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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 22 · The Bluegrass Blues Podcast

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Welcome to the Bluegrass Blues Podcast, Episode
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22. I'm Amy. And I'm Jesse. Looks like we're
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at war. That came as a surprise to everyone because
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we didn't know if something was worth going to
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war for recently. It's sort of like a continuation
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of the wars that were ending up in, like, we
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didn't expect Venezuela, and now we were in Iran.
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And, yeah, Iran. So what's going on? Distracting
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from the Epstein files much? Well, but the, you
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know, their argument is that we're... Well, this
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is Trump's argument, that we're invading Iran
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or we're bombing Iran because we want to protect
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the Iranian people. They're in discontent. And
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then we killed, what, 60 schoolgirls in a school
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during the bombing? In Iran? Yeah. Well, we did
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that, but we also killed Iran's leader. So that's
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like a political assassination that's taken place.
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You know, the usual suspects are saying, yes,
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we're supposed to do this because we're defending
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whatever. But it does come down to there are
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two leaders who are responsible for this, Donald
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Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. And we all know
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that if they hadn't been elected in the last
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elections for both of them. they would both be
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in jail because they were convicted of various
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crimes. So there's that element to it. Stay out
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of jail card? Well, it's not... Bomb other countries?
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Well, that's what they're doing because it keeps
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them... There's this belief in, I know, throughout
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American history that whenever we go to war or
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wherever we're in a military conflict, everybody's
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supposed to rally behind the leader. That's just...
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You know, if you don't do it, you're a traitor
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or whatever. And that was very prominent during
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the Bush administration. When we went into the
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second Bush administration, we went into Iraq.
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The first Bush administration, we were prepared
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for it because there was like a lead up to all
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of the reasons that we're doing it because Iran
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had invaded Kuwait. That was... That was a threat
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to the, well, essentially to the global oil markets.
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And that was something that could not be tolerated.
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Iraq, I'm sorry, invaded Kuwait. So we were ready
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for that with George Bush, number one. George
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Bush, number two, that was sort of like a staged
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event because... 9 -11. Yeah, 9 -11. Although
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Iran had nothing to do with 9 -11, it was totally
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Saudi Arabia because that's where Osama bin Laden
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is from. But Saudi Arabia has more money and...
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Bush II was in cahoots with Saudi Arabia, as
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well as Dick Cheney, because there were more
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contracts to be made on oil with that. And we
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remember Halliburton getting these great deals
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to go in and redo the Iraq economy, redo the
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Iraq infrastructure. But that was Dick Cheney's
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company making a lot of money. And Dick Cheney
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said, well, I don't have any financial interest
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in this, which is bullshit, because he had his
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money in a private, like, what do you call these
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things? A shelter. Blind Trust. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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The Blind Trust. But it was still his stock and
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his advantage that his organization got a lot
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of money that definitely trickled down to him.
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But given all that, I wouldn't say that George
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Bush was in it for the money because he was actually
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like... doing something. He was essentially going
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after Hussein because Hussein had threatened
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to kill his father because that was the representation
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of the first Iraq war. And now we've had incidents
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while Obama was president and while Biden was
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president where there were bombing runs on countries.
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But again, we were always prepared for these
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because there was sort of like a build -up to
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the attack. You know, you get the idea out there
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first. You get Congress to talk about it. Congress
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will debate. And then when Congress says, okay,
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it's cool to do, and when you alert people, then
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we did it. And everybody was behind it. Well,
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everybody. The infrastructure was there that
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normally supported it, even if there were people
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who didn't think it was necessary to go to war
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with Iraq, which a lot of people didn't think.
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But it was still something that we were prepared
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for. It was a buildup. There was a result. We
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all knew it was happening. There was a definite
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explanation why. Now, in this administration,
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we're just going into countries. It's just, we're
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going into Venezuela for what reason? Oil? Well,
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their reason was that they were protecting the
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Americans from drug traders in Venezuela, even
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though the drugs they were talking about were
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coming from Venezuela. They were coming from
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somewhere else. And there was no way that...
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when they're bombing boats in Venezuela, that
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those boats could have made it up to the United
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States given the routes they were saying. So
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that was all a lie. It was just to get in there,
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take over the country, get the oil. Now we're
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in Iran. What's Iran got that we're interested
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in? Oil. Oil? Yeah. Yeah, so more oil. That means
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that the oil industry makes a lot of money. People
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investing in the oil industry make a lot of money.
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Plus, Donald Trump makes a lot of money because
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not only that, he's got all the money coming
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from the various corporate billionaires who are
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going to fund everything he does. And the princes
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in Saudi Arabia and other wealthy Middle Eastern
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countries. Plus the Trump boys are in charge
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of this site that takes bets on global events.
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And I was reading today that someone made half
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a million dollars betting that the United States
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would kill the leader of Iran. implies that there
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was this information going out ahead of time.
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So that means that someone within the Trump administration
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is benefiting from the war, not because they
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care about democracy or they care about human
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rights or they care about protecting people or
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even the argument that they're protecting Israel.
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It's really about the money. And so we have all
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these lists of things that are happening right
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now. There's plenty of money involved. And because
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it's another oil site to attack, that means more
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money will be coming in there, more money for
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the Trump coffers. You know, and just like the
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lies about the weapons of mass destruction in
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Iraq, you know, Iran does not have a nuclear
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warhead. They do not have nuclear. But the argument
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has been that they're building a nuclear weapon,
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which you can say for every country in the world.
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You think North Korea has nuclear weapons? You
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think they're building them? Are we going to
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bomb them? No. Because Trump and Kim Jong -il
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are like, who's the new leader of North Korea?
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I've lost track. Anyway, Kim Jong -un. So, you
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know, they are in buddy -buddy situations. Trump
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is in bed with Putin because obviously Putin
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has garbage on him. And this is just another
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money grab. Let's go to the horror of this. It
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isn't about protecting people. It's about creating
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suffering. If this administration cared about
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the people of Iran, and I think I'm preaching
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too much here, but if they cared about people
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and cared about their rights and cared about...
