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"Doom Scroll = Voter Suppression" (Monday, April 6, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: It's not just about the dollars. It's about the Pentagon
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Speaker 1: managing the money.
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Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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Speaker 2: the second most famous Thomas in Charlotte's Well, Jewart.
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Speaker 3: Said, steal men, you have a day least for work.
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Speaker 4: When the sun comes up, drops a.
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Speaker 5: Pet to scoop.
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Speaker 4: Joe has everything, agenda, all the.
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Speaker 6: Joses, and needs no one that Joe's allis smiled.
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Speaker 7: He only as clee.
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Speaker 8: Joe, thank you for letting me be of service to
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Speaker 8: you this morning. On the radio program that first and
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Speaker 8: because you know why ninety three percent of all Americans
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Speaker 8: listen to a terrestrial radio station at some point during
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Speaker 8: you are as sometimes as the case safe and effective.
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Speaker 8: That's us. We can use that now, right, okay, as
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Speaker 8: we gather it together, and we'll give you our first
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Speaker 8: things here this morning, and thank you for joining us
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Speaker 8: as we do it. Obviously, the rescue of the American
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Speaker 8: pilot is pre eminent. However, I've got a couple of
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Speaker 8: very interesting emails regarding the cias and involvement in this,
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Speaker 8: and it's become a fairly common part of the narrative
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Speaker 8: that the Arrange government thought we already had rescued the
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Speaker 8: guy long before we ever even started trying to rescue
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Speaker 8: the guy. And Marcus writes in why don't we just
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Speaker 8: convince the Iranian army that we've got the city surrounded
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Speaker 8: and they should give up. If it's that easy, Well,
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Speaker 8: you know, I guess there's certain levels of psyop you
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Speaker 8: can do. But I particularly like Teresa, who writes, in,
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Speaker 8: is the CIA's operation to convince the Iranian government we
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Speaker 8: had already rescued the pilot, the most successful one since
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Speaker 8: safe and effective. See see it's the toughest crowd, but
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Speaker 8: the best writers in Hollywood. Right there is the CIA operation,
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Speaker 8: the most successful one since safe and effective? Gotta love
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Speaker 8: it four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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Speaker 8: You can text message there or you can email JT
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Speaker 8: in the morning radio at GMA dot com. So our
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Speaker 8: first things begin in the Middle East. Obviously, the rescue
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Speaker 8: of the US pilot. This is the first time in
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Speaker 8: military memory that two US pilots have been rescued separately
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Speaker 8: deep within enemy territory, President Trump wrote in social media.
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Speaker 8: Israel has claimed that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard intelligence chief
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Speaker 8: has been killed. Israel Katz, defense minister for the Israeli government, said,
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Speaker 8: the Revolutionary Guard are shooting at civilians and we're eliminating
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Speaker 8: the leaders of the terrorists. The President was asked in
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Speaker 8: an interview with The Hill magazine if he would rule
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Speaker 8: out using ground troops in Iran, especially as it comes
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Speaker 8: to reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and the President said no,
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Speaker 8: he would not rule it out. Normal people would make
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Speaker 8: a deal. He said, if they were smart, they would
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Speaker 8: the narrative of car came up. So the general, the
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Speaker 8: word character, and it opened up the floodgates for the
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Speaker 8: talk character. I know, I know, it's a funny thing
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Speaker 8: to listen to Democrats talk about character. But there they were,
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Speaker 8: all of them out there talking about Pete Hagsith's character,
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Speaker 8: Donald Trump's character, and it didn't matter. I mean, you
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Speaker 8: could ask them about the Department of Education. They said, well,
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Speaker 8: you know, Pete Hagsith's character is coming to question on
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Speaker 8: this matter.
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Speaker 1: Chris and I have a hard time seeing that size
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Speaker 1: of an increase as being justified. The President sent that
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Speaker 1: nover over Friday. As you know, I'm on the Armed
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Speaker 1: Services Coman. We'll be taking a look at it. But
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Speaker 1: here's a question we have to ask, which is it's
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Speaker 1: not just about the dollars. It's about the Pentagon managing
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Speaker 1: the money. You just watched the Secretary of Defense fire
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Speaker 1: very respected army leadership in the middle of a war,
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Speaker 1: respected leadership on both sides of the island, in both houses,
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Speaker 1: and there's deep questions about why many suspect that Secretary
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Speaker 1: Hegseth was just trying to move people out of the
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Speaker 1: way that he viewed as as personally threatening to his.
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Speaker 8: Now understand so not to I know Tim Kaine has
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Speaker 8: a long and storied well no, he actually doesn't have
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Speaker 8: a long and storied military career, but George Soros has
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Speaker 8: been paying for his campaigns for a long and storied
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Speaker 8: period of time. I know Tim Kaine may not understand
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Speaker 8: how the army works, but the Army chief of Staff
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Speaker 8: probably doesn't get in the way of too much operational duty.
