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It's Not a Democracy But a Republic · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Tuesday morning, twenty
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fifth day of June. I'm West Thanks for joining me kicking off your day
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with me. Finally got some rain in the Chattahooche Valley area yesterday. Don't
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talk a lot about the weather, but that was a big one because it's
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been very dry for a while. A lot of folks trying to maintain and
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keep up with some sort of lawn maintenance. And I'm honestly not a big
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like I don't do a lot of watering. I water the plants that I
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you know, the flower beds and those sorts of things, but I'm not
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really a big lawn you know. Typically it kind of course corrects itself.
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But we got to a point where I was like, I'm gonna have to
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water my lawn a little bit, and did a little bit, and then
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the rain came in. I know, it wasn't enough to make up for
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everything, but at least we got a little bit taken care of and it
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bought me a couple of more days. My cheapskate self of having to deal
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with that, but we got some and that was good. We needed it
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in the area, so thankfully that took care of that. So here we
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are a little bit closer to the debate coming up on a Thursday. A
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few more things I want to talk about before we get to this presidential debate,
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and we'll talk more about it as we get closer. But a few
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things I want to address. And I was out last week, so I
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took the week off. So a few things that did happen that needed to
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be addressed. Now. One of these, I guess is actually from over
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the weekend, from Friday anyway, so and I didn't talk about it yesterday
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because I was playing a little bit of catch up yesterday. And this is
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also a little bit of ketchup in this particular story, but from Bill Maher's
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Real Time, a show he had former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on.
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May have heard some of these clips. I think some of the radio and
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TV shows have been playing. I'm sure they are. They're big, and
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in case you have missed them, I wanted you to hear them here because
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the topic of conversation was Trump and some of his trials, particularly Cuomo talking
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about the New York trial where Trump was found guilty on the felon accounts.
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Here is the former governor and a Democrat, I guess, former attorney general
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as well in New York talking about the Trump trial. And here is what
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he had to say on a couple of clips from real time. Yeah,
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but you know, it was scary about this from my point of view.
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The trials in New York at Florida, Georgia, and two in New York.
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The two trials in New York, New Yorkers said sixty six percent said
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the justice system is politicized. And there's nobody in New York who likes Trump,
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and still sixty six percent said the justice system is politicized. That's why
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I think he's not paying the same price for these verdicts, because they believe
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it is political. And you want to talk about a threat to democracy.
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When you have this country believing you're playing politics with the justice system and you're
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trying to put people in jail or convict them for political reasons, then we
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have a real problem. It's exactly correct, exactly on point, and one
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of those things that maybe from a political standpoint, you don't necessarily expect to
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hear from Andrew Cuomo. But I think he's exactly right. And I think
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when we start hearing some of these cries from the left about how Trump becoming
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president again would be a threat to our democracy, and we've heard that term
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over and over and over again, it is very much this political thing that
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they're using to try to scare people. One of the things that happens sadly
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in politics, and it's gone on for a very long time, but I
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feel it's gotten increasingly worse. Is this notion of trying to scare everyone into
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voting the way that you want them to vote. We're hearing it now about
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abortion, We're hearing it about Trump. He's going to be a dictator.
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He's going to lock you up. He's going to lock up your favorite actors
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and celebrities. You're going to put him in cages, whatever it is.
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We hear these things, and it's really about trying to make you afraid of
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things that they want you. They plant these thoughts, these ideas, he
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will not relinquish the White House if he loses. Ultimately, he did relinquish
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the White House when he lost. But they were always going to try to
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get us into a war. He didn't get us into any wars, but
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he's going to try to get us into a war, a situation, create
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some sort of national emergency where he has to remain in power and never give
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up the White House. And of course that didn't happen. That's not the
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way it played out. Now That's not just been the case with Trump.
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There were people who made those accusations about Barack Obama. He'll stay president forever.
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He's never going to leave the White House. And you know, God
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help us if we ever elect someone into the White House that actually feels that
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way. We should do a better job vetting in general if we're concerned,
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legitimately concerned that that should be could be a problem. And maybe the folks
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on the left who helped Donald Trump get nominated in twenty sixteen should hold some
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account to that. They should be held accountable in some way if they really
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think that this is what this man is about, you know, there should
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be they should stay out of it. Stop getting someone like herschel Walker nominated
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on the Republican side just for the sake of trying to hang on to power.
