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Bond measures, bond measures, bond
measures. We're going to have bond measures

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everywhere. This November will have a
statewide education bond measure, will have a

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statewide environmental spending bond measure, and
coming to your local school district here in

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the San Joaquin Valley a local bond
measure. Vote no on all of them.

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Here's the story from GV wire.
It's written by Nancy Price. November's

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ballot could be the first ever to
include bond measures from each of the four

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school districts that serve parts of the
city of Fresno, and for some Presno

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voters, a yes vote could result
in a hike in their property tax rates.

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Fresno Unified is having a five hundred
million dollar bond measure, the biggest

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ever for any school district in Fresno
County, and a one hundred and seventy

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five million dollar bond measure proposed for
Sanger Unified School District may already have won

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unanimous approval from their seven member school
boards. Oh so both the five hundred

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million dollar measure and the one hundred
seventy five million dollar measure have unanimous approval.

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Clovis Unified School Board will take up
the districts proposed four hundred million dollar

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bond measure at Wednesday's meeting. Actually, that meeting happened already. This article

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is a little old, and they
approved it, and the Central Unified School

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Board could consider a one hundred nine
million dollar bond measure at its July twenty

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third meeting. The districts are facing
an August ninth deadline to get the required

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paperwork to the President County Registrar of
Voters for the bond measure resolutions to be

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included on the November fifth ballot.
The same ballot will include Proposition two,

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a statewide measure to issue ten billion
dollars in bonds to build and modernize facilities

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at K twelve schools and community colleges. K twelve schools would get eight point

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five billion, and community colleges would
get the remaining one point five billion.

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The proposition was put on the ballot
by state legislators. Why are local bond

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measures important. State funding for school
facilities typically is available on a matching basis,

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which gives a leg up to school
districts that can convince voters to approve

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bond measures. They are financed through
property taxes, and can take decades to

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pay off. Yeah, they usually
have about a thirty year term to pay

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off. In addition to paying for
new schools, bond measure money pays for

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upgrades at older school's, replacement of
aging HVC systems, new cafeterias and gyms,

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and other school improvements. If Prop
two passes, school districts with successful

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local bond measures will be ready to
submit applications for matching funding for their projects.

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All right, so let's let's dig
into all this first. I have

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decided to ordain myself. It's not
often that when someone is ordained a priest,

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they anoint themselves, that they lay
hands upon themselves, that they declare

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themselves to be a priest. Not
a priest in the line of Malkisa Dek

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not me. I am a priest
in the line of I don't know,

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maybe Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association or something
like that. Even though I don't really

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like carbage Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association very
much. I want to declare myself a

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modern day apostle, but not an
apostle against anything all that important, an

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apostle against local bond measures. I
don't like local bond measures. I think

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they are fundamentally the way they are
presented to voters is fundamentally deceptive. I

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think the way they are talked about
in the media is fundamentally inadequate. I

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just dislike everything about them, and
I think a lot of people don't actually

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understand what a bond is. They
hear the word, they see that it

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has four letters, they see a
B and O and en and A D,

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an N D A D. They
say the word, but I don't

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think most people actually know what the
definition is. So allow me to enlighten

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you. A bond is a loan
to a governmental municipal entity. It is

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a loan that you need to pay
back with interest the way that school districts

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or any governmental entity. Rather,
the way that a governmental entity pays back

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a loan is through taxing the taxpayers
most of the time, most of the

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time with bond measures, we get
taxed through our property taxes. And when

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you have to pay back a loan, guess what, you have to pay

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it back with interest. That's how
most loans work in this great land of

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ours. You pay back a loan
with interest. So this is the part

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about bond initiatives that I hate is
that when they're reported on. What do

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I see here? I see,
oh, five hundred million dollars for Reresne

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unified, four hundred million dollars for
Clovis unified, one hundred and seventy five

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million dollars saying or unified. What
was the other one? Central unified.

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It's getting Central unified. One hundred
nine million dollars Central unified. Okay,

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that's the money that the school district
gets. They get that money right away.

