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The Left's Double Standard on Political Labels · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the three Martini Lunch. Greb a stool next
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  Speaker 1: to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garretty of
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  Speaker 1: National Review. Free martinis coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Greg Corumbus is on a very deserved vacation. My name
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  Speaker 2: is Craig Collins filling in. Jim Garretty doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Care about vacation.
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  Speaker 2: It seems he's willing to be here, willing to work,
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  Speaker 2: which is awesome. So many things to talk about today,
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  Speaker 2: so many martinis to get to. We can get right
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  Speaker 2: into the good one, and the good Martini is one
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  Speaker 2: that I'm surprised. I don't know about you, Jim, that
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  Speaker 2: I care about as much as I do, because going
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  Speaker 2: into this, I really didn't think I would care. And
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  Speaker 2: as this has been happening and I've been watching, I've
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  Speaker 2: been caring. Of course, I'm talking about soccer, Jim.
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  Speaker 3: What do you got?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Look, team USA beat Bosnia Herzegovinia yesterday two to nothing, yes.
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  Speaker 1: After an egregious red card call.
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  Speaker 4: That, by the way, like I'm not going to pretend
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  Speaker 4: that I am a diehard soccer fan all year round.
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  Speaker 4: My brother has been trying to get me into rooting
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  Speaker 4: for Liverpool for a long time, but I think I'm
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  Speaker 4: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: In the conservative world.
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  Speaker 4: There's kind of soccer or football, as those prissy Europeans called.
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  Speaker 1: We play football the way it's meant to.
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  Speaker 4: Be played, with it with our hands and with and
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  Speaker 4: with lots of injuries and concussions and no flopping it,
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  Speaker 4: you know. But the thing is is that and I
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  Speaker 4: think it was pgr Work somebody had said, either PGA
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  Speaker 4: or Work Dave Berry forgive me if I'm not remembering
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  Speaker 4: which one, but he basically said, if you go into
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  Speaker 4: any sports bar and you say, hey, can you turn
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  Speaker 4: to ESPN the O Show, they're playing the World Tittley
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  Speaker 4: Wings Championship. They're probably going to look at you roll
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  Speaker 4: your eyes. But you said no, you just say it's
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  Speaker 4: USA versus China in the finals of the World Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he and within ten minutes the whole barroll but chanting
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  Speaker 4: USA USA. Right, Do we care about tittleywinks? No, we
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  Speaker 4: just love seeing Americans win and be the best in
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  Speaker 4: the world. We're probably not the best in the world
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  Speaker 4: at soccer.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's, you know, but a tradition. We've really
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  Speaker 1: not been a soccer powerhouse.
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  Speaker 4: We've been good enough to qualify for the World Cup
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  Speaker 4: and not really do that much when we get there.
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  Speaker 4: This is one of the most successful years for US
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  Speaker 4: Team USA soccer ever.
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  Speaker 1: We went two and.
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  Speaker 4: One in the divisional rounds and won our first two
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  Speaker 4: games and they were you know, exciting and high scoring
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  Speaker 4: by soccer standards. You know, that was great last night.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this is only the second time in history
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  Speaker 4: that the Team USA has won a game in the
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  Speaker 4: knockout round. The previous one was in two thousand and
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  Speaker 4: two we beat Mexico. So, folks, this is worth celebrating,
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  Speaker 4: and even just beyond the sports angle, like we're a
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  Speaker 4: host nation, we'd want to do well. I think home
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  Speaker 4: field advantage is a significant factor here. And it's just
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  Speaker 4: good to see everybody in the country feeling great. It's
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  Speaker 4: great to see everybody last yesterday in San Francisco, singing
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  Speaker 4: the national anthem, waving the red, white and blue, feeling
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  Speaker 4: absolutely you know, also by the really like it seems
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  Speaker 4: like there's really good sportsmanship amongst all the fans. There's
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  Speaker 4: no you know, sure, everybody's kind of happy to be here.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's saying, hey, good effort when you know the other
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  Speaker 4: guys lose. Everybody's enjoying singing John Denver's Take Me Home
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  Speaker 4: Country Roads like it's yeah, we we so needed this
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  Speaker 4: as we headed to our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent it feels like we needed this, and
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent it's good that it's happening. Mexico and
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  Speaker 2: Canada have also been winning, so the other two host countries.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't want to be the only one failing there.
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  Speaker 2: That would have hurt even more. Yeah, and then I
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  Speaker 2: love that you said something about the red card because
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  Speaker 2: I I don't know anything really about soccer myself, but
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  Speaker 2: I am so upset about the red card and one
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  Speaker 2: of our players who's been scoring a bunch of goals
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  Speaker 2: not being allowed to play in the next game. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what that means, but I've been tweeting about it, Jim,
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  Speaker 2: which means that I'm upset.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say, you know, let's hear it
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  Speaker 4: for birthright citizenship. He was born in the United States,
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  Speaker 4: so therefore, good call Supreme Court. In fact, the Supreme
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  Speaker 4: Court said they're going to rescind the red card.