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Speaker 8: Their job is to run the office for the Army
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Speaker 8: chief of Staff, I mean for the Army member of
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Speaker 8: the Joint Chiefs. This guy wasn't and they're portraying it
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Speaker 8: like this guy was the general from the Joint Chiefs
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Speaker 8: of Staff, But he wasn't. This was a guy who
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Speaker 8: worked in the Office of the Pentagon. And so you know,
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Speaker 8: taking this guy like he was out there leading folks
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Speaker 8: into battle every day is mischaracterizing who it is, and
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Speaker 8: it's used to characterize Hegsith as this Shakespearean warlord who's
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Speaker 8: sweating and shaking and twitching in the basement of the Pentagon,
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Speaker 8: just trying to drop bombs on people because it gets
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Speaker 8: him his jolly's and it's replaced alcohol as his inebriate
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Speaker 8: of choice. That's the that's the picture they're trying to
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Speaker 8: paint of this. Now for realities, let's let's read the
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Speaker 8: general's email that all this is based on where this
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Speaker 8: chaos comes from. Immediately, you know it's a top officials
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Speaker 8: speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Hegsith, fired the
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Speaker 8: Army's Transformation and Training commander and as well as the
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Speaker 8: head of the Army's chaplain Corn. Obviously, these are folks
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Speaker 8: who are going to have big influence in, you know,
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Speaker 8: the the operation. But the email that was sent didn't
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Speaker 8: say Pete Hegesith doesn't have character. He said that the
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Speaker 8: great soldiers of the US Army deserve leadership with character.
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Speaker 8: Now you can infer, you can read the tea leaves
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Speaker 8: however you want. Our soldiers are truly the best in
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Speaker 8: the world, he wrote. They deserve tough training and courageous
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Speaker 8: leaders of character. I have no doubt you will all
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Speaker 8: continue to lead with courage, character and grit. Does that
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Speaker 8: sound like a guy who's like, hey, Hegsath is driving
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Speaker 8: us into a cliff. You better watch out for this guy.
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Speaker 8: Because they're trying to make things out of nothing. They
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Speaker 8: want to sell the narrative that Randy George is going
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Speaker 8: out General Randy George is going out out the door
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Speaker 8: saying Hegseith is screwing us up. And of course this
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Speaker 8: is all being folded into the narrative that the President
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Speaker 8: and Pete Hegsith want to put soldiers and occupy Iran
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Speaker 8: to I don't know, varying on the extreme disassociative tendency
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Speaker 8: of the leftist you're reading and or listening to everything
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Speaker 8: from they want to occupy Iran so that Trump can
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Speaker 8: build a casino there to a golf course, you name it.
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Speaker 8: This is why Trump wants, you know, to take over Iran.
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Speaker 8: He doesn't want to liberate Iran. He wants to be
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Speaker 8: the new Shah and every point in between. So that
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Speaker 8: the narrative is that this General George stood in the
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Speaker 8: way of ground troops being used to occupy Iran and
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Speaker 8: I don't see anything to bear that out. But because
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Speaker 8: he used the word character in his email.
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Speaker 14: They're immediately saying, see, we told you, Pete Heggsath's a drunk,
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Speaker 14: frat boy partier TV polls, is't be trusted. He only
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Speaker 14: served in the military until it got him a TV gig,
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Speaker 14: and all the other crazy, unhinged things that are being
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Speaker 14: said about Pete Hegsath. Anyway, let's get to you at
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Speaker 14: four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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Speaker 14: And like I said, imagine, imagine what the TV and
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Speaker 8: Hi Bob. How are you doing this morning, sir? Now
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Speaker 8: your Easter is later than Happy Easter.
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Speaker 21: Well, I celebrated Easter yesterday because I'm Catholic, but the
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Speaker 21: Orthodox Easter is next Sunday. But everyone's missing a whole
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Speaker 21: point in this whole thing with this chief of staffs general.
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Speaker 21: That was maybe he was told he was being reassigned
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Speaker 21: to a battle ship commission where you'd have to go overseas,
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Speaker 21: and he chose to retire because he didn't want to
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Speaker 21: defend the country because he liked his plush job.
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Speaker 8: Oh there could be that too. I mean, there are
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Speaker 8: Four three four eight A two four two one seven.
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Speaker 8: And the reason we're spending some time on this uh
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Speaker 8: situation with General George is is not his ouster. I
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Speaker 8: a advice and consent over who Pentagon leadership is. But
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Speaker 8: that's not what General George said in his email. Now
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Speaker 8: you say, well, he said the soldiers deserve people of character,
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Speaker 8: and that's obviously a slight against You say that because
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Speaker 20: Well, you raise the rhetoric.
