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Here We Go Again · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day,
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and you're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Monday morning, fifteenth
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day of April. I'm West Thanks for joining me. Tax Day. You
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haven't done it. You probably are paying, if you're getting a refund,
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you may have already done them, or you're just really lazy and you don't
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know if you're getting a refund or not, and you haven't been bothered to
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do it. And which city is worse at procrastinating about their taxes in the
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US. We'll talk about that coming up. Hint, it's somewhere kind of
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nearby where I am, and it may be even where you're listening from.
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It's possibility. We have many listeners in this particular city. You may be
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one of those procrastinators. But we'll get to that coming up in just a
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little bit. All right, this is what we're going to talk about today.
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A couple of things. One, the situation in Israel has now gotten
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worse somehow. Go back to October. A completely unprovoked attack and hostages taken,
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people killed right in front of their family members, all sorts of horrific
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things. We talked about all that when it happened, you know the things
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that happened. If you don't, you should look into what happened. Okay,
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I'm not going to go through the horrifying things that happened about six months
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ago. Now Iran has decided that they were going to attack Israel, presumably
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at a time where it seems that maybe US support for Israel is not where
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it once was. Certainly doesn't seem to be. One of the goals that
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Iran has had for a very very long time is to try to drive a
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wedge between the US and Israel and then open themselves up to be in a
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position where they can try to destroy Israel. So the very fact that we
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have folks on US soil screaming for the death of Israel and israelis we have
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people getting plenty of media time from countries around the world screaming for it.
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The fact that we have US politicians that seem more than comfortable with calls and
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cries to eliminate Israel. We have heads of universities, major universities in the
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US that have no problems with their students calling for the death of Israel and
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the end of the Israeli state. We have wavering. We used to have
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unwavering Now we've got wavering support for Israel within our own government. So this
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should not be a surprise to anyone who's been following Iran over the past several
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decades. This would be the time that Iran would attack, and that's exactly
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what they've done. But a very intricate and a successful shield has done its
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job for the most part. But a message has been sent. Many experts
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agree. Part of what was being said here was if we had nuclear weapons,
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we would have been able to launch them at you because our ballistic missiles
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made it to your defense system. So if we wanted to, this is
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something that we could do. Message received. It should be by Israel,
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and it should be acknowledged and received by everyone in the region, and it
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should be acknowledged and received by our own government. Here we're seeing one,
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and it's so interesting. I would have never guessed that John Fetterman would be
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the member of the Democrat Party, the member of the Senate that would break
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from the other Democrats when it comes to things like this attack. Wouldn't have
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guessed it. The slob guy in the hoodie, I wouldn't have guessed it
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but he's the one who has you know, split away and thinks that we
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should still be siding with Israel, our longtime, long time ally. So
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there's that we also have. We're getting ready to get into this hush money
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trial when it comes to the former president, and this has turned into it's
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really a hail Mary attempt. It's a last ditch effort. It's the strategy.
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I have told you here that the strategy for Democrats, at least from
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a political standpoint, is going to be all in on abortion. It will
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be that's the full everything that they're going to do, all the chips,
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that is the that's the bet, that's the gamble. But they haven't given
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up on what was their initial strategy, which was let's get Trump and make
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sure that he can't run. Let's do everything we can to make sure that
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he cannot run, and if somehow he is able to run, let's get
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him a felony conviction, so that people will be forced to decide if they
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want to go in and vote for a convicted felon, thinking that there would
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be enough Americans who would not just not be able to do it, the
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sour taste in their mouth, the thought of voting for a convicted felon would
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be enough to make them say I just can't do it, and then they
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would not want to vote for him. Everything about this strategy has been laid
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out for us for quite some time. This trial was intentionally put into a
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window where you're going to be in a very liberal town with a very liberal
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judge, a very liberal jury base, and the idea of the thought of
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a conviction on this seems highly likely with no one willing to kind of stand
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up and say this is absurd. We're outside of the statute of limitations on
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this. This should not even be any sort of a felony trial. The
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accusation here is that it's a misdemeanor charge and it's outside the statute of limitations.
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However, the DA in the case Bragg has said, no, no,
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no, we found a way to make this into a felony charge.
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So the likely scenario is a conviction, make him a convicted felon, he'll
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pay some fines, and then he'll win on an appeal. But guess what,
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that won't happen until after the election, after people have voted. So
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the strategy here is really easy to see to anyone who's paying attention. I've
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had people say to me, and they're folks that would vote on the left
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anyway. One in particular still very sour about Hillary Clinton not winning. Someone
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who put all their chips on Hillary, someone who said, first woman,
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this is going to happen, It's finally going to happen, was ready to
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celebrate and was devastated on election night. This person would have easily been in
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that group of people that was just watching and crying at their house that night.
