Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "No Sumus Tyranni" (Tuesday August 26, 2025, Hour 2)
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Is that what we want to live in?
- 0:03Speaker 2: Where you just occupy every city because of so called
- 0:06prime First.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Thing today on the Tunk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
- 0:11the second most famous Thomas and Charlotte Smith, George.
- 0:16Speaker 1: Said, steal me stem.
- 0:18Speaker 3: You have a day at least for work when the
- 0:21sun comes up, drops a pet to scoop.
- 0:24Speaker 1: They's so called victims too.
- 0:28Speaker 4: All the jer.
- 0:31Speaker 5: No one that Joe's as smiled.
- 0:33Speaker 4: He only as.
- 0:38Speaker 6: Joe.
- 0:38Speaker 1: You got a feel for Adam Kinsinger, don't you want
- 0:42to be? I mean, it's just you know, and I
- 0:46get it. A lot of folks, you know, they have
- 0:47to go out and hang up their own shingle. But
- 0:50you know what, what exactly makes Adam Kinsinger a newsworthy figure?
- 0:55He's available. It's got time. When Jake Tapper calls Adam
- 1:02Kinsinger's yeah, I'm not doing nothing. Let me shave, let
- 1:07me put on a clean shirts. You remember the movie
- 1:12Mister Mom, that kind of middle of the story arc
- 1:15where things are coming off the rails and Michael Keaton
- 1:18really doesn't know what he's doing and things are getting
- 1:21out of hand and he's a mess and kids are
- 1:24running rampant. I fancifully imagine that's what Adam Kinsinger's world
- 1:29is like. He's that mister mom just kind of sitting
- 1:32on the couch learning about daytime soap operas and oh wow,
- 1:37I can't believe she still didn't that guy. Just there's
- 1:42a wistfulness in my mind. Every time I see, you know,
- 1:47Adam Kinsinger show up on TV, I'm like, wow, you know,
- 1:51how'd you get him? You really must have waited in line. Hey, Adam,
- 1:54you're free in about ten minutes. Yeah, let me go
- 1:57get a clean shirt on. But as Adam Kinsing are
- 2:00on so called crime, I want to play the whole
- 2:03clip for you when we have a moment here. But
- 2:06we've got so much going on. Districting. Utah has now
- 2:11been told they have to redraw their congressional districts because,
- 2:15according to the judge, they did it with political party
- 2:19affiliations in mind. Huh interesting, isn't California about to do
- 2:26the same thing intentionally saying that we're going to draw
- 2:29these districts with political parties in mind? And I went
- 2:33to look. Texas very careful about how they redid their districts,
- 2:39and it's much more population based now. The side effect
- 2:44is that the districts become more Republican leaning. There are
- 2:48more Republican leaning districts, however, unlike California, who had a
- 2:55fit of peak and just stomped their feet and said, well,
- 2:58we're going to go re strict ourselves, you know, give
- 3:01more of a Democrat vote. That's not what the state
- 3:10of Texas did. I mean, it was the outcome of it,
- 3:13for sure, but it wasn't what they said at the onset.
- 3:17And that's maybe different as you look at what is
- 3:20coming for when'd you put that over there? When my
- 3:23hands don't swing so much moving coffee around, saying that's
- 3:27probably a bad spot. I tend to swing my hands
- 3:30a lot, a little John Madden too much, John Madden,
- 3:32not the game, but the person who's swinging boom On
- 3:37this one Tuesday morning, live from New Orleans for the
- 3:41State Policy Network Annual Meetings. More coverage coming up for you,
- 3:46brought to you by the Daily Signal and the Virginia
- 3:49Institute for Public Policy. But we can't discuss the news
- 3:52until I tell you the news. A judge has ordered
- 3:55the Utah Legislature to redraw its congressional maps in time
- 3:59for the mid terms. Next year, finding that the state
- 4:03legislator unlawfully gerrymandered their districts in favor of Republicans last
- 4:09time they drew it. Judge Diana Gibson said, must pass
- 4:13a remedial congressional map by the end of September this year.
- 4:19They already say they're going to appeal the ruling. Donald
- 4:22Trump was questioned about Chinese students in the United States,
- 4:29and he said the six hundred thousand Chinese students would
- 4:33be allowed into the US to study at collegism at
- 4:36ongoing talks with China, We're going to allow their students
- 4:40to come in. It's very important, six hundred thousand students.
