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Speaker 1: Live from Vall Hartbeiner and the Crossroads of America. It's

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Speaker 1: Tony Cats Today.

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Speaker 2: Greetings, and welcome to Tony Cats Today. I am Mike

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Speaker 2: Coolidge in for Tony on this second day of twenty six,

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Speaker 2: not the first day, the second day, January second, the

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Speaker 2: year of our Lord, two thousand and twenty six, and

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Speaker 2: we've got a packed broadcast for you. Person sitting next

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Speaker 2: to you. That's right. Coolidge is spelled with a K,

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Speaker 2: just like Cats K O O l I d g E.

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Speaker 2: You can find me on X at Coolidge.

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Speaker 2: No numbers, no nothing case. The lower case doesn't matter,

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Speaker 2: just Coolidge K double O L I dge. If you

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Speaker 2: follow me during the show, I will follow you. How

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Speaker 2: about that? Only for the next three hours and then

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Speaker 2: forever until eternity. I will not follow you. I'm kidding.

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Speaker 2: You interact with me on X and we will We'll

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Speaker 2: become friends. How about that. Tony Katz is really good

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Speaker 2: at becoming friends with his listeners, even if he never

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Speaker 2: met you in person, Even if you don't know who

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Speaker 2: he or what he even looks like. You listen to

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Speaker 2: him every single day, hopefully, and you've you've developed a

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Speaker 2: friendship with him, right, a relationship again, even if you've

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Speaker 2: never called in, you've never met him, you've never talked

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Speaker 2: with him. That's what I love about Rady oh. I

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Speaker 2: hosted my own radio show for fifteen plus years called

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Speaker 2: The Michael Coolidge Show. That's how Tony and I became friends.

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Speaker 2: And I love being back on the airwaves. What I

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Speaker 2: don't love is watching Georgia Bulldogs lose in a really

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Speaker 2: heartbreaking fashion to the Old Miss Rebels, which they did

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Speaker 2: last night. Your IU Hoosiers, of course, destroyed Alabama, Miami destroyed.

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Speaker 2: Who do they play again? I don't even remember who

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Speaker 2: my Miami played. Oh Ohio State, that's right, Ohiowa State.

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Speaker 2: So you've got Miami and Oregon and Ole Miss and

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Speaker 2: your Indiana Hoosiers in the final four of college football.

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Speaker 2: I hope that they start calling it that. I know.

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Speaker 2: The whole playoff thing is relatively new in college football.

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Speaker 2: How they have eight teams and there's the bye, and

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Speaker 2: I know it's a little confusing. You know, there's no

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Speaker 2: any of that because the buys and all that. By

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Speaker 2: the way, speaking of buys, for the second year, in

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Speaker 2: a row. Most of the teams that had to buy

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Speaker 2: lost all except one Indiana Hoosiers. Yeah, I U was

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Speaker 2: the only team that had to buy that won. All

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Speaker 2: the other teams with four weeks off they lost, and

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Speaker 2: the year before all four teams that had buys lost.

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Speaker 2: Maybe there's something to that. I don't know, but Indiana

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Speaker 2: still at the absolute top of their game. I do

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Speaker 2: got to say though, Oregon ain't no slouch. They destroyed

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Speaker 2: Texas Tech. In fact, they didn't even give up a touchdown.

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Speaker 2: They didn't give up a point. So you got your

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Speaker 2: work cut out for there, Hoosiers and ole Miss and Miami.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna be a real good game too. This coming Thursday,

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Speaker 2: so week from yesterday is the first game it's Indiana.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's the Miami and ole Miss game. And

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Speaker 2: then Friday night, a week from tonight is your Indiana

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Speaker 2: Hoosiers versus Oregon Ducks. And I think it's kind of

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Speaker 2: cool too. The entire country, every region of the country

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Speaker 2: If you know anything about Miami, it's basically a northeast

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Speaker 2: exwain that to Europeans. They do not understand it. And

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Speaker 2: then you've got the Midwest, the best region of the

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Speaker 2: entire country, where I think all of Tony Katz's awesome

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Speaker 2: affiliates are broadcasting too. Right now, the Midwest United States.

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Speaker 2: I'm right to your west in Illinois, double midwestern state.

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Speaker 2: Indiana is representing all of the Midwest. So now I can,

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Speaker 2: without any hesitation, root for the Indiana Hoosiers to go

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Speaker 2: lot to get to On today's broadcast three hours, and

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Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about two things. You ready, individualism and collectivism.

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Speaker 2: Hold it wait, don't tune out. Yes, this is not

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Speaker 2: a political philosophy broadcast, but the term collectivism has been

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Speaker 2: Tony will be back on Monday. I believe he'll have

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Speaker 2: his first show of the year, but I'm kind of

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Speaker 2: and it is being contrasted by this newest mayor of

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Speaker 2: this zoron the Mendami character. Yes, he is going to

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Speaker 2: And I don't think that's necessary a bad thing. I'll

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Speaker 2: explain why coming up after this on Tony Kats Today.

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Speaker 2: I am like Coolidge in for Tony, don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 2: We're back on Tony Katz today. So individualism and collectivism.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm like Coolidge. By the way, I'm not Tony Katz. Yes,

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Speaker 2: my voice is slightly different than Tony's. My favorite radio

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Speaker 2: host of all time, a man I still miss to

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Speaker 2: this day, and I know Tony was a big fan

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Speaker 2: as well. Was the great l Rushbo Rush Limbaugh. One

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Speaker 2: the Medal of Freedom, the Presidential Medal of Freedom during

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Speaker 2: a State of the Union address by President Trump and

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Speaker 2: his first term Malania Trump. You know, put it around

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Speaker 2: his neck. It was awesome, so awesome, and I was

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Speaker 2: so in typical Trump fashion. This was something that the

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Speaker 2: of the Union address. The media despised Russia and BA

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Speaker 2: the media ignored him at their peril. Of course, when

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Speaker 2: There was no one on the left who compared to Rush,

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Speaker 2: more influence than Rush for decades than Russia. Limbaugh when

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Speaker 2: And the story he would tell was on Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 2: In other words, they took from each according to their abilities.

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Speaker 2: think happened? Did that work? Was that successful? No? People starved?

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Speaker 2: Now again I'm really generalizing here. There's a lot more

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Speaker 4: He is we will draw this city closer together. We

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Speaker 4: We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the

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Speaker 2: does it not work, it leads to death and starvation

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Speaker 2: and terror and totalitarianism. Let's give let's give some quotes.

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Speaker 2: The individual is nothing, the collective is everything. You don't

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Speaker 2: want to guess who said that. Joseph Stalin. Yeah, guy

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Speaker 2: who implemented collectivism on the largest scale ever killed tens

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Speaker 2: of millions of his own people. Now say, tongue, the

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Speaker 2: interests of the individual must be subordinated to the interests

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Speaker 2: of the collective. Now say tongue, Yes, uh China, Uh Mussolini?

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Speaker 2: Ever heard of him? Everything in the state, nothing outside

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Speaker 2: the state, nothing thing against the state, And we'll throw

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Speaker 2: in zo ron Mundani will replace rugged individualism with collectivism.

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Speaker 2: As Isabelle Brown on X pointed out, she put these together,

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Speaker 2: don't be afraid to call out objective evil when you

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Speaker 2: hear it. I say again, you can't just call people

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Speaker 2: communists and Marxists and socialists. You have to explain, because

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Speaker 2: don't assume that young people, especially when I say young,

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Speaker 2: I mean like people under forty, understand why Marxism and

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Speaker 2: communism and socialism is bad. It's not just bad, it's evil.

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Speaker 2: Don't assume they know. You have to explain. And if

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Speaker 2: you have to use something as simple as the story

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Speaker 2: of our first Thanksgiving, how that eventually, you know, turn

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Speaker 2: into a big difference between the left and the right.

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Speaker 2: In vidualism, versus collectivism. You use that, or you can

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Speaker 2: just say something simple like, every time communism is tried

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Speaker 2: throughout the world, whether it was tried fifty years ago,

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Speaker 2: one hundred years ago, or three hundred years ago, it

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Speaker 2: fails miserably. People like Zoram and Donnie say, let's give

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Speaker 2: it another try. We'll be right back on Tony Kats today.

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Speaker 2: I am Mike Coolidge in for Tony. Stay with us, Yes,

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Speaker 2: welcome back, So Tony Katz today, I am Mike Coolidge

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Speaker 2: in for Tony. And this is that weird. I love

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Speaker 2: the calendar. By the way of twenty twenty six. It

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Speaker 2: being Friday, but it seems like a Monday, right because

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Speaker 2: yesterday we had off and we all partied or at

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Speaker 2: least went to bed early and didn't have to wake

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Speaker 2: up for work the next day on Wednesday night, was

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Speaker 2: it right? Yeah, Wednesday was New Year's Eve and then

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Speaker 2: Thursday was New Year's Day and everyone had off and

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Speaker 2: we had a great time. It. Went to friend's house

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Speaker 2: and watched the Indiana Alabama game and watched Indiana trout Alabama.

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Speaker 2: That was a ton of fun. And then we're like,

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Speaker 2: all right, got to start the week off for that

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Speaker 2: big day the next day that be Monday, but all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, it's Friday, and then we have a

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Speaker 2: whole weekend ahead of us. Now right, kind of cool.

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Speaker 2: I'm a fan. Before the break, we were talking about

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Speaker 2: this collectivism versus individualism concept, and it's really not controversial.

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Speaker 2: We are an individualist country. We are a free market country.

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Speaker 2: We're a liberty loving country. Collectivism is an ethema to

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Speaker 2: the United States of America, but there are still people

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Speaker 2: in this country who not only espouse it, but find

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Speaker 2: themselves in elected positions of power. Some places are the

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Speaker 2: biggest city in the country, second biggest city in the country,

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Speaker 2: well not really anymore because everyone's leaving it, But second

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Speaker 2: biggest metropolis in the country is Chicago. I don't really

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Speaker 2: count Dallas because it's so expansive. In la it's just

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Speaker 2: a giant county, you know, Chicago's a metropolis. In Chicago's

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Speaker 2: a lot like New York, just a little bit smaller.

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Speaker 2: That's got a Marxist there, and hey, you've got a

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Speaker 2: Marxist communist in New York too. But we can't just

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Speaker 2: call him a Marxist and a communist. We have to

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Speaker 2: explain and man oh Man did he put it out

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Speaker 2: there yesterday when he swore in by calling himself a collectivist.

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Speaker 2: Cali Rothon X says the following, collectivism is a cancer.

