1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, Twin Cities News Talk. Hey, I'm eleven 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: thirty one oh three five FM. It's Wednesday. I'm glad 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: you're with the show this morning as we broadcast from 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: the six five to one Carpet Next Day Install Studios. 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: We've got Devin in the master control booth next door. 6 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: My name is John Justice. Lots to talk about on 7 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: the show this morning. Hank Long from Alpha News should 8 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: be joining us. Coming up at eight thirty. We'll get 9 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: into some Minneapolis news relating to the mayoral race. The 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: snap wars are on. We'll talk about that and the 11 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: shutdown throughout the show this morning. Lawsuits are flying around. 12 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: We have a lot of talk about the Bible coming 13 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: from Democrats, specifically Gavin Newsom. I'll share this with you 14 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: coming up a little bit later on in the show, 15 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: and of course I want to hear from you. You 16 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: can email me Justice at iHeartRadio dot com. If you're 17 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: listening on the Ihearter radio app, you can leave us 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,199 Speaker 1: a talk back, just like Hans did this morning before 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: the show started. 20 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 2: Hey, John, you know all these boats we've been blowing 21 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 2: up in the Caribbean in the ocean. 22 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: If you want a cocaine shark. 23 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 2: This is how you get a cocaine shark. 24 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 3: I have a great day right now. 25 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. It's going to be a 26 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: lot of drug addicted fish in the ocean with all 27 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: of the boats that we keep blowing up. I just 28 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,679 Speaker 1: saw one a moment ago on and it blew up 29 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: another one on Fox News. Well Fox News didn't blow 30 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: it up. Trump and Trump administration did. The Democrats have 31 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: kind of moved off that for at least a short 32 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 1: period of time while they continue to focus on the 33 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: shutdown and snap benefits. And this is where the whole 34 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: thing is heading, by the way, and maybe this was 35 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: the game plan all along. I don't want to give 36 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: Democrats too much credit for having that much foresight, but 37 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: it's clear now that they are going to allow to 38 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: shut down to continue heading into the weekend, taking away 39 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: individual snap benefits. Because you see the moves that are 40 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 1: being made, as I mentioned, the lawsuits taking place, the 41 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: commentary on legacy media, and with the elections coming up 42 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 1: next week, Democrats are desperate for some victories in there 43 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: under the assumption that if they tick off a bunch 44 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: of people, they'll go out and vote for their progressive 45 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: Marxist candidates, and that might be the case, that might act, 46 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: that might actually end up happening. But as I was 47 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: talking about with Andrew Langer earlier in the week, I'm 48 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: not taking a lot away from these individual races in 49 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: these states or even what happens here in Minneapolis. There's 50 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: a lot of circumstances going on that's driving and will 51 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: drive voter turnout, as it's already begun in so many 52 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: of these places. But I'm getting ahead of myself because 53 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: really my plan this morning was to start here. It's 54 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: not easy being green. It's been a while since we've 55 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: having to spend each day the color publy gone Green updated. 56 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: I have a big one this morning out of Newsmax. 57 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: Billionaire Bill Gates has dramatically changed his position on climate change, 58 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: acknowledging for this first time that there is no doomsday 59 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: risk from global warming of average that so the memo 60 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: was published by Gates Notes on Monday night. The Microsoft 61 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: co founder, who's poured billions into combat and global warming, 62 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: urged a move away from what he called the doomsday 63 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 1: outlook and toward improving living conditions in developing nations. Although 64 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: climate change will have serious consequences, particular for people in 65 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: the poorest countries. It will not lead to humanity's demise, 66 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:11,760 Speaker 1: Gates wrote, people will be able to live and thrive 67 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. The 68 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: seventy year old philanthropist's statement marks a notable reversal from 69 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: his twenty twenty one book How to Avoid Climate Disaster. 70 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: I wonder what changed the article gets to it. I 71 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: already knew, but I was happy to see that I 72 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: was on the right track. In his memo, Gates argued 73 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: that climate change is series, but that governments and philanthropists 74 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: must balance environmental goals with investments that help people adapt. 