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"Putting the 'Mean' in 'Meaning'!" (Thursday September 18, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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the second most famous Thomas in Charlottesville.
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Speaker 2: George said, steal mere Stem.
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Speaker 3: You have a day, please.
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Speaker 2: For work when the sun comes up, drops a kid
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to school on the way.
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Speaker 4: Joe has everything, agenda all the treasure. Seven needs no
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one that Joe's an smiled He only ask.
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Speaker 3: Joe, thank you for letting me be of service to
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you this morning.
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Speaker 5: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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Watching and waiting to hear more about this police shooting
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in York, Pennsylvania. Gunman was killed by police, according to
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stage police cap and it was a domestic related investigation
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that started yesterday in York County, Pennsylvania. Right there as
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you come up Interstate eighty one out of Virginia, north
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of Baltimore, the commentariat swirling around it waving red flag laws. Again,
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I believe Pennsylvania has red flag laws. So again, you
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ask any law enforcement officers, they'll tell you that the
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most daunting call to get is a domestic because you
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don't know what it is, and it could be anything
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up to a situation where somebody's got a gun and
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they're trying to But these are all the narratives to
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use to take away rights to prevent bad things from happening.
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And it's a really difficult minefield to walk through if
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you want to if you want to have a free
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society or a safe society. Ben Franklin said it. And
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we're we're going through a period where again, like we
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were saying in the last segment, if you're just joining
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us in progress, who've download the podcast bits later on
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today at Joe Thomas in the Morning dot com. But
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the key is get a get a small enough number
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of people voting, and then you can certainly thoroughly scare
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a small number into voting away their constitutional rights in
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order to be protected, which they're not, but they think
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they are. They're told that if the scary gun is gone,
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the scary people holding it won't will go with him,
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and it's a fool Zerin probably the classic full erend our,
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first things this morning, as we chat with you about
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the news of the day, it really would be easier
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if we told you what the news of.
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Speaker 3: The day was.
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Speaker 5: Federal Reserve has cut the key interest rate by a
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quarter point yesterday and it's now projecting that it will
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do that twice more this year. The move is the
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fed's first cut since December, and lowered its short term
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rate from four point down to four point one percent
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from four point three percent. A Stanford Medicine study suggested
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that Americans could avoid millions of cases of obesity and
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hundreds of hours of hundreds and thousands of strokes each
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year by ending the practice of changing clocks for daylight
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savings time. On a more seminal note, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri
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Peskov said yesterday that Russia is opening to resolving the
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conflict in Ukraine their terms through diplomatic means. Peskov was
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commenting when asked about additional sanctions against Russia and any
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countries that bought oil from Russia. ABC has suspended the
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airing of Jimmy Kimmel's Late night show indefinitely after he
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made a quip in his monologue on Tuesday. We hit
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new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately
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trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as
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anything other than one of them. Brendan Carr, chair of
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the Federal Communications Commission, even weighed in and urged local
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broadcasters to stop broadcasting the show. Former President Barack Obama
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said last week's assassination was horrific and a tragedy, finally
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addressing it a week later. Though the President didn't say this,
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Trump has announced that he is going to be labeling
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the group Antifa as a major terrorist organization. Those around
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are postulating that it has to do with the assassination.
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Speaker 3: Of Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker 5: Federal Appeals Court Wednesday refused to allow the administration to
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proceed with planned overhauls of the Department of Health and
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Human Services involving reorganizing agencies and firing thousands. Thirteen Democrats
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on the Senate Armed Services Committee have asked Chair Roger
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Wiker of Mississippi to hold adhering into the President's use
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of quote the military aka the National Guard in American
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cities and Benjamin Netanyahoo's coming to the White House two weeks.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk
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Media Network.
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Speaker 5: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven
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that stormfront is coming in a flurry of misused words
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because words have been these and I guess in a
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world where you can define yourself whatever you want, we
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can define words whatever they want. And that's a dangerous place.
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And this is part and parcel of have eye view
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that we've come unhinged from a lot of things. We
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just invent new words or we misuse the old ones.
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We'll get into that coming up with you here in
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a moment. It all has to do with this hate
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speech discussion and the Pam Bondy saying she wanted to
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sit down.
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Speaker 3: Now she's back walking that saying no, no, no, no,
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that's not what I meant. I meant terrorist speech. Well,
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that's a different thing to a degree.