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all the stuff that they say they care about,
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then this administration would not be persecuting
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immigrants in this country. They wouldn't be
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putting people in concentration camps. They wouldn't
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have masked vigilantes, which is what they are,
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running through the streets, just seizing people,
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going into churches, going into schools, going
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into hospitals. Not to mention child rapists.
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That's a whole other aspect of this. We're going
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through all the bad stuff they're doing, but
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the other part of this is that what was in the
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news before the Iran attack? Well, the State
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of the Union was right before the Iran attack.
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Of course, it wasn't mentioned at all. Right.
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Well, yeah, he didn't say it. Even then, in the
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State of the Union address, even in past things,
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the president would say something if there was
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some major address when he was planning some
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kind of military action just to get people prepared
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for it. And this came out of nowhere. And I want
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to just dovetail on what you said. So, you know,
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again, what is happening here in this country,
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human rights are being violated every single
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day. You know, this is not about protecting Iranians'
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human rights. Plus, in Israel as well, the Gazans
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continue to be under -sheltered, under -fed,
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under -medicated, under -educated. And settlers,
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you know, Jewish settlers in Israel continue
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to be attacking Palestinians and taking their
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land away and bulldozing their olive groves and
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things like that. So, you know, if we were modeling
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this terrific behavior, maybe there'd be, you
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know, yes, let's spread democracy around the
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world. But no, that's not it at all. No, it's
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a lot about who's making money, who's making
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more money. And it is the idea that Donald Trump
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is doing this to distract from the thing that
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is going to put him in jail. And I really believe
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the Epstein Files is going to put him in jail
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at some point because the things that we constantly
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hear coming out of this are horrendous. The fact
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that Prince Edward Andrew. Andrew. He's not a
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prince anymore. Yeah, he's Andrew Mountbatten,
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whatever, Windsor. And his wife, Fergie, they're
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like in complete scandals. The other countries
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are actually dealing with the evils of the Epstein
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files because people are being arrested overseas.
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But here in the United States, when the Epstein
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files is raised as a congressional issue, The
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secretary of, no, the attorney general comes
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in front of Congress and says nothing about the
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victims because the victims are standing right
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behind her. She's talking about the Dow industrials
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being above $50 ,000. And she said $50 ,000,
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which if you know anything about the stock market,
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it's not in dollars, it's in points. number one
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she's proved she's an idiot number two she's
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proved that she doesn't know what she's talking
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about and number three she's just a flat out
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She's a murderer. She's a shill for Donald Trump.
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For sure. We've got all this going on, and we're
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now at war. And our institutions are failing
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us, Jesse. Yes. I mean, how important is it for
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us to have free and fair elections this November
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for things to turn around? Well, this is the
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other issue. I guess we can, I don't know if
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we should transition to that now. I actually
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want to speak a little bit more about the Iran
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war, just as a Jewish person. I helped form a
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group called Jewish Louisvillians for Peace and
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we issued a press release on these attacks and
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you know we are against these attacks on Iran
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and For sure, this is not good for Jews in the
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diaspora or in Israel. And many Jews in Israel
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are opposed to Netanyahu's war machine and are
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very much opposed to this attack in Iran. And
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to be sure, the Iranian regime is brutal and
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oppressive and criminal. But the notion, again,
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this colonial notion that powerful outsiders
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can invade and bomb their way to peace comes
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from... from a hubris that's determined to repeat
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history's deadliest mistakes rather than learning
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from them. And it doesn't keep any of us safer.
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It harms us. It makes us less safe. So the wars
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have got to end. Netanyahu's got to go and Trump's
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got to go. But as we all know, that they're doing
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everything they can to stay in power. So they're
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creating these... Bomb them away. Bomb their
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way to keep power. Right. Well, you keep the...
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You put the population in the state of... essentially
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you're trying to convince people that their lives
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depend on whatever they're doing, when in fact
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it's more the billionaire bank accounts that
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depend on what they're doing. So we've got, we're
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at war. I mean, we're at war in Venezuela, we're
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at war in Iran. There's talk now about going
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to war with Cuba. I mean, where did that come
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from? Cuba's been that island since the 60s.
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It's been an annoyance. But are we under any
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threat from Cuba? No. I mean, we were in the
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1960s when Kennedy was president and the Soviets
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were putting nuclear missiles there, but that's
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not an issue anymore because Cuba can't attack
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us. They're not going to attack us. But because
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we need a distraction on the executive level
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of this government because... If we don't distract
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and people will focus on the real crimes of this
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administration, then we're just going to keep
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experiencing this. Like, it will get more and
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more ridiculous. We will probably go into Cuba.
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We're talking about going into Greenland. I mean,
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Greenland? Right. What the hell? Yeah. It's just,
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you know, it's all distractions because... We
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have a person. We have child rapists and criminal
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convicted felons on a number of fronts, unconstitutional
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actors running this country. Right. And the sad
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thing is that they were elected by the American
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people. And I keep harping on this, but I still
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don't know how he won the last election, given
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that. when he was president the first time, everybody
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who voted in the second election was alive when
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he was president the first time. And everybody
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saw how bad things were then. But because we're
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in a, we have to say it, because we're in a land
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where racism predominates, it was either, let's
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vote for the white convicted pedophile sex offender,
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rapist. swindler, fraud, whatever you can say,
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or let's vote for the black woman attorney general
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who puts all those, that list of criminals into
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jail. And the American people decided, I'm going
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to go back, but the American people decided that
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we're going to go with the rapist. That's the
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bottom line. And the thing about the phrase,
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the American people, whenever I see that, I think.
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it means white people. I don't think whenever
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you see the media say anything about the American
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people that they're talking about minorities
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at all. They're talking about white people. We're
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just stuck with this situation, and we have to
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see what happens as the elections keep going.
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Well, and the white people, the older white people
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that continue to profit off of this oppressive,
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inequitable system, they want to reduce the people.
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The demographics are browning in America, so
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they want to make sure that these people are
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not even alive here and certainly not able to
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vote. Right. Well, they went for that whole great
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replacement. theory that was really big with
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the bigot Charlie Kirk and the bigot who's the
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guy on TV the smug guy on TV I forget his name
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Tucker Carlson so you know we have been subjected
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to this this parade of racism on the media level
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on the federal level And it's now going to the
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state level because now we have, should we talk
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about elections now? Yeah, well, first of all,
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you know, we were talking about the folks in
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Congress that are against this attack on Iran.
