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FTTxJT 062226 PoliSciTheater3000 · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: For you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
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  Speaker 2: You know what Roaducanna, God bless his little heart, gave
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  Speaker 2: us a master class look into their advocude. Let me begin.
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  Speaker 1: I came to win.
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  Speaker 2: Battle me. That's a sin.
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  Speaker 1: I won't tell us. Get back a back up, try
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  Speaker 1: and play celt work to your moms. I came to
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  Speaker 1: drump balls. I got movies and the bottles got songs.
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  Speaker 1: And just like the batcle Sun oppertue, I can't nig
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  Speaker 1: it down.
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  Speaker 2: I can't nigg it down, So.
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  Speaker 3: Get down to.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think they served together, but I believe
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  Speaker 2: Roguekanna replaced Tom Garrett in the Swamp To, which, unlike
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  Speaker 2: Toy Story had you know that sequel came out pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: But in Swamp Too, Rocana was out there confirming what
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  Speaker 2: Tom Garrett told us about Congress and the price list
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  Speaker 2: to get on all the different committees. So I lawed
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  Speaker 2: him for that. I also laud him for going on
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  Speaker 2: this podcast. I guess he thought nobody was watching and
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  Speaker 2: giving us a great treatise on how democrats view other
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  Speaker 2: people's money like it's theirs and they're just giving you
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  Speaker 2: permission to use it and such will be the case
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  Speaker 2: today as two hundred and twelve billion dollars two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twelve billion of other people's dollars will be tossed
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  Speaker 2: around like so much chattel in the capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: Having finally made a drug deal to get Louise Lucas
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  Speaker 2: on board, they made a budget that figured out a
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  Speaker 2: way to sell legal marijuana, and the one member of
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  Speaker 2: the Senate that sells cannabinoid products dropped her opposition to
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  Speaker 2: the budget as it stood. Funny how that all worked,
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  Speaker 2: and to help us make sense of a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of the intrigue, but more importantly, to promote the fact
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  Speaker 2: that he and I are going to do what we're
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  Speaker 2: calling political Science three thousand. As if you remember the
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  Speaker 2: old sci fi TV show Mystery Science Theater three thousand,
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  Speaker 2: this will be Political Science Theater three thousand, as he
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  Speaker 2: and I will co host a live stream on my
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  Speaker 2: Facebook page and our YouTube channel where we will do
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  Speaker 2: play by play like play by play from the US
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  Speaker 2: Open golf tournament, only I don't think we will be whispering.
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  Speaker 2: He is the great Tom Garrett. Tom drops bombs on
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  Speaker 2: YouTube is where you find him usually good morning, tag.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing all I did.
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  Speaker 3: Serve for two years with Rocanna of this is crazy, right.
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  Speaker 3: So Louis low Ucas, the chair of the Senate Finance
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  Speaker 3: Committee and the chief budget negotiator for the Virginia Senate,
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  Speaker 3: had voted for years in favor of billions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: of tax breaks for AI and data centers, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: And then on March second, twenty twenty six, became the
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  Speaker 3: loudest voice in opposition of these tax breaks for data centers,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera. Meanwhile, three years ago, look on my returned
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  Speaker 3: to politics, my first year at the Virginia in General Assembly,
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  Speaker 3: I stole the form. Was the only person screaming and
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  Speaker 3: yelling and saying, why on earth are we giving billions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars to Jeff Bezos and others like him? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's not because he needs the money. And so here
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  Speaker 3: I am all alongo and this is ridiculous. Louise Lucas
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  Speaker 3: drops her opposition to that. As soon as they mentioned
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  Speaker 3: marijuana and cannabis literally exactly one thousand, nine hundred and
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  Speaker 3: sixty seven times in the budget, not in the bill,
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  Speaker 3: they couldn't get it done in a bill. Now, ironically,
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  Speaker 3: as you pointed out, she did execute a drug deal
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  Speaker 3: unintended to get that legislated through the budget. I actually
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  Speaker 3: don't have that big of a problem with people growing
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  Speaker 3: their own weed and smoking it on their back porch.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as a matter of fact, you, you and the
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  Speaker 2: outgoing d N I Tolsy Gabbard, when you were both
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  Speaker 2: in the US House, presented a bill to take marijuana
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  Speaker 2: possession off of the Schedule one less federal schedule FED schedule.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, you know under the logical point that
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  Speaker 2: if Barack Obama doesn't want the police arresting you for it,
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  Speaker 2: then why is it still against the law.
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  Speaker 3: Well, so what has happened is, and I'm not pro
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  Speaker 3: marijuana at all. I've spoked enough marijuana to though I
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  Speaker 3: don't like it when I was much younger and do better.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, what I tell my children, you know you're
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  Speaker 3: not going to make better decisions when you've altered yourmid
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  Speaker 3: the chemicals period, full stop. And I don't know anybody's
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  Speaker 3: mokes a lot of it and reaches maximum productivity. But
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  Speaker 3: that said, I don't know how you get that into
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  Speaker 3: the interstate commerce area where it's federal jurisdiction, So why
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  Speaker 3: don't we let Alabama do what they want, in Colorado
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  Speaker 3: do what they want, and then see what works best.
