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Attention. You're listening to the Todd
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Well, my friends, what part
of the absolute predictable, what part

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of the absolutely avoidable tragedy, chaos, tumult do you want to discuss today?

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We've got and even we're border crisis, We've got financial crises coming out

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the wazoo, and of course we've
got a cultural battle that is waging and

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raging across this country in so many
ways, and many other things as well.

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We'll get to these things in due
course today, my friends, email,

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Should you want to be part of
this important discussion about what is happening

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to your nation, what is happening
to your children's nation, grandchildren's nation,

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what we're going to pass along to
the next generation. If you want to

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be a part of that discussion,
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and of course, always include the
appropriate amount of adoration and praise, which

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is ten to fifteen percent more than
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tot tot totupshow dot com or again, let me say that close to us

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slower. Sometimes I speak a little
too quickly. I understand that Todd at

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seven two one zero twenty eight thirty
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thirty. If the tongue moves this
quickly, just imagine how quickly the brain

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is firing today, my friends.
Anyway, so let's get into just I

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mean we're to start right. We've
got the next self created, the government

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created crisis, economic crisis, and
of course we also have effectively a wide

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open, wide open border that is
getting worse here as we approach the end

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of title forty two. So where
to start? I think I want to

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start today by talking about the economics. And I might change my mind on

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this, but I do want to
start with this piece that I read that

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was published yesterday Just the Facts Daily, Just the Facts Daily dot com.

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Again, we will post this on
our show notes page excuse me, stack

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of stuff page. Hat tip to
the late Great Rush Limball totushow dot com

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to search for the Stack of Stuff
for today, which by the way,

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is May the tenth. You'll find
an article a piece in here written by

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James Agresti, headline, everything you've
heard about the debt limit is wrong.

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So let's set the stage again.
We've talked about this in recent days.

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But Congress, which includes, of
course the House of Representatives, which is

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now led by Speaker Republican Speaker Kevin
McCarthy, and the Senate, which is

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led by delusional leftist Chuck Schumer,
and of course the Executive branch, which

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is led by the even more delusional
Joe Biden, who I do have a

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SoundBite from Biden trying to pronounce names
of well, some names of individuals.

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I believe it's some event where they
were recognizing groups of individual Asian Americans,

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and I mean folks. It is, I just it is. If Trump

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had done this sort of stuff,
it is embarrassing. Time permitting, I

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will I'll play that. If not, I'll put it on the Stack of

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Stuff page. It is a it'll
serve as a nice little chuckle to get

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you through some of these difficult and
tumultuous times. But I want to read

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this part of this. I don't
want to read the whole thing this article

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again headlined or entitled everything you've heard
about the debt limit is wrong. So

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we've got Congress, House, the
Senate, and the President of the United

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States trying to work together. Supposedly. I don't believe anything anymore, and

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by the way, the media and
our politicians deserve for us to feel that

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way. I don't believe anything I'm
told by anybody. I believe the media

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gives us a narrative that is based
one hundred percent on bunk and one hundred

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percent on what they want the American
voter, taxpayer, whatever, the American

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activist to do. I believe that
they're that journalism is for all intents and

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purposes dead. Although there are some
examples of some good journalists, there's not

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many, but there are some good
journalists. I believe, though, that

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politicians, in the vast majority of
cases, and this would even include both

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parties, I'm not luck. The
Democrat Party does not deserve to have a

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single vote of a single American the
current makeup of I'm talking nationally. I

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can't obviously speak case by case across
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reasonable one in certain states, but
on a national level, you will find

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none. You will find maybe Mansion, maybe Cinema, but those are for

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reasons of political pressure. Right Cinema
has to answer to the voters in the

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state of Arizona as to why Joseph
Robinette Biden has allowed an open border and

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further state to be overrun by illegal
immigrants. She has to answer for that.

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Joe Mansion lives in a state,
West Virginia. By the way,

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if I didn't say Christian Cinemas from
Arizona, if I didn't say that Joe

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Mansion Senator from the state of West
Virginia, that's a state that votes for

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Trump and massive numbers. He represents
a state that relies heavily upon coal as

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a source of energy, as a
source of jobs, and yet his party,

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his party is run by leftist that
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the opportunity, would eradicate the coal
industry tomorrow. For some reason, the

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state votes in massive numbers for Trump, for de Santis if he were to

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be the nominee. But they do
not. Yet they somehow still give Joe

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Manchin an excuse. They did the
same thing with Robert Byrd, who,

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to my knowledge was the last senator
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member, a leader of the KKK. Literally a leader, a recruiter of

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the KKK. That's not hyperbole,
that is not made up, that is

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not exaggeration. He was I forget
the title. I forget the title grand

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Cyclops, I think is what the
title was. I don't know much about

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this crap, but I remember reading
that that he was, believe a grand

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cyclops in some chapter or whatever,
stay or region of the ku klux Klan.