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And, you know, Thomas Massey comes up again and,
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of course, Rand Paul. as well as Morgan McGarvey,
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the only Democrat in Congress in Kentucky. Who,
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in my opinion, doesn't count. McGarvey, yes,
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you can expect him to do that, but McGarvey's
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already shown that he's not going to defend people.
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He's not going to defend the community here because
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he... passing that resolution in favor of Charlie
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Kirk, that just did it for me as far as he's
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concerned. He already showed what his colors
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are. He didn't do anything to take that vote
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back. He's going into black communities and behind
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in whispered tones saying, I really didn't mean
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it, so don't get mad at me for it. But of course
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he's going to do the basic line. I'll say that
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Thomas Massey had the greatest line on this because
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when he was asked about it, he not only said
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that he was against what was going on, but he
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said, where is it? He said something along the
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lines of, you know, no matter what happens, the
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bottom line is that it's Trump's legal war and
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he's... His quote was... His illegal war. Yeah,
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his illegal war. Illegal war. On Sunday, Massey
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put this post on exit, said, bombing a country
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on the other side of the globe won't make the
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Epstein files go away any more than the Dow going
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above 50 ,000 will. So... You know, Massey understands
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what's going on here. And I think Rand Paul also
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came. Rand Paul actually had a very eloquent
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statement on this because he talked about American
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history and the reasons why we do these things.
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Of course, Mitch McConnell is just a weasel,
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and he's a weasel that's out of office. But,
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you know, McConnell is for the attack. Well,
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and I loved what Rand Paul said. You know, again,
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I don't love Rand Paul, but my oath of office
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is to the Constitution, so with studied care,
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I must oppose another presidential war. Right,
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right. Where are all the other Republicans? Well,
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the person who's running for governor, Andy Barr,
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fully stands behind Trump. Both his opponents
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stand behind Trump. So, you know, there are only
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three people. Andy's running for U .S. Senate.
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Andy Barr. Andy, yeah. He's running, not for
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governor, but for agency. I'm sorry, yeah. I'm
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getting my guys confused. And, you know, you've
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got these Senate candidates who are just. you
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know, toeing the line because they think MAGA
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is still a thing. And they're probably right
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that MAGA is still a thing in Kentucky. I think
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I saw something recently where Trump's approved
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rating is still very close to 50 % in this state,
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which, again, for a state that's going through
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the economic disaster that we're going through,
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is a real problem. So we've got, you know, I
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give... Every week I keep saying I don't like
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Massey in general, but if it were me, if I had
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to vote between Massey and anybody else in the
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Republican Party, I would vote for Massey. And
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I don't like Rand Paul either because I've actually
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in the past been on campaigns against him, like
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calling voters and working for the Democrats.
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If it's a choice between him or any of the people
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running for the Senate seat currently, I would
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vote for Rand Paul. And, you know, when you do
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reach out to Rand Paul with your Five Calls app
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or emails, but especially calling, at least they
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take your message and at least they respond.
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I mean, with McConnell's office, you can't even
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leave a message anymore. What kind of representation
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is that? Yeah, it's just, we're just having to
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deal with so many things these days. And it really
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is getting... frustrating but you know this is
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this we're now in the election season we've got
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well we've got Rand Paul and and and Massey you
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know doing what is the right thing in there you
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know they're not they're not going to change
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their tone about what's going on but the issue
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is that they actually believe belief in the government
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process where things go through Congress and
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things go to, you know, there's discussion, you
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know, advise and consent, that whole thing that's
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in the Constitution about what Congress's role
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is here. Our other Kentucky representatives in
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Congress are Republicans are just, you know,
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they're just lapdogs. They don't care. They're
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just lapdogs and they are, they're... I don't
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know. I wonder when these people are going to
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start to realize that they're on the wrong side
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of history. Or that they're being played for
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suckers. I think that's more important. they
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would feel less bad about being on the wrong
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side of history than feel bad about being played
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for suckers. Yeah, but they're all enriching
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themselves, too. I mean, remember Marjorie Taylor
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Greene left with, what, $26, $27 million after
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being in Congress? So this is a lucrative gig.
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Right, even though it's not supposed to be something
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that you make a fortune in. But, you know, that's
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not true because Mitch McConnell made a fortune
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as a senator. And I want to, can we pivot a little
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bit to, we're talking about money, and the state
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legislature has been in session. House Bill 500
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is the two -year state spending plan, and it's
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extraordinarily austere. It was approved on mostly
23:32
party -line vote. But basically, it underfunds
23:37
education and Medicaid and could do a lot more
23:40
for Kentuckians struggling with the cost of living.
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And we've quoted Jason Bailey before, the executive
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director of the Kentucky Center for Economic
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Policy. He says this austerity is not a necessity.
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It's a choice. So you have these people enriching
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themselves, Jesse. And yet the Kentucky, you
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know, everyone in the state. suffers as a result.
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Right. And their argument about limiting funding
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for anything is just a specious argument to begin
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with, because one of the things, and although
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they hate Joe Biden, one of the things Joe Biden
24:20
showed was that if you're in economic slowdown,
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What the government should be doing is putting
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more money into the economy so that people, you
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know, are getting paid higher or getting wages,
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and that way they are going to spend more money
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in the community. And when these clowns in Frankfurt
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say that, oh, we're going to, we have all this
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money, but we're not going to use all of it because
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we're going to be fiscally responsible, my first
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question would be... what's happening to the
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money if you're not using it. And that just seems
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like there's a pool of money there. Someone is
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going to be dipping into their pockets or whatever.
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But the other part is that they know that their
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constituents are facing economic problems. They
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know that the cost of health care is going up,
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the cost of food is going up, the cost of life
25:14
in general has risen. The things that they can
25:18
do to stimulate the economy, they're not going
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to do because of this, I don't know what they're
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doing, why their logic is that, oh, I know what
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their logic is. Andy Bashir wants it, so they're
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going to vote against it because they're Republicans.