75 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: It's just this whatever. That's what smart people have been 76 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: saying for a long time. That's what I've been saying 77 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: for a long time. Even if you believe in global warming, 78 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: do you think that we as humans can actually go 79 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: and spend billions of dollars to reduce the greenhouse gas 80 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: emissions and change something naturally occurring? You'd be a fool. 81 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: So even if you believe in it, you'd be better 82 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,800 Speaker 1: off the adapting. I'm of the opinion that this was 83 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: a scam from the get go, and I'll get to 84 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: that more in just a moment. We can't cut funding 85 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: for health and development programs that help people stay resilient 86 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:22,279 Speaker 1: in the face of climate change. To do it, he wrote, 87 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: It's time to put human welfare at the center of 88 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: our climate strategies. In May, the Gates Foundation did announce 89 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 1: plans to wind down over the coming years after spending 90 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: billions on climate related efforts, including one point four billion 91 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: to aid farmers adapting too hotter conditions. This was always 92 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 1: a redistribution of wealth. In an interview with CNBC Andrew 93 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 1: Ross Sorkin, Gates said climate is super important, but has 94 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: to be considered in terms of overall human welfare. I 95 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: didn't pick that position because everybody agrees with it. It's just 96 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: the intellectually right to answer. The New York Times noted 97 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: that some observers see this modern as an attempted to 98 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: move to the center during a period when Donald Trump 99 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: and other Republicans are skeptical of climate spending. Yeah, exactly, 100 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: the ton has shifted. They've been losing traction and ground 101 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 1: on the issue of climate change for years now. It's 102 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:21,160 Speaker 1: not even a talking point on the left. Really, it 103 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: was a scam when it started it's been a scam 104 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: that's wasted billions of dollars attempting to combat the scam, 105 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: and that continues today. And yet added to the list 106 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: of what Governor Tim Walls has moved forward on that 107 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: have just become folly sanctuary policies, gender identity in uth sports, 108 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: the push towards fighting climate change here in Minnesota, the 109 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: plans that will be put forward unless we can elect 110 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: a new leadership next year to undo the horrific damage 111 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:00,679 Speaker 1: that Walls will perpetuate on this state via these climate 112 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: change efforts that are going to end up costing you 113 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: thousands of dollars more per year. Just add it to 114 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,679 Speaker 1: the list. Keeping with the theme, the House Oversight Committee 115 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: is referred Biden, the cover up to the DOJ for investigation. 116 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: How many millions did the auto pen sign off on 117 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 1: related to climate change. I'll give you details coming up 118 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: from Alpha News. We'll get to your talkbacks from the 119 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app as well here on Twinday's News Talk 120 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: Am eleven thirty and one oh three five FM. Good 121 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: Morning and I love your show. 122 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 3: Good Morning, John Dave San Louis Party. 123 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 4: Of course, Bill gates Is would be away from his 124 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 4: made up climate change. 125 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: He wants all the power for it is AI and servers. Yeah, 126 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: and you aren't the only one to go and point 127 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: that out. Thank you for the comments this morning on 128 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app Here on Twin Cities News Talk, brought 129 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: to you by Lyndall Realty. 130 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 5: Isn't it just amazing that Bill Gates finally came see 131 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 5: the light that there's no global warming? Oh my god, 132 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 5: it's almost like he wants power to run all of. 133 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 2: His AI stuff. 134 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:16,559 Speaker 1: Hmm. 135 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 5: I wonder if that's got anything to do with it. 136 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 5: Next thing, you know, they'll be building nuclear power plants. 137 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: Okay, j D. I appreciate the comment. I'll ever do 138 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: that voice again. 139 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 4: That was awful. 140 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: Just stir a trade like, who do you not want 141 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: me to play on the show in the future to 142 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: keep you from doing that voice again. Here on Twin 143 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: City's News Talk from the sixty five one Carpet Next 144 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: Day Install Studios. 145 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 6: Greta Thunberg had a responsible Gates announcement. 146 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,319 Speaker 1: She said, how dare you. 147 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 3: Good morning? I believe there volcanoes are rubbed in three 148 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five point two five days a year. 149 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 3: Volcanos spew more co two than every car on the planet. 150 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: Yep, just takes one, and there's a lot of them, 151 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: and they spew a lot of CO two every single year. 152 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: Pretty incredible. Let's go here. The US House Oversight Committee 153 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: released its report on the investigation into former President Joe 154 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: Biden's cognitive help, resulting in referrals to the Justice Department 155 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: and the DC Board of Medicine, citing multiple cover ups 156 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: of Biden's cognitive decline. The report, released on Tuesday morning, 157 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: claims the former president's inner circle gas lit the American 158 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: people on Biden's cognitive decline. In addition to the referrals, 159 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,119 Speaker 1: the report argues that many of the former president's executive 160 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: actions signed by the Autopen could be invalid. As a 161 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: matter of fact, the report itself was called the Biden 162 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: Autopen Presidency Decline Delusion to reception in the White House. 