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They've got every bridge in highway in
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after this guy. He was literally
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which is bad enough, a leader, a recruiter, a Democrat. But

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yet, who do they say,
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street today the last member of the
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was a member of this absolutely despicable
organization, They're gonna say it was a

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Republican, which, by the way, it's equally bad if it is a

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Republican. I'm not here to argue
that. But the point is they voted

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for Robert Byrd in West Virginia as
well, so something's happened. Something happens

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there to where there's a disconnect and
they're voting for Democrat senators, but yet

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they typically vote read in many other
ways. So so there's examples of people

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that I don't always want to say
are acting with integrity or principle, But

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what I will say is that they
are held accountable by certain political forces in

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their respective states. So but maybe
they are. Let's give them the benefit

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of the doubt. Maybe this radical
leftist agenda is just too much on a

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personal level for these jokers as well. I have a hard time believing that

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because I don't know how one can
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understanding that there's plenty of things wrong
with the Republican Party. Two. But

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I do not understand at all unless
you unless you are Democrat by you know,

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like family history, and you just
don't want to break that cycle.

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You feel like you're letting your family
down. Or you can disassociate from what

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you hear or someone can hear from
the leadership in the party. This is

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a radical leftist party, radical leftist
party, and Republicans have a lot of

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problems too. I mean, the
Republican leader in the Senate is Mitch McConnell,

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who again, I mean, he's
been there forever, which is a

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problem in and of itself, and
it's as though he knows how to play

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the game while at the same time
never getting anything effectively done for the Constitution,

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for the American people, for the
political base, just four Americans.

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I mean, I have a term
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actually get political power, and I
call it a prevent offense. Now,

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this is an analogy to football,
and the analogy goes like this in football.

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And I don't want to go too
much into this because I know many

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of you are not sports fans or
you don't want to think about the NFL,

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which I don't blame you on that. That's not the point here.

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But in football, there actually is
something called the prevent defense. There isn't

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anything called the prevent offense. I'm
just using the prevent defense as an analogy

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to say, this is what Republicans
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they're on offense. So a prev
defense is when the other team has

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possession of the football, there's not
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don't have any timeouts, and so
if you as the defense keep the opposing

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team in bounds. The clock continues
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can give up big chunks of yards, so we'll back way up. Make

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sure, you know, we guard
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of bounds, because if they run
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So instead of letting someone run out
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the field of play, even if
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you know, twenty yards of you
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The theory is there isn't enough time
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necessary to tie the game or to
win the game. So that's that's a

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legitimate thing in football in when Republicans
take over, when they have political power,

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they often do what I call prevent
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of the metaphorical football, but yet
they're not really interested in scoring. Instead,

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it's a performance. They want to
have sophisticated plays. They want to

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do a bunch of trickery, maybe
throwing the old hook and ladder, the

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Statue of Liberty, a double reverse, a flea flicker right, some sort

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of trickery, some motion, some
shifting. I'm reminded of the Colts play

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against the Patriots years ago, and
I remember Pagano was the coach, or

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who was the coach, but when
they did a ridiculous punt formation and they

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ended up snapping the ball in a
fake punt and it didn't work at all

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because of the way the play was
designed. Anyway, the point is,

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the point is they want they want
it to look like something's going on.

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They want it to look like there's
a lot of sophistication, a lot of

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movement. They want the people in
the crowd, which is the base,

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which are those of us to watch
politics, to say, wow, they're

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really trying to gain yards. But
that's not what they're doing. They're not

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trying to advance the metaphorical football.
What they're trying to do is make their

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base think that. That's the part
that's the part of this that drives me

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crazy. That is the prevent offense. They have the ball, they don't

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want to score. They just want
to get credit for looking like they're trying

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to score. Because at the end
of all the razzle dazzle on this metaphorical

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play that I'm talking about, if
it's a double reverse, a double pass,

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you know, just a fake screen
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The point is, at the end
of that play, they might have picked

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up a yard or two, maybe
even lost yard. Maybe they dropped the

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pass. But it looks so good, right, It looks like, man,

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they're really trying to do something here, but they're not. Mitch McConnell

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holds a lot of responsibility for that. I can't blame a lot on Kevin

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McCarthy yet since he's not been speaker, but he has been in positions of

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leadership in the House for sure.
So but this is what we have.