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Speaker 2: True oppression begins when you judge people as part of

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Speaker 2: groups instead of as individuals. The Constitution exists to limit

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Speaker 2: the power of society over man. That is the foundation

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Speaker 2: of America, and we must preserve that notion over everything else.

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Speaker 2: She's one hundred percent correct. The Constitution exists to lay

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Speaker 2: out the rights we all have as individuals, which are

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Speaker 2: God given, and the Constitution just lists them, and it

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Speaker 2: specifically forbids the government from infringing on those rights. That's

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Speaker 2: such a key point when you have collectivists and leftists

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Speaker 2: like Barack Obama. Yeah, that guy, I remember him. He

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Speaker 2: went on a NPR show years ago, I think before

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Speaker 2: he was even a US senator. I think he was

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Speaker 2: even just like a state senator at the time. Wasn't

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Speaker 2: elected president yet, but in Chicago, he was kind of

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Speaker 2: a thing, you know, in the early two thousands, all

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Speaker 2: this young guy who you know, with a weird last

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Speaker 2: name and kind of rising up the rank of Democrat

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Speaker 2: power circles. He went on an NPR and talked about

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Speaker 2: and criticized the Bill of Rights because it was a

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Speaker 2: list of negative rights. It was a list of things

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Speaker 2: the government can't do. But we need to talk more

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Speaker 2: about what the government must do. Yeah, from the same

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Speaker 2: cloth AOC, Bernie Sanyer, Zora Mandani. This kind of stuff

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Speaker 2: needs to be pawted at and pointed out and fought

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Speaker 2: for we die as a country. Well, right back on

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Speaker 2: Tony Cats today, I might go with jimper Tony stay

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Speaker 2: with us.

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Speaker 1: Why from the Heartbeyer and the crossroads of America. It's

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz today, Yes.

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Speaker 2: It is. And welcome to Tony Katz today. I am

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Speaker 2: Mike Coolidge in for Tony on this second day of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. That's right, we're in the second half

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Speaker 2: officially of this decade of the twenties. Yeah, congratulations for

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Speaker 2: making it this far. And we have a lot to

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Speaker 2: get into this hour if you join us. In the

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Speaker 2: first hour, we talked a little bit about collectivism. Why

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Speaker 2: are we talking about collectivism? Well, the mayor of the

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Speaker 2: biggest city in the country, this thirty mid thirty something

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Speaker 2: year old named Zoron Mendani, really really open about his

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Speaker 2: Marxism and his socialism, and when you really boil down

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Speaker 2: the entire philosophy of the left, it does come down

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Speaker 2: to one word, and it is collectivism, the collective versus

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Speaker 2: the individual. Many years ago, I was asked I used

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Speaker 2: to go in to our local high school in Rochelle, Illinois,

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Speaker 2: UH and give a little speech to a government class

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Speaker 2: about the role of the media in government and also

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Speaker 2: the big difference between Republicans and Democrats. Now, I'm a obvious,

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Speaker 2: you know, conservative, and I've been a a Republican my

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Speaker 2: entire life. I have problems with some of the things

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Speaker 2: that Republican Party actually you know, does on a national

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Speaker 2: level and even in our state, and I have obvious

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Speaker 2: problems with individual Republican politicians on occasion, But I am

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Speaker 2: and have been my entire adult life a Republican. And

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Speaker 2: the difference, especially among those that aren't super political, between

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Speaker 2: a Republican and Democrat isn't often explained well, certainly not

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Speaker 2: explained in high school government classes, which is why this

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Speaker 2: great teacher knew and listened to my show on occasion

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Speaker 2: he said, Hey, can you come in and just explain.

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Speaker 2: I know you're Republican, I know you're you know, really involvablecla.

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Speaker 2: I'm the chairman of our local Republican party in our county.

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Speaker 2: But I'll try to in a really objective way explain

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Speaker 2: it because obviously in high school there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: leftist teachers, and some of them are probably Marxists. But

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Speaker 2: you know, just if you want to be invited back,

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Speaker 2: I got to be sort of objective, right. It was

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Speaker 2: really honored that he would ask me to come in. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: Here's here's how I explained it to kids, most generic

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Speaker 2: way possible as far as the United States goes and

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Speaker 2: how our government operates, let's really generalize it here. We talked,

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Speaker 2: you know, if you have been listening to the show

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Speaker 2: since the beginning, we talked about the origins of our

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Speaker 2: society in early settlers here in the United States from

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Speaker 2: Great Britain, who had a difference between the first couple

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Speaker 2: of years. They tried a collectivist mindset where everyone went

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Speaker 2: out and tilled their own land and farmed their own land,

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Speaker 2: and brought all the crops and food into the center

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Speaker 2: of town. And so it was from each according to

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Speaker 2: their abilities and to everyone according to their needs. And

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Speaker 2: one can come in and take as much as they wanted.

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Speaker 2: That didn't work because over time people realized that hard work,

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Speaker 2: they had no incentive to work hard, and those who

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Speaker 2: didn't work at all realized they would get food whether

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Speaker 2: they worked or not, and everyone eventually starved because nobody

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Speaker 2: worked because they figured that out. It's just a natural

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Speaker 2: progression and logic of things. And then when they said, look, everyone,

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Speaker 2: you do your own thing, you eat whatever, you take

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Speaker 2: care of yourself first, and see let's see how that works.

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Speaker 2: That worked brilliantly. Everyone thrived and were able to expand.

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Speaker 2: So that's a basic you know, the story from history Russia,

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Speaker 2: and Bag told it on his show for years during

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Speaker 2: the Thanksgiving holiday. Now really metaphorically speaking here about the

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Speaker 2: government in your state capital and the big giant government

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Speaker 2: in Washington, DC, what I would tell the kids is

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Speaker 2: everyone out in society, your parents, and hopefully you soon

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Speaker 2: will be earning a living. What does that mean. You're

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Speaker 2: out exchanging your labor for money, and with that money,

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Speaker 2: you hopefully are able to afford putting a roof over

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Speaker 2: your head, hopefully are able to afford feeding yourself. And

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Speaker 2: then hopefully you will find a woman or a man

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Speaker 2: and marry them and you will have children and create

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Speaker 2: a family, and you will over time make more money

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Speaker 2: in exchange for your labor. Or you'll realize you want

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Speaker 2: to start your own business or small business, or work

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Speaker 2: for another business, or maybe you are somebody really ambitious

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Speaker 2: and want to completely start an idea in a business

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Speaker 2: from scratch, borrow money from someone else, or just do

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Speaker 2: it all yourself, bootstrap it and you know, create something,

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Speaker 2: sell it, expand it over time, hire people to you know,

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Speaker 2: that whole thing. Not to get too much in the

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Speaker 2: weeds on that, but that's after time, you'll discover that

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Speaker 2: this government in your state capital and this government in Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. Is going to take a big chunk of

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Speaker 2: that money. All right. So let's say you make just

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Speaker 2: to be to make the math easy, let's say you

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Speaker 2: make one hundred thousand dollars a year. You're able to

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Speaker 2: make one hundred thousand dollars. About thirty of that A

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Speaker 2: big chunk of that approximately will go to the two

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Speaker 2: places I mentioned, the state capitol and the nation's capital

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Speaker 2: in Washington, DC. Republicans for the most part want less

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Speaker 2: of your money to go to those state capitals and

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Speaker 2: the nation's capital, and Democrats for the most part want

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Speaker 2: more of it to go there. That's the real big

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Speaker 2: difference between Democrats and Republicans. I shouldn't even said thirty percent,

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Speaker 2: just like a percentage wise, if you really boil it down,

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Speaker 2: Democrats believe that more money should come from the population

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Speaker 2: and go into the big pot, very similar to the

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Speaker 2: story about Thanksgiving and the pot in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the community with the farms. And Republicans in general want

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Speaker 2: less of the money you work for, the things you create,

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Speaker 2: the you know, things you produce. They want you to

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Speaker 2: keep more of it and less of it goes to

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Speaker 2: the government. That's the real big difference. And yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: some people who say, oh, Republicans and Democrats, it's just

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Speaker 2: two sides of the same coin. They kind of believe

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Speaker 2: the same things. That's not true. Yes, some Republicans get

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Speaker 2: corrupted and are for big government programs and for the

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Speaker 2: expansion of government and the expansion of spending and stuff.

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Speaker 2: Those are what's called Republicans in name only. And then

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Speaker 2: there are Democrats. These don't exist anymore, but there used

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Speaker 2: to be Democrats who were pro family, pro life, but

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Speaker 2: still believe that the government should get more and should

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Speaker 2: slowly expand, not contract and we call those conservative Democrats,

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Speaker 2: but all Democrats believe in you know, big government, larger government,

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Speaker 2: the government should have more power than less power. That's

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Speaker 2: really the big difference between the Democrats and the Republicans now.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and yes, you can get into the family

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Speaker 2: structure and you know, cultural issues and you know, conservatism

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Speaker 2: versus liberalism and all that, but really that's the big

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Speaker 2: difference of us and individualists, Republicans Democrats, Republicans smaller government,

640
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 2: democrats bigger government. Really over simplifying, I know, but that's

641
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Speaker 2: what it is now. What happens when Republicans aren't doing

642
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Speaker 2: their job paying attention to the Democrats who are constantly

643
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 2: looking to expand the government. And obviously it's not just

644
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Speaker 2: the states, the state capitals. We're talking about inter nation's capital.

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Speaker 2: We have things called counties and things called in Illinois,

646
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Speaker 2: we have townships, and then we have cities. And they

647
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Speaker 2: like to take some of your money too. And yes,

648
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Speaker 2: there are things that only the government can do that

649
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Speaker 2: as a collective they provide the nation. The biggest thing

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Speaker 2: in the nation that their national government provides is protection

651
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Speaker 2: via the military. Right, and then there are some ideas

652
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 2: that they come up with over the years. You know,

653
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Speaker 2: these cars are invented, we got to find a way

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Speaker 2: for people to transport themselves in between the states with

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Speaker 2: these new cars. Have what we come up with a

656
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Speaker 2: federal highway system that makes that really easy. Yeah, great, okay,

657
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Speaker 2: And then people come up regionally, we're like, well, should

658
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Speaker 2: people just teach their own kids in their own homes

659
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Speaker 2: or should you know, we have a thing in the

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Speaker 2: middle of town where they get together and adults teach

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Speaker 2: kids about you know, reading, writing and arithmetic and all that. Sure,

662
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,800
Speaker 2: that's probably not a profitable thing, so let's have the

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Speaker 2: government do that. Fine, And then there's a bunch of

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Speaker 2: other things. Obviously that some not a bunch of other

665
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Speaker 2: but you know, again, the leftists think more things should

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Speaker 2: be done by the collective, and Republicans think less things

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Speaker 2: should be done by the collective. And because the more

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Speaker 2: you concentrate power among those who are collecting that money

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Speaker 2: from the people and putting it into the big bucket

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Speaker 2: in the city or in the county, or in the

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Speaker 2: state capital or in the nation's capital, they of course

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Speaker 2: they need to be paid too, right, They're not gonna

673
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Speaker 2: collect that money for free. They want to be compensated.

