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"Unions?" (FTTxJT Fri 090426 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 3: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, bless you for letting me be your Joe this morning.
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  Speaker 6: I will tell you what went on last night. I
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  Speaker 6: will give you my analysis of it for certain, but
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  Speaker 6: the day is impacting you. Our conversation, Bob Good, the
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  Speaker 6: host of Good for America, the podcast, he's in the
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  Speaker 6: green room right now, but this text message comes in
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  Speaker 6: on our conversation about Labor Day weekend and unions today.
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  Speaker 6: and teachers, John writes in, I would submit that teachers
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  Speaker 6: are government employees functionally. Thus, I think it should be
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  Speaker 6: illegal for them to organize also. And here's the, you know,
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  Speaker 6: this always becomes the question, John, is what constitutionally can
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  Speaker 6: you do about labor unions? Because the Constitution, First Amendment,
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  Speaker 6: guarantees your right to associate and to organize. It's where...
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  Speaker 6: the contracting. You have a right to make contracts, but
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  Speaker 6: an employer needs to be free to employ who they choose.
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  Speaker 6: And this becomes the bigger abstract, which is when a
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  Speaker 6: labor union, you have a right to organize with who
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  Speaker 6: you want and negotiate for wages in a blank slate.
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  Speaker 6: I think when people look at it and they say,
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  Speaker 6: hold it, if I work harder than she does down
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  Speaker 6: the assembly line, and we're going to make the same amount?
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  Speaker 6: I don't think that's fair. And a lot of people,
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  Speaker 6: this is why so few people, as Bob was saying,
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  Speaker 6: are part of the American labor movement anymore, because they realize, hey,
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  Speaker 6: I work harder than so-and-so down the assembly line. Why
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  Speaker 6: shouldn't I make more money? And so, you know, as
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  Speaker 6: they've moved forward... They have seen themselves become less relevant
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  Speaker 6: because they have failed in their mission. And that mission
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  Speaker 6: is to create this egalitarian unity, this equity of outcome.
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  Speaker 6: But people aren't the same. There are people who work
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  Speaker 6: harder than others. And it's a shame. I wish it
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  Speaker 6: wasn't the case. So employers need to be legally protected to.
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  Speaker 6: Hire those people that they see fit. You shouldn't be
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  Speaker 6: compelled to only employ people in a union if you're
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  Speaker 6: in a state like Ohio or Massachusetts or places like that.
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  Speaker 6: You should be allowed to say, well, no, I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to employ these people. And if the union goes on strike,
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  Speaker 6: I should be allowed to still find employees to come
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  Speaker 6: to work for me. And that's where the failing has become.
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  Speaker 6: And yes, I do believe government unions should be illegal
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  Speaker 6: because your employment is not in peril because your employer
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  Speaker 6: can't go out of business. That being said, I think
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  Speaker 6: the amount of government employees we have is out of control.
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  Speaker 6: I think the amount of things that the government does
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  Speaker 6: as a function of commerce is a mistake. So government
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  Speaker 6: unions would be fixed under that, I believe. Anyway, John,
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  Speaker 6: thank you for the text. Trump administration in our list
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  Speaker 1: From the home of the First Amendment, First Thing Today.
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  Speaker 17: Got it.
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  Speaker 6: He is Bob Good, the host of the Good for
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  Speaker 6: America podcast. Bob, I wanted to ask you, I know
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  Speaker 6: that you were talking about the Clancy trial, and I
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  Speaker 6: guess you're going to be delving into it. You're out
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  Speaker 6: on the campaign trail, working on trying to get voter turnout.
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  Speaker 6: We start voting here in Virginia in just a couple
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  Speaker 6: of weeks now, too. Exactly two weeks on these constitutional
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  Speaker 6: amendments about killing babies and marriage and being forced to
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  Speaker 6: take a role in things that you might not agree with.
