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If Everything is Worse Than It Was, Why Would Anyone Trust the Ones Trying to Fix It? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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You're listening to The West Carroll Morning Show. Wednesday morning, twentieth day
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of September. Hi, I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me. Plowing on
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through the month. Felt fantastic outside yesterday, feels nice today. It's autumn
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creeping in on us. It's I mean, it's still got hot by the
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afternoon, but nothing like it has been. We're not seeing nineties and hundreds
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or any of that Shenanigans, any of that typical Georgia stuff. No,
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no, no, no, We're getting at least a pleasant break from all
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of it. It's been quite a bit better, and I know that.
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I guess the pollen count has still been high. I didn't used to get
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I wasn't aware at least of the fall allergies, but really been kicking in
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for me here lately. So just remember, if you take the seasonal allergy
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stuff in the spring and it's been driving you crazy here in the fall,
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maybe you should, I mean talk to your doctor, but maybe you should
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think about, you know, going to that springtime allergy medicine because you know,
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it's kind of the same stuff going on in the fault's different, I
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guess. But anyway, it's been bothering me. It's been driving me crazy,
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and didn't used to affect me that way now it does. I'm not
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blaming COVID. That's not what I'm doing. Did I say that? That's
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not what I'm doing. I'm not doing that at all. It started before
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COVID. I don't know. Somebody made whatever. Somebody made whatever is caused
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the fall allergies for me in a lab somewhere with American money long before COVID.
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That's all I'm saying. No, I'm not saying that at all.
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I don't know. We don't know. That's the problem with not being able
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to trust, isn't it. That's the problem with not being able to trust.
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We shouldn't have this issue when it comes to medicine, should we?
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All Right, So I want to speak it of not being able to trust
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folks, My goodness. I want to talk about this because the President yesterday
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spoke at the UN General Assembly, and I'm not going to go through all
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of his remarks. He talked about Ukraine, the support for Ukraine, and
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how it was important we continue our support for Ukraine. We got obviously growing
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concerns by many Americans that are starting to say, what can we invest in
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this and at what cost? What exactly are we doing, what's our motivation?
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There all discussions to be had, but not necessarily. Now that's not
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where I was going with this. I want to talk about his remarks he
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made about climate change. He gave basically an update, and he referenced the
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fact that we've we've gone backwards, We've regressed on climate change, our agenda
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for what we're trying to do, it's going backwards and it's getting worse,
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and that we have to do more. We have to continue to do more.
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Right, because it's just it's getting worse. The planet's getting worse,
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what we're doing to fight climate change is getting worse. It's just all getting
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worse, and we have to do more. Have you noticed this pattern that
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we have when it comes to various issues and the inability to get anything done.
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Now, I understand the cynic on the left would say, well,
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it's Republicans on the right that are preventing things from getting done. It's republicans
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on the right that are preventing Democrats from being able to do the things that
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they want to do. That's going to make things better, and that's ultimately
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I guess what their argument would be. But I just think for a minute
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about something like climate change. I think about the work that we've tried to
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do, and at the expense that we've done, the work the Green New
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Deal that could not get past when we had Democrats had enough authority and enough
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power. With a Democrat president and control of the House, control of the
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Senate, they had everything that they needed to push through the Green New Deal,
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and thankfully Americans had two senators who stood up against it and said,
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this is not in the best interest of the country, this is not what
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our constituents asked us to do. It was a Kirsten Cinema who I don't
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know that anybody necessarily saw her as being one of the great allies in this
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cause. But she stepped up, man stepped up and has become an independent.
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She still, you know, I guess, caucuses with the left and
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with the Democrats, and that still helps them out with control of the Senate.
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But I don't know that anybody saw that coming, right. I think
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it was like the time she tried to go to the bathroom and people chased
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her into the toilet, right right on into the bathroom, right up to
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the toilet, and shouted things at her. She didn't see that coming,
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and I don't think many folks saw her as being the great ally that she
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became when it came to the Green New Deal. During that particular time period,
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Joe Mansion was one that we had to hold on to once Democrats got
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all that control. We had to have Joe Mansion as somebody who might give
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us the at least appearance of balance of power. I've had friends over the
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years that used to say to me, like, you know, you can't
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have one party having everybody in charge. You know, you can't have one
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party having control of all the branches of government. I think it's the better
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way to say that. And they used to say, oh, you can't
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do that, and I don't know how anybody could vote. You know,
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this is when Republicans were on the verge of having all of that power,
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and you know, you just can't do that. There's got to be some
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balance. And the same people had no problems with the you know, Democrats
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having their way with it. And then you get somebody like Joe Manchon and
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Kirsten Cinema who stand up to the whole thing and let the system kind of
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work for itself. And I remember people saying, we're crazy if we think
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that Joe Manchin is going to hold the line, if we think that it's
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possible that he's going to hold the line for us and keep some sort of
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balance of power and play, We're crazy if we believe that that's the case.
