:59
  Speaker 8: here's the thing. I go see the quote-unquote doctor, which
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: isn't a doctor, it's a nurse practitioner, because the hospital
• 51:06
  Speaker 8: group doesn't want to spend the money for me to
• 51:07
  Speaker 8: see a doctor.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: And your insurance company won't cover it.
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: They pull some blood and they run some blood work.
• 51:14
  Speaker 8: And who do I get a bill from, Joe? Do
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: I get a bill from the doctor's office?
• 51:18
  Speaker 17: No, I don't.
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 51:20
  Speaker 8: I get a bill from the hospital, which is not
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: owned locally. It's owned by the Huntsville Hospital Group, which
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: own everything within a 60 or 70 mile radius of them.
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: So the point of the Affordable Care Act was not
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: to fix health care. It was to rig health care.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: So well said. That was the point. And we called
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: it out. See, this is the frustrating thing, is they
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: had so set up the gaslighting. They had so created
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: a Munchausen system already that they had, over the 10
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: years prior, pushed and pushed and pushed for these HMOs
• 52:04
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• 52:09
  Speaker 4: more inaffordable, to drive up through subsidy, because that's what
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: subsidy does, the cost of medical care that the average
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: American had decided at that point, you know what, maybe
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: it is time for government single payer health care. And
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: we warned, I can go back 2008, 2009, 2010, Time
• 52:33
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• 52:37
  Speaker 4: Nancy Pelosi walked by with her gavel in her hand.
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