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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 23 · The Bluegrass Blues Podcast

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This is the 23rd episode of the Bluegrass Blues
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Podcast. I'm Jesse. And I'm Amy. Well, we have
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a bunch of rallies coming up in about a week
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and a half. There's a new phase of no -kings
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rallies, and there are going to be, what, thousands
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of them across the country? There are, and it's
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on March 28th, and we have over 50 rallies planned
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in Kentucky, which, of course, went heavily for
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Trump. So you're seeing that people all across
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the country, including in red states like ours,
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and not just in blue cities, in small towns,
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are also coming to protest the fact that Donald
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Trump is not a king. He cannot make decisions
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unilaterally, that we have a constitution. And
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I really encourage everybody listening to go
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to NoKings .org and they've got this great find
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an event near you. You put in your zip code or
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address and it will show you where the event
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close to you is and what time and all the details.
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So please, please attend one of these No Kings
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rallies. It is time. It is time. If we haven't
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stepped up yet, now is the time. As you know,
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a lot is going on that we're not very happy about.
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And we just really encourage you to show up for
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the rallies. And this, you know, we've had rallies
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throughout the past year, and the message is
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consistent. We have a president who wants to
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be king, who thinks he's a king, who thinks that
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he can do whatever he wants to do, and there's
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no one that's going to stop him. And the, well,
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Congress has shown that they're not stopping
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him, particularly the Republicans in Congress.
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But there are, you know, the rallies are... There
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are, what, at least three or four rallies that
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are going to take place in the Louisville area.
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As you said, there are rallies that are going
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to be all across the state. But, you know, the
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message before was we don't want a president
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who's a king, but that kind of leads us into
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what has he done recently to show that he thinks
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he's a king. Right. And I think it's the war.
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Bombing Iran? It's the war. Another unnecessary
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war. And, you know, it's just consistently doing
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things that we are not in favor of. And it's
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now at the point where, you know, the people
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on the left are people who are against Trump
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who are considered people on the left, although
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I think there are more people. in general against
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trump they have been very vocal about how they
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feel about this administration and all of the
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crimes it's been doing all of the evil that it's
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caused but the thing that will be interesting
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in this bunch of no kings rallies is how many
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people from the right show up because this is
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now the war well we're in a war uh it's not a
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like a it's just It's unprovoked. I would say
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it's an unprovoked war. We were told that the
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first time he bombed Iran several months ago
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that he had done mission accomplished. It was
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one of those George Bush mission accomplished
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moves where we don't have to be there anymore
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because we've succeeded in our mission. And there
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were no nukes, although that one was about. There
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were never any nukes there because Iran never
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had the capability of building nuclear weapons.
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And if they had any capability, we bombed them
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so many times in the past that, yes, if they
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were trying to build one, that was bombed. And
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if Iran had nuclear weapons, they would use them.
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Of course. I mean, that's... the scary part about
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this. And it's so absurd because Trump says,
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oh, and we just want the people to rise up and
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take their country. And yet just today, Israel
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basically said, if people start to protest what's
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happening in Iran, they'll get slaughtered because
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they got slaughtered earlier this year. Well,
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that's been the American problem for a long time.
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We say that the people in these countries have
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to gather up. After we bomb their country. Well,
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even before then, you say that we have to do
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this because we're bombing them and that the
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people should rise. And when the people rise,
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we disappear. We did that in Afghanistan. We
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did that in Iraq. And now we're creating this
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situation in Iran. But, you know, it's... And
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meanwhile, when he's golfing, you know, children
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are being murdered, you know, across their country.
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Yeah. He's a murderer. They're bombing schools
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because they actually don't know what they're
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doing. And there's no exit strategy. There's
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no strategy. But the thing about the Iran situation,
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too, is that there was a development in Washington
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today where the director of the National Counterterrorism
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Center, the guy's name is Joseph Kent. resigned.
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And he's resigned because he says that he doesn't
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support the war in Iran. And he's MAGA. He's
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total MAGA. He was all in favor of the January
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6th invasion. He's known to hang out with the
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Proud Boys. And he's been named in charge of
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counterterrorism. And he decides today that he's
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not going to be part of this administration anymore
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because, well, his resignation letter is really
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a condemnation of Israel and it's going to lead
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to more anti -Semitism in this country because
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he's saying, let me see, I'm going to quote his...
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line in his resignation letter, Iran posed no
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imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear
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we started this war due to pressure from Israel
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and its powerful American lobby. And I just want
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to say, as a Jewish person, I just want to cut
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in. I mean, he basically is using these very
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historic, dangerous, anti -Semitic tropes that
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Jews are responsible for this war. Jews have
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deceived our great leader. Jews and the media,
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which of course are Jews. Yeah, right. Whenever
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they say the American media or something, that's
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the right -wing way of saying Jews are in control.
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They do that all the time. And this guy is all
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in on that. rhetoric in his departure letter.
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So what this has led to is an attack on a synagogue.
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Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Right.
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The guy who attacked the temple, who killed himself.
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One of his motivations was that the bombing in
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Iran led to the death of his... Actually, southern
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Lebanon. Southern Lebanon, I'm sorry. Two brothers
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and niece and nephew. Right, so he's attacking
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the facility that he thinks closely represents
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what the interests of this war are. So that is,
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he's created this anti -Semitism, well, the Trump
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administration has created this anti -Semitism.
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sentiment among the American public, particularly
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among white males, because I saw a study recently
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where it said that more than half of the white
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males in America don't think the Holocaust happened.
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Which is absolutely terrifying. Yeah, right.
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But this fits into this whole... this MAGA craziness
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about the Jews run everything or you know we
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don't have the capability of not being influenced
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by Israel which is a very dangerous um sentiment
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to uh leave people feeling but that's what this
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director of counter -terrorism who is like as
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MAGA as you can get yeah and that's a sign that
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MAGA is against this war and that is I'm sure
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that's why Trump is freaking out now because
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He thought that they would follow him no matter
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what? But the war has now sort of solidified
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this Move against Trump. So this brings us back
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to the no kings in America rally, right? Are
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MAGA people going to show up for this? I know,
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well, I know several, I have several Republican
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friends who are not Trumpers. I have even more
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Republican friends who are family members that
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had voted for Trump that are now very unhappy
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with this administration. And I want to go back
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to the anti -Semitic thing because I... I have
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talked, you know, I told you that I formed a
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group called Jewish Louisvillians for Peace as
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a result of the outsized military effort on behalf
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of Israel against Hamas in Gaza and how many
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tens of thousands of people were killed because
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of October 7th and 1 ,200 Israelis were killed.