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Speaker 24: Let me ask you about some of the President's rhetoric
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Speaker 24: this morning, posting on truth social quote, open the straight
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Speaker 24: you blank bastards. Do you think that is an effective
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Speaker 1: No bombing him back to the stone age, cursing them,
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Speaker 8: And because I've been doing this a little while, I'm
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Speaker 8: a story that we covered a little bit as we
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Speaker 8: came out of the terrorist attacks of two thousand and
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Speaker 8: one and that other September eleventh, we brought up the
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Speaker 8: Battle of Brandywine, which was the first ignominious September eleventh
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Speaker 8: in American history. But in two thousand and two it
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Speaker 8: was covered relatively thoroughly, and you may may not have
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Speaker 8: been old enough to remember about how the president was
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Speaker 8: having his speeches written, and President Bush was getting some
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Speaker 8: flak for awkward speeches, awkward sentences that didn't seem to
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Speaker 8: make much sense because they weren't idiomatically an English sentence.
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Speaker 8: They were written intentionally to be translated clearly to the
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Speaker 8: Iraqis at that time, and to the Taliban at that time,
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Speaker 8: and to Osama bin Laden at that time. So they
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Speaker 8: were writing speeches not so much for the English ear,
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Speaker 8: but for the Arabian, for the Islamist's ear, whatever country
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Speaker 8: you know, be at Iraq or so when you say
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Speaker 8: things like that, these are meant to be messages in
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Speaker 8: a way that translate well overseas. And I'm not saying
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Speaker 8: into French that there will be no mistake about what
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Speaker 8: our intention is when you hear this quote. So they
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Speaker 8: say this stuff, it's all part of state craft and
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Speaker 8: what we still haven't seen. And we were talking to
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Speaker 8: folks at Seapac last week, which is the idea of
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Speaker 8: the Iranians rising up to take their country back. And
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Speaker 8: that's the thing we need to see. That's the thing
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Speaker 8: that Americans if they see the Iranians rising up to
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Speaker 8: take back their country, if you will, then you're going
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Speaker 8: to see a change in our attitude here regarding it.
32:59
Speaker 8: But what you're watching and what your Rocanna and Adam
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Speaker 8: Schiff and Tim Kaine and all these people are doing.
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Speaker 8: They're campaigning, their campaigning. They're using the firing of Pam Bondi,
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Speaker 8: the General's firing and his statement about people of character,
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Speaker 8: and they're putting it all into a publicity narrative to say,
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Speaker 8: don't vote for the Republican in November. That's all it is,
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Speaker 8: and all of the learned, scholarly words that go into it.
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Speaker 8: It's about winning an election, period, And this is what
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Speaker 8: sharing heartfelt concerns so that a good decision can be made. No,
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Speaker 8: party members from their party ride their coattails. That's all
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Speaker 8: this is. Whole weekend was nothing but that watched one commentator.
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Speaker 8: And again I'll be the first to tell you commentators
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Speaker 8: aren't the news, but they are your your gatekeeper to
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Speaker 8: a lot of these stories. Narrative amongst us gatekeepers is
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Speaker 8: that we didn't rescue the pilot, and that we didn't
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Speaker 8: lose a pilot, the pictures of the crashed airplane were
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Speaker 8: crashed somewhere else, and that we just needed a rallying point.
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Speaker 8: Come on, I checked Prime Video. You can go watch
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Speaker 8: to an email we received earlier in the program about
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Speaker 8: the CIA and a part of the story, which of
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Speaker 8: coursemediately means there's more to what the CIA did than
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Speaker 8: what they told the press, because the CIA telling the
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Speaker 8: press stuff really doesn't happen all that much. The idea
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Speaker 8: being that the CIA convinced the Iranian government that we
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Speaker 8: had already rescued the pilot and were on our way back.
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Speaker 8: It was Adam that said, why don't we just convince
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Speaker 8: them that we've won and we can get on with it.
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Speaker 8: But Tom writes in he said, when you made the
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Speaker 8: comment about safe and effective, I spit coffee through my nose.
35:48
Speaker 8: Great line. Well, it wasn't actually mine. It was an email.
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Speaker 8: Another listener had questioned if this psyop in Tehran wasn't
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Speaker 8: other things in a free society. Yeah no, I'm thank
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Speaker 8: Leon writes in your comparison to what the media would
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Speaker 8: made me chuckle, but also made me think some of
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Speaker 8: It's just amateur hower and it's being used. I mean,
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Speaker 8: So I mean the ouster, the retirement early of Randy George,
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Speaker 8: and the reason I read his email because it's important
46:53
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Speaker 8: Kaine or Roe Kanna or Adam Shift tell you what
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Speaker 8: the orders in a chain of command. Right, Bob, Right.