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And this person asked me, you're really going to be able to vote
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for a convicted felon, Like that's something that you're willing to do because you
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just can't do it? And I said, I can do it. Trust
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me. I'm not voting for Joe Biden. And this felony, when it
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gets overturned, will be a perfect example of how ridiculous this whole trial was
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and what the purpose of it was. See, it's not about convicting Donald
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Trump. It's about making him unelectable. And even if he's only unelectable in
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the eyes of enough people to cause Biden to be able to win again.
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That's all I want. That's it, that's the goal. Can you imagine
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if you were the team behind the campaign for a candidate, what does it
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say about your opinion of that candidate if you think this is the strategy.
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What does it say about your opinion of the validity of this candidacy for your
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guy, your candidate, If you don't think that they can win on issues,
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what does it say are you even fighting for the right cause. I
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mean, this is one of those scenarios where and it's kind of fresh on
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the news because obviously of his passing that just happened. But think back to
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the oj Simpson trial. Think about his dream team of lawyers. He had
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Bailey and Shapiro and everybody said, oh, this is it, this is
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the dream team. And they bring in Johnny Cochran. That's when things started
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to change because Cochran wasn't looking at this from the perspective of we're gonna do
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this head up, We're gonna say, hey, here's why we have reasonable
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doubt. Cochran came from out of nowhere. It was let's try racism,
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see if it works. Let's see what happens if we scream racism at every
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step along the way. Let's just see it might work. If it's enough
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to get a jury to say not guilty. Then it's worked. Let's just
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try that. You guys want to try this case on the facts. You
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want to try this case at like defense attorneys. I want to try it
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like a guy who's willing to do whatever it takes to get him off.
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Facts be damned. I assume I don't know, but I assume at least
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that maybe one or two of those lawyers in that team were aware of the
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fact that he did it. I assume that if they didn't know it,
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then they knew it after the fact. But that's the life of a defense
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attorney, right. The goal is to, you know, make sure your
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client gets fair trial. But if you know that they did it, then
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you know that they can't win on the actual facts of the case. Right,
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So what do you do? You just start taking these desperation lobs,
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these hail mary's to use the football term and just throw racism out and see
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if it works. And it did at least it did in the criminal trial,
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you know, not in the civil trial. They didn't really try it
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that way though, did they. So that's basically what we have, right.
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We have a candidate who clearly isn't up to task for the job.
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We see failures very regularly. We've seen a long history of failures. We've
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heard these weird and bizarre brags. Look what I've done with jobs. Look
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what I've done with the economy. Those Republicans ruined the economy and I've been
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fixing it. And the inflation was bad when I got here. Americans are
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oh in the border, and he's blamed the bad border on Trump. All
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the people coming in, all the people that are allowed to come in,
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and give them plenty of time, get pregnant, have babies, and then
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it's really hard to justify making them leave right. So not that that's what
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they're doing, of course, that's not what they're doing. So if your
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candidate's bad, and you know you American people don't want your candidate to win
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again, but you hate the other guy so much and you think this is
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the only person who's beaten him. So this is our chance. We know
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we can win, just because Americans settled for this guy once before. They
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settled for our guy once before. They didn't want him necessarily, they settled
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for him. So this is the desperation eve get him that felony conviction and
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hope enough people won't vote for him if he's a convicted felon, that's it.
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And does it even matter if you've already voted, you don't get to
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go back and revote again when it's overturned. But you have to understand it
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will not hold up. There's no way he doesn't win on an appeal.
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It's absurd that this is even going to trial at all, but it's very
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likely, very likely liberal judge, very liberal DA that ran on doing this.
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This was his goal was to get Donald Trump probably going to get a
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good voter pool of Democrat voters. It's the scenario. Everything about this is
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stacked against Trump, and I don't know if at some point they're going to
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have to try to present why statute of limitations weren't allowed to run out on
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this. It did never should have come up again, And it's not really
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that different than when charges were brought up Steele dossier, Hillary Clinton using money
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to pay for that, which, if it was a scenario was flipped around,
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Yeah, then she would have been forced, possibly by a conservative judge
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and a conservative DA in a conservative town, to answer for it. But
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that's not how it played out, is it. She paid a fine.
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She moved on. So here we go, we begin this process. I
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don't know there's weeks ahead for this. It'll stretch out, Like I said,
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just long enough, just long enough that we're going to be in a
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situation where when the appeal comes around for this, it's going to be after
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election day. That's what's shaping up. That's how it's all gonna And oh,
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could you possibly and you don't think that that's the strategy. Chris Sununu,
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Governor of New Hampshire, was on George Stephanoflos's show on ABC News and
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they argued about this topic. Now, Sununu has been a supporter of Nikki
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Haley. She has said things about Trump, she has he has said things
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on her behalf about Trump, about you know, insurrection, all those things.