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It was brutal. It was the most... Jews killed
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since the Holocaust. Very brutal attack by Hamas.
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But no diplomatic avenues were even discussed.
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It was just, okay, we're going to bomb them now.
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And you can see in Gaza what's happened, too,
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is Trump wants to put his name on the Riviera,
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on the coast of that. I just want to disabuse
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people of, you can be against Bibi Netanyahu,
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you can be against Trump, and that is not anti
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-Semitic. What is anti -Semitic is these attacks
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on Jewish synagogues, Jewish institutions around
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the world. Those are anti -Semitic acts, and
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they should be condemned harshly. And I don't
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know that everybody is really seeing that. No,
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that's the thing. People don't understand anything.
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I get the feeling that people are just going
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by gut reactions when, as I said, when 50 % of
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white men think that the Holocaust didn't happen.
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and now you've given them more fuel for their
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anti -Semitism. This is not a good thing for
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this country or for any group. And to be sure,
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what Hamas did or what Hezbollah did was a war
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crime, and they should be prosecuted, and they
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are evil people. But we've taken that and...
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And Iran slaughtered all those students, tens
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of thousands. Right, yeah. Iran and the things
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that have been done in the Middle East. I hate
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saying both sides, but there is a reason for
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the retaliation. But the scale of the retaliation
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is far beyond. the evil that was done. And this
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is why we have diplomatic function, right? You
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don't bomb first and talk later. You have diplomats
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all over the world that are supposed to be talking.
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But this is what a king does. And we've discussed
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this before where it's just there's no there
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seems to be no controls on this administration
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because Congress isn't putting any controls on
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them. Republicans in Congress have decided that
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they're going to go all in for this. Except for
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Rand Paul. We're very proud of him. Rand Paul
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and Tom Massey. You have to give him credit.
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And I'm not going to even mention our Democratic
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representative because he's not worth mentioning.
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But there are people in the Republican Party
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who are very vocal about... Well, if you look
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at the right -wing media now, there's a huge
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amount of anti -Semitism in it. They're blaming
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Israel for everything. You know, it's like they're
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saying that our leaders are too stupid to think
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for themselves so they are influenced easily
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by another country. Right. Which, in the case
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of Donald Trump, is true because anything that
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Russia does is fine with him. Now we're going
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to go through this whole thing of people dying.
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And, you know, what is the reason for doing this?
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Why are we here? Why is he murdering children
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in other places? Could it possibly be because
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he raped children in this country? Oh, that's
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one of the things that Tom Massey pointed out.
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He said essentially in his announcement is that,
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yeah, you're bombing Iran, but that doesn't mean
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the Epstein files are going away. Trends that
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have gone on when the Epstein files first got
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a big interest and there were a lot of stories
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on it What did Trump do to respond to that? He
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invaded Venezuela, right? And we took out the
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president of Venezuela have no idea why we would
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did it But what we do for the oil for the oil
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always for the oil and so that happened Venezuela
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was in the news the media always like goes crazy
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when we start shooting things and so they went
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crazy for venezuela venezuela like was a story
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for a week and then it disappeared the epstein
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files came back and it came back in full fury
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because there are you know uh references to billionaires
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molesting children Donald Trump being among the
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child molesters. Donald Trump actually facilitating
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the molestation of children. And all that's in
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the Epstein files. Even in the redacted parts,
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that's what you get out of it, is that the current
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president of the United States was convicted
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felon, convicted rapist, or adjudicated rapist.
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He wasn't convicted because it was a civil suit
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that he lost. cronies, if you look at the list
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of people in the Epstein files, these are like
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the most powerful people in the world. It's like
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a Davos gathering of pedophiles. They're from
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all kinds, all walks of life, from the news media
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to the tech companies. people who have more money
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than god and because they have that much money
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they think they're god and they can get away
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with anything and so now we've got the epstein
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files another you know it's the iran war is all
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over the news once again yeah right so we we've
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lost the epstein files for temporarily right
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but although while we're spending about a billion
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dollars a day right so and the thing is that
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when you look at Everything we have to discuss,
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though, comes back to what does this mean for
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Kentucky or how does this affect the state? And,
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well, we've seen that the Republican candidates
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for the Senate, they're all in for anything that
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Donald Trump does. Nate Morris, Andy Barr, and
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David Cameron had a debate last week. The focus
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of the debate was... just the Trump administration.
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And you would think, given all the things that
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are happening now with the... Like being on the
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precipice of a third world war, possibly? Yeah,
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yeah. The possibility of a world war, the implications
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that it has for Kentuckians in general, because,
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was it Fort Campbell? Fort Campbell is in Kentucky,
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and that's where a lot of the coordination for
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the Iran war is being done, or where things are...
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where people are being shipped from. We have
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two Kentucky soldiers already dead from this.
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But the three men running for Mitch McConnell's
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Senate seat in the Republican primary, they...
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They had their debate last week, and they were
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all in on everything Donald Trump does. Which
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makes, Jesse, and I think that the polls are
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still showing that Trump is still extremely popular
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in this state. Right. You would think that if
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someone saw polling figures that said that, oh,
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this isn't going well, I mean, let's look at
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the reality of what's going on now. The Iran
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war is making gas prices shoot through the roof.
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That when gas prices go up or oil prices go up,
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that means that the residual effects are things
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like food prices will go up because farmers need
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to pay more for fuel or for the equipment that
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they use. Fertilizer is derived from petroleum.
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In fact, Kentucky today just... reported that
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gas prices in Kentucky are up 81 cents a gallon
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in one month. Right. This is significant. And
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if we remember, even if the Republican candidates
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remember, the reason that... The alleged reason
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people voted for Donald Trump in the last election
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was because he was going to bring prices down
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because, oh, that Joe Biden, he just made gas
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unaffordable. Or he's going to bring food prices
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down. Oh, that Joe Biden made eggs too expensive
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to buy. When you look at where we are now and
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the economy is worse now than it was during during
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the Biden administration. And this is Donald
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Trump's fault. And but but. We have a campaign.
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The Republicans for the U .S. Senate seat by
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Mitch McConnell have decided that they're still
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all in, even though Kentuckians are getting hurt
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even more by this. Kentuckians are dying because
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of this. And there doesn't seem to be any relief
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in sight because it's just going to keep going.
