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The Biggest Issues Impacted By The Presidential Election ... Can You Name The Top 3? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Morning ruminators, ladies and gentlemen, men and women, males and females, only,
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  Speaker 1: boys and girls. We appreciate you joining us for the
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  Speaker 1: third hour of the Morning Show with Preston Scott. Did
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  Speaker 1: I ever think I would be living in an era
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  Speaker 1: where I would need to make such qualifications? No, I
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  Speaker 1: did not, And it's great to be with you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hose can you see over there in Studio one A.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here in Studio one B, and I am joined
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  Speaker 1: by our friend from the Heartland Institute. He is justin Haskins.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, dear sir, how are you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning? It's been a while. Missed our morning chats,
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  Speaker 2: our five am morning chats for me, I've missed them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. How in the world do you function without starting
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  Speaker 1: a day with me? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I function one day a month at best.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. All right.
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  Speaker 1: I gave you the mission, and it's it's a daunting
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  Speaker 1: one because I think there are likely so many consequential
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  Speaker 1: things that will be impacted by the November fifth election
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  Speaker 1: between Donald Trump and now Kamala Harris. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: are you going to watch the debate?
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  Speaker 2: I will watch it. I probably won't watch it live,
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  Speaker 2: but I will watch it. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask you what you would be looking for
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  Speaker 1: by watching, because I've been obviously I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: in bed, sleep and getting ready for the Tomar Show,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll watch it as well at some point too.
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  Speaker 1: But what would you be looking for?
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  Speaker 2: Well, to be totally honest, and this probably sounds pessimistic,
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  Speaker 2: but I have a theory about presidential elections, and they
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  Speaker 2: don't necessarily apply to all kinds of elections, but presidential elections.
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  Speaker 2: My theory is that the more likable candidate wins the
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  Speaker 2: election almost every single time. And if you go back
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  Speaker 2: through the history of presidential candidates and you really think
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  Speaker 2: about each of the candidates' personalities and how they come
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  Speaker 2: across the people compared to their opponent, the rule almost
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  Speaker 2: always plays out that way. The more likable candidate went
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  Speaker 2: And so I think what I'm looking for tonight is
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  Speaker 2: who comes across as being more likable, which really is
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  Speaker 2: not what these debates are supposed to be about. But unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's how a lot of people in the
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  Speaker 2: middle and there's very small group of people in this
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  Speaker 2: country who still don't know who they're voting for. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's how a lot of those people ultimately make
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  Speaker 2: their decisions, not even consciously, but I think they make
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  Speaker 2: it based on who they like personally, and that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a big factor, I think in this debate
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  Speaker 2: and for the rest of the election. But this is
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  Speaker 2: really the only time maybe where we see both of
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  Speaker 2: them on the same stage at the same time, giving
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  Speaker 2: people the ability to really compare the two, and so
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  Speaker 2: that's the thing that I'm looking for. Who is more likable?
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  Speaker 1: I offered last hour justin that Tulsea Gabbert has been
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  Speaker 1: working with Trump. We have no idea who, if anyone's
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  Speaker 1: worked with Kamala Harris, but I suggested that if he
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  Speaker 1: listens to her advice, does not get personal, focuses strictly
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  Speaker 1: on the issues and the policies of Biden Harris, and
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  Speaker 1: does not personally attack Kamala, he will win this debate
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  Speaker 1: hands down. With the independence.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's one hundred percent right. I think the
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  Speaker 2: rules that they have for the debate no essentially their
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  Speaker 2: mics are turned off, They're not allowed to interrupt each
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  Speaker 2: other in real time. I think it's absolutely huge for
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  Speaker 2: Trump because I don't think he can help himself sometimes
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  Speaker 2: in these situations that helped him huge, which is so
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  Speaker 2: ironic because I think the left is the one that
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  Speaker 2: really wanted that initially with Joe, and it played to
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  Speaker 2: Trump's advantage last time big in a huge way. And
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  Speaker 2: this time it'll be the same thing does if he's
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  Speaker 2: not rude, if he's respectful, but he is firm and
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  Speaker 2: clear about what he wants to do, and he stays
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  Speaker 2: focused on how he's going to fix the mistakes, the
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  Speaker 2: broken economy, all of the problems, the embarrassing things that
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  Speaker 2: have happened overseas, the dangerous things that have happened overseas
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  Speaker 2: and with Russia and Ukraine and Afghanistan, et cetera, and
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  Speaker 2: that all of that stuff is the result of the
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  Speaker 2: Harris Biden administration that they're both to blame for it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how he could lose, truly, but if
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  Speaker 2: he gets suck into these personal attacks and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: I think he'll come across as being a lot less likable,
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  Speaker 2: and I think people are looking for a reason in
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  Speaker 2: the middle to vote against him. I think he needs
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  Speaker 2: to avoid that trap. And Kamala Harris is going to
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  Speaker 2: do everything in her power to try to pay him.
