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"Another Fine Myth" (FTTxJT Mon 092826 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: What the hell is this?
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  Speaker 2: This is the bill that will convert the State Hospital
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  Speaker 2: for the Insane into the William J.
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  Speaker 3: LePetermaine Memorial Gambling Casino.
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  Speaker 4: For the Insane.
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Tonk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: Joe works at.
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  Speaker 5: A steel mill.
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  Speaker 6: He's damn near every day. Leaves for work when the
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  Speaker 6: sun comes up.
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  Speaker 7: Drops of kids to school and on the way.
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  Speaker 6: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 8: All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 9: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 10: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 11: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 6: Bless you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 6: this morning.
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  Speaker 7: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 6: And we endeavor our Joe-ness every now and then here
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  Speaker 6: for you while we tell you what went on over
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  Speaker 6: the weekend, give you our analysis of it, but mostly
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  Speaker 6: want to hear about how it is impacting you where
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  Speaker 6: you are. by text message or phone call at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 6: You can also email jtinthemorningradio at gmail.com. I hope you
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  Speaker 6: had a wonderful weekend, bailing in a lot of coastal
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  Speaker 6: places along the way as the water nor'easters and the
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  Speaker 6: high pressure that they bring always happens. with the coastal
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  Speaker 6: flooding waters as the high-pressure system just kind of sits
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  Speaker 6: there and hit up island into the New York metropolitan area. Apparently,
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  Speaker 6: a housing authority employee had a tree fall on them
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  Speaker 6: during the storms, lots of trees down. Partially, a friend
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  Speaker 6: of mine texted me saying, I don't understand how this
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  Speaker 6: tree fell in my neighborhood. It hasn't been that windy. Well,
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  Speaker 6: you fill the ground up with water underneath. And in
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  Speaker 6: some places, you know, Pennsylvania, Virginia, really clay, hard soil,
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  Speaker 6: you don't get deep root structures. A friend of mine
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  Speaker 6: had a tree fall on Long Island near where my
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  Speaker 6: wife grew up, and the root ball was barely two inches.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it really was stunning how little of the
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  Speaker 6: earth was moved when the tree came down. It's That
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  Speaker 6: was a pretty good size, probably 12, 14 inches around
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  Speaker 6: and probably not two inches deep there. So a lot
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  Speaker 6: of that, and be careful, it drives the power outages,
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  Speaker 6: of course, and leads to lots of consternation in these
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  Speaker 6: weather events. But I think for the most part, the
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  Speaker 6: nor'easter has gone on its way, leaving in its wake,
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  Speaker 6: of course, Those climate zealots that had just spent the
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  Speaker 6: previous week at the Javits Center in New York City
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  Speaker 6: complaining about how all the money has dried up in
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  Speaker 6: their campaigns because now it's AI. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 6: AI drove a lot of the conversation over the weekend,
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  Speaker 6: and we'll get into some of that. But on Sunday
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  Speaker 6: morning on the talkers, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson was making
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  Speaker 6: the rounds, said Iran's economy will have nothing left within
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  Speaker 6: two weeks. I'm confident, given there's only 15 million more
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  Speaker 6: barrels of Iranian oil on the water, that Iran will
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  Speaker 6: have nothing left to trade for anything, probably within the
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  Speaker 6: next two weeks, he said. President Trump, apparently during a
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  Speaker 6: conversation with Chairman Xi last week, according to U.S. Ambassador
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  Speaker 6: to China David Perdue, offered to sell weapons to the
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  Speaker 6: Chinese Communist Party. He actually asked President Xi would he
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  Speaker 6: like to buy some at one point. Russia and Ukraine
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  Speaker 6: exchanged strikes overnight Sunday, killing at least eight people in
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  Speaker 6: Ukraine and one in Russia, officials say, after Moscow rejected
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  Speaker 6: calls from the German chancellor to ease off its escalation
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  Speaker 6: towards NATO. CIA reports over the weekend that to NATO
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  Speaker 6: leaders that Russia had planned strikes and has them in
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  Speaker 6: their dossier for the remainder of this year over NATO's
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  Speaker 6: involvement with Ukraine. Washington state voters will decide in November
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  Speaker 6: whether to repeal a new 9.9 income tax on earnings
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  Speaker 6: over $ 1 million setting up a major ballot fight. The
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  Speaker 6: tax signed into law by Governor Bob Ferguson in March
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  Speaker 6: is scheduled to take effect January 1st, 2028. However, Initiative
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  Speaker 6: 26645 has been certified on the November 3rd ballot, giving
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  Speaker 6: the voters a referendum over the tax. President Trump said
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  Speaker 6: Saturday he's approved new federal fuel economy standards, announcing through
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  Speaker 6: his Truth Social platform. Big day! for American auto workers
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  Speaker 6: and car buyers. I have just approved new fuel economy
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  Speaker 6: standards that terminate sleepy Joe Biden and Pete booty edge
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  Speaker 6: edge ridiculous EV mandate, end quote. British police say that
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  Speaker 6: five men were arrested in the early hours of Sunday
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  Speaker 6: morning near an Air Force base used by the United
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  Speaker 6: States during its war against Iran. They're being held on
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  Speaker 6: suspicion of preparing cars terrorist attack on that facility. Little
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  Speaker 6: details are known from this, but the British government says
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  Speaker 6: they have these assailants in custody. And those are some
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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia. Again, first thing today by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 11: If you drive a car, I'll tax the street.