- 4:43It's very important. We're going to get along with China,
- 4:47the President said. Cracker Barrel is saying they could have
- 4:52done a better job, you think, in explaining their new
- 4:56logo design and interior storymodels. President Trump may not be
- 5:03thinking about it per se, but was asked about the
- 5:06Department of Defense going back to the War Department name,
- 5:10and he said, I don't know why they changed it,
- 5:12and of course the headline then became President to rename Pentagon.
- 5:17South Korean President Lee J. Mung proposed a meeting in
- 5:21her country between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader
- 5:25Kim Jong un later this year, if Trump comes to
- 5:29South Korea for a regional forum, the US government was asked.
- 5:35Kevin Hassett was asked on Monday if they were going
- 5:38to do more deals like they did with Intel, and
- 5:41he said, I'm sure that at some point there'll be
- 5:44more transactions. Again. The headlines became Trump looking to take
- 5:48over more companies and the President said he has sent
- 5:52a letter to remove Lisa Cook from her position as
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- 9:02Speaker 12: There's a lot going on right now, and broadcasters are
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- 9:33Speaker 13: Every year more American adults die from vaccine preventable diseases
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- 11:02Speaker 15: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would
- 11:05you recognize them by their clothes, their age, the way
- 11:10they speak. Would you notice a sixteen year old boy
- 11:13who got his first job.
- 11:15Speaker 16: For ex for spending money about to help feed his little.
- 11:17Speaker 15: Sisters, Or a mother who's in between jobs and sometimes
- 11:21goes to bed hungry so her kids can have dinner.
- 11:25Or a fourteen year old girl who signs up to
- 11:27every after school activity not to make friends, but just
- 11:30to get something to eat. Or a retiree who fell
- 11:34ill and.
- 11:35Speaker 3: Had to choose between getting medicine or groceries.
- 11:40Speaker 15: I am the one in aid Americans who struggle with hunger.
- 11:44People you passed by every day but never knew were hungry.
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- 12:02Speaker 18: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
- 12:05First Amendment. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of
- 12:09the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom to petition the government.
- 12:14Which freedom can you live without? Fortunately, the First Amendment
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- 13:11Speaker 3: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today,
- 13:16I'm afraid of the Russians.
- 13:19Speaker 16: I can't sleep.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Thank you for letting us be of service to you, Russia.
- 13:25Fun it's wistful. Thoughts struck me. After yesterday's program, we
- 13:30had a call from an American in Moscow and then
- 13:34a Russian in New York City who's running the New
- 13:38York conservative group, the Empire Center. Bob's back on the
- 13:42line from Moscow. How are you doing this morning, Bob?
- 13:46Speaker 11: Doing good?
- 13:47Speaker 1: But it's cold here, cold meeting fifty seven. Yeah, it's
- 13:54it's actually fifty one in Stanton. So or are you
- 13:57talking at Celsius.
- 14:00Speaker 11: No, I'm talking fahrenheit, which is cold for this time
- 14:04of year.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Yeah, weird. I think people in Central Virginia are feeling
- 14:08the same thing. They're looking for the wooly sweaters and
- 14:10the hoodies there. So what's on your mind, sir?
- 14:14Speaker 11: Well, you know, yesterday President Biden was not president.
- 14:18Speaker 1: Oh my, there's a slump.
- 14:22Speaker 11: President Trump was saying, you know, no cash bails, correct.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember him saying that. Yeah, they wanted to
- 14:30move against Nikky Sanda not an executive order, but signed
- 14:34some directive to work to eliminate no cash bail in
- 14:37federal cases.
- 14:40Speaker 11: Right, So why not when an illegal immigrant comes across,
- 14:46even if they're seeking asylum, they have two choices. They
- 14:51can stay in you know, in like the Japanese did
- 14:56in the Chairman camp until their case comes up. There said,
- 15:01you know, they have a place to sleep, but no money,
- 15:03no nothing else is given to them. Or they have
- 15:07a choice to be sent back to their country and
- 15:10a wait at the embassy to get called, or if
- 15:13it's an asylum case, to the next closest country to
- 15:17their homeland that has an American embassy.
- 15:20Speaker 1: It's interesting in our country, you know, people are making
- 15:24a lot of deal about you know, like Kilmar the
- 15:27Magnificent is is set to go to Uganda to a camp.
- 15:32But this is all part of staying within the asylum
- 15:35claim because we just sent him back. I think it's Venezuela,
- 15:39you know. Then he called for he said he needs asylum.
- 15:42Why would you send him back to the place he's
- 15:44in peril of being. I think poor is what he
- 15:46was seeking asylum from. But it's it goes back to
- 15:51that abuse of the asylum system.