163 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:25,679 Speaker 1: The committee argues that senior Biden staff exercised presidential authority 164 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: or facilitated executive actions without direct authorization. 165 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 4: Shadows fall the oval throw the Bennet moves, but he's 166 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 4: not alone. 167 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: Steel machine makes the marks so clean that goes somewhere. 168 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: His hands not seas les rails on a bitten nice 169 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: break silent scribe in the Land of the Free medal 170 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:20,439 Speaker 1: and with the soul as gracess. The comprehensive reports includes 171 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 1: of videos and transcripts of interviews with fourteen Biden aids. 172 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: Comber underscored the magnitude of the cover up behind the 173 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 1: former president's cognitive decline, claiming the executive actions signed by 174 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: the Autopen are indeed invalid. The report reveals how key 175 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: aids concluded to mislead the public and the extraordinary measures 176 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,719 Speaker 1: they took to sustain the appearance of presidential authority. As 177 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: Biden's capacity to function independently diminished, executive actions performed by 178 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: the Biden White House staff and signed by the Autopen 179 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,079 Speaker 1: are null and void. We are calling on the US 180 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: Department of Justice to conduct a thorough review of these 181 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: actions and scrutin Night's key Biden aids who took the 182 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: fifth to hide their participation in the cover up. Now, 183 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: the counter argument to this that I've seen so far 184 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: is if they can get Joe Biden on record saying 185 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: that he approved of what the Autopen signed off on. 186 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: This is the sticking point that I've heard relating to 187 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: this particular issue of well all that they'll need to 188 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: do in order to move away from the controversy is 189 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 1: to make sure that Biden says, yes, indeed, I use 190 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: the autopen, but I absolutely did approve of what the 191 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:48,079 Speaker 1: autopen signed off on. Questions regarding Biden's mental fitness were 192 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: raised well before the twenty twenty presidential election. Republicans and 193 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: many other conservative media outlets, of course, continue to raise 194 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: questions regarding the former president's health throughout his presidency. On 195 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: the story comes from Off the News courtesy of Center Square. Oh, 196 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 1: and he made an appearance recently. I don't know if 197 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: you saw Joe Biden did. That was the reason why 198 00:13:08,559 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 1: he made an appearance this past week. He was talking 199 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: about the future of the country and democracy being a 200 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: stake and all the typical garbage. You hear Joe Biden saying. No, 201 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,839 Speaker 1: they only brought him out, not because they wanted him 202 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: to express his own personal concern with how the future 203 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 1: is going under Trump. Nobody really cares what Joe Biden 204 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,599 Speaker 1: has to say anymore. They didn't really care what he 205 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: had to say when he was the president. But no, 206 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: the reason why they brought him out is because this 207 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: hearing was taking place and they wanted to provide Democrats 208 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 1: the opportunity to at least be able to point to 209 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 1: the former president and say, see, look, look he's fine. 210 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: There's no problem here. He was just talking behind a podium. 211 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:47,240 Speaker 1: It's all good. 212 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 2: Oh man, I thought they'd cut you off and started 213 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 2: to playing the off the air music. 214 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: Have a great day? That would oh, I guy, that 215 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: would have been kind of funny. Huh oh, no, Jo, 216 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: it's talking about the auto pen Stop him now, No, 217 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: I just we hadn't played a song from the AI 218 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: Overlords in a while, and I forgot I had that 219 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: sitting on the button bar, so I thought that I 220 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,959 Speaker 1: would share it with you this morning. All right, Coming up, 221 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: Newsome invokes a scripture an attack on GOP over shutdown 222 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: affecting food assistance, speaking of which we will run through 223 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: and appropriately once again shred an editorial in the Minnesota 224 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: Star Tribune. The Stribs resident of antique Christian propagandist Karen 225 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: Tolkienan has a piece relating to the shutdown charity Conservatives. 226 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: We'll dive into this and get to your talkbacks as well. 227 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: Coming up from the iHeartRadio app here on Twin Cities 228 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: News Talk Am eleven thirty and one O three five 229 00:14:50,960 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: FM from the sixty five to one Carpet Next Day 230 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: Install Studios, Twin City's news Talk I Am eleven thirty 231 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: one oh three five FM, of course on the iHeartRadio app. 232 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:15,880 Speaker 1: Well play some more of your talkbacks brought to you 233 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: by Lyndahl Realty coming up here in just a moment. 