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  Speaker 6: I want to talk about the subtext of this, which
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  Speaker 6: I think a lot of people don't realize and you've
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  Speaker 6: talked about, which is the craziness that allows people to
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  Speaker 6: write a political screed on a ballot. and pass it
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  Speaker 6: off as the text of a constitutional amendment. Because I'm sure,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm not saying that people aren't engaged, but if
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  Speaker 6: you look at a document and you read it, you figure, well,
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  Speaker 6: this must be what the constitutional amendment says. And that,
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  Speaker 6: in transparency, I know the Family Foundation and the Founding
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  Speaker 6: Freedoms Legal Center, Josh Hertzler, is planning a lawsuit if
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  Speaker 6: they don't change the language on these ballots, which I
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  Speaker 6: don't think they can. Talk about how we rein in
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  Speaker 6: a government that can just be so cavalier with the
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  Speaker 6: truth on something as important as a ballot and a
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  Speaker 6: constitutional amendment.
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  Speaker 10: Well, a good start would be don't elect Democrats. Don't
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  Speaker 10: vote for Democrats.
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  Speaker 6: Democrats. Yes, this is true. And Republicans that go along
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  Speaker 6: with them.
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  Speaker 10: Fair point. As you know, I'm going to actually turn
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  Speaker 10: to Democrats for a change. I spent enough time criticizing
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  Speaker 10: fellow Republicans. But the Democrat Party knows they cannot win.
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  Speaker 10: They cannot succeed. They cannot advance their agenda if the
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  Speaker 10: American people understand who and what they are, what they
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  Speaker 10: truly believe in, what their extremism. Just look at the
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  Speaker 10: Democrat Socialists of America. That's advancing in Democrat primaries, so
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  Speaker 10: a majority of Democrats are voting for them. But the
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  Speaker 10: Democrat Party– at least the face of the Democrat Party,
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  Speaker 10: is trying to distance themselves because they're heading into the
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  Speaker 10: midterms and they know that they will struggle to win
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  Speaker 10: or not be able to win if the people recognize
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  Speaker 10: who and what they are. And that's also true with
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  Speaker 10: these amendments, like you said. The law in Virginia requires
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  Speaker 10: that on constitutional amendments that you use plain text, easily understandable,
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  Speaker 10: that you're accurate and truthful in what you convey, but
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  Speaker 10: there's no teeth to the law. So there's no consequence
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  Speaker 10: for those who break the law in this respect except
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  Speaker 10: for it being challenged legally as it was with the
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  Speaker 10: Supreme Court overturning the gerrymandering where it said, hey, vote
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  Speaker 10: for fair elections by voting to rig elections with unfair
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  Speaker 10: district gerrymandering of congressional districts for partisan gain. So, yes,
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  Speaker 10: I'm sure these were already being challenged, but these constitutional
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  Speaker 10: amendments will be challenged that are on the ballot starting,
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  Speaker 10: as you said, in a couple of weeks here in
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  Speaker 10: Virginia and then ultimately on November 3rd. which try to
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  Speaker 10: hide the true purpose of abortion up to the moment
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  Speaker 10: of birth in the midst of other things that sound good,
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  Speaker 10: like prenatal care and postpartum care and reproductive freedom and
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  Speaker 10: rights and so forth. And the same thing with marriage.
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  Speaker 10: They stick in there that, hey, we're trying to protect
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  Speaker 10: interracial marriage instead of being explicit about the fact that
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  Speaker 10: it's an attack on religious freedom to say you cannot
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  Speaker 10: treat differently one marriage from another based on your faith,
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  Speaker 10: based on your belief system, but you must.
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  Speaker 10: Treat all marriages equally, irrespective of your belief system, your
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  Speaker 10: faith in terms of your church, your pastor, and that
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  Speaker 10: sort of thing.
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  Speaker 6: Should there be some sort of ordinance, like a plain
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  Speaker 6: language ordinance that prohibits something from going before the voters
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  Speaker 6: that isn't in the actual words of the ordinance? I mean,
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  Speaker 6: how can you ask somebody to vote for an ordinance
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  Speaker 6: and then not show them what's in the ordinance?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, well, the problem is that the legislature has the
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  Speaker 10: authority for doing this, and it's the legislature that determines this.
