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Kicking Off Election Year · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show, Tuesday morning,
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second day of January, in the Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four.
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I am Wes. Thanks for joining me. Happy New Year. Here
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we are zipping right along two days deep into the new year. That's where
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we are. I hope you had a nice holiday period. It begins,
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I guess with Thanksgiving, goes all the way through I don't know, Yesterday,
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something like that. That's the holiday period. They say they put a
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bunch of days in there. They don't even know that count. In America,
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Boxing Day is listed as one of the When they say happy holidays,
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they mean a happy Boxing Day and Kwanza and so it runs, and then
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it gets to New Year's and that's where we are. I don't know that
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Boxing Day is really a holiday in America. But that's a return crap day,
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I think. And it's also I don't know that things are on sale.
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It's a good day to buy green extension cords day discount candy that has
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you know, Santa claus on it and stuff. If they don't they stop
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doing that. Some companies did smartly. I think during COVID they said,
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we're going to stop putting any of this holiday stuff on it, or it'll
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be very limited edition. We're not going to put a whole lot of a
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whole lot of stuff that we're going to have to mark down because you just
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if it doesn't have if it's not as like kit Cat Santa Claus edition,
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then they don't have to move it over to the discount section. It's just
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they just move it over to the the candy aisle, you know, put
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it out next to the stockings or whatever, the specialty candy and just have
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it say, you know, kit Cat or Reeses, not recy Reeses.
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There's no reces That's not a thing. Reese's. It's one of my pet
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peas. I'm sorry, it's just you know, one of those things anyway.
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But that's what Boxing Day is. It's not really a normally in the
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Carroll household, we have a tradition that we we partake in on Boxing Day
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and it has I don't even know how many years have been doing it,
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like eight years or something. We call it the Boxing Day five k.
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It's nothing official, it's just something that we do as a family. It
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started with just Jill and I doing it and and our dog at the time,
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and then and then it became I say, at the time previous dog,
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and then over the years, you know, the boys would join in,
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the new dog joins in, and we just do a five kor for
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ourselves, and we've invited friends to come along and they've participated before. One
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of our very dear friends want who happens to be Kenyon? And that's important
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to the story because there was a year where I beat Wandja in our boxing
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day five K. I crossed the finish line before she did. And any
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opportunity to say that I beat a Kenyon in a foot race is important to
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me. That's a very strong point of personal braggery, you know, because
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I mean, how many how many people that look like I do? You
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know, middle aged, you know, overweight. I'm not as overweight as
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they used to be, but I'm still overweight. I've had five hip surgeries,
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well at the time, I've only had four. It can say they've
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beat a Kenyon in a foot race, not many, but I have.
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I've got that that feathered my cap. I'm quite proud of that. Now
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she may have had you know our dog when he was a puppy, that
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she was walking him, and that he slowed her down a bit. She
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may have not even realized that we were at the sprint portion of the race.
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All those things may have come into play, but the bottom line is
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I beat a canyon in a foot race, and I'm going to brag about
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that for the rest of my life, darn't it. And I retired from
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actually competing in those things moving forwards because that's about as good as it's going
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to get. I hope you had a good holiday season, whichever one's you
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celebrate, even if it's Boxing Day and it's not the Boxing Day five K,
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I hope you had a fantastic Christmas if that's the one that you celebrate.
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I hope that you have kicked off the new year with high hopes and
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plans to maybe, you know, somewhere around November, take the country back.
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Maybe that's what we're going to do, get things back on track,
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maybe get inflation in check, get the border in check, all of those
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things. We'll get to that in just a minute. But the reason this
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year the Boxing Day five K did not take place is I found out on
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the morning of the twenty sixth that I had COVID. I wasn't feeling great.
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Around the twenty third, I was, you know, I had what
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I thought was just some congestion and a cold, and I didn't know exactly
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what was going on. Jill had been sick and just a cough and a
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bit of a sore throat. Again, we just thought that was just something
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that was going around and we'd picked it up, and you know, twenty
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third I just thought, oh, I'm getting the cold and that's what's going
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on. And I guess Luke maybe had a sniffle and a sore throat for
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about three hours. That's what kids do, I think when they get COVID,
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they just kind of brush it off and move on, you know,
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sniffle, wipe their nose, and move right past it. Jake, I
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think probably got it about the same time I did. I don't know timing
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wise, but he was dealing with some of the same symptoms as me.