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That's the whole thing. And he's running for
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president, so anything they can do to... cut
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his legs off from under him, they're going to
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do. But that won't matter because no one's going
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to be paying attention to the Kentucky political
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situation if Andy Barr's running for president.
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Andy Beshear? Andy Beshear, right? I get my Andys
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confused. One of them should change their name.
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But if you look at when you talk about running
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for president, when Tim Walz was named as vice
26:05
president, I didn't look at his record. I don't
26:08
know what he did in Minnesota. I have no idea
26:10
if he was a good or a bad governor. I'm just
26:12
going by the word that people are saying about
26:16
it. And I'm sure there are lots of stories on
26:17
what the Minnesota economy did. But giving Andy
26:21
Beshear credit, Kentucky is in better shape now
26:24
than it was when, who was the previous governor?
26:29
Bevin? Matt Bevin? Yes. You know. Kentucky is
26:32
better off now under Andy Beshear than it was
26:34
under Matt Bevin. He saved a lot of lives during
26:37
the pandemic. Right, yeah. We were surrounded
26:39
by Republican governors, states, and they lost
26:43
a lot more lives. Well, we had the idiot Matt
26:45
Bevin who sent his children off to measles parties
26:49
because, you know, I don't know why. He wouldn't
26:53
get his kids vaccinated, but he... intentionally
26:55
put them in situations where they would get the
26:58
measles. And I don't understand that at all.
27:00
His adopted son has been in the news, too. Yeah,
27:03
that's just, there's an ugly family situation
27:05
going on there. But, you know, Bevin's gone,
27:08
but Bevin is a Republican, and now there are
27:11
other Republicans who are trying to essentially
27:13
out -Bevin Bevin, and they're trying to out -Trump
27:16
Trump. Daniel Cameron, which shocks me. This
27:23
is a black guy who's like, you know, he's a black
27:26
guy running against DEI. A lot of Clarence Thomas.
27:30
That's the one I always think of. Well, yeah,
27:33
Clarence was the, that was George Bush I's biggest,
27:41
I won't say error, but it was his most egregious
27:45
bit of cynicism because He was filling Clarence
27:49
Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall, who was
27:52
a champion of civil rights, who was one of the
27:54
great figures in American history. It was Black
27:57
History Month last month for everyone who doesn't
28:00
know that. But, you know, Thurgood Marshall was
28:06
black history. And George Bush I, in his just
28:11
total move of cynicism. wanted to put a black
28:15
guy in the black guy's seat, and he found the
28:18
most incompetent black guy he could find. I can't
28:22
say anything good about Clarence Thomas. He's
28:24
corrupt. He's been bought by billionaires, and
28:30
he has done more damage to civil rights than
28:34
any... He's probably the worst Supreme Court
28:37
justice of all time, and he should be impeached,
28:39
and he should be in jail. But he's not going
28:43
to be impeached. He's not going to be put in
28:45
jail. And I believe that when he resigns, he's
28:48
going to resign because someone's going to pay
28:49
him a lot of money to resign before Trump is
28:51
out of office. So they can put another Clarence
28:55
Thomas clone in, like a 40 -year -old Clarence
28:58
Thomas clone, and it'll be in office for another
29:01
40 years. Daniel Cameron? That's a possibility.
29:04
That is a possibility. Also, I just wanted to
29:08
mention when we were talking about the budget,
29:11
So Jason Bailey also talked that he argued that
29:16
lawmakers are holding down spending to meet fiscal
29:19
triggers to be able to again lower the state's
29:22
income tax rate. So you've got a budget that's
29:26
austere and harms Kentuckians, and then they
29:29
want to lower the state's income tax rate even
29:31
further. It doesn't make any sense, Jesse. Well,
29:34
I'm going to be, as I'm always. very cynical
29:40
about this, but they think the people of Kentucky
29:43
are morons. They really do. They think that the
29:47
people in this state are too stupid to realize
29:49
that the things they are doing are hurting them
29:52
more than the benefits that they allegedly are
29:56
going to get. Because, you know, we've been talking
29:59
about this for months, where when you cut the
30:02
state... When you cut the state budget, you're
30:04
going to be cutting funds for education. You're
30:07
going to be cutting funds for health. You're
30:09
going to be cutting funds for emergencies. Plus,
30:12
you've got the federal government that's also
30:13
cutting everything. So if you're poor now, you're
30:20
worse off than you were. at the beginning of
30:25
the Trump term. I believe that. Things were better
30:28
under Biden, no matter what Trump says, no matter
30:30
how much in his State of the Union address he
30:33
pretends that things are great because things
30:36
are not great. But it's his shtick. That's what
30:41
he does. He just says that, you know, Trump's,
30:46
you know, if you want to know the essence of
30:49
a Trump speech, Just think of the line, who are
30:52
you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
30:55
Because everything he says is a lie. Well, anyway.
31:04
I'm going to jump in and also highlight another
31:07
Kentucky Republican. Our Secretary of State is,
31:13
you know, we've been sued. Kentucky has been
31:16
sued by the Department of Justice to release
31:20
sensitive voter registration data, such as driver's
31:24
license and Social Security numbers. And he,
31:27
you know, Secretary of State Michael Adams, Republican.
31:31
says he would not voluntarily commit a data breach
31:37
of Kentuckians private information without a
31:40
court order. So the DOJ is now suing 29 states
31:45
and D .C. for the information, which it has said
31:48
it would use to ensure clean voting rolls in
31:52
the states. What do you think about that? Well,
31:54
there's this whole thought that we're going to
31:58
prevent people from voting twice or having people
32:01
vote illegally or having immigrants vote when
32:04
they can't vote. If you look at the voter fraud
32:08
numbers, the numbers are minuscule. It's like
32:11
maybe 100 at most. In a big election, they've
32:17
had maybe 100 complaints of voter fraud, and
32:21
very few of those have panned out to be real
32:24
fraud. And when they do pan out to be real fraud,
32:27
it's a Republican doing it. So, you know, that's
32:30
just one of what they're doing is they're getting
32:34
your information. making sure that people can
32:39
vote legally. It's about taking people off the
32:42
voting rolls because we've talked about the federal
32:47
bill that will, what's the SAVE Act? Yes. That's
32:52
going to make it so that if your name isn't what
32:56
matches your birth certificate, you're not going
32:59
to be allowed to vote, which that's happening,
33:02
what was it? Where is that happening? Well, anyway,
33:08
that's going through the process. I think it's
33:11
in the House. It's either in the House or Senate
33:13
now. It hasn't been approved. But the essence
33:16
of that is that if you get married, if you're
33:19
a woman and you get married and you take your
33:21
husband's name, your husband's name is not the
33:23
name on your birth certificate. So you can go
33:26
to the poll thinking you can vote. And you'll
33:30
get there and they'll say, no, you can't vote.
