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"Criminalized Dissent" (FTTxJT Mon 101926 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 3: Leaves for work.
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  Speaker 2: When the sun comes up, drops the kids to school
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  Speaker 2: and all the work. Joe has everything he dreamed of,
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  Speaker 2: all the treasures that he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling,
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  Speaker 2: he only aims.
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  Speaker 4: To please you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 5: this morning. Making sense of it all, telling you what
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  Speaker 5: went on and then giving you a chance to tell
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  Speaker 5: me how it's impacting you. You being the most important
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  Speaker 5: local aspect of this radio station and basking there in
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  Speaker 5: either the amplitude or frequency modulation goodness excited this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: We finally on our flagship station. resurrected our AM station,
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  Speaker 5: the AM flagship of it, the source of it all.
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  Speaker 5: And if we hadn't done it by tomorrow, or was
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  Speaker 5: it tomorrow? Yeah, tomorrow was our deadline to get her
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  Speaker 5: back on the air. Otherwise, we were kaput. I'd be
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  Speaker 5: a radio show with no flagship station. I'm sure it's possible.
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  Speaker 5: It's like some sort of weird, disconnected... But we managed
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  Speaker 5: to fire her up. And the biggest concern, of course,
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  Speaker 5: was that my general manager and I had carried the
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  Speaker 5: transmitter from one tower to another. And I'm like, we
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  Speaker 5: haven't tried to turn this on since we moved it.
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  Speaker 5: But it's there. She's running. And, you know, it's interesting
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  Speaker 5: just as a mindset. Forty years ago, just about, I
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  Speaker 5: was getting ready to begin training. you know, my play
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  Speaker 5: for pay world of radios. The first time I'd have
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  Speaker 5: been paid for a radio show was March 27th, 1987.
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  Speaker 5: And all I wanted to do was get onto FM radio.
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  Speaker 5: And now here we are 40 years later, all I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to do was get this AM transmitter back on.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a show that, you know, you don't know
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  Speaker 5: what you don't know until you get there. And this
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  Speaker 5: is why these overly regulated Everything is pre-planned and organized,
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  Speaker 5: World Economic Forum-style governments collapse in much the way of
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  Speaker 5: people saying, oh, is France collapsing? Not yet, but the
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  Speaker 5: seeds are being sown for it. And I thought the
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  Speaker 5: most telling, and sometimes humor is the best place to
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  Speaker 5: find this kind of zeitgeist, was a Babylon Bee advertisement.
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  Speaker 5: or a Babylon Bee cartoon, Benjamin Netanyahu standing behind a
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  Speaker 5: podium next to Emmanuel Macron, who's grimacing as Bibi is saying,
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  Speaker 5: I'm here to help negotiate the two-state solution for France.
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  Speaker 5: I like that. So the Islamists and the students that
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  Speaker 5: they have ginned up into a protest to make their
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  Speaker 5: case took to the street. 1,800 people have been arrested.
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  Speaker 5: Thank goodness it's not like Tehran, where we'd be trying
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  Speaker 5: to build 1,800 gallows in downtown Paris, where along with Marseille, Lyon,
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  Speaker 5: and Bordeaux, cities gripped by riots, burning, ransacking, destroying other
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  Speaker 5: people's businesses and properties. all in what is called a
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  Speaker 5: student-led protest for greater opportunities. So we'll burn down all
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  Speaker 5: the businesses and say, we want the government to make
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  Speaker 5: more opportunities for us. That's what we've got, correct? I
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  Speaker 5: just wanted to make sure we were reporting it fair. That,
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  Speaker 5: along with the Islamists who took up with the protesters demanding,
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  Speaker 5: I presume, Sharia law, though they were vague on the subject.
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  Speaker 5: a weekend youth game in Kansas, killing two people, injuring
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  Speaker 5: investigation continues. The 34-year-old was released pending toxicology results and
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  Speaker 5: the crash. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Machado accused Alejandro Betancourt,
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  Speaker 5: a businessman selected as the key partner in the Trump
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  Speaker 5: administration's Venezuelan oil agreement of obscene corruption, declaring he would
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  Speaker 5: not be a legitimate business partner under her future government.