- 15:55Speaker 11: So you use the asylum law which states that they
- 15:58must apply for the asylum at the nearest country to
- 16:02the country they're leaving for asylum. And his claim he
- 16:05doesn't speak the lang, and the claim he doesn't speak
- 16:08the language in Uganda, he doesn't speak the English official language.
- 16:13How come he's spend here for so many years and
- 16:14he doesn't speak English.
- 16:16Speaker 1: He spoke it well enough to tell the Tennessee State
- 16:19trooper he was smuggling people, or at least let them,
- 16:22you know, tip that off. I mean, there's enough broken.
- 16:25Speaker 11: English, but he had to have So he should be
- 16:30sent back to some country that speaks his language or
- 16:36speaks his Spanish dialogue. He shouldn't feel out. All these
- 16:40people should not be out in the United States if
- 16:42they can't speak our language.
- 16:44Speaker 1: Well, and I think you're talking about a common sense
- 16:47way to deal with the issue of do you you know,
- 16:50how do you deal with someone who's seeking asylum? You
- 16:52simply say, Okay, here's how it's going to have to be.
- 16:56You can't just come in and move in and all
- 16:59is good. We have to vet your case. Are you
- 17:01really seeking asylum? And this goes back to what Biden
- 17:04did with you way over broadening of what asylum means.
- 17:10I'm poor, so I want asylum from poverty. Well, gosh,
- 17:14so do I. And that's it. You know. I always
- 17:16felt like that was a dangerous premise anyway that they
- 17:19were setting. But you see what I'm getting at with
- 17:21the abuse of the.
- 17:23Speaker 11: Term, and why should why should our American citizens, our
- 17:29military people, our senior citizens, including myself. Now, why do
- 17:36we have to pay for our health care and can't
- 17:39afford health care and food? But yet in an illegal
- 17:42alien in this country's given everything? How can we have
- 17:46money for illegal people and we don't have money for
- 17:49our own citizens, especially the military people that have fought
- 17:53and given up their lives and parts of their body
- 17:56for us to have America.
- 17:58Speaker 1: Well, I think that's part and parcel of how President
- 18:00and Trump won re election. But it's also the abuse.
- 18:03You listen to these people talking about people versus citizens,
- 18:08and it's a big turn of a phrase. The California
- 18:11San Francisco mayor Lee was just saying that yesterday, Oh,
- 18:15we want to be a home for all our people,
- 18:18and people is a trigger word to you know, keep
- 18:24it from being a discussion of citizenship versus peoplehood.
- 18:30Speaker 11: And the other thing, the other part of the law
- 18:32with his trucker. He was given leanien seat by Florida,
- 18:38by Governor de Santos. They're honoring his seek faith by
- 18:43not having the dust penalty. So he's got leniency there.
- 18:47And for him how he got his licenses. He does
- 18:50the test online, but someone else does it for him. Sure,
- 18:53President Trump needs to executive order eliminate all unline processes
- 19:01for that. If they're going to speak pass the tests
- 19:04in English, it has to be done at center.
- 19:09Speaker 1: Sure, in front of somebody in the presence. Yet I
- 19:12think so good.
- 19:13Speaker 11: Stuff, Bob given, yep, I'll let you go.
- 19:16Speaker 1: No, not at all, thank you, sir. For three four
- 19:19eight eight two four to two one seven is the
- 19:21phone Number're gonna check in with our friends JCS gold
- 19:25in the moment. But mac McDonald has sports coming up
- 19:27for us. Mac, what are you working on for us
- 19:30this morning?
- 19:32Speaker 3: Good morning, Joe.
- 19:32Speaker 2: Here are the stories we are following on this Tuesday.
- 19:35Since the first week of college football is upon us.
- 19:38Even though week zero is still a thing, the Labor
- 19:41Day weekend has more juice than normal with a slew
- 19:44of games. Thursday and Friday. Saturday starts a three day
- 19:46stretch with headliners. Number one Texas is on the road
- 19:49to play number three Ohio State at noon. Number eight
- 19:52Alabama is in Tallahassee to meet Florida State.
- 19:55Speaker 1: Number nine LSU.
- 19:57Speaker 2: Number four Clemson will play the Tiger boll And def
- 20:00Saturday night and Sunday, Number six Notre Dame will be
- 20:03in South Beach for a scrum against number ten Miami.
- 20:07The college athletic landscape has changed for sure. Department revenues
- 20:11are up two hundred twelve percent from the past eighteen years.
- 20:15Expenses grew two hundred ten percent during the same time period.