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  Speaker 9: If you drive to.
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  Speaker 20: Sit, I'll tax your seat.
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  Speaker 15: If you get.
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  Speaker 9: Too cold, I'll tax the heat.
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  Speaker 11: If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
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  Speaker 6: You know, there was a day that that was just
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  Speaker 6: the fanciful lyrics of a.
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  Speaker 6: Transitional Beatles song when they started to move out of
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  Speaker 6: the mop-top pop band and started to experiment a little
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  Speaker 6: bit around. Let's make those lyrics fiction again. But they're
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  Speaker 6: all real now, as if some government bureaucrat sat there
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  Speaker 6: and said, you know that song I used to like
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  Speaker 6: back in the 60s? What if we did that? And
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  Speaker 6: if I sound like I'm moderately jealous of some of
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  Speaker 6: our folks on the left coast, there are a few
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  Speaker 6: things that happen in places like California and Washington that
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  Speaker 6: I'm jealous of. Because here in Virginia and most of
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  Speaker 6: the eastern seaboard, voters don't get to put things on
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  Speaker 6: the ballot. You have to buttonhole a congressperson or a
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  Speaker 6: member of your general assembly, and you have to wine them,
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  Speaker 6: dine them, buy them TV ads and yard signs, and
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  Speaker 6: then maybe, just maybe, they'll propose something that you want.
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  Speaker 6: And even then, it's, as most of my friends can
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  Speaker 6: tell you, a watered-down version of what you wanted in
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  Speaker 6: the first place. So, you know, when.
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  Speaker 6: Californians and Washingtonians, you put things on their ballot, it's
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  Speaker 6: impressive to me. And especially this Initiative 26645 in Washington state.
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  Speaker 6: For those who think Washington and Oregon and California are
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  Speaker 6: all just waiting for the San Andreas Fault to cleave
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  Speaker 6: them off from the United States so they can start
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  Speaker 6: floating closer to the People's Republic of China, which they
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  Speaker 6: all kind of look at. Isn't it great over there?
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  Speaker 6: This referendum to stop a millionaire tax is wonderful. And
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  Speaker 6: there's several reasons. Number one, the millionaire tax is a
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  Speaker 6: complete and total lie. Number two, the millionaire tax is
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  Speaker 6: a job killer, always is, and I'll tell you why
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  Speaker 6: in a second. But these are the things that energize people,
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  Speaker 6: because after a bit, it becomes SOP. As long as
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  Speaker 6: the Democrats in places like Washington State keep it.
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  Speaker 5: Reasonable.
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  Speaker 6: And maybe that's the Rubicon that the American Democrat Party
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  Speaker 6: has crossed, is they've stopped being reasonable. They've gone for
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  Speaker 6: the pitchforks and torches. Proof, again, that Fabian socialism is
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  Speaker 6: perhaps the most dangerous kind because you don't realize they're
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  Speaker 6: doing it. They've just taken over the establishment. It's what
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  Speaker 6: Mao talked about, the hundred-year march through. And so here
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  Speaker 6: in Washington State, they wanted almost 10%. And somebody told me,
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  Speaker 6: we should get our buddy Lars on this. He knows
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  Speaker 6: this stuff inside out. And partially because every time Virginia
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  Speaker 6: gets its nutty on, he calls us. There must be
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  Speaker 6: some reason that they didn't go to 10%. There has
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  Speaker 6: to be some legislative ceiling that says, well, you can't
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  Speaker 6: do a tax of more than 10% without thus and
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  Speaker 6: such happening. I'm pretty sure that the 9.9% taxable income
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  Speaker 6: above $ 1 million. And here's why it's a job killer.
