Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / FTTxJT 062426 "To Save the SAVE Act"
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- 0:07Speaker 1: The First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Chunk
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- 0:18Speaker 2: It's only the organic time.
- 0:43Speaker 3: We get into this vote this show, vote on the
- 0:49Speaker 3: War Powers Act, and again what happened in the New
- 0:52Speaker 3: York City primaries, because it is the success of the
- 0:57Speaker 3: marketing campaign that makes the West bad and the East good,
- 1:04Speaker 3: and it is going to tear us apart if we
- 1:08Speaker 3: don't stand up to it and we don't stop giving
- 1:12Speaker 3: into it. And you have people who espouse conservatism voting
- 1:16Speaker 3: against the United States because well, you know, too many
- 1:20Speaker 3: people on TV are saying that the Arabs are bad
- 1:24Speaker 3: and the Arabs are good, and the Israelis are bad
- 1:27Speaker 3: and you can't support Israel because you know, people hate
- 1:33Speaker 3: us because Israel. And it's too simple an answer. But
- 1:36Speaker 3: phones are ringing, so let me get there.
- 1:38Speaker 2: First. Good morning, you're on the air with Joe. First
- 1:41Speaker 2: thing this morning. Who's this?
- 1:44Speaker 4: Hey, Joe, this is Moscow Bob. When you're talking about
- 1:47Speaker 4: the housing issues where the Democrats say, oh, you can't
- 1:52Speaker 4: block the Chinese from only farm land and land, but
- 1:57Speaker 4: just the Democrats and the Republicans just pass a housing
- 2:01Speaker 4: build in the Senate that basically says you can't own
- 2:05Speaker 4: more than one house, that companies can't buy blocks of
- 2:09Speaker 4: houses anymore.
- 2:10Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to look at the details. I have
- 2:13Speaker 3: to look at the details.
- 2:14Speaker 2: You're right.
- 2:15Speaker 3: They just passed it yesterday. It's on the docket of
- 2:17Speaker 3: things and I'm not looking at the piece of paper
- 2:20Speaker 3: right now as we speak.
- 2:21Speaker 4: But right, But that's my that's my curious question. Is
- 2:26Speaker 4: on one hand, they say, oh, we can't block the
- 2:29Speaker 4: Chinese government from buying all this farm land. But on
- 2:33Speaker 4: the other other hand, you're saying American people and American
- 2:37Speaker 4: investment firms can't buy housing anymore.
- 2:40Speaker 3: Right, and they can't invest in it, and the peril
- 2:42Speaker 3: in this And this is one of the points I
- 2:44Speaker 3: wanted to make you here. You are dragging me ahead
- 2:46Speaker 3: of the game here. What are you a time traveler
- 2:48Speaker 3: or something?
- 2:49Speaker 2: Bob? That is that the unintended consequences was that.
- 2:57Speaker 4: I'm eight hours ahead of you. So I've already heard
- 3:00Speaker 4: what you're talking about earlier today. That's the time.
- 3:04Speaker 2: Traveler, that's right, that's right, Moscow.
- 3:09Speaker 3: But but the the issue is the unintended consequences. So
- 3:13Speaker 3: if somebody has money to build housing and we're going
- 3:17Speaker 3: to stop them now because we're afraid of the chi
- 3:20Speaker 3: cooms building housing. Uh, we're cutting off our nose to
- 3:24Speaker 3: spite our face. Yes, well that's what we have to
- 3:29Speaker 3: be careful of.
- 3:30Speaker 4: This happened, right, But this happens all over the world
- 3:34Speaker 4: every country. Moscow is the same way. You have all
- 3:37Speaker 4: these people and these very wealthy people and companies have
- 3:41Speaker 4: you know, these new apartment complexes that are built. You
- 3:44Speaker 4: have wealthy people that have bought the majority of the
- 3:47Speaker 4: apartments not for their own use, but so rent. The
- 3:51Speaker 4: same thing happens in every country.
- 3:54Speaker 3: Yeah, but part of our part of the American, part
- 3:57Speaker 3: of the American housing bubble, where these reachs, these uh,
- 4:02Speaker 3: these investment package deals that were built on the idea
- 4:06Speaker 3: of investing in apartment houses uh and rental properties as
- 4:11Speaker 3: a as a rental as a as A as an
- 4:15Speaker 3: investment portfolio project. And that that became dangerous as well
- 4:19Speaker 3: because what was happening is uh, you know, as as
- 4:23Speaker 3: people foreclosed and as the issues happened in the economy again, uh,
- 4:28Speaker 3: you wound up with these folks looking for recourse on
- 4:33Speaker 3: these investments that they lost money on because that's a
- 4:37Speaker 3: possibility and and you would bundle them all together into
- 4:41Speaker 3: fairly risky you know, loan packages. Yep.