234 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: Make sure to update the iHeartRadio app if you haven't 235 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: done that in a while. They're always adding new features 236 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: to enhance your listening enjoyment. And make sure to set 237 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: your preset on the iHeartRadio app to Twin Cities news Talk, 238 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: make us number one from Fox News. California Governor Gavin 239 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: Newsom invoked Biblical teachings while criticizing Republican leadership and the 240 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: Trump administration for the federal government's shutdowns impact on food assistants, 241 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: arguing that scripture commands care for the hungry, and the 242 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: Washington is failing a moral test. Now before I play 243 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: newsome here, let me just again, Speaker of the House, 244 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, Why the government is shut down? What is 245 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: going on? In fifteen seconds? Just for those that aren't 246 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: paying close enough attention, that's. 247 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 7: To help you need sixty votes in the Senate, we 248 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 7: only have fifty three Republicans. The Democrats are the ones 249 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 7: voting repeatedly to shut down the government, but they're not 250 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 7: opening it back up. They spent most of their time 251 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 7: trying to distract the American people from the very simple truth. 252 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: So here's what in that very simple truth is that 253 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: now they're keeping the government shut down because they're hoping 254 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: to anger their base into action, and it might work. 255 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: Anecdotally speaking, I'm beginning to see an uptick and commentary 256 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,280 Speaker 1: from individuals who receives Snap benefits posting videos about how 257 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: upset they are. It's really interesting too, the vast majority 258 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 1: of people that are posting videos about losing their Snap 259 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: benefits look incredibly unhealthy, and then the few people that 260 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: do look healthy typically and almost all the videos that 261 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: I as a matter of fact, not not almost all 262 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 1: all the videos I've seen are of women complaining about 263 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: losing Snap benefits, and then the ones where the women 264 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: actually look healthy, they're talking about their children, how their 265 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,360 Speaker 1: children are going to go hungry. And yet it's really 266 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: easy to go and notice that those individuals look incredibly healthy, 267 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: are dressed very nice, are driving around really nice cars, 268 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: and you know this because they're shooting the videos inside 269 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: the cars. So I can't help but wonder if maybe 270 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 1: they're lying. I don't know, nobody ever lies when they 271 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: post videos on social networking, though. Right here's Gavin Newsom 272 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: getting his Jesus Christ on. 273 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 4: It's also interesting to me because I spent a little 274 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 4: time at Wonderful Jesuit University. If there was anything I 275 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 4: remember about my four years with Father cause is that 276 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 4: the New Testament Old Testament have one thing dominantly in 277 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:58,880 Speaker 4: common and Matthew Isaiah Luke proverbs. I mean, go down 278 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 4: the list. It's around food. It's about serving those that 279 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 4: are hungry. It's not a suggestion in the Old and 280 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 4: New Testament. It's core and central to what it is 281 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 4: to align the God's will, period full stop. I say 282 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,640 Speaker 4: that because these guys need to stop the BS in Washington, DC. 283 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 4: So they're sitting there in their prayer breakfasts. Maybe they 284 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 4: got an edited version of Donald Trump's Bible and they 285 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 4: edited all of that out. 286 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 2: I mean, enough of this. 287 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 1: Cruelty is the policy. 288 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 4: That's what this is about. It's intentional cruelty, intentionally creating 289 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:42,160 Speaker 4: anxiety millions and millions of people, five point five million 290 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 4: here in our home state. 291 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 1: White House and spokeswoman Abigail Jackson pushed back, accusing the 292 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: governor of hypocrisy, saying it's preposterous that Newsome, who shuddered 293 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 1: at churches during COVID and recently derided the power of prayer, 294 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: is now what you to manipulate religion to fit his 295 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: own political agenda President Donald Trump. Once the government opened, 296 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 1: the Democrats insistence on keeping it shut down is hurting 297 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,320 Speaker 1: the American people. But they could prevent these harms by 298 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: simply reopening the government. Instead of distorting religion for political means. 299 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: Newsom should urge his fellow Democrats to reopen the government. 300 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: And it's that distortion of religion that I want to 301 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: focus on. Typically, the Left only goes and invokes the 302 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,679 Speaker 1: Word of God when it is convenient, and as the 303 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 1: Democrats continue to demonstrate, and we'll share more clips coming 304 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 1: up later on in the show, they avoid the proper context, 305 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: especially when it comes to scripture, along with any scriptures 306 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: that would go and undermine the initial premise in this 307 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 1: case of what Gavin Newsom was talking about, and ultimately 308 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: they'll flat out lie. Look, there is truth in what 309 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: Newsom said, but there's also accountability that's in individuals taking 310 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: accountability and responsibility for themselves as well. No, he wants 311 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:10,480 