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  Speaker 6: Most small businesses are LLCs or partnerships. Most operate through
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  Speaker 6: the taxes of the officers. For example, Thomas Media, LLCs.
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  Speaker 6: The income from Thomas Media LLC is technically my wife
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  Speaker 6: and my income, even though we don't take any of
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  Speaker 6: it home because more than most people, we have a
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  Speaker 6: lot of bills to pay, electric bills beyond just our
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  Speaker 6: house and our mortgage bill, rents on transmitter sites and
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  Speaker 6: things like that. Never mind our CapEx. Oh, my God,
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  Speaker 6: the CapEx. I'm learning about how to segregate this, at
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  Speaker 6: least in your mind. How are you doing this year? Well,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, if it wasn't for the capital expenditure. And
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  Speaker 6: you know what the funny thing is? Friends of mine
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  Speaker 6: who work for, like, school boards are like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I understand that. Because it's like, oh, yeah, we had
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  Speaker 6: a great year. I mean, except for the millions and
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  Speaker 6: millions of dollars we spent in capital expenditures, we made
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  Speaker 6: more than we spent. I mean, if you take out
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  Speaker 6: the other stuff we spent.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, accounting.
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  Speaker 6: Accounting. Now I know why spreadsheets look the way they do.
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  Speaker 6: I used to just think they were a metaphor for
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  Speaker 6: what you had to do when the IRS came. So
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  Speaker 6: people in Washington that make a million dollars, and this
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  Speaker 6: isn't Bill Gates, this is some oligarch sitting on the
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  Speaker 6: side of Puget Sound in their billion-dollar home. These are
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  Speaker 6: hardware store owners and food truck operators and radio station owners.
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  Speaker 6: who modestly could see themselves making a million dollars. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: if you think about it, a million dollars in a
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  Speaker 6: year isn't that much. What would it be per month?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's $ 83, 000 a month. If you have a
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  Speaker 6: company that employs a few people, That's going to eat
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  Speaker 6: most of that up right off the bat with payroll
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  Speaker 6: taxes and things like that, rent, that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 6: taxes on the business as well. But it appears that
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  Speaker 6: you have a million dollars of income, so you've become
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  Speaker 6: the piñata so that some nouveau American Marxist can score
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  Speaker 6: some hit points behind a lectern on the evening news,
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  Speaker 6: going after those rich guys. Joe Biden taught us this. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: I won't raise taxes on anyone making less than $ 250, 000
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  Speaker 6: a year. Still meant every small business owner, every LLC
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  Speaker 6: operator was going to get hammered, which means they're going
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  Speaker 6: to close. Why would Governments want that because governments don't
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  Speaker 6: get any money from them. It's the same reason governments
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  Speaker 6: don't defend the unborn. Because a small business isn't significant
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  Speaker 6: enough to fund their campaigns for re-election, to buy yard
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  Speaker 6: signs and mailers. The same way an unborn infant is
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  Speaker 6: 18 years removed from casting its first vote. This is
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  Speaker 6: why the government doesn't care about protecting them.
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• 28:11
  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 11: If they'll let you keep it.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't build that.
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  Speaker 6: That'd be me. One for you and 19 for me
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: is that other fine song. This is classic socialism, and
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: it's not the big guys. This is why I've pointed
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: out this lie about socialism for so long. It's not
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: about going after the rich guy. No, the rich guy,
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: rich family, is imperative to making Marxism work. The money's
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: got to come from somewhere. So what the Marxist does,
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: and this is Marxism 101, the Marxist goes to the
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: rich family and says, Otto, I can make sure that
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: your family never, ever is poor. We will protect your wealth,
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: your position. And to be fair, the money is really
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: only there to give position. Position in the community means
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: a voice, authority, so that I can tell you what
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: I think you should do. A mischaracterization of what people
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: think I do here. I'm not telling you to not
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: have indiscriminate premarital sex. I'm just saying be prepared that
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: babies might come from it and that someday I'd love
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: to see a world where we don't have the phrase
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: unwanted pregnancy in the lexicon anymore. That's all. I just
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: want every pregnancy to be wanted and supported, especially by
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: the deadbeat DNA owners, providers, whatever. They'd come along and
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: want to ride off into the sunset. And, hey, thanks,
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: you really were a good sport. Going on Amazon.com to
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: order Milfa Pristone or whatever it's called. But I'm not
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: trying to tell you what to do. But the oligarchs
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: of these Marxist economies, they do. Wealth is about position. So,
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: The Marxist goes to these families and says, Otto, Otto,
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: my friend, I want to make sure that your family
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: always has the stature you think it deserves. Here's what
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: we're going to do. We're going to tell the poor,
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: before they get their Marie Antoinette on and realize that
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: you guys are telling them to eat cake since they
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: have no bread, before they get their Marie Antoinette on,
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: We're going to point to the business people, the middle class,
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: the shop owners, the million dollar a year earners, and
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: we're going to go after them. We're going to tell
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: them through our friends in the media that they're the
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: rich people because most of the poor work for them
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: and they don't like them because they work for them.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: They make them get up early. They make them go
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: home late.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: They they.
