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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Kaddy.

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Speaker 2: Arm Strong and and He Armstrong and.

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Speaker 1: Everybody who works on the show, Michael, Katie Hansen, Joe

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Speaker 1: and I. By the end of the segment needless five

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Speaker 1: things we've done in the last week to justify our jobs.

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Speaker 1: The five things that we've accomplished in the last week

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Speaker 1: that can justified.

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Speaker 2: Our continuing bullets.

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Speaker 1: I picked up a watt in favorite tell in the

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Speaker 2: I watched a lot of television that seems like a

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Speaker 1: See other than that, nothing springs to mind season your

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Speaker 1: dimly lit room, blah blah blah blah. Today we're under

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Speaker 1: the tutelage of our general manager, Elon Musk, apparently for

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Speaker 1: better or worse. I was talking to some people who

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Speaker 1: actually work in the federal government who got that email

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Speaker 1: where you got to come up with five things to

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Speaker 1: justify your job, And some of them said it was

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Speaker 1: quite easy. And some of those who said it was

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Speaker 1: quite easy said they know those who it's a bit

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Speaker 1: of a struggle to come up with five things. They

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Speaker 1: have to get a little creative to come up with

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Speaker 1: five things that they actually do.

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Speaker 2: So it depends on who you are and what your

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Speaker 1: I guess this might be the absolute emblematic Trumpian move

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Speaker 1: or Muskian move. Who knows if Trump even knew Elon

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Speaker 1: was gonna send it out. Maybe not a good question,

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Speaker 1: but it's exactly It's the perfect symbol of the Trump

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Speaker 1: reality we're living in right now. In principle, I love

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Speaker 1: it as an idea, Hey, what do you actually accomplish?

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Speaker 1: What are you doing for your pay that's paid by

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Speaker 1: the American taxpayer. That is a one hundred percent legitimate inquiry.

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Speaker 1: It ought to be happening all the time, as it

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Speaker 1: does in the private sector all the damn time.

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Speaker 2: And you know what, in about six months, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: ask you.

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Speaker 1: Again and or just watch you and figure it out

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Speaker 1: for ourselves.

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Speaker 2: In principle, beautiful.

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Speaker 1: In reality, you got a bunch of Trump's own departments

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Speaker 1: saying what, no, don't do that, you don't have to

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Speaker 1: do that. What's good, it's it's flailing, it's print. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's good in principle, but just too fast, too much,

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Speaker 1: too nutty. Why do you think those the departments reacted

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Speaker 1: that way, some of them, the FBI and others saying no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you don't need to fill out that list. Why do

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Speaker 1: you think what was the going on there? Including some

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Speaker 1: of Trump's direct The point is it's uh well that

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Speaker 1: that mechanism doesn't exist, that you report to Elon Musk

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Speaker 1: on the internet or you get hired from your federal job.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think federal employees in their unions have

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Speaker 1: weigh too many protections. Well they just I mean, if

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Speaker 1: Jeff Bezo says no, no, forget that, I want to

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Speaker 1: know how much you can lift, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Much waiting till you lift overread. I mean what then?

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Speaker 1: And then Bill Gates says, I need to know what

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Speaker 1: kind of car you drive by the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: right exactly, and what you're Well, they's just compiling information,

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Speaker 1: isn't he? And I don't so I responded to some

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Speaker 2: And then but then there's a whole bunch of.

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Speaker 1: Other senators like the pop up now, and then you

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Speaker 1: I don't recall it name anyway, some Democratic US senators.

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Speaker 1: She tweeted out, Elon Musk is not our boss and

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Speaker 1: we are not gonna blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 2: I read I.

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Speaker 1: Retweeted that with the response to her. Yet, no, no,

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk is not. But US taxpayers are. And I

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Speaker 1: I agree completely portraying, it is portraying. It is answering

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's accurate. Although no, it is accurate.

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Speaker 1: It's one hundred percent accurate, and the other one's a

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Speaker 2: That's the problem there is this is not a thing.

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Speaker 1: Is the kids say this is not He has no

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Speaker 2: Like all the lawyers in.