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Oh, and Jesse, you had another point that we
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discussed, which is... Oil, you know, the oil
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companies. Right. I think everyone knows this,
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or anyone can figure this out who has a brain,
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that when oil prices go that high, oil companies
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in the end of the quarter or the next quarter
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report record profits. And you can bet that oil
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companies are going to report record profits
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because the prices have gone up, even though
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the supply has been the same. The price has gone
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up. Now the supply is reduced. uh it's going
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to cost more and even if i would bet that even
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if nothing happened in terms of the fuel supply
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the prices would go up anyway because they have
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this fog of war that they can use as a justification
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for raising prices so you know go back to the
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kentucky economy the people in this state are
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not rich people and every time something happens
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on the international level There are implications
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for what it means for the people in Kentucky.
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And we are going to be suffering from this war
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because the costs are going to be continually
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climbing. Anyone who has a retirement fund, they're
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going to see their stock portfolio go down. And
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we're going to just have all kinds of really
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bad economic implications for this because...
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The bottom line is because Donald Trump is a
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child molester and the Republicans in this state
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aren't doing anything to deal with that fact
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other than Tom Massey. Speaking of an added impact
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on Kentuckians economically, we're still in the
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state legislative session, and we have this very
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austere budget that the Republicans are pushing
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through, which is... pretty much underfunding
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Medicaid by a billion and a half dollars. Which
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we have to go back to the fact that the war is
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costing a billion dollars a day. So they could
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cover the cost of Medicaid in a day and a half.
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Right. So, you know, health care, there are cuts
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to public education, to post -secondary education.
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school buses, just all kinds of cuts for everyday
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Kentuckians. There are also some really bad bills
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that have been introduced in this legislative
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session. One is Senate Bill 199, and it basically,
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it's about pesticides. And there are about 57
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,000 products that use really harmful pesticides
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that have had labels. that basically tell you
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what the harms of the pesticides are. And they're
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significant. Very many cancers, diabetes, all
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kinds of health problems, and now there's legislation
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that basically wants to eliminate and hiding
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from the Kentucky consumer the impacts of everyday
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household products on their own health. And another
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one that's really terrible for us is, and this
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is a direct result of Bobby Kennedy, right? Because
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he thinks fluoridation is evil the way that he
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thinks vaccines are evil. Yes, we're listening
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to a guy who used to sniff cocaine off a toilet
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seat. And he's telling us how to treat our health.
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But he's against fluoridation of water. And as
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you've said before, Kentucky has, what, the highest
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instance of? adult toothlessness and you know
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um so h house bill 103 and senate bill 55 um
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are are about removing fluoride from drinking
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water and this So we already have food costs
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that are high. We have gas costs that are high.
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Now it's going to make dental care more expensive
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because more people are going to have to go to
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the dentist because they don't have fluoride
23:36
in their drinking water. And I read something
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that basically says it's going to cost us, you
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know, $20 million just for kids, the impact on
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kids. not having access to fluoridated water.
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And I'm a daughter of a periodontist, so I really
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understand the importance of oral health care.
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It leads to other problems when you don't have
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good oral hygiene, and having it in your drinking
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water is really important. So obviously, it's
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another example of Republicans, our super majority
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in Kentucky, not caring about our own consumers.
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Another horrible piece of legislation is State
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Bill 251. which basically means that execution
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protocols are going to be made secret, so we're
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not going to have any kind of understanding.
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Even the families of people that are about to
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be executed aren't going to understand it. And
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then State Bill 138 expands the death penalty.
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And we were reading articles that even if you
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don't, your actions don't lead to the death,
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say, from child abuse or something. and the child
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does not die, you could still be given the death
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penalty. If someone else is the person who killed
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the child, you could be included as a co -defendant
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and would be subject to the death penalty as
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well. And there are cases, I think there's some
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talk of women who have an abortion. Right, that
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was one of the things that they were talking
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about during the abortion debate was that if
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a woman or if a doctor aborted a fetus, then
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they should be subject to the death penalty.
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And speaking of health care, again, you know,
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reproductive freedom is a health care issue.
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And the government should not be legislating
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what women, what families decide about their
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health care. And we do want to lift up that the
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first Republican official In Kentucky showed
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up at a Planned Parenthood event and that was
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representative Vanessa Gross of Georgetown and
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she basically reiterated that these are health
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care decisions and they should be left to the
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families. It should not be government. And that
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is kind of a Republican, I mean, historically
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that would be a Republican point, right? Or a
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more libertarian point. Individual responsibility
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as opposed to relying on the government to tell
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you what to do. But this government wants to
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control our thoughts. It wants to control everything
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we do, our bodies. And, you know, It wants to
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control who does what in this country, what people
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deserve the protections of the government. And
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it turns out that they are the MAGA base, or
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as I like to call them, Trumps for Trump. They
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just only care about what the MAGA people want,
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even though they're doing everything the MAGA
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people don't want, and even though, especially
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when you talk about health care. We've emphasized
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this many times on this podcast, but Kentuckians
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have horrible life expectancy. I was looking
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at a map of life expectancy in Canada and the
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United States by states and provinces. And as
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usual, it's the loser for our Kentucky. West
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Virginia, Alabama, and Mississippi. They have
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the lowest life expectancy in the United States,
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I think. Life expectancy in Kentucky is maybe
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71 years, while the life expectancy in California
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is 83 years. Laura, if you want to go closer,
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if you go to Illinois, I think it's probably
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80 years. And even Tennessee is five years more
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than us, 76. And Indiana, just north of us, is
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77. That's six more years life expectancy right
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across the river. So this is a direct... It is
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causal from terrible public policy, terrible
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public policy, terrible voting for people that
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are killing us and reducing our lives by years.
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They're killing us. They're reducing our life
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expectancy. They're taking money away from us.
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They're making it harder for us. To get education,
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to get health care. There's like this attack
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on the education system. There's an attack. by
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Republicans, I have to emphasize this, because
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the Republicans are the super majority in the
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Kentucky legislature, and they're introducing
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all these laws that make no sense at all. I think
28:37
there was, you were talking about the death penalty,
28:39
and I think I read where when they introduced
28:42
the bill, someone said, one of the sponsors or
28:45
one of the people, Republicans voting for it,
28:47
said, well, this bill has problems and that will
28:50
have to work out. And I'm thinking, Why are you
28:53
introducing legislation when you know it has
28:55
problems, and you're going to actually create
29:00
a law that's going to kill people, but you know
29:03
that there's problems with the bill, so you're
29:05
not going to deal with it before you even introduce
29:07
the bill? I think that's stupid legislative policy.
29:11
It is. My career has been in economic development
29:16
for low -income people. When you look at economic
29:21
development and all the work that we have to
29:23
do to attract companies to the state, these are
29:26
exactly the opposite things that you should be
29:28
doing to attract companies to come to Kentucky.