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  Speaker 3: That's what fifty Laboratories for Democracy means. And the federal
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  Speaker 3: government still has that the on the books as a
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  Speaker 3: Schedule one controlled substance, which is crazy because it's up
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  Speaker 3: there with like meth and ecstasy, you know, substitute cocaine
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  Speaker 3: Schedule two, for Gosh's sake. So it's more serious than
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  Speaker 3: cocaine as far as Defenser concerned. And yet they only
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  Speaker 3: charge it when they want to, which means that you've
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  Speaker 3: got this two tier justice system. And I've always argued
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  Speaker 3: that justice that isn't blind isn't justice right, that where
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  Speaker 3: you're free enough to succeed, you should also be free
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  Speaker 3: enough to fail. But anyway, I digress. Louise Lucas suddenly
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  Speaker 3: drops her opposition to billions. This is two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: twenty three dollars per Virginian. Is what we're giving to
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  Speaker 3: data centers and tax breaks. Two hundred twenty three dollars
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  Speaker 3: per working Virginian, not adult Virginian per Virginia. That we've
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  Speaker 3: decided that Jeff Bezos needs more. Now, she's the only
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  Speaker 3: person that I know that's in the weed business. In
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  Speaker 3: the General Assembly, we have an ethics rule that says
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  Speaker 3: you should stain from any vote where you might have
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  Speaker 3: a fiducier at Pecunior what have you interest? And she
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  Speaker 3: just I mean, you know, when you make the rules
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  Speaker 3: and you enforce the rules and there are no rules, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know when she's freaking crazy.
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  Speaker 2: When she's egregious enough to bring the Biden Administration's Department
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  Speaker 2: of Justice, when Merrick Garland says, hey, right after we
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  Speaker 2: finish investigating those parents at the school board meetings, let's
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  Speaker 2: launch a probe into Louise Lucas in Virginia for grift
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  Speaker 2: and apparently looking into you know, hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 2: COVID dollars that didn't go to the things that they
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  Speaker 2: were supposed to. Huh funny that.
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  Speaker 3: Ten million dollars in medicaid rand verse over six years.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody administration's goad until pretty guilty.
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  Speaker 2: But I have to ask you this though, you know,
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  Speaker 2: before we get into what you and I are going
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  Speaker 2: to do. And this is fun because I was just
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  Speaker 2: trying to explain to people I don't want sycophants on
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  Speaker 2: this program. I'm going to ask you a question. Dwayne
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  Speaker 2: Yancey is a columnist for the Virginia Mercury, and I
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  Speaker 2: would think of the three of us, you, me, and
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  Speaker 2: Duane Yancy, he's going to be the one that disagrees
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  Speaker 2: with me the most frequently. Yet. He just published a
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  Speaker 2: piece that reports on the Joint Legislative Audit Council or
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  Speaker 2: committee report that said you made six dollars for every
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  Speaker 2: dollar fifty in tax breaks that you gave up. It
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  Speaker 2: was like six six times the return in terms of
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  Speaker 2: moneys made by Virginians and the economic impact of those
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  Speaker 2: tax breaks. Did you see that Jaylark report on the
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  Speaker 2: impact of the tax breaks for the data centers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I've seen, I've seen all around it. I
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  Speaker 3: haven't opened that Jaylark, but I understand it, okay, And
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  Speaker 3: I'm not crazy about data centers, but it's truly if
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  Speaker 3: you want to look global, state federal, it's a national
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  Speaker 3: security issue. I just have an idea that perhaps we
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  Speaker 3: could do this without subsidizing it on the backs of
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  Speaker 3: working Virginians. Right. I don't think I think we can
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  Speaker 3: walk in chew gum with that said, it's a whole
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  Speaker 3: other segment. I want to hit this though two o'clock today,
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  Speaker 3: Delegate Tom Garrett, I don't know what your Facebook is
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  Speaker 3: to we're live streaming this budget session. I know your
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  Speaker 3: listeners are like, why aren't you there? Garrett. We can
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  Speaker 3: get into that if you want, but it should be
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  Speaker 3: it's worth you watching as a taxpayer anywhere in Virginia
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  Speaker 3: and frankly anywhere in the country, because we're going to
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  Speaker 3: show you how the sausage is made, and.
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  Speaker 2: We'll give you play by pay play coverage of a
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  Speaker 2: Later today, I'm going to be co hosting play by
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  Speaker 2: play coverage of the Virginia General Assembly and TOME. I've
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  Speaker 2: I won't.
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  Speaker 3: You won't.
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  Speaker 3: Look, normally we get to put in budget amendments on
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  Speaker 3: the floor and vote so that members can be on
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  Speaker 3: the record for, i don't know, supporting tax dollars to
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  Speaker 3: on a conference report. So literally, you had two people
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  Speaker 3: negotiate a budget. Republican people on the Preparations Committee seven
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  Speaker 3: of twenty one got the budget language the same time
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  Speaker 3: the general public did nothing. Which is Saturday I mean
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  Speaker 3: it's it was Friday night, Saturday. Yeah. So I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to a seven year long family event that was planned
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  Speaker 3: of a decade. And I'm out of the area and
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  Speaker 3: There's sixty four of them and thirty six of us.
