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"Washington Warned Us" (Wednesday, Apri 1, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 5: or you can email me at JT in the Morning
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  Speaker 5: radio at gmail dot com. Voter integrity and the sad
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  Speaker 5: state of affairs where we can't even agree on something
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  Speaker 5: like making sure every valid voter and every citizen casts
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  Speaker 5: a ballot. But we'll get into that this morning. In
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  Speaker 5: so much more as the war in Iran ramps down,
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  Speaker 5: President Trump says, just a couple of more weeks, we
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  Speaker 5: should be finished. Even Nicky Haley is on his side
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  Speaker 5: in this, but that doesn't surprise some folks out there,
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  Speaker 5: so we'll gather in, and these are the first things
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  Speaker 5: this morning. President Trump signing a sweeping executive order yesterday
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  Speaker 5: time tightening election security, saying the move will help ensure
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  Speaker 5: only eligible US citizens vote in federal elections. I'm very
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  Speaker 5: happy to be signing the Voter Integrity Executive Order today,
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  Speaker 5: he said in an Oval Office ceremony, And I think
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be really great. The order reinforces existing
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  Speaker 5: federal law that prohibits non citizens from voting, while adding
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  Speaker 5: new tools to verify voter eligibility and securing mail in ballots. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 5: he said that the United States could withdraw from around
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  Speaker 5: within weeks. In his conversations with the press after the
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  Speaker 5: EOS signing, he said, we're hitting very hard. Last night,
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  Speaker 5: we knocked out tremendous amounts of missile making facilities, describing
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  Speaker 5: recent operations. The United Arab Emirates or better known as
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  Speaker 5: the country on the other side of the Strait of Hormus,
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  Speaker 5: is considering escalating its response to Iran and its military
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  Speaker 5: involvement to reopen the strait. This coming from a Wall
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  Speaker 5: Street Journal report. Such a move would mark a significant
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  Speaker 5: shift from the United Arab Emirates neutrality. Pope Leo urged
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  Speaker 5: President Trump Tuesday to look for an off ramp to
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  Speaker 5: end the Iran war. Pontiff said, I'm told that President
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  Speaker 5: Trump recently stated he would like to end the war.
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  Speaker 5: Hopefully he's looking for an off ramp. Gulf allies of
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  Speaker 5: the United States, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE,
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  Speaker 5: are urging President Trump to continue prosecuting the war against
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  Speaker 5: the i Ran, arguing that Tehran hasn't been weakened enough
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  Speaker 5: by the month long US led bombing campaign. Officials from
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  Speaker 5: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain have conveyed in private
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  Speaker 5: conversations they do not want the military operation to end
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  Speaker 5: until there are significant changes in Iranian leadership. Meanwhile, the
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  Speaker 5: United States NATO allies continue to balk at participating. Italy
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  Speaker 5: last week denied permission of US military aircrafts to use
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  Speaker 5: the Sigoela Air Base in Sicily. They say it was
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  Speaker 5: because the administration had not properly filed for that permission,
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  Speaker 5: and a federal judge in Washington ruled that the EO
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  Speaker 5: On this Sadnesday morning, it is put up or shut
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  Speaker 5: up time, and yet again President Trump has been left
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  Speaker 5: into the position of doing something by executive order because
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  Speaker 5: Congress won't do what they're looking for them to do,
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  Speaker 5: so the executive order will again reinforce. This isn't creating
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  Speaker 5: out of whole cloth, but it's creating a lattice work
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  Speaker 5: of support for voter integrity, making sure that the people
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  Speaker 5: who vote are the ones who are citizens of the
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  Speaker 5: United States. And the sad part of this is the
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  Speaker 5: debate about this has been going on so long. There
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  Speaker 5: is chapter and verse of people like Chuck Schumer on
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  Speaker 5: the other side of the issues. So what has to
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  Speaker 5: remain clear is the hypocrisy that runs hip deep when
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  Speaker 5: these kind of issues come up. And this is the
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  Speaker 5: symptoms of an out of control autocracy. And it's the
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  Speaker 5: autocracy of the two political parties. The two political parties
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  Speaker 5: who truly truly behave in a manner that indicates that
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  Speaker 5: they believe themselves to be the fourth and fifth branches
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  Speaker 5: of government, so unconstitutionally arrogant of their positions. And it's
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  Speaker 5: beyond who wins an election or not. These are the
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  Speaker 5: two groups that play patty cake with controversy and rivalry
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  Speaker 5: when in reality they're doing nothing more but sitting there
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  Speaker 5: all having a cigar and a glass of bourbon, laughing
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  Speaker 5: their asses off at us. And I know it's here,
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  Speaker 5: he goes again. Roll in your eyes, I understand, because
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  Speaker 5: you know what's coming next. The discussion of repealing the
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  Speaker 5: nineteen twenty nine Permanent Act of Redistricting of a pushment.