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  Speaker 1: Into that no morning show would dress in Scott's Boy.
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  Speaker 2: That escalated quickly. I mean that really got out of
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  Speaker 2: hand fast.
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  Speaker 1: On WFLA. You see him all over, He's on Fox,
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  Speaker 1: He's on a lot of the networks out there. He
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  Speaker 1: is widely read. And oh, by the way, he writes
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff with Glenn Beck Justin Haskins with
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  Speaker 1: the Heartland Institute. Our guest, Justin, I tasked you with
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  Speaker 1: coming up with three things that were you think most
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  Speaker 1: consequential that will be determined by this election, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. And we understand Congress plays
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  Speaker 1: a significant role here, but just looking at the White House,
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  Speaker 1: what are the top three issues you think that are
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  Speaker 1: going to be impacted dramatically by this election.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So the first one's easy. Supreme Court justices. This
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  Speaker 2: is huge. This was the most important thing that Trump
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  Speaker 2: did in his presidency. The Supreme Court right now controlled
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  Speaker 2: by conservative leaning justices. Not all of them are true conservatives,
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  Speaker 2: I think he could say, but six six ' three,
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  Speaker 2: But there are the two oldest justices on the bench
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  Speaker 2: right now are Alito and Thomas, who are the two
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  Speaker 2: best justices that we have. Yep, Thomas is seventy six,
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  Speaker 2: Alito seventy four. So if those two turn to the
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  Speaker 2: other side, if they leave and they're replaced by two
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  Speaker 2: far left wing, liberal activist judges, now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: that six ' three majority for our side flips, so
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  Speaker 2: a five four majority for the other side. That's a
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  Speaker 2: huge problem. Not only that, but there's been a lot
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  Speaker 2: of talk about the left trying to pack the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that if they get enough votes in
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  Speaker 2: Congress to do that, and they have the White House,
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  Speaker 2: they will pack the Supreme Court. And now I don't
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  Speaker 2: even know if you have a country in the wake
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  Speaker 2: of that, So I would say that is is number
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  Speaker 2: one justin let me.
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  Speaker 1: Let me let me follow up on that. Does Trump
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  Speaker 1: need to do a better job of the vetting process?
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  Speaker 1: Should he fill vacancies? Now? I personally think if he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't win, Alito and Thomas are going to hold out
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  Speaker 1: if they can, for another four years. But that's just
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  Speaker 1: that's a guess. If they can. But he's got to
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  Speaker 1: do better at picking true originalists than he did the
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  Speaker 1: first time around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, it's all about who you're getting your advice
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  Speaker 2: from and I think unfortunately some of the justices that
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  Speaker 2: he picked last time around, you know, are not true originalists.
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  Speaker 2: And I really don't understand why Republicans have had such
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  Speaker 2: a hard time picking good Supreme Court justices in my lifetime,
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  Speaker 2: but they really have struggled with that. YEP. And really,
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  Speaker 2: what you want is someone who's just like Alito and
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  Speaker 2: just like Clarence Thomas. That's what you want, and so
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  Speaker 2: you need to find advisors who share that vision and
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  Speaker 2: who will pick people just like that. But because I
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  Speaker 2: don't think his picks the last time around, we're spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: Now if we get to a Trump presidency, will visit
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  Speaker 1: again about who might be good candidates. But for now,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to number two.