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But in the middle of the night Christmas night, after a full day of
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revelry and Christmas cheer, I went to bed again still not feeling great,
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and woke up in the middle of the night. I thought I need to
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I need to go to the facilities. I've mentioned the middle aged man thing
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already. And when I got out of bed, I just got a chill
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over me. And it was very reminiscent of when I had the vaccine,
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because I did. We did the first two vaccines back in the day,
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trying to be good citizens. And when we did that, when I got
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the very first dose, I got a bad chill. I had a lot
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of a lot of the symptoms and things and the side effects from the vaccine,
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and one of them was that chill you know, almost like having a
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fever, but didn't have a fever. You know that that fevered chill that
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you get that flew like fevered chill. So when I had that, I
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thought, oh, And next morning I took a COVID test. It was
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the arcist red line I've ever seen on a COVID test. So it was
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screaming at me. So I let everyone know that i'd been around the previous
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two days. Sorry, you know, my bad. I didn't know.
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I had no clue. It's hard to know. Now. We had all
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these rules before, but now all the rules went away. They may come
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back in twenty twenty four. I don't know, I don't know what's going
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on with the rules, but we'll see how all this plays out in this
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brand spanking new year, which happens to be an election year, so we're,
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you know, eleven months away from elections, and on that subject,
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let's let's get into this because a few things have happened during the break,
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during the time off, and I appreciate you joining me back here on this
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side of the break and allowing me some time off. So here's what we
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got going on is we knew things were getting interesting with Colorado and the bat
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situation before the break. Things have also now happened with Maine. We've got
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the Supreme Court looking at all this, and now as of you know,
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the weekend, there's there's cries, there's screams for the from the left for
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just one Supreme Court justice to recuse himself from any any ruling that involves Trump
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on the ballots. They say that Clarence Thomas is a justice, Clarence Thomas
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is a Trump supporter, and therefore he cannot fairly be involved in any sort
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of ruling that takes place concerning any any ruling about the ballots and Trump and
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things, and whether or not he should be fit to be on the ballots.
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Assuming things move forward the way they should, this should be a no
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for the Supreme Court to put all of this silliness down very quickly. But
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what I want to talk about today is, and you've heard me say for
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quite a while, this is something that they were working on. This is
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something that they were wanting to do. They want to be involved in this
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process of taking away your ability to select whoever you want to be president of
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the United States. They don't want you to have that. They don't want
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you to have the right to decide who the candidate on the Republican side should
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be. And they want to make sure that he's not on you know,
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he doesn't get the nomination a period, but if he does, they want
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to make sure that he's off the ballots on a national level for a national
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election, which is really the most ridiculous thing ever. I mean, we're
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again, we're talking about someone who, at the time of taking him off
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ballots has been convicted of anything, impeached twice, acquitted twice, and you
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know, nothing, just a lot of let's just throw it and see what
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sticks. So what concerns me more and more every day and the Clarence Thomas
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talk is, first of all, how racist you know, to go after
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Clarence Thomas. They want to go after him. He's a conservative African American
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justice on the Supreme Court, and they have just done everything they can to
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tear him down. Even before he was confirmed, they hated him. They
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still hate him. They don't want anything to do with him. He drives
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him crazy. They just can't stand him, right, they can't stand him.
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I hate his guts. They just hate him. And it can only
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be because of racism. Right, That's what we would hear if this was
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going the other way. But anyway, I digress. I'm not really going
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to play that card. But they would. They would have played that card
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already certainly. I think they're racist against him only because he's a conservative.
