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"Words AREN'T Weapons" (Thursday December 11 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: But despite of the abundance of information, no one is
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  Speaker 1: able to come to sensible comfort.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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  Speaker 2: Joe Thomas, the second most famous Thomas and Charlottesville je.
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  Speaker 3: Word said, steal me stem. You have a day at
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  Speaker 6: Your Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Bless you for being on the receiving end of the program.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it every moment on the program that tells you
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  Speaker 1: what went on last night. We'll tell you what we
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  Speaker 1: and so much to get into this morning. You know
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  Speaker 1: the things that friends of mine suffer under. And it's
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  Speaker 1: it's part of the gas lighting that the authoritarians want
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  Speaker 1: phrases like well, you understand what's going on. And that's
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  Speaker 1: part of what we do here is try to put
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  Speaker 1: the you understand into it, and we'll get into that.
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  Speaker 1: So much going on, so much gaslighting, you almost don't
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  Speaker 1: filed hoping to get enough signatures to force a vote
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  Speaker 1: to ban stock trading by members of the House and Senate.
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  Speaker 1: She said, our legislation is being taken so seriously that
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  Speaker 1: both Leader jakeem Jeffries and Speaker Johnson are sending members
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  Speaker 1: home because they don't want them to sign on to
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  Speaker 1: the legislation. Meanwhile, thirteen House Republicans voted along with Democrats
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  Speaker 1: and advancing a discharge petition cracking down to reverse President
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  Speaker 1: Trump's executive order cracking down on federal worker unions. The
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  Speaker 1: bill was led by Congressman Jared Golden, a Democrat from Maine,
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  Speaker 1: who forced the vote, along with thirteen Republicans to advance
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  Speaker 1: the bill to the full House floor for a procedural
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  Speaker 7: So unfortunately, there's in the world of public figures, there
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  Speaker 7: are there.
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  Speaker 1: Is collateral damage in the world of public figures.
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  Speaker 7: There are people.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you have to give her some this I've
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  Speaker 1: had it podcast Jennifer Welch, and she is. As we
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  Speaker 1: and I said, you know, the world is full of
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  Speaker 1: podcasters who will tell everybody at every cocktail party that.
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  Speaker 7: Radio is yesterday's news.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they will have their pr people call me to
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  Speaker 1: interview them, to pimp up and puff fluff up their
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  Speaker 1: podcast attention. And it's not that some people aren't doing
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  Speaker 1: important things. I find there to be more interesting stuff
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  Speaker 1: on substack personally, but I was always a reader more
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  Speaker 1: than a listener. Anyway, ironic isn't considering the business I'm
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  Speaker 1: in and what I'm asking you to do. But this commentator,
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Welch, is under fire for saying this woman should
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  Speaker 1: be kicked to the curb. She's an absolute grifter, just
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  Speaker 1: like Donald Trump and just like her unrepentant, racist, homophobic husband.
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  Speaker 7: Referring to Erica Kirk.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a policy point to make Now you a homophobic, racist,
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  Speaker 1: unrepentant Okay, can you come up with some of the
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  Speaker 1: points to make your case or is it just simply
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  Speaker 1: that somebody disagrees with you?
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  Speaker 7: Jen? Jenny, Jenny works the block.
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  Speaker 1: Because it appears, as so much of the commentary does,
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  Speaker 1: and the right wing commentators often do this too. The
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  Speaker 1: well you know the names again, I'm not giving them run.
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  Speaker 1: They don't need to be spoken about in these stories,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't need to give them notoriety.
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  Speaker 7: This welch er, he's part of this story.
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  Speaker 1: And even bringing folks like John Fetterman, who I believe
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  Speaker 1: Welsh works out of Pennsylvania. That's how Fetterman gets connected
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  Speaker 1: to this. But Fetterman condemned the attack, and is it
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  Speaker 1: an attack? I mean, and I understand if you're not
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  Speaker 1: in the public eye, somebody calling you a grifter is
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  Speaker 1: not nice. It's a horrific thing to be accused of.
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  Speaker 1: There are worse, but nobody wants to be called a
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  Speaker 1: con man, a faker. And if you haven't sought the
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  Speaker 1: public attention. And believe me, you know, I was one
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  Speaker 1: of the first radio station managers to put Charlie Kirk
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  Speaker 1: on at noon when Rush Limbaugh passed away, I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: Rush loved this guy, and Russia is gone now, so
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what the networks.
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  Speaker 7: Say, which is generally the rule with me.