29:33
They want good education. They want good health
29:36
care. In fact, the state legislature just overrode
29:40
Andy Beshear, our governor's veto of House Bill
29:44
1. Because they want public school dollars. They
29:49
want the federal tax credit that comes from the
29:51
awful, what was it called? The big, beautiful
29:53
bullshit bill. Bullshit bill, right. So now what's
29:57
going to happen with their override of the veto
29:59
is that public dollars are going to go, leave
30:03
public education and go to charter schools and
30:06
private schools. Right, which is charter schools
30:11
and private schools are... essentially a racial
30:14
thing because the rise in private schools, it's
30:19
like a historical development where when Brown
30:22
versus Board of Education was passed in the 1950s,
30:25
white people started taking their kids out of
30:27
public school and creating these private schools,
30:29
not because they were looking for better schools,
30:31
but because they didn't want their kids going
30:32
to school with black children. And now that's
30:35
sort of like, it's not. outwardly stated but
30:40
it's really implied in everything they do because
30:43
that's what it's designed for and we're in we're
30:47
just in dire straits here because it it only
30:50
gets worse and you know there are there's a reason
30:54
why oh well the thing about the legislature too
30:58
when we're talking about the budget they're not
31:00
spending all the money in the budget right they're
31:02
like it's an austere budget yeah why why is there
31:04
an austere budget in an economic downturn and
31:08
As much as they hate Joe Biden, what Joe Biden
31:11
showed in his administration was if the economy
31:14
is in bad shape, you use the government to create
31:17
jobs, to put more money into the system. That
31:20
gets people jobs. That means that people are
31:23
spending money, which means that the store owners
31:27
are making money. You just don't put money in
31:32
this. We're going to hold it for a rainy day.
31:35
We're in a tornado. And we're saving money for
31:39
a rainy day. That's just stupidity on the part
31:42
of the Republicans in the Kentucky legislature.
31:44
It's harmful. They're harming Kentuckians. They've
31:47
harmed Kentuckians for decades. And we're really
31:51
just trying to... shine the light on this so
31:54
that you understand the impacts of terrible Republican
31:57
policy. Right. And the unfortunate thing here,
32:01
too, is if we go back to the debate by the senators,
32:03
they are all in on these tactics. You get what
32:09
you're going for? As Amy said, this means that
32:13
they have looked at the polling data, and the
32:15
polling data is telling them that Donald Trump
32:17
is still popular in the country and in this state.
32:22
They're not going to do anything to... Actually,
32:26
it'll be interesting to see what happens with
32:27
Massey because the primaries are next week? No,
32:32
they're in May. And Massey's... Donald Trump
32:36
came into town in one of his stupid events, his
32:41
MAGA events where he proceeded to lie about everything.
32:46
He... He endorsed Jake Paul, this media guy who's
32:51
an internet influencer who's not running for
32:54
office at all. But Donald Trump gave him an endorsement.
32:57
I think the biggest thing Jake Paul did recently
32:59
was had a fight with Mike Tyson, like this stage
33:03
fight with Mike Tyson. Trump, of course, he came
33:08
and said bad things about Massey. Massey also
33:13
noted that Trump's people tried to hire Massey's
33:18
staff to delay the efforts on the Epstein files.
33:27
But he didn't talk about, you know, he said...
33:33
just uses his normal word salad. He's not...
33:38
This is trickle -down corruption. We have corruption.
33:42
I don't know, Jesse, that in the history, in
33:45
the 250 years of America, that we've had corruption
33:50
to the levels that it is. We've had corruption
33:53
in the past, but it was prosecuted. You look
33:57
at the Watergate issue, that was like the president
34:00
abusing power. Right, robber barons. Yeah, the
34:03
robber barons, the whole, what was it, the Harding
34:06
administration back in the early 20th century.
34:09
So yes, we've had corruption, and there was this
34:13
idea that the people who were corrupt would be
34:18
held accountable for their crimes. and this administration
34:22
does not want to be held accountable for any
34:24
of its crimes um and it got the supreme court
34:28
to back up a lot of stuff that trump is doing
34:31
because Let's talk about the Senate campaign.
34:34
Again, this is Mitch McConnell's fault. Mitch
34:37
McConnell is the reason that the Supreme Court
34:38
is the way it is. And he will go down in history
34:42
as one of the worst majority leaders ever. And
34:46
he was majority leader for a very long time.
34:48
But what he did was to undermine everything we
34:51
stood for. When Mitch McConnell died, he'll get
34:56
the usual eulogies and say what a great American
34:59
he was and all this other stuff. But bottom line
35:02
is everything he's done has destroyed the American
35:08
system. Plus, you know, he represents Kentucky.
35:13
You would think maybe our life expectancy might
35:17
be a little higher. Right? The Senate leader.
35:21
Right, the most powerful person in the Senate.
35:23
And this isn't, not to be, I'm not going to,
35:28
what's the word, underplay his responsibility
35:32
for this because he's probably one of the most
35:34
effective Senate leaders ever in that he got
35:39
what he wanted done, done. And the fact that
35:42
what he got done hurts his state and the people
35:47
kept voting for him. just shows that there is
35:50
an issue with the education of the Kentucky voter,
35:54
I think. Well, and, you know, Jesse, I go to
35:57
Fox News every two to three days just to see
35:59
what's going on there. And we talked about this.
36:02
If you look at Fox News and that's where you
36:05
get your information, it will not know reality.
36:10
You will not know why your gas prices are going
36:14
up. You will not know why your food is so expensive.
36:17
You will not know why your hospital closed. You
36:19
will not know that. Right, yeah. Fox News, I
36:22
actually looked at their site this week because
36:24
I don't look at the site. And everything I saw
36:27
as a headline was... it really was like another
36:31
language. You know, it's like, do I need a translator
36:35
for this? To me, it's kind of like the National
36:37
Enquirer. Oh, I think the Enquirer has more integrity
36:41
than Fox News, because at least I knew someone
36:45
who worked at the National Enquirer, and I talked
36:47
to them years ago, and they said the way they
36:51
came up with stories at the National Enquirer
36:53
was that... they the editor top editor would
36:56
say okay people create a list of story ideas
36:59
it doesn't have to be real or anything just make
37:01
up this list of story ideas and let's see which
37:04
one like will resonate as an idea. And then let's
37:10
write something, even if we can't prove it, let's
37:12
write something that says that this is proof.
37:14
And one of the things that I remember, one of
37:17
them was the issue of the importance of red meat.