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But what is the burden on the
taxpayer? Okay, if you're paying

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back a loan, you got to
pay back that loan with interest. So

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if you've got a thirty year loan, and let's set it at an interest

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rate of six percent, by the
way, I think interest rates are more

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around like eight percent nowadays. And
remember we're borrowing, you know how,

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Like a lot of you who are
maybe thinking about either buying a new home

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or something like that, none of
you are thinking about refinancing your home right

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now, because there's no way you're
gonna get an interest rate better than whatever

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interest rate was you know, at
play in twenty nineteen, for example.

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Okay, so Holly and I lucked
out. We bought our house in twenty

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nine, we have like I don't
know, like a three point five percent

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interest rate, which we're going to
hold on to with our mortgage like grim

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death. But if you were trying
to buy a new home now, your

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interest rate's going to be more around
like eight percent, meaning you're going to

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have to pay way more interest on
the loan. So if you take out

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a four hundred million dollar bond loan
to help pay for stuff at Close Unified,

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guess how much money the taxpayer is
going to have to pay back over

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the thirty year term of that loan, Probably over eight hundred million. The

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interest is going to be more than
the principle. So what we're talking about

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here is not five hundred million dollars
to Fresnel Unified. We're talking a billion

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dollars from the voters the taxpayers of
Fresnew Unified. We're not talking about four

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one hundred million to Close Unified.
We're talking about eight hundred million from the

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taxpayers of Clothes Unified. We're not
talking about one hundred and seventy five million

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for Sager Unified. We're talking about
three hundred and fifty million for the voters

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of Singer Unified. For the property
taxpayers of Saner Unified. We're not talking

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about one hundred nine million dollars for
Central Unified. We're talking about two hundred

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and twenty million dollars from the taxpayers
of Central Unified. Do you get the

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point? So, at the cost
to taxpayers of eight hundred for let's say

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Close Unified, at the cost of
taxpayers of eight hundred million dollars, we

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get four hundred million dollars worth of
impact. And why are they doing this?

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Now? I hadn't connected the dots
when I talked about this. I

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talked about this in connection with Closes
UNIF a couple of days ago, and

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I didn't connect all the dots I
have. Now I now see the dots

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connected. The light bulb went off
in my head yesterday. Why are all

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these school districts all all of a
sudden deciding, Oh, we need to

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we need to, Oh we should
have a bond local bond initiative. There

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was a whole article about Close Unified's
deliberations to have a bond measure in the

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Fresno b Which is why I think
I'm not going to even I'm going to

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start relying less and less on the
Fresno Bee. By the way, for

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like getting stories about local news for
show prep, Fresno Bee is only like

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physically publishing like two days a week
nowadays. I think it is on the

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downswing. It's been on the downswing
for a while. But I had a

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whole story in the Fresno Bee.
I was reading about Close Unified's deliberations about

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whether or not to propose to try
to qualify a bond measure for the voters

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who live within Clovis Unified. And
the whole discussion was about stuff like,

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well, oh, we don't have
the funding to finish you know, Clovis

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South High School, and oh,
we need help with building maintenance, and

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no, we need help with keeping
buildings up to code. And I was

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on the radio ranting and saying,
this doesn't make any sense. We just

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passed a bond measure for Clovis Unified
four years ago. How do they need

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another bond measure already? This makes
no sense. How does how did you

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start Clovis South High School without knowing
that you had the revenue to finish it.

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How does ongoing building maintenance not get
covered by your normal inflow revenues?

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Why is the district always so reliant
on these extra like special additional bond measures,

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such that our property taxes are always
going to be sky high. What

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the article never stated was there's a
two level system here. These local school

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districts are all it's not a coincidence
that they're all doing bond measures right now.

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They're doing them right now because there's
a state bond measure on the ballot.

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Also, Proposition two, which you'll
all be voting for or against,

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hopefully against, is a state wide
ten billion dollar bond measure, which again

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is not just ten billion dollars for
schools. It's twenty billion dollars from California

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taxpayers over time to get ten billion
dollars worth of benefit. It's a loan

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to the state that the state will
have to pay off with interest, just

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adding more and more and more to
our state's bond and pension debt, which

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is already astronomically high. So because
there's a state bond measure and therefore state

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money that's going to be available,
the way that local school districts get the

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state money is by raising their own
local bond measure money. So what Clovis

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Unified is hoping to do is get
you know, they can raise four hundred

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million dollars. They can raise four
hundred million dollars through their local bond measure,

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plus then they can get an extra
four hundred million dollars in matching state

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funding or maybe some amount in matching
state funding to go along with the four

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hundred million they've raised locally. They
can get some of that pig of ten

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billion dollars that the state is raising
through its proposition too, assuming the proposition

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to pass passes. So it's not
I don't believe at all. So it

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just seems so disingenuous for Close Unified
to pay. Oh, we really need

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this funding. We really need this
funding to help us finish Clovis South.