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And I remember thinking, yeah, but what other choice do we have?
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I mean, at that point, what what other choice do we have?
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We we knew that it certainly looked bleak, but that was all that
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we had. And they did. They held the line for a while,
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and then eventually we got into this uh, you know, Inflation Reduction Act,
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which was really just a remix, slightly varied diversion of the Green New
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Deal legislation, and you know, gave it a different name, polished it
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up a little bit. You know that expression about polishing up waste still waste,
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right, you know the word I want to say, but I'm not
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going to say it. So they polished it up a little bit. They
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disguised it as something to do with inflation reduction. It's not been that at
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all. It hasn't in any way, I guess democrats feel like when you
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can push inflation, like if you could push inflation to you know, you
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know, even you can get it to fifty percent, if you get the
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monthly increase to only be forty percent, it's still going up. That's what's
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so frustrating about this terminology for it when people start talking about what inflation nine
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point seven percent, it's to the twelve percent. That's a lot better,
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but it's when it was as high as it was at its highest point.
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The fact that it's gone down, but it's still not to the point that
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it was at where we can all manage it, and we're seeing it it
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seems like weekly. I just over the weekend was in a store and someone
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was commenting on a price of one particular item and said, this has gone
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up since last week fifty cents. And you start thinking about it. If
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it's something that you buy once a week, okay, I know it may
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seem minor, but if it's something that you have to buy maybe twice a
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week, three times a week, it starts to have an impact when it's
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multiple items that you're purchasing. But anyway, so they pushed a lot of
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this green energy stuff through under this Inflation Reduction Act thing. That was the
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goal, right, Let's get some of this stuff pushed through that we want
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to push through. And we're gonna call it this other thing because I mean,
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how can you argue against stopping inflation. We got to reduce it.
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So we're all being crippled by our own government in so many ways by inflation.
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The fact that many of the jobs that we're hearing about these boosting jobs
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or government jobs. That's an easy way, by the way, for a
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government or an entity to say, look at all the jobs we have,
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We've blown up unemployment, and then they're creating jobs within their own sector so
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that they can say, look at what we're doing and their part time jobs
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or whatever. But anyway, so we're bearing the weight of it. But
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we're being told now by the President standing in front of the u N and
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basically saying that we're going backwards, we're not getting the job done. How
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long have we been fighting a version of this fight for it to still be
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going backwards? And if it's going backwards, is it America's problem? Is
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it Europe's problem? Is it China's problem? I think we all know it's
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China's problem more than anyone else. There's parts of Asia where a lot of
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the blame has to lie. But no matter how much we do, we
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can't correct that problem. So we're always going to be in a state if
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we have to do more, we have to do more. It makes me
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think about some of the other issues that we've had, and I think,
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and this is one. It's not going to be easy, but I think
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people have to think about it. And I'm not the first person to point
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it out, but let's just let's go back to like the nineteen sixties.
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Chris Rock has that great joke about how civil rights it kind of came to
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your area depending on when the people in your area started to act, right,
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Okay, So if you go back to the sixties, at whatever point
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things started to kick in, and many black Americans have voted Democrat the entire
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time generationally, Okay, in the sixties, into the seventies, eighties,
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nineties, all the way up to today. Okay, it sounds like I'm
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talking about a radio station, adult contemporary radio station. And we hear now
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about how racism is worse since it's ever been. We hear this from democrats.
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We hear this from people on the left. We hear about how we
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have all this hatred, this white hate. I'm sorry, white supremacy,
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hate, Okay, but it's hate from white people, that's what they're saying.
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It's so much and we have you know, white people are just covered
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in racism, whether they know they have it or not. Right, it's
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there. It's part of who they are. And it's worse now to them,
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they say it's worse. It's gotten so much worse, worse since Obama's
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president. How can we be in a position where someone has commanded, demanded,
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and had the vote of the very people that they say they're going to
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make things better for for I don't know, sixty years. I mean,
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let's just let's just rounded at sixty Okay, let's just say it's sixty years.
