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Choosing America Over Europe - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven oh six at fifty five g RCD talk station,
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  Speaker 1: All is right with the world. Got a little concern,
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  Speaker 1: but there he is this time every week, at this
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  Speaker 1: time the Big Picture with Jack Aded and I so
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  Speaker 1: look forward to this segment. Jack athered and welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the fifty five Karse Morning Show. We were a
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  Speaker 1: little worried about it because normally you're chiming in earlier
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  Speaker 1: than you did this morning, but I am happy you
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  Speaker 1: are here.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back, Thanks for having me back. By question of
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  Speaker 2: the morning, how are you celebrating the fourth.
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  Speaker 1: Go in too friend's house having a grill out me
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  Speaker 1: one of those parties, and I do believe because he
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  Speaker 1: has some toddler aged children, we're going to go out
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  Speaker 1: and get some fireworks to put a smile on the
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  Speaker 1: little on the on the little one's face, and probably
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  Speaker 1: put a smile on my face as well. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we got plans with friends as.
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  Speaker 2: Long as those fireworks don't get in the kids hands.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, responsible adults, we're not going to let
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  Speaker 1: them light them off.
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  Speaker 3: Only but two in.
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  Speaker 2: Fects were responsible adults, and it's amazing we're still a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, yeah, they I would have been allowed
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  Speaker 3: to light them off.
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  Speaker 2: Celebrating, however you do it is the easy part. What's
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  Speaker 2: harder is remembering to celebrate America and not the Europe
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  Speaker 2: our founders were fighting a break away from. Because America
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  Speaker 2: is all about freedom, God given individual rights secured by
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  Speaker 2: limited government. Europe was and still is all about dependency
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  Speaker 2: on government, what America's ignorant young people today call democratic socialism.
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  Speaker 2: So here's a little history. For all its compromises, the
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  Speaker 2: most awful one allowing slavery in order to keep Southern
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  Speaker 2: states in the Union until the North atoned for that
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  Speaker 2: with a civil war that costs seven hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand lives. Nobody's ever done something like that before, fight
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  Speaker 2: a war to free people. For all its compromises, the
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  Speaker 2: unprecedented revolutionary Declaration of Independence was all about liberty, eventually
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  Speaker 2: for everyone most of Europe and never known individual liberty.
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  Speaker 2: Individuals never took precedence over big government in Europe, except
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  Speaker 2: perhaps in Switzerland, and unless you were an aristocrat or
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  Speaker 2: landed gentry. Magna Carta, the Great Charter, signed by evil
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  Speaker 2: King John against his will in twelve fifteen, did curtail
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  Speaker 2: the power of the monarch, but only for the benefit
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  Speaker 2: of barons and other lords. The average bloke in Britain
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  Speaker 2: did not get the right to vote for another six
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  Speaker 2: hundred years, not until the eighteen thirties. France and most
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  Speaker 2: other European countries were even worse. Historians debate whether nobles
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed a rite of the first night with maidens who
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  Speaker 2: had just gotten married, but it's clear Brian that aristocrats
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  Speaker 2: did not have to pay any taxes, and on their
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  Speaker 2: own lands they literally got away with murder. Is a swashbuckling,
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  Speaker 2: really terrific summer novel that brings this to life. Raphael
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  Speaker 2: Sabatini's Scaramouche Divine right. Monarchs seized even more privileges. The
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  Speaker 2: son King Francis Louis the fourteenth proclaimed I am the state,
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  Speaker 2: and Europe's top down kingdoms didn't just tell everybody how
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  Speaker 2: to act, They dictated what you believed. Religious wars and
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  Speaker 2: persecution killed as many as seventeen million people when the
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  Speaker 2: population the world was much smaller than it is today.
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  Speaker 2: That's why America's earliest European settlers came here seeking religious freedom.