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Speaker 2: For that, and then over time, because they want to

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Speaker 2: expand the government, they start, hmm, we kind of like

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Speaker 2: this thing. We don't have to. We're not the ones

677
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 2: who are working. We're not the ones who are out

678
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 2: creating wealth, creating and generating income and expanding for profit businesses.

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Speaker 2: We are the ones just you know, moving the money

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Speaker 2: from the state capitals and from the federal capitals and

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Speaker 2: from the city governments and all that and spending on

682
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Speaker 2: the things that the collective needs to pay for. Right

683
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Speaker 2: But we're gonna get paid either way. So let's do

684
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Speaker 2: more things. Let's do more government programs, let's expand them,

685
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Speaker 2: and we'll tell the people who re elect the people

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Speaker 2: who are in charge of all of this, that we're

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Speaker 2: the ones who are looking out for everyone. We're the

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Speaker 2: ones who are good people. We're the ones this is

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Speaker 2: democrats speaking, of course, We're the ones who make sure

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Speaker 2: that nobody is starving. We're taking from those evil rich

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Speaker 2: people and we're giving it to the poor people to

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Speaker 2: make sure that they are okay. What happens over time

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Speaker 2: is those people who I just mentioned, Democrats who are

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Speaker 2: in charge of the government programs, who are taking the

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Speaker 2: money and redistributing it to the rest of society. Those

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00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 2: salaries that they collect, that money that they get just

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00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 2: keeps going up and up and up. No one really

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00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 2: is paying attention to it, and people start to complain,

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00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 2: Wait a second, you're taking a little bit more money

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Speaker 2: than me from me than you should. And the collectivists say, oh, no, no, no, no,

701
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Speaker 2: don't worry. We are looking out for you, trust me,

702
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 2: and we're going to even expand these programs so long

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Speaker 2: as the people who are benefiting from these programs keep

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Speaker 2: voting for us and putting us in too power. And

705
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 2: then fast forward over time to twenty twenty five. Now

706
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: we're in twenty twenty six, and we have these insane programs,

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Speaker 2: legal programs that only benefit the people who are running

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Speaker 2: the programs and those some of those receiving it. Talking

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00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,400
Speaker 2: about Yeah, a lot of this Somali daycare fraud stuff.

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Speaker 2: We've talked about it at length before, but there are

711
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Speaker 2: some new developments in it which we're going to get to.

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Speaker 2: On the other side of the break. This is Tony

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Speaker 2: kats today. I am my Coolidge in for Tony. Stay

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Speaker 2: with us. We are back on Tony Katz today. I

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Speaker 2: am like Coolidge in for Tony koo l I dge

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Speaker 2: is my Twitter. I'm sorry, X handle, I can't believe

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Speaker 2: I said that old, outdated term. X. I'm on x

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Speaker 2: at k O l I d g E follow me there,

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Speaker 2: I may follow you back. This thing popped up on

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Speaker 2: X from the VBC. The British are always the best

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Speaker 2: at comedy and explaining things. This is from like forty

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Speaker 2: years ago, and it explains this this way that things

723
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 2: eventually lead to when you think of things in a

724
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Speaker 2: collectivist way and you're just creating and expanding programs or

725
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 2: institutions just for the sake of expanding them. And the

726
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 2: setup is it's a hospital administrator and hopefully you can

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Speaker 2: I mean it's this is English, but they have British accents.

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Speaker 2: It's a hospital administrator explaining why they need more money

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Speaker 2: from the government. And the second guy is asking why

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Speaker 2: you have the need to get more money if you

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Speaker 2: don't have any patients at this hospital.

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Speaker 3: It's important work, minister, the typing pull, stationary desks, office furniture, equipment,

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Speaker 3: liaison between departments.

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Speaker 2: I can't tell me. The Obig series, I'm not.

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Speaker 6: What do you mean, there's no patience? Just what the

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Speaker 6: hospitals for you know, people heeding the sink.

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Speaker 3: All these vital tasks that I've just listed must be

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Speaker 3: carried out with all without patience. Why why why I

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Speaker 3: didn't understand.

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Speaker 6: How I can express it?

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Speaker 3: Why what would you get rid of the army just

742
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Speaker 3: because there was no war?

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Speaker 2: That is completely different. Hospital must produce.

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Speaker 3: We don't measure our success by results, but by activity,

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Speaker 3: and the activity is considerable and productive. Those five hundred

746
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Speaker 3: people are seriously overworked. Of course the full establishment should

747
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Speaker 3: be six hundred and fifty. Simple.

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Speaker 2: We don't measure our success by results, but by activity,

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Speaker 2: and the activity has been considerable. Talking about a hospital

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Speaker 2: with no patience, well, I mean they need more money

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Speaker 2: because the the liaisons between departments and the jobs of

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Speaker 2: the people. D see how the parallels here, that the

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00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 2: parallels exist between this and like I don't know the

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Speaker 2: Somali daycare set, these hundreds of daycare centers in Minneapolis

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Speaker 2: that had get all this government money, tens of millions

756
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Speaker 2: of dollars, but they don't have any kids or they

757
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 2: have like a handful of kids at them. That's how

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Speaker 2: this got And by the way, this so far, if

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00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 2: you don't see people being handcuffed and thrown in jail

760
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 2: over the Somali stuff. You might not see it. There's

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00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,959
Speaker 2: there's a number of reasons, but the biggest one might

762
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Speaker 2: be because a lot of this stuff is legal. They're

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Speaker 2: doing it because they can. They're doing it because this

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00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:53,320
Speaker 2: is how it was set up. There's this this video

765
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Speaker 2: that somebody posted online and I again, it makes this point.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to pretend that, and I did grock

767
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Speaker 2: this and said is this true? But I wanted to

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Speaker 2: make sure that you know the setup, that the way

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Speaker 2: that they describe this is accurate, and it turns out

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Speaker 2: it is. The amount of money that they're talking about

771
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 2: is question. But I'll set it up now and then

772
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Speaker 2: because we've got a heartbreak coming, amperire'll explain it on

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Speaker 2: the other side of the break. But the gist of

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Speaker 2: it is that in the state of Washington, for example,

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Speaker 2: and this might be the case in Illinois too, you

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00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 2: can get money from the government if you do a

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00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:49,560
Speaker 2: home daycare system and you get paid by the child.

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Speaker 2: So what you can do and what people do is,

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Speaker 2: let's say you have four children, your mom of four children,

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Speaker 2: and your sister lives next door and has four children.

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00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 2: As well, all right, so all the kids are cousins.

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Speaker 2: So what you do is you say you're running a

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Speaker 2: home daycare and you're watching your sister's kids because they're

784
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Speaker 2: not your kids. Legally, you're allowed to do that, and

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Speaker 2: you get paid by the government for running a home

786
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Speaker 2: daycare center for your four sisters kids. And what does

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Speaker 2: she do. She signs up for daycare home daycare for

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Speaker 2: your sister's kids. So she's quote unquote watching your kids,

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Speaker 2: and you're quote unquote watching her kids. And you're all

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00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 2: getting paid anywhere from five dollars an hour to twenty

791
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 2: five dollars an hour per kid by the government. And

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00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 2: then added to that is that income. You're considered a

793
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 2: small business, so you get to deduct all of the

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00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,800
Speaker 2: expenses for taking care of those kids, all government money

795
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Speaker 2: for you just existing and being a mom, all legal,

796
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 2: all a complete bastardization of the reason a government program

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Speaker 2: like that should exist. We'll right back on Tony Kats today.

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Speaker 2: I am Mike Coolidge in for Tony. You stay with us.

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Speaker 2: We're back today My Coolidge in for Tone and uh Man.

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Speaker 2: What happens when a fraudulent, corrupt, really messed up program

801
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Speaker 2: comes to light? People discover it and are outraged about it.

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00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 2: What happens in a normal, rational society. The perpetrators of

803
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:54,200
Speaker 2: this program, the designers of it, the people who benefit

804
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:57,759
Speaker 2: from it, are all publicly shamed. If they didn't break

805
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Speaker 2: any laws, they're just publicly shamed, and you know, the

806
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 2: grift ends, the program ends. But if they're doing something illegal,

807
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 2: they go to jail, and this sort of thing is

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00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 2: discouraged from happening again because the whole rest of society

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00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 2: gets to see what happens when people take advantage of

810
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 2: a system and the negative consequences to that, or they

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00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 2: break the law and they see the negative consequences to that.

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00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 2: Right in the extreme ways that they did this in

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00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:38,839
Speaker 2: you know, centuries past. I'm not advocating this at all,

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Speaker 2: but I'm just saying the reason that there were public

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Speaker 2: stocks in the middle of town sometimes or you know,

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00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 2: uncivilized crazy societies would you know, chop people's hands off

817
00:56:52,600 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 2: if they stole something, was to disincentivize thieves, right and

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00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 2: publicly humiliate people, you know, the stock compared to chopping

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Speaker 2: your hand off, which is obviously you know, wrong, and

820
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 2: you should That's not something that anyone should advocate forever.

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Speaker 2: But compared to chopping your hands off, being put in

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Speaker 2: the stocks for twenty four hours, you know where your

823
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Speaker 2: head and your hands are just sitting in there, and

824
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 2: people can throw tomatoes and stuff at you. That's a

825
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 2: lot better, right, because at the end you're just humiliated

826
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Speaker 2: and you get to go back to your life. You

827
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Speaker 2: don't have your hands chopped off. But fast forward to

828
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Speaker 2: civilized society. There's ways to disincentivize people from doing wrong.

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Speaker 2: You admonish them publicly, they get embarrassed because their pictures

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Speaker 2: on the front page of a newspaper or something, or

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Speaker 2: if they again broke the law, they go through a trial,

832
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 2: they get convicted, hopefully if the trustice system works properly,

833
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 2: and they go to jail. And people know about that too.