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  Speaker 2: YEP. Inflation, the economy, the value of the dollar, all
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff. I mean, the Harris Biden administration has
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  Speaker 2: been catastrophic for people's wallets. I think anyone with common
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  Speaker 2: sense knows that, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: historic levels of inflation stuff we haven't seen in forty
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  Speaker 2: or fifty years. CPI, which is not a good measure
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  Speaker 2: for inflation because it underestimates inflation, is up twenty percent
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  Speaker 2: thirty percent over just a few years. And so we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about everybody being poorer than they were when we
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  Speaker 2: started because wages have not kept up with that inflation.
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  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris has no plans that will help deal with
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  Speaker 2: that issue. All she wants to do is spend increasingly
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  Speaker 2: more money. She's even worse than Joe Biden historically when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to spending. This as a reminder to people,
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  Speaker 2: she co sponsored, co sponsored the AOC Socialist screen New Deal,
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  Speaker 2: not the Joe Biden version, the AOC version, the one
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  Speaker 2: that cost ninety trillion dollars that had every crazy policy
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  Speaker 2: in the universe in it, including wiping out all the cows,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, that was part of that policy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just absolutely crazy stuff. She is a socialist candidate. By
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  Speaker 2: all measures. She's a socialist candidate, and so I think
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  Speaker 2: if she becomes president of the United States, expect more spending,
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  Speaker 2: Expect more debt, and as a result of that, more
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  Speaker 2: money printing and less value for your dollar.
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  Speaker 1: Look at me being disciplined. I'm on time. That never happens.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Haskins with me from the Heartland Institute. Justin the
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  Speaker 1: third item, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, number three, A little more complicated, but favorite issue
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  Speaker 2: of mind ESG laws law I got to fit in
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  Speaker 2: every time.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Social credit scoring system. That's what ESG is, Environmental
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  Speaker 2: social governance metrics. It's a social credit scoring system, a
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  Speaker 2: left wing one that they've been pushing all over the world,
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  Speaker 2: trying to transform society by transforming corporations and businesses and
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  Speaker 2: how they act and behave through the social credit scoring metrics.
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  Speaker 2: One of the biggest ways that the left is doing
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  Speaker 2: this is through banking. So banks use these social Most
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  Speaker 2: people don't know this, but a lot of banks already
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  Speaker 2: use some version of social credit scores to screen out
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  Speaker 2: certain kinds of businesses to eliminate certain what they call
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  Speaker 2: reputational risks, which are really just conservatives involved in activist
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  Speaker 2: groups and things like that that they don't like. They
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  Speaker 2: started the banking conservatives and everything. So this is all
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  Speaker 2: part of this ESG movement. Well, Donald Trump has been
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  Speaker 2: a champion of that issue for a long time. He's
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  Speaker 2: promised to stop that through federal regulation, stop banks from
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  Speaker 2: using these ESG scores. He's a big champion of it,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that Ron de Santis, of course, with Florida,
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  Speaker 2: probably the nation's biggest champion of that if Florida has
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  Speaker 2: one of the best anti ESG laws, actually the best
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  Speaker 2: anti ESG law in the country, but Trump is promising
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  Speaker 2: to take that to the federal level. When he was president,
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  Speaker 2: at the very end of his administration, he did put
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  Speaker 2: regulations into place to stop this. And then when Biden
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  Speaker 2: came into power, one of the first things he did
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  Speaker 2: the very first weeks he was in office was eliminate
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  Speaker 2: that regulation that Trump had started to put into place.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's a huge, huge, huge thing, because you
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  Speaker 2: can transform all of society without passing the law, just
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  Speaker 2: by having these big corporations and banks all moving in
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  Speaker 2: the same left wing direction. Because if you can't have
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  Speaker 2: a bank account, you can't get insurance because insurance is
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  Speaker 2: affected by this as well. If you can't do business
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  Speaker 2: with the biggest corporations because you don't have a good
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  Speaker 2: ESG score, then you have to adopt you can't survive,
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  Speaker 2: So you have to adopt those policies. And that's been
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  Speaker 2: going on now for over a decade, and it is
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons why all these big corporations have
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  Speaker 2: gone woke in recent years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. We talked about DEI, And of course
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  Speaker 1: DEI is under the umbrella of ESG. And how ironic
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  Speaker 1: it is that we are we have gone back around
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  Speaker 1: to a time when we are supposed to judge people
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  Speaker 1: by the color of their skin, by their outward appearance,
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  Speaker 1: not by the quality of their work, not by the
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  Speaker 1: content of their character, but by these outward representations of whatever.