37:20
You know, like red meat makes you live longer,
37:23
that kind of thing. Or, you know, you just create
37:26
these things. If you have a great paragraph,
37:30
that's going to be the National Enquirer. Fox
37:33
News doesn't even... involve a great paragraph.
37:35
What they do is they listen to whatever the White
37:37
House says, and then they regurgitate it like
37:41
a bird vomiting the food into its baby's mouth.
37:51
That's what they're doing. They're vomiting garbage
37:53
into the minds of the Fox News people. And why
37:57
is that? Money, money, money, money, money, money?
38:00
Well, yeah, it's all about the money. Yeah, Rupert
38:02
Murdoch. If Rupert Murdoch thought that being
38:04
a liberal network would make him money, he would
38:06
do that. And, but, you know. And that's the same
38:12
thing about this king. It's all about the money.
38:15
I can't imagine how much money his family has
38:18
made by bombing Iran. Well, you've seen the stories
38:21
that Jared Kushner was the one who convinced
38:23
Trump to bomb Iran while he was seeking money
38:27
from Mideast investors. That is a crime. That's
38:32
a crime. That's obviously a crime, but then raping
38:37
children is a crime, and no one's being held
38:39
accountable for that other than Ghislaine Maxwell,
38:43
and she's threatening to reveal all if Trump
38:48
doesn't give her a pardon. She got moved from
38:52
a real prison to a minimum security country club.
38:55
Right. So you have the executive branch that's
38:57
completely out of control and above the law,
39:00
or thinks they're above the law. You have the
39:02
legislative branch ruled by Republicans, completely
39:07
in lockstep. and not taking their responsibility
39:11
seriously. Then, back to Mitch McConnell, you
39:15
have the judiciary. And his big legacy is, you
39:19
know, the fact that Trump got three appointees
39:22
on the Supreme Court. Two of which he shouldn't
39:25
have got. Right. And when Obama was president,
39:28
Mitch... made sure that everything was stalled
39:34
about major judicial appointments, federal judicial
39:37
appointments that had to happen. He stalled everything
39:40
so that it's now been stacked. I mean, these
39:44
are lifetime appointments. Isn't that how, what
39:46
was it, when Merrick Garland didn't get the nomination?
39:50
That's right. Who did they, was it? Kavanaugh
39:53
or I forget which justice, maybe it was Alito
39:56
or Kavanaugh, but they didn't Merrick Garland,
40:00
who we must say was not a good attorney general
40:03
under the Biden administration because he had
40:05
all this information on the Epstein files and
40:08
didn't do anything with it. But, you know, that's
40:12
that is what Mitch did. He created a Supreme
40:15
Court majority with six to three where. Anything
40:20
the Trump administration wants, they get. And
40:22
if the Trump administration commits crimes, they've
40:25
given him an out, saying that it's executive
40:28
privilege or whatever. So we've got all our branches
40:32
of government are in desperate straits right
40:36
now. We're looking forward to the midterms, but
40:40
we've heard the things where Trump says that
40:43
he might decide to cancel the elections, which
40:46
he can't do. If you're a Fox News viewer, you
40:50
don't know that. You think that, oh, the other
40:54
thing about the Iran war is that if we're still
40:59
fighting two years from now, which would be horrible,
41:02
but if we're still there, he's going to say something
41:06
like, oh, the war effort is in a very delicate
41:09
situation now, so we're going to have to cancel
41:11
elections this year. And why would he do that?
41:15
Because he knows that if the Democrats take over,
41:18
he and his administration will be impeached.
41:23
But the thing is that they need, what, two -thirds
41:26
or more to impeach the president. And it didn't
41:31
go well last time because Mitch McConnell didn't
41:34
impeach him because he was saying the Democrats
41:36
would take care of it. Oh, and we didn't talk
41:40
about the fact that it's tax season right now.
41:43
Oh, right. And there are implications on elections
41:46
about that. Why don't you talk about what's happening
41:48
right now during the tax season? Well, there
41:51
are a couple of things that the Kentucky Department
41:53
of Revenue sent out probably a couple of days
41:57
ago. Under the headline, two national changes
42:01
may affect your 2026 tax filings and returns.
42:05
And one is... You know how when you go to the
42:08
post office, you want to make sure that you get
42:10
there on the right day because they have to stamp
42:13
your return. Postmark, yeah. Postmark your return.
42:17
On April 15th. By April 15th. Now, the Department
42:23
of Revenue, the State Department of Revenue says
42:24
that because of federal government changes, postmarks
42:27
might not reflect the date you drop off your
42:30
mail at your local post office. So it's saying
42:33
you should file electronically. get a manual
42:36
postmark at the post office counter or mail early
42:39
so that's that's one thing the other thing is
42:43
let's say you file electronically so you're doing
42:46
electronic uh filing you ask for a direct deposit
42:50
of your funds on april 1st if the name on your
42:55
tax return doesn't match the name on your bank
42:57
account you won't get a direct deposit refund
43:00
you'll get a check they're going to mail a paper
43:04
check which makes no sense at all because if
43:07
you're putting all the direct deposit information
43:09
and that means you're putting in your routing
43:10
number and your account number and that's distinctive
43:16
to you and you would be the one to know that
43:19
uh and let's say for example um you got married
43:25
and you have you had your maiden name on your
43:29
On your bank account. Right, on your bank account.
43:32
But on your filing, you're filing under your
43:35
married name. Right. That means that you're not
43:38
going to get your return or your refund electronically.
43:42
They're going to send it through the mail. The
43:45
advantage for the government in sending it through
43:47
the mail is that the money doesn't immediately
43:49
come out of the account, so they can collect
43:51
interest on that. And since it takes days, an
43:55
electronic transfer... Electronic transfers,
43:58
like immediate mail, could take days or weeks.