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  Speaker 2: Protestant Nonconformists in Massachusetts Catholics in Maryland. They chose to
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  Speaker 2: govern themselves in the wilderness of the New World. The
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  Speaker 2: frenchman Alexis to Tokville marveled at America's tradition of self government,
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  Speaker 2: from town halls to colonial legislatures. Europe lacked that your day,
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  Speaker 2: So when France beheaded its king, it had no idea
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  Speaker 2: had a government itself. John Locke had inspired Americans to
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  Speaker 2: champion individual rights, but the mentor of the French revolutionaries,
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  Speaker 2: as we just discussed, Jean Jacques Rousseau, believed the general
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  Speaker 2: will of the state took precedence over individuals. The state
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  Speaker 2: had the right to seize all property, to CeNSE her
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  Speaker 2: thought and create a godless religion supposed supposedly based on reason,
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  Speaker 2: as dictated by the state. Yet to enforce those dictates,
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  Speaker 2: the French revolutionaries relied not on reason but on what
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  Speaker 2: came to be called the national razor the guillotine. Even
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  Speaker 2: the revolutionaries lost their heads because, as one critic warned,
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  Speaker 2: violent revolutions eat their own children, and what was the
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  Speaker 2: upshot of all this killing? French kings soon were replaced
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  Speaker 2: by a self proclaimed emperor, General Napoleon Bonaparte. George Washington
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  Speaker 2: refused to be a king Napoleon sought world domination. When
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  Speaker 2: established European monarchs finally beat Bonaparte at Waterloo, those kings
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  Speaker 2: tried snuffing out future revolutions by turning their nations into
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  Speaker 2: police states. Then the monarchs tried besting each other by
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  Speaker 2: acquiring colonies. That suicidal rivalry, Brian, ended only with World
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  Speaker 2: War I. The economic collapse that followed brought fascism first
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  Speaker 2: to Italy, then Germany, and it triggered World War II.
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  Speaker 2: Fascism was defeated, but the world next had to choose
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  Speaker 2: between communism and democracy, and you can understand why many
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  Speaker 2: dirt poor third world nations succumbed to the lure of
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  Speaker 2: Soviet and then Chinese communism, even after it became clear
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  Speaker 2: that big government meant living under big brother. What was
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  Speaker 2: not clear, what was damnable, was that millions of young
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  Speaker 2: people here in America chose and continue to choose communism
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  Speaker 2: over limited decentralized government. We have talked to endlessly Brian
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  Speaker 2: about how these spoiled students, starting in the nineteen sixties,
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  Speaker 2: began rebelling against their parents. Parents who had won World
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  Speaker 2: War two, rebuilt their enemies, fought for expanded civil rights,
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  Speaker 2: sought to spread freedom everywhere. Maybe the parents example was
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  Speaker 2: too much to live up to. But starting in the sixties,
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  Speaker 2: and continuing through last week's primaries in New York and
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  Speaker 2: last nights in Colorado, you hear about that. Yeah, live too.
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  Speaker 2: Many children and grandchildren of the sixties have given up
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  Speaker 2: on America, given up on the challenge of growing up.
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  Speaker 2: So now, friends, America has a choice. Be a land
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  Speaker 2: of opportunity for all those we can afford to welcome here, because,
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  Speaker 2: as Milton Friedman showed, you cannot have open borders, much
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  Speaker 2: less birthright citizenship and a welfare state, or join the Europeans.
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  Speaker 2: No assimilation, no growth, no future. So how should we
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  Speaker 2: celebrate the fourth By all means, enjoy the fireworks and
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  Speaker 2: for one day it's okay to eat as many hot
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  Speaker 2: dogs as Joey Chestnuts can, But maybe also take a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes to talk with your children about why the
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  Speaker 2: United States of America is and must continue to be
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  Speaker 2: the freest and therefore the greatest country in the history
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  Speaker 2: of the world. What do you say?
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you completely, Jack, and I circled I
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  Speaker 1: wrote down welfare state as you mentioned it, and circled that.
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  Speaker 1: You know because a lot of you know, libertarian type
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  Speaker 1: folks believe in open borders and you know, freedom of travel,
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  Speaker 1: and conceptually that's fine. How did our country get formed?
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  Speaker 1: Why did people come here? Well, we welcomed pretty much everyone,
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  Speaker 1: but there was no welfare state. Folks who came here
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  Speaker 1: knew that they were going to have to apply their
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  Speaker 1: own knowledge, their own skills. They're going to have to
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  Speaker 1: work with family or friends that maybe help get them here,
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  Speaker 1: but ultimately feed, clothed, house and shelter themselves because there
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  Speaker 1: was no welfare state to hook themselves up with. If
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  Speaker 1: you didn't work hard, I guess you were going to
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  Speaker 1: starve to death or go back home. With the creation
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  Speaker 1: of the welfare state and allowing every man, woman, and
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  Speaker 1: childhood enters our country to hook themselves up to some
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  Speaker 1: component of it, that's a recipe for suicide, especially when
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  Speaker 1: being the greatest country on the planet, everyone apparently wants
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  Speaker 1: to come here. Why did twenty million people pour over
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  Speaker 1: the border in the Biden administration, Well, you open the
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  Speaker 1: borders up, but you didn't fix that pesky little problem,
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  Speaker 1: which is the financial one. Allowing everyone that came over
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  Speaker 1: to get hooked up to the medical court of government.