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Speaker 1: All the departments, including Trump appointees, are going to judges

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Speaker 1: and saying, we don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 2: We don't. The judge says, what's what? What law are

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Speaker 1: And the lawyers are saying and this is literally literally,

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Speaker 1: and this is from a person who loathes progressives.

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Speaker 2: Keep in mind, I want Trump to succeed.

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Speaker 1: This is why I criticize, not because I want him

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Speaker 1: to fail, because I want him to succeed his.

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Speaker 2: Own lawyers are going to the court and the judges.

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Speaker 1: Are saying, what laws are you guys, restaurant? And the

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Speaker 1: lawyers say, we don't really know, And then all right,

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Speaker 1: we don't know that either, I don't know. They just

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Speaker 1: sent us here to argue it. Well, it's flailing, is there?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 1: Is there a way to do it that's not FLAILINGK

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many protections for everybody.

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Speaker 2: Is the is the only alternative to this to just

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Speaker 2: let it continue the way it is?

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Speaker 1: Oh, you have the head some you have the heads

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Speaker 1: of departments who you appointed and are now managing within

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Speaker 1: the next few months or so, say hey, we could

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Speaker 1: absolutely afford a ten percent reduction in our workforce. Absolutely

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Speaker 1: there will be a hiring freeze. Anybody who resigns or retires,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to replace him. I was talking to

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Speaker 1: send it to deer Elon Musk.

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Speaker 2: My name is Jim.

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Speaker 1: I work in the Department of Agriculture, specifically in the

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Speaker 1: this one out. Label this segment. Joe's for big government.

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Speaker 1: Apparently Joe's for a federal workers just wasting our tax

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Speaker 1: it's worked. I only know one industry, the radio industry,

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Speaker 1: We're just you know, Jim's gone. You have Jim's job.

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Speaker 2: Now. I was busy before. How am I going to

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Speaker 1: Figure it out. Has been the answer for people the

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Speaker 1: private sector for a long time, right right, Jack has

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Speaker 1: exclusively been in the radio business. I run a website,

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Speaker 1: an online shopping center for marital aids, and I can

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Speaker 1: tell you that that market is you've got to be very,

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Speaker 1: got your only fans page. But you're self employed. You

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Speaker 1: work whatever hours you want to work. And that's one

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Speaker 1: of the exacts exactly. And who wouldn't like to lay

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god, I was you.

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Speaker 1: Know, it's funny, I got sucked into a little clickbait

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand how there's the demand for the supply.

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Speaker 1: But to to get that, you've constantly got to post

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Speaker 2: But to spend one to four hours a day.

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Speaker 2: I blame myself. Well, you came out pro government. We

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Speaker 1: I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Monday,

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Speaker 1: February twenty fourth of the year twenty twenty five, or

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Speaker 1: Armstrong in getting we approve of this program right new week.

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Speaker 1: Let's start it here we go according to the FCC rules

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Speaker 1: and regulations. I want to see those FCC commissioners and

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Speaker 2: Please, what do you people do? Anyway? Here we go

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Speaker 2: at Mark.

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Speaker 3: My message to young men is, don't allow this broken

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Speaker 3: culture to send you a message that you're a bad

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Speaker 3: your friends, or because you're competitive. O. Our message, the

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Speaker 3: the exact opposite. But our cultural message is I think

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Speaker 2: We actually think.

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Speaker 3: God made male and female for a purpose, and we

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Speaker 3: want you guys to thrive as.

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Speaker 2: Young men and as young women.

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Speaker 3: And we're gonna help with our public policy to make

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Speaker 2: To do that.

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Speaker 4: Love it.

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Speaker 1: Jd Evans justifying toxic masculinity details to come in comparison

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Speaker 1: Joy Reid's show is going away on a MNSNBC. You

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Speaker 2: Do you about.

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Speaker 1: and it's a big TV show that everybody watches, with

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Speaker 1: everybody ran, you know, say in all their crap that

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Speaker 1: you say in elections, and then sitting down and have

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Speaker 1: a conversation about where do we go from here? And

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Speaker 1: I find that fascinating. I don't know what that would

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Speaker 1: look like in the United States. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: German elections are like. Do they do? They are there

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Speaker 1: elections like ours where people say all kinds of wild

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Speaker 1: crazy s that can't come ever, ever come true, and

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Speaker 1: you know, and then say that if that person wins,

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Speaker 1: it's the end of democracy and then abandon that the

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Speaker 1: moment the election is over.