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  Speaker 5: high-level summit session to try to come to a conclusion
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  Speaker 5: of the Ukrainian war. President Putin suggested that the President
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  Speaker 5: of the United States be there along with Chinese Premier
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  Speaker 5: Xi Jinping, but not Volodymyr Zelensky. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian president
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  Speaker 5: spoke with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, envoys that he
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  Speaker 5: accused of treating them like second-class citizens, and lying to
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 5: Flyover country, whatever you call it, it is where the
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  Speaker 5: Marxists and the rabble-rousers go to find those who feel
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  Speaker 5: like they just don't have enough. And what's happening now
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  Speaker 5: is we've discovered something new to use the force of
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  Speaker 5: law to role play Marxism without the Marxism. Because the
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  Speaker 5: Soviet Union did such a good job of tainting the
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  Speaker 5: idea of collectivism that we just don't like it. So
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  Speaker 5: we have to create this mamby-pamby backdoor way, and we're
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  Speaker 5: going to talk about this in greater length with Victoria
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  Speaker 5: Cobb from the Family Foundation coming up, but what's happening
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  Speaker 5: in the United States now, rather than writing a collectivist manifesto,
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  Speaker 5: we can leave the Bill of Rights if we creatively
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  Speaker 5: write legislation that punishes you for not doing something. We
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  Speaker 5: learned this under the Affordable Care Act, where Barack Obama
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  Speaker 5: and his minions in Congress, after Nancy Pelosi got her
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  Speaker 5: way and we voted for it and we read it
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  Speaker 5: and we went, what? And Barack Obama said, what we
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  Speaker 5: need to do in order to have the money to
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  Speaker 5: pay for this is fine people, impose criminal penalties on
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  Speaker 5: people who don't participate because we need people participating. Because
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  Speaker 5: we've promised the insurance company that they'd have all these
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  Speaker 5: fine new rate payers. So we need to force people
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  Speaker 5: to start buying health insurance even if they don't. And
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  Speaker 5: if they don't, we will make them criminals. And you say, well,
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  Speaker 5: that doesn't sound very likely, Joe. Sure it is. And
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  Speaker 5: the Supreme Court upheld it as long as it was
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  Speaker 5: called a tax. And you've heard me talk about the
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  Speaker 5: wonderful book, Three Felonies a Day. I think the number
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  Speaker 5: is up to five under the fact that I was
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  Speaker 5: reading a report about a week, week and a half
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  Speaker 5: ago from the Cato Institute about how many people have
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  Speaker 5: technically committed a federal 20-year felony because of their answers
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  Speaker 5: regarding the Affordable Care Act on their tax returns. It's
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  Speaker 5: caught a couple of people nationwide, but what this report
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  Speaker 5: said is that you don't realize that if you say
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  Speaker 5: yes and the answer is really no, you've committed a
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  Speaker 5: federal felony. If you've written no, and you haven't paid
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  Speaker 5: the fines, sorry, taxes, the John Roberts Memorial Tax, you've
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  Speaker 5: committed a federal felony. Oh, I just, I wrote the
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  Speaker 5: wrong answer. I'm sorry, that's a federal felony. That's lying
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  Speaker 5: to a federal officer. Now, a federal officer lying to you,
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  Speaker 5: that's not a felony, but Now we're starting to sound
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  Speaker 5: like the people that suborned all the riots in Paris.
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  Speaker 5: So now, flush with the idea that we can start
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  Speaker 5: punishing people for non-compliance, for not doing something, it's only
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  Speaker 5: a step until compelled behavior becomes the thing. And maybe
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  Speaker 5: that doesn't even need to happen because... creating a legal
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  Speaker 5: book where if you don't hire someone per se, or
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  Speaker 5: don't rent your spare room, or don't create an opportunity
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  Speaker 5: to rent to someone, you can be made a criminal.
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  Speaker 5: Look at the squatters in Florida as an example. People said, oh,
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  Speaker 5: snowbirds aren't going to be back for couple of months.
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  Speaker 5: We will move in once we've been here long enough
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  Speaker 5: by Florida. This is Florida law. They can't kick us out.
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  Speaker 5: Squatters rights. And I'm sure somebody, when they first wrote
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  Speaker 5: that law down in Tallahassee thought this made a lot
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  Speaker 5: of sense. I'm not sure who they are, and I
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  Speaker 5: don't want to have a bite to eat with them,
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  Speaker 5: but I'm sure somebody did. So they used the squatter's rights.