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  Speaker 3: So I reached out to the speaker or and said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: pursue it to your rules, I should be able to
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  Speaker 3: participate remotely. And he goes, well, no, which I think
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  Speaker 3: might have been different if I were a different member.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought, okay, guys, if you all want to
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  Speaker 3: be there, because it's really it's it's essentially one meaningful vote. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the other question where the drama is isn't whether this
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  Speaker 3: garbage gets passed. The other and they added a new
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  Speaker 3: tax on your drive electric build But the real question
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  Speaker 3: is how many Republicans vote yes, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is that'll be interesting. Well, you know, and here's the thing,
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  Speaker 2: and I know parliamentary procedure and I and I understand
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  Speaker 2: this that if you're if you're amongst those who vote
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  Speaker 2: in favor of something, you are then allowed to bring
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  Speaker 2: it back for an issue. Now, that wouldn't be the
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  Speaker 2: case in here, because why would you bring it back
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  Speaker 2: for a revisit that right?
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  Speaker 3: Because it's over to that right, and they're going to
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  Speaker 3: go look at a single Republican bends the knee because
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  Speaker 3: he is afraid of losing a coveted spot on the
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  Speaker 3: Appropriations committee. Then what we'll hear about is this wonderful
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  Speaker 3: bipartisan budget, right.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what that will be the narrative. But here's
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  Speaker 2: here's the thing. It's it also includes extra sales taxes
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  Speaker 2: from your local government. Now they can add sales tax
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  Speaker 2: and I know that will go up from one percent
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  Speaker 2: to five percent at some point in the next two
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  Speaker 2: or three cycles. Oh yes, it's for the children, exactly,
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  Speaker 2: for the for the children of the people who run
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  Speaker 2: the contracting firms that get the slush money from the
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  Speaker 2: school capital expenditure budget.
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  Speaker 3: That a documentary kids and tell them to hate you
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  Speaker 3: and everything that this country was made great buy exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So So what do I need to bring? Should I
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  Speaker 2: just pretend, you know, I'm just I'm just going to
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  Speaker 2: be you know, the straight playplay play guy, and you'll
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  Speaker 2: be Keith Hernandez or open Phil Rizzuto.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to bring. I want you to bring
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  Speaker 3: up a great levels of snark, okay, sarcasm, Okay, maybe
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  Speaker 3: maybe a healthy disdain for a system that is wonderful
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  Speaker 3: on paper but broken when administered by people who don't
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  Speaker 3: understand what representative democracy actually means. No, yeah, and again,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's nothing beyond criticism here. I wonder here's
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  Speaker 3: the other thing for y'all to watch when you tune
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  Speaker 3: in it too, deligate Tom Gara on Facebook Live. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to live stream this ridiculous budget force. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to turn two hundred and fifty years old as a
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  Speaker 3: nation in what two weeks? Yep, And the likelihood that
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  Speaker 3: you hear more speeches about how horrible this country is,
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  Speaker 3: how somebody who wasn't me but might have looked like
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  Speaker 3: me did somebody who was of you but might have
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  Speaker 3: looked like you hundreds of years ago, and why you
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  Speaker 3: know we have to destroy the entire system because it's
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  Speaker 3: so horrible. It's just that there's zero patriotism. There's zero
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  Speaker 3: gratitude for the fortune that you have having been amongst
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  Speaker 3: the one in twenty six who have been born here.
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  Speaker 3: Are we perfect? Not by a long shot. That's why
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  Speaker 3: the founders put the words more perfect union in the
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  Speaker 3: institution because they inspire us to continue to try to
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  Speaker 3: be better. But gosh, I mean this burn it all downs,
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  Speaker 3: that I can rule over the ashes attitude is so dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: And if you just look at the local sales tax
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  Speaker 3: plus Reggie, that's seven percent extra on your energy bill
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  Speaker 3: every month. Starting July first, you're going to get one
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  Speaker 3: percent extra on everything you buy in your community. All
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  Speaker 3: these things. This is a death by a thousand cuts
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  Speaker 3: to working women and men who just want to give
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  Speaker 3: their kids this good or better chance than they had.
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  Speaker 2: What a horrible thing to want, racist, misogynist occupiers. Tom,
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to hook up with you. We will
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  Speaker 2: be bringing you the play by play today. It's Political
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  Speaker 2: Science Theater three thousand on Tom's Facebook page, my facebook page,
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  Speaker 2: YouTube channels. We'll get it all figured out and follow
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  Speaker 2: us on any of our social media. We will tell
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  Speaker 2: you where to tune in as two o'clock grows.
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  Speaker 3: NYE.
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  Speaker 2: But you have a good morning, sir, and get your
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  Speaker 2: rest super great.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, God bless have a great day. Talk to
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  Speaker 3: you later.
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