- 20:19Coaching salaries up three hundred seventy percent. Let the games begin,
- 20:25Seattle Mariners Cal Rowley made history Sunday against the A's.
- 20:29He drilled his forty eighth and forty ninth home runs,
- 20:31the most ever for a major league catcher.
- 20:34Speaker 11: Cow re.
- 20:39Speaker 12: Call.
- 20:43Speaker 3: That's forty ninth home run.
- 20:46Speaker 2: Not bad for a career that just three years ago
- 20:49saw the Big Dumper hit eighty three, striking of thirty
- 20:52two percent of the time. The twenty twenty five All
- 20:55Star now has one hundred forty two home runs in
- 20:57his fourth year with three hundred fifty Kievan RBIs.
- 21:01Speaker 1: Thank you, Mac. We'll look forward to your notebook coming
- 21:04up next hour at jcsgold dot com brings you this
- 21:08program and brings you a great access to gold and silver. James,
- 21:12good morning. How are you doing, sir? I'm Joan Well Joe,
- 21:16how are you good? How are gold and silver doing?
- 21:19Speaker 20: Gold is slightly in the green this morning. It's at
- 21:22three thousand, three and seventy one dollars, about two tens
- 21:26of percent in the green so far today. Silver is
- 21:29down about a quarter of percent, but so it about
- 21:31the levels that it's settled at yesterday at thirty eight
- 21:34dollars and forty eight cents.
- 21:37Speaker 1: And talk to a family. This is what you've got
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- 21:53Thank you sir, and thank you for all the support.
- 21:56Speaker 20: Absolutely, Joe, thank.
- 21:57Speaker 1: You jcsgold dot com.
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- 25:02Speaker 16: Sweet Strawberry Icing, you were strolling along in Goodwill when
- 25:06just past that mid century side table and denim jacket,
- 25:08you spotted them nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings.
- 25:15Oh yes, yes, your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all
- 25:20day dessert food made into your favorite form of ear candy.
- 25:24Oh my, those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger
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- 25:30Speaker 3: Do smell that.
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- 25:56Speaker 1: My name is Jim, I'm a veteran and I lost
- 25:58both legs in Vietnam.
- 26:00Speaker 3: My victory was proving that the disability is not a limitation.
- 26:04Speaker 1: I'm Julius. I'm a veteran.
- 26:06Speaker 3: My victory was going from homeless toll.
- 26:08Speaker 10: At DAV we're on a mission helping veterans of all
- 26:12generations get the benefits they've earned.
- 26:14Speaker 9: I'm cc My victory was finishing my education.
- 26:18Speaker 10: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
- 26:22more victories for veterans. Go to DAV dot org.
- 26:26Speaker 18: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
- 26:31Speaker 9: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
- 26:34Speaker 6: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom
- 26:41to petition the government.
- 26:43Speaker 18: Only the United States has these five freedoms. So simply
- 26:46bound together and guaranteed. Think First. Learn more at Think
- 26:50First Amendment dot org.
- 26:56Speaker 1: No word in the.
- 26:57Speaker 17: English language is less convincing than.
- 27:01Speaker 9: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
- 27:03first date?
- 27:04Speaker 23: Sure?
- 27:05Speaker 10: We'll probably stay together.
- 27:07Speaker 24: Probably, it's been.
- 27:10Speaker 17: Twenty three minutes since I ate I can probably swim.
- 27:14Speaker 8: You should wait thirty minutes.
- 27:16Speaker 16: Okay, I'll tell me what to do.
- 27:18Speaker 2: Can it ball?
- 27:20Speaker 17: Cramp?
- 27:21Speaker 8: Oh?
- 27:22Speaker 1: I have a cramp? Ready to go?
- 27:26Speaker 16: Hey, Are you sure you're okay to drive?
- 27:28Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm pretty sober.
- 27:31Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
- 27:34Speaker 17: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
- 27:37and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
- 27:40or a friend. Buzz driving is drunk driving. A message
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- 27:58Speaker 1: A message from FEMA and the.
- 27:59Speaker 3: Icon making mornings great again. First thing today on the
- 28:15Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
- 28:25Speaker 1: I've discovered something here in New Orleans State Policy Network
- 28:30Annual Meeting, Special coverage live on location in the French Quarter,
- 28:35brought to you by the Daily Signal Daily Signal dot com.
- 28:39I am a columnist, just posted my most recent blog.