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And stephanoffl was saying, you're telling me you would still vote for a
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Republican. You'd still vote for Donald Trump if he was a convicted felon.
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You wouldn't be swayed by that, And sinun Wu says, no, I
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would vote for him. We need to have a regime change. That's what
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I'd be voting for. I'd be voting for the culture change. I would
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be voting for a Republican in the White House in stepanofalis, which is I
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can't believe it. This is a simple question, insurrection. He'd be a
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convicted felon and you're going to support him. How could you do that?
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This is the strategy. This is exactly the strategy. This is what we're
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looking at between now an election day, and people have to realize that that's
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what it is. It's a desperation move. This is Johnny Cochrane screaming racism
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and every possible turn because you can't win on the facts, you can't win
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on the candidate. This is the strategy. Oh yeah, and abortion.
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West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, Well, it is tax
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day, and well it's the deadline at least. And if you haven't done
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your taxes yet and you're scrambling to do them, you're not alone. And
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if you live in the Atlanta area, you're probably really not alone. As
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it looks like thirty percent of Americans wait till the last minute, wait till
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today, and there are parts of the country more likely to put it off
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than others, according to a study from the Chamber of Commerce, with the
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city with the most procrastinators is Atlanta. And that's why I say, if
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you're living Atlanta and you're listening and you've delayed doing your taxes, you are
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almost certainly not alone, it says data showing taxpayers in Atlanta lead the country
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in Google searches for help with filing late tax returns. Fifty one percent of
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procrastinators say they put off filing their taxes because it's too complicated and it's too
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stressful. That sounds about right. Forty seven percent blame it on their natural
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tendency to procrastinate, and sixteen percent said they just don't find it a priority.
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Atlanta at the top of the list, Orlando in second place. You
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still lowtown. I don't know. Salt Lake, City of Utah, Fort
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Lauderdale, Miami, Birmingham also down here in the southeast, with US and
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Alexandria, Virginia, Lakewood, Colorado, Hollywood, Florida, and Richmond,
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Virginia rounding out the top ten of the procrastinating states when it comes to tax
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returns. Let's talk a little bit about pets. How much do people love
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their pets well. It seems that people would be willing to take a cut
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in their pay at their job if it would mean they could have their pets
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come to work with them. A new survey found forty one percent of pet
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owners would be willing to take a pay cut if they could work in a
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pet friendly environment. Some would even leave their jobs for their pets. A
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new survey found sixty percent of pet owners said that they would consider leaving their
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job if it interfered with their ability to take care of their pet. Seven
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percent of pet parents actually have left a job and found a new one because
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of their pet, and twenty four percent have considered but have not done so
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just yet. If employers want to get employees back in the office, pets
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could be a way to do it. Thirty percent of respondents said they would
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be more open to working in their office if their pets were allowed to join
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them at work. I mean it's a way to get them back in.
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Good luck if you started and decide you don't like it as a business or
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as a supervisor or whatever, but you know it's a way, it's an
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idea you could possibly use it to get them back in the office, because
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that seems to be where they want to micromanage. Baby. They want to
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know what you're doing at all times. Can't be working from home and getting
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the work done, No, no, no, got to stand behind you
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with a cup of coffee and watch you work all right. Another this is
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specifically a dog story. Apparently, I guess the chocolate lab has surpassed the
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Golden retriever as the dog. They say that chocolate labs are just as loyal
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and devoted as goldens, but are more driven and hard working, where Golden
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retrievers just kind of sit there and look goofy and cute. When we start
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talking about hard working when it comes to our pets, this is like Eddie
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on Frasier. What is the goal here for the Are they pulling a plow
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in your fields? What? What? What is the working that we need
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out of our dogs? Give me my mostly Jack Russell all day. I
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mean, you know that was what Eddie was. So, I mean,
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if we're talking hard working, maybe, just maybe it could work well.
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It seems that folks in the gen Z group are getting to a point of
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being fed up with social media and done with it. It seems a bit
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ridiculous if you think about it, that that would be the generation who would
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be potentially ultimately the end of it, or at least a significant decrease in
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use of it. Last year, University of Chicago published a report found fifty
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seven percent of college students who were active users of Instagram would prefer to live
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in a world without the platform. Researchers ask students how much they'd have to
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get paid to get rid of social media, and the average answer was fifty
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dollars. Here's the interesting part. Many respondents said if most others of their
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friends deleted their social media, they would pay I guess the fifty dollars for
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that. They'd be willing to pay it get out of it. So that's
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interesting. That'll do it for this Monday edition of the show. Thanks to
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