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Speaker 2: And then people who are considering doing fraud or taking

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Speaker 2: tens of thousands, if not millions of dollars from the

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Speaker 2: federal government in an unethical way, who are on the

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Speaker 2: fence about it, I can, maybe I might do that.

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Speaker 2: They don't do it because they don't want to face

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Speaker 2: the consequences. But what happens, and this is happening throughout

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00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 2: our country right now, when what I just described does

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00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:31,439
Speaker 2: not happen. Instead, when a big fraudulent scheme is brought

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00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 2: to light like this Somali daycare stuff in Minnesota, instead

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00:58:36,880 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 2: of what I just mentioned, you know, negative consequences for this.

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Speaker 2: People excuse it, people defend it, people attack the people

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Speaker 2: bringing it to light. That's what's happening now with the

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Speaker 2: whole Nick Shirley videos. Yes, yes, yes, the reading here

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Speaker 2: from X David Sachs. The legacy media no longer sees

848
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Speaker 2: it as their responsibility to bring transparency and accountability to

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Speaker 2: the government, you know, stuff like Watergate, depending on papers.

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Speaker 2: These heroes of journalism years past government doing bad things

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Speaker 2: and let's bring like no. Rather, as loyal members of

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Speaker 2: the Democrat Party, they deflect attention and punish critics so

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Speaker 2: their fellow party members can loot and plunder the American people.

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Speaker 2: He reposts a guy ag Hamilton. It appears much of

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Speaker 2: the press is very confused. Nick Shirley makes a viral

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Speaker 2: video highlighting the real concern of massive fraud in Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: They should be investigating the fraud, not the person who

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Speaker 2: made the video. The CNN reporter headline is Grill's YouTuber

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Speaker 2: whose Minnesota daycare video went viral. The other headline, what

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Speaker 2: to know about Nick Shirley, the YouTuber alleging daycare fraud

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Speaker 2: in Minnesota. That's from NPR and the intercept headline right

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Speaker 2: wing YouTuber YouTuber behind viral Minnesota fraud has long anti

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Speaker 2: immigrants history before alleging fraud in Minnesota. Samala community. Right

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Speaker 2: wing YouTuber Nick Shu built the following with anti immigration clips.

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Speaker 2: They're attacking the guy and then get a load of

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Speaker 2: this woman. This is as Baroka Gado posts it on

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Speaker 2: X Breathtaking. Listen to her Commentsary, this is some Democrat

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Speaker 2: operative in Minnesota talking about this whole scandal.

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Speaker 7: About how we really got here. Our president, so let's

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Speaker 7: be honest about how we really got here. Our president

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Speaker 7: decided heete doesn't like this Molly community and he wants

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Speaker 7: to destroy them.

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Speaker 2: It's President Trump's fault.

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Speaker 7: Speaker Demuth and the g P Caucus send a YouTuber

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Speaker 7: out to create the narrative they want out there, not

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Speaker 7: the truth.

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Speaker 2: What they want you to believe.

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Speaker 7: The childcare system in Minnesota is very complicated, even for

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Speaker 7: those of us who have worked in it for decades.

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Speaker 7: So I can understand that it is easy to believe

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Speaker 7: what you see on social media, But the truth is

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Speaker 7: that Minnesota has guardrails in place to make defrauding the

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Speaker 7: childcare system extremely difficult. Minnesota does investigate suspected fraud in

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Speaker 7: childcare and hold people accountable, and they will continue to

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Speaker 7: do so because fraud is never acceptable. But cutting off

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Speaker 7: childcare funding to everyone in the state is not the answer,

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Speaker 7: and it's not acceptable.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so as yeah, let's be honest. As Barocco Gado

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Speaker 2: on X points out, this is brecktading breathtaking, which he's

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Speaker 2: essentially saying is there is no meaningful fraud happening in

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Speaker 2: Minnesota daycare. It's all a gop psyop, a psychological operation

892
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Speaker 2: because they are racist. Imagine what it takes to inhabit

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Speaker 2: that world. It's an astonishing level of reality denial. I

894
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Speaker 2: honestly cannot tell if this is just a pure I

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Speaker 2: want my money so you need to let them steal

896
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Speaker 2: mendacity in self service of self interest, or if it's

897
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Speaker 2: full blown cognitive dissonance cope suicidal empatheticization. The suicidal empathy

898
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Speaker 2: thing causing actual perceptive fracture, where a brain wiped mind

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Speaker 2: protects its illusions by making up fabulous narratives. But in

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Speaker 2: the end, it's kind of irrelevant what she's whether she

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Speaker 2: is lying to herself or to us, does not matter.

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Speaker 2: Only the fact of the lie does. These are the

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Speaker 2: people who will, with desperate avidity, accuse you of quote misinformation,

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Speaker 2: and as you can see, the last thing in the

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Speaker 2: world that anyone should want is to silence them. What

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Speaker 2: this poster on exis saying is give them the woman

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Speaker 2: like this, give them a soapbox, give them the megaphone,

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Speaker 2: let them speak, make sure that everyone hears them, and

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Speaker 2: take good notes. Honestly, the most difficult part of convincing

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Speaker 2: the center of the magnitude of the problem here and

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Speaker 2: the depth of the rot is getting them to believe

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Speaker 2: just how far gone and outright bonkers these activists quote

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Speaker 2: unquote are, how divorced from reality, how barking mad they are.

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Speaker 2: It seems impossible, like some sort of overblown pastiche until

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Speaker 2: you actually hear it firsthand. I'm sure many of you

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Speaker 2: have had this experience. You try to explain this to someone,

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Speaker 2: you know, this whole medicare or I'm sorry, this medicare

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Speaker 2: fraud thing is a whole separate thing that's real. But

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Speaker 2: the hotel care fraud thing you try to explain this,

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Speaker 2: and then they push back with no way, that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: No one is actually like that. No one says that,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know people defending this. Then you show

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Speaker 2: them a clip like we just played from this woman

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Speaker 2: and they say damn wow, huh, and mind's change. People

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Speaker 2: realize where we are. This is why social media and

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Speaker 2: the age of primary source material is so powerful. It

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Speaker 2: takes us past hearsay and into evidence. There's no possible

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Speaker 2: way to indict these people and their smug, diluted ideas

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Speaker 2: and hallucinatory worldview that would exceed the efficacy of their

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Speaker 2: own words, and they have no idea that they are

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Speaker 2: doing it. They literally cannot help themselves. The cure for

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Speaker 2: stupid speech like this woman is more listeners. So let

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Speaker 2: them speak, Encourage them to speak loudly and often. Some

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Speaker 2: you the art of perr. This guy's like a cat guy.

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Speaker 2: When your enemy is engaging in self clown, provide face paint.

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Speaker 2: Love That quote another way to say sunlight is the

937
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Speaker 2: best disinfectant. It is again the theme of the show today.

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Speaker 2: The big difference is between the left and the right.

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Speaker 2: The left always wants to silence people on the right

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Speaker 2: through censorship, through deep platforming, through ostracization. To all of that,

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Speaker 2: those of us on the right, we don't want to

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Speaker 2: silence anyone on the left because we're confident in our

943
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Speaker 2: philosophies and our ideas and what we believe. We say

944
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Speaker 2: everyone should speak. Let you all show the world absolutely insane.

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Speaker 2: You are eptists. We'll be right back on Tony Katz today.

946
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Speaker 2: I am Mike Coolich in for Tony, stay with us.

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Speaker 2: We are back on Tony Katz today. I am Mike Coolidge.

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Speaker 2: It is today January second, twenty twenty six. My name

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Speaker 2: is still spelled with AK. Find me on x at

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Speaker 2: koo l I d g E and uh. Tony Katz

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Speaker 2: is still with the K two in twenty twenty six

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Speaker 2: t o n y kat zero and today at least

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Speaker 2: today is spelled t O da. Why before the break

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Speaker 2: we were talking about actually this entire show, really we've

955
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Speaker 2: been talking about the difference between the left and the right,

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Speaker 2: and the difference between collectivism and individualism or capitalism, or

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Speaker 2: you know, the difference between socialism and Marxism, communism and conservatism, liberalism, conservatism,

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Speaker 2: republican democrat left right. There's various ways you could say it.

959
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Speaker 2: But one of the big differences we've been listing them

960
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Speaker 2: as the show has developed is the left always, almost

961
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Speaker 2: always wants to squash the right of center viewpoint from

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Speaker 2: being expressed. The right of centerviewpoint has no problem with

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Speaker 2: the leftist center viewpoint being expressed. We should just let

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Speaker 2: the left speak. Sunlight is the best diact disinfectant. I

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Speaker 2: love that Zorroon Mundani embraced collectivism and bashed rugged individualism

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Speaker 2: in his inauguration address for Mayor of New York yesterday, because,

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Speaker 2: as Tom Bevan from Real Politics point out, you know,

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Speaker 2: rugged individualism what built the United States of America. For

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Speaker 2: crying out loud, yes, attack that. I want to and

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Speaker 2: we all should want to hear more from leftists like

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Speaker 2: AOC and Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, although she's not

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Speaker 2: at the intellectual level of the other people I mentioned,

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Speaker 2: Barack Obama and h who else leftists? The leftists out there, Oh,

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Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom, he's as slick as as a snake. All

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Speaker 2: of these leftists, I want them to explain their philosophies

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Speaker 2: because so many of the crafty ones over the years

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Speaker 2: have not been explaining their philosophies. They only say the

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01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:36,719
Speaker 2: kind of you know, stuff that polls well and sells well.

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Speaker 2: But they don't dare delve into the or they used

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Speaker 2: to not anyway, dare into saying and normalizing words like socialism,

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Speaker 2: uh or collectivism. Right, But now it's out there, Zaron Mundani,

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Speaker 2: he said it, and man, oh man, uh is it

983
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Speaker 2: great seeing the discussion about this. It's all over the place.

984
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:06,719
Speaker 2: I love it. What this kind of collectivism and big

985
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 2: government stuff eventually leads to is some of the terrible,

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01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 2: terrible programs like what's been the news story of the

987
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:18,280
Speaker 2: past week and it continues this you know, Somali daycare

988
01:09:18,360 --> 01:09:23,519
Speaker 2: fraud thing, and how the left is covering this and

989
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 2: talking about it is so so revealing. Drew Holden in

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Speaker 2: the Mini Drew Holden points out on x the Star Tribune,

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Speaker 2: which is a formerly respected newspaper in Minnesota, went to

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Speaker 2: ten childcare centers. Okay, that the same ten ones that

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01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:49,880
Speaker 2: Nick Suirley went and brought his video camera to and

994
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 2: tried to interview people there and tried to enroll his

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Speaker 2: own kid in. I don't even know if he has

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01:09:54,840 --> 01:09:56,679
Speaker 2: a kid, But that wasn't the point. He was trying

997
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,679
Speaker 2: to say, hey, I want to give me the paperwork

998
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 2: to fill it out for this program? What do I

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Speaker 2: need to do? And what? No, you can't do this?