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  Speaker 1: And it's horrifying that we are now in a place
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  Speaker 1: where it's impacting banking in every major part of our economy.
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  Speaker 2: YEP, that's exactly right. DEI is a massive part of ESG.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of the biggest things that's been going on
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  Speaker 2: in that for a long time. And the reality is,
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  Speaker 2: for the left generally, the ends always justify the means.
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  Speaker 2: There is no such thing as a sort of universal
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  Speaker 2: moral principle that they're operating under. It's the ends justify
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  Speaker 2: the means. So DEI helps them right now, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to support it. If DEI stops helping them in the future,
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  Speaker 2: they won't support it. That's the way they do virtually everything.
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  Speaker 2: And ESG is just a big toolbox. They can change
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  Speaker 2: the metrics anytime they want. It's a toolbox for transforming
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  Speaker 2: the country and it's already happening. So it's not about
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  Speaker 2: stopping something often too the future. It's about stopping the
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  Speaker 2: transformation that's happening to our society right now.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be fair to point to the immigration invasion
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  Speaker 1: of this nation as an example, an absolute example of
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  Speaker 1: what we're talking about. I've been saying that the murders,
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  Speaker 1: the deaths of Americans at the hands of these illegals
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  Speaker 1: coming into our country, that it's accepted as collateral damage.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's acceptable because, as you say, the means are
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  Speaker 1: justified by the end. So yeah, it's a shame that
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  Speaker 1: people are losing their life, but we're getting people into
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  Speaker 1: this country that deserve to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Look, if I think every conservative in the universe knows
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  Speaker 2: this is true. If the as everyone coming across the
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  Speaker 2: southern border was a die in the wool Republican voter
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  Speaker 2: the moment they got here, there is no way this
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  Speaker 2: would be happening. There is no way, and I think
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  Speaker 2: we all know that. There's if we were bringing in
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  Speaker 2: if we were bringing in a bunch of like, you know, libertarians, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way that this would be what the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are doing. They are doing it purely because the ends
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  Speaker 2: justify the means.
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  Speaker 1: Justin, as always, we never have enough time. If you
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  Speaker 1: ever visit Tallahassee, you just got to do the studio thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I've never I've never been, but if I do,
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely will take you up on that aufite.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do two hours, great, unprecedented. I've never done that.
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  Speaker 1: That would be so much fun. Yeah, to just sit
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  Speaker 1: and chop up this stuff for a while. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: we'll settle for this and we're greatly appreciative of your time.
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  Speaker 1: As always, my best to your family.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, same to you. Take care.
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  Speaker 1: Justin Haskins with us this morning Heartland Institute. He mentioned
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  Speaker 1: socialism he ought to know. He heads up the Stopping
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  Speaker 1: Socialism project at the Heartland Institute. Do you know the
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  Speaker 1: website Stoppingsocialism dot com. Oh, check it out, stoppingsocialism dot com.
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  Speaker 1: It's our man, Justin. That's his work right there with
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  Speaker 1: his team, fighting the good fight and also co authoring
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  Speaker 1: books with Glenn Beck. In his spare time, The Morning
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