44:02
This is fraud. Yeah. And I have a very close
44:05
friend. I was just actually with her. vacation
44:08
and she moved and she does not have a permanent
44:11
address right now and so she has to do all this
44:15
extra work now to get this direct deposit thing
44:17
worked out she can't do it she will not be able
44:20
to do it and so she's very stressed out because
44:23
she's owed you know several hundred dollars of
44:26
tax refund well that's that's that's nice because
44:31
my I did my return and I was at the point where
44:36
when I was about to complete it, I was either
44:40
going to get a whole lot of money back or I was
44:44
going to have to pay a whole lot of money to
44:46
the government because I had some confusion with
44:50
one of my tax forms. And I talked to my financial
44:53
advisor and it turns out I owe a lot of money
44:55
to the government. It's that kind of thing where
44:59
I would want to file electronically because it's
45:02
so complicated and I want to get it out of the
45:04
way. But now the federal government has created
45:09
this problem where your tax money is going to
45:12
be lingering again, which means that the government
45:15
is going to be collecting interest on your money
45:17
again. It doesn't make any sense. And also, with
45:23
the technological advances and the efficiencies
45:26
and the fact that the government has fired so
45:28
many people in the federal government, the IRS,
45:30
etc., it makes absolutely no sense except for
45:35
fraud. And this has an impact on elections coming
45:39
up, too. Well, of course, the SAVE Act, which
45:43
we hope is not going to pass, but women who've
45:46
changed their name might not even be able to
45:48
vote, as well as people who can't. produce an
45:51
id it's more than an id right and the thing about
45:55
the save act and since we we've talked about
45:58
this before but the the point of the save act
46:01
is to make sure that voters are voting legally
46:04
because we we have this uh these just debates
46:09
on voter fraud and the um the republicans are
46:13
making this pretending that voter fraud is a
46:17
real issue and saying that all these illegal
46:19
immigrants are voting, you know, and it's just
46:23
undermining our election system. Now, the Heritage
46:27
Foundation, which is the conservative... think
46:29
tank which is responsible for that project 25
46:32
yeah project 2024 25 what okay responsible for
46:37
that and they're also very influential in the
46:39
trump administration they did a study of voter
46:43
fraud and quick bottom line is that over like
46:50
decades over two billion votes the number of
46:55
immigrants illegal immigrants casting votes was
46:59
under 90. So that's not an issue. It's not an
47:03
issue, but places like Fox News and the Republicans
47:07
in the legislature and the Republicans on the
47:11
federal and on the state level say that this
47:13
is a huge issue, that all these foreigners are
47:16
coming in and they're influencing our elections.
47:18
Well, they're not. It's another example of this
47:22
deflection, of this transference. They're committing
47:25
fraud at our top levels of government, and they're
47:30
blaming fraud on immigrants, on brown -skinned
47:33
people, right, where it doesn't exist. Not to
47:38
mention the fact that we have over 1 ,000 people
47:42
that have been taken from ICE. Right. all over
47:45
the country, in Kentucky. Right. And I'm part
47:48
of this community defense network with Surge,
47:52
L -Surge, that I've talked about before. We are
47:55
going to prisons. In Kentucky, where people are
48:00
being dumped, they don't have a charged phone,
48:03
they don't have any money, and their family doesn't
48:06
even know where they are. And we are driving
48:10
them back to their place of origin, which many
48:14
times is not in Kentucky. It's all over the country
48:16
now. They're being dumped here because we're
48:19
a red state, and a lot of the blue states aren't
48:21
allowing this to happen. Meanwhile, people who
48:24
voted for Trump, you know, now don't want...
48:27
detention facilities built in their backyard.
48:30
So there's nimby about the construction of these
48:33
detention facilities in very red areas. Well,
48:36
those very red areas then deserve to have those
48:39
detention areas there because they voted for
48:42
it. And they can't say that. It's like, we don't
48:47
want these people in the country, so we want
48:51
you to arrest them. We don't want you to arrest
48:54
them in our areas because we don't want to deal
48:56
with them. Well, honestly, you know, as a Jewish
48:58
person, it reminds me of concentration camps.
49:01
They are concentration camps. Right. And people
49:03
smelled the cremations of bodies. It was in their
49:08
backyards. And, you know, okay, so you have half
49:11
the men in the country, white men or whatever,
49:13
that don't believe in the Holocaust. But nevertheless,
49:17
let's talk about, like... This crazy weather
49:19
we've had. Okay, yeah. I mean, a couple of days
49:22
ago, I'm, like, walking around the city. I took,
49:26
like, a seven -mile walk this past weekend. I
49:29
took another six -mile walk a couple of days
49:32
ago. 76 degrees. Yeah, and so that happens, and
49:39
then the next day it's 20 degrees, and we're
49:42
in this. very weird weather cycle where, you
49:46
know, it's going to be in the 80s at the end
49:49
of this week here, but it's like 20 degrees today
49:52
and it was like 80 degrees this past weekend.
49:55
But there's no such thing as climate change because
49:57
if you're a Republican or a Fox News viewer,
50:00
it's all a hoax. People don't understand that
50:03
these extreme weather events are a result of
50:06
climate change. And Jesse, you were talking about
50:10
other states. You were talking about tornadoes
50:12
in New Jersey. Tornadoes in New Jersey. Arizona
50:16
and Phoenix this week, they're expecting the
50:20
temperature to be above 100 degrees every day
50:23
this week. In San Francisco, which is where I
50:26
was the past couple of years. Where you wear
50:29
layers every day of the year. Yeah, layers upon
50:33
layers. They're talking about temperatures going
50:36
up to the 80s and 90s, while the rest of the
50:39
country is in this frostbite atmosphere, and
50:42
then it's all going to change in a couple of
50:45
days. And, you know, again, it's this idea that
50:49
the ignorance induced on the American people
50:53
by right -wing media is just... It's making everyone's
50:58
life more miserable. And Republicans that are
51:00
so -called representing their constituents. Yeah,
51:02
they don't represent their constituents. They're
51:04
representing the moneyed interest. And I have
51:08
to say that there are Democrats who do the same
51:10
thing on other levels. But when you're running
51:17
on this campaign that's supposed to be America
51:22
first and all this other stuff, you... would
51:26
think that you would be trying to make lives
51:29
better for your constituents so they would keep
51:31
voting for you. Instead, what the Republicans
51:34
seem to be doing is they're making life more
51:37
difficult so people will die having fewer voters.
51:41
And maybe they think that's the strategy, kill
51:43
off their constituents. But they're also creating
51:47
all these enemies all across the world, too.
51:50
You know, when Trump thought that Europe and
51:54
these other countries are going to help us out
51:56
with this. What is it, the Strait of Hormuz?
51:58
No, they're not. Because it's like you broke
52:01
it, you bought it. That's basic economics. And
52:06
the fact that they're upset that people aren't
52:10
like immediately falling into line because they
52:14
did something stupid on the international level
52:16
is just, well, it's typical of this administration
52:20
and everybody in it. And we have to, you know,
52:25
we're looking, I worry about, you know, the midterms,
52:29
but the trends have been that when Democrats
52:33
are running against Republicans in elections,
52:35
special elections that have been held already,
52:37
they are kicking ass. They're just like, if Trump
52:41
won a Republican district by 20 points, those
52:45
districts are now... going 10 points to the Democrats.