- 28:43I think goes up this morning and I'll have more
- 28:47flowing like a fire hose from up here. But as
- 28:50walking around the French Quarter, I've discovered something. And any
- 28:54city that has quote decriminalized the wacky tobacci, it's a
- 29:00it's it's not a pleasant smell. But I discovered that
- 29:06Cajun cooking wafting out of the windows of a lot
- 29:10of these restaurants, and the smell of the wacky tobacci
- 29:14and the blunt being smoked in front of me on
- 29:17the sidewalk isn't as bad as some other places. When
- 29:22you run across the alley. Oh, that kind of goes
- 29:25complimentary smell. I'm not sure what it is about it
- 29:28or not. And had to continue our theme with the
- 29:31brick walls in our studio here mornings at the improv.
- 29:35Last night went to dinner with the folks from the
- 29:38Virginia Institute for Public Policy. And when we went to
- 29:41this restaurant, classic great old school family restaurant called Missus Bees.
- 29:47And I looked at the menu, and I looked at
- 29:49the waiter and I said, okay, the joke begins. A
- 29:52vegetarian walks into a steak and seafood house and and
- 29:56he laughed, and I said, he's like, we have a
- 29:58Linguinian vegetable thing that's and it was. I mean, it
- 30:01was spicy. If you've ever had you got maybe you
- 30:04have to come to a place like New Orleans to
- 30:06get spicy linguini and vegetables I was eating. I said, wow,
- 30:11this is great. He said, you should see what we
- 30:13do with shrimp. I said, no, no, I've worked in
- 30:15way too many urban restaurants to eat anything that looks
- 30:18like a bug crawling all around on the floor. But
- 30:20those are my crippling affects as well. More coverage coming
- 30:24up Ray Nothstein from the State Policy Network and the
- 30:28editor of their American Habits newspapers coming up in a
- 30:32little bit. But doctor Clark is hanging on the line
- 30:34with us as you can as well at four three,
- 30:37four eight eight two four two one seven Morning, doctor Clark.
- 30:41What's on your mind? Sir?
- 30:43Speaker 8: Well, you got me to thinking this morning.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Oh gosh, darted it again. I apologize.
- 30:49Speaker 8: Yeah, So I am one for bees being allowed to
- 30:54build hives within municipalities and city and areas.
- 31:00Speaker 1: If you don't know, if you know, doctor Clark's listening
- 31:04to our flagship station, our home city of Stanton, Virginia,
- 31:08home to Woodrow Wilson, So that should tell you all
- 31:11you need to know. But the city is about to
- 31:14vote on an ordinance that will allow bee keeping within
- 31:18the city, as if bees need you know, The planning
- 31:21Commission's approval to build hives. But I guess and I've
- 31:25already had people say, Joe, you're being snarky about it. Yeah,
- 31:28they has hives, and it's making sure that there are
- 31:32professional standards and the whole thing. I'm like, you really have.
- 31:35Everything else is fine in the city. There's no homelessness,
- 31:40there's no crime. So we're going to decide whether or
- 31:42not somebody can have, you know, a bee hive full
- 31:45of honey in their backyard.
- 31:48Speaker 8: So my more recent experience is with the state of Virginia,
- 31:52and the way things worked out is if the Planning
- 31:54Commission found out the bees had built a hive without permission,
- 31:59they would certainly only want some kind of heavy honey. Fine,
- 32:04like half your production for the year goes to us
- 32:06because you didn't get a permit.
- 32:11Speaker 1: This is the state that gave you the Bill of
- 32:13Rights and the US Constitution and the Declaration of and
- 32:16and and we're doing this stuff. It's amazing.
- 32:19Speaker 8: So you just as I see, got left off. And
- 32:23that's what happened there. It used to be sick semper
- 32:26tyrannus thus ever to tyrants, and they left the sick
- 32:30off and now was just ever to tyrants. But anyway,
- 32:36so whereas I am on four bees being allowed to
- 32:39build hives, I'm not enthusiastic about people living in them. Ah. Interesting,
- 32:48Probably housing has been an issue since Caine built Enoch
- 32:54god thing. Yeah, but wait, hold on, let's do a definition.
- 33:02Speaker 1: What is fascism, Joe? It's government ownership of the means
- 33:07of production.
- 33:09Speaker 8: Okay, So we need a new word, and not anti fascism.
- 33:15It's got to be something different. We've entered into a
- 33:18new age. The means of production have seized control of government.
- 33:26Speaker 11: Hmm.
- 33:28Speaker 1: That's that's the reverse reverse reverse fascism maybe or cronyism.
- 33:34How about cronyism that it works for me.
- 33:38Speaker 8: I don't know. We got to come up with a
- 33:39better term. Let's work on it, but not right now.