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Speaker 21: But the whole point is is your military commanders are
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Speaker 21: that they go to a different position that better serves
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Speaker 8: There's another story, and your point is very similar to
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Speaker 8: one I read over the weekend, is that this fellow
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Speaker 8: less than a year from retiring wanted to step out
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Speaker 8: for more than a year. That was their angle on
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Speaker 21: Or he wanted to make sure that he had his
48:45
Speaker 21: money and could get it out, and he didn't want
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Speaker 21: to serve that he's been serving all these years as
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Speaker 21: a general. He didn't want to take on an extra
48:53
Speaker 21: year or two years that he wanted to take his
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Speaker 21: retirement when it came to there's no military pride, and
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Speaker 21: this general is acting not like he's really a military official,
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Speaker 21: but was just one of those government employees that was
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Speaker 21: doing a job, making money and happy with not having
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Speaker 21: to do anything.
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Speaker 8: I don't know, I you know, I know a little bit.
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Speaker 8: And you know, these guys on the chiefs, the the
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Speaker 8: chiefs of staff, the joint chiefs. You know, you don't
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Speaker 8: know a ton about them. I wish we did as
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Speaker 8: a rule, just because I think that they make very
49:32
Speaker 8: seminal decisions about foreign policy, or at least, you know,
49:35
Speaker 8: within the realm of foreign policy. But it's all It
49:39
Speaker 8: also all takes away from the point that this isn't
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Speaker 8: a new war. This was Tim Kaine's whole point is
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Speaker 8: that the president promised not to get us into new wars,
49:49
Speaker 8: and it just got us into a new war. Tim
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Speaker 8: Kaine is smarter than that. He knows better than that.
49:54
Speaker 8: He knows this is an old war that President Trump
49:57
Speaker 8: has just decided it's time to finish it.
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Speaker 21: And speaking of that, if this general is a man
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Speaker 21: of character, then obviously he wasn't doing a superb job
50:08
Speaker 21: because he didn't do anything to solve the war with Iran.
50:12
Speaker 21: He just let it go on and he let Obama
50:16
Speaker 21: give billions of dollars to Iran. He let Biden give
50:22
Speaker 21: billions of dollars and there was no scuttle, but there
50:24
Speaker 21: was no rebuff. There was no saying, hey, why are
50:27
Speaker 21: we doing this?
50:28
Speaker 8: Right?
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Speaker 21: Obviously, if there's a character assassination that should be done,
50:33
Speaker 21: the person that should be called in the character would
50:35
Speaker 21: be this general for not doing his job and protecting
50:38
Speaker 21: the troops and protecting the American people from the terrible
50:42
Speaker 21: reshime of Iran that everyone says they are.
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Speaker 8: And I appreciate it, Bob. And you know, got a
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Speaker 8: little background, you know, digging in you know, you know
50:50
Speaker 8: what his job was he was hired by, you know,
50:53
Speaker 8: under the Abiden administration, sworn in under the Biden administration,
50:57
Speaker 8: was to improve the abysmal recruiting that had been going on.
51:04
Speaker 8: That was his job, was to fix the recruiting deficit
51:08
Speaker 8: that the army had suffered under. And he decided to
51:14
Speaker 8: cut five percent of the general officer positions in the
51:18
Speaker 8: Army and declined to fill twelve of the two hundred
51:21
Speaker 8: and nineteen positions over the next few years. And that
51:24
Speaker 8: was at the beginning of the Trump administration. So you know,
51:29
Speaker 8: whether or not. I read his email at face value,
51:34
Speaker 8: and he's right, we deserve to. But there's nothing in
51:37
Speaker 8: his email that would indicate that he doesn't believe Pete
51:40
Speaker 8: hegsath Is. Now the coming week he might decide, you
51:44
Speaker 8: know what, screw it, screw the golden parachute. I'm going
51:48
Speaker 8: to talk anyway. That's where we are. But the spin
51:53
Speaker 8: is on the cycle, and man, it was stunning. If
51:57
Speaker 8: you go out there and you listen to these guys
51:59
Speaker 8: like Tim Kaine, it's all twenty twenty four all over again.
52:04
Speaker 8: It's chaos. It's they don't know what they're doing. And
52:08
Speaker 8: think about what they were saying in nineteen sixty eight
52:12
Speaker 8: about our soldiers in Southeast Asia and then only come
52:17
Speaker 8: to find out that it was all paid for by
52:20
Speaker 8: the Russian government. So when the Russian government can without
52:27
Speaker 8: all the different outlets for media that we have now,
52:31
Speaker 8: when all you had was radio and TV and movies,
52:36
Speaker 8: and the Russians were able to spend more money on
52:39
Speaker 8: the American anti war movement than they spent on the
52:43
Speaker 8: North Vietnamese army. You know they know. Anyway, until tomorrow,
52:47
Speaker 8: I am Joe Thomas, so long and thanks for all
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