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See, that's what we're willing to do now as a society is we
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have two parties, especially the left right, now that it's more than happy
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to try to get a really bad candidate nominated on the other side to make
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it easier to win. And what they don't stop to think about is what
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if the bad candidate wins and then everybody is stuck with the bad person serving
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in that role. Now would herschel Walker have been the worst person to ever
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serve in the Senate? Certainly not. Was he a good candidate for Republicans
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to nominate? Not really not when you knew the baggage that was coming.
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I like herschel Walker. I've been around herschel Walker a couple of times,
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interviewed him. I spent some time hanging out with him. Nice guy,
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like herschel Walker. I like the idea of herschel Walker, maybe with the
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name recognition, being the candidate, and I think that's what a lot of
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people fell in love with. But in reality, the Rafael Warnock camp was
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ready to go. They had their ads made, They knew exactly what they
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were going to say about herschel Walker to make sure that herschel Walker was not
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going to be a senator in Georgia. They were ready. There were other
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candidates in the race that had a better shot at taking down Rafael Warnock than
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herschel Walker, but Democrats took part in helping that happen. Republicans went for
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the name brand over maybe, you know, going for the better overall quality
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product. I'm not here to criticize anybody who voted for herschel Walker. In
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some cases you go with, hey, this is the person who might be
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able to win, and it seemed like maybe herschel Walker was going to be
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the one that could win. But is exactly who the left wanted. And
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then they wanted to be able to say, can you believe Republicans nominated herschel
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Walker and Georgia what a joke? Because that's what they wanted. That's what
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they want is to be able to lump whatever the branding is for it.
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They want to be able to lump in whatever it is they want to be
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able to say about the candidate. And that's what's going on with these felonies
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with Trump and what's going on with these cases. The next thing that and
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Cuomo, when they're addressed to that whole notion of the you know, the
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threat to democracy, because that's what they want to be able to say it's
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a threat to democracy when in reality his point that he just made there when
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people, when sixty six percent of people in New York are saying they've weaponized
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the justice system in New York, a state where people aren't particularly fond of
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Donald Trump. They used to be, they're not anymore. But it's a
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great point. If they feel like the balance of power is, you know,
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heavily weighted to one side and pushing the other side out and trying to
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politicize the justice system, that is a threat to democracy. That is the
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threat to democracy. See, it's that balance of power that we have that
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actually is what keeps us in some sort of It's what the Great Idea was
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largely about here in America. Here's the other thing that Cuomo had to say
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about the trial for Trump case. The attorney general's case in New York.
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Frankly should have never been brought. And if his name was not Donald Trump
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any if he wasn't running for president, I'm the former aging in New York.
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I'm telling you that case would have never been brought. And that's what
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is offensive to people, and it should be because if there's anything left the
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justice system. Okay, so we heard that that kind of statement about the
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Trump trial and the conviction from folks not on the left. We don't hear
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a lot of people on the left saying things like that. To hear someone
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like Andrew Cuomo say that that says a lot, that tells us a lot
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about the status of things. I'm sure there are other folks on the left
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who feel that way. There are many who absolutely feel that way but would
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say it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that he does not
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get reelected, Which is sad, that's unfortunate, because itself ties into this
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notion of we have to have faith in our justice system, some sort of
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faith in it. But we have spent a lot of time over the past
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several years doing everything that we can to knock down the credibility of our justice
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system, which is also very sad and very concerning. Now, I want
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to get to this other thing that ties into this, that goes back a
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little bit, because back to this notion of a threat to our democracy.
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Seeing these stories, these clips, and hearing people say that the Trump campaign
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and that Trump followers and that Trump himself are all spreading this thing around,
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this notion, this idea that the United States of America is not a democracy.
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And they're buying into this, these Trump supporters, they're buying into this
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notion that America is not a democracy. There were people on CNN, MSNBC,
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various networks that have been saying, like, America's a democracy, what
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are you talking about? And they're shocked. I mean people that you would
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think should know better. And I'm talking about journalists that have college degrees and
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I assume at some point in their childhood would have said the pledge of allegiance,
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probably every day at school. I mean every day, every day at
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school right to the republic for which it stands in the United States of America
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is a republic. It's a democratic republic. We have elected representatives that represent
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our needs. We are not a democracy. That old analogy about the you
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know, you know, basically the wolf and the sheep deciding what's for dinner.