- 33:43So who's the number one owner of housing in the
- 33:48United States?
- 33:49Speaker 26: Now?
- 33:52Speaker 1: Number one owner? Isn't it the Chinese Communist Party?
- 33:56Speaker 8: I don't think they are.
- 33:58Speaker 1: I think it's Black Crop. Yeah, But I mean, all right,
- 34:01so that's the that's the middleman. You look at Blackrocks portyfar.
- 34:09Speaker 16: Okay?
- 34:10Speaker 1: I mean I was talking to some folks after Blackrock
- 34:12was given the contract to run the two ports on
- 34:15the either end of the Panama Canal, and they're like, okay,
- 34:19So now the Chinese Communist Party isn't directly controlling the
- 34:23ports on either end of the canal. They're doing it
- 34:25through a middleman. And and you know the here's the
- 34:30thing about President Trump. I've received some emails about this
- 34:33story regarding the Chinese college students as well, that he's
- 34:37now apparently okay with President Trump was never an ideologue.
- 34:41If if you're in with Donald Trump and you're against
- 34:45you know, unvetted Chinese communist military officers studying at the university,
- 34:51and you're you're in good with the president. He's down
- 34:54with it. But if he sees more upside to a
- 34:59deal with the Chinese government, maybe leading towards better trade deals.
- 35:05See this is everything is transactional with Donald Trump. It
- 35:08always has been. So you know, you're not going to
- 35:10get rock ribbed conservatism if he says I'm against Chinese
- 35:15communists on our college campus one day. But then there's
- 35:18the opportunity for a trade deal where American companies can
- 35:22sell more stuff in Beijing. If we allow the Chinese
- 35:26communist students, He'll be like, okay, then let's let the
- 35:29Chinese communist students. This is what drives a lot of
- 35:32the quote traditional conservatives nutty about Donald Trump is that
- 35:37he's not an idiologue. Everything is up for negotiation.
- 35:43Speaker 8: He's always looking for the best deal, that's for sure.
- 35:49I don't know it just well, we're going to crowd
- 35:52people and crowd people and crowd people. Of course, it
- 35:55does make him easier to control, doesn't it.
- 35:57Speaker 1: Well, I don't know about that. I mean, you know,
- 35:59when I grew up in New York, and you know,
- 36:01you look at these urban areas with the brownstones and
- 36:04everything and apartment buildings. You know, Jefferson warned against quote
- 36:10piling ourselves on one another in European style cities. But
- 36:15what he was also talking about, we're more citadels that
- 36:18we're talking about the Roman style walled cities that still
- 36:21existed in England and France and places like that, where
- 36:25you know, the city had a hard, fast boundary. And
- 36:28something in the American life is that's unheard of in
- 36:32Europe is suburbia. There is no suburbia in Europe. You're
- 36:36in the city or you're in the farms. There's no
- 36:38in between there. And that's something that's unique in the
- 36:43United States is the idea of I want to be
- 36:46city adjacent, but I don't want to live in a
- 36:49city brownstone or apartment building. I want to have a
- 36:51little land under me. But what's happened is zoning has
- 36:55gotten so protective over the acre and a half, you know,
- 37:01with a four bedroom, four hundred thousand square foot house
- 37:05on it, that that's all you're building. That becomes a
- 37:09problem as well because what winds up happening, and this
- 37:12is one of those rare instances where California may have
- 37:14gotten it right, is that the government is again you
- 37:20talk about cronyism. They're keeping their thumb on the scale
- 37:23of property values, as if you know, this is some
- 37:28tacit way to create more tax revenue, because if they
- 37:31drive up your property values, their property taxes go up. Yeah.
- 37:40I don't know.
- 37:41Speaker 8: I think, like to me, I forged a way to
- 37:43stay spread out, it'd be better off. But that's for
- 37:46somebody who lives in rural Alabama.
- 37:48Speaker 1: So there you go. You know, And the thing about
- 37:51the United States is you're supposed to be able to
- 37:53choose how you prefer to live and not be mandated
- 37:57by the government anyway. Doctor Clark got to run. Sir,
- 37:59have a great morning.
- 38:04Speaker 6: Hi.
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- 41:02on a farm in Tennessee, I've been fascinated with animals.
- 41:05Speaker 3: I'm not only in alle.
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- 41:08Just look at the birds who gather supplies to build nests,
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- 41:32they also perform life saving work every day.
- 41:35Speaker 1: Dogs keep us safe at airports.
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- 42:00Speaker 22: Uh oh, bruh, that's buzzed.
- 42:01Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
- 42:05Speaker 23: And now a speech.