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  Speaker 5: So now you have to give them your home because
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  Speaker 5: they're there. And I believe they've tweaked it since. But
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  Speaker 5: Virginia's doing it. There's laws out there in Ohio and
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  Speaker 5: New York and California all about compelled behaviors. that you
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  Speaker 5: will be criminalized if you don't do everything within your
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  Speaker 5: grasp to provide an abortion for someone? If you even
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  Speaker 5: so much as ask, have you thought about keeping the baby?
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  Speaker 5: I almost expect red lights to flash and cars come
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  Speaker 5: busting through the door and Riggs and Murtaugh come in
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  Speaker 5: there and... arrest you for not complying with the girl's
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  Speaker 5: request to give her an abortion and give it to
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  Speaker 5: her right now. We were talking with the former prosecutor
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  Speaker 5: last week on Tom Drops Bombs. He said the law
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  Speaker 5: is written in such a way that if a boyfriend
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  Speaker 5: tries to abort his child, by slipping, and this has happened,
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  Speaker 5: slipping his girlfriend, his pregnant girlfriend, Mipha Pristone, and she dies,
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  Speaker 5: he's actually shielded by using the law saying he cannot
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  Speaker 5: be prosecuted for the abortion. And I believe he'd wind
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  Speaker 5: up doing time anyway, but How far do you take this? Well,
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  Speaker 5: we need more jobs. Unemployment is too high. So now
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  Speaker 5: everyone must hire one extra person. What if I can't
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  Speaker 5: afford it? Well, then we will tax you the cost
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  Speaker 5: of one year's salary for that person. And we'll just
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  Speaker 5: give that money to them rather than burden you with
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  Speaker 5: their work. We're criminalizing compliance. Government has stepped across the
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  Speaker 5: Rubicon from just protecting your rights to inventing them. And
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how far it goes, but I can
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  Speaker 5: see the scenario where somebody claims they want to rent
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  Speaker 5: my house and I'm living here. If I deny them
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  Speaker 5: the ability to squat on my property, I could be
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  Speaker 5: held to account for criminal behavior. It's Marxism. It's like
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  Speaker 5: Marxism in a Halloween or a Mardi Gras mask. So
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  Speaker 5: you don't know what's really behind it.
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  Speaker 5: Not to not soon to be translated into Farsi at
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: all but that's what the media wants you to believe
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: was going on Sunday in France it was just was
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: the grandest Andrew Lloyd Webber tribute ever. That's not it
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: at all. It's Marxist kids who don't like their economic
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: outlook and see their Islamist promoters as downtrodden because they're
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: being made to do jobs that the white kids of
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Paris aren't going to do. So they teamed up and
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: wound up what happens is this caliphate taps into the
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: very people, and this is the sadness of it, the
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: very people that it will get rid of as soon
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: as it's arrived, like any other kind of Marxist dictatorship.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: will be the ones who helped get there in the
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: first place. It's the misbelief that somebody else can make
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: your life better, somebody else can make your life freer
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: or fleer. And we need to be careful because our
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: economy is going in such a way that more and
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: more of these people are available to be weaponized by
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: the Islamists. Text message, and this happens all the time,
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: and I don't mean to repeat myself, repeat myself, repeat myself,
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  Speaker 5: but Teresa has never heard me talk about the world's
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: oldest war until earlier this morning. And the reason I
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: say this, and it's not the world's oldest war, it's
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: America's oldest war. This is the oldest war being fought
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: against the United States, which is with radical Islam. And
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: people get lost in the pedantics of it. Oh, the
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: Barbary pirates are technically in Libya, Joe, and not Iran.
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  Speaker 5: The radical Islamist has moved. They have a new base
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  Speaker 5: of operations. We keep chasing them down. 434-882-4217. That's our
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  Speaker 5: phone number. Good morning. You're on the air with Joe
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  Speaker 5: first thing this morning. Who's this? Hey, Joe.
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  Speaker 13: It's Clark.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, Clark. How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 21: Well, I'm all right. I'm going to have to disagree
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  Speaker 5: Well, first off, let me say War Eagle. Nice job.
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  Speaker 5: with the UA. Hey, nice win yesterday.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: He goes, oh, man.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: And the whole family was smiling. But that's one of
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: the fun bits of college football is your season might
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  Speaker 5: not be heading to any playoffs or championships. But you
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: go beat your rivals, especially in the SEC, where, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: every week it's a different. long-standing ugly rivalry, it seems.