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It's one of those scenarios where our founding fathers were smart enough to know
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there needed to be some of these checks and balances in place, and we
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needed to make sure that people's voices were heard through elected representation. That's what
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we have. We are not a democracy. A democracy would mean that the
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popular vote would decide everything, and that popular vote would decide you know,
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across the board, this notion of an electoral college, and I just you
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know, I came back from my trip. We were in rural Kentucky.
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We spent a time in traveling through some farmland. We spent some time really
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just outside of the city. I mean we were in tick country. Okay,
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that's where we were when we saw lots of wild animals and heard birds
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we have never heard before, and it was it was a great and saw
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just rabbits in the wild. This was great. This was a great vacation
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away from things. But it's a reminder. And I had this conversation while
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driving with the family, is it's these are the people that the electoral college
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makes sure that they get a voice, that it makes sure that they get
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representation. And it's not just you know, farmers in Kentucky. It's you
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know, farmers across the country Middle America. As we have you know,
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farm after farm. It's not enough people living in some of those states that
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would their votes wouldn't matter, they'd have no say in things. If we
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were a democracy, if our vote was decided that way, our presidential vote
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was decided that way, they would get no representation. And that's why the
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left is pushed for ending this electoral college system that we use, because through
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our electoral college, states that have smaller populations still get represented. Otherwise,
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campaigning for elections would happen in New York, in LA in Chicago, in
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Atlanta, in Houston. I mean there would be you know, twenty five
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to thirty cities that would decide the elections, if that many, and that
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would just be across the board, and that would be it. Everybody else
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it wouldn't matter. There'd be no reason to go vote. You're not necessarily
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going to have enough power and persuasion to make it happen. And that would
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ultimately be horrible if you owned a farm, if you were in a state
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that did not have a large population, or a city with a large population,
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it wouldn't matter. The votes of those farmers would become obsolete. So
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imagine when the farmers need something, is anyone going to take care of them?
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Is anybody going to stop and sit back and say, wait a minute,
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this food supply is kind of important. We need to make sure that
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the farmers get represented. I don't know that that would ever happen. Not
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if it was a democracy that was run out of basically all of the major
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cities, small towns would get nothing, they would get shafted. This is
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a republic in which we live. It is not a democracy. And if
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you are working as a journalist twenty twenty four and you don't know that,
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possibly go back and take a couple of classes in school. Maybe go visit
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an elementary school, even just for a day morning announcements, say the pledge
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with them. Go to the restroom at your office building and maybe just you
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know, while you're in the restroom, look in the mirror and say,
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recite the pledge in your head a couple of times. It'll tell you.
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It's not a democracy, democratic republic elected. We use a vote to determine
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our representation. That's the system that we have in place. That's the way
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that our government works. And our founding fathers were smart, they were brilliant
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men, and they knew that this is something that the way that things needed
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to be. And it's just a shame that we have you know, some
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I guess elected representatives that don't know that, because there's screaming about this threat
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to our democracy and then we also have a number of journalists with college degrees
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that don't know what type of government they live in, and they're all the
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ones that are pushing as much vote as they can in one particular direction.
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Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, archaeologists in Spain have unearthed what
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they believe maybe the world's oldest bottle of wine. The wine, preserved inside
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a glass urn, goes back to the first century AD. Found alongside the
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remains of a Roman noble woman. Analysis of the residue inside the urn revealed
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that traces of tartaric acid, which that's what you use on fish, right,
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that's the sauce. I'm sorry, that indicates grape fermentation, confirming its
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identity as wine. The discovery providing archaeologists with a further understanding of how wine
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has played a role in societies for now thousands of years. A vase,
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I'll say vase because apparently this is something special, and if it's just a
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vase, it's not special. A vase is special. Purchased for three ninety
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nine at a thrift store in Clinton, Maryland, and believed to be about
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twenty or thirty years old, turned out to be quite a bit older than
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that. Annelie Doser says the v oz caught her eye and assumed it was
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that's probably a reproduction of something very old that a tourist may have picked up
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at a gift shop. Then, while on a trip to Mexico, she
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visited the Museum of Anthropology and noticed some items it looked a lot like her
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vase. She spoke to the curator, who advised her to contact the Mexican
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embassy when she returned home, which she did. The v oz was eventually
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identified as an ancient Mayan artifact dating back to two hundred to eight hundred AD.