Speaker 1: to go and selectively pull from that which he can 312 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: go and use, spoon feed it to the ignorant masses 313 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 1: who will lap it up and continue to spout those 314 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: arguments out on social media platforms. Now the comments came 315 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: as California in two dozen other states, including here in Minnesota, 316 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: sued the Trump administration and the USDA over his decision 317 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: to suspend the SNAP program benefits and the government shut down. 318 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: Get to a couple of your comments. I want to 319 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: play another clip from Newsom here in just a moment 320 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: as well. 321 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 6: So the Democrats have kept the government shut down and 322 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 6: held hostage in the SNAP program just so they could 323 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 6: win some victories in an off year election and then 324 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 6: tout how unpopular Donald Trump is sounds very devious to me. 325 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, because it is. And you're spot on. 326 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not a really religious person. 327 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 1: Well, if Gavin news Some can scroll or quote scripture, 328 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:21,680 Speaker 1: pretty sure I did comment too. Wouldn't give a man. 329 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 5: A fish, teach a man to fish? 330 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: Thing work better? Yeah, you're absolutely right. You're probably far 331 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: more religious than Gavin Newsom actually is. 332 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 2: Good morning, John Bill from Brooklyn park ellis ensuing Trump 333 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 2: to get snap benefits and find it amazing that they 334 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 2: protested for him being a king and now they want 335 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 2: him to do a king move and authorize money he's 336 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 2: not authorized to spend. YEP. 337 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 4: Pretty much, these guys need to stop the bs in Washington, DC. 338 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:07,239 Speaker 4: So they're sitting there in their prayer breakfasts. Maybe they 339 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 4: got an edited version of Donald Trump's Bible and they 340 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 4: edited all of that out. I mean, enough of this. 341 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,400 Speaker 1: Cruelty is the policy. 342 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 4: That's what this is about. It's intentional cruelty, intentionally creating 343 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 4: anxiety for millions and millions of people, five point five 344 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,080 Speaker 4: million here in our home state. So again, our state 345 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 4: of mind is good morning. 346 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:37,439 Speaker 8: Government is not the one that's supposed to feed the 347 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 8: poor and everything. He's taken scripture out of context. It's 348 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 8: Christians are the ones that are supposed to feed the 349 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 8: poor and do that. It's not the government's role to 350 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 8: do that. So he's not quoting the Bible correctly. 351 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: Thank you, yeah, no, of course, of course he isn't. 352 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,239 Speaker 1: Thank you for the for the talkback. I appreciate it. 353 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: Let's go here because it plays right into what we're 354 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 1: talking about. This actually came out last week. I didn't 355 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 1: get a chance to cover it, but Karen tolkienan in 356 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,120 Speaker 1: the Starch Tribune, and yes, people read this stuff, which 357 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: is why I feel it's appropriate to take some time 358 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: on the show to push back when there are these 359 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 1: anti Christian propagandasts that pedal this garbage and otter Tail County. 360 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: Karen writes, there's a group of patriots who want no 361 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 1: government funding of schools or welfare programs. They think parents 362 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 1: should pay for schools themselves. They think churches should feed 363 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: the hungry. That's how it used to be and it 364 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: should be again, they told me at a Charlie Kirk 365 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: memorial last month, just like in the olden days and 366 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: even in the Biblical times, when people when the poor 367 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: people were allowed to glean the fields of the rich. 368 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 1: As I pondered the logistics of transporting bus loads of 369 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: urban poor to rural areas to compete for pest to 370 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: pesticide bade the potatoes, I dismissed their ideas as utter nonsense, 371 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: unlikely to ever see the light of day. And yet 372 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: here is Karen tolkienan in the Star Tribune, writing a 373 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: three page editorial about this group of individuals, to which 374 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: she actually goes and omits it in the next line. 375 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: But the more I thought about it, the more I 376 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: came to realize that actually some of their ideas are 377 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,960 Speaker 1: already taking on flesh and blood reality. Already, the Trump 378 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: administration is cutting food aid to those least able to 379 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 1: feed themselves, and the government shutdown is imperiling the Supplemental 380 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: Nutrition Assistance Program until Congress can agree on spending, SNAP 381 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: has no money to send to those who rely on 382 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: the program. First off, it's cutting waste. If Karen's paying 383 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: attention at all to what's happening in Congress and whether 384 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: Republicans have been exposing what they're talking about relating to 385 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: deals being made and opening the government back up has 386 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: nothing to do with feeding anybody. Last negotiation tactic they 387 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: used was to send some four to six million dollars 388 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 1: overseas to LGBTQ issues. This was one of the things 389 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 1: that Schumer said that they will open the government back 390 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: up over and thankfully Republicans were like, no, we're not 391 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: doing that. It's the Democrats that are doing this. Points 392 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: completely lost on her, though The longer the shutdowns last, 393 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: the more likely it is that people will be in 394 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: need and they'll have to turn elsewhere like food shells. 