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  Speaker 5: Pardon me, it sets up this whole lunacy over redistricting.
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  Speaker 5: In the first place, jerry mandering becomes a thing after
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  Speaker 5: the nineteen twenty nine Act for Permanent Reapportionment. We don't
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  Speaker 5: have these battles in Missouri and Utah and Virginia over
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  Speaker 5: whose districts go where and how do we draw them
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  Speaker 5: and who draws them? And as arcane as it was,
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  Speaker 5: you know, if you're a habitual user of this program,
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  Speaker 5: that upon realizing what George Mason was trying to say
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  Speaker 5: when he wrote the original draft of the Bill of Rights,
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  Speaker 5: that he viewed the singular, most preeminently important thing to
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  Speaker 5: defending us against an out of control centralized government was
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  Speaker 5: small congress representation districts, lots of them, lots and lots
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  Speaker 5: of them. More people means more things. Years ago, a
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  Speaker 5: fellow you see on the news frequently, Larry Sabado at
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  Speaker 5: the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, which he invented.
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  Speaker 5: It's we call it here in Central Virginia, the Larry
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  Speaker 5: Sabado Institute for Getting Larry Sabado on the Evening News.
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  Speaker 5: It really generates nothing more than a bunch of kids.
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  Speaker 5: And it's funny if you ever go to an event,
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  Speaker 5: like if Larry is holding a public event, he makes
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  Speaker 5: he makes his student aids, the grad student aids that
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  Speaker 5: work for him dress like congressional staffers. All the guys
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  Speaker 5: have the white shirt and the red tie and the
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  Speaker 5: navy blue blazer and tan pants, which is a sidebarber
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  Speaker 5: I always thought was an ironic chuckle in the Washington
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  Speaker 5: Nationals team colors. But beyond that, it's just fun to
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  Speaker 5: watch him because I truly think Larry fancies himself somebody
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  Speaker 5: who should have run for political office. And there's some
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  Speaker 5: controversy about political offices anyway. The radio biz has just
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  Speaker 5: been told another one of its supposed listener advocates is
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  Speaker 5: bailing to be a congressman. And I cannot tell you
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  Speaker 5: how many members of the US House of Representatives I
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  Speaker 5: know that have confided in me that they are far
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  Speaker 5: more impactful outside of the elected arena, and that the
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  Speaker 5: ones that are truly impactful. It's such a herculean effort
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  Speaker 5: of team and thought and process, and much of that
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  Speaker 5: is tied back to these magical mystery districts. We act
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  Speaker 5: like the eyes of our representative bodies was handed down
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  Speaker 5: from Moses in a third tablet full of secondary commandments.
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  Speaker 5: We burn our rosaries more frequently to the idea that
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  Speaker 5: our congressional districts are sacro sag than we are to
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  Speaker 5: the commandments that say thou shalt not steal or kill murder.
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  Speaker 5: So when you say what's wrong, what isn't? When the
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  Speaker 5: President has to sign an executive order because he can't
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  Speaker 5: get the legislative body to move forward on something that's
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  Speaker 5: common sense, it's proof of what Washington warned us about
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  Speaker 5: regarding partisanship, that these factions seek to divide, not unite.
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  Speaker 5: They seek a cunt that gives into their special interests,
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  Speaker 5: rather than the simplicity of the United States, which is
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  Speaker 5: simply to protect your right to live your life as
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  Speaker 5: you see fit up to the point that it impacts
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  Speaker 5: somebody else's right to live as they see fit. And
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  Speaker 5: all the rest of it is crap. So I'm pleased
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  Speaker 5: that the President signed the executive order. I'm aggrieved that
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  Speaker 5: the president had to sign the executive order making sure
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  Speaker 5: that only citizens vote. And of course, the predictable rhetoric
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  Speaker 5: of poll taxes and vote suppression have already begun, while
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  Speaker 5: actual behavior years designed to vote suppress continue across the country.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you knew as soon as he signed the
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  Speaker 5: executive order. Oh Joe's gonna get on his soapbox against
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  Speaker 5: the Permanent Act of Apportionment from nineteen twenty nine. But
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  Speaker 5: think about it. Think, just spend a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 5: ruminating on a world where you don't have a guarantee
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  Speaker 5: of a Republican or a Democratic party. You have a
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  Speaker 5: choice of maybe more maybe through two.
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  Speaker 19: he starts like this prepared speech about how feeble I
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  Speaker 19: am compared to him?