52:49
The governor of New Jersey is an example. Virginia
52:54
changed governors. Texas. The only place that
53:00
I can't think of having that happen is Kentucky.
53:04
Right. So we really need to have something to
53:09
educate our populace, and we have no outlets
53:12
that... And we know that these rallies are going
53:16
to be very underreported by all the mainstream
53:19
media outlets. And the numbers of the participants
53:23
will be way undercounted because what they do
53:27
is they send someone out before the rally begins.
53:30
They take photos of no one there and then go
53:36
off, write their stories. In the meantime, thousands
53:39
of people show up. And it's like you read the
53:42
story the next day, and it's like dozens of participants
53:45
took place in this rally. Jesse, what was the
53:53
percentage? Is it 2 .5 %? If 2 .5 % of the people
53:57
show up at these rallies, you're seeing a tipping
54:01
point. I thought it was like 3%. 3 %? Yeah. Amy's
54:05
prediction is that we're going to get there on
54:08
March 28th. I would be interested to see that
54:11
because it's now I think, you know, I think the
54:15
difference now is that the usual suspects were
54:21
at the rallies before people who like have always
54:25
known what Trump was about and who realized that
54:28
he was a danger to the country. The MAGA people
54:31
are starting to come around because people like
54:34
Marjorie Taylor Greene are now, you know. criticizing
54:37
him for falling for the, again, they're going
54:42
into the anti -Semitism and blaming Trump's invasion
54:44
of Iran on Jewish interest when it's actually,
54:49
Trump is making money. Trump is making money.
54:52
His sons are making money because they've taken
54:57
interest in defense contractors. Jared Kushner
55:01
is... getting billions of dollars from Middle
55:04
Eastern potentates. And he was the one who convinced
55:11
Trump to go into the war. Trump doesn't think.
55:14
Trump is just like, what's going to happen? If
55:17
I want Cuba, I'm going to take Cuba. If I want
55:20
Greenland, I'm going to take Greenland. So we
55:22
have Venezuela. We have Iran. We have the talk
55:29
about Cuba. We have the talk about Gaza. He wants
55:32
to build a resort on Gaza. He's already, you
55:36
know, everything he touches turns to crap. So
55:39
he's exactly the wrong kind of king. We want
55:41
them to turn him over. He's the Republican Midas.
55:45
Everything he touches turns to crap. And I want
55:49
to pivot. It is Women's History Month. And as
55:53
a woman, I've been enjoying certain things. Like,
55:58
for example, Louisville Public Media, every single
56:00
day on WFPK, they're featuring a woman. Musician
56:05
every day of the month which has been really
56:07
fun to listen to but you have something that
56:09
really galls me to report and It just makes me
56:13
so pissed off about the Courier -Journal and
56:15
their section on March Madness. Oh, yeah, this
56:18
weekend. The Courier -Journal ran a section.
56:21
It was their Sunday huddle. The headline is,
56:27
Let the Madness Begin. So they talk about the
56:29
term brackets. College basketball, by the way.
56:33
Yeah, the NCAA basketball tournament. It's an
56:37
eight -page section. Eight pages. Eight pages.
56:41
This past weekend, the brackets were announced
56:46
for the men's and women's tournaments, basketball
56:50
tournaments. The Louisville men are sixth seed
56:55
in the tournament, sixth seed which means that
56:57
they're in trouble. The Louisville women are
57:00
a three seed in the tournament, and they're going
57:03
to be hosting games here next weekend, beginning
57:07
this coming weekend. And you're going to be there.
57:09
Yeah, I already got my tickets. And so I open
57:14
up the section, and I'm looking at it, and I'm
57:16
thinking, okay, now where's the information on
57:18
the women's schedule? There is nothing in the
57:21
whole section about the women. Zero. Eight pages.
57:24
Zero on the women's basketball team. It's infuriating.
57:28
In terms of national ranking, it's a better team
57:31
than the men's team. It has a good chance of
57:37
going far into the tournament, and they've had
57:39
a history of doing that. The men's team has sucked
57:42
for a long time, just for years. Zero. Just not
57:49
a word on the women's team. The fact that they're
57:53
considered a major factor in the women's tournament.
57:56
The fact that they're going to be hosting games
57:59
for this tournament. And not a word. So what
58:04
the fuck? What is this? Well, it brings me back
58:07
to the Olympics when the hockey team, the men's
58:10
hockey team, won a gold medal. The women's hockey
58:14
team won a gold medal. This pedophile in chief
58:18
calls up the men's team, jokes that, oh, because
58:23
the women won, I guess I have to invite them
58:25
too. Well, and the DOJ guy, what's the guy's
58:28
name? He was in the locker room with them. No,
58:30
it wasn't the DOJ. It was the attorney general.
58:32
Oh, the attorney general. Exactly. Yeah, the
58:33
attorney general was there, like, shaking Kash
58:37
Patel, shaking beer bottles, you know, doing
58:40
the, you know, all that bullshit kind of stuff.
58:44
And so. The women essentially say, look, we're
58:49
not going. We don't care. You know, you guys
58:51
suck. We don't want to go. The men's team goes.
58:55
And, you know, they do. There's something about
58:59
men's sports where they have to consider that
59:02
they look bad when they do certain things. And
59:05
the men's team went to the White House. They
59:07
laughed at Trump's joke when he talked about
59:09
women. They partied with Kash Patel. They go
59:13
to the White House and Trump serves them McDonald's.
59:16
That was their meal. The White House meal was
59:19
McDonald's. The women's team, which didn't go
59:22
to the White House, they were taken out to a
59:25
nice Italian restaurant by... Who's the actor
59:29
who's in The Hunger Games? I forget his name.
59:34
But anyway, this actor, he treated them to this
59:40
really... fancy meal in Italy. Was it Stanley
59:43
Tucci? Stanley Tucci, yeah. That was the person
59:47
who took them out. So the women had a better
59:49
experience from winning. The women who were better
59:53
at their sport than the men are better at their
59:57
sport. The women have won the gold medal in hockey,
1:00:02
ice hockey, numerous times. The men haven't won
1:00:05
since. what was it, the miracle in the 1980s
1:00:09
where they beat the Russians? But this concept
1:00:13
that the men's sports are more important than
1:00:16
women's sports is just really, you know. The
1:00:19
sexism, the racism. It's sexism, it's racism,
1:00:23
it's, you know, anything where, again, where
1:00:29
white men aren't dominant is. Underplate and
1:00:34
I am pissed off at the Courier -Journal for the
1:00:37
fact that they They have one of the best women's
1:00:41
basketball teams in the country, and they spend
1:00:44
the whole section on a mediocre men's team. You
1:00:47
should write a letter to the editor, Jesse. There's
1:00:49
no point in writing to them because, you know,
1:00:51
it's like I'll write my letter. They'll have
1:00:53
a letter to balance it out saying, oh, men are
1:00:56
more important than women, and that's the way
1:00:58
it should be because that's what the Bible says.