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  Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's you know, yeah, that would change all
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  Speaker 2: of my If amy call me Barrett's at the four
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  Speaker 2: in front of that, I'm much happier.
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  Speaker 4: But you can appeal a red card and they're you know,
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  Speaker 4: for judging from the commentators who know a lot more
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  Speaker 4: about soccer than I do, it did sound like that
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  Speaker 4: there was a chance that that could pan out that
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  Speaker 4: way and they could downgrade it to a yellow card.
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  Speaker 4: I think the other things that people said, like, so
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  Speaker 4: he stepped on the other guy's ankle, It made an
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  Speaker 4: ugly twist. It did not appear that there was anything
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  Speaker 4: deliberate about it. They're both going for the ball and
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  Speaker 4: that's just where his foot landed. I understand if the
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  Speaker 4: refs want to say, okay, you know, you can't injure
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  Speaker 4: another player. Most people are like, that's probably a yellow card.
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  Speaker 4: People were saying Messy did something earlier in the tournament
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  Speaker 4: and didn't get anything. But of course he's Linel Messy.
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  Speaker 4: So it's you know, when you achieve that Tom Brady status,
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  Speaker 4: the refs just decide.
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  Speaker 3: Could break an ankle.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but anyway, like it a time, you know, it
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  Speaker 4: just feels like, look, we next take on Belgium. Look out, Waffles,
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  Speaker 4: We're coming for you. You know, Look, God knows if
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  Speaker 4: we do any better than this. We've already had a
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  Speaker 4: very successful year. Everybody's been enjoying themselves. The finals are
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  Speaker 4: probably going to be to of the traditional powerhouses, and
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  Speaker 4: God bless them. But it's just good to see America
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  Speaker 4: being a serious competitive soccer program.
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  Speaker 2: We move on to the second martini of our three
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  Speaker 2: martini lunch, and this one is well bad. The US
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  Speaker 2: economy job report was not what was expected. It felt
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  Speaker 2: like the Supergirl box office number. When I was looking
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  Speaker 2: at it like just much where then they had anticipated.
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  Speaker 3: Jim, what do you want to say here?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Supergirl may be looking for work in the and
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  Speaker 4: I'll do just in the future as well. So look,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you go for one of the headlines,
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  Speaker 4: the unemployment.
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  Speaker 1: Rate is from four point three to four point.
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  Speaker 4: Two, and people might say, oh, that's good news, it's
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  Speaker 4: not really the whole story. The you know, the US
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  Speaker 4: added fifty to seven thousand jobs added in June. People
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  Speaker 4: were expecting considerably more, something in the neighborhood of you know,
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  Speaker 4: fifteen thousand jobs, sort one hundred and fifteen thousand jobs.
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  Speaker 4: And look, you look at the average of the last
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  Speaker 4: couple of months is ninety two thousand for the first
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  Speaker 4: half of this year. Here's what really jumps out and
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  Speaker 4: seemed very you know, troubling. The size of the labor
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  Speaker 4: force declined by seven hundred and twenty thousand people from
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  Speaker 4: May to June. Right now, that you know, what happens
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  Speaker 4: is is that people they have the you know, discouraged workers,
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  Speaker 4: people who have not looked for a job, not found
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  Speaker 4: a job, and then they stop looking. And all of
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  Speaker 4: these are you know, the the best estimates that the
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  Speaker 4: US Bureau of Labor statists can do. Trump has his
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  Speaker 4: guy in charge over there. This is all run the department.
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  Speaker 4: You can't say this is evil liberals who are putting
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  Speaker 4: together these numbers. It's not great. It's really what you know, Like,
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  Speaker 4: does this could this be a one year blip or
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  Speaker 4: a one month blip? I suppose, But look, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Greg and I on the podcast, I've always suddenly, we
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  Speaker 4: want to see hiring go up, we want to see
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  Speaker 4: job creation go up. This is good for the GOP,
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  Speaker 4: this is good for the country. We don't you know, like,
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  Speaker 4: if you're the Republicans feeling nervous about the midterms, these
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  Speaker 4: are not the numbers you wanted to see today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, now that's fair.
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  Speaker 2: I did see one other thing that you mentioned in
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  Speaker 2: here that I thought was interesting, or the Wall Street
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  Speaker 2: Journal might have mentioned maybe some of the decrease in
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  Speaker 2: the actual amount of people working is because of deportation,
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  Speaker 2: and that that's a hidden, potentially good thing, or at
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  Speaker 2: least something that might make Americans happier. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that's actually something we can definitively prove, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a way to say Hey, this thing that's terrible, Maybe
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of it is not quite as terrible
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  Speaker 2: as you think.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a reasonable inclusion considering the scale of the
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  Speaker 4: administration's deportation efforts. And I'm sure the thinking is, well, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: you deport a person who's in the country illegally, they're
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  Speaker 4: no longer there to do that job. That opens up
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  Speaker 4: a job for a legal immigrant or for a US
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  Speaker 4: born worker. I'm not sure that's happening, and at certainly
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  Speaker 4: these numbers are not indicating that this is happening on
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  Speaker 4: a large scale. This is you know, also a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of talk about, you know, worries about inflation, worries
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  Speaker 4: about gasoline prices, although they're down a little bit in
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  Speaker 4: the last month, but just general sense that like the cost,
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  Speaker 4: like there's there's instability in the economy, there's instability in
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  Speaker 4: all these things. That makes companies probably a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more reluctant to hire. But I think that that thing
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  Speaker 4: about discouraged workers, I remember back in two thousand and eight,
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  Speaker 4: two thousand and nine, twenty ten, a decent great recession time,
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  Speaker 4: they're that number jumped up considerably, and sometimes the unemployment
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  Speaker 4: rate would go down because of it in the Obama administrate's.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh we did a great job. No you didn't.
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  Speaker 4: Now, if people stop looking for work, that is not
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  Speaker 4: a success story.
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  Speaker 1: That is not an improvement. Some of this might be
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  Speaker 1: people who are retiring.
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  Speaker 4: We know the baby boomer is a significant number retiring
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  Speaker 4: each year, each month, but all in all, not the
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  Speaker 4: numbers you wanted to see in the jobs report.
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  Speaker 2: And now we move on to our final very crazy
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  Speaker 2: martini of our three martini lunch. And I just love
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  Speaker 2: the way that it's written here. Even though Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 2: calls the president of fascist. We have a whole bunch
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  Speaker 2: of Democratic Socialists that seem to be commies. They full
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  Speaker 2: on And I think part of the reason, Jim and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you think about that that this
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  Speaker 2: is popular at all with anyone, is a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of people have no idea what history is, and they
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  Speaker 2: don't study it, and they don't pay attention to it,
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  Speaker 2: and they don't know why. This is a terrible, terrible
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  Speaker 2: thing to support. But what do we want to say
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  Speaker 2: about the Democratic Socialists of America?
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  Speaker 1: Sure well.
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  Speaker 4: This was spurred by CNN Chief White House correspondent Caitlin Collins,
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  Speaker 4: who objected to President Trump calling the latest Democratic Socialist
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  Speaker 4: of America candidates a bunch of hardcore godless communists. Look,
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  Speaker 4: I don't about their religious beliefs, because Mom Dami believes
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  Speaker 4: in a God I suspect, not necessarily the God that.
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  Speaker 1: Most Christians do. But that's fine. We have religious freedom
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  Speaker 1: in this country.
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  Speaker 4: But Kaitlyn Collins insists that socialism, much less democratic socialism,
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  Speaker 4: is not communism.
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  Speaker 1: Now, first of.
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  Speaker 4: All, if you look at the membership of the Democratic
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  Speaker 4: Socialist America in particular, it's national leadership they are pretty
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  Speaker 4: explicitly we need to seize the means of production. I
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  Speaker 4: wrote about in today's Morning Jolt. Dara Liza a Villa Chavall.
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  Speaker 4: She's a thirty two year old Democratic Socialist candidate and
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  Speaker 4: she's pretty much guaranteed to be guaranteed to be the
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  Speaker 4: next congresswoman from New York's thirteenth district, covers Upper Midwestern
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  Speaker 4: in the Bronx. So, first of all, like she has
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  Speaker 4: said that she was a communist, but that was long ago,
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  Speaker 4: Craig in the year twenty twenty, so less than six years.
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  Speaker 4: It's agent history, it's you know. And she says that
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  Speaker 4: she wants to use her power.
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  Speaker 1: Because of people.
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  Speaker 4: She's also one of the people who's like abolished the police,
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  Speaker 4: and people keep saying to her like, well, what do
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  Speaker 4: you want to do with criminals? Like, ah, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we need to address route cause, but what do you
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  Speaker 4: want to do with murderers? And so you get asked
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  Speaker 4: this on MS Now this week and she says, well,
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  Speaker 4: she wants to use her power in Congress to transform
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  Speaker 4: the United States into quote a society where we don't
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  Speaker 4: have murders unquote.
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  Speaker 1: Now I look, I'd like that, Yeah, it'd be great.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, a world with no and like we
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  Speaker 4: should point out that, like the murder rate is down.