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  Speaker 1: The more the big network say this is the guy,
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  Speaker 1: the less I'm likely to say this is the guy.
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  Speaker 1: So we put Charlie Kirk on my radio station and
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  Speaker 1: it was great. They had some technical glitch and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they were ready technologically to be on the
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  Speaker 1: national stage. Says a guy who will frequently allow you
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  Speaker 1: to bask in a few moments of silent reflection before
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  Speaker 1: we get started in a segment. Believe me, I'm guilty
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  Speaker 1: as charged. But Charlie Kirk, as the leader of Turning
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  Speaker 1: Point USA and then later in the podcast world, in
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  Speaker 1: the radio world, accepted that he had to be center stage.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a fine line. Some people begin to covet
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  Speaker 1: that more than the execution of the mission, whatever that
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  Speaker 1: mission may be.
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  Speaker 7: You see it.
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  Speaker 1: There are police chiefs who have this happen to them, sheriffs,
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  Speaker 1: city councilors, you know, they ride in on this wave
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  Speaker 1: of whatever it is. They rode the wave in on,
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  Speaker 1: and then being city councilor becomes more important than doing
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  Speaker 1: the work that the wave rode you in there that
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  Speaker 1: we watched it. During the tea parties, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: folks saw the tea party movement as a great you know,
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  Speaker 1: grassroots instant. Just add water and stir, grab a gadsten flag,
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  Speaker 1: tea party.
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  Speaker 7: Maga is much the same way.
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  Speaker 1: So I rail against these slogans because they don't have
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  Speaker 1: the depth of field that you and I need to share.
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  Speaker 1: But there's also an aspect of this that I think
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  Speaker 1: as somebody who wants to ride along with you on
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  Speaker 1: a continued basis, you have to understand this is part
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  Speaker 1: and parcel of the left's campaign of words or weapons
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  Speaker 1: with apologies to in access. The words are weapons sharper
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  Speaker 1: than knives. This is the hand ringing. Oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: he said, you know, poor people should go to work.
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  Speaker 1: He's attacking poor people by saying they should work more,
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  Speaker 1: or they should have more job opportunities. He's attacking Somalia
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  Speaker 1: by saying it's a backwash, beep whole country. He's not attacking.
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  Speaker 1: We have to stop this idea that words, just in general,
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  Speaker 1: especially words that are critical, are weapons. There are words
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  Speaker 1: that are weapons. Usually they fall unto the banner of
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  Speaker 1: false accusations. If you get arrested because somebody quote bore
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  Speaker 1: false witness against their neighbor against you, those words are weapons.
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  Speaker 1: Saying you're a grifter. Okay, she's a left wing commentator
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't like you know what your husband stood for.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna happen. There are people who don't like me
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  Speaker 1: as much as it's hard for me to grasp I
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  Speaker 1: am mister cocker spaniel. You know, if you say hi
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  Speaker 1: to me, it's the greatest day in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the world, until the next time somebody says hi to me,
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  Speaker 1: and then it's the greatest time in the history.
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  Speaker 7: Of the world.
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  Speaker 1: So it's always been tough for me to grasp that
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  Speaker 1: people just don't like me because I say, hey, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we shouldn't rely on the government to do all these things.
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  Speaker 7: Far us ah, he's attacking me. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: like social media and content creation. Another one of those
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  Speaker 1: phrases that has always just made me itchy, but basically
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  Speaker 2: He's to the wall that mass their names. Yes, human Lord,
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  Speaker 2: we let's see some about the.
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  Speaker 3: Loves.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna see some about.
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  Speaker 2: The stars.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the punctuation on this is is one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that it's hard to teach, but it's
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  Speaker 1: important to teach is that there needs to be sympathy
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  Speaker 1: for those who are so devoid of any other meaning
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  Speaker 1: in their world that they only gain it from tearing
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: down other people, and that you should pray for their
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  Speaker 1: healing because they have a void they they you know,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: what's the expression of my ministerial friends like to say
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: they have a Jesus shaped hole in their heart. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean, you know, because this will get the
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: left wing bloggers all mad, religious.
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  Speaker 7: Zelot or whatever.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: But if you have a hole in your heart that
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: says you've got to hate other people in order to
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: build yourself up, I mean, I feel bad for people,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: and I try to explain to you why they do
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the things to try to manipulate you that they do.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: But I reserve of hate just as the same way
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: I reserve love. There are very few people on this planet,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: and I know we have a great rapport in the morning,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: but there's two or three people on the planet that
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: I call close friends.