395 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 1: And who supplies many of the nation's food shells churches 396 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: or do gooders connected to them. Churches aren't the only 397 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: source of food, though, she writes. Food shelves also gather 398 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 1: unsold food from grocery stores and receive government aid. Eight. 399 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: Not to worry, though, my pretty little extremists, she writes, 400 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,399 Speaker 1: we may soon rely more on churches than on industry 401 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: or government to feed the hungry. This year's One Big 402 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill Act, perhaps inadvertently, perhaps not, removed the tax 403 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,919 Speaker 1: incentive for sea corporations such as cub or Walmart to 404 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: donate to charity. Beginning in twenty twenty six. In order 405 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 1: to deduct their donations, the donated amount has to be 406 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: above one percent of their taxable earnings. Yeah, it's a 407 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:25,119 Speaker 1: tax co change. However, they can still write off the 408 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: food they throw away of any amount as a business loss, 409 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 1: So starting next year, corporations can still claim a tax 410 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: break for throwing away expired or near expired cans, but 411 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: no tax deduction for donating them. And that's simply not true. 412 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: I mean see even in a minute as much there 413 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: are changes in the tax deductions, and they're probably for 414 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: the better if you were to actually go and take 415 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 1: a specific look at the grocery stores, what they are 416 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: doing relating to donating items, and how much much of 417 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: that food is actually getting to the needy. Already in 418 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, she goes on, today the Trump administration 419 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: has slashed more than a million pounds of food that 420 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,679 Speaker 1: were supposed to end up on Minnesota food shelves this summer. 421 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: The One Big but Ugly Bill Act, she says, cut 422 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,439 Speaker 1: an estimated one hundred and eighty seven billion for SNAP 423 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: over ten years. She provides absolutely no context whatsoever, by 424 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: the way, as to what was actually cut from SNAP 425 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: and the fact that individuals who still need SNAP, even 426 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: despite the cuts made and the One Big Beautiful Bill, 427 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: are going to get it. It's a lot like what 428 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 1: happened with Medicaid. This is making sure that they are 429 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: getting rid of the waste of the fraud and abuse 430 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: so that people who genuinely need SNAP benefits can still 431 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: go and get it. But being able to push back 432 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 1: on Trump is far more important than context or truth 433 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: when it comes to individuals like Karen tolkienan or the 434 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: Minnesota Star Tribune. She goes on to right, we used 435 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: to have a war on hunger in this country. Now 436 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: we have a war on the hungry. 437 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 2: Ooh. 438 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: With shrinking corporate and government to aid, hungry people will 439 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: rely more and more on soup kitchens and foodshelves, less government, 440 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: more church, exactly what some religious conservatives have been demanding, 441 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 1: even as churches influence dwindles in American society. At any 442 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: given time, more than ten Americans receive SNAP benefits. One 443 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: in ten Americans receive SNAP benefits. That is not a 444 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: failure of the people who are on SNAP. That is 445 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: a failure of the employers to pay living wages, of 446 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: wealth hoarding by the super rich, of tax policies that 447 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: encourage the rich to get richer and the poor to 448 00:28:54,560 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: get poorer. It's not the responsibility at all of the 449 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: individual on welfare. According to Karen, I'm curious if she's 450 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 1: watched any of the number of videos that have been 451 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: posted by individuals talking about all the lavish expenditures that 452 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: they were able to make while being on SNAP benefits. 453 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 1: Boasting of such things, It certainly does not account for 454 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: everybody on snap benefits. But if you are under the 455 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: impression that people on welfare aren't abusing the system, then 456 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: you're a fool. And Karen's a fool. It's not the 457 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: employer's fault. It's not the employer's job to make sure 458 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 1: that people have food on the table. They want to 459 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: conduct a business. The individuals that run those companies want 460 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: to be able to support their own families and in 461 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: turn hire employees who can do the job required of them, 462 00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: and they receive benefits from it as well. It's this 463 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 1: Marxist mentality though, that permeates the politics here in Minnesota 464 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: and the pages of the Star Tribune, and unfortunately people 465 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: just soak this up, evil, bad, awful