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Those who turned the ancient piece over to the Mexican ambassador and said,
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I would like it to go back to its rightful place where it belongs,
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adding but I also want it out of my home because I have three little
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boys, and I have been petrified that after two thousand years, I would
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be the one to wreck it. I can understand that sentiment. That's a
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nice story, and that's why I say that's a vase. That's not a
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vase. That's a vase. A New Zealand woman is trying to sue her
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ex boyfriend for breach of verbal contract after he promised to drive her to the
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airport, but never showed up. She claims he also promised to watch her
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dogs while she was out of town, but he never did that either.
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Justifiably, she dumped the guy, but she feels that she deserves to be
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compensated for him breaching a contract. The lawsuit, which was filed at a
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small claims court of seeking four hundred dollars in damages for the cost of alternative
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transportation. The judge didn't need to hear much more and decided to dismiss the
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case, stating that verbal agreements for non emergency rides do not constitute binding contracts
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under state law. There's been many stories in the news lately about multiple sets
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of twins graduating from high schools, and a hospital in Cleveland is giving an
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early indication that the class of twenty forty two will be no different. Hillcrest
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Hospital in Cleveland says that it postpartument nick You units are currently experiencing a baby
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boom and taking care of seven sets of twins that were recently born. A
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post on their Instagram page saying that we've been feeling double the love caring for
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seven sets of newborn twins, all at the same time, mosquitoes are really
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bad. Even with the absence of rain that we've been dealing with around here.
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Somehow they just find a way, right Jurassic Park, it finds a
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way. Well, there's a lot of rules that people say that you should
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follow when it concerns mosquitoes and ways that you can try to still be able
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to enjoy the outdoors in spite of the heat. So here's some of the
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things that they say you should do and shouldn't. But according to research from
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the University of Washington finding that mosquitoes are drawn to certain sense and colors.
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According to the study published in Current Biology, mosquitoes are attracted to floral sense
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and dark colors like red and black, and they dislike white and green.
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So if you can add white and green to your summer wardrobe, that might
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be helpful. I think there's also you know, they follow you around based
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on your carbon dioxide that you're breathing out. I guess that's part of the
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equation as well. So speaking of rules, there's a lot of rules of
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etiquette. When you travel by plane. Maybe you're doing some flights, not
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doing the old road trip like we did, but you're doing some flights over
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this summer, and a lot of people say that flyers have gotten worse in
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recent years when it comes to behavior on flights. A new survey asking people
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in all fifty states to cite travel behaviors they think are bad and also which
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bad behaviors that they personally are guilty of. The data was then compiled to
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figure out which states are the worst when it comes to plane etiquette, and
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it found travelers from Iowa are the most guilty of bad behavior, followed by
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Illinois, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. I mean, we got a
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busy airport here. People from Arkansas the best behaved flyers, followed by Alabama,
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Florida, Ohio, and Kansas. And they say that some of the
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things I guess you. Gov did a survey saying what people talking about,
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what they think is acceptable when you're flying, some of the bad behaviors and
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some of the things that people say that are awful but they think are okay.
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At thirty seven percent think it's acceptable to bring a small dog on board,
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twenty eight percent okay with a cat. Thirty two percent said that it's
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fine to climb over someone to get to the bathroom. How do you do
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that if they're asleep and you've got to get to the bathroom. I've done
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some long flights, many long flights, so you got to climb over them.
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If they're asleep, you don't have a so you can try to wake
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them up or whatever. But either way, it's it's gonna be kind of
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a jolt. Fourteen percent have no problem with someone eating stinky food on a
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plane, Twenty five percent think it's okay to watch a movie with nudity,
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and eleven percent say it's all right to watch a movie with nudity without headphones.
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Thirty percent are okay with people removing their shoes, and five percent have
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no issue if someone lets their kid run around during the flight. All I'm
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going to say about the shoes is I've done it. But if you're in
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the sock feet, you just need to throw them away because the floors of
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the plane are not exactly getting cleaned cleaned. So I think what you need
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to do is if you get to a situation where you take your shoes off
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on the plane, you basically just need to throw the socks away. You
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don't need to keep them, they're done, just get rid of them.
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And move on. Maybe wear socks that you know you're gonna throw away some
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old socks when you get on there and just be done with them. That'll
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