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Speaker 2: What do you mean you can't do this? Or you're

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Speaker 2: not a public child care facility? They found again the

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Speaker 2: Minneapolis Star Tribune, not a conservative bastion publication, get so

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Speaker 2: many of all ten childcare centers they had shown that

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Speaker 2: kids were in them, four of them, four out of

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Speaker 2: the ten even have any kids registered whatsoever? And this

1006
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:33,600
Speaker 2: was days of advanced warning that people were becoming skeptical

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Speaker 2: skeptical of these operations. We went to daycares, to the

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Speaker 2: daycares that Nick Shirley did. Here's what we found. Some

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Speaker 2: of the ten daycares in the YouTube content creator blasts

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Speaker 2: for having no children. Invited reporters in to see for themselves.

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Speaker 2: The Minnesota Star, in response to the claims that the

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Speaker 2: Somali daycares to defront of the state by one hundred

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Speaker 2: and eleven million dollars, state officials visited all ten of

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Speaker 2: the facilities. The Minnesota's charchibune found children inside four of them.

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Speaker 2: When invited inside, six of the facilities were either closed

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Speaker 2: or employees did not open the doors, four of them.

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Speaker 2: Good job journalists. What do we make of that? We're

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01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:20,639
Speaker 2: right back on Tony Cats Today. Stay with us.

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Speaker 1: Live from vall Hartbiner and the Crossroads of America. It's

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz Today.

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Speaker 2: On and up as they say, yes, Yes, Yes, Welcome

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Speaker 2: to Tony Katz Today. I am Mike Coolidge in for Tony.

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Speaker 2: My last name is spelled ko l I Dge. You

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Speaker 2: can find me on X Believe Tony will be back

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Speaker 2: on Monday. Today. Is Monday too, right? Or no? Is

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Speaker 2: it Friday? I don't know. It's so confusing, this January

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Speaker 2: second on a Friday thing, after Thursday being the first

1028
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Speaker 2: day of the year. Everybody had off. I hope you

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01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 2: had off yesterday if you're listening to this, you are

1030
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Speaker 2: listening to this if you're listening to this, But the

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Speaker 2: second day of the year is the first day of

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Speaker 2: the week kind of, but it's the last day of

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Speaker 2: the week, right, Absolutely love it. We have a weekend

1034
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 2: completely ahead of us and we still have an hour

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Speaker 2: on this radio show. Of course, the show after this

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Speaker 2: one on this radio station is awesome and you should

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Speaker 2: listen to that too. It's so good. I'm going to

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01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 2: listen to it. As soon as I'm done, I'm going

1039
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Speaker 2: to continue to listen to the radio. Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Radio is awesome. I hosted my own radio show for

1041
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:56,160
Speaker 2: fifteen years, called the Michael Coolidge Show. I ended it

1042
01:12:56,200 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 2: specifically to run for Congress. I didn't win two and

1043
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Speaker 2: then I worked for some packs political action committees. Then

1044
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Speaker 2: I worked for a political nonprofits grassroots conservative organization, and

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Speaker 2: I also do some work for some candidates behind the

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Speaker 2: scenes who are running for statewide office in my state.

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Speaker 2: I also am on the board of an organization that

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Speaker 2: is called Unified Solutions in America that's trying to d

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Speaker 2: couple companies and institutions from d EI. Yeah. Thankfully, our

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Speaker 2: culture has has gotten smarter over the years and realized

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Speaker 2: how corrupt the whole philosophy of DEI is. The whole doity,

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Speaker 2: equity and inclusion, talk about siphoning money from people, from

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Speaker 2: good money from people, from taxpayers, from institutions like universities, hospitals,

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Speaker 2: all this stuff being for the whole show. The last

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Speaker 2: two hours, in case you're just joining us, we've been

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Speaker 2: breaking down the big difference between the left and the right,

1057
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Speaker 2: collectivism versus individualism, communism and Marxism versus capitalism, socialism, progressivism

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Speaker 2: versus conservativism, Democrats versus republican, left versus right. My wife

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Speaker 2: criticizes me, mocks me frequently because I think I see

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Speaker 2: politics in everything, absolutely everything, and I think the evidence

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Speaker 2: backs me up. There are so many things that are

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Speaker 2: political that use not to be. But on this last

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01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 2: hour of the week and this first show of the week,

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Speaker 2: slash slash show of the week, we'll lighten it up

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01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 2: a little bit. We're going to get into President We're

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Speaker 2: also going to get into the some of the amazing things,

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01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:04,320
Speaker 2: in fact, the twenty best things that President Trump did

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01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:08,479
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five, yes, the previous year, his fifth

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01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:12,360
Speaker 2: year of the presidency. Yes, yes, yes, But to kind

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01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:14,240
Speaker 2: of tie a bow on some of the other things

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01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 2: we've been talking about as the show has developed. Why

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01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:22,080
Speaker 2: are we talking about collectivism versus individualism, you know, and

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01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 2: liberty well, and you know left and right? Because the

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Speaker 2: mayor of the biggest city in our country, Yeah, he's

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01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 2: the mayor. Now he's no longer the mayoral elect. He's

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01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:34,559
Speaker 2: the mayor. This zoron Mumdani character. You're going to be

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01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 2: a lot more from the national stage, and I don't

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01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:43,120
Speaker 2: get I don't think it's talked about at the end

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01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 2: of the last Tower that that's a bad thing. I,

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01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 2: as a conservative, have confidence in my political philosophy. I

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01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 2: want the left to be able to express themselves and

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01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:58,840
Speaker 2: let the whole world see what they believe and why.

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01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:03,559
Speaker 2: As a conservative and confident that rational people in the middle,

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01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:07,440
Speaker 2: people who aren't political, people who don't see politics in everything,

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01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 2: which is the majority of people, I admit, we'll look

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01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 2: at the both arguments insides and say, ah, those guys

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01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:17,600
Speaker 2: are crazy, those guys are not. I'm going with these guys.

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01:16:18,080 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 2: And these guys, for the most part, are those of

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Speaker 2: us on the right. Now, yes, there are people who

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01:16:22,479 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 2: claim to be on the right, and even who get

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01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 2: elected to office who do the bidding of the people

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01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:31,880
Speaker 2: who keep them in office. Too often and many times

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01:16:31,880 --> 01:16:36,960
Speaker 2: that's people on the left. But we still compared to

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01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:40,880
Speaker 2: the left, have to keep fighting this fight because the

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01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 2: left is never going to stop. Ever. They're never going

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01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:48,559
Speaker 2: to stop. And when they lose an election like they

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01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 2: lost in twenty twenty four, like they lose an election

1098
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:57,599
Speaker 2: like they lost in twenty sixteen, they don't skimper and off, say,

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01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:01,400
Speaker 2: am you know the people spoke? I guess, I guess

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01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,880
Speaker 2: we should change our philosophy or just realize that we're

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01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 2: morally ethically bankrupt. We shouldn't. We should give it the fight.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, they don't stop. They will constantly continue their fight.

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01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 2: And if they continue to lose, what can they do?

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01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 2: What can they do to get back into power? If

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01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:27,760
Speaker 2: they lose elections and their arguments aren't being successful and

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01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:31,600
Speaker 2: convincing those in the middle to vote for them, what

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01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 2: do you? You just need more vote? You got to

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01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:38,559
Speaker 2: find more voters, right, people who aren't legally eligible to vote,

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01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 2: like I don't know, people who are here illegally, or

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01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,679
Speaker 2: people who are here legally but not citizens of the country.

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01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 2: You're not going to vote if you're here, you know,

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01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 2: on a visa or here temporarily, you're not a citizen.

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01:17:52,240 --> 01:17:54,400
Speaker 2: You can't vote. But and which is the way you

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01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 2: should be? Right? If I if I go to work

1115
01:17:57,000 --> 01:17:59,679
Speaker 2: in Paris for for half of a year, I shouldn't

1116
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:03,599
Speaker 2: be vot voting in their elections there, right or in Canada? No,

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01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 2: you need to. You should need to be an actual

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01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:12,439
Speaker 2: citizen in the United States. You should produce an idea

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01:18:12,479 --> 01:18:14,759
Speaker 2: to prove who you are. You should go vote in person,

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01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 2: locally and vote anyway. I know I'm going off on

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01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 2: a bunch of different avenues here, but this particular fight

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01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:26,680
Speaker 2: between the left and the right, it's it's out in

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01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:30,360
Speaker 2: the open. Now. This new mayor, this young guy you're going,

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01:18:30,880 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 2: he's he's the shiny new object in politics because he's young.

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Speaker 2: He's good looking for a politician. He's got an attractive wife,

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01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:41,679
Speaker 2: he's got a young family. He's he's got that smile

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01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 2: where he squints his eyes when he smiles, you know,

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01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 2: and and and always talks with a with a big grin,

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01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:52,559
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, is articulate. And he's got money.

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Speaker 2: This guy, this guy is not ah a man who

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01:18:56,479 --> 01:18:58,120
Speaker 2: came from the wrong side of the tracks. Oh no,

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01:18:58,520 --> 01:19:02,920
Speaker 2: he comes from elitism power already. And he swore in

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01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 2: an oath too, of a Kuran. First guy ever to

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01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:11,639
Speaker 2: swear into the mayoralship of New York City on a Quran,

1135
01:19:11,840 --> 01:19:16,280
Speaker 2: not a Bible. So a lot too unpacked there. But

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01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 2: his religion, believe it or not, is not what you

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01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 2: should be concerned about. It's his philosophy. It's his political

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01:19:29,040 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 2: philosophy specifically, and he was right out there and open

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01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,280
Speaker 2: about it. Collective is it? In fact, if you're just

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01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:38,679
Speaker 2: joining us, let's just just play. This is twenty nine

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01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:43,719
Speaker 2: seconds of what he said on his speech in his speech,

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01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:47,439
Speaker 2: his inauguration speech yesterday. Laid it off, laying it all

1143
01:19:47,479 --> 01:19:50,400
Speaker 2: out there for God and everybody to hear.