33:31
Your names don't match. And this is... This is
33:34
just about voter suppression because they know
33:38
that in the next midterm election, the Republicans
33:42
are going to lose. That's kind of obvious. So
33:46
the way to prevent the loss is to get people
33:52
off the polls, you know, get the people who you
33:54
don't want voting off the polls. And this has
33:55
been pretty prevalent in American history where
34:00
if you look at election day voting, Going to
34:05
a minority neighborhood, it takes hours to get
34:08
through the line because the lines just go for
34:11
miles. Going to a white neighborhood, you just
34:13
walk in and walk out. You vote and you come out
34:16
and that's it. They know that's going to happen.
34:20
And any policy that increases the cost, time,
34:23
or complexity of registering tends to disproportionately
34:26
affect voters who already face structural barriers.
34:29
So, you know, I read that it's not just married
34:32
women who have changed their names. It's voters
34:35
of color. It's younger voters. It's naturalized
34:37
citizens. It's low -income voters. It's older
34:40
voters. It's voters with disabilities. It's unhoused
34:43
voters. It's Native American voters, rural voters,
34:46
and trans Americans who have changed. their names
34:48
and if you think this isn't going to happen there
34:52
was a story out of Kansas this week where they
34:57
passed a law that would not allow trans people
35:01
have driver's license that it was like their
35:04
names didn't match on the driver's license so
35:06
they had to get their their birth names on the
35:10
driver's license and you know they just took
35:14
that away from people in kansas just they just
35:17
did it so that's just you have to look at these
35:20
other states and see what the precursors are
35:22
of what's going to happen on the federal level
35:25
and that's what they want to happen and they're
35:28
You know, it's not about purging the voter rolls
35:31
or anything like that in terms of elections.
35:33
It's about getting your personal information.
35:36
So what they're trying to get in this data dump
35:40
that the Justice Department is trying to do against
35:43
Kentucky, and I think they've sued four other
35:46
states for this. It looks like Utah, Oklahoma,
35:50
West Virginia, and New Jersey. New Jersey is
35:53
the only one that has a Democratic governor.
35:56
I thought that was interesting. Yeah, but I think
35:59
they've already got other states on their watch.
36:02
Yeah, but they're going after Republican -led
36:05
states for sure because they want them under
36:07
their thumb. Well, it's not only that. They know
36:09
that they have sympathizers in the Republican
36:11
-led states, which makes, you know, got to give
36:16
credit to Michael Adams. He is protecting our...
36:21
Our voting data, which, you know, you can't do
36:24
that because this data is going to people like
36:27
Elon Musk or like Peter Thiel. They're going
36:32
to use that data to do bad things to you. They
36:34
already are. Yeah, they already are. And I just
36:37
wanted to bring up that the Save America Act
36:40
passed the U .S. House last month, 218 to 213.
36:45
So now, yes, it's in the Senate focusing on negotiations.
36:50
yeah so you know we we've got all these distractions
36:54
going on we got all these um just bad situations
36:58
on a national and international level and you
37:03
know honestly going back to the war um the first
37:09
thing i thought when i saw that we had uh bombed
37:13
iran was wow he really doesn't want the epstein
37:16
files in the news he just wants that off the
37:20
table altogether. And it's not going to go away.
37:26
If there's another lull in any news coverage
37:30
and you see Epstein become prominent again. He's
37:35
going to bomb something else. It's all a distraction.
37:39
Yeah, plus, you know, so he decapitates Iran.
37:44
He basically kills the leader, the supreme leader.
37:48
But there's absolutely no plan for what comes
37:51
next. And the war is going to last a long time.
37:54
And a lot of U .S. military are going to die.
37:57
And the thing too, and we've said this before,
38:00
they're coming from Fort Campbell. The 101st
38:03
Airborne Division is based in Fort Campbell,
38:05
Kentucky. So this isn't like this distraction
38:09
that people in Kentucky don't have to worry about
38:13
this because it's not going to affect them. That's
38:15
wrong because that's where the soldiers are coming
38:20
from. They're going to come in this state or
38:22
they're already in this state and they're going
38:23
to be sent overseas to... keep a corrupt pedophile
38:28
out of jail that's what it comes down to he's
38:31
using the military to keep out of jail or just
38:35
to keep a distraction going and they're doing
38:38
this thing about the elections where the voter
38:41
rolls are trying to get that so they can limit
38:42
the vote right so they can stay in power and
38:45
he keeps talking about a third term or more right
38:48
and his followers are talking about the third
38:50
term as well even though that violates the constitution
38:52
but you know he he Uses the Constitution to wipe
38:57
his ass after he goes to the bathroom. That's
38:59
what Donald Trump believes in. So we've got lots
39:04
of troubles, and it's not going to get any better
39:07
any sooner. I will mention, you know, we follow
39:11
Attica Scott, who has a really good Substack
39:14
presence now and former state legislator. brought
39:20
up some women, black women leaders from the South.
39:24
You know, we went from Black History Month last
39:26
month to Women's History Month this month. And
39:30
so she highlights four black women from the South.
