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There's an op ed in the Fresno
b that's like, we're not even in

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June yet, and I can already
tell that the tidal wave of LGBT content

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it's beginning to crest, as it's
about to crash on all of us.

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On June first, my wife and
I over the Memorial Day weekend went to

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a store, not a store when
I mean not a store that you would

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necessarily think of as ies. This
is a gay clientele serving store necessarily.

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And we're there on May twenty fifth. Actually, we were going out to

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dinner for it was our anniversary,
so we were going out to dinner.

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After don't dinner, we went to
a shop nearby the restaurant where we were

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eating. They've already got all the
pride stuff out on May twenty fifth.

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We're a solid week out and we're
already starting this stuff. And this is

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people have noted the enormous number of
days that have been quote unofficially designate,

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officially slash unphysically designated whatever as being
dedicated towards the LGBT Agenda recognizing LGBT groups

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or something like that. So we've
got all of June, and then during

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June, every major company is going
to start adopting some rainbow flag and then

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we've got this day and this day
and this month and blah blah blah blah

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blah blah blah. So it is
not surprising that in the Fresno b we

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have an immediate puff piece op ed
written by a fundraiser for a local LGBT

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organization, and it's talking about how
horrible it was growing up in California in

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the era of Prop eight quote,
and how basically it was a sort of

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non story. It's the person the
person who wrote this is the head of

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fundraising for the Source LGBT Plus Center
located in Vicealia. Hmmm, says I,

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I says, what is that.
I've done this before where I do

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a little bit of a deep dive
on these LGBT nonprofits, who started them,

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what they do. So I go
to this the website of this organization.

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Now this entity what it actually seems
to do. Let's see if you

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go to events for this website.
So, first of all, it is

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a building, a nonprofit that's located
in Vice Salia that does very kind various

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kinds of promoting LGBT people. That's
how it kind of expresses itself. Its

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mission statement is, our mission is
to provide supportive spaces within our communities for

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LGBTQ plus people to learn, grow, belong and thrive. All Right,

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so we go to events. They
have the Rainbow Run on June twenty second,

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Pride Vice Salia, a grassroots,
family friendly celebration of diversity, inclusion

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and acceptance not only for LGBTQ people, but for our allies. Food trucks,

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vendors, exhibits, entertainments, and
a kid zone. On October twelfth,

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Drag Queen Bingo, Drag Queen Bingo. On September fifteenth, Drag Queen

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Bingo is here again for twenty twenty
four. The queens are going to be

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fiercer, the prizes are going to
be fabulous er, and the bear bar

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will be even more shirtless than before. So you know, we got some

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really wonderful, really wonderful important things
that are being promoted here by this nonprofit

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organization. An annual gala, a
trans Day of Remembrance in November, Trans

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Day of Visibility seems like a whole
nonprofit designed for very few events here Pride

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Movie Night. That's about as far
out as we get. So some of

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them are labeled as family friendly.
Others are obviously not family friendly, I

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guess, including Drag Queen Bingo,
which is sponsored by the way by Eagle

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Mountain Casino, Token Farms, which
is a marijuana I think it's some kind

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of marijuana thing. Elite Sports,
Born Tough, and Menagerie of Bunch whatever.

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Those businesses all are just so you
guys are aware. But so that's

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some of the things they do.
And then you go to their programs.

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Oh well, we have all kinds
of and listed right next to each other

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in the drop down list of its
programs. We've got youth programs and transgender

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resources right next to each other.
So they've also got so we've got all

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this stuff that's pro transgender right alongside
all this youth oriented stuff, Game Nights

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for transgender youth, the Rainbow Support
Network, the Binder program, which apparently

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is a thing where biological females put
straps across their chests to try to artificially

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constrict their breasts. The King's County
LGBTQ pop up event. Now it seems

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like they're possibly being careful about children
and transgenderism and children and transgenderism, because

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it seems like there's a slight distinction
between like queers and peers. Queers and

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Peers is a group for transitional age
youth eighteen to twenty six to make friends

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and get involved in their community.
So it seems as though there is some

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there's some stuff where we're trying to
keep a little bit of distance between transgend

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transgender youth. They have a Leadership
Academy for youth age seventeen to twenty six.

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They've got their Youth Board for LGBT
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twenty two LGBT scholarships, so that
they've got all this pro transgender stuff right

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alongside all their youth stuff. And
I'm wondering if they're like trying to like

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because they realize there's so much more
stigma now, there's so much more I

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shouldn't say stigma, so much more
reasonable concern about transgender stuff with children,

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the chief reasonable concern being that most
children who express transgender ideation, if left

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completely un alone, will sort of
revert to their actual biological sex, and

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overwhelming, overwhelming, overwhelming majority of
the time that there is more and more

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evidence that transgender interventions are actually quite
harmful new study that came out said ninety

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to ninety five percent of biological females
who received testosterone hormones we're having pelvic floor

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issues. It's almost like they're not
supposed to have all that testosterone like their

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biological females. Giving them a bunch
of testosterones screwing around with their reproductive hormones

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is a really bad idea. But
I think the thing about this entity,

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and by the way, it's not
just this entity in Vicelia. There are

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entities like this popping up in towns
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I think the thing that is most
important about entities like this is when

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I click on their about and click
on their partners. By partners, we

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mean this is the people funding them. So this is just the partners for

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the LGBT Center in Vice Salia T
Mobile Boom, one of the biggest,

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you know, cell phone carriers in
the country, which just bought out another

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big cell phone carrier. I was
just reading a story about that. One

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of the big source partners too.
Family Healthcare Network. Hmmm, why would

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a major healthcare network, Why would
a major healthcare network, which I believe

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this is an FQHC located in the
San Joaquin Valley. I sort of looking

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up here. Yeah, this is
a basically an FQHC trying to is a

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is a healthcare health center program grantee
under forty two USB two five four deemed

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a public health service employee NDER forty
two. Yeah, so this is a

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federal This is a federal an FQHC. A federally qualified health center receives funding

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from the Department of Health and Human
Services Federal pub and has Federal public health

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service. Is Federal public health service
deemed status within respect to certain health or

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health related claims. Blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Yeah, so

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this is a yeah, federally qualified
health clinic largely a these kinds of clinics.

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Basically they're setup so that they can
take Medicaid patients medical patients in California,

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and they're able to do so because
they get a bunch of federal subsidization,

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so they're able to make money.
So they're helping fund this LGBT thing.

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And I wonder are they participate paiding
in transgender stuff? Are they?

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In fact, they have a whole
page on their website for LGBTQ plus services

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transgender hormone therapy. There we are
the first thing, the big thing right

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on the front. Why because transgender
hormone therapy makes money. So of course

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this big FQHC that's making money hand
over fist is supporting this pro LGBT entity.

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And then they have more and more
sponsors as send Behavioral Health a behