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"Control the Language" (Tuesday September 30, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.
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Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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the second most famous Thomas and Charlottesville George.
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Speaker 3: Said, steal me stem you have a day at least
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for work.
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Speaker 4: When the sun comes up, drops a pet. Joe has all.
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Speaker 5: The treasure needs. No one that Joe's as smile.
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Speaker 6: He only just think it's the biggest thing they've ever heard.
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Speaker 7: Joe, thank you for letting us be observice to you.
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It is Tyler O'Neill from Daily Signal, the author of
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Making Hate Pay. I left you with a question about
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this planned to make us after each other? And what
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do you think of that?
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Speaker 6: No, and that's that's what we're seeing over and over
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again from the left. Is this this engage and rhetoric.
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And to be fair, I mean, there are big issues
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in our politics today. It matters who wins elections, but
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there is there is a level of you know, egregious
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over exaggeration that the left is more able at engaging
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in than the right mainly because you know, mainly because
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the left has all of the institutional backing. So when
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you have a heated political debate, you have you know,
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President Trump saying one thing that maybe like strictly speaking,
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isn't true, but echoes what America, the American people feel,
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and immediately you have every left wing outlet rushing to
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fact check it, people saying, oh, Trump has made a
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bazillion lies and all this stuff. And I think most
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Americans will look at the statement and say, Okay, maybe
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it's not like exactly correct, but we all know what he.
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Speaker 8: Was saying, and he was echoing something real.
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Speaker 6: And then on the left you get these extreme statements, like,
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you know, you get this claim that the world is
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about to end because of climate change, and not only
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do those statements not get fact checked, but you have
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the apparatus on the left that rallies around this claim
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and is radicalizing people by saying, oh, the science says
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the science says we're all going to die in two
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years if we don't stop burning fossil fuels fifty years ago.
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Speaker 8: And it's like, you.
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Speaker 6: Know, they don't they don't say it exactly that way,
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but that's that's the way that it consistently comes across
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to the American people, and it's like, no, the science
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does not say this.
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Speaker 8: The science is not clear, and that's not to.
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Speaker 6: Say that, you know, we have one hundred percent proof
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that carbon emissions don't do anything. But I think we've
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seen over and over again that these doomsday predictions fail
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to come to pass. And rather than ignowl that and saying, look,
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this might be a debatable issue, we get a constant
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push from the left that says, you cannot disagree with this,
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or you hate science. And this is what we saw
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during COVID, this is what we see. This is what
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we see right now when they're trying to gaslight us
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about all this violence that's coming from the left, and
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they're constantly saying, oh, the violence is only from the right.
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The far right extremists pose a far greater threat. I'm sorry.
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I mean, they cherry pick the data, they twist things.
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I remember when we had in twenty twenty three, we
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had the shooting of Audrey Hale at the Nashville church,
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and you know, this is a person who identifies as
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transgender opens fire against Christians, and yet you had the
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Anti Defamation League bending over backwards to deny any sort
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of left wing connection. Meanwhile, some racist out there who's
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full of hate, who does represents conservatives or Republicans or
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the right in any meaningful way is immediately branded far right.
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Speaker 8: And so they have this, they have this double standard.
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Speaker 6: They're eating their cake and having it too, saying, look,
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if anybody who looks anything like conservative is responsible for violence,
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then that's far right extremism and that's a threat. You
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need to own that, Republicans, even though you condemn it immediately.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Meanwhile, on the left, they're spreading all this rhetoric that
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leads to this violence, and then they're saying, oh, well,
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that that isn't left wing violence because and what gets
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me is why did.
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Speaker 8: The ADL say that wasn't left wing?
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Speaker 6: Because the shooter used a slur for gay people, So like,
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if you use one slur for gay people in your comments,
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you can't possibly be LGBT or transgender motivated or anything
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like that. You can't be left leaning. And it's like,
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I'm sorry, we all know that this is bull Yeah,
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and at some point we have to say, look, we're
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going to tell the truth about these things.
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Speaker 7: So what is it? It has everyone turned on one another,
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Tyler O'Neill, you know, and Daily Signal, but also chronicling
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this profitable hate that is amongst us and that it
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is being used against us. And I believe that there's
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political gain for making hate pay. As his book Columnists
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Daily Signals some great stuff on that. Tyler, I feel
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like this is all for political gain. This is all
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just to get somebody empower. It's like when Robespierre ginned
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up the Less Miserables out there, and that's that's us
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these days, you know.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, it's interesting when you talk about Lemez because
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that's one of my favorite musicals ever. And uh, it's
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actually set later on in like the the third or
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fourth failed French Revolution, right, which which is a key,
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a key aspect of the history there, because you know,
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they didn't just need one revolution. They had a series
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and a lot of them didn't work. Because because that's
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that's where this leftist violence gets us. It's unstable, it
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doesn't it doesn't lead to the building of sustain and
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sustaining of good institutions.
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Speaker 7: It's just I want to get my way. It's a
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grievance culture. I want my way, and I'm gonna i
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and now I know how to to do it. I'm
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just gonna grab my pitchfork and we're going to come
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back at you. There is Southern Poverty Law Center in
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your book. Is so important because this group has been
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weaponized to defund a lot of people and not just
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deep platform, but you know, go out and then these
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letters will go out to attorneys general. We watched Michael
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Bloomberg try to put free attorneys into you know, Mark
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Herring's AG's office to go after folks who gave money
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to climate skepticism. But that's what this sp LC list
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that veiled threat is almost worse than stuff Abigail Spaandberger
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says out loud, because that veiled threat comes with some
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real consequences, like getting you investigated or audited, and those
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things can really chill speech even faster than you know,
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Speaker 20: Tyler, Yeah, no, I mean, so what we saw with
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the Southern Poverty Law Center over and over again is that,
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you know, and the shooting of Charlie Kirk does not
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represent the first time an organization was put on that
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hate map and then had violence against it.
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Speaker 6: We had in twenty twelve a terrorist actually directly.
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Speaker 8: Used the hate map to.
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Speaker 6: Target the Family Research Council in Washington, d C. And
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he pleaded guilty to d c's terrorism charge, and is
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you know, spending many years in prison. But I think
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the main aspect here, you know, the SPLC is so
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nefarious and effective at this because even though they've had
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multiple scandals, and I wrote the book because I thought,
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you know, they had a racial discrimination and sexual harassment
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scandal in twenty nineteen that should have been the end
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of them. And then like a couple of months later,
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their interim president was out there comparing the SPLC to
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the underground Railroad without pushback from the legas media, and
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so this is this is the kind of entrenched organization
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we're talking about. And they've had a union busting scandal,
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they I mean, I could go down the list, but
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they are the tip of the spear when the left
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wants to demonize Conservatives and Christians for opposing the left's agenda.
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And you know, the one issue they don't seem to
17:44
be that focused on is this climate aspect. But if
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you disagree with the left on critical race theory, on
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gender ideology, on you know, on a host of on immigration,
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you know, you have organizations of people who want us
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to enforce our immigration laws. They're put on this hate
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map with the Klan, and there's a very clear suggestion,
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you know, the SPLC says these groups are the infrastructure
18:11
upholding white supremacy in the United States.
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Speaker 8: Not exactly subtle there.
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Speaker 6: And so they go to big tech, they go to
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law enforcement, they go to they go to big funders,
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they go to the charitable sector, which I think, as
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you noted, is one of the biggest impacts of this,
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and they say, oh, look, there are all these groups
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that are really hateful. You need to debank them, you
18:38
need to investigate them, you need to do all this.
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Speaker 8: Stuff to them.
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Speaker 6: And so under the Biden administration, we actually saw the
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FBI citing the Southern Poverty Law Center and the DJ
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meeting with the Southern Poverty Law Center. But we've seen
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you know, different people face, debanking, face, you know, the
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removal of lists from charitable organizations, and this kind of
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thing is contributing to this hostile atmosphere for conservatives and Christians.
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That says, if you want a normal society, if you
19:16
don't want us to be endorsing transgenderism, if you don't
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want us to be telling kids, and this is how
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nefarious this is.
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Speaker 8: Like Hillary Clinton just the other day.
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Speaker 6: Said, effectively said that opposition to critical race theory means
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you want to remove the America's history of the Civil
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War and slavery and suffrage from our textbooks. Yeah, and
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I'm just I'm just sitting here, like you know, you
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have to know that you're lying through your teeth, because
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every conservative I know knows about the history of the
19:52
Civil War, knows about the history of segregation, knows about
19:57
the suffrage battle, Like we're familiar with these. We want
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this to be taught, but we don't want black kids
20:04
to be told they're inherently oppressed and white kids to
20:08
be told they're inherently oppressors. And that's what critical race
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theory is all about. And so when we see critical
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race theory pushed into our institutions, we say, no, we
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have to fight that.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely. Tyler O'Neil, Daily Signal dot com and author of
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Making Hate Pay in the Southern Poverty Law Center. I
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appreciate it. I've still got clothes that smell like pepper
20:30
spray because of that very hatred there. And ironically, I
20:34
was about to get into a bar brawl kind of
20:37
fight with a guy from Black Lives Matter until his
20:40
president president of Black Lives Matter, interceded because I we
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did the heretical thing of getting to know one another,
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and he knew I wasn't a racist and he wasn't
20:50
with But that's the trouble with these mob mentalities and
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these grievance cultures, and we're, you know, we're being told,
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we're being told that, you know, your survival depends on
21:04
this political party losing or my political party winning. And
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this is why I say this, is like every every
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couple of months, we're back at the battlefield with broadswords
21:21
running at each other, yelling freedom. And the left doesn't
21:27
do because they're they're fighting for freedom from having to
21:30
pay for anything, freedom from you know hunger, freedom from homelessness,
21:34
because the leftist agenda of the Great New Society has
21:42
left four times as many people below the poverty level.
21:45
So it's it's a target rich environment for the modern
21:49
Marxists to come in and say, I will fight for
21:52
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Speaker 14: Uh oh, Brah's buzzed.
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Speaker 20: Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 16: And now a speech.
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Speaker 3: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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art and brain.
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Speaker 12: Who's with me?
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Speaker 16: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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Speaker 22: Somebody call me a ride.
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Speaker 14: Love that guy, me too.
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Speaker 12: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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Speaker 2: The first Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by
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Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 4: You let him put the fideral new so down the River,
28:32
but not a word of it is true.
28:35
Speaker 7: I'm into that slow and best record in years and
28:38
nothing you can say, damn, maybe.
28:41
Speaker 13: Nothing you can do.
28:44
Speaker 7: And I loved the best, best part of that album
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they put out after COVID and the lockdowns and they
28:51
realized how much of it was bovine excrement. Was listening
28:54
to my friends in classic rock radio trying to figure
28:57
out a way to program a classic rock radio station
28:59
with out Eric Clapton must be canceled, damn broke that paradigm.
29:06
My friend Chris in Virginia Rights Center for Countering Digital
29:10
Hate just added climate skepticism. So the center and these
29:17
are the people that you Google or Instagram or these
29:21
folks will deplatform you if you use words that refer
29:28
to anything on their list. This is where the algorithms
29:32
come from. And it's the classic case of control the language,
29:39
control the definitions. Do we have the clip of the
29:42
show from just after we returned from conquered Massachusetts and
29:49
we watched that parade full of people saying no tyrants
29:53
then no tyrants now meaning Donald Trump. So I looked
29:57
up tyrant in the dictionary and I I swear it
30:01
was not defined. Is this when I was in high school?
30:03
But Miriam Webster says that a tyrant is somebody that
30:07
stands in the way of fairness, stands in the way
30:13
of fairness. Is that a tyrant? Or is that what
30:16
the modern American left wants you to define tyrant as?