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  Speaker 2: How all right?
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  Speaker 5: All right, alright your thoughts and dreams at four three, four,
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  Speaker 5: So why is the partisanship bad? You know, political parties,
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  Speaker 13: It was unanimously passed because we need a firewall. We
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  Speaker 13: could repeal the sixteenth Amendment and the seventeenth Amendment. Those
• 47:25
  Speaker 13: teens were the hard ones, the crummy amendments of the
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  Speaker 13: of the nineteen nineteen and nineteen twenty oh well.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, and this was all a ramp up. I mean,
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: once we settled the Civil War, you know, all these
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: things started to go. And I've connected it. You know,
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: the President Trump talks about this filibuster, and I challenged
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: somebody anyone used, you know, chat GTP and search the
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: US Constitution for the word filibuster. It's not there. It
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: was really sort of created through process and procedure and
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: used by the Dixiecrats and a bunch of Northern Senators
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: who are afraid of seeming, you know, less than conciliatory
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: at the end of the Civil War to allow for
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: these racists, I mean, just bloviatingly racist laws like the
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  Speaker 5: Permanent Reapportionment Act to get passed by people you know
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: that Joe Biden would eventually want reading eulogies for. I mean,
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: these folks were the grand dukes and wizards of the clan,
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: and they got themselves elected to the Senate and they
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: start passing this stuff, and it's just it's amazing to
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: me to watch Democrats defend this and then turn around
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: and talk about racism and systemic racism in the United States.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this stuff, Nancy,
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  Speaker 5: But you mentioned that Article five this comes at the
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  Speaker 5: very end of the whole process, and I think it
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: is in conjunction, though I've never seen any historical reference
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  Speaker 5: to it. That when George Mason wrote that first draft
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: of the Bill of Rights making the most pre eminently
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: important thing in defending the citizens from an out of
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  Speaker 5: control government were of small compact congressional districts. That was
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  Speaker 5: number one. That was before free speech. It was to
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  Speaker 5: make sure that our Congress that was going to be
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: created in our name was responsive to us and local.
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: It was as local and national government as I've ever
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: seen tried to concoct. And failing that, I think he's like, well,
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: we better put an axe on the wall under the
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: sign in case of emergency break glass.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, it's small, compact, contiguous. That's one of the laws
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  Speaker 13: that the Virginia legislationature broke in this whole districting deal
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  Speaker 13: that we're going through in Virginia right now.
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  Speaker 5: But they all do it. I mean, all of these
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  Speaker 5: districts should be I mean, think about fifty thousand people.
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  Speaker 5: Think about you know, you you live in Scottsville, which
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: has got you know, maybe ten twelve thousand people there.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: You know, you extrapolate out maybe another fifty miles from
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: where you live. That's a congressional district. Yeah, that's what
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: people don't understand. Norfolk, Virginia would have like a dozen
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: congressional districts, not like Fairfax, which the new laws would
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: you know, put five districts in. But think about, you know,
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  Speaker 5: being able to politic in a fifty thousand person district
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: and being able to have varieties of voices in those districts,
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: and maybe somebody comes along and you don't need a
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: political party to win those districts. You just need to
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: be gregarious and willing to go knocking. But it's conceivable
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: that you could knock doors in a fifty thousand person
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  Speaker 5: congressional district and you wouldn't. You'd break the grip that
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: these parties have on the government, which is really how
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: this all started, because the parties just won't get together
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: to protect American citizens from other people voting.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah. Absolutely, And you you brought up the philibuster, and
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  Speaker 13: you reminded me that I think it was Ben Shapiro
• 51:29
  Speaker 13: suggested that we have an amendment to the Constitution saying
• 51:34
  Speaker 13: that there will be no filibuster rather than or make
• 51:39
  Speaker 13: Now I can't remember did he want the filibuster in
• 51:42
  Speaker 13: the constitution or no filibuster?
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't paying attention, but I'll go check for you
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  Speaker 5: when we go to the news here in a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, at this point, the commentariat is so they're
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: all chasing their own tail right now. Trying to find
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: consistency among this is crazy making. Everyone's out for their
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: own attention, aren't they.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, and that's that's always the problem, and that's
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  Speaker 13: why we need to work locally. As you're saying, I'd
• 52:16
  Speaker 13: be very interested in hearing even more about the smaller
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  Speaker 13: congressional districts because we're sure in pickle right now.
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  Speaker 8: So thank you very much.
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  Speaker 5: Closers, get coffees. Nancy, I appreciate it. You have a
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  Speaker 5: great morning.
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  Speaker 13: Thank you, God bless Yeah.
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