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: May not even seem like they care. Maybe they have
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: a son or a daughter that you think you're better than,
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: and yet they seem to have a place because they're
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: the son or daughter of the hardware store owner. What
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: do they know about nickel-plated roofing nails? I know better
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: than them, and that's what the Marxist plays on. And
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: that's why America has fallen prey to it, because we
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: haven't had anyone out there opening the Joe Thomas in
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: the Morning Field Guide to the American Marxist. We could
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: roll it back. I mean, it just takes an election
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: or two to roll it back and put people who
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: don't want to give so much authority to the government in,
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: and then we start clawing back that authority to us. Thus,
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: this Washingtonian referendum. I wish every state had that ability
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: for citizens just to put stuff on balance. Yeah, I
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: know you have to get signatures, you have to campaign
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: for it, you have to get to a point. But,
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: I mean, in Virginia, you can hardly recall an elected official,
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: never mind get your own referendum on the ballot. Kareem's
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: on the line with us at 434-882-4217. Early this Monday morning,
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: where are you off to, my trucking friend?
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  Speaker 23: Edna, Jersey, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry about that. I'm sorry. All my sister and
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  Speaker 6: her husband and all my nieces and nephews are from
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  Speaker 6: New Jersey. I really shouldn't say that, so. but drive carefully.
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  Speaker 23: Jug handles. Tell you what, Joe, there's something else. But Joe,
• 33:31
  Speaker 23: I do. I agree. I do wish that referendums, not
• 33:35
  Speaker 23: just referendums, but I wish the voters could actually put laws,
• 33:39
  Speaker 23: vote on laws to remove outside of Congress. That'd be nice.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: How do you clarify for me? So like if If
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: we didn't like a federal law, we could do something
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: like convene an amending convention or something like that, Kareem?
• 33:59
  Speaker 23: That convention sounds kind of fancy. I just think of
• 34:01
  Speaker 23: the regular ballot. Let each state say, hey, our people
• 34:04
  Speaker 23: voted no, even though the Congress four or five years
• 34:07
  Speaker 23: ago voted yes.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: See, that's interesting because, remember, the states used to, fund
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: the government. So the senators would come back to the
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: general assemblages in their states and say, okay, here's the
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: federal budget and this percentage here in red, that's our cut.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: So you got to give me a check for this
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: so I can go back to Washington with it. And
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: this is how the Senate winds up with such an
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: important role in budgeting because then they would go back
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: to Washington and tell the House no, we can't get
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: that kind of money for you. And so that sort
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: of control was exactly what Congress was founded on, Kareem,
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: was that states get the final say over most all
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: things outside of the Bill of Rights and those kind
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: of existential things.
• 35:08
  Speaker 23: Joe, being able to tell the government no, especially when
• 35:11
  Speaker 23: it comes to matters of money... That's a huge strength.
• 35:16
  Speaker 23: Alan Keyes, a few years ago, said that, you know,
• 35:20
  Speaker 23: how much money are you responsible? How much money do
• 35:23
  Speaker 23: you have to tell about the government to be responsible for?
• 35:26
  Speaker 23: And you have to tell them all your money. You don't,
• 35:30
  Speaker 23: you know, they take their share, but you have to tell,
• 35:31
  Speaker 23: you have to disclose all the money that you make. Joe,
• 35:34
  Speaker 23: this Washington issue, it's, again, you plant a big field.
• 35:40
  Speaker 23: There's a lot of fruit there.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: It's a lot of manure. You didn't put that there.
• 35:46
  Speaker 23: That's from the government itself. Joe, looking at the stuff,
• 35:51
  Speaker 23: this 9.9, let's say it's those 99-cent stores in California.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: I've been there.