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You don't want a half finished high
school, do you, voters, And

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they try to give you this kind
of sob story stuff to sort of put

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a gun to your head. They
don't want the money because I'm I'm highly

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suspicious that they don't actually need this
money. I don't think they need this

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money to finish Clovis South. I
don't think they need this money to you

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know, fix up ongoing building maintenance. They want money from the state and

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they need to have a local bond
measure in order to get it. That's

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what's going on here. So I
say vote no on all of it,

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all of it, the whole concept
of the bond measure for a state that

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is already the most overtaxed state in
the Union, that we're going to voluntarily

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add on more taxes to ourselves,
because that's what a bond is. It's

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setting up more taxes. Clovis Unified. Now, I haven't dug into the

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weeds with Fresnow unified, but Clovis
Unified. Clovis Unified is trying to say,

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well, this bond measure wouldn't increase
your taxes. Blooney. What they

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mean is that we're already paying in
our property taxes. Okay, I live

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in Clovis. You know what I'm
going to do the breakdown when we return,

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when we return the phony blooney way
that some of these school districts are

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trying to say that their new bond
measures won't increase your taxes. It's deceptive.

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That's next on the John Girardi Show. My wife and I have certain

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popular words or phrases or expressions that
we hate that we find really annoying and

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tiresome. The phrase fake news was
like kind of funny and fun when Donald

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Trump said it the first time,
but it's been beaten to death. At

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a certain point in about twenty nineteen, my wife was like, if I

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hear anyone call anything fake news ever
again, I'm gonna lose my mind.

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There are all kinds of little words
and phrases like this that my wife and

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I think get massively overused. And
one of these phrases that gets massively overused,

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especially in conservative circles, is the
phrase cancel culture. I hate the

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phrase cancel culture. I think it
is stupid and I think it reflects a

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fundamentally wrong headed view that most conservatives
have about the concept. So cancel culture

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refers to efforts usually undertaken by left
wing people in groups to ostracize and drive

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out of polite society persons or concepts
that are distasteful to the modern day current

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iteration of the left, even if
such things were historically very widespread opinions,

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historically very widespread American values or concepts, or just anything that is right of

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center that maybe forty percent of the
country believes in. We have seen the

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concept of cancel culture lead to people
getting fired from their jobs for holding mainstream

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conservative positions. I think the most
famous example of this was the guy who

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founded Mozilla, the company that makes
the Firefox search engine, got fired from

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his own job when it was revealed
that he had he either voted for or

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gave some money to Proposition eight,
which is the California state proposition that got

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passed in two thousand and eight that
defined marriages being between one man and one

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woman, and which the courts subsequently
overturned. By the way, the history

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of Prop eight getting overturned and how
that happened is so unfair and stupid as

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to absolutely boggle the mind. But
you know, that's the story for another

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day. And the idea of cancel
culture it gets applied to people getting fired

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from their jobs, hordes of liberal
activists swarming to someone's place of employment to

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try to pressure the employer into firing
someone for expressing a mainstream conservative opinion.

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It applies to the censoring of certain
concepts, mainstream American concepts. You know,

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Donald Trump predicted that at some point
some of these canceled culture types,

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we're going to get rid of statues
of George Washington. And that's precisely what's

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been starting to happen that George Washington, because he owned slaves, is therefore

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to be banished from our public spaces. Right now, there's a news story

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about the city of Chicago that the
ultra left wing mayor of Chicago is removing

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a statue of George Washington from Chicago's
city Hall. Now, the problem is

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when conservatives complain about it, they
complain about it in these neutral liberal terms.