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01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:55,639
Speaker 4: We will draw this city closer together. We will replace

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01:19:55,720 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 4: the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

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01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:09,080
Speaker 2: Replace the rugged the frigidity of rugged individualism with the

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01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 2: warmth of collectivism, the warmth of it. Make no mistake,

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01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:20,599
Speaker 2: he's planning his flag. He's got people supporting him. He's

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01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:24,559
Speaker 2: got the the old old guy who you know, some

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01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:28,360
Speaker 2: days someday, probably not too long from now, he's you know,

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01:20:28,439 --> 01:20:31,679
Speaker 2: he's going to, you know, pass on talking about Bernie

1152
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:33,400
Speaker 2: Sanders because he's getting up there in age. It's the

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01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 2: fate of us all. And but this torch has already

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01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:39,639
Speaker 2: been passed. And you've got a lot of young people

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01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 2: who will be here for decades. Bernie Sanders isn't going

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01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:44,719
Speaker 2: to probably be here a decade from now. Bud Zora

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01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:48,760
Speaker 2: on Mundani Will and aoc Will and this new mayor

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01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:52,960
Speaker 2: of Seattle will Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, is

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01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 2: not going to be the mayor of Chicago, uh in

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01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:59,320
Speaker 2: the next election cycle. I can almost promise you that.

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01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 2: But I don't think he's going anywhere. I think he

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01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:05,719
Speaker 2: also still be around. I don't think he has well,

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01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:10,400
Speaker 2: he's a whole other topic. But this discussion about the

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01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:13,320
Speaker 2: left and the right, those of us who are conservative,

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01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:16,920
Speaker 2: like most of you listeners, I'm sure don't need to

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01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:20,639
Speaker 2: be sold on this, don't need to have this stuff

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01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:24,599
Speaker 2: explained to you. What we, as a group of people

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01:21:24,600 --> 01:21:29,920
Speaker 2: who share a political philosophy of right of center, you know, conservatism,

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01:21:30,280 --> 01:21:35,360
Speaker 2: need to be better at is making sure that our

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01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:39,120
Speaker 2: arguments by those in the middle, those that don't see

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01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:43,040
Speaker 2: politics and everything, that those that only vote in the

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01:21:43,080 --> 01:21:45,960
Speaker 2: big elections, you know, got to convince them to vote

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01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:48,760
Speaker 2: in the midterms, got to convince them to vote even

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01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:52,000
Speaker 2: in the local municipal elections too. We need to do

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01:21:52,040 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 2: a better job at explaining our political philosophies to them

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01:21:57,160 --> 01:22:02,880
Speaker 2: and pointing out the absolute insanity of leftist collectivists like

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Speaker 2: Zorron and Donnie. We've been doing it most of the

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01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:09,080
Speaker 2: show today, but we're also going to on the other

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01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:12,439
Speaker 2: side of this break talk about people on our side

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01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:16,080
Speaker 2: of the political aisle who are doing good things, namely

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01:22:16,479 --> 01:22:19,479
Speaker 2: the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. No,

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01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:23,080
Speaker 2: he won't be joining us, but I, like Tony Katz,

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01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:26,720
Speaker 2: have interviewed Donald Trump. I broadcast my show from the

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01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 2: White House in twenty nineteen. Tony Katz, I know, broadcast

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01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 2: his show from the White House. Do I think the

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01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 2: previous year? We are going to talk about the twenty

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01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:37,840
Speaker 2: best things President Trump did in the last twelve months?

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01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 2: After this on Tony Kats today, I am Mike Coolidge

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01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 2: in for Tony. Don't go anywhere. We're back on Tony

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Speaker 2: Katz today, I am My Coolidge in for Tony Little

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01:22:49,040 --> 01:22:54,120
Speaker 2: Urge Overkill for you fans out there, Gosh, that album

1192
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:57,960
Speaker 2: is so good. Saturation the most underrated albums of the

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01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:02,880
Speaker 2: entire decade of the nineteen nineties. So good. All right?

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01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 2: So Mark Theeson in the Washington Post lists twenty of

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01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:13,200
Speaker 2: the best things President Trump did in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Are you ready? Little talking points for you those of

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01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:21,240
Speaker 2: you having those discussions after church with people or after

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01:23:21,320 --> 01:23:23,760
Speaker 2: temple about hey, well, you know, where should I have

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01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 2: over the Republicans in the Midstern would just give me

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01:23:28,479 --> 01:23:32,840
Speaker 2: the elevator pitch. Give me some talking points there, Steve

1201
01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:38,400
Speaker 2: or Melissa or Margaret. Here's some ideas. We have a

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01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:42,840
Speaker 2: president who's actually accomplishing things, actually doing things. Let's go

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01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 2: over some of them. Number twenty he delivered justice for

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01:23:46,200 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 2: the Abbey Gate bombing after terrorists killed thirteen US service

1205
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:57,799
Speaker 2: members during President Joe Biden's catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden promised,

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01:23:57,800 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 2: we will not forgive, we will not forget. We will

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01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:02,720
Speaker 2: hump down and make you pay. He left office three

1208
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 2: years later having made no one pay. It took less

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01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:10,680
Speaker 2: than six weeks to capture what he described as a

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01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:15,559
Speaker 2: top terrorist responsible for the attack. Got of people forgot

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01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 2: about that? Yeah, Trump did that. Number nineteen He created

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01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:25,639
Speaker 2: Trump accounts to give every American child a trust fund.

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01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:25,840
Speaker 4: Now.

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01:24:25,840 --> 01:24:30,000
Speaker 2: I know that President Trump is, you know, known as

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01:24:30,040 --> 01:24:33,840
Speaker 2: a showman or like a salesman, even while he's in office,

1216
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:37,680
Speaker 2: not just before office. Whatever, that's his character. You take

1217
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:40,760
Speaker 2: him for all of his all of his personality traits. Right,

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01:24:41,200 --> 01:24:43,400
Speaker 2: This might come across as some kind of like you know,

1219
01:24:43,439 --> 01:24:45,640
Speaker 2: Trump steaks or trumpell, but this Trump account thing is

1220
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:48,240
Speaker 2: real and it's a really good idea. The federal government

1221
01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 2: will put one thousand dollars into a taxed, a tax

1222
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 2: advantage investment account for every American child born between January first,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five that's last year, and December thirty first,

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01:25:00,760 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, to be locked until they turn eighteen.

1225
01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:10,840
Speaker 2: The Treasury Department estimates the accounts could grow between three

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Speaker 2: thousand and thirteen thousand dollars in eighteen years, and as

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01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:18,960
Speaker 2: much as one point nine million by age twenty eight

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01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:23,599
Speaker 2: if fully funded with additional contributions and left untouched. Giving

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01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:28,640
Speaker 2: every American child a financial foundation as they begin adulthood.

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01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:33,040
Speaker 2: What an absolutely brilliant idea. Seriously, Like, you know, I

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01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:35,879
Speaker 2: have nieces and nephew who are in their mid twenties

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01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:39,680
Speaker 2: and this is that time where they've been working in

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01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:42,120
Speaker 2: the private sector for a couple of years now and they're,

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01:25:42,200 --> 01:25:44,960
Speaker 2: you know, getting their first kind of promotions. They have

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01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:47,920
Speaker 2: a little bit of money, and if they weren't conservative

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01:25:47,960 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 2: in Republicans before, they're definitely becoming conservative Republicans now, because

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01:25:51,479 --> 01:25:53,439
Speaker 2: well they all were already, but a lot of the

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01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:56,320
Speaker 2: friends are. When you start getting paid and you see

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01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:58,519
Speaker 2: how much money the government takes out of your paycheck,

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01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 2: and you realize all of the fraud and abuse and

1241
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:05,639
Speaker 2: waste that the government goes does with it, you say, yeah,

1242
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:09,160
Speaker 2: which is the side that wants less of that money

1243
01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 2: taken down? That's Republicans. And which is the side that

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01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:17,280
Speaker 2: wants more of it taken up? That's Democrats and more

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01:26:17,439 --> 01:26:20,360
Speaker 2: government spending and growth of government. Yeah, that's Democrats. I'm

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01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:23,880
Speaker 2: voting for the Republicans. But you keep telling them like,

1247
01:26:24,080 --> 01:26:27,440
Speaker 2: this is the time right now to start those investment accounts.

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01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 2: Right now, at twenty five, you have just you just

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01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:35,120
Speaker 2: put away one thousand dollars or five hundred dollars a month,

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01:26:35,320 --> 01:26:37,000
Speaker 2: just five hundred bucks a month, if you can afford it.

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Speaker 2: You start doing that at twenty five, you're gonna have

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Speaker 2: a million dollars when you're sixty five, guaranteed you're gonna

1253
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 2: have maybe more if you invest it properly. Five hundred

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01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:47,639
Speaker 2: bucks a month, that's nothing. Well, if you started when

1255
01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:50,760
Speaker 2: you were a baby, which nobody does. Babies, you know,

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01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:54,960
Speaker 2: can't do anything, it could grow even longer and higher,

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01:26:55,000 --> 01:27:00,439
Speaker 2: and just one thousand dollars, that's it. Tax advantage investment account.

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Speaker 2: What we're doing is setting up the generation twenty years

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Speaker 2: from now from not being dependents on the government. No,

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01:27:08,400 --> 01:27:09,600
Speaker 2: you're not going to be able to live off of

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01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:12,600
Speaker 2: thirteen thousand dollars for the rest of your life. But

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01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:16,559
Speaker 2: when you see that in your account, you have some

1263
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:19,200
Speaker 2: money to play with and invest in hopefully, and you

1264
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:22,160
Speaker 2: start to appreciate money a little bit more, you're probably

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01:27:22,200 --> 01:27:25,080
Speaker 2: going to be smarter with it, and you'll Because that's

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01:27:25,120 --> 01:27:28,760
Speaker 2: of a burden on taxpayers that those who are really

1267
01:27:28,840 --> 01:27:32,080
Speaker 2: terrible with their money are not always their own fault.

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Speaker 2: I do admit that, but often it's the people who

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Speaker 2: often the people who are not to not doing well

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Speaker 2: in society, that's a result from very bad choices that

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Speaker 2: they made. Number eighteen. He drove illegal migration to a

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Speaker 2: virtual halt. Biden claimed he needed legislation from Congress to

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Speaker 2: subcure the border. Trump shut down the border in weeks

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Speaker 2: with no new congressional authority. Encounters at the border are

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Speaker 2: at record lows, Apprehensions at are ninety five percent lower

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Speaker 2: than the daily average under Biden, and no illegal migrants

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Speaker 2: have been released into the United States for seven months.

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Speaker 2: Number seventeen. Trump used tariff threats to strike new trade deals.