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This is the reality of the landscape, and so deep down, I don't

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know how many politicians we actually have
that really want to see spending reined in.

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I don't know how many politicians really
want to get to work. I

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don't know how many politicians really care
about how much debt they are putting you

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in, how much debt they are
putting me in, which, by the

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way, according to this article that
we're going to look at, is now

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up to an average of two almost
two hundred and forty thousand dollars for every

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home in the nation. We're up
to thirty one and a half trillion and

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that does not include what we call
unfunded liabilities, meaning this gets more into

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retirement and things that pensions and so
forth that aren't necessarily on the books now,

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but it's coming down the road.
They have an obligation to pay these

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things out, and that's not even
included. This article says. This article

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says that if you factor that in, the average burden climbs at quadruples,

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and it gets over a million dollars
per household of debt thanks to the government,

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thanks to there's plenty of people to
blame here, thanks to Joe Biden,

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in part thanks thanks to some Republicans, in part certainly thanks to the

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lovers of big government who've never seen
a social program that you know that they

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don't fall in love with. This
is it's unconscionable where they've taken us,

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and I would say it's deliberate.
It's one of the many ways they have

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weakened. They have weakened the American
dollar, they have weakened our economy,

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and they empower themselves every time they
they weaken the taxpayer. They just do

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you have less choices and options for
your family because and I'm not saying we're

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victims please, that's that's another thing
together. But they are stacking the deck

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against the taxpayer. Brick by brick, this has been built well or destroyed

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is probably the better way. They're
tearing it apart, brick by brick what

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has been built by the generations before
us, and they're discarding those bricks,

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but they're putting them on the backs
of the American taxpayer of you. And

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now they've got an opportunity to actually
do something about it, to actually reduce

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deficit spinning, which is what we
what Republicans are allegedly trying to do.

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Although it doesn't actually reduce the debt, what it does is it reduces the

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rate at which the debt will Expand
we don't have anybody there that's really someone

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who is treating this like it is
their own personal finance or their own business.

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They all to some degree are living
in an alternative universe in La La

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Land. So the argument is,
are we going to continue to spend money

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at a breakneck speed or are we
going to spend money at a breakneck speed

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but make it twenty five percent less. It's it's sad, but that is

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the true reality of where we stand
today. And the thing is I don't

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even know if that is really going
to win. It is what is in

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the best interest of the American taxpayer. It is what is in the best

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interest of people that care about the
longevity of this country. You want to

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talk about risk, risk being posed
to the American system of democracy, which

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of course is a constitutional republic.
But if you want to talk about the

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ways to put this nation and this
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like these jokers have been spending,
and they try to scare people, They

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try to make them think we're not
going to pay. You know, no

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one's going to get Social Security payments
or any of this stuff if we don't

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get this figured out by whatever the
date is here, in the next week

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or whatever it is. And they
terrify folks. But the truth is this,

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we're being lied to by this this
situation as well, so timeouts in

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order I'm going to get into this
today. There's other things I want to

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get to as well, including the
open border. But let's let's stick on

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this subject because this is something that
is front and center here as we move

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closer and closer to the end of
our current debt ceiling, when it's going

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to be eclipsed, and we've got
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argument, or we're going to go
into default and this nation is going to

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be in financial calamity. But the
truth is, what I want you to

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know is this nation is already the
status quo is that this nation is headed,

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is already in financial calamity. We
have to actually stop it. We

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have to proactively reverse it. The
status quo, the default position is financial

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calamity. Just because we don't feel
it today does not mean that those bricks

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are being laid, or better said, that they're being dismantled behind the scene,

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so that when we do finally wake
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we'll see that they have totally destroyed, totally destroyed this nation's financial system and

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economy. And that is my design
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So timeouts in order. Though my
friends sit tight listening here to conservative not

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better talk, exercise extreme caution today
because science has proven ninety eight percent of

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scientists have spoken and they say that
listening can in fact cause you too lean

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to the right. So be safe
out there today, my friends back in

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just a minute, Welcome back,
my friends. So let's get back to