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  Speaker 4: You know, back a pandemic was able to do a
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  Speaker 4: twenty two thousand homicide to the US for a year,
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  Speaker 4: we got about fourteen thousand estimated twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: That's improvement.
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  Speaker 4: But you're probably never going to have a society that
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have murders, and you probably should have some sort
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  Speaker 4: of I don't know, we could call it a criminal
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  Speaker 4: justice system to address what to do if these people.
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  Speaker 4: So first of all, these people are like just wildly utopian.
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  Speaker 4: William Buckley famously said, don't iminitize the Eskaton, which basically means,
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  Speaker 4: don't try to build God's kingdom on Earth. You will
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  Speaker 4: never build a utopia. Just try to build a good
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  Speaker 4: society and accept the fact that you're never going to
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  Speaker 4: have perfection and that though they look, we're going to
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: imatize the Esketon, who's right there in their platform, we're
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  Speaker 4: going to build have an un But I just kind
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  Speaker 4: of interest. This is kind of the inverse of Craig.
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  Speaker 4: You're you're right of center. I am sure you've been
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  Speaker 4: called every name in the book at some point somebody
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  Speaker 4: has called you a Nazi.
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  Speaker 2: Probably I think so, Yeah, at least in social media.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, got any tattoos?
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  Speaker 4: Now, the only person who's not a Nazi in the
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  Speaker 4: eyes of the left is the guy with the ss
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  Speaker 4: S toten kov tattoo on his chest. He's the one
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  Speaker 4: guy they're certain is not. And yeah, and you know,
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: like Trump gets called a fascist, right, Republicans get called fascist.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: I've been called a fascist. You've been called a FASTI.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: If you are to the right of Lincoln Schafee, there's
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: an excellent chance at some point you've been called a fascist.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: Now that's pretty unfair when you look at what the
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: fascist actually. For example, fascists are not known for limited government, right,
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: that's a really low spending, free market economics.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: That's that's not what a fascist is about, you know.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: But that happens all the time.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: But the moment you say that a democratic socialist who
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: runs around.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Things saying things like seize the means.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: Of production, the moment you call them a communist, caitln
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Collins burst tou the ball like kool aid band to say, wait, actually, technically.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: If you look at the history of Lenin Trotsky.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: And you know, it's amazing.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I love the thing you said about that we're going
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: to be in a world with no murderers, because that's
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: the that's the perfect demonstration of the lunacy of this
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: sort of thing. I feel like that's the kind of
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: person who would see a murderer and be like, why
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: do you murder? Can I give you a hug? And
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: then maybe you'll stop? And that's not how that works.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: That's not a thing that happens, but it's just it's constant.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: And I have a few people that call into the
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: radio station I work at in Houston were definitely to
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the left, and they love to scream and yell at
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: the stuff we're talking about. And it's amazing how often
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: they defend the idea that democratic socialism, and this is
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: how I describe it to them, is just the first
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: step toward communism, and they're pretty open about the fact
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: that they'd like to get all the way there.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: And I don't seem to think that's bad.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: Not only is it a first step, that it's like
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: a big step that's slowly walks step towards communism, and
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: the distance between there and communism is really not that
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: much stuff. It's not like on the murder thing. If
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: you want to look at the state that has the
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: lowest murder rate and say, ah, okay, then maybe they're
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: doing something right. What lessons can we take from that?
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: You want to look at other countries and see what
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: works there?
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Fine, go right ahead.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: I figured the argument that greater access to mental health
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: services is that going to end murder? No? Can it
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: make a difference. Probably, And so I'm willingly to try
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: those sorts of things. But the idea that well, the
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: reason we have not achieved a society without murder is
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: we've never had dar Lisa a Vila Chevalier in Congress. No, no,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: that's not the missing link. That's not the problem there.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: So it's just this. Yeah, So today's morning jolt is
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: just all about like the desire to put all of
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: your faith and hopes and dreams in an elected official.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: And folks, most elected officials many some of them mean
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: A bunch of them mean well, actually all of them
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: would say they mean well, they but in the end
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: a lot of them are not that bright, and they
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: vastly overestimate the capacity of governments and changing the laws
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: to change the problems in society. The only thing that's
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: really going to make your life better is you. No
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: politician is coming to save you. And so as we
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: head into Independence Day, what I'd like to put it
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: is like, celebrate our independence, our national independence, our sovereignty,
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: but also celebrate your independence and the fact that you
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: can make your life better. You don't have to wait
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: for some elected official to come along and save you.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I feel great about that, Jim.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm going to go out and fight
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: the world now and maybe even help the US win
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: a World Cup.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Well yeah, well, some days it's going to feel like
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: the whole world is against you. But yeah, go team USA.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: We play Belgium in Seattle Monday.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I believe so correct, all right, I feel so hopeful now.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent. Happy fourth of July.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Everyone, Happy for the July everybody,