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  Speaker 5: And you can make your whole year, can't it?
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  Speaker 21: There you go.
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  Speaker 5: You are correct, yeah.
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  Speaker 21: So, hey, but the thing there is, is like, not
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  Speaker 21: that you would have been, but if you had been
• 32:32
  Speaker 21: watching them, you know, they almost beat everybody they lose to.
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  Speaker 5: So, there. They're right there. Anyway, so what was the
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  Speaker 5: real reason you called to disagree-ify with me?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, so.
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  Speaker 21: Islam is not at war with America, Joe. Islam is
• 32:50
  Speaker 21: at war with the world.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, all right. I just feel like America is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the standard bearer for the things that the world should.
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  Speaker 21: You know how they're like, after us, but Donald Trump's
• 33:02
  Speaker 21: in the way?
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  Speaker 18: Yes.
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  Speaker 22: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 21: That's the world and America, okay?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, the caliphate. The world and America is in the way, okay? Yeah,
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: caliphate is not just about the United States. No, it's not.
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  Speaker 5: So let me ask you a question because this has
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: come up. I'll save the question for later. Finish your thought.
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  Speaker 21: Where is Charles Martel when you need him? And what's
• 33:29
  Speaker 21: the best way to do an invasion, Joe?
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Best way to do an invasion is just like Sun
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Tzu said. It's like Fabus taught us in the Roman Empire.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Infiltrate with your people and then start taking over their offices.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: That's where Fabian Marxism comes from.
• 33:50
  Speaker 21: Invade in such a way is that the country being
• 33:54
  Speaker 21: invaded does not even know it's been invaded.
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  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: And then use their own rules. to take their offices
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: and then start making decisions to benefit your team.
• 34:06
  Speaker 21: So let's see. Macron has said that it's Donald Trump's
• 34:11
  Speaker 21: fault because they're protesting the diesel prices. And I've been
• 34:15
  Speaker 21: hearing that, let's see, housing and jobs. And when is
• 34:23
  Speaker 21: somebody going to tell me that it's been mostly peaceful?
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: I haven't seen that. I did go looking for some
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: anchor that would have pulled the whole mostly peaceful protest
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: out there, but there have been. There have been the
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: ones that are downplaying the Islamists' role in this.
• 34:41
  Speaker 21: That's the missing element, isn't it? Yeah. Is it mostly peaceful?
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: They told me everything else. Well, and then the other
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: one to follow that up is, and they're just seeking
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  Speaker 5: religious freedom.
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  Speaker 21: Oh, oh, that's okay.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the other one in there. But this is
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: about bringing down, you know, and it's one part, see,
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: it's a conundrum because the French kids that are protesting
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: are protesting everything the World Economic Forum wants to do
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: to the globe. The Islamists are just using them as
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: a fulcrum to get as many bodies out on the streets.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: These are like the Islamists who stand with the LGBTQ
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: t-shirts and say, sure, yeah, protest for us. Just don't
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: wander around our country.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds like you're busy out there, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Clark.
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  Speaker 5: You have a blessed morning, though, sir.
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  Speaker 21: You keep doing it. Yeah, I ain't got but a
• 35:46
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a multitasking. That's it. Be good, my friend.
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  Speaker 5: of course, you know, the Family Foundation, ardently pro-life, probably
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: going to be the first bunch arrested if the constitutional
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: amendment passes. And I'll explain what I mean by that
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: in a little bit. But ardently out there working against
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: Virginia's constitutional amendment vote, number one, how has that campaign
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: been going? Because I'm still hearing from people saying, Oh,
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: I went to the State Board of Elections website, and
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: the constitutional amendment doesn't say any of those things, Joe.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: Are you making inroads?
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  Speaker 10: We are really pleased, I would say, with the results
• 45:42
  Speaker 10: of particularly the faith community. The churches are actually stepping up.