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  Speaker 10: And when Democrats are in full control and they're willing
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  Speaker 10: to lie to the voters and deceive the voters for
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  Speaker 10: partisan political advantage, it's sort of the fox guarding the henhouse,
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  Speaker 10: if you will. And that is the law in Virginia
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  Speaker 10: unless it's changed.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Bob, I appreciate it. I look forward to your
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  Speaker 6: coverage of this Clancy trial. I think it's a story
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  Speaker 6: that has gripped a lot of folks. I know California
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  Speaker 6: has laws that prohibit law enforcement for targeting mothers for
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  Speaker 6: the deaths of their children up till, I think, five years.
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  Speaker 6: So I think there's an Overton window that's been opened
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  Speaker 6: in this kind of case. So I'm really interested to
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  Speaker 6: hear what your program, it's goodforamerica.org. And thank you for
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  Speaker 6: doing it. And thank you for, again, talking with us
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  Speaker 6: about some of these things this morning. First thing today,
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  Speaker 6: you have a wonderful Labor Day weekend. You as well, Joe.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you, my friend. Take care.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 6: this morning. Coming to you from City Elders, text message
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  Speaker 6: on the message of City Elders. And apologies, I have
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  Speaker 6: to move, and your world is orbiting around my son
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  Speaker 6: in a lot of different ways. So when you catch us,
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  Speaker 6: sometimes you don't hear all the things laid out in
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  Speaker 6: four-part harmony. But the city elders is not looking for theocracy.
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  Speaker 6: They're just looking for ethical people to hold office. And
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  Speaker 6: that's it. You know, this is, I think, a bipartisan issue.
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  Speaker 6: If you look and you ask your people, regardless of
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  Speaker 6: political party, if there are ethical people or should we
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  Speaker 6: have ethical people in government, I think you would find
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  Speaker 6: a unanimity of that thought. Now, certainly there are going
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  Speaker 6: to be those who say that specifically because they think
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  Speaker 6: politician A, B, or C, or T, is unethical. And
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  Speaker 6: that may well be in the end game, but that's
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  Speaker 6: not for us to judge. Ours is to judge right
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  Speaker 6: and wrong. Ours is to judge if somebody is making
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  Speaker 6: their decisions based on what is right and wrong versus
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  Speaker 6: what's what is good for them, what is beneficial to them.
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  Speaker 6: And that's become the corruption of our government. We get
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  Speaker 6: the government that we ask for. And unfortunately, because of
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  Speaker 6: the gaslighting, because of the voter suppression, when I say
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  Speaker 6: we ask for, it's really just 20% of us ask
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  Speaker 6: for it. Because that's all it takes to win an
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  Speaker 6: election where only 40% of the voters in a community
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  Speaker 6: turn out. And I've said it before, I'll say it again,
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  Speaker 6: we need to get better voter interaction. But we get
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  Speaker 6: that by creating smaller government cells. We've allowed these communities
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  Speaker 6: to become big. We've become fascinated with the big. We
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  Speaker 6: all want to play Yankee Stadium in front of 60,000 people.
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  Speaker 6: So as we head into Labor Day weekend, let's talk
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  Speaker 6: There it is. It's from down Mississippi, I guess listening
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  Speaker 6: Wherever you're tuning in this morning, Bill, who said, listen,
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  Speaker 6: if my boss is abusing me? Well, you see, this
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  Speaker 6: the Great Society started. How did they do that? What
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  Speaker 6: version of that kind of seaport. All this stuff coming
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  Speaker 6: It's possible through government intervention. Retarding... the free market and
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  Speaker 6: what you do, Bill. Let's just say you're a machinist.
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  Speaker 6: Go to DAV.org.
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  Speaker 9: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms.
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  Speaker 6: In the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 13: Freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 10: Freedom of religion.
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  Speaker 1: Freedom of the press.
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  Speaker 19: Freedom to peaceably assemble together.
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  Speaker 6: Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 18: Only the United States has these five freedoms so simply
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  Speaker 18: bound together and guaranteed.
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  Speaker 17: Think first.
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  Speaker 16: Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org.
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  Speaker 18: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 20: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
• 42:55
  Speaker 20: first date?
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  Speaker 14: Sure.
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  Speaker 9: We'll probably stay together.
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: Probably?
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 6: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 21: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, don't tell me what to do. Cannonball!