- 4:46Speaker 4: And once again it's basically the rich getting bailed out.
- 4:51Speaker 4: Just like the banking crisis in two thousand seven eight,
- 4:55Speaker 4: many local banks in Wisconsin where lived didn't get any
- 4:58Speaker 4: really think it helped. So they have be closed and
- 5:01Speaker 4: the bigger banks bottom out. But yet the bigger banks
- 5:04Speaker 4: make billions dollars of profits. Same thing with these investment companies.
- 5:08Speaker 4: The reason why they need help now, and I think
- 5:11Speaker 4: that's what the basis for this bill is is because
- 5:14Speaker 4: the healthy market is getting banned. They have so many
- 5:17Speaker 4: properties that aren't rented, including hotel investments, and I think
- 5:23Speaker 4: it's a way they're going to get around to bail
- 5:25Speaker 4: out all these big investment companies.
- 5:27Speaker 3: Well, you know what you do is you lower your
- 5:29Speaker 3: prices is and you know, you don't help anyone out
- 5:32Speaker 3: even with tax abatements, until you've shown me that you've
- 5:35Speaker 3: lowered the rent. I mean, if you can't sell a
- 5:37Speaker 3: house because you're asking five hundred thousand dollars for it,
- 5:40Speaker 3: hey try four hundred thousand or three hundred thousand and
- 5:43Speaker 3: see if you can sell it then, because that's that's
- 5:46Speaker 3: the problem. With the subsidized government backed you know, world
- 5:50Speaker 3: of especially real estate. But I think in a lot
- 5:53Speaker 3: of places, Bob, good stuff, sir, you have a good morning.
- 5:58Speaker 3: You too served by what you call growth that goes
- 6:02Speaker 3: on unabated. Yeah, cancer, you can't just always go up.
- 6:10Speaker 3: And one of the problems we have is local government
- 6:13Speaker 3: funds itself on real estate, so local government always has
- 6:19Speaker 3: to have real estate taxes going up. And being populists,
- 6:24Speaker 3: they don't want to raise the taxes.
- 6:26Speaker 2: They would rather just say, hey, is it everything great? Here?
- 6:30Speaker 5: Are property values have gone up?
- 6:34Speaker 2: So they restrict building.
- 6:36Speaker 5: Oh it's for the view shed.
- 6:43Speaker 3: They build small roads so that nobody can build along
- 6:46Speaker 3: them because infrastructurally we don't have the bag. But they
- 6:53Speaker 3: want more people to move in so that there are
- 6:55Speaker 3: more voters that moved in. And that's the hypocrisy in this.
- 7:02Speaker 3: So some of the things in since Bob brought up
- 7:04Speaker 3: the bill, we went and pulled it out from the
- 7:06Speaker 3: bottom of the deck here and brought it to the front.
- 7:10Speaker 3: One of the things, yes, is it restricts large institutional
- 7:15Speaker 3: investors from buying new and single family homes. Well, all right,
- 7:19Speaker 3: so the devil is in who gets to define that
- 7:22Speaker 3: is it FAJ is it the SEC. And we've reached
- 7:33Speaker 3: out to John McGuire because he's one of the folks
- 7:38Speaker 3: who have gotten behind it, and it is proposed bipartisan.
- 7:43Speaker 3: Tim Scott of South Carolina, who you know, is the
- 7:48Speaker 3: sane Senator from South Carolina at least he has lost
- 7:52Speaker 3: all his marbles based on what I saw Sunday along
- 7:55Speaker 3: with Elizabeth Warren. And nothing really goes badly when Ocahantas
- 8:00Speaker 3: is involved, right, and then you have Maxine Waters and
- 8:04Speaker 3: French Hill involved in the house counterpart proposal. So when
- 8:11Speaker 3: you say Elizabeth Warren and Maxine Waters are part of this,
- 8:18Speaker 3: and then I will get rebukes from people say.
- 8:21Speaker 5: Well, why you just just trust it out of I
- 8:23Speaker 5: don't know.
- 8:23Speaker 3: Maxine Waters and Elizabeth Warren are usually a good litmus
- 8:27Speaker 3: test of why you shouldn't trust something because it will
- 8:31Speaker 3: wind up being a housing killer, not a housing creator.