- 42:07Speaker 19: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
- 42:11heart and brain.
- 42:12Speaker 1: Who's with me?
- 42:13Speaker 18: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
- 42:16brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody
- 42:19call me a ride.
- 42:20Speaker 22: Love that guy, me too.
- 42:21Speaker 10: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
- 42:24it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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- 44:12Speaker 3: For you. From Joe Thomas, It's first Thing Today.
- 44:21Speaker 1: Federalism on the March the State Policy Network. Ray Nothstein
- 44:26is the editor of the American Habits. Have you ever
- 44:28thought you'd see a day like this? Ray?
- 44:30Speaker 19: I think COVID played a big role in this right
- 44:32because people were reminded of their governors. They may not
- 44:35have paid much attention to who was their governor their
- 44:38state legislatures. You saw state legislatures in some states trying
- 44:42to check the governor because you had these emergency powers
- 44:45acts that really come from the Cold War, and people
- 44:47and citizens didn't know about this, that the governor could
- 44:50essentially shut down a state for months and months and
- 44:52months without any accountability from the legislature. And this kind
- 44:55of came from a Cold War. I don't remember the
- 44:57exact name of the legislation in each but it gave
- 45:01you know, broad powers to governor. So it was important
- 45:03kind of component where people started paying more attention to
- 45:06state and local affairs. And of course we see this
- 45:08in school boards right when you had kickback from federal mandates,
- 45:11and school boards were saying, well, we're going to implement
- 45:13these federal mandates or federal guidance if you will, and
- 45:19parents started paying attention to curriculums. So you saw a
- 45:22lot of flight of people leaving public schools, demanding more
- 45:26school choice in their states, demanding more school choice in
- 45:28their localities. So these are all components of federalism, and
- 45:32you know, we tend to maybe pay attention to twenty
- 45:35four to seven cable news. But the most important aspect,
- 45:38I think is really being involved again at your local
- 45:40and state level and being reminded of these key kind
- 45:44of target and policies that impact you closely.
- 45:49Speaker 1: I used to tease the producer of the Sean Hannity Show.
- 45:53They Sean called some sweet baby James on the air,
- 45:55but I was in an event with him. I said,
- 45:57don't give me Sean works. I said, Shawn's at it easy.
- 46:00He's never going to be in the same grocery store
- 46:03with Nancy Pelosi.
- 46:04Speaker 12: Me.
- 46:05Speaker 1: I'm going to wind up in the grocery store with you,
- 46:08my state senator. And that's part of what makes federalism
- 46:12so great is that you know who your state legislators are.
- 46:16You may have met them, you may have met your governor,
- 46:18and your chances of being able to actually have a
- 46:21conversation with them about your issues is so much greater,
- 46:25which was I think the brilliance of the way the
- 46:27Constitution was set up. There's going to be very limited
- 46:30things the federal government can do. I have a weird
- 46:34saw that I beat, you know, constantly, which is the
- 46:38sixteenth Amendment, which I think is the light switch that
- 46:42gives the federal government power because they just take the
- 46:46money without having to go through the states. If we
- 46:49could get back to where the states were the creators
- 46:53of the federal budget, I think that does a huge
- 46:57amount for putting the government back in the people's hands.
- 47:00Speaker 19: No, I think the Tenth Amendment exactly kind of sums
- 47:02this up right, and so it's important to acknowledge kind
- 47:06of the twentieth century especially, but I mean even today,
- 47:09where we have more and more centralized of you know,
- 47:12issues that could be handled at the state level, whether
- 47:14it be more caretaking for those who are elderly or
- 47:20vulnerable populations. I think states are equipped to make these
- 47:22decisions because they're closer to the people. And I think
- 47:24one of the I mean, you know this, Joe, one
- 47:27of the most ingenious things about federalism is that every
- 47:30state's different, right to some component. I mean, even areas
- 47:33within a state are very different. If you get off
- 47:35the coast of California, it's very different. You'll see ranches,
- 47:37you'll see a different kind of lifestyle than the coast
- 47:40of California. But every state being different is a reminder
- 47:44that different policies work in other places, and some states
- 47:47will copy another state. You know, Michigan may copy Louisiana
- 47:50on something, or West Virginia may copy Oregon in an
- 47:54area because those policies are working. So we have an
- 47:57area where we have the states that are called laboratories
- 48:00of democracy, which is a quote that comes from Lewis
- 48:02Brandeis is the former Supreme Court justice, and he said,
- 48:05this is where the policy needs to happen. And when
- 48:08you do have good policy, you will see states either
- 48:10copying or innovating in a new way. And I think
- 48:12that's very important for people to understand, is that when
- 48:16you have a centralized system, when all the decisions are
- 48:18making I mean this. I think the thirty seven trillion
- 48:20dollars dead is a perfect example of this. Where you
- 48:22have all the six you know, decisions being made at
- 48:25the federal level. Then you know it's this one size
- 48:28fits all that doesn't work for a lot of places.