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this article here really quickly, because
I don't want to get to the things

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today. So again, looking at
this article just the Facts Daily dot Com,

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everything you've heard about the debt limit
is wrong. This posted sometime yesterday

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contrary. Listen to listen to this
because this is not what you're told,

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not what we're told in the media
at all, says this, contrary to

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widespread claims that the US government will
default on its debt if Congress does not

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raise the debt limit. Federal law
and the Constitution require the Treasury to pay

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the debt, and it has ample
tax returns excuse me, tax revenues to

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do this. Nor would Social Security
benefits be affected by a debt limit stalemate

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unless President Biden illegally diverts social Security
revenues to other programs. That, of

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course, sounds familiar, because social
Security has been a Ponzi scheme from well,

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I don't want to say the beginning, but it's been a Ponzi scheme.

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It's been it's it's the reserves have
been rated. It's full. If

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you've seen dumb and dumber, it's
full of IOUs. It's full of IOUs.

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A bunch of notes, receipts maybe
that have some. In fact,

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there probably aren't even receipts for a
lot of these expenses. They've just rated

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it. There's nothing there. Remember, for those of you who are more

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seasoned citizens, you will remember back
in two thousand, one of the debates

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was about in the two thousand presidential
election Al Gore George W. Bush.

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One of the debates was what to
do with Social Security at talk of privatizing

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Social Security. In fact, you'll
remember Al Gore, amongst some of the

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other more ridiculous things he has said, he said something to the effect of,

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well, you remember the phrase lockbox, we're gonna put it put Social

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Secure already in a lock box.
We're gonna lock it up. Put it

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in a lockbox reminds me of the
Biblical parable of the talents, right,

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for those of you that know that
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Just bury it in the sand and
it's gonna be locked away. But the

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truth is that's not what happens.
It's been rated. It's full of IOUs.

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The reason that Social Security will in
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its future. And this is not
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You're not wrong to take it.
I'm not suggesting that you are.

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I'm simply saying the folks who are
wrong in this scenario are people who have

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been making governing decisions. They are
the ones that have rated that lock box,

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as al Gore would say. And
the money, the reason that Social

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Security will have shortfalls predicted, it's
on your statements when you get it.

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It's gonna say some I don't know
the year, but I think it's two

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thousand and thirty something like this.
It's not that many years it's going to

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be insolving because because there's no money
there to begin with, they fund current

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Social Security payments from people that are
currently having Social Security taken out of their

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paychecks, so then people working today. And this again is of no fault

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of the person who is the beneficiary, of the person who is accessing the

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Social Security funds that the government was
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It's not those It's not your fault
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this is not a criticism of This
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when we watch this stuff on the
debt ceiling and we read what I just

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read. These folks are capable of
anything except for solving problems. They're not

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capable of that. They don't want
to do that. So Social Security is

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designed so that current people that are
currently working, their money is used to

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fund people's current checks, people who
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mean that you didn't pay into those
benefits if you're a recipient. That's not

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what I'm saying. It's that someone
else intervened. The someone else of the

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government. They have intervened, taken
that money, rated that money, used

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it for who knows what. Wouldn't
be surprised if Hunter Biden's allegedly on that

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payroll, And then now they've put
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recipients on today's workers, and so
there is no lockbox. It is,

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in fact a Ponzi scheme. It's
what it is. So this article here

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is basically saying, if we follow
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a big if, then there cannot
be default. Congress has law,

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a federal law, and the Constitution
requires, as this points out, the

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Treasury to pay its debt. And
even if it did, even if it

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did, I have no sympathy for
these jokers, because they could come together

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and say, you know what,
We're going to pass a law that says,

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these people, these are the things
that we do pay that are not

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subject to whatever the debt limit is. Because that they have control over this,

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they act like they're victims. They
act like these this is all self

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created problems by them. They love
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scare people who are in the military, or who get Social Security benefits or

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whoever, just people who don't want
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some payment. They use this to
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scare people, to intimidate people,
to make them concerned. And I understand

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I'm not criticizing that, especially if
you're receiving Social Security. If I really

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believed these jokers and clowns and government
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and by the way, it's it's
June first, I think, I said

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in the next week or so.
I didn't have the date in front of

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me. I thought it was a
little bit closer. So we got we

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got to hear about this for the
next three weeks. So the point is,

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the point is is that this is
self created by the government. It

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is their fault. They own it
one hundred percent, one million percent,