30:24
And what is fairness? See again you go back to definitions.
30:29
Is it equality of opportunity or is it equity of outcome?
30:35
That's a classic hit. We're here for equity meaning we
30:43
all want to turn out the same and the idea
30:49
that some public policy is an existential threat to your
30:54
life or is somebody going to a different church than you.
31:00
Arrative that's spinning out of Michigan is that this guy
31:03
with a Trump sign on his barn and a Trump
31:08
twenty twenty t shirt. Now you know, this is the
31:11
thing I love. I love the extrapolation. See he's a
31:14
Maga guy. He might have been a disaffected Maggie after
31:17
twenty twenty. He might have said I'm long. There were
31:20
a lot of people after twenty twenty, especially after January sixth.
31:27
Maybe this guy was, you know, somebody who had friends
31:31
in DC on January sixth, snapped his last good nerve
31:35
over that still many holes in the Swiss cheese over
31:40
it all. But here here in lies the rub. He
31:47
apparently ranted against Mormons. We have the clip from the
31:53
city council candidate. I know, city council candidate, but he
31:57
was going door to door in the neighborhood and it
32:01
came up to this guy's door anti Mormon.
32:03
Speaker 26: I mean, then it got into that, you know, they
32:05
have additional books in their Bible, the Mormon Bible. He
32:08
goes that it's not Christian, they put people above Jesus.
32:11
And then really what I walked away with, you know,
32:12
the statement I'll never forget was that Mormons are the
32:15
anti christ.
32:16
Speaker 7: And you could say I don't like that church or
32:19
people going to that church takes money away from my church.
32:22
I mean, you can debase this any way. You can
32:24
say that it's not my flavor of faith. But remember
32:30
this country, if you if you claim to be a conservative,
32:34
then then you're overarching underpinning belief has to be to
32:40
defend our society, and our society begins with the word there.
32:47
It has to be outwardly aware. You have to be
32:49
ouwardly aware of other people. You have to know that
32:53
your rights end where their rights begin. You are endowed
32:58
by your creator. I am endowed by my creator, not
33:02
someone else's creator. That's a theocracy. And that's what we
33:07
tried to fight off, was to create a place where
33:11
if you're a Quaker or a Jew or a Muslim,
33:16
you would be welcome, Catholic, Christian regardless. Good morning, you're
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on the air, first thing this morning with Joe Thomas.
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Who's this.
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Speaker 10: Climate DENI are here in Florida.
33:30
Speaker 7: On that hate list. Got to put you on the
33:32
hate list because you're going to kill us off. And
33:35
climate denialism is one of the more interesting ones because
33:39
these people are the master class in nutty because they
33:43
will get all Greta Thunberg on you and act like
33:48
you are actually threatening them with a weapon if you
33:51
simply say, hey, by the way, this science doesn't add up.
33:55
Oh my god, you're gonna kill all the children. And
33:59
this is I think one of the great sources of
34:02
the kind of nutty, irresponsible rhetoric that people have been
34:08
throwing around.
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Speaker 10: So that actually came from a house guest. Multiple times
34:14
during the Look three festival, I had met Dina Whitman.
34:20
She goes by D. M. Whittman, and she was really
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nicelyd from just outside of Philadelphia, had studied basically ecology
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and that kind of thing, and then she started doing
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photography work and you know, started getting grants for these people,
34:39
the the Sorrows Factor kind of people, and you know,
34:44
I just kept up with her. She'll text me when
34:47
she visits my friend in New York the You've gotten
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a copy of the Purple Heart Story.
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Speaker 7: The first person to.
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Speaker 10: Kendall Methi Male has been to my house many many
35:00
times as well, and I staged his place when I
35:05
visited New York the last time, and it was just
35:09
it's it's incredible, how you know they try and like
35:13
piss against one another. And the reality of it is
35:17
is that we all have, you know, things, gifts and
35:20
things that we can give others.