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And they say that they can't, you know, acknowledge a black man or
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woman who's a conservative. They can't do it. But here this is what
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this is the long game that I didn't realize they were as organized as they
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are. I think back to when when when January sixth happened and the capital
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incident, right, I think that's the best word for it, because any
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of the other verbiage that's been used has I feel like, been setting the
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table for making it all seem worse for a number of reasons. We know
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that when when certain words insurrection started getting thrown around, you thought this is
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going to be important, because this wasn't something that they were just saying,
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Hey, we have a riot taking place at the Capitol, we have an
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attempted overthrow of the government. We have a treasonous act taking place. That's
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what was said. Because they knew if they could label Trump with treason then
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plant the seeds for it, then it would be justified later to try to
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get him off ballots. So they were working way ahead. I think at
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first they assumed that the American people that conservatives would say we don't want Trump
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anymore becall or at least maybe they didn't think conservatives, but maybe they thought
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the right of sinners and any of the sort of undecided people that might look
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at the economy and go, this is terrible, we need Trump back.
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They assumed that those people would all say, na, we don't want him
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back because he tried to commit treason, he tried to commit an insert,
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he tried to orchestrate an insurrection. There's no evidence to support it, but
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we were told that, and that word was thrown around a lot. So
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we have to make sure that we fully swallow that pill and prepare ourselves for
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the long game, that is, there's an insurrection that we have to have
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this former president now held accountable for the other thing that they did on top
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of that, And there were a few things that took place along the way,
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but the other thing that they did. Very soon after all this,
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they started chipping away at Clarence Thomas. Then remember they said, oh,
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his wife tweeted some things about the Capitol and talked about whether or not the
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election was valid, whether or not there were ballots that weren't properly cast.
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His wife was involved in that. Therefore, he himself shouldn't be involved in
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any rulings that have anything to do with the insurrection. They were working on
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this a long time ago, and now here they are trying to make that
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pan Outlet make that play out, I hope, and I feel like there's
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a lot of experts saying that just going by the law, this should be
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an easy thing for the Supreme Court to see and know that there's no case
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to take Trump off of ballots and it should be a case a real strong
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ability for the Supreme Court to say, look, we're here to follow the
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laws of the land, we're here to make this ruling. And it's a
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pretty easy ruling to make. Is that what they're going to do. I
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don't know. I remember telling someone that I thought, man, Joe Manchin
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is going to be it. He's going to be the only thing that's going
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to hold us together when it comes to our Senate and we're going to be
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going through some tough times. I went s Biden took office, and we
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needed Joe Manchin to be the one vote could help make things just a little
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bit different. And I remember somebody telling me, you're nuts. There's no
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way that's going to happen. I know it's a long shot, but it's
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kind of all we got. And then he did. For a while,
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he and Kirsten Cinema, they were the two. They were the only two
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with their finger in the dam. They were making sure that, you know,
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we had some semblance of accountability in our government and making sure that we
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weren't just gonna let the left run wild and just do whatever they wanted to
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do. Eventually, of course, they caved and the left got what they
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wanted. They got the Inflation Reduction Act, which was basically what they'd been
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pushing for the whole time. So maybe, just maybe the Supreme Court,
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the Institution that is, the Supreme Court, can do the right thing and
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get involved in this and say, look, this is silly. You can't
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keep a guy off the ballot because you don't like him. He can't keep
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a guy off the ballot because you don't want him to be president. He
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can't keep a guy off the ballot because you don't want the American people to
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have the ability to vote for him. I mean, think about the left
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screaming our democracy is at risk. Our democracy is in danger. Right They've
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been screaming that if Trump is the president again, our democracy will fall.
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Hillary Clinton was saying it when she was running Our democracy is in danger.
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And here we are with they're trying to keep a former president who is running
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away with the nomination for the Republicans, the favorite to win right now based
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on polling, Okay, just based on polling, would he would beat Biden
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hands down, And they're just trying to keep him from being eligible to run.
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They're using a just's this Department to try to keep him from you know,
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prosecute him and try to and they're trying to keep him all that,
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and then they're trying to keep a Supreme Court justice from getting involved in it.
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But oh, he's a conservative. Most of them are these days.