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Speaker 5: Again, warning you there are red flag laws in Florida
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for gun owners for no other reason than Trayvon Martin,
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and the attorney general at the time was Pam Bondy
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and the governor at the time was Rick Scott. But
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just saying they're still around. Rick Scott wants to have
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some special Charlie Kirk national holiday. Watch these people, watch
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these people. I know, I know we're supposed to be
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going after the other guys, But who are the other guys?
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a fey dollars so far.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, the summer of twenty twenty five is going to
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and that's fair. I don't take any umbrage is four
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three four nine seventy nine coin and after ten am
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Eastern for those listening in San Francisco. So James, bless you, sir,
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and you have a great morning.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Joe.
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Speaker 5: Now, so words, words are important. So Bernie Sanders yesterday
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called Israel's attacks on hamas genocide. Genocide last time I
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checked has a definition. But then again, I was fooled
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when they called Donald Trump a tyrant. I said, hold
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on a second here, how they Oh, the definition has changed,
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Miriam and or Webster has decided that tyrant now means
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somebody who stands in the way of fairness. Wow, that's
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an ambiguous term, isn't it. That sort of leaves it
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open to whatever I decide fairness is. And this goes back.
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Pardon me if I harkened back to when I was
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a kid and what I was taught about how words
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are used and what words mean. But gosh, oh man,
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I went to New York City public schools and we
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were bankrupt in an era when that had never happened before.
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We were the first, we were the biggest city in America.
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Speaker 3: And we were broke. We had forty kids in a classroom.
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Speaker 5: Forty people are screaming about forty congress people in a room.
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I had forty students, most of them completely disinterested in
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what the teachers were saying. And yet I still managed
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to come out of there with a pretty good grasp
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on histories, mysteries, and broadcast television and the hot and
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cold media, and English as my primary language. One of
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my science teachers, in his yearbook entry said, I speak
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three languages, Latin English and profane. And I had his
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class that was his primary language was profane. The words
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you use and misuse and these because there are implications
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to words.
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Speaker 3: Hate speech is simply speech.
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Speaker 5: So if you say you want a commission or a
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tribunal or laws to regulate hate speech, what you're saying
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is you want laws to regulate speech, say so. Generally speaking,
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I don't think you're going to get a lot of
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people supporting it. However, if you want to get conservatives
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to start supporting things like speech regulation, kill one of
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their most prominent figures. Shoot him dead in the streets.
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Look at what happened to Jim Brady. Have you ever
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heard of younger folks? Jim Brady? Who's Jim Brady? Have
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you ever heard of the Brady Bill? It's not for
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jan and Marsha Brady. It's for Jim Brady, who is
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the White House Press secretary, who was shot in the
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forehead long before that was some common occurrence in action movies.
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Literally took a bullet in the forehead during the attempt
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on Ronald Reagan's life in Washington, DC. Firebrand conservative had
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been for years all of a sudden in his.
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Speaker 3: Injuries.
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Speaker 5: He was wheelchair ridden, had lost most all brain function,
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but was alive. It was essential obstensible obsten Yeah, in
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a segment we're talking about words, maybe pronounce them correctly.
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Ostensibly lobotomized by the bullet, and in his name. A
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lot of gun grabbing legislation was done because conservatives now
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were pissed. Charlie Kirk gets gunned down. Conservatives pissed.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Hate speech, yes, but limited to his There is no
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such thing as hate speech because it requires the recipient to.
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Speaker 3: Tell you what that is.
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Speaker 5: There is no way you can legally define hate speech. Now,
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genocide you can certainly define, and Bernie Sanders says, bastardize
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that word. And these people who do this, they're doing
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Speaker 15: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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Speaker 20: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
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Speaker 11: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom
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to petition the government.
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Speaker 15: Only the United States has these five freedoms, so simply
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bound together and guaranteed.
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Speaker 3: Think First.
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Speaker 21: No word in English language is less convincing than.
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Speaker 3: Are you sure we.
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Speaker 11: Should get matching tattoos on our first date.
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Speaker 22: Sure, we'll probably stay together.
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Speaker 17: Probably, it's been.
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Speaker 3: Twenty three minutes since I ate. I can probably swim.
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Speaker 23: You should wait thirty minutes.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll tell me what to do. Can it ball?
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Speaker 21: Cramp?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 21: I have a cramp?
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Speaker 3: Ready to go?
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Speaker 13: Hey?
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Speaker 9: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
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Speaker 23: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay. Probably okay.
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Speaker 21: Isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking and driving.