- 8:39Speaker 3: It will be the proverbial government wet blanket op. What's
- 8:45Speaker 3: the it's called the I'm from the government and I'm
- 8:47Speaker 3: here to help act.
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- 10:02Speaker 1: the first thing today.
- 10:06Speaker 3: So I mentioned the Save America Act. Elizabeth Mitchell was
- 10:11Speaker 3: one of my co conspirators at the Daily Signal was
- 10:16Speaker 3: out in the press gaggle in the rain with President Trump.
- 10:24Speaker 4: Well, we're just going to talk about Save America.
- 10:26Speaker 1: We have to get we have to pass the Save.
- 10:28Speaker 4: America Act, which is voter ID, which is proof of citizenship,
- 10:32Speaker 4: et cetera. We have to pass it.
- 10:34Speaker 2: So we're gonna have to talk about that.
- 10:35Speaker 5: In many other things.
- 10:37Speaker 2: A lot of good relations.
- 10:38Speaker 3: So the President having lunch today with the Senators, trying
- 10:45Speaker 3: to pressure them into bringing the Save America Act. Senator
- 10:51Speaker 3: Rick Scott, who I know Floridians like hamp They have great,
- 10:57Speaker 3: you know, feelings for Rick Scott, much in the same
- 10:59Speaker 3: way that I'm learning about Jubilation Tea Cornpone. You know,
- 11:05Speaker 3: I never saw the Broadway musical. I was never and
- 11:08Speaker 3: ray testimony to you. I would read Little Abner in
- 11:13Speaker 3: the daily news where it was carried, and always thought
- 11:17Speaker 3: that it made some good points. But at that point
- 11:21Speaker 3: I really had not traveled the universe in the way
- 11:24Speaker 3: that I had, and I was I was limited, So
- 11:29Speaker 3: I was never you know, Pogo, We've met the enemy
- 11:33Speaker 3: and the enemy is us, you know, all of that stuff,
- 11:39Speaker 3: Dunesbury and all of those. I would read them because
- 11:43Speaker 3: at some point the news was just even then in
- 11:46Speaker 3: the eighties, the news was just letting me down after
- 11:50Speaker 3: a bit. You know, you could get all the news
- 11:52Speaker 3: you needed in about ten to fifteen minutes, and then
- 11:55Speaker 3: what we're going to do with the rest of your
- 11:57Speaker 3: lunch hower And I was, I was learning a lesson
- 12:02Speaker 3: even then. So closed door Senate luncheon. Today, President Trump
- 12:08Speaker 3: pressing the Save America Act. Rick Scott, who I know,
- 12:14Speaker 3: like I said, my Floridian friends, whether it's Saint Augustine
- 12:19Speaker 3: or Treasure Coast where hamp is listening, Sarasota Largo, Red
- 12:28Speaker 3: Flag Rick along with Red Flag Pam. And I know
- 12:33Speaker 3: I'm unduly harsh sometimes to Rick Scott and Pampondi for
- 12:37Speaker 3: their time as governor and Attorney General in Florida. And
- 12:40Speaker 3: and and it isn't. It's it's not because of the
- 12:45Speaker 3: way she and he were then, because they were the
- 12:50Speaker 3: avant garde. They were the first Republicans in generations to
- 12:56Speaker 3: lead Florida. Florida had been such a relie blue state
- 13:01Speaker 3: that when Rick Scott and Pambondi come along, and then
- 13:04Speaker 3: you get the trayvon Martin, and then you get the
- 13:10Speaker 3: you get the Parkland shooting, and they're just capitulating to
- 13:14Speaker 3: what they believe is a very tight race for leadership
- 13:18Speaker 3: in Florida rather than doing the right thing. They pandered,
- 13:23Speaker 3: it's that they've continued to do this.
- 13:28Speaker 2: On through some time.
- 13:32Speaker 3: So Rick Scott, showing the leadership of a double T Cornpone,
- 13:39Speaker 3: said the Senate can begin passing the Save America Act piecemeal.