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Speaker 2: In his first term, Trump offered the European Union a

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Speaker 2: zero for zero trade deal, zero percent tariffs for zero

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Speaker 2: percent tariffs, but the EU failed to take them up

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Speaker 2: on the offer. Seven years later, Trump struck a deal

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Speaker 2: that included a fifteen percent baseline tariff on most European

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Speaker 2: exports to the United States, while most US exports to

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Speaker 2: the EU will be duty three. What changed Trump's trade war.

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Speaker 2: He also used tariffs as a leverage to reach deals

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Speaker 2: with Great Britain, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam,

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Speaker 2: the Philipines and Cambodia. Hopefully the Supreme Court will keep

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Speaker 2: these tariffs in plates. I again, I go back and

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Speaker 2: forth on it. I'm not super small on international economics

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Speaker 2: and trade and tariffs, but I try to educate myself

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Speaker 2: on it, and I've heard arguments from both sides. From conservatives,

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of conservatives who are anti tariffs.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of conservatives who are pro tariffs.

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Speaker 2: I lean a little bit more towards pro tariffs for

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Speaker 2: this negotiating with other countries, thing the leverage he's able

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Speaker 2: to enact and have with these tariff not just threats

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Speaker 2: but enacting them. I like that because we finally have

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Speaker 2: a president who is I don't know, putting America and

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Speaker 2: our people first right. Sixteen he brought many of the

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Speaker 2: nation's elite universities to heal. He forced Columbia University to

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Speaker 2: sign a two hundred and twenty million dollar settlement over diversity,

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Speaker 2: equity and inclusion and over the anti Semitic civil rights

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Speaker 2: violations on campus, and reached similar settlements with Brown, Cornell, Northwestern,

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Speaker 2: the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Virginia, with

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Speaker 2: more potentially on the way. Number fifteen, he took on

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Speaker 2: radical gender ideology and protected women's sports. He signed in

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Speaker 2: an executative order and issued new regulations to stop US

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Speaker 2: hospitals from engaging in the chemical and surgical mutilation of children,

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Speaker 2: and ordered that federal funds be rescinded from any educational

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Speaker 2: a student that deprives women and girls of fair athletic opportunities.

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Speaker 2: As a result, the NCAA and the US Olympic and

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Speaker 2: Paralympic Committees changed their policies to ban men from competing

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Speaker 2: in women's sports, and the University of Pennsylvania agreed to

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Speaker 2: restore women's school Records, post the definition of a woman

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Speaker 2: on its website and apologize to athletes at harms it

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Speaker 2: harmed with past Title nine violations. That thanks to Christlin Trump.

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Speaker 2: We're reading twenty of the best things Trump did in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. We will continue after this on Tony

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Speaker 2: Katz today. I am Mike coolgich in for TONI we'll

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Speaker 2: gre at back. We are back on Tony Katz today

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Speaker 2: to day being January tewod the year of our lower

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. You get used to it. We're in

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Speaker 2: the late twenties now. I am Mike coolidge in for Tony,

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Speaker 2: reading from Mark Deeson's Peace where Tisa I forget how

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Speaker 2: to pronounce it in the Washington Post. Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 2: The twenty best things President Trump did in his first term.

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Speaker 2: Number fourteen, he ended collective bargaining for a million federal workers.

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Speaker 2: Federal workers, there shouldn't be if you work for the government,

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Speaker 2: you shouldn't be in a union. They shouldn't need they

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01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:42,599
Speaker 2: shouldn't exist. Government unions should not exist. Yeah, that's right,

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Speaker 2: because who and even Fdr of all, you know, the

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Speaker 2: biggest hero of Democrats, Franklin Delano Roosevelt even he agreed

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Speaker 2: with this. You know, the private labor union's fine completely Okay,

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Speaker 2: my dad was in a union. You know. I'm not

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Speaker 2: anti private unions at all. I don't like how a

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Speaker 2: lot of the private unions try to intimidate their members

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Speaker 2: into voting for Democrats. That I have a problem with.

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Speaker 2: But whatever, straight country, they can do that. But we

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Speaker 2: should not have government unions because who are they collectively

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Speaker 2: bargaining against when they get together. It's government union people,

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Speaker 2: the taxpayers, you and me. That's a conflict of interest anyway.

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Speaker 2: President Trump, in his second term, ended collective bargaining for

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Speaker 2: a million federal workers. His executive orders gutting public worker

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01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:38,880
Speaker 2: unions mean many federal departments can terminate union contracts and

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Speaker 2: hire and fire based on merits. Imagine that number thirteen.

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Speaker 2: He scrapped Biden era policies intended to force people into

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Speaker 2: electric cars and unleashed oil and gas production. Trump is

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01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:54,160
Speaker 2: rolling back Biden's fuel efficiency and tailpipe emission standards and

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01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:59,360
Speaker 2: signed legislation ending California's electric vehicle mandate policies intended to

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01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:02,880
Speaker 2: coerce a mac into buying electric vehicles. Trump also lifted

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Speaker 2: Biden's pause and natural gas exports, dramatically increasing US exports,

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Speaker 2: opening up millions of acres in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife

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Speaker 2: Refuge to drilling and mining, approving record numbers of drilling permits,

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Speaker 2: rolling back climate regulations, and revoking Biden era orders that

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Speaker 2: blocked oil and gas drilling in most coastal waters. Bra

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Speaker 2: Vo President Trump. Number twelve, he made our nation's capital

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Speaker 2: safer by sending in the National Guard. After Trump took

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Speaker 2: federal court control of the DC Police and deployed the Guard,

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01:33:36,439 --> 01:33:40,280
Speaker 2: crime in the district dropped by double digits in virtually

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Speaker 2: every category. Ask any fair minded person who lives in Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. What it's been like since the National Guard

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01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:50,799
Speaker 2: has been deployed there, fair minded person, not some liberal leftists,

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Speaker 2: and they'll tell you it's awesome. It's so great going

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Speaker 2: out and not worrying about being mugged or you know, worse.

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Speaker 2: Number eleven. He dramatically cut taxes on tips, over time,

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Speaker 2: and social security. His one Bag Beautiful Bill also made

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Speaker 2: his twenty seventeen pro growth tax cuts permanent. We are

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Speaker 2: going to see the effects of that this year. This

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Speaker 2: is why I'm confident that Republicans are going to maintain

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Speaker 2: the House and the Senate. I'm cautiously confident. I'm not

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Speaker 2: a slam dunk. Trust me. They can screw it up

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01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:33,720
Speaker 2: if they run terrible campaigns. But I'm confident that the

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Speaker 2: Republicans are going to maintain control of the House. They're

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Speaker 2: almost certain. I am confident they're going to maintain control

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Speaker 2: of the Senate, almost for sure. The House is a

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Speaker 2: question mark. Historically, the party not in power of the

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Speaker 2: presidency always gains in the midterms, and we have a

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Speaker 2: Republican in the White House, so Democrats should gain. Historically

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Speaker 2: it almost always happens, with very rare exceptions. But if

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Speaker 2: the economy is booming this year, people are going to

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Speaker 2: keep Republicans, especially if they're represented by a Republican right

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Speaker 2: now in Congress, They're going to keep them there because

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Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, we're doing okay. And I am confident

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Speaker 2: that the economy is going to be awesome this year.

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Speaker 2: First day of the year. Let's check it back when

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Speaker 2: I fill in for Tony again, God willing, you know,

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Speaker 2: middle of a year, the end of this year, let's

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Speaker 2: check on that, right, how'd the economy do? Number ten? President?

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Speaker 2: Great things that President Trump did just In this last year,

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Speaker 2: he forced Panama to crack down on Chinese influence over

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Speaker 2: the Panama Canal. Under pressure from Trump, Panama replaced Whoai

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Speaker 2: tabletcommunications infrastructure installed at thirteen sites with secure American technology,

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Speaker 2: pulled out of China's Belt and Road initiative, and scrapped

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Speaker 2: its contracts with a Hong Kong based company to manage

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Speaker 2: port facilities. Bravo. I was having this conversation on New

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Speaker 2: Year's Eve with a a couple friend of ours who

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Speaker 2: we went to dinner with on New Year's Eve, and

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Speaker 2: they're you know, Trump supporters, you know, not as deep

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Speaker 2: political junkies as I am. And I was saying about

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Speaker 2: one of trus One of the cool things about President

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Speaker 2: Trump that not a lot of people understand, but it's

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01:36:13,360 --> 01:36:19,520
Speaker 2: international thing, is he's flexing in this hemisphere. He realizes

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Speaker 2: that the United States being the world's biggest superpower and

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Speaker 2: only superpower. But you know, we do have threats, namely

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Speaker 2: China and Russia and you know, certain countries in the

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Speaker 2: Middle East. We need to maintain our power in the

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Speaker 2: Western hemisphere. Yeah, the entire Western Hemisphere, going all the

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Speaker 2: way down to South America. Doesn't mean we're taking over

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Speaker 2: countries or we're starting wars or anything like that. But

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Speaker 2: the whole Gulf of America thing, and possibly Greenland and

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Speaker 2: trying to live Chinese influence in the Panica Panama Canal. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's Trump saying, hey, guys, this is our hemisphere. You

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Speaker 2: Russians and Chinese and others, stay out. This is our territory.