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Speaker 5: So they try to put the adjectives on everything, We're
28:41
gonna put the mean in the phrase meaning because it's harsh,
28:46
but you cannot legally, I mean you can. It doesn't
28:52
make for a very good place to live. Set up
28:54
meanings based on the inference of the recipient of some action.
29:02
Speaker 3: Is a crime anymore.
29:03
Speaker 5: Or less a crime if the person hated you and
29:07
that's why they committed the crime. These are handringing populists
29:17
who don't want to admit that maybe there should be
29:19
a penalty for murder, but they want to create Eddie's
29:24
and currents within the phrase murder so that maybe this
29:29
murder isn't as bad.
29:30
Speaker 3: As that murder.
29:32
Speaker 5: I don't remember all that In the Ten Commandments it
29:35
said thou shalt not murder, and not a whole lot
29:41
of provisions underneath that for unless this happens, or unless
29:47
there Because kill is different than murder, kill is a
29:51
different word than murder. Kill means something different than murder.
29:55
Certainly to the other guy, it doesn't make it difference.
30:03
But in the system of free society that has to exist,
30:07
in a world where the transgression against somebody else's rights
30:16
has to take place first before punishments can be meted out,
30:22
we are running headlong towards an authoritarian state where, in
30:27
an effort to stop bad things from happening, we are
30:30
going to create, you know, hate crime tribunals and hate
30:37
speech and hate, violence and hate you know anything, Nobody
30:46
robs somebody.
30:49
Speaker 3: Because they love them. So coming up with.
30:54
Speaker 5: All these modifying adjectives and adverbs, to me, is just
30:58
a populist game to say, well, some things were going
31:02
to punish more harshly than others. Why do you have
31:07
a scale? Why do you have a sliding scale on
31:10
what things are going to be punishable by? What if
31:13
I say something that threatens somebody, that's specific and you
31:17
don't need a code to say. If I say I'm
31:20
going to beat you up, you can go to a
31:24
police officer and say he just threatened to beat me up. Now,
31:28
that be a difficult court battle because you have no
31:32
physical But if I sent you an email or if
31:34
I post it in a chat room that I'm going
31:36
to do something, aside from being a confession, that's a threat,
31:43
and that's a specific thing that doesn't need to be
31:47
a hate threat, That doesn't need to be anything. Because
31:52
maybe I don't want you to kiss me. If you
31:53
don't I'm going to go up to Joe Thomas and
31:55
kiss him on the mouth. Well, certainly that doesn't sound hateful,
31:59
does it?
32:00
Speaker 3: Unless I don't want you to kiss me on the mouth.
32:02
Speaker 5: And this is where we've come up into this judicial
32:05
world of you know, how does it make the other
32:10
person feel. That's what we're going to base the crime on.
32:15
And it's a bad place. It's an un American and
32:19
unconstitutional place. But they're going to try. You know why
32:22
they're going to try because they have a brass you know,
32:25
this is the sound of them. This is them walking
32:28
down the hall, big brass set clanging as they walk
32:35
down the hall because they're empowered. Now a conservative icon
32:42
has been assassinated, and the only thing that seems to
32:48
be going on is people talking about ways to keep
32:53
this from ever happening again. Well, isn't that the phrase
32:59
they use before they started the Patriot Act? Look at
33:06
what happened? And oh sure, Donald Trump? Okay, Donald Trump's
33:09
the president. We're going to have Donald Trump as the president,
33:14
unless he's going to be president for more terms, he says,
33:17
winking at the microphone, because it infuriates the left when
33:23
you say things.
33:24
Speaker 3: Like that, Right, can't it can't be president Morna just
33:29
funning with you, just playing with your head.
33:38
Speaker 5: There will be another guy or a gal, And what
33:42
if it's somebody who doesn't hold the Constitution dearly to
33:46
their hearts.
33:49
Speaker 3: And for a leftist that.
33:50
Speaker 5: Wants government tribunals when it's Barack Obama or Joe Biden,
33:56
they want, you know, the commissions and panel and punishments
34:01
met it out and arrests made when it's Joe Biden.
34:07
Why did you not expect it ever to be anyone
34:11
else but the Democrat?
34:13
Speaker 3: Maybe that's your problem. Sounds like a U problem.
34:25
Speaker 5: Hamp Down on the Treasure Co says Pam Bondi needs
34:29
to stay in her office and stay off television to
34:31
shut her mouth do her job. Speech is either free
34:35
for all or free for none. Yep, hamp You're right
34:39
on there is no modifier. We don't have different levels
34:44
of speech. We watched this on the college campuses. So
34:48
first the college campuses restricted your ability to speak, and
34:53
then people protested that. So the college just said.