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  Speaker 7: My wife is, of course one of them. She wouldn't
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: be my wife if she wasn't.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Although there are people who do my friend Pete, there
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: are relatives that I don't put into that list.
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: I love them, but they're not.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: People that I can reach out to and know that
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: without any sort of fetterment, that we can chop through issues,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: without there being any sort of judgments past or anything
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: like that, you can really work out things. Everyone should
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: have a couple of those folks. If you think you
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: have more than five to ten, then you're really diluting
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: what that relationship means, because it's a superpower to know
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: there's always going to be somebody in your corner. My
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: best friend Pete and I used to have a plan
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: to run for the Canadian border if we ever had to.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: That's a friend.
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: Stop. Don't look at the radio that way. Don't judge.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: It's not that we were particularly doing things that were
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: going to make it necessary, but our view of the
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: way authoritarian governments worked, we were never sure if making
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: a run for the Canadian border wasn't necessarily something that
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: would be in the future. So we had you know,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: that's okay, But that's a friend who said, you know what,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I'll drop everything. If everything goes cattywampus, everything is dropped
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: and we will handle it. And I think that's the
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: kind of thing that they're looking for. Massive numbers of friends.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: And this is the peril because Rika Kirk runs an
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: organization that's empowered by the number of people are there.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: And the danger is you start looking at the amassment
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: of people rather than the individuals that go into making
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: that mass audience. The power of turning Point was the
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: individual interactions. The power of any real holistic organization. You know,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: a church is not the amassment of its congregation. It's
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: about the individual. But anyway, more stuff going on here.
• 48:43
  Speaker 15: So is it.
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  Speaker 7: Fair to say to somebody that you have to allow.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Foreign nationals to live in your country and you have
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: to protect their right to not follow your governing system
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: And this is all part and parcel of Russia Ukraine.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Russia says they want to They want guarantees that Russian
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: nationals living in Ukraine will be protected for being Russian nationals.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: And you would like to think that rule of law
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: against personal attacks would be the commonplace rule. But they
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: want protections from Russian speakers for not being targeted for
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: not speaking Ukrainian.
• 49:42
  Speaker 7: And I started to.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Say, you know, this is one of those you're you're
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: sending back stuff that's impossible to do. This would be
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: like Claudia Shinbaum and I've drawn this conclusion many times,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: and a lot of folks say, you know what, that's
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: not necessarily a bad comparison. Claudia Shinbaum deciding that, but
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: there are so many Mexican citizens living in southwest US
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: that it's technically.
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: Part of their territory.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: And don't laugh.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: If you live in the northeast. Go to southern California.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: I just did earlier this year. There is a big
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: this is Our country movement down there in southern California,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: all through these protests and the no Kings stuff.
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: We drove out to.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Twenty nine Palms and we were up in the Joshua Tree.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: There were protesters all over the place. This isn't your country,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: this is our country. It's coming. Shinbaum could easily militarize
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: the drug cartels. Wouldn't be hard to do, considering the
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: missile strikes on some of their boats turned them into
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: an ersatz militia march on the United States. We're just
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: trying to protect our ethnic citizens. And I know it
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: seems ridiculous to think of Mexico invading the United States
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: because the claims that we mistreat the ethnic ethnic Mexicans
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: living in southern California. But if you let Sergey Lavrov
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: just with a response to the administration's latest overtures and
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: saying that Witkof had a successful meeting with Putin and
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: that as long as all the Russians living in Ukraine
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: are protected to continue to not be Ukrainians but living
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: in Ukraine. I just I was reading some of this
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: that doesn't make any sense. It's when as a country
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: not a country, And it goes back to the essential
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: root of this issue in between Russia and Ukraine is
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: that Putin, not involved in the decision at the time,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: doesn't like the deal where Ukraine became a sovereign country. Okay, fine,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: go to the courts of the world and have that adjudicated.
• 52:07
  Speaker 7: Say we were robbed, we were fooled, we were conned.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Yeltsin was drunk. I don't know whatever defense you want
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: to make about it. But because he doesn't like NATO,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: and NATO doesn't like him, and he doesn't see the
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: European Union as anyone who will listen to him, he's
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: decided to say it take matters into his own hands.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: But you still if there is a sovereign country that's
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: recognized in the world. As a sovereign country, we cannot
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: be the kind of people who sit there and say, yeah,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: you have a right to invade them, because this will
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: just get more and more people invading other countries.
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