• 45:46
  Speaker 10: So that's sort of the positive is we're seeing great response. And,
• 45:51
  Speaker 10: you know, we weren't sure because, honestly, churches have a
• 45:53
  Speaker 10: little bit of a reputation of avoiding things that they
• 45:56
  Speaker 10: should be talking about. And so we've been very, very
• 45:58
  Speaker 10: pleased about the number of churches and the types of
• 46:00
  Speaker 10: churches that are holding events around faith. at their facility
• 46:04
  Speaker 10: in the evenings or connected to their services or preaching
• 46:07
  Speaker 10: about it. So that's sort of a positive. Beyond that
• 46:10
  Speaker 10: has been difficult. And that's simply a matter of the
• 46:13
  Speaker 10: money game. The reality is when you want to reach
• 46:17
  Speaker 10: large swaths of people that you need to have easily,
• 46:21
  Speaker 10: you know, seven figures sitting around to get that message out.
• 46:24
  Speaker 10: So the challenge has been to do a lot with
• 46:27
  Speaker 10: a little. And that's just the reality. And so, yes,
• 46:29
  Speaker 10: I think there are still many, many people who are
• 46:32
  Speaker 10: confused for lack of our ability financially to reach them well.
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  Speaker 5: One of the things that I don't think people realize,
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  Speaker 5: and I've talked about it with Delegate Tom Garrett, I've
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: talked about it with former Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears, former
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: Congressman Bob Good, who are all out on the campaign
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  Speaker 5: trail trying to make this clear to people is that this,
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  Speaker 5: as Tom Garrett says, turns what you do with the
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: Family Foundation into a criminal enterprise because you can't, under
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: this constitutional amendment, do anything that would be seen as
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: preventing or dissuading somebody from getting their constitutionally protected abortion.
• 47:12
  Speaker 10: Yes, I don't think we have any doubt that there
• 47:15
  Speaker 10: is going to be an effort turned against any organization,
• 47:18
  Speaker 10: and that would be those of us that do advocacy.
• 47:20
  Speaker 10: It would also be those who do sidewalk counseling, those
• 47:24
  Speaker 10: who run pregnancy care centers. I think there will be
• 47:27
  Speaker 10: an effort to say that anything that we're doing is somehow, yes,
• 47:32
  Speaker 10: interfering with a woman's decision around abortion. And so we
• 47:37
  Speaker 10: are certainly gearing up for litigation should this pass.
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: Well, we don't want it to get there. And I
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: know that you guys and Josh have been putting together,
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: and I trust the legal team at the Founding Freedoms
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: Legal Center so much. But it really is like that
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: Hail Mary in the fourth quarter if you're counting on
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: a court to see the side of this, aren't we?
• 48:05
  Speaker 10: Yeah, there's no question. I mean, we believe and did,
• 48:08
  Speaker 10: it's the same view we had with the redistricting, which
• 48:11
  Speaker 10: is that even if we win at the ballot box,
• 48:14
  Speaker 10: items should not get to the ballot in the manner
• 48:17
  Speaker 10: that they have. And we just don't want to see
• 48:20
  Speaker 10: any situation where we are putting forward constitutional amendments in
• 48:24
  Speaker 10: ways that are unconstitutional so regardless we would be in
• 48:27
  Speaker 10: court battling this on process now then you take it
• 48:30
  Speaker 10: the next step and the fact that they have put
• 48:32
  Speaker 10: forward a deceptive summary so that citizens are going to
• 48:36
  Speaker 10: a ballot and not even able to ascertain what's actually
• 48:39
  Speaker 10: going to go into the constitution because they're getting a
• 48:41
  Speaker 10: summary that in fact points them in the opposite direction
• 48:44
  Speaker 10: in the case of the question one And so in
• 48:46
  Speaker 10: that case, we also think no matter what happens at
• 48:49
  Speaker 10: the ballot, we cannot allow these practices to stand. This
• 48:53
  Speaker 10: cannot be the way that we change the most fundamental
• 48:56
  Speaker 10: document that has such impact in our commonwealth. And so
• 48:59
  Speaker 10: we'd be there either way, but certainly it will be
• 49:02
  Speaker 10: helpful if we are unable to attain the popular vote
• 49:06
  Speaker 10: that we would be able to ensure that this still
• 49:08
  Speaker 10: wouldn't go into practice.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting because a lot of people say, well,
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: what's this nonsense about you have to display a constitutional
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: amendment for 45 days before an election and blah.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Blah, blah.