34:56
Speaker 24: Oh, okay, how about we have a specified free speech zone,
35:02
and then we'll have other students in charge of the
35:05
special free speech zone.
35:07
Speaker 5: And that way you guys can petition the other students
35:12
for access to the free speech zone, and then you
35:15
can pop yes, I'm sorry, can you hear me.
35:17
Speaker 3: Over my brass set clanging as I walk down the hall.
35:23
That's what they did.
35:24
Speaker 5: And then we all said, all right, well it's not everything,
35:27
but it's something, so we'll take something rather than nothing
35:32
when nothing would have been preferable, because then you can
35:36
press back against the authoritarians taking away your speech. Now
35:41
you've complied with their idea that there can.
35:44
Speaker 3: Be special types of speech.
35:49
Speaker 5: If you're new to the program, longtime listeners will have
35:54
heard me say before. When it comes to compromise and
36:00
how we're told that compromise is laudable and compromise is the.
36:06
Speaker 3: Standard by which we should all be judged.
36:08
Speaker 5: I said, well, why is the common expression regarding compromise,
36:13
victim of compromise? Compromise, it's been my experience, generally means
36:20
somebody gets most of what they want and the other
36:22
guy gets very little of what they want. And these compromises,
36:31
these ideas that well, okay, so maybe we.
36:34
Speaker 3: Can't have free speech.
36:38
Speaker 5: What and understand a couple of things.
36:44
Speaker 3: Since we just.
36:44
Speaker 5: Did the Constitution Day PROGRAMM yesterday, I don't want to
36:50
belabor the point. But phrases like shall not be infringed
36:57
Since we're talking about words and their meaning, these are
37:01
very specific legal phrases that the US government has completely ignored.
37:09
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37:25
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37:32
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37:48
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37:51
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37:54
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Speaker 1: At the First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network
44:15
by Joe Thomas.
44:19
Speaker 28: Oh, compromising position doesn't sound good at.
44:27
Speaker 3: All, doesn't That's what he used to think anyway, is
44:42
he used to say that?
44:45
Speaker 5: You know, this is why we record these things because
44:49
he doesn't fight the authority anymore, kind of cozies up
44:53
to it. Well, you know, when he.
44:54
Speaker 3: Likes the authority figures and he's all for him.
44:58
Speaker 5: But the but the philo is right. Authority is from within,
45:04
Authority is from above, and right and wrong is not
45:10
to be parsed.
45:11
Speaker 3: There's not hate wrong, there's not wrong violent. There's just wrong.
45:20
Speaker 5: And we've lost such an ability to tether to that.
45:25
And as I mentioned, the First Amendment to the US Constitution,
45:34
Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion,
45:39
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom
45:43
of press, or freedom of speech, or of the press,
45:47
meaning the printing press or of the right of the
45:50
people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for
45:54
a redress of grievances very specific abridging that means restricting
46:03
in any way, shape or form. Now, if you say
46:07
something that causes violence to somebody, you can be arrested
46:11
for that, but we cannot stop you. We cannot arrest
46:14
you simply because you said it. It actually has to
46:17
manifest into something. If you go out there and say
46:20
I wish somebody would go and put the Joe Thomas
46:24
in the Morning program under six feet a dirt, I
46:30
can call and say I think somebody's threatening me, and
46:32
there are punishments for that. But if something actually was
46:37
to happen to me, then the person who said that
46:39
could be found guilty of that. But again it goes
46:42
back down the daisy chain. Things actually have to happen.
46:49
We can't have free speech commissions and the ilk going
46:57
out there. Charles writes in what about micro aggressions, Well,
47:01
we're going to go after those with nanobots. Charles, doctor
47:05
Clark with a thought on compromise and the way we've
47:10
managed to make this sound like a good thing, even
47:13
though it has victims. What other good things have victims,
47:16
doctor Clark, Well, good.
47:19
Speaker 3: Things have victims.
47:22
Speaker 23: Marxism.
47:23
Speaker 5: Oh okay, Marxism is a good thing, and it has
47:26
lots of millions and millions of victims.
47:29
Speaker 23: Yes, the Marxist utopia is full of victims, isn't it.
47:32
So you were talking about compromise, Joe, and it occurs
47:36
to me that when democracies win or successfully steal an election,
47:44
they have a mandate. Elections have consequences.
47:49
Speaker 3: I've heard that when they lose, we.