Trump. She goes 466 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: on to ride at Alexandria's Outreach Food Shehelf. The executive director, 467 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: Bernice Wimmer, tells me that she used to spend eight 468 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a month on food for her clients. Now 469 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: that's up to ten thousand, both because of food costs 470 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: and demand. Yeah, and who did they support back in 471 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Did they vote for Governor Tim Walls? Did 472 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: they vote for dfllers give giving them the trifecta? When 473 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 1: they did. Just curious. She wraps up with this, imagine 474 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,479 Speaker 1: what will happen if people are unable to use their 475 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: snap cards next month to buy groceries for their families. Well, 476 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 1: we don't have to imagine, because the Democrats are allowing 477 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: this to happen once again. They're making their own people 478 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: suffer because they have no party platform to run on. 479 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: They have no issues to run on right now, So 480 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 1: what do they have to do. They have to try 481 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: to increase the voter base, which is exactly the same 482 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: thing the Conservatives have to do, because you're not changing 483 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: the hearts and minds of the individuals right now who 484 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: believe that the Orange Man is bad. So the only 485 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: way we're going to be able to win these elections 486 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 1: is to make sure that we increase our voter turnout. 487 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 1: It's one of the things that the RNC did so 488 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 1: spectacularly during last year's election was making sure that they 489 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: increased the voter turnout where it was necessary. Because there 490 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: is no arguing with Democrats right now. It is an 491 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:41,160 Speaker 1: exercise in futility to go and do so. And so 492 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: because of that, the Democrats they had nothing to run on, 493 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,840 Speaker 1: so they're trying to anger their base as much as 494 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 1: they possibly can to hopefully motivate them to get out 495 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: to the polls in the upcoming election. So they had 496 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: something to point to that they can go and say, look, 497 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 1: people still support us because the polling data doesn't show that. 498 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,200 Speaker 1: I have another clip from CNN, then we'll share with 499 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: you at the top of next hour that points to 500 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: just that. She says. Meanwhile, Trump has gilded the Oval office. 501 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: We cannot get out of the way of their own 502 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 1: anger and hatred towards Trump. I don't think the hungry 503 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: are the focus of this administration, Wimer stated quite plainly. 504 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: Wimmer is fortunate that Alexandria brims with generosity. The Alexandria 505 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 1: Area Community Foundation is covering the extra need for this year. 506 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: The rest of the rest of us, throughout the state 507 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 1: must do what we can. Hunger hovers around the edges 508 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: of society. Getting food used to be a priority occupation 509 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,840 Speaker 1: of humankind for too many of us. It could be again. Listen, 510 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,120 Speaker 1: think about the amount of encouragement she could have provided 511 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 1: with a simple shift in a interviewpoint. People should donate, 512 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: the church should help facilitate. It should always be that way, 513 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 1: and it could be if people didn't look at what 514 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: the federal government did in terms of aid and just go, well, 515 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: the government's taking care of it, why should I go 516 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: and donate? Because that's what happens. And the point that's 517 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: tragically lost on individuals like Karen Tolkienan and others that 518 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: believe the same way that she does when she says, 519 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 1: I don't think the hungry, that the hungry are the 520 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 1: focus of this administration, They're absolutely wrong. This administration is 521 00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 1: concerned about all the citizens and the wasteful expenditure of 522 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars, hard earned taxpayer dollars. People that still want 523 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 1: to get their SNAP benefits, that deserve to get their 524 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,239 Speaker 1: SNAP benefits, that meet the proper requirements to get their 525 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: Snap benefits would still be getting those if one the 526 00:33:55,320 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: Democrats were keeping the government shut down, but two they 527 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: would still get them even with the cuts that happened 528 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 1: in the One Big Beautiful Bill. People that are here 529 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,280 Speaker 1: in the country illegally may not be able to people 530 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: who are scamming the system, may not be able to 531 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 1: people who don't meet the requirement won't be able to 532 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 1: But these programs aren't sustainable, despite what some people say. 533 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 1: I watched a video of this woman saying that I 534 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 1: don't know why everybody is upset about losing snap benefits. 535 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,839 Speaker 1: It's just imaginary money. It's not based on anything. They 536 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: just print up EBT cards and give them to people. 537 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,799 Speaker 1: There's no real money attached to any of this. I mean, 538 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:45,280 Speaker 1: this is what people actually believe. And that's a product 539 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,839 Speaker 1: of the public education system, because that's what democrats want. 540 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,280 Speaker 1: They want the masses stupid, they want the masses dumb, 541 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: they want the masses believing that when it comes to 542 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 1: we welfare money, it's just made up. It's fictional. It's 543 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 1: just a card. It's not attached to anything of value. 