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And by liberal I don't mean like
the modern day lefties, I mean

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classical liberal terms. So classical liberalism
the idea that everyone is free to choose

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their own concept of the good,
that basically we don't impose on everyone one

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single knowable standard of the good.
Everyone chooses the good for themselves, and

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that is the freedom that people enjoy, is the freedom to choose what is

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the good for themselves. And that
kind of sense of classical liberalism has always

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been in tension with, frankly,
the Bible, the Bible, which has

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a very clear account of what is
the good and what is not the good,

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and the American liberal tradition and the
Biblical and Christian traditions have always had

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this sort of tension between each other. But a lot of modern day conservatives.

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They're basically trying to fight against liberal
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idea of canceling people because of what
they think is wrong. Shouldn't we have

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you know, even though it's private
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to them. Is this good for
civic discourse? Is it good for people

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to be fired just because of the
views that the strongly held views that they

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hold for things, to search out
people's private lives for views they express about

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blah blah blah, this isn't right, blah blah blah blah blah. And

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I think they miss the point largely. The problem is not cancel culture or

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the idea of canceling people, or
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All cultures cancel. All cultures have
taboos, All cultures have some kind

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of sense of morality and a sense
of if someone goes outside of the bounds

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of moral society, then they need
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someone is so far afield from what
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need to ostracize them somehow. All
right, This is a conservative talk station.

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It allows people to express a lot
of conservative viewpoints. If I came

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on this microphone and started talking about
how white supremacism is totally awesome and Adolf

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Hitler was a totally awesome guy and
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If I did that, I heart
would rightly take me off the air.

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Okay, power talk, and Squires
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my microphone. Okay, why well, cause Nazism is bad. It's really

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bad, and it's not cancel culture
to say, hey, uh, Nazism

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is so bad that you shouldn't be
on our station anymore. Cyonora, buddy.

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The problem isn't having a culture that
cancels people. The problem is what

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kinds of things should and shouldn't be
cancelable. What is the morality animating the

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culture which decides on what things are
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acceptable opinion, and what kinds of
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Not only what kinds of opinions,
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are bad enough that someone needs to
lose their job, and what kind of

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job do you have? Now this
conversation has been turned because there are a

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couple of accounts on Twitter that have
been really focused since the assassination attempt on

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Donald Trump on finding people who tweeted
out obviously bad and distasteful things wishing that

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the shooter had successfully assassinated Donald Trump, and these Twitter accounts, these right

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wing Twitter accounts, have tried to
highlight the employer of the person tweeting that

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out and say, hey, this
is your employee who wishes that Donald Trump

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had been assassinated? Is this what
you believe? Employer, and has managed

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to get some of those people actually
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of these people had government employment positions, Like some of the there was someone

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who was a staffer for a congressman
I think, who said something like that,

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Yeah, if you're a staffer for
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saying stuff like that. That's a
that's a real issue for your job.

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You know, you're you're aiding a
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and that's wrong. But some of
the people that have been highlighted were,

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you know, people who have a
job at home depot And it's just this

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like there's a certain kind of hardcore
conservative range of opinion that says we need

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to fight just as dirty as the
left does. We need, you know,

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if the left's going to fight this
hard, conservatives need to fight hard

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back. We can't fight a war
against these peop We can't fight this already

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ideological war against these people, you
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back. It's ridiculous. They're gonna
cancel us. We got to try and

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cancel them. We got to try
and cancel them right back. And while

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usually I agree with that, I
think usually, especially when we're talking about,

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like, okay, what tactics should
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Congress the fact that no one is
talking about the idea of hey, Democrats

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want to abolish the filibuster to you
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Why aren't any Republicans talking about doing
the same thing. Democrats will abolish the

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filibuster to legalize nationwide legal abortion or
you know, abolish the Supreme Court,

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you know, or a pack the
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They will abolish the filibuster to do
that. There's no question. They

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had forty nine of their fifty one
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a few years ago. They're gonna
do it someday. Someday they're going to

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have a majority in the Senate,
and that is precisely what they're going to

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do. Why aren't Republicans talking about
that anyway? But when it comes to

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stuff like getting people fired, have
you ever been in a room with someone

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who's getting fired. I have.
I've had to fire a couple of people.

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It sucks. It's the worst part
of my job. It's the most

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miserable, horrible thing. And not
even firing people, just having to lay

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off people because we couldn't we couldn't
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It's terrible. It's a huge disruption
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someone on who works at home depot
making a flippant joke that's in bad taste

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about President Trump's assassination. I agree
that that's bad. I don't want to

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get that person fired. Why how
does that help our side? They were

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even like people getting mad the guy
who's as there's this this sort of jokey

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like comedy rock band called Tenacious D. And it's Jack Black and this other

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guy, Kyle Gas and and they're
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And they have this band that plays
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I've loved TENACIOUSD for forever. And
of course they're both very liberal guys.