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Speaker 2: I mean, so, I don't know what it would look like.

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Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on German elections, but they're exceedingly

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Speaker 1: polite and gentle menly by our standards, very issues orient

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Speaker 1: they should be compared to ours. But anyway, during the

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Speaker 1: elephant round, this new guy, fred Mertz, who's running the thing, said,

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Speaker 1: my goal is to make us as independent and Europe

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Speaker 1: is independent from the United States as we can possibly be.

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Speaker 1: We need to be able to stand on our own.

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Speaker 1: We can't count on the United States anymore. So it's

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Speaker 1: being portrayed by you know, Trump haters as Look, Europe

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Speaker 1: can't count on us, our best allies, can't count on

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Speaker 1: us anymore. Whereas I'm hoping for more of a nuanced

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Speaker 1: they're getting the lesson that they.

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Speaker 2: Need to be able to support themselves.

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Speaker 1: It can't be the United States supplying their defense forever

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Speaker 1: it doesn't work. Yeah, this is a great example of

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Speaker 1: both things being true. Has Trump pissed off and shaken

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Speaker 1: up our European allies maybe more than he needed to, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you could absolutely make that our On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: if fred Mertz with the support of both Lucy and

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Speaker 1: DESI were to beef up their defenses, start living up

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Speaker 1: to their obligations, and be strong enough to be fairly

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Speaker 1: independent from the United States, that would make them an

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Speaker 1: ally worth having. I don't think it's that complicated a reality.

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Speaker 2: We mentioned this last week.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned it. Let me read from it. This is

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Speaker 1: from the New York Times in twenty eleven. You might

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Speaker 1: remember from the date that Barack Obama was the President

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Speaker 2: We're quoting here.

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Speaker 1: Defense Secretary Robert Gates sharply criticized NATO nations on Friday

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Speaker 1: forty said were shortages of military spending and political will,

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Speaker 1: warning of a dim, if not dismal future and irrelevance

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Speaker 1: for the Alliance and less more core members contributed weapons,

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Speaker 1: money in personnel. In his final policy speech before he

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Speaker 1: stepped down again, this is Obama's sect death issued a

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Speaker 1: dire and unusually direct warning that the United States, a

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Speaker 1: traditional leader and patron of the Alliance, was exhausted by

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Speaker 1: a decade of war and its own mounting budget deficits,

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Speaker 1: and simply might not see NATO as.

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Speaker 2: A group we need to be involved with in the future.

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Speaker 1: So that happened in Obama because it's freaking true. It's

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Speaker 1: just absolutely true. So the whole our allies can't count

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Speaker 1: on us anymore. Okay, this has been going on for

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Speaker 1: a while giving that message. First of all, unfortunate flashbacks

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Speaker 1: to my high school garden guidance counselor when you said

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Speaker 1: a dim if not dismal future.

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Speaker 2: That was such an uncomfortable meeting.

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Speaker 1: So like every report card I ever got had that

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Speaker 2: That's funny anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it reminds me the press's relationship with

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Speaker 1: Trump is. It's so I mean, it's become so obvious

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Speaker 1: at this point it's a little try to even talk

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Speaker 2: But the relationship is a great deal.

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Speaker 1: Like you know, if you have a really crumbling relationship,

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Speaker 1: personal relationship where you just criticize the other, you find

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Speaker 2: At this point.

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Speaker 1: And Trump is a bull in a china shop. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: he antagonizes where he doesn't need to, but to get

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Speaker 1: it's exactly like Obama and his people. But you saying, now, okay,

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Speaker 1: that's fine, you know, you can say whatever you want.

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Speaker 1: But is it possible, oh, thank you? What is this

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Speaker 1: Germany if even has three speech but we will tell

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Speaker 1: you what free spece?

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Speaker 2: Is it possible to pull ourselves away from.

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Speaker 1: News story and then defending or criticizing Trump. Is it

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Speaker 1: the fact that Europe needs to get stronger and be

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Speaker 1: more military capable, militarily capable, and be able to defend

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Speaker 2: That's got to end.