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  Speaker 1: It's a recipe for suicide. It's a disaster. Now if
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  Speaker 1: we could just nix this whole concept for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: or however, whatever laws we could put in place saying
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  Speaker 1: you're not intoled to the largess of American taxpayers in
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  Speaker 1: the welfare state unless and then fill in the blank
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  Speaker 1: on what particular parameters you need in order to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: any of that. That's the problem, Jack, And that's what
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  Speaker 1: is the I think that's what the problem is. For
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  Speaker 1: all these cities, the sanctuary cities. They're like, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: don't believe in that, but everyone who's come here is
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  Speaker 1: using up all the resources that our local taxpayers are funding.
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  Speaker 1: They're packing the schools, they are using up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the services that our citizens were enjoying,
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  Speaker 1: and now we've been pushed out. That to me, is
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  Speaker 1: the problem with it. The welfare state.
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  Speaker 2: Biden administrations, such as it was, was trying to impose
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  Speaker 2: a replacement population on America. We're supposed to be afraid,
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  Speaker 2: we're supposed to quake in our boots. That will be
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  Speaker 2: criticized as racists if we say that.
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  Speaker 3: But it was not right right, And let's admit that.
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  Speaker 1: One in the Bud right now, Jack, Because it's not
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  Speaker 1: race that has the that's the issue here. Every one
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  Speaker 1: on this planet could be the same damn color, but
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  Speaker 1: they come from different countries to different political philosophies, and
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  Speaker 1: ours happens to be the most successful political philosophy, and
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  Speaker 1: ours also happens to be the one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: welfare state. So it has nothing to do with the
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  Speaker 1: color of someone else's skin. If I hear that argument
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  Speaker 1: again from someone, I'm gonna my head's gonna blow up.
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  Speaker 3: We don't care what color they are.
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  Speaker 1: We care they enter our country illegally, violated our immigration laws,
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  Speaker 1: and are a major drag on our finances generally speaking.
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  Speaker 2: But in a way, the Biden administration miscalculated because it
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  Speaker 2: thought many other Democrats socialists thought that we needed a
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  Speaker 2: replacement population in this country in order for the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: to turn our country into one party dictatorship. The truth
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  Speaker 2: is they're having the Democrats even more success in converting
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  Speaker 2: young Americans. Yes, those spoiled young Americans. Well, one other thought, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: We tend to think revolutions bubble up from the left,
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  Speaker 2: but Donald Trump is a revolutionary, not like the French,
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  Speaker 2: much less the Bolsheviks and the Red Chinese. But because
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  Speaker 2: Trump is fighting day and night to keep Democrats and
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  Speaker 2: establishment Republicans, the Wall Street journal types who wanted open borders,
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  Speaker 2: is trying to keep them from continuing to ship our
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  Speaker 2: manufacturing base overseas, depriving Americans of jobs of self sufficiency
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  Speaker 2: so we won't be dependent on big government. Trump represents
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  Speaker 2: American workers as well as businesses that are willing to
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  Speaker 2: invest in our own country. It's not isolationism. America should
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  Speaker 2: trade with everyone, but trade fairly. We cannot be dependent
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  Speaker 2: on rivals and declared enemies for energy, technology, pharmaceuticals. We
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  Speaker 2: can't be dependent on others for our future.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, Jack Evidan, always wonderful, always brilliant, and I always
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  Speaker 1: look for to hearing from you, my friend. We do
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  Speaker 1: this every Wednesday, beginning at seven oh five. We call
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  Speaker 1: it the Big Picture. You can find the podcast of
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  Speaker 1: this conversation at Jack's Thoughts at fifty five cares dot
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  Speaker 1: com on the podcast page. Jack, thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for your wisdom each and every week. I enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a true benefit to my listening audience.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly is to me, and I'll look forward to
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  Speaker 1: having you on next Wednesday and we'll do it all again.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope you have a wonderful Independence Day.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, a glorious fourth to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Brian, give a hug your better half Jack
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  Speaker 1: ad of it, will do it.