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: Well, one of the reasons. is so that a polling place,
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: big framed copies of the constitutional amendments are sitting right
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: there on the wall for voters to look at and say, well,
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: hold on a second here. That doesn't match what's on
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: the ballot and hopefully switch their votes just out of
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: that recourse, Victoria.
• 49:40
  Speaker 12: Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, the thing is, we can all have opinions
• 49:42
  Speaker 10: about whether this is an invalid, you know, out-of-date determination,
• 49:47
  Speaker 10: whether we really still need this particular mechanism, right? Anybody
• 49:49
  Speaker 10: can have opinions about that. But the opinion has to
• 49:52
  Speaker 10: sit with the process, meaning you can't actually... change, just
• 49:57
  Speaker 10: change the process without changing the actual law. And they didn't.
• 50:01
  Speaker 10: They did it after they realized they hadn't done the
• 50:03
  Speaker 10: correct thing and got sued. They then went retroactively back
• 50:06
  Speaker 10: and tried to change the law. I mean, this would
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: be like right now, everybody's saying, people could right now go, oh,
• 50:11
  Speaker 10: this is ridiculous.
• 50:12
  Speaker 24: People don't use websites anymore.
• 50:13
  Speaker 10: They only use social media. Well, we don't need to
• 50:15
  Speaker 10: put it on a website. And then the only place
• 50:16
  Speaker 10: you can get it is social media. Well, that seems reasonable. Okay.
• 50:19
  Speaker 10: But the bottom line is we have to collectively through
• 50:22
  Speaker 10: our representatives decide how we're going to get information. And
• 50:24
  Speaker 10: the decision that was sitting on the books when they
• 50:26
  Speaker 10: passed this is that it will be hung on the
• 50:29
  Speaker 10: courthouse door, that you will have these things visible for
• 50:33
  Speaker 10: a certain period of time. And dated or not, no
• 50:36
  Speaker 10: matter what we think about it, we are originalists. We
• 50:38
  Speaker 10: believe that the words that are there matter, and everyone
• 50:41
  Speaker 10: should care. Maybe not about this thing, but they're going
• 50:44
  Speaker 10: to care about something else if the words say it.
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: Well, that's the famous poem, say, first they came for
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: the trade unionists and I didn't say anything. I didn't
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Eventually, this
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: is going to become something you hold important to you.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: And if they're allowed to do this, they'll be allowed
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: to do it everywhere. Victoria Cobb, the Family Foundation there,
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: please help them, familyfoundation.org and help out their efforts in
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: fighting for not just the lives of babies, but for
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: the American way. I mean, it sounds crazy to say
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: that that's what's at this battle, but it is.
• 51:31
  Speaker 10: There's no question that we are fighting for what words mean.
• 51:34
  Speaker 10: We're fighting, are we going to follow the law? Are
• 51:36
  Speaker 10: we going to enforce the law? I mean, we're in
• 51:39
  Speaker 10: a reality where leftists have decided if there's a way
• 51:42
  Speaker 10: to get something done, whether it's legal or not, whether
• 51:44
  Speaker 10: it is appropriate or not, that is how things will go.
• 51:47
  Speaker 10: And people know in Virginia that, I mean, with Democrats
• 51:52
  Speaker 10: in charge of our statehouse, the bottom line is they
• 51:54
  Speaker 10: could rush everything into the Constitution. So just whatever, pick
• 51:58
  Speaker 10: whatever your issue is. they did it this way for redistricting.
• 52:03
  Speaker 10: Then they went forward with, you know, these three other things.
• 52:05
  Speaker 10: I mean, any issue they want, they could try to
• 52:06
  Speaker 10: lock in the words in our constitution. So we should
• 52:09
  Speaker 10: care how they get there.
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. Victoria, thank you so much for everything you do.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: I know you're very busy over the next two weeks,
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: but thank you for carving out a little time for
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: us here to talk about these very important constitutional amendments
• 52:23
  Speaker 5: that are coming soon to every state in the union.
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: If we can pass them, if they can pass them here,
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: They'll be amazed what you'll see in California or New York.
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: So bless you. And thank you so much for joining us.
• 52:36
  Speaker 10: Thanks for having me.
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: And let's not forget, boys and girls, we're not banning abortion.
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: Abortions will still take place in New York if they
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: in Virginia, if they don't pass this amendment until tomorrow morning,
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: five Eastern. So long. And thanks for all the faith.
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