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Speaker 1: Were it only Germany that would be a worthy discussion,

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Speaker 1: it's also France and Britain. Does Spain even have a gun?

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Speaker 1: I mean, just all the European countries except for maybe

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Speaker 2: My birthday weekend. It's just no know what's going on there.

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Speaker 2: Part of my brain broke. I love tacos. I apparently

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Speaker 1: Just a minute, it might be a glutton I gotta

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Speaker 1: look up the definition of glutton I might actually be

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Speaker 1: should you should take a look at the mirror, if

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Speaker 2: I need the slimming mirrors. That's what I need.

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Speaker 1: We've got mail bag on the way and and a

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Speaker 2: Here's our text line four.

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Speaker 1: Definition of gluttony, according to my Merriam Webster, excess in

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Speaker 1: eating or drinking, greedy or excessive indulgence in uh taking

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Speaker 1: in food. Sounds like that, sounds like me, apparently, I

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Speaker 1: am that uh. Trump got into a war awards with

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Speaker 1: some governors over the weekend around the whole transathlete thing,

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Speaker 1: and the New York Times out with some new polling

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Speaker 1: on that how Americans feel about that issue. He's so

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Speaker 1: on the right side of this. I mean, it's not

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Speaker 1: even close. But we'll get to that an how or two.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day,

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Speaker 2: the Great George.

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Speaker 1: Washington with Jack requested last week, So let's do a

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Speaker 1: week of great George Washington quotes.

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Speaker 2: My favorite.

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Speaker 1: If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb

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Speaker 1: and silent, we may be led.

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Speaker 2: Like sheep to the slaughter.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned to a guy over the weekend Iminette's clothing store,

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Speaker 1: and I said, it's my birthday today. So he said, oh,

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Speaker 1: happy birthday. My birthday's tomorrow and I said, oh, cool,

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Speaker 1: your birthday's Washington's birthday. He said, yeah, yeah, he said.

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Speaker 1: You know. I say that to people, and people most

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Speaker 1: of the time say who I thought, really, WHOA?

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Speaker 2: Really? Whoa? If you.

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Speaker 1: Deny people their history, they forget who they are and

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Speaker 1: hurry easily molded into what you want them to be,

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Speaker 1: or well spelled it out fairly eloquently in.

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Speaker 2: A couple of books. Mail bag.

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Speaker 1: What the progressives who are trying to get confused adolescent

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Speaker 1: boys into girls' sports are the same people who refuse

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Speaker 1: to teach about the great George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, that

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Speaker 1: sort of thing. They're denying us our history. It is

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Speaker 1: Marxism one one boi. Anyway, let's see Fred Merz was

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Speaker 1: on I Love Lucy not the Honeymooners who we covered that.

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Speaker 1: You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong

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Speaker 1: and Giddy dot com. We should probably mention that once

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Speaker 1: a segment so people listening to the podcasts will stop bleading.

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Speaker 1: We've emails Glad we've cleared up the issue of the day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: absolutely the issue that's been tearing America. Part Happy Birthday,

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Speaker 1: Jack writes Frequent, corresponding to MONI, I think you said

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have some time to yourself. Hope was nice

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Speaker 1: and relaxing. Perhaps you even lifted your baked good band

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Speaker 1: for the day and were able to down a couple

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Speaker 1: of pies just because you have a general band. In effect,

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you can't have a couple of pie windows

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Speaker 1: that open up each year. Pie windows. That's when I

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Speaker 1: need a Pye window. Don't allow mission creep around those

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Speaker 1: pie windows. I did need to talk about what I

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Speaker 1: did on my birthday and how you hold on to

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Speaker 1: that feeling. I think we've all experienced this before. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, interesting.

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Speaker 1: How about French camp Pat on the topic of sixty Minutes.

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Speaker 1: It's funny Pat, you had and a similar experience to

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Speaker 1: me last night. Guys have had some reservations regarding some

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Speaker 1: of the Trump administration's actions the j six pardons, tariffs,

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Speaker 1: Doge and others, But after watching sixty Minutes the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks and their aggressive, unfair criticism of Trump, I'm

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Speaker 1: confident Trump is doing the right things.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, yes, wow, that is is there.