35:23
Speaker 7: Right, and we should be allowed to do it, but
35:26
it and the worst part of it is, I feel
35:29
like that guy who is in a bar brawl and
35:31
we're brawling with each other while the guys who started
35:35
the brawl are out behind the cash register emptying the
35:38
till out, you know, and and while we're fighting on
35:42
the streets, they're pillaging Fort Knox.
35:47
Speaker 10: Well, you know, if you take away the I think
35:51
the war sentiment or or the the war implement to
35:55
the economy, that's a good place to start. And I
35:59
think it they're going to do this this shutdown thing
36:04
here pretty soon.
36:05
Speaker 7: Mid night tonight.
36:06
Speaker 10: If they don't make it, well they you know that.
36:09
I think that's it's great. I mean, I'm on, I'm
36:12
in the rand Paul Ron call.
36:14
Speaker 7: Uh, well, what about what about the rhetoric of you're
36:18
gonna take health care away? And all the only people
36:20
who are losing healthcare are non citizens anyway, But but
36:25
they're they're out there, the TV ads are running President
36:28
Trump and the Republicans are taking away your health care.
36:31
I mean, it's another one of those Oh my gosh,
36:33
I'm gonna have to fight somebody because my mom needs
36:37
diabetes med or something like that.
36:41
Speaker 10: Right, Well, what we need to do is prepare for,
36:45
you know, their own health.
36:46
Speaker 7: And well, yeah, I've been.
36:49
Speaker 10: Through some bumps and you know, came out the other side.
36:52
Speaker 7: Well, you know, the you know, depending on what part
36:55
of the body I'm going through, when I encounter those bumps,
36:58
you know, it's it's okay. But but that's the issue
37:01
is we're being turned against each other for somebody else's
37:05
political gain. And I don't know why we allow ourselves
37:08
to do it. What do we gain from being this
37:11
hateful to each other? You know, what does a Christian
37:14
gain by shooting and blowing up a Mormon church? I
37:19
know there are people out there that subborn that rhetoric.
37:22
They're they're as dangerous as the people and the Islamic
37:25
faith that say that infidels must be killed. You know,
37:29
we've got to stop doing this to each other because
37:33
we're gonna We're gonna make the case first and foremost,
37:36
we're going to make the case for actual tyranny because
37:39
somebody is going to ride in and say, Okay, you
37:42
can't have nice stuff anymore. And and we're you know,
37:46
making this an authoritarian dictatorship because y'all can't have nice
37:51
stuff because you're constantly at each other, shooting each other,
37:55
you know, stabbing each other, driving trunks into each other's
37:59
church is over over time.
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Speaker 22: What's on your mind?
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Speaker 7: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven
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as we finish up with you this Tuesday morning, and
44:52
Mike Mike writes into JT in the Morning Radio at
44:55
gmail dot com. Good golly man, you really do want
44:58
everyone on the planet listening to you. He's teasing me
45:03
on an expression. I've told this story before. There's a
45:06
lot of people who do what I do, who micro cast,
45:10
who narrow cast. They pick an age group, you know,
45:15
twenty to twenty five, and they only talk about things
45:19
that some consultant firm tells them that those people are
45:23
interested in the check the most popular TV shows, and
45:27
they're always like a month behind the trends because they're
45:31
always waiting for some focus group to tell them what
45:34
the trends really are. And when people ask me, well,
45:39
what's your age? Who do you want to listen? To
45:41
your program. Everyone I don't have. I don't have people
45:45
I don't want to listen to. You know, it's interesting
45:51
because I don't know what this fella. If this is
45:54
true out of Michigan, that the guy was ardently convinced
45:59
that the existence of Mormons was the proof of the
46:03
Antichrist and jose Smith and I've heard it. I've heard
46:07
all this stuff. Number One, he doesn't understand what you're
46:14
supposed to do against the Antichrist and how you identify them.
46:18
But I think his ability to go through hierarchical decision
46:27
making had been challenged anyway at some point, but it
46:35
could be. I mean, I've heard these folks out there
46:39
talking about the Mormon, the Church of Jesus Christ of
46:43
Latter day Saints in the same way I hear Islamists
46:50
talking about Jews. And it's a reminder to me why
46:58
the word there is so important. And this is a
47:02
battle for theocracy in the United States, because dictators need theocracy.
47:12
That was one of the things that made Marxism unique
47:15
was it said no, no Church. Most other dictators used
47:19
the church as their cudgel. And it to be biblical
47:32
about it. It goes back to the ten ten Commandments,
47:35
number six, thou shalt not murder. Doesn't matter whether you
47:39
know the guys the anti Christ or not, because you
47:53
the the job of ours on this earth is to
48:04
interact with one another, not kill one another. And I'm
48:10
not going to guilt anyone because obviously five thousand years
48:15
ago the Israelites needed to be told thou shalt not murder.
48:22
Must have meant that some of them were murdering people.
48:25
Maybe it was maybe it was the Egyptians. I don't know,
48:30
but Moses made it very clear. God told him no murder.
48:37
Your sin will be profound and complete. Your damnation will
48:43
be interminable if you murder. Jeems pretty good his grave, Howard,
48:51
but he's the Antichrist. I didn't say in the case
48:54
of the Antichrist, break glass, thou shalt not murder period.
49:02
You want to expand into the modern retelling and say
49:04
kill still applicable. And the people who continue to try
49:13
to make this about politics, And I know that there's
49:19
somebody's already writing, but Joe didn't. She just have this
49:22
whole thing about Abigail Spanberger and let the rage fuel you.
49:28
It's not about the people who are being enraged it's
49:31
about getting people to stop trying to turn us on
49:35
each other, trying to out the people who are trying
49:38
to turn us on each other. She's just trying to
49:43
win an election, and somebody told her, Oh, these are
49:46
hot button. It's like the people who write these blogs,
49:50
and especially the headlines for these blogs, which often have little,
49:54
if any tenuous connection to what's in the blog or
49:58
in the substack column. Oh, but the headline makes you go, oh,
50:04
to be fair. I grew up in the city of
50:06
New York, where the New York Daily News and the
50:09
New York Post used to have an ongoing battle for
50:12
who could have the most salacious headline to make you
50:16
drop your quarter. And I need to see this story.
50:21
So we don't think the Internet invented this idea. But
50:25
these pushwords, these buzzwords, Nazi, fascist, healthcare, climate, death, antichrist,
50:43
they're all meant to go Oh, it's like an aqua
50:46
velva smack to wake you up bad of your just
50:50
kind of scrolling the internet, Oh what Nazi? And there's
51:04
only one political ideology that does. And they've tried so
51:08
many things. They Marxism, tried class warfare in the country,
51:13
and by the forties, they realized, oh, that doesn't work,
51:16
but we could use race. And those are some salad
51:19
days for the Marxists of America that got the Great Society,
51:23
which Lyndon Johnson's softcore Marxism American made Marxism. But Donald
51:33
Trump blew that up. Charlie Kirk blew that up. All
51:36
you have to do is point out the logic of
51:38
it and it comes crumbling down. So they went and said,
51:41
what else can we make Americans attack each other for?
51:46
And more loudly than Nikita Krushchev pounding a lectern with
51:50
his shoe, they come up with religion. Ah, religion is
51:57
something we can turn you on each other with. And
52:06
that's what they're using now. They're using religion the Marxists
52:10
in the amongst the Islamists, the Marxists out there in
52:14
the churches of America that are being used and manipulated
52:20
to turn us against one another. You know, we need
52:25
to bring back we need to bring back those bracelets
52:28
that used to say w WJD. It's not a radio
52:33
station that you can hear those. What would Jesus do?
52:37
It's a pretty straightforward thought, don't you think. In any event?
52:41
No more sunrise sermonet you lay person, put the sharp
52:45
stuff down before you hurt yourself. I'm Joe Thomas, so
52:48
long and thanks for all the fish.
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