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  Speaker 13: Cramp!
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  Speaker 16: Oh, I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 10: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 1: Probably.
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  Speaker 10: Can I get a mulligan?
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 20: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay. Probably okay
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking and driving.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: If you're drinking, call a cab, a car, or a friend.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: Buzzed driving is drunk driving. A message brought to you
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  Speaker 6: by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
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  Speaker 20: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
• 43:51
  Speaker 20: also know this law protects teens. Find out more at DontServeTeens.gov.
• 43:56
  Speaker 20: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
• 43:58
  Speaker 20: the Federal Trade Commission.
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  Speaker 1: From the home of the First Amendment, First Thing Today.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: First Thing Today.
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  Speaker 6: Gotta be, gotta be. Thank you for letting us be
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: of service to you. Coming to you from City Elders
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: Weekly Get Together here at Common Ground in our flagship city.
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: And if you don't have a City Elders group where
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: you are, start one. Kevin has offered, if you want
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: to email him, kevin at cityeldersva.org and he'll give you
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: all you need to know about starting up a City
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: Elders group. branch where you are because it's about putting
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: ethical people in the place to make these decisions and
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: you know we've been gas lit into this idea of
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: church and state and it's it's not about church and
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: state it's about ethics and state and where do you
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: get them from and that's a key demarcation that of
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: course the marxist gaslighters don't want you to think about
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: a couple of Emails come in here, Ray, on the
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: story we had earlier about the Harmeet Dhillon telling Newsmax
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: that she's going to have election observers and people losing
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: their poop control over it because they're, oh, my God.
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: And she compared what the Department of Justice will be
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: doing to the ACLU and the League of Women Voters
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: and your political parties. And I think we did a
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: good job of debunking that argument, but Ray brings up
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: a great point. There's nothing unusual about federal election observers.
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: They used to be regular fixtures in southern states to
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: make sure the civil rights of black people were not violated.
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: If memory serves, the last time George Wallace ran for
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: governor of Alabama, he won substantially, including in black communities.
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: The national media was stunned. And they could not even
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: claim it was the result of chicanery since they had
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: federal Department of Justice observers all over the place. And
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: we were talking about it. I just happened to bring
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: this up. We were talking about call centers. And I
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: happened to mention that I used to work in State College,
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: the home of AccuWeather. Charles sends me a picture of
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: Charlton Heston in a Roman oarship. We keep you alive
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: to serve this ship, so row well and live. And
• 47:04
  Speaker 6: then Charles writes in the caption, forecast well and live.
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: That's the way a lot of those forecasters at AccuWeather,
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: they feel. They're like, better do right by the bosses there.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: But as we head into Labor Day weekend, I want
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  Speaker 6: you to understand that Yes, we are not ridiculous. We
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: don't understand or we do understand the world we're in
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: right now. And it's fair and acknowledging it. But understanding
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: how we got here and how we allowed the administrative
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: state after the end of the Civil War and the
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: technocrats to take over and therefore dictate things that should
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: not actually be debatable. Let me get folks before we
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: finish up this Friday morning. Good morning. You're on the
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: air with Joe. Who's this? Hey, Joe.
• 47:59
  Speaker 16: It's Clark.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Clark. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 4: I'm good.
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  Speaker 21: Now, you going to be set up tomorrow or are
• 48:06
  Speaker 21: you still going to be working on it?
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: What do you mean set up?
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: You going to be on the air tomorrow morning?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 21: Just making sure.
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  Speaker 6: Why wouldn't I be? I mean, I don't know. Well,
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 48:20
  Speaker 21: You're going to be mobile and you'll be set up yet.
• 48:25
  Speaker 21: So anyway, on the union thing, I think everybody should
• 48:32
  Speaker 21: be allowed to unionize, Joe, including business owners. I think
• 48:36
  Speaker 21: there should be one union of business owners.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 21: I think we should call it FAFO.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: FAFO.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 21: F-A-F-O. And whenever we feel like regulations on any business
• 48:53
  Speaker 21: or taxation on any business or onerous, we just lock
• 48:59
  Speaker 21: the doors and F-A-F-O.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I see. Go on strike and offer a business.