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Most people in Hollywood are the guitarists
said during a concert, I wish that

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shooter hadn't missed, And it's like
they're canceling their tour, these grubbling apologies

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seeing and I guess I'm just like, he's a comedian. He did a

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bad joke. He said a bad
joke that was very distasteful. Do I

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want that? Scalp aha? I
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band that never really talks about politics
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I just don't care for it.
And maybe that's just the thing. I

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guess, like, if every culture
is going to cancel, and the question

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is not whether you have a cancel
culture, but the things and the conditions

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under which you cancel people, I
think it's okay to say the conditions under

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which we should cancel people are different
if people have serious positions of influence and

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power in society or government. Yeah, but I don't want to fire a

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home depot cashier. That's silly when
we return is Biden making it to November.

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I feel like we keep updating our
expectations on this every day. Next

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on the John Girardi Show. My
wife and I have certain popular words or

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phrases or expression that we hate that
we find really annoying and tiresome. The

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phrase fake news was like kind of
funny and fun when Donald Trump said it

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the first time, but it's been
beaten to death. At a certain point

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in about twenty nineteen, my wife
was like, if I hear anyone call

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anything fake news ever again, I'm
gonna lose my mind. There are all

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kinds of little words and phrases like
this that my wife and I think get

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massively overused. And one of these
phrases that gets massively overused, especially in

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conservative circles, is the phrase cancel
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I think it is stupid, and
I think it reflects a fundamentally wrong

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headed view that most conservatives have about
the concept. So can the soul culture

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refers to efforts usually undertaken by left
wing people in groups to ostracize and drive

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out of polite society persons or concepts
that are distasteful to the modern day current

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iteration of the left, even if
such things were historically very widespread opinions,

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historically very widespread American values or concepts, or just anything that is right of

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center that maybe forty percent of the
country believes in. We have seen the

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concept of cancel culture lead to people
getting fired from their jobs for holding mainstream

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conservative positions. I think the most
famous example of this was the guy who

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founded Mozilla, the company that makes
the Firefox search engine, got fired from

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his own job when it was revealed
that he had he either voted for or

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gave some money to Proposition eight,
which is the California state proposition that got

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passed in two thousand and eight that
defined marriages being between one man and one

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woman, and which the courts subsequently
overturned. By the way, the history

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of Prop eight getting overturned and how
that happened is so unfair and stupid as

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to absolutely boggle the mind. But
you know, that's the story for another

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day. And the idea of cancel
culture it gets applied to people getting fired

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from their jobs, hordes of liberal
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try to pressure the employer into firing
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It applies to the censoring of certain
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Donald Trump predicted that at some point
some of these canceled culture types were

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going to get rid of statues of
George Washington. And that's precisely what's been

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starting to happen. That George Washington, because he owned slaves, is therefore

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to be banished from our public spaces. Right now, there's a news story

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about the city of Chicago that the
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a statue of George Washington from Chicago's
City Hall. It was announced yes just

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yesterday, President Biden has covid he
canceled a bunch of campaign events, and

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the news has come out that both
Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat minority leader in

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the House, and Chuck Schumer,
the Senate majority leader, had come to

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Jesus communications with Biden telling him he
needs to drop out, and that Nancy

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Pelosi, who might be the most
important power broker of the mall even though

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she's not any more the Speaker of
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but she is the most potent point
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or the most key point of connection
Democrats after their donors. She is

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actively working to push Biden out.
I wonder over the next forty eight hours,

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seventy two hours, maybe through the
weekend, maybe on Monday, what

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is going to happen. I think
Biden's been hoping to sort of delay,

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delay, delay, delay until after
the Democrats nominate him and just hope that

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the path of least resistance is taken
and that he's the path of police resistance.

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But the polls are, the post
shooting polls are starting to come out,

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and they don't look good for Democrats. I think they're afraid of getting

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wiped out in the House as well
as losing the presidency. That'll do Itjohn

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Girardi Show, See you next time
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