1:01:00
So, you know, I'm pissed off at that. But I'm
1:01:04
going to the games this weekend. I'm looking
1:01:07
forward to them. I think the women's basketball
1:01:12
team is better than the men's basketball team,
1:01:14
aren't they? They're both in the tournament as
1:01:16
well. The women's team beat the Louisville team
1:01:22
earlier this year because I was at the game.
1:01:24
Very disappointing. Louisville lost by 10 points.
1:01:28
But the Kentucky women's team, I think they're
1:01:32
probably ranked higher than the men's team. I'll
1:01:33
have to look that up. Anyway, it's just this
1:01:37
consistent sexism. For some reason, it made me
1:01:45
think of when Donald Trump was here and doing
1:01:48
his rally in, was it Hebron, Kentucky. And given
1:01:54
that he didn't address the war, He talked about
1:01:58
Tom Massey being a bad congressman. He's endorsing
1:02:03
Jake Paul for no apparent reason. And he starts
1:02:07
talking about trans athletes. Meanwhile, trans
1:02:12
people can't have a driver's license in Kansas
1:02:15
now. And you have a trans legislator who is now
1:02:19
having to walk to work during the legislative
1:02:21
session because she can't drive. Right. It's,
1:02:24
you know, there's just this. We've got to turn
1:02:27
this around, people. You've got to show up at
1:02:29
these rallies. You've got to use your Five Calls
1:02:31
app, make your calls. We've got to participate
1:02:34
in our democracy. Right. We're taking too much
1:02:38
for granted these days. And we just think, and
1:02:42
I see this just looking at media in general.
1:02:46
When I look at the news, we had the Academy Awards
1:02:52
this past weekend, and I'm watching the Oscars.
1:02:55
And the biggest story that I can remember coming
1:02:58
out of the Oscars was the fact that Timothee
1:03:00
Chalamet said that opera was boring or not relevant.
1:03:06
Tons of issues. So many pressing issues. Tons
1:03:08
of issues that are more important than that.
1:03:10
But that's what the mainstream media focus was
1:03:15
on. Although I do want to highlight that the
1:03:17
first female choreographer to win. Cinematographer.
1:03:21
Cinematographer to win the award. And she was,
1:03:25
she's Polynesian, part Polynesian, part African
1:03:28
American. I thought it was Filipina. A woman
1:03:29
of color, Filipina. Woman of Color won, and she
1:03:33
did a great job, and definitely go see Sinners.
1:03:36
It was great. Michael B. Jordan plays two characters.
1:03:39
I don't know how they do things like that, but
1:03:40
he did a great job, and he won Best Actor. Right,
1:03:43
yeah. And Jessie Buckley won Best Actress, and
1:03:47
she was awesome in Hamnet. If you haven't seen
1:03:49
Hamnet, you've got to see her performance. Unbelievable.
1:03:53
So good. There are so many movies. We were discussing
1:03:57
this earlier, and I haven't watched the Academy
1:03:59
Awards. since before my son was married, and
1:04:03
that was at least seven years ago. I did notice
1:04:09
how they really danced around the tragedy that
1:04:12
is what's unfolding in our country and internationally.
1:04:15
There was a lot of dancing around it. Well, everyone's
1:04:19
afraid because we have the FCC saying that they're
1:04:21
going to take away licenses. They've already
1:04:24
tried to silence Colbert and Kimmel. It's just,
1:04:29
you know, there is this surge of oppression going
1:04:33
on in the country that we're not dealing with,
1:04:37
that we're not paying attention to. And again,
1:04:40
if you're watching Fox News, you don't know what's
1:04:42
going on. And you never knew what was going on
1:04:45
because Fox News has always been a lie. It always
1:04:50
lies. So that's where we are now. And what else
1:04:56
do we have? Nothing. That's it, unless you want
1:04:59
to talk about the bridge. Oh, yes, there's just
1:05:01
one quick thing. Andy Beshear announced that
1:05:05
a bridge is being built from, what was it, between...
1:05:08
Is it Covington and Cincinnati? It's going from
1:05:11
Kentucky to Cincinnati. The Brent Spence Bridge.
1:05:16
Right. Which is really needed. Yeah, so there
1:05:21
are currently two bridges going from Kentucky
1:05:24
to Cincinnati. One of them is the one that has
1:05:29
the interstate going on. The new bridge, I don't
1:05:33
know when it's going to be done, but it's a project,
1:05:35
which means that people will be getting jobs.
1:05:38
But there will probably be Ohio jobs as well
1:05:40
as Kentucky jobs. But there is another bridge
1:05:43
in Cincinnati that I've walked across many times.
1:05:48
It's called the John Roebling Bridge. goes from
1:05:53
Covington to all the ballparks there. I went
1:05:56
over there when I went to the Bengals game several
1:05:59
months ago. And one of the things about the Roebling
1:06:04
Bridge is my daughter -in -law's father is an
1:06:07
engineer. And every time we go to the bridge,
1:06:10
he points out that it was built by the same guy
1:06:13
who built the Brooklyn Bridge. And if you go
1:06:15
to there, if you go to the bridge and you look
1:06:17
at it, You see that, yes, that definitely is
1:06:21
the same design. And you are from Brooklyn. I'm
1:06:24
from Brooklyn. When I worked on Wall Street,
1:06:26
I would walk over the Brooklyn Bridge during
1:06:27
lunch many, many times. Fabulous bridge. It's
1:06:31
a great bridge to walk over, but it gets very
1:06:33
crowded on nice days. It's probably not crowded
1:06:37
today because it's freezing in New York. I think
1:06:39
there's snow there. But if you go to New York,
1:06:42
walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. It's fun. Bike
1:06:47
across the Manhattan Bridge. I biked across Brooklyn
1:06:49
and the Manhattan Bridges. Manhattan's a better
1:06:52
bridge because it has less foot traffic. So just
1:06:55
little things. And I think we will wrap it up
1:07:00
with that. Thanks, everybody. Get out there on
1:07:02
March 28th. Right. A reminder, go to the rally.
1:07:06
We have No Kings in America. And I will put links
1:07:11
to things in our podcast notes. So until the
1:07:16
next time, see you all later. See ya. Our closing
1:07:22
music is by John Chamberlain.