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which doesn't even that number doesn't even
match the rate at which they're pushing us

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into debt and spending money like it's
water. They are to blame a hundred

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percent. They are to blame.
They act like they're trying to solve the

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problem, but they're not trying to
solve the problem. Because if they were

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really trying to solve just think about
it. If you constantly go back to

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the taxpayer, the voter, the
constituent, and you say, if we

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don't raise the debt limit, meaning
if we don't borrow more money, we

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can't pay for the things that we've
promised to pay for. If you're always

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going back to the taxpayer and making
that claim, what not be at some

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point prudent to say, maybe just
here's a news flash for some of these

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clowns. Maybe maybe we need to
cut spending. And Republicans only want to

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cut the only one only want to
cut the rate of increase by twenty five

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percent, we're still talking about not
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We can't even get agreement to slow
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that. The left wants nothing to
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nothing to do with that. And
while this problem I understand the problem that

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we have financially in this country when
I look at federal spending, revenues received,

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and spending in federal deficits, and
just the overall debt. That problem.

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Because of techniques and things that they
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these are the things that lead to
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they can they can minimize that problem
today. They can kick that can a

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little bit down the road. But
at some point, at some point,

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America's chickens, as Jeremiah Wright said, must come home to roost, must

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come home to roost. And when
if and win, will win. It's

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not if. When we get to
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be an unfixable problem. It will
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we're when we get to that point, it will be because there are no

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other options. And then the debt
staring us in the face is going to

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be so incredibly massive and out of
control that there is literally nothing that can

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be done. Now, there's still
plenty of other steps that have to happen

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in the unraveling of the economy,
that the US dollar being the reserve currency.

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But we're moving even away from that
as we speak. This is all

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self inflicted, self inflicted first and
for most by the radical left who have

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taken over the Democrat Party. Self
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Republicans are less to blame, but
some Republicans are still carry a lot

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of the blame. Some don't,
don't carry much of it. But this

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is a self inflicted problem. They've
had the ability to collectively solve this.

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They have no interest because they can
campaign and scare people and get people to

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give up more of their money,
more of their liberty, more of their

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choice under well, in exchange for
this mythical idea that they're actually they the

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governing legislating bodies, whether legislative bodies
or presidents or whatever, under the guise

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that these clowns are actually going to
do something, and they never do.

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The only thing they do is make
it worse, and we can see it

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happening right before our eyes. Quick
time out, my friends, back in

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just a minute. Back, my
friend is going to be very very very

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short this segment, but that we
can just use this segment to kind of

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re calibrate here and move on to
something else I want to talk about.

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But I'll do that two ways.
Number One, I will again reiterate that

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the situation we are in financially,
fiscally, whatever, in this country is

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one hundred percent the fault of the
people that we've sent to Washington, d

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C. Now, you can say, of course, and there's truth in

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this, that the American voter is
responsible for not holding these jokers accountable.

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But you know, they've they've lied
to us, they've deceived us, They've

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played shell you know the games that
you find on the street where they you

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know, they put some money under
a shell and they shuffle them up.

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And no matter which one we pick, we're always wrong because they're a step

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ahead of us. They're in there
talk about collusion. They collude with each

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other. They're not serious about this. A serious business person could fix these

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problems. It would hurt. But
see, they don't want to deal with

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that in the short term. They
don't. They would rather make the problem

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worse. They would rather it be
someone else's problem to deal with, and

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they would rather kick the can down
the road, making people thinking the short

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term that they've somehow mitigated this crisis
or disaster. But that's not at all

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what's happening. They're just pushing it
further and further out, and it's getting

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bigger and more massive. And when
it is unsustainable, when it no longer

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can be sustained, which we are
on that path, and I don't know

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how far out we are, but
we're on that path. And when it

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falls, when the d day happens, for that there is literally nothing,

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nothing that can be done to stop
it at that point. They want you

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to think that we can't reverse climate
change. This is even if you buy

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into the fact that it's anthropomorphic climate
change, man caused climate change and all

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this stuff. If even if you
believe that the crisis that we're dealing with

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on a climate basis, which I
think is grossly exaggerated and dramatized for other

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effects. But the real crisis is
the looming fiscal crisis. And there's a

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lot of reasons it's happening, but
at all, it all stems down,

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stems back to there has been no
fiscal responsibility and no real accountability. We've

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let these folks do too many things
that have deceived US and that have played

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financial games. They've created inflation,
They've raised taxes, they've increased the burden

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on the American taxpayer. We do
not have a It's not that we don't

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have enough money coming into the federal
government, is that we're spending way,

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way, way too much and that
will eventually break the nation and night again.