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: That's an interesting idea.
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  Speaker 21: Well, I think we'd get listened to a little quicker.
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: That's true. That's true. I mean, if the.
• 49:17
  Speaker 21: Grocery store, the gas station and the radio station and
• 49:19
  Speaker 21: the vet office are all closed, I think people, Hey,
• 49:22
  Speaker 21: wait a minute. Let's listen to what they got to say.
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: That would be like a shutdown, wouldn't it? Well, you know, next.
• 49:32
  Speaker 21: Time a president tells us you didn't build that.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 49:35
  Speaker 21: Let's find out who built what, buddy.
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: I like the idea. I like the idea. Now, wouldn't
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: that fall under, like, the Chamber of Commerce, though?
• 49:48
  Speaker 21: Have you ever dealt with the Chamber of Commerce, Joe?
• 49:50
  Speaker 21: I'm not impressed with my Chamber of Commerce.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I used to do a lot of stuff with the,
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: believe it or not, the Charlottesville Chamber of Commerce used
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: to be led by an ex-Democrat congressional chief of staff.
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: who did a great job. He was from the old school.
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: He was from the people need to work, people need
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: to have businesses. He didn't cotton to this whole AOC stuff.
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: He's gone now. But in his waning days, he gave
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: me a gift. He gave me a Gadsden flag that
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: used to hang in my office in that 20 years
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: I can't speak about anymore. Now I have it in
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: my home. The Gadsden flag, the don't tread on me flag,
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: used to hang in a Democrat congressman's office back in
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: the day.
• 50:38
  Speaker 21: Things have changed, haven't they?
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: Yes, they have. Indeed have. But anyway, so you're going
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: to be around tomorrow?
• 50:46
  Speaker 21: I'll be on the tree farm when you're on the air.
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: Right. Well, you know, because we go to work. Yeah.
• 50:54
  Speaker 21: Well, you know, they don't care what that is.
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: No, they don't. And that's the thing about work and
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: Labor Day is that I think we've lost– and I
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: don't think it's– we've been told that we're a prosperous
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: country and we shouldn't and these kind of things that–
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: these lies that we're told that– hang on. But these
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: lies that we're told about what we're entitled to and
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: things like that are dangerous.
• 51:27
  Speaker 21: Have you ever read Tarzan of the Apes, Joe?
• 51:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, years ago.
• 51:31
  Speaker 21: Burroughs had, like, just such great ideas. And one of
• 51:38
  Speaker 21: the things he said is Tarzan never had any idea
• 51:41
  Speaker 21: that the world owed him a living. He knew it
• 51:45
  Speaker 21: was incumbent upon him to go out and collect them.
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: Well, you're only owed what you earn. That's my view
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: on it anyway. I must run, but you have a
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: great morning, and we'll talk to you again maybe tomorrow.
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: I'll see you there. All right, 434-882-4217. As we head
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: into it, I hope you find out more about City Elders, cityelders.org.
• 52:13
  Speaker 6: And like I said, if you can't find an organization
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: in your neighborhood, start one. Just start one. Because the
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: world needs more people understanding that you can be both
• 52:28
  Speaker 6: a leader in your community, a representative of your neighbors
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: in your community, and a person of faith without being
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: afraid or being told that, oh, that's a separation of
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: church and state issue there, mister. Because it's a lie,
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: and it's a lie they tell you So anyway, it's
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: time for us to go. My name is Bobby.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
• 52:55
  Speaker 19: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
• 52:58
  Speaker 19: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 15: I'm Sam.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 10: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
• 53:04
  Speaker 10: of and supporting my family.
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: of their lives.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: My victory was going from homeless to home.
• 53:14
  Speaker 7: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
• 53:18
  Speaker 7: the benefits they've earned.
• 53:19
  Speaker 15: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
• 53:23
  Speaker 7: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support.
• 53:27
  Speaker 6: For victories great and small.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
• 53:33
  Speaker 10: My victory was getting my service dog a new best friend.
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: We help more than a million veterans every year as
• 53:39
  Speaker 7: they face and conquer their challenges.
• 53:41
  Speaker 16: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: more victories for veterans. Go to DAV.org.