39:33
I want to bring them up because we don't get
39:37
this in our history books at all. So the first
39:41
was Anna Mack Clark. She was a pioneer in military
39:45
leadership and an ending segregation on military
39:48
bases. And so she was the first African -American
39:55
woman to command an all -white unit. And then
40:00
she also... led to the release of a statement
40:06
in February 1944, which ended segregation and
40:10
discriminatory practices on military bases. Alice
40:14
Allison Dunnigan was born in Logan County in
40:18
1906. She broke through segregation era barriers,
40:22
becoming the first African -American woman granted
40:25
White House press credentials and the first black
40:28
woman member of Congress's press gallery. And
40:33
then you've got Dr. Grace Marilyn James. She
40:35
was a practicing pediatrician in Louisville when
40:38
hospitals in Louisville were racially segregated
40:41
by law. In 1953, Dr. James was one of the first
40:46
two African -American women on the faculty at
40:49
a Southern medical school. And then lastly, Alberta
40:53
Odell Jones was a trailblazing attorney who was
40:57
born in Kentucky. She graduated at the top of
41:00
her class from the newly integrated UofL and
41:03
then Howard University School of Law. In 1959,
41:08
she became one of the first black women admitted
41:10
to the Kentucky Bar. And in 1965, she became
41:14
Louisville's first woman prosecutor. She also
41:17
helped to educate and register black voters.
41:20
And she negotiated a contract for Boxer Cassius
41:24
Clay, her neighbor, who had become Muhammad Ali.
41:27
Now, sadly, on August 5th, 1965, her body, her
41:32
34 -year -old body, was found floating in the
41:35
Ohio River near Fontaine Ferry Park. So, you
41:41
know, racism. Sexism continued to this day, but
41:46
it really is important to lift up black women
41:50
in particular that do not make our history books.
41:54
I'm kind of surprised that that didn't list Georgia
41:57
Powers. I don't know if you remember that name
41:59
because she was like the first black person to...
42:03
to be in the Kentucky State Senate. And she was
42:06
a big champion of civil rights. I think I remember
42:08
that she actually knew Dr. Martin Luther King,
42:11
Jr. She was, like I said, she's heavily in civil
42:15
rights. She spent 21 years in office. She put
42:19
all kinds of civil rights legislation in and
42:22
got it passed. So there are, you know, and this
42:27
is like... That is our black history lesson delayed
42:30
two days. But these are some of the famous people
42:34
who have, you know, who are shaping this state
42:37
and doing things to make lives better. But they
42:40
don't get noticed. They're just like, the names
42:44
don't mean anything to anyone. other than people
42:47
who know about them and who understand, who have
42:51
benefited from their work or who have followed
42:54
them in their footsteps. And I want to mention
42:57
someone who... for whom I have a great deal of
43:00
respect. Kentucky public interest lawyer John
43:04
Rosenberg has been awarded the American Bar Association's
43:07
highest honor, the ABA Medal, for exceptionally
43:11
distinguished service to the cause of American
43:14
jurisprudence. And John was a Holocaust survivor,
43:17
and he founded the nonprofit Appalachian Research
43:22
and Defense Fund, or called Apple Red, in 1970
43:26
to provide free legal assistance. assistance
43:28
to low -income Kentuckians in civil matters such
43:30
as family law, domestic violence, workplace rights,
43:34
consumer protection, and housing. And he moved
43:38
with his wife to Prestonsburg, Kentucky. Neither
43:41
of them were from Kentucky. So the quote goes
43:45
from escaping the Nazis and the Holocaust to
43:47
serving in the Department of Justice Civil Rights
43:50
Division and prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan to
43:54
founding Apple Red Legal Aid in Kentucky. John
43:57
Rosenberg has dedicated his life to fairness
44:00
and equity. His commitment to access to justice
44:04
and the rule of law has helped lay the foundation
44:06
to make justice a reality for all, said ABA President
44:10
Michelle Behnke. justice were a reality for all
44:14
but he is a beautiful uh human being and he has
44:20
modeled um you know justice and equity and everything
44:24
that he's done um and it's been a real honor
44:28
to to get to know john rosenberg right and he's
44:30
in his 90s yes in his 90s and um you know still
44:35
around so let's have a very long life very interesting
44:40
life and has you know he's seen the horrors of
44:45
what people can do and he did all he could to
44:47
make sure that doesn't happen here which is something
44:51
we have to keep reminding ourselves of because
44:53
we are in dangerous times these days um yeah
44:57
and Can I mention some of the things that I've
45:01
been doing with the Community Defense Network?
45:03
So I've been really impressed with how organized
45:06
the Louisville Surge is showing up for racial
45:10
justice. And I've talked about them before, but
45:12
I just want to continue to sort of tell you what
45:17
I've been doing because we are growing our numbers
45:20
in the Community Defense Network locally, more
45:23
immigrant -serving communities and schools and
45:27
faith -based institutions. are reaching out to
45:30
us so that the white people can show up and be
45:34
on the lookout for ICE and delay ICE and call
45:38
the hotline so that the people that are being
45:41
served with anything from immigration law to
45:46
prenatal health status to preschool to after
45:50
school activities. you know, so that the services
45:53
continue to be provided and the people are safe.
45:56
Last week, I walked nine boys from school down
46:01
the street to an aftercare facility. Honestly,
46:06
we're going to modify that because the boys basically
46:10
said it was embarrassing to them, and I don't
46:12
blame them. I mean, these two middle -aged white
46:14
women with these vests and yellow caps, you know,
46:18
walking them down the street as if they're children.
46:22
They are children, but, you know, we're going
46:25
to modify that. Safety is really important and
46:28
defending our neighbors is critical. And as we
46:32
build trust in the community, we're getting more
46:34
and more requests for accompaniments. So if you
46:39
want to take action, LSURGE is really organized.
46:43
You can do a number of things from showing up
46:46
at events to... To provide accompaniment you
46:50
can take flyers with the hotline number which
46:53
again is 502 -830 -9398. It's bilingual in Spanish
47:00
and English. I walked about an hour and a half.
47:03
down in the south end of Louisville going door
47:06
-to -door at apartment complexes, and everyone
47:09
was really appreciative that we were coming and
47:12
giving them this information. Very grateful.
47:15
It feels really good to do. So there's a lot
47:19
to do today, actually. At 5, I believe, is a
47:24
rally against the Iran war downtown, and I'm
47:28
sure we're going to see a lot more of those.