• 35:57
  Speaker 23: I've enjoyed those. Those were a bargain, but they actually
• 36:00
  Speaker 23: had to close down because it got so bad. But
• 36:03
  Speaker 23: you're looking at however they want to sell it to
• 36:05
  Speaker 23: the people. Washington by itself essentially is a socialist state.
• 36:11
  Speaker 23: And They need to take because they can't survive as
• 36:15
  Speaker 23: they are with what they have, so they've got to
• 36:17
  Speaker 23: take from somebody. Now, honestly, I don't know if I
• 36:19
  Speaker 23: want to go eat at a food truck that clears $ 80, 000
• 36:23
  Speaker 23: a month, although I might want to stand back and
• 36:25
  Speaker 23: just watch them operate just for the sake of saying, yes,
• 36:28
  Speaker 23: I got to see that in person. But when I'm
• 36:31
  Speaker 23: looking at this stuff, I'm seeing, for example, former Rasmussen
• 36:36
  Speaker 23: chief pollster, Mark Mitchell.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 36:40
  Speaker 23: He got fired from Rasmussen because he was critical of
• 36:42
  Speaker 23: Trump because of the polling data, not because he's following
• 36:45
  Speaker 23: the polling data, but because he's trying to tell people
• 36:48
  Speaker 23: what's going on because he sees the polling data and
• 36:51
  Speaker 23: they're ignoring it. Richard Barr is the same way. He's
• 36:54
  Speaker 23: got his book, and just like what you said earlier,
• 36:56
  Speaker 23: the book's called Burn It All Down. Mitchell has polling
• 37:01
  Speaker 23: data showing socialism is more popular than Trump right now.
• 37:04
  Speaker 21: Yeah, yeah.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: I've seen that polling data.
• 37:07
  Speaker 23: This bloodbath coming up in the next few months, Washington
• 37:11
  Speaker 23: is just the latest sign. It's going to get worse
• 37:16
  Speaker 23: than that.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: Anyway, go ahead, Joe.
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  Speaker 21: I'm listening.
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: Well, no, no, no.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: And that's generally how this works is I talk, you listen,
• 37:23
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• 37:26
  Speaker 6: we're coming up on a break. But you open a
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: can of worms on the idea of socialism being more
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: popular based on polling data. And this is a pox
• 37:37
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• 37:43
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• 37:50
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  Speaker 17: According to a new report from Discovery Education, 92% of
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• 38:52
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 16: You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.
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  Speaker 21: Hi.
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  Speaker 5: If you choose not to decide, you still haven't made
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  Speaker 5: a choice.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, what? You can choose from phantom fears and kindness
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  Speaker 1: that can kill.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me? So much moving on this front, and I
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  Speaker 6: don't want to belabor this Washington story, but this is,
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  Speaker 6: as Kareem was saying, Americans are becoming enamored with socialism
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  Speaker 6: because people in my industry... in exchange for access, don't
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  Speaker 6: criticize when something is done to help Wall Street. And
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  Speaker 6: in the mid-90s, the Republican Congress and the Democrat president
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  Speaker 6: colluded to take a lot of firewalls out of Washington
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  Speaker 6: because the Democrat president had run on a campaign of,
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  Speaker 6: it's the economy, stupid. And one, because George Herbert Walker Bush,
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  Speaker 6: his predecessor, had cut defense spending and therefore sent a
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  Speaker 6: lot of industries into a tailspin because they were banking
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  Speaker 6: on defense spending. So a lot of people lost their
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  Speaker 6: jobs at places like Northrop Grumman, places like that. A
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  Speaker 6: lot of computer companies went into a tailspin because they
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  Speaker 6: had become.
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  Speaker 6: Drunk on the idea of selling their computers to the
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  Speaker 6: government because the government was the only one using computers.
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  Speaker 6: And Bill Clinton ran against him and said, it's the economy, stupid.
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  Speaker 6: And did things like go out and say, well, your
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  Speaker 6: jobs aren't coming back, but we're going to train you
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  Speaker 6: on new ones. And people are like, oh my God.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody admitted that? So by the mid-90s, they needed to
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  Speaker 6: start showing something. So what's the easiest way to make
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  Speaker 6: Americans think the economy is going good? Wall Street. Every day, sorry, well,
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  Speaker 6: Dow Jones Industrial up 100 points to an all-time record high.
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  Speaker 6: Does that mean anything to you?
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  Speaker 21: No.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe you have a 401k, an IRA that has some investments,
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  Speaker 6: so you're thinking, well, okay, hopefully it means I'm not eating,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I'm not dumpster diving when I'm retired because,
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  Speaker 6: you know, my hip's going to be a problem getting
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  Speaker 6: into those dumpsters. What, you've never heard of the freegan movement?