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Speaker 1: Have we come up with a term for that if

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Speaker 1: we If we have it, don't recall essentially the obnoxiousness

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Speaker 1: of the media and many Democrats, which we'll get into,

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00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: you know soon during the show, just drives you into

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Speaker 1: the Trump camp.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like, yeah, he can be a real a hole.

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Speaker 1: But I tell you who, I'm not ever going to

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Speaker 1: join forces with you lunatics.

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Speaker 2: Moving along, Paolo.

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Speaker 1: I think there are two categories of DEI supporters, those

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Speaker 1: who believe racism is justified and those who sincerely believe

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Speaker 1: that racism has no part of DEI programs. The first

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Speaker 1: group are just racists. I think they're often disingenuous. They

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Speaker 1: don't admit racism. They try to justify it, probably because

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Speaker 1: they know it's steep hill to climb. Indeed, they generally

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Speaker 1: deny it. They cannot be persuaded to modify their beliefs

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Speaker 1: or even discuss them in good faith.

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Speaker 2: You're absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're activists, neo Marxist activists. The second group is

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Speaker 1: either uninformed or naive, or they've been gaslated by the

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Speaker 1: first group. This group will listen to reason, they can

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Speaker 1: be one over. But how let's hope the second group

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Speaker 1: is larger than the first.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Multiple times over the weekend with Trump firing that black

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Speaker 1: chairman of the joint whatever over there again. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that later, But several times over the weekend I

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Speaker 1: heard news outlets report DEI as an effort to have

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Speaker 1: more diversity in our workplaces.

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Speaker 2: Right, that's the cover story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the insidiously clever cover story because they know

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Speaker 1: they exploit our goodness. They know Americans aren't racists, and

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Speaker 1: they say, you gotta be down with this, or you're

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Speaker 1: a racist. And people who are busy or dopey or

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Speaker 1: gaslighted or whoever, they say, oh, well, I'm not a racist,

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Speaker 1: so I guess yeah, I've got to be down with this. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: it's a lie. Rob in beautiful El Dorado County. In

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Speaker 1: County unic Corneer writes, guys, the LA mayor blames the

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Speaker 1: fire chief and fires her for not calling in reserve

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Speaker 1: personnel and not telling the mayor to not go on

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Speaker 1: her trip to Africa. Bet the mayor would have blown

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Speaker 1: her top if somebody would try to tell her what

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Speaker 1: to do. So the real people who were to blame her,

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Speaker 1: the voters who elected the mayor and the city council

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Speaker 1: who hired the fire chief. Elections do matter who'd she fire.

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Speaker 1: Karen Bass fired the lady fire chief Friday afternoon Friday evening.

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Speaker 2: Funny coincidence, just when it would get no news coverage.

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Speaker 1: I was in LA on Friday, but I wasn't paying

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Speaker 1: attention to the news because the fire chief has been

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Speaker 1: saying no everything the mayor is saying, is lie about

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Speaker 1: our preparation or budget, et cetera. Yeah, Karen bass is

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Speaker 1: an evil person. She's a bad person. She's a union

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Speaker 1: hack who lives only to hand out money to her cronies.

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Speaker 2: Wake up, figure that out.

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Speaker 1: And or be willing to say to your public employee

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Speaker 1: union friends, Hey, you know the people that y'all get

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Speaker 1: elected over and over again are ruining our state Illinois.

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Speaker 1: Get the memo Massachusetts, New York, same memo.

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Speaker 2: That is absolutely unbelievable. I wanted to get to this.

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Speaker 2: How much time do we have? Michael likes seconds.

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Speaker 1: Occasionally, somebody, when they're writing about NATO says, the US

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Speaker 1: overthrew a freely elected government to get Zelenski elected. Roshenko

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Speaker 1: government was a puppet of Moscow. Their election was as

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Speaker 1: legitimate as putins are. If you're walking around saying Porishenko

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Speaker 1: was freely elected, you have swallowed awful, dishonest Kremlin talking place.

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Speaker 1: You need to take a look at yourself. Why would

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Speaker 1: the Poroshenko was a crook? New York Times, New polling

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Speaker 1: on the whole Transaffu issue. I think you'll like this,

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Speaker 1: among other things on the way. If you miss a

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