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We got a question the other day
about what happens if and when the

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dollar collapses. Well, I mean, folks, when you're talking about this

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sort of stuff, I mean,
there has to be there has to be

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an establishment of a new government,
and we know, new currency, new

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government. There's got to be changes, right, there has to be massive

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changes. And of course they salivate
at the opportunity to do something else,

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to become more globalist, to become
more socialists, to get rid of the

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things like the Bill of Rights,
the Constitution. They salivate at that opportunity.

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I'm telling you they do. You
know that they anyway kind out a

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good time out. I'm gonna shift
gears on the other side of this break,

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I'm gonna talk a little bit about
the one of the other many,

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one of the other many crisis crises. I should say that had been created

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by government and that had been put
on well thrown into hyperspeed by this administration.

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And of course one of those is
what's happening along the southern border.

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So we'll talk about that on the
other side of the break. My friends,

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sit tight. Back in just a
minute one, I'm back, my

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friends. So we know that the
southern border has been an unmitigated disaster for

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some time, and it wasn't like
that in the previous administration. It was

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not. And my friends, I
don't know if you've seen pictures, if

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you've seen the lines of migrants that
are well illegal immigrants that are coming into

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different parts of this of this country. I don't know if you've seen I

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mean some of this, some of
this just the amount of garbage and so

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forth left by illegal immigrants passing through
parts of this country. The amount I

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mean, I'm looking here at a
border patrol chief a tweet and that says,

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in the past seventy two hours,
they've apprehended over twenty six thousand people,

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about seventy four hundred goat away.
They seize one hundred and sixty four

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pounds of marijuana. That's just in
This is in three days eighty three pounds

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of meth, sixty six pounds of
cocaine, eleven pounds of fentonel how much?

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How many people would that kill?
In and in and of itself,

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five pounds of heroin, twelve thousand
dollars in cash, a firearm, Three

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sex offenders are wanted felling a gang
member. And that's that's what we've stopped.

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You know, the left wants to
brag. They'll say, well,

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we're doing some good things, We're
stopping all this stuff. But it's I

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don't even like to explain it because
it's so transparent. The problem here.

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It's not as though Border Patrol has
gotten more funding and more personnel to actually

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stop more people under this administration.
It's that it's actually gotten weaker. And

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so when you see what they have
stopped, the right way to look at

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this is to calculate. I can't
realize that this is only a percentage of

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the whole. This doesn't mean that, you know, you can look at

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this and say that's great that they
kept eighty three pounds of meth off the

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street, and it is. That
is good, but it's also an indicator

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that there was a lot more that
got by. We're talking about statistics.

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It's not like we suddenly are stopping
one hundred percent of this stuff. So

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when these numbers rise, it also
means that other numbers rise. It's an

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unmitigated disaster. I mean, true
disaster. And of course it's all time.

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I don't have time to get into
the to the title forty two and

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just how how that is impacted by
all or how that impacts all of this.

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But suffice it to say that people
crossing into this country illegally have information.

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They understand this administration. Remember there
was there were individuals when they were

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first coming across when Biden was president
that we're saying, we know that Biden

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is going to be easier on illegal
aliens than Trump was. I mean,

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there were people that were saying that
across that that were detained and so forth.

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They know, they understand. I
mean, there's professionals that they hire

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to help get people across the border. They know, they know what they're

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doing. It is an unmitigated disaster. It is very, very dangerous,

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and I've just got to stop and
take a break out of time here.

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My friends sit tight back. In
a minute, I'll come back to my

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friends. You know, one of
the things I am interest well, I'm

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interested in doing as we travel the
country on the tree tour. One of

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the things I'm I guess I'm open
to hearing your if you all would like

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this, but I'm thinking and I've
I guess I've reached out to a couple

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of people about this, but I'm
I'm thinking of going to the border ourselves

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here during this trip, and because
you don't, there's not a lot of

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direct footage. I'd like to see
and talk to some of these these folks.

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Myself, I talked to some folks
last year. Sometimes it's a little

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difficult and complicated to organize that,
but I do I think that that's this

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would be helpful, So open hearing
your thoughts on that as well. Todd

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at toddhofshow dot com or text three
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I've got to go stg C tomorrow. Take care,