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  Speaker 6: Grocery stores are having a huge problem with this freegan movement.
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  Speaker 6: Not friggin'. Friggin' is something that people my age in
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  Speaker 6: the Northeast used to say when they were afraid of
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  Speaker 6: saying the other F word. Are you out of your
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  Speaker 6: friggin' mind? That kind of thing. No, friggin' as opposed
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  Speaker 6: to vegan. I will jump into your dumpster to find
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  Speaker 6: reasonably clean food, go home and wash it. Oh, yeah. But,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, seniors are hoping that they don't have to
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  Speaker 6: try to do that to find dinner. But you hear
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  Speaker 6: just a story that says the Dow Jones Industrial is up.
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  Speaker 6: You think, well, all right, that's good. What's happened, though,
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  Speaker 6: is as media becomes more and more prevalent, social media,
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  Speaker 6: anti-social media, whatever it is, your access to information is
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  Speaker 6: you start seeing more and more people saying, yeah, I
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  Speaker 6: still can't pay my electric bill. Yeah, I still can't
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  Speaker 6: buy my gas. You're triaging things. We were talking about
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  Speaker 6: this before we came on the air, Las Vegas having
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  Speaker 6: a huge problem with tourism because people are like, I'm
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  Speaker 6: going to Vegas. It's enough of a gamble going to
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  Speaker 6: the gas station. So it has stopped being the opiate
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  Speaker 6: of the masses just to hear on the evening news
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  Speaker 6: that Wall Street has struck a new high, but because
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  Speaker 6: Republicans and Republican media are generally stayed away from saying
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  Speaker 6: anything about that, Republicans went along with it because they were,
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  Speaker 6: generally speaking, populist. Most politicians are populist more than they
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  Speaker 6: are ideological. which means they chase the little red laser
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  Speaker 6: pointer around the wall like your two-year-old cat or any
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  Speaker 6: number of cats that you will find on Facebook Reels.
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  Speaker 6: So if people like it when you say Wall Street
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  Speaker 6: is up, politicians will say Wall Street is up and
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  Speaker 6: that means things are good. Rather than saying, hey, The
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  Speaker 6: value of the dollar keeps going down. They say Joe
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  Speaker 6: Biden made inflation high because it's about a political hit.
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  Speaker 6: It's not about the reality of why your dollar doesn't
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  Speaker 6: buy a whole lot anymore. And so when people say, oh,
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  Speaker 6: the Republicans are in peril of losing the midterms, it's
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  Speaker 6: their own fault, but it's actually the fault of probably
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  Speaker 6: two or three generations of Republicans who for time in memoriam.
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  Speaker 6: We had them. In 2010, we had them. More so
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  Speaker 6: than even the contract with America's wave of Tea Party-sponsored
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  Speaker 6: Republicans swooped into Congress in 2010's midterms. And almost immediately,
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  Speaker 6: people like Anderson Cooper started lampooning the Tea Party, cartoonists.
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  Speaker 6: People who weren't even cartoonists were drawing cartoons of bug-eyed,
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  Speaker 6: crazy-looking people saying, I want the American Revolution again, giving
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  Speaker 6: rise to people like Ibram Kendi, who would go out
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  Speaker 6: and say, yeah, and all those American revolutionaries owned slaves.
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  Speaker 6: And they would make this tortured case that anyone who
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  Speaker 6: said taxed enough already, or anyone who was in the
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  Speaker 6: Tea Party, T being an acronym for taxed enough already,
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  Speaker 6: was tacitly a racist who wanted slavery back. That was
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  Speaker 6: their tortured logic, but it was enough to drive the
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  Speaker 6: populist Republicans away from the Tea Party. We had them
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  Speaker 6: again with Trump won. So they let loose a bioweapon
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  Speaker 6: on us and said everyone has to stay home and
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  Speaker 6: don't talk to your friends because your friends are murderers
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  Speaker 6: or at least potential murderers. They're going to go out
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  Speaker 6: there and spray the street with their COVID bullets like
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  Speaker 6: Fat Sam Giancana on the streets of Chicago in the St.
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  Speaker 6: Valentine's Day Massacre. So we stopped talking to each other.
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  Speaker 6: And then we found ourselves in silos of people where
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  Speaker 6: the algorithm just lets you hear other people who say
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  Speaker 6: similar things to you or are thinking, and then you
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  Speaker 6: get feeds with things that lead you down a rabbit hole.
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