- 48:30And I think more and more people are realizing that.
- 48:33Speaker 1: Joe Thomas here at the State Policy Network, Ray Nonstein
- 48:37with the and again it's the something habits, the inhabit
- 48:40American Habits column and newspaper, they writes, Ray, you mentioned
- 48:46the budget and One of the things that people are
- 48:49concerned with is what happens if the dollar crashes? Where
- 48:52that can the states save the country. That's been a
- 48:58raging debate amongst people I know, is if the federal
- 49:02government's budget crush, it crashes, dollar craters, can the states,
- 49:07because most of them have a balanced budget requirement, can
- 49:10they come to the rescue of the federal government.
- 49:13Speaker 5: Ah, that's a great question.
- 49:15Speaker 19: I don't know in terms of like coming to the rescue.
- 49:17But I think we can reframe the conversation to say
- 49:20states need to take more onus over some of these
- 49:23things that the federal government is doing. And I think
- 49:25that's just very clear by the mess.
- 49:27Speaker 1: That we're in.
- 49:27Speaker 19: I think we have to demand more from voters. I
- 49:29think constituencies need to put pressure on Washington. I think,
- 49:33you know, you mentioned the redistricting thing. I think that's
- 49:35a great example of states when they're trying to redistrict
- 49:39now before the census, they're trying to, you know, reign
- 49:42over the spoils and take control of Washington. But really
- 49:46the conversation should be what can states do to push back?
- 49:49How can they protect their own budgets? Right Because a
- 49:52lot of these states. Now, Joe, they've got thirty forty
- 49:55fifty percent of their money comes from the federal government,
- 49:58so they need to take a good look at their budget.
- 50:00And this is what happens, right, They become almost satellite
- 50:03states of the federal government, and they become this kind
- 50:06of area of the country that's you know, lockstep with
- 50:10federal policy. And if they can disentangle themselves from some
- 50:15of those federal dollars, particularly the ones that aren't very
- 50:17helpful and have mandates attached to them that the people
- 50:20don't want, then that's a good way to reframe this conversation.
- 50:24Instead of just being a state that is totally dependent
- 50:28on the federal government or you know, mostly dependent on
- 50:30the federal government, they need to protect their own budgets first.
- 50:33And I think that model of fiscal sustainability will be
- 50:38good for Washington in the sense like you do see
- 50:40a lot of state lawmakers going up to Washington and
- 50:42sometimes they well some of them may get corrupted themselves,
- 50:47but I think there's some good voices up there that
- 50:49can remind people this is how we do it in
- 50:51the states. We balance our budget, we protect you know,
- 50:55our constituents, and we're not going to keep spending and
- 50:58loading them with debt so that their savings are wiped
- 51:01out by inflation.
- 51:02Speaker 1: Ray Nonstein with us as American habits. You know, you
- 51:06remind me. Ray. There was a congressman from Virginia named
- 51:10Robert Hurt. My second favorite congressional yard sign ever. It said,
- 51:16it just said simply hurt us Congress. But Robert within
- 51:22a year of being elected. He had been a state
- 51:24senator here in Virginia, and then he went to Congress.
- 51:28And the next time I saw him, I said, Robert,
- 51:31what's his shoulders? A little bit? I was a tall fellow,
- 51:35he said, Joe, it's crazy here, he said. In Virginia,
- 51:39you know we have to compromise. You want this, I
- 51:41want that. We try to meet in the middle and
- 51:43get something done. He said. Here in Washington, it's just
- 51:47a matter of you get what you want, I get
- 51:49what I want, and then we just find a way
- 51:51to pay for it. Later, he said, it's just frustrating
- 51:54that either nothing happens or everything happens, and you just
- 51:59never seem to get anywhere because it's constant game for
- 52:03money there, and who's got the pork and who's got
- 52:06these things to be fair. This was ten years ago
- 52:10when this was happening, but I think it's only become
- 52:13worse as time went along. Text message carry rights in
- 52:20what's the best congressionally art sign is the one that
- 52:22followed it a few years later is good for US Congress,
- 52:27which I just like the positive sound of that message.
- 52:30You know, I think there are people who still like
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