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Speaker 2: Not literally, but I like that. I like that about

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Speaker 2: President Trump. He has no qualms about that. Previous presidents

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Speaker 2: certainly did. Number nine, he added one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: six billion to the defense budget. I'm a veteran, I'm

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Speaker 2: pro national defense. I'm not exactly pro increasing the government

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Speaker 2: size in anything really, so I'm not going to say

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Speaker 2: that I absolutely love this. But as Mark Theessen says,

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Speaker 2: as part of his One Big, Beautiful Bill, Trump made

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Speaker 2: a down payment on his second Trump Defense build up,

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Speaker 2: including funding for his Golden Dome Defense Shield to protect

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Speaker 2: America from ballistic missile strikes, which will fulfill the vision

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Speaker 2: of Ronald Reagan with this strategic defense initiative star Wars

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Speaker 2: as they called it back then. But he still needs

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Speaker 2: to increase regular defense spending to deliver on his promise

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01:37:59,479 --> 01:38:04,000
Speaker 2: of peace through strength I would be really happy if

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Speaker 2: we reduced the size of the Pentagon, including those at

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Speaker 2: the senior levels in the Pentagon. We have way too

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Speaker 2: many four star and three star generals in the Pentagon. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's right. We need best to them. And yeah, this

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Speaker 2: is one that I'm not one hundred percent behind. We

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Speaker 2: need a strong national defense, obviously, but the Pentagon budget

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Speaker 2: is vloated. Number eight. He shut down the US Agency

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Speaker 2: for International Development. Eliminating us AID as an independent agency

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Speaker 2: has been a Conservative goal since the nineteen nineties. Trump

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01:38:36,280 --> 01:38:39,479
Speaker 2: finally did it. While permanently abolishing USAD requires an Act

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Speaker 2: of Congress, Trump has folded its functions into the State Department,

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Speaker 2: eliminating eliminated wasteful programs, and made sure that USAID decisions

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Speaker 2: support US foreign policy objectives. Bravo, thank you. Number seven,

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Speaker 2: he fixed the military recruiting crisis. After years suffering years

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Speaker 2: of severe recruiting shortfalls on Biden, the US Army, Navy,

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01:39:02,920 --> 01:39:06,040
Speaker 2: Air Force, Marines, and Space Force all met or exceeded

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Speaker 2: their twenty twenty five recruiting goals, many of them months

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Speaker 2: ahead of schedule. Yeah, because we have actual tough leaders

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Speaker 2: in charge the military now at the very top number six,

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Speaker 2: he has eliminated dozens of suspected Venezuelan drug boats. Trump

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01:39:22,760 --> 01:39:25,559
Speaker 2: launched the largest appointment of naval assets to the Caribbean

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01:39:25,600 --> 01:39:28,120
Speaker 2: since the US invasion of Panama and is taking out

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01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:33,960
Speaker 2: the speedboats and submarines the narco terrorists use, again flexing

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01:39:34,200 --> 01:39:42,160
Speaker 2: our power in our hemisphere, not just to make sure

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01:39:42,200 --> 01:39:47,679
Speaker 2: that entities like China and Russia and Middle Eastern powers

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01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:54,360
Speaker 2: don't start poking around over here, but narco terrorists who

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01:39:54,479 --> 01:39:59,760
Speaker 2: are literally killing Americans with their drugs are much more

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01:40:00,479 --> 01:40:02,879
Speaker 2: Remember earlier in the show were talking about consequences for reactions,

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01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:05,599
Speaker 2: much more hesitant to ship their drugs here on their

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Speaker 2: boats and submarines as they had been previously. Thanks to

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Speaker 2: these taking out that has been occurring from our Defense

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Speaker 2: Department or war department, I should say now on number five,

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Speaker 2: he is standing up for the persecuted Christians in Nigeria.

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01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:22,000
Speaker 2: He warned that he would send the US military into

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Speaker 2: Nigeria guns of blazon to wipe out Islamist terrorists engaged

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Speaker 2: in mass killings of Christians, and on Christmas Day he delivered,

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Speaker 2: carrying out multiple strikes against Islamic state targets in northwestern Nigeria.

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Speaker 2: You might have missed this over the break. It happened

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Speaker 2: on Christmas Day. It was awesome. Number four. He forged

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Speaker 2: one of the greatest peacemaking records in United States history.

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Speaker 2: He made progress towards lasting peace and conflicts between India

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Speaker 2: and Pakistan, Congo and Rwanda, Cambodia and Thailand, Armenia and

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Speaker 2: Azu by gene iw we say wrong. He also brought

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Speaker 2: war between Israel and Iran to an end after twelve

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Speaker 2: days and broke her to deal to end the Israel

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Speaker 2: Hamas War that secured the release of all remaining hostages.

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Speaker 2: He also helped avert conflicts between Kosovo and Serbia, Egypt

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Speaker 2: and Ethiopia, got Kazakhstan to join the Abraham Accords. Russia's

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Speaker 2: war on Ukraine's has proven more intractable, but this is

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Speaker 2: an unprecedented record worthy of a Nobel Peace Prizes. He

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Speaker 2: should get like five Nobel Peace Prizes for all the

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01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:34,120
Speaker 2: stuff he did. We need to take a break and

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Speaker 2: we will give you the top three things President Trump

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Speaker 2: did in twenty twenty five, According to Mark Tisen in

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Speaker 2: The Washington Post, this is the my oh I got.

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Speaker 2: This is Tony Kats Today, Old habits, die Hard. I

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Speaker 2: am Mike Coolidge in for Tony, Stay with us, Welcome

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Speaker 2: back to Tony Cats Today. I am Mike Coolidge in

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Speaker 2: for Tony. You have your radio on. When I ended

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Speaker 2: my RADDEO show in twenty twenty one, gosh, it seems

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01:42:03,640 --> 01:42:06,320
Speaker 2: so long ago now. This was the final song I

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Speaker 2: played to end the show. It has a really cool

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01:42:09,920 --> 01:42:12,519
Speaker 2: ending to it. You have to look it up. It's

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01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:18,479
Speaker 2: Roadrunner is the name of the song. And man, it's

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01:42:18,479 --> 01:42:23,040
Speaker 2: such an awesome song and it just explains the love

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Speaker 2: of radio. Really. It's by the modern lovers. I think

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Speaker 2: it's back in the early seventies. It's had such a

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Speaker 2: timeless sound to it. Spider Guy just driving in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the night, listening to radio and just loving

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Speaker 2: life and being connected to other people through the music

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Speaker 2: on it. And awesome song. Jonathan Richmond Roadrunner. All right,

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Speaker 2: we got to finish this up here. As we finished

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Speaker 2: this show, this first show of twenty twenty six, I

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Speaker 2: am My Coolish, by the way, in for Tony Kats.

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01:42:51,880 --> 01:42:54,439
Speaker 2: Coolidge just spelled with a K k L I d

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Speaker 2: G E followed me on X. I don't know when

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01:42:57,320 --> 01:43:00,040
Speaker 2: I'll be back whenever Tony takes another break and he

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Speaker 2: asks me to fill in, I'll be here. I loved it.

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01:43:02,360 --> 01:43:04,960
Speaker 2: I love chatting with the land in our producer behind

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Speaker 2: the glass. This has been a great time. I'm really

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01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:11,720
Speaker 2: super excited about I You. I hope they win the

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Speaker 2: national Championship. I think it's going to be IU versus

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01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:17,400
Speaker 2: Oh Miss, and it's going to be close. But I

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01:43:17,439 --> 01:43:19,760
Speaker 2: think I was going to come out on top. And

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Speaker 2: I'm on that bandwagon. I'm a Georgia fan, still broken

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01:43:22,800 --> 01:43:25,000
Speaker 2: harded over their loss to Ole Miss last night. But

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm on the Iowa, Iowa. I'm on the IU

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Speaker 2: tray now, all right. Top twenty things that Trump did

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five Best things he did. We read

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Speaker 2: seventeen of them here the final three, according to Mark

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Speaker 2: Tison and The Washington Post. Three. He is doing more

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Speaker 2: to help Ukraine than Biden ever did. Trump is sending

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Speaker 2: new weapons worth billions of dollars to Ukraine, paid for

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Speaker 2: by European allies, not American tax payers. That is key.

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Speaker 2: We're not paying anymore for the billions of dollars of

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Speaker 2: weapon reach to Ukraine. I'd like to be paid back

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Speaker 2: for it. By the way, for a lot of that

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Speaker 2: that Biden and stuff, did I know that wasn't Trump's doing.

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Speaker 2: It was Biden's doing. But that'd be kind of nice

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Speaker 2: if they paid us back for all that money that

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Speaker 2: we taxpayers gave to Ukraine, wouldn't it. He's providing Ukraine

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Speaker 2: with targeting intelligence for strikes deep into Russia, and he's

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Speaker 2: offering Ukraine a NATO Article five style security guarantee as

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Speaker 2: part of a potential peace deal. I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: just want that word to end. Number two, he got

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Speaker 2: NATO allies to meet and raise their defense spending promises. Today,

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Speaker 2: all allies are on track to spend two percent of

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Speaker 2: GDP on defense this year, and at a triumphant NATO

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Speaker 2: summit in the Netherlands, Trump got allies to agree to

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Speaker 2: raise their spending to five percent by twenty thirty five,

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Speaker 2: more than double their previous commitment. As NATO Secretary General

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Speaker 2: Mark Rutt wrote to Trump, that is something no American

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Speaker 2: president in decades could get done. What does that mean?

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01:44:51,439 --> 01:44:55,960
Speaker 2: It means we the taxpayers aren't footing the bill anymore

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Speaker 2: for Europe protecting themselves from other countries in Europe. A

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Speaker 2: Number one he obliterated the Iran nuclear program. For presidents

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01:45:09,120 --> 01:45:12,120
Speaker 2: promised to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but

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01:45:12,160 --> 01:45:16,759
Speaker 2: only Trump took decisive action to halt it. Launching Operation

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01:45:16,880 --> 01:45:19,559
Speaker 2: Midnight Hammer is possibly the most important and courageous foreign

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Speaker 2: policy decision any president has made in the past half century.

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Speaker 2: Governor Hatim, this is an objectively stunning string of accomplishments.

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Speaker 2: I cannot think of a president in my lifetime who

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Speaker 2: has accomplished so much in such a short period of time.

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Speaker 2: And whatever one thinks of Trump's record, he needs to

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01:45:35,479 --> 01:45:40,519
Speaker 2: be judged against the alternative. Kamala Harris was the most

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01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:44,720
Speaker 2: radical Democrat nominee in history, and the damage she would

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01:45:44,760 --> 01:45:50,439
Speaker 2: have done as president would have been irreparable. Instead, Trump

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Speaker 2: took the oath of office with a popular vote mandate

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Speaker 2: to do everything on this list and more. Martisen in

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Speaker 2: the one to post top twenty best things Trump did

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. Also, imagine right now who the

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Speaker 2: vice president of the United States would be as Kamala

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Speaker 2: Harris had won. Tim Walls one heart beat away from

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Speaker 2: the presidency. A guy who completely embellished his military record,

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Speaker 2: a guy who has been the steward of a state

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Speaker 2: with rampant fraud and government wasteful spending, abuse happening, and

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Speaker 2: a guy who is a bonafide moron and I don't

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Speaker 2: use that word lightly. Someone who's not a moron is

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Speaker 2: Tony Katz. He will be back on Monday, say a

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Speaker 2: lot better things about Tony Kat. Tony Kats is awesome,

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Speaker 2: his show is awesome, and I was honored and thankful

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Speaker 2: to fill in for him, and welcoming back on Monday

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Speaker 2: with a big round of applause. Will Yeah, Happy twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six New year. This has been Mike Coolidge, have

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Speaker 2: a great weekend.