47:31
So you can show up for a rally. rallies you can
47:34
do this community defense work you can make your
47:36
calls on five calls app continue to be calling
47:41
your state legislators about this terrible draconian
47:45
budget and terrible legislation against our environment
47:49
and workers protection and all the things so
47:53
you've been talking about all the things that
47:55
are going on in the neighborhood and that's you
47:58
know those are really important things to do
48:01
But there's also something else going on in the
48:04
neighborhood, and this is like in the weird world
48:07
now. There's a documentary on HBO about, it's
48:12
called Murder in Glitter Ball City, and it is
48:16
about our neighborhood. And it's really, there
48:21
are varying opinions on how... how it represents
48:26
us. I personally think that it represents us
48:29
as a bunch of crazy people. It disparages our
48:32
neighborhood and our city. And meanwhile, by
48:36
the way, I'm going to interrupt for a second.
48:38
Old Louisville was just named the city's friendliest
48:42
neighborhood. Of course it is. It's so friendly.
48:45
But this documentary... This isn't about friendliness.
48:48
The premise of the documentary is that there
48:51
was a murder in... Around the block from us.
48:55
It's literally around the block from where I
48:57
live. And this happened years ago, years ago.
49:01
It's like, I think the year we moved to Louisville
49:03
from Europe. And there were two gay guys living
49:07
on 4th Street. They killed a guy. There's only
49:14
one way to describe it. They got really high,
49:16
had this weird sex thing, got really high, stabbed
49:19
this guy to death. broke his bones to fit him
49:24
into a container and buried him in their basement.
49:28
And it's like, okay, that's crazy. And so they
49:32
turned on each other because they had a lover's
49:36
quarrel. And each of them said, well, the other
49:42
one killed this guy, but they were both involved
49:44
in it because they worked together to get rid
49:47
of the body. I'm not going to say what the outcome
49:49
of the case is, but it's a... It's pretty absurd.
49:52
But the thing that got me most about it was that
49:55
pretty much everybody, almost everybody they
49:59
interviewed just came across as being insane.
50:01
Or, well, they would say eccentric. Because it
50:06
was just a very weird documentary. It's two parts.
50:10
Again, it's on HBO. It's really like, well, it's
50:16
also the second movie that's taken place in this
50:18
neighborhood, but this is a documentary. This
50:20
is real. The other movie that took place in the
50:22
neighborhood was the movie that they shot at
50:24
my house when Ethan Hawke was here. So, you know,
50:28
Louisville is definitely like a cinematic place,
50:31
but if you watch Murdering Glitterball City,
50:34
you'll think, okay, I don't want to go there
50:35
because those people are nuts. Yes, the people
50:39
are weird, but I don't think that represents
50:42
us very well. It's interesting, too, because
50:46
David Domeney, the guy that... wrote about this.
50:49
He also has a pretty thriving tour business here
50:53
in old Louisville. So I think tourism, if anything,
50:58
has increased here. Yeah, and his focus in the
51:01
tourism is the ghost tour of Louisville. That's
51:04
one of the things he does. But he writes books
51:07
about ghosts in Louisville and about the murder
51:10
in Louisville. The Witch's Tree. Yeah, the Witch's
51:15
Tree. It's on the corner of 6th and Park. And,
51:18
you know, there is this belief that old Louisville
51:22
is the most haunted part of the country. And,
51:26
you know, we've heard stories about a ghost in
51:28
our house and supposedly up on the third floor.
51:32
Which is where we're recording this podcast.
51:34
Yes, so the ghost is probably hovering over us
51:37
right now. But this is the kind of stuff that...
51:40
It's good to see that the city is getting noted
51:43
and that people are finding interest in it. But
51:48
I really think this documentary was... It does
51:51
make us look weird. It's very sensationalist.
51:55
But it's not... Well, the killers, of course,
52:00
they're crazy and they're killers, but the people
52:05
that they interviewed just came across as eccentric,
52:09
you know, the old term they used to use. So it's
52:13
worth seeing if you want to know. And the other
52:17
thing, okay, here's what really bothers me about
52:19
this, since I'm on a roll. The murder took place
52:23
on 4th Street, but most of the shots are of Belgravia
52:27
Court. which is where I live, and of St. James
52:31
Court, which is around the corner from me. And
52:33
it's like, okay, we're a block from where it
52:35
is, but the scenes are all showing our houses
52:39
here when it's a different house on a different
52:41
block. And I'm sure the reason they did it was
52:44
because our... Yours is more grandiose. Yeah,
52:47
it's a more interesting place to look. It really
52:51
is a nice -looking neighborhood. Fourth Street
52:55
was nice, too, to our neighbors. Fourth Street
52:57
is nice, but, you know, it's not, yeah, it's
53:01
a completely different thing. And if you're ever
53:04
watching that documentary, just also be aware
53:07
of that these are the places where when they
53:10
do the St. James Art Fair in October, all of
53:13
these areas are. consumed with artists just like
53:18
from all over the country. It's the biggest art
53:20
fair in the country. It's one of the biggest
53:22
art fairs in the world. No, I think it was shown
53:25
as the biggest. I don't think so. Okay, well,
53:27
it's definitely one of the biggest, but it is
53:29
a very high -profile art show. place that they
53:36
showed in this documentary, that's where the
53:39
art fair takes place. So just something to consider
53:43
watching if you ever get a chance. Murder in
53:46
Glitterball City. I'll post the trailer for it
53:50
on the entry we have on the podcast. And you
53:56
wanted to talk about Mish Mish. You had such
53:59
a nice meal with your wife and your son and your
54:01
daughter -in -law. Yeah, Mish Mish is a Mediterranean
54:04
restaurant in Nulu. It's up on Market Street,
54:09
north of the city. Well, the northern part of
54:12
the city. And so it's the kind of place where
54:17
if you're... I think it's unusual for Louisville
54:21
because it's the kind of place where you have
54:23
to make reservations like months in advance in
54:26
order to get a seating. And we were there on
54:29
a Saturday night, and the place was packed. There
54:33
were people constantly coming in asking if there
54:35
were places that they could eat, but the place
54:39
was packed, and it's been booked for months.