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Let's just say sixty three to today. And to say that they have
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been championing causes for black Americans for that amount of time and they say that
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it's worse. Shouldn't they say maybe you should look a different to a different
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party, Maybe you should look somewhere else to make things better for you.
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I mean, wouldn't that make sense? Think about a sports team, Think
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about a sports team that has a head coach that I mean, imagine having
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a head coach six seasons and when they start, you know, maybe you're
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you're going five hundred. Each of those six seasons, they win fewer and
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fewer fewer games. Okay, do you keep the coach or do you find
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another coach? Do you continue to get the same recruits? Do you go
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to the parents of those is a college coach in this example and you say,
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we want to sign your kids to come to school here, and they
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say, well, the team is not very good. We're gonna make it
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better. That's what you told us for our other son four years ago.
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It didn't get any better, It's gotten worse. I know I'm stretching a
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sports metaphor here, but my point is, how do you keep supporting a
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party that can't seem to fix anything. How's racism or sixty years later and
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they tell us openly it's worse. They say that women have fewer rights now
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than they had sixty years ago. It's something the vice president just said.
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She just said that women now have fewer rights than they did pre Roe V.
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Wade, Right, vice president just said this. Now I understand this
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goes back to the well, Republicans are the ones that made the to be
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blamed for that because a Roevie Wade over overturned. First of all, Ruth
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Bader Ginsburg is the reason that Roevie Wade was overturned. I'm gonna remind you
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of that, and I will continue to remind you of that forever and ever
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and ever. She did say that it should be a states rights issue,
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which is what it is now. I don't think she would have voted that
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way, but she did say that that she believed that that was the case.
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But she's also the one who didn't step down when Barack Obama asked her
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to as president. She said, no, no, no, I'm gonna
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wait for President Hillary Clinton to be the one to appoint my successor. And
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then President Hillary Clinton never happened. So you blame anybody for Roevie Wade being
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overturned, it would be Ruth Bader Ginsburg, plain and simple. That's it.
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They don't have enough votes if she had done what Obama asked her to
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do. And then the other reason that this issue even came up with the
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Vice president when Kamala Harris, she was asked what should the compromise be between
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Democrat krats and Republicans on what we're going to have for how many weeks until
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an abortion should be no longer allowed? She wouldn't give an answer. I
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mean, the question was being asked on let's face the Nation CBS over the
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weekend question how many weeks should it be a cut off point? And she
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said, we're not going to stop until Rovy Wade is the law of the
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land again. We want the same we had before. A question was okay,
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but what do you think should be the week cutoff? How many weeks?
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We're not going to stop until Roe v. Wade is the law of
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the land again. And she talked about how women have fewer rights now than
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they did before Roe v. Wade or during Roe v. Wade before it
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was overturned, and she talked about how, you know, sixty years she
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said, my grandmother had more rights than my daughter has. That's what she
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said. I compromise at this point would instill those rights that she's complaining about.
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She's saying, oh, we're back to miscarriages and toilets. She referenced
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that she said that Republicans are over exaggerating when they say that some Democrats want
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abortions to be okay until right up to the end forty weeks. But talking
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about miscarriages and toilets, it's kind of the same topic, isn't it.
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I mean, we're talking about extreme cases. I talked about extremes yesterday.
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How we have these extremes and we have people that want to be the extreme,
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and we want to blame everybody for what the extreme view is, and
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that's not really fair. We're in a position now with the abortion issue where
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both sides have a voice, both sides have an opportunity to come up with
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a compromise, twelve weeks, sixteen weeks, twenty weeks, whatever it is.
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It's an opportunity for two sides to sit down, discuss it, come
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up with a compromise, make it the law on the land, shake hands,
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walk away, and everybody can say, wow, our government actually work
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together and got something done. But that's not what Democrats want to do right
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now. They would rather women have fewer rights right now because they want this
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to be an election issue for next year. They want to say, get
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out there and vote so that we can get We're going to get your registered
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to vote, ladies. We're going to get your vote so that we can
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get everybody in place that we need and get control and power so that I
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guess their goal is to get to the ambiguous rov Wade where we didn't really
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have any limits set at all. They say Republicans are too extreme on limiting,
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but they'd rather it be strict limitations on it and women be put it
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a disadvantage seeing this is another issue where things have gotten worse for them and
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they're not willing to meet Republicans in the middle and come up with a solution.