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If you try to keep all the conservatives off, I guess the ones that
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Trump nominated, then you got a real shot. Maybe I don't know,
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I don't know where all this plays out, but you know, the concern
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is that if Clarence Thomas is involved, they're going to say that he's biased
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because and there's concern about all the justices, whether or not any of the
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conservative justices are going to, you know, rule in favor of Trump,
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which should be the right. They're ruling in the name of justice, not
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in the name of Trump. But if they do that, then they would
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be in a position where people are going to say, oh, this is
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biased. They're voting on party lines, and that's the concern is that both
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sides vote on party lines and then it's a split. But this should be
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an easy let's just do the right thing, let's vote the right way and
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do the right thing thing and hopefully, hopefully, maybe they'll they'll do that.
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But for the left to scream democracy is it could crumble, Our democracy
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could fall, and then actually be involved in trying to keep a candidate who
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was the former president of the United States off of ballot in multiple states,
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and their long game is to keep him off ballots in the general election,
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or they can keep him off enough ballots that he would, you know,
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not end up being the candidate, and then they get to pick Ron de
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Santis and then they can put their actual person that they'd like to wait and
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nominate, wait until the last possible second in Gavin Newsom, and I've been
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talking about that for a while. Are we a step closer to that?
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I don't know. I hope not. But we'll see how this all plays
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Not a lot going on at the box office over the holiday weekend,
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but Wonka finished the year in the top spot twenty four million over the weekend,
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raising its domestic take to one hundred and forty point two million dollars.
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We'll come back to walk in a second. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom dropped
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a second place nineteen point five million, seventy seven point eight million over ten
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days. Migration finished third animated movie, The Color Purple Musical, thirteen million.
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It's at forty five point three million since Christmas Day when it opened,
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and then anyone but you drop down to fifth place with nine million over the
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holiday weekend. Color Purple is getting Oscar talk and buzz. Obviously we've already
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had Color Purple do well. It doesn't mean you can't come back and try
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to win another Oscar with a different version of it, further proving that they're
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just out of ideas. Now. I understand it's a different production. This
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is a whole different thing. But you know, they did it with West
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Side Story again, didn't they. They try to come back. We're going
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to make it again. You know, we're going to just come back.
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And they've done it with a few movies over the years. War movies tend
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to make the rounds back again, don't they. All Right, on the
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subject of Wonka, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this,
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but just following in the conversation that was being had for a while about
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the snow White movie that they're getting ready to do live action Snow White movie
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that they want to make Disney's working on and they've they've I guess they were
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we're going to have, you know, the Seven Dwarfs, and then they
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said, we're gonna have the seven Magical people that are you know, various
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backgrounds and ethnicities, and they're going to be not Dwarfs. I don't know
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what they've decided on. I know that Peter Dinklage was upset about it,
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who himself has made a career out of being a dwarf actor. That's that's
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who he is, and he's really good. He's fantastic in the roles that
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he's been in over the years, even when he's playing a giant dwarf in
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the Avengers movies. But that's you know, that's someone who has been successful
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as a dwarf actor. And he was critical of the fact that Disney was
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talking about putting dwarfs in the movie, and he's like, we haven't made
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any progress with all of this. So of course, a lot of the
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dwarf factors that have been upset openly come out and said, wait a minute,
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this is our one shot at being in the movie, and we can't
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be in the movie because we got somebody like Peter Dinklage, who's had no
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problems playing Dwarf Dwarf characters over the years as a Dwarf factor, and now
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we're getting hosed on all this and then we get to Walka where they cast
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Hugh Grant to play the Umpul lumpas. I like you Grant. I know
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a lot of people who can't stand Hugh Grant right, at least men,
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I think women, at least most women. I like h Grant to some
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degree. I like you Grant. I don't have any issues against him.
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I find him every bit is the charming brit that I think he thinks he
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is. And that's fine, that's and good for him that he was cast
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in Walker. I just think it's an interesting choice that, again they went
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with a non Dwarf actor to play the Upa lupas when there was an opportunity
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to cast dwarf actors. It's just weird and it wouldn't it would be different
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if and I keep seeing the very shortened commercial for it on my phone on
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any apps, I just keep seeing him dancing around singing the Oopa Luopa song,
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and it's just a reminder over and over again, there's just different rules
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there's different rules for folks on the right and the left, but anyway,
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