544 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,680 Speaker 9: Beyond that, the more the government tries to prevent hunger, 545 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 9: the more hungry people we have. 546 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 5: The more the government. 547 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 9: Tries to manipulate the economy to create a living wage, 548 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,279 Speaker 9: the more outside of that bounds we find ourselves in. 549 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 9: It's all by design. It's the constant hammering people with 550 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 9: this empathy that's toxic. It's destroying our economy and it's 551 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 9: dividing us into lower class and the ultra wealthy and 552 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,160 Speaker 9: destroying the middle class. 553 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 1: Heygomora, John, good show. So far, what's a living range? 554 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 2: He's a living wage. 555 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:44,720 Speaker 4: Does it get determined by what that person how they. 556 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,799 Speaker 1: Want to live? Because I know how I want to live. 557 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 1: I would love to live like mister Bezos does Does 558 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 1: that mean that he has to pay me what he 559 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 1: makes just because if I'm just driving the delivery van. 560 00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way, guys and they know. 561 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. 562 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,760 Speaker 1: Now, the living wage argument is a complete and total myth. 563 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:10,120 Speaker 1: Complete and total myth, as is the middle class. When 564 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,000 Speaker 1: people talk about the middle class, I don't care what 565 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: party you belong to. It's a moving target depending on 566 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,320 Speaker 1: whatever issue that you and point that you are trying 567 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 1: to raise and make because the middle class shifts and 568 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,840 Speaker 1: the living wage, Yeah, one person's living wage is another 569 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,200 Speaker 1: person's poverty. 570 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:27,799 Speaker 8: See. 571 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 1: The Democrats would have you believe that that's okay, but 572 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 1: you and I both know that it's just it's bogus. 573 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,840 Speaker 1: I do have some good news though, relating to Karen 574 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 1: tolkienan and her desire that churches may have to step up, 575 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,920 Speaker 1: but unfortunately they've had dwindling attendees. Well they have, but 576 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,560 Speaker 1: that might be changing. According to Fox Business, more than 577 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,839 Speaker 1: two point four million Bibles were sold in the US 578 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,919 Speaker 1: in September. That is a thirty six percent increase over 579 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,920 Speaker 1: last year. The Bible sales, the surge that coincided with 580 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:03,240 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk's Assassin reveals something profound. When America faces moments 581 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,760 Speaker 1: of crisis, people often turn to scripture for hope and answers. 582 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,480 Speaker 1: You would see individuals being far more generous, and you 583 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 1: probably would see more needy individuals fed if you didn't 584 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:23,240 Speaker 1: have so much government assistance. It's never going to happen. 585 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,399 Speaker 1: So my theory isn't going to ever be proven one 586 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,080 Speaker 1: way or the other. But that's been my belief for 587 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: a long long time. A lot of people would go 588 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,080 Speaker 1: and donate, and they think, why should I donate? The 589 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,920 Speaker 1: government goes and provides assistance already with my tax dollers, 590 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,040 Speaker 1: so why should I give more of my money? People 591 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:44,240 Speaker 1: do because people are generous. And I've used this argument 592 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,440 Speaker 1: towards planned parenthood, because that's probably the most egregious example 593 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,200 Speaker 1: I can give, with abortion being the issue that it is. 594 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 1: Planned parenthood would make and bring in way more money 595 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 1: than they ever dreamed if they weren't attached to the 596 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,200 Speaker 1: federal government in any way, shape or but they need 597 00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 1: to be in order to perpetuate their belief there's some 598 00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: credibility that Planned Parenthood has by being attached to the 599 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:13,400 Speaker 1: federal government and funding that goes to that organization. But 600 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 1: if they were ever cut off from that fully, they 601 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,799 Speaker 1: could bring in way more money by individuals who would 602 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,480 Speaker 1: be more than happy to go and fund what Planned 603 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:28,920 Speaker 1: Parenthood does in terms of what they promote, and the 604 00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 1: same thing rings true when it comes to these benefits 605 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,319 Speaker 1: for individuals, they'd be a lot better off that they 606 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,279 Speaker 1: didn't have the government assistance and they had to rely 607 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:41,479 Speaker 1: on churches and the generosity of Americans. Coming up, Keith 608 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,560 Speaker 1: Elison got on board was suing the Trump administration over snap. 609 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: He's essentially weaponized the Minnesota Attorney General's office using law fair. 610 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,200 Speaker 1: We'll get into exactly what he had to say. We 611 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: got a lot of audio to share with you as well, 612 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,239 Speaker 1: plus your talkbacks from the iHeartRadio app. It's all coming 613 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 1: up on Twin Cities is Talk Am eleven thirty and 614 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:02,440 Speaker 1: one oh three five FM.