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I would have not imagined that we'd have a point where we have a
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Republicans running for president. Nicki Haley said, hey, let's come up with
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an amount. Let's do it. There were a number of people at the
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Republican debate that we're saying, hey, let's talk. We've had a number
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of people in the Senate saying, let's talk. Let's put out a number.
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Let's figure out what it is is at sixteen, is it twelve?
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What is it? What's the number? But here's the Vice president saying,
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we're not even going to talk about that. That's not what we want.
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We want to keep power and control. We're gonna talk about climate change and
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A study done at the University of Georgia found that talking in person to
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someone, even if the person is a complete stranger, is better at boosting
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your mood than texting with someone, scrolling on social media, or sitting alone.
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This is a captain obvious survey. I mean, I think this should
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be really obvious, shouldn't it. I mean, I'm not a big fan
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of small talk. I don't necessarily like that, but I still understand that
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there's a difference between chatting with a human being in person than it is with
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just texting them. I do like having the ability to text and not have
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to worry about long conversations. But anyway, how often is your home actually
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clean? A new survey says for most people, the answer is not very
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often. They say the average person considers their home to be completely clean just
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eleven days a year. Survey also found that homeowners and renters spend an average
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of six days of the year cleaning and sanitizing their home. Sixty eight percent
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say they spend the entire day cleaning one particular room of the house, and
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more than half say that the particular room in question is the kitchen. A
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lot of time cleaning the kitchen. That makes sense, though, because that's
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one of the rooms that I mean. I know, the bathroom gets really
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disgusting, but I mean the kitchen you're using. I guess you're using the
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bathroom a lot too. You might use the bathroom at work, though not
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many people, or I don't know. I guess they might eat out.
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I don't know. I guess those are both rooms that people should spend a
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lot of time working on. Let's talk about grand fluencers. It's exactly what
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it sounds like. The latest influencers on social media on like Instagram or TikTok
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or whatever are people over the age of fifty, and apparently the grandparents the
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grand fluencers are starting to gain some traction and using it secure brand sponsorships and
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try to earn some extra money in their retirement days. So how about that?
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Good for that closer I get to fifty, the more I'm pro all
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that, I guess, I don't know. All right, everybody probably can
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name their favorite breakfast cereal, even if they don't eat it very often,
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and according to new data, they don't mind's grits. By the way,
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if you're curious, and yes, grits count. It's a hot cereal.
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It's not a cold cereal. It's a hot cereal, but it still counts.
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Oatmeal also counts. Apparently those cereal sales not doing especially well in twenty
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twenty, the pandemic drove up cereal sales, and like high prices have come
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along since, and some better breakfast alternatives have come along in the last few
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years, and they say that that's caused the amount of people buying breakfast cereals
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has dropped. They say people look for healthier options like eggs, smoothies,
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shakes, eckface bars, things you can eat on the go. Don't have
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a lot of time to sit down and eat fruity pebbles or whatever. If
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you gotta make me name a cold cereal, it would have been fruity pebbles
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at one time. I don't know what it would be now. If I
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had to see a cold cereal, that's a tough one. I don't like
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the Captain crunch, even if it destroys the roof of your mouth. All
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right, let's talk about handbone awards. Nationwide. Pet Insurance has announced the
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finalist for this year's Hambone Award. May not be familiar with the Hambone Award,
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Here's what it is. It's the award that goes to the most unusual
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pet insurance claim of the year. Pets get injured, pets get hurt,
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it happens. We've had some weird stories with our dogs, but thankfully nothing
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quite like these potential award winning cases. How about Sonny, who was a
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Labrador retriever who shimmied his crate five feet across the floor to an electrical outlet
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and eight three phone chargers, Miko a cat who suffered an eye injury when
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he was bitten by a dove ow wich. It's not funny, it's not
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good. Why not laugh? Bernie the French bulldog who was accidentally run over
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by his owner's atv ouch. And Giles, a cat who was injured when
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he accidentally got folded up inside a convertible sofa bed. Now that's kind of
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funny, but you feel bad for him. Voting open now through Friday.
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The winner will be announced on September twenty eight, Last year's Hambone Award winner
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was Rafa Siberian mixed cat from Seattle, who was rescued after falling forty five
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feet down a drain pipe. About that, all finalists have successfully recovered from
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their injuries, so you can I guess I can feel okay about the fact
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that I chuckled for a couple of them. All right, that'll do it
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