- 13:45Speaker 3: It is you can't make this stuff up. Let's do
- 13:49Speaker 3: a vote just on voter ID, he said, Let's do
- 13:53Speaker 3: a vote just on you have to be an American
- 13:56Speaker 3: to vote, maybe just to share voter roles. We'll get
- 13:59Speaker 3: this done. So why is it that a bill that
- 14:04Speaker 3: encompasses all of those things is impossible, but a vote
- 14:12Speaker 3: on each one individually? Because I've looked, and again I've
- 14:16Speaker 3: asked everyone I know in the voting world as to
- 14:19Speaker 3: what the possible problems could be. Kenkochinelli can't tell me
- 14:24Speaker 3: there's any problems in it. The Democrats, their problem is
- 14:30Speaker 3: the fact that they say some American citizen might not
- 14:34Speaker 3: know where their proof of citizenship is. And I understood
- 14:40Speaker 3: this because when I had to get my real ID
- 14:46Speaker 3: to get on an airplane because they told me I
- 14:48Speaker 3: needed to get a real ID, I had to.
- 14:49Speaker 2: Go find my birth certificate, and I did you know where?
- 14:56Speaker 2: I found it?
- 14:58Speaker 3: In my mailbox because I had order an another one.
- 15:04Speaker 3: But you can do that. You can call your Secretary
- 15:07Speaker 3: of State and the state where you was born, find
- 15:11Speaker 3: your proof of citizenship, your birth certificate, your immigration records. Heck,
- 15:15Speaker 3: if you have immigration records and you have citizenship documents,
- 15:19Speaker 3: I hope you treat them more specially than I apparently
- 15:22Speaker 3: mistreated my birth certificate, but I had one. And here's
- 15:26Speaker 3: the funny thing is now supposedly we all now have
- 15:32Speaker 3: the Enhanced identification anyway, which is sufficient in.
- 15:41Speaker 2: The Save Act.
- 15:43Speaker 3: So I don't get what the problem is for Republicans
- 15:47Speaker 3: in this except the fact that they have businesses in
- 15:52Speaker 3: their communities that employ illegal aliens. Every time I push this,
- 16:01Speaker 3: I expect some email full of reproachments, and usually I
- 16:09Speaker 3: get ones like this. This is from last week when
- 16:11Speaker 3: we said the same thing. I think it was when
- 16:13Speaker 3: we had Kenkochinellian and I said, please, can edimmicate me,
- 16:18Speaker 3: Please show me what in the Save Act is problematic
- 16:21Speaker 3: for Republicans and he said the same thing I've been saying.
- 16:24Speaker 3: It's just that there are Republicans whose your business backers
- 16:31Speaker 3: work under the table, they work off the books. They
- 16:38Speaker 3: don't want This is the same coalition that stopped Everify.
- 16:47Speaker 3: So okay and Mark wrote in saying that businesses can't
- 16:55Speaker 3: afford to hire and pay the employees at full freight.
- 17:00Speaker 3: That's the problem with okay. So there are businesses like
- 17:04Speaker 3: Marjorie Taylor Green's construction company that apparently can't afford to
- 17:14Speaker 3: do what everyone else is doing with legitimate American citizens
- 17:18Speaker 3: working for them. So let's put Rick Scott and Tim
- 17:22Speaker 3: Kaine and Mark Warner and Jewbeilte Cornpone to work on
- 17:27Speaker 3: doing that. Find out why it is that American businesses
- 17:34Speaker 3: are hiring non citizens to work for pennies on the dollar.
- 17:40Speaker 3: Could it be that we would discover that we've so
- 17:43Speaker 3: ruined our economy, so devalued our dollars that you can't
- 17:51Speaker 3: afford to hire American citizens anymore to do these things?
- 17:59Speaker 3: And since of this is the construction world, are you
- 18:02Speaker 3: saying that we can't build affordable housing even with And
- 18:08Speaker 3: then you argue with me, why are the Republicans getting
- 18:11Speaker 3: such a bad rap? Because each time they say we
- 18:14Speaker 3: can't do this, it opens up a Pandora's box of
- 18:17Speaker 3: why why can't you do the Save America Act? We
- 18:21Speaker 3: have businesses that are going to suffer, you mean, businesses
- 18:24Speaker 3: that are employing unemployed, undocumented workers this, and it's expensive
- 18:30Speaker 3: to build these houses. And they always go off the
- 18:32Speaker 3: rails because they don't want to say, obviously it's political
- 18:36Speaker 3: suicide to say that they have businesses in their area
- 18:40Speaker 3: that are working off the books. But there's a reason
- 18:44Speaker 3: they're working off the books because you are now making
- 18:46Speaker 3: it too onerous, go back an hour and a half
- 18:49Speaker 3: in this program, too onerous to actually pay and employ
- 18:58Speaker 3: citizens of the United States. And that's what's happened to
- 19:05Speaker 3: all these people is that they've they've managed to pull
- 19:09Speaker 3: defeat from the jaws of victory again.
- 19:11Speaker 2: I rat that bum.
- 19:12Speaker 3: Baddocks play and rat the president of costs Lee swept
- 19:17Speaker 3: a tear away who swept up back of his horse.
- 19:20Speaker 2: By gerlized peakr.
- 19:24Speaker 5: Sort for Lord Wind turberalized.
- 19:27Speaker 3: Car three horse by it was tubalized darts.
- 19:55Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in the first Thing Today by
- 19:59Speaker 1: Joe Thomas.
- 20:01Speaker 2: Amazing, isn't it?
- 20:02Speaker 4: All?
- 20:03Speaker 3: This comes out of one studio deep in the bowels
- 20:07Speaker 3: of central Virginia. Like the Declaration of Independence. Just so,
- 20:18Speaker 3: so I went to one of these right wing conspiracy
- 20:23Speaker 3: houses online to get this following document. I remember Senator
- 20:28Speaker 3: Rick Scott years ago during COVID actually was getting ready
- 20:33Speaker 3: to run for president. That's an important thing to remember. Actually,
- 20:38Speaker 3: let me get a little predicate here. So a couple
- 20:41Speaker 3: of years ago, Republican won the governor's mansion in Virginia
- 20:46Speaker 3: and still held one of the houses in Virginia, and
- 20:50Speaker 3: so the question was do we do education reform? The
- 20:53Speaker 3: governor had been elected because we had discovered that all
- 20:58Speaker 3: these places had transgender rapes going on in bathrooms.
- 21:04Speaker 2: I was just talking to nowhere Kaffin from turning.
- 21:07Speaker 3: Point usam or history, And you've dealt with these folks
- 21:10Speaker 3: for a very long time. Do you expect anything more
- 21:15Speaker 3: than perhaps a conviction of mister Sweeney and then a
- 21:22Speaker 3: press statement saying how aggrieved the school board is and
- 21:26Speaker 3: how glad they are to put it behind them and
- 21:28Speaker 3: they look forward to the future of the blah blah
- 21:31Speaker 3: blah blah blah.
- 21:32Speaker 7: Is that pretty much how this is going to play out? Sadly,
- 21:35Speaker 7: I don't think it's going to play out like that.
- 21:37Speaker 7: I have been contacted Joe behind the scenes from people
- 21:40Speaker 7: I don't know, but who are aware of what I
- 21:42Speaker 7: do and my reputation and covering this issue. And there
- 21:45Speaker 7: are things happening in multiple schools where people have had
- 21:49Speaker 7: problems with the way the schools have handled, particularly sexual allegations.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Now I understand that this is a world that we're
- 21:55Speaker 3: told that children and their teachers have a relationship beyond
- 21:59Speaker 3: them parents. So I asked him, will we do reform
- 22:04Speaker 3: and they said, no, we don't want to do reform
- 22:07Speaker 3: yet because we want to run for the next General
- 22:10Speaker 3: Assembly election on reform. So there were members of the
- 22:14Speaker 3: General Assembly that wanted to win a bigger majority on
- 22:17Speaker 3: reform and they wound up losing everything because of it.
- 22:20Speaker 3: So it's with that business model that I bring you
- 22:24Speaker 3: Rick Scott's twelve point plan. And I got this from
- 22:30Speaker 3: Rescueamerica dot com, which, if you're wondering, was the website
- 22:34Speaker 3: that Rick Scott started for his presidency campaign. Twelve point plan.
- 22:39Speaker 3: It's actually started as an eight point plan, like all
- 22:42Speaker 3: good government programs. More got added, our kids will say
- 22:45Speaker 3: the Pledge of Allegiance, salute the flag, and learn that
- 22:48Speaker 3: America is a great country. Government will never again ask
- 22:52Speaker 3: American citizens to disclose their race, ethnticity, or skin color
- 22:56Speaker 3: on government forms, save that one soft on crime. Days
- 23:01Speaker 3: of coddling criminal behavior will end. We will secure our border,
- 23:11Speaker 3: finish building the wall, and name it after President Trump.
- 23:14Speaker 3: We will grow America's economy, star of Washington's economy, and
- 23:18Speaker 3: stop socialism. We will eliminate all federal programs that can
- 23:22Speaker 3: be done locally. We will protect the integrity of American
- 23:26Speaker 3: democracy and stop left wing efforts to reg elections. We
- 23:30Speaker 3: will protect, defend, and promote American families at all costs.
- 23:34Speaker 3: Men are men, women are men. I mean men are men,
- 23:36Speaker 3: women are women, and unborn babies are babies. We believe
- 23:40Speaker 3: in science. Americans will be free to welcome God into
- 23:44Speaker 3: all aspects of their lives. We are Americans, not globalists.
- 23:49Speaker 3: That is Senator Rick Scott's eleven point eight point plan
- 23:55Speaker 3: to win the presidency. Somewhere in between point two, government
- 24:02Speaker 3: will never again ask American citizens to disclose their race, ethnicity,
- 24:06Speaker 3: or skin color on any government forms they must have
- 24:09Speaker 3: added on or if they're actually citizens. Because just a
- 24:13Speaker 3: little further down the list, Senator Scott says, we will
- 24:23Speaker 3: protect the integrity of American democracy and stop left wing
- 24:27Speaker 3: efforts to rego elections. So why would Rick Scott be
- 24:31Speaker 3: in the way of the Save America Act? Rick Scott
- 24:36Speaker 3: published this, as I said at the Onset when he
- 24:42Speaker 3: started an exploratory campaign to run for president. So is
- 24:52Speaker 3: Rick Scott going to primary jd vance in twenty twenty eight.
- 25:01Speaker 3: I've already told you that Virginia's Republicans were willing to
- 25:05Speaker 3: scuttle any issues of school choice and school reform until
- 25:11Speaker 3: their next elections because they thought it was a winning
- 25:14Speaker 3: issue for Governor Youngkin, so it would be a winning
- 25:17Speaker 3: issue for them. They lost fourteen seats.
- 25:22Speaker 2: In the next election.
- 25:27Speaker 3: But it shows you to the mindset of the rest
- 25:31Speaker 3: victory from the jaws of defeat or vice versa crowd.
- 25:38Speaker 3: This is what happens when you listen to consultants too much. Certainly,
- 25:41Speaker 3: it's an interesting idea to say, well, if something's a
- 25:45Speaker 3: winning issue, I want to hold on to it to
- 25:47Speaker 3: be an issue. I don't want to actually solve the problem.
- 25:51Speaker 3: I want to keep the issue so I can run
- 25:53Speaker 3: on it in a year or two years or whatever.
- 25:58Speaker 3: Democrats don't have that punction. Democrats just go full boar
- 26:02Speaker 3: ahead and they figure they'll come up with something else later.
- 26:06Speaker 3: Sometimes they'll just manufacture something else later. They don't worry
- 26:11Speaker 3: about holding on to issues so that they can use
- 26:13Speaker 3: it at a later date. They know they're going to
- 26:17Speaker 3: drag out the recycling when they need to. They'll get
- 26:21Speaker 3: Jerry Brown on the stage to talk about clean energy.
- 26:27Speaker 3: They'll open Al Gore's crypt if they need to. They'll
- 26:33Speaker 3: wheeld Bill Clinton out to do his Economy Stupid reunion
- 26:40Speaker 3: show with Jim Carvill. They don't worry about saving an
- 26:46Speaker 3: issue so they can run on it later. They know
- 26:49Speaker 3: there's always going to be something they can create an
- 26:51Speaker 3: issue around. So let's stop trying to play the game
- 26:58Speaker 3: and do the right thing for the right reason. Right now.
- 27:01Speaker 3: It's been a simple business model, Joel writes in you
- 27:05Speaker 3: know about the economic issues, Joe, It begins with the
- 27:08Speaker 3: devalued human, starting with the unborn socialism versus individualism. We
- 27:15Speaker 3: are useful idiots well because it's not as simple as
- 27:22Speaker 3: putting it on a bumper sticker. When I talk about
- 27:30Speaker 3: the reason elections are important and that the only way
- 27:35Speaker 3: to protect the democratic process is to vote publicly but
- 27:40Speaker 3: in secret, we also have to be a community of
- 27:48Speaker 3: voluntary community, not a conscripted community, not a mandated community,
- 27:57Speaker 3: but a voluntary community, and we've ceased to be that
- 28:00Speaker 3: too frequently, so the authoritarians move in. And that's where
- 28:09Speaker 3: conservative voices need to start standing up, because if we
- 28:13Speaker 3: can become a voluntary community again, then we won't have
- 28:17Speaker 3: the authoritarian one. Don't worry, I'm coming back, because I'm
- 28:26Speaker 3: coming until tomorrow at five.
- 28:28Speaker 2: I'm Joe Thomas.
- 28:29Speaker 5: So long and thanks for all the fish