54:41
And I think we made our booking in December,
54:45
and we got the seat in February. Anyway, but
54:50
it was worth the wait because the food was delicious.
54:53
I'm now on a vegan diet. So I had to, at the
54:57
beginning of the meal, just say, look, I'm vegan.
54:59
Are there things here that I can do? And we did
55:03
one of these tasting menus kind of things where
55:06
it's almost like having tapas. And everything
55:10
was excellent. I really recommend it. So if you're
55:13
in Louisville and... coming in a couple of months
55:18
to make a reservation for Mish Mish because that's
55:20
really, it's like, I think it was a James Beard
55:24
Award finalist this year and it's really a small
55:29
space or it struck me as being a small space
55:31
and I was wondering if they were thinking of
55:33
expanding because if they're... if their like
55:37
reservation system is like extended until months
55:41
in advance then that means that the demand is
55:44
there they can break bring in more people if
55:47
they have a bigger space but maybe they're happy
55:48
with the way that is but it was service was great
55:52
Food was great. It was just a very nice evening.
55:56
So I don't get out very much because I'm an old
55:58
person. But it was worth it. He walks about eight
56:02
miles a day, so he does get out. Yeah, I try
56:05
walking five miles a day, but I can't today because
56:07
it's raining. I couldn't this week because I
56:11
did it twice this week, but I just couldn't.
56:15
Today, it's raining. Other days, it's been like
56:18
if it's below 50 degrees, I'm not going outside.
56:21
I just am very sensitive to cold. So when the
56:25
spring comes around, I'll be back out trying
56:28
to do my five -mile walks. I'm actually learning
56:30
a lot about the city in general because I'm walking
56:33
all over the place. I'll walk just down to the
56:36
university or I'll walk up to downtown. this
56:40
is a pet peeve of mine so i'm now getting into
56:43
like the weeds here but i don't understand why
56:46
they call downtown here downtown when it's the
56:49
northernmost part of the city because that to
56:52
me means uptown but you know that's just mine
56:56
My little quirk. You Yankee, you. Yeah, well,
56:59
downtown. If I'm thinking downtown, I'm thinking
57:01
Manhattan. That's like, yeah, downtown. There's
57:04
an uptown, there's a downtown. We know what that
57:07
is. Louisville downtown is, I guess, the city
57:09
center when it's actually uptown because that's
57:12
where the city center is. So that's the disadvantage
57:17
of having been a journalist for all these years.
57:20
I'm very precise on language. good things happening
57:27
uh go to mishmash watch the dumb documentary
57:30
it'll like be a good uh just way to um pass the
57:36
day and and get distracted because i think we
57:39
need more distractions now from given the How
57:42
bad things are. There has to be something where
57:44
we can just say, okay, I'm not dealing with politics
57:47
anymore. Go out in nature. You're out at Bernheim.
57:51
All the time. And things are popping up. My crocuses
57:55
are blooming right now. Oh, that makes me so
58:01
happy. And the snow drops. So get outside and
58:04
watch spring start to emerge. It's really fascinating.
58:08
I did go up to the top of Iroquois Park last
58:11
night. week and i saw the woodcocks and they're
58:13
the american woodcock is a really interesting
58:16
bird there's like all kinds of videos on their
58:19
dances like tomorrow you know michael jackson
58:23
and other other popular songs but they're really
58:25
fun to watch and listen to just after sunset
58:29
go go check them out so lots to do lots of arts
58:34
events um spring is coming Oh, we also missed
58:39
the big astronomical event. I was there. You
58:43
saw it? Yes. Well, we went to Black Acre Nature
58:46
Reserve, and I helped out with Dark Skies Kentucky.
58:49
Had a really good booth talking to people about
58:53
the importance of turning your lights off so
58:56
that we don't have as much light pollution and
58:59
migratory animals aren't messed up by all the
59:02
light. So we went out and we could see Jupiter.
59:06
We were supposed to see like a bunch of planets
59:08
all on the ecliptic line. the the cloud cover
59:13
was not good so we did see jupiter though um
59:16
and there were really cool telescopes and a ton
59:20
of people showed up with their families so it
59:23
was a little disappointing that that they didn't
59:25
see more though yeah and i was really looking
59:27
forward to it but again this happened this past
59:30
weekend when we were out at the restaurant and
59:33
i they had said that There was this configuration
59:37
in the sky where it looked like a smiley face
59:41
because the moon was a crescent, and above it
59:43
were the planets Venus and Jupiter, and they
59:47
formed a smiley face. But we were cloud -covered,
59:51
and it was drizzling, so we didn't get to see
59:53
that. The moon was not a crescent. Actually,
59:56
it was almost full that night. But anyway, we
1:00:02
did have cloud cover, and then it started to
1:00:04
rain on us. People, you know, for a while were
1:00:07
really excited to be outdoors. Yeah. And one
1:00:11
of these days I'll actually get on a telescope
1:00:13
and see Jupiter. Yeah. Because that's really
1:00:16
cool. So Dark Skies Kentucky, check them out.
1:00:20
They're going to start a new newsletter. And
1:00:22
also the Astronomical Society of Kentucky or
1:00:28
Louisville, they do a lot of stuff. They bring
1:00:30
their telescopes and they want everyone to come
1:00:34
and look through. them i've seen saturn which
1:00:36
is really cool i've seen jupiter which is super
1:00:38
cool so uh yeah stay tuned for more of those
1:00:42
events also yeah so um i think we're going to
1:00:45
wrap this up now because we've covered a lot
1:00:48
of uh space here and just encourage people to
1:00:51
you know pay attention to what's going on be
1:00:55
sure you can vote and you know uh look for Ways
1:00:59
to be of service as well as relief too. Yeah,
1:01:03
just look for ways to help yourself and help
1:01:06
others. We will add links to the various things
1:01:10
we've talked about in our posting on this. And
1:01:14
we'll be back in a couple of weeks once you have
1:01:17
anything more to say. No, that's good. Y 'all
1:01:20
take care. Yeah, take care. So long. Our closing
1:01:26
music is by John Chamberlain.