47:54
Speaker 23: Have to come together. It's time to compromise. Really, what
48:01
our democratcy means is we get our way. If you're
48:06
in the majority, we get our way. If we're not
48:10
in the majority, we get our way.
48:12
Speaker 3: Yep, yep.
48:13
Speaker 5: That is exactly what it is. And this is why
48:16
a lot of Republicans caucus with them. Hey, I asked
48:19
this question earlier. You're a learned man. Is there a
48:23
standard like the five second rule on how long somebody
48:27
can be referred to as a former Republican? Because it
48:31
doesn't strike me that in nineteen posts nineteen seventy six,
48:35
anyone ever referred to Ronald Reagan as former Democrat. And
48:39
so I didn't know, if there was a statute of limitations,
48:42
like you can only call something new for so long
48:46
on how long somebody can be referred to as a
48:48
former Republican.
48:51
Speaker 23: How many former Republicans are they and what did they
48:53
transition to?
48:55
Speaker 5: Well, I think they had some of their gentle areas
48:59
removed so that they could be Democrats, because that's who
49:02
they're endorsing. And we were talking about Amanda Kinsinger and
49:08
Luke Cheney and I'm not sure what gender Denver is,
49:13
but Denver the regular Barbara Comstock there, you know, they're
49:18
but they all get into the press, Bob Comstock, I
49:21
mean they all once they've transitioned, they they've all get into.
49:25
Speaker 3: The press specifically so the press can.
49:28
Speaker 5: Label the story former Republican endorses Democrat for governor. I mean,
49:33
it's been a decade almost since Denver Riggelman has been
49:36
a Republican, it seems at least half of one.
49:41
Speaker 23: So do you recall Arley Ernie in full metal jacket?
49:47
Speaker 5: Yes, Oh my gosh, yes, and a great story too,
49:51
I guess you know. My favorite part of that, aside
49:54
from the actuals, what is your major malfunction is the
50:00
the story of how Kubrick said, you know what, you're
50:06
not successfully teaching any of my actors how to do this.
50:10
Speaker 3: How about you just do it now.
50:12
Speaker 5: He was a film major before he went into the
50:13
Marine Corps, so it wasn't like acting was, you know,
50:17
anethema to him, but it was it was so hard
50:21
to teach an actor to do that that he just
50:25
wound up doing it himself.
50:27
Speaker 1: Yeah.
50:28
Speaker 23: My wife and I went to see that when it
50:29
was in theaters, and I'm not a person that has
50:31
a hard time controlling myself in a movie theater. But
50:36
three or four minutes in, I leaned over and I said, honey,
50:41
that's not an actor right there. He was on the
50:44
real field. You can't act and get that that well.
50:49
But anyway, when Arley Army explained that he was not
50:53
a racist just because he had equal disdain for and
50:56
then he went on to list, yes, yes, that's where
51:00
I am Republican and Democrat.
51:02
Speaker 3: Okay, you're nonpartisan.
51:07
Speaker 23: Well, yes, I have slightly less use for one than
51:10
the other. But the thing that we see and see
51:14
I'm in Alabama and we are just about the redist
51:19
of the red. But here's the thing about that, Joe,
51:23
once it becomes very plain that a Democrat is not
51:27
going to be elected in a statewide race. Here. They
51:33
just put an arm behind their name.
51:36
Speaker 2: Republican.
51:38
Speaker 23: So I don't know, maybe we need a new term,
51:41
like faux publican or something.
51:43
Speaker 3: I don't know that's a good word.
51:46
Speaker 5: Since we're playing with our words this morning, I'm I'm
51:49
all for adding a new one to the lexicon.
51:52
Speaker 23: Well, I've grown very wary of rhino. Yeah, and I
51:57
don't know, just another republic we can gar no jar.
52:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, we ought to go to jar. Yeah, because rhino.
52:08
Speaker 23: You know, when we use the term rhino, it makes
52:11
you think that they're out of line when the ones
52:16
that are conservative are the ones that are out of
52:20
line with the party. Joe, I'm sorry, isn't that the case?
52:23
Speaker 5: Well, I can ask former fifth District Congressman. I can
52:26
actually ask Achadre, a former fifth District of Virginia congressman,
52:30
if that's the case. If running a fell of the party, Uh,
52:34
it does you any favors if you stand up for
52:37
what's right and wrong. Good stuff, Doctor Clarke, you have
52:39
a great morning.
52:40
Speaker 23: Sir, Keep doing what you did.
52:43
Speaker 3: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
52:46
Speaker 5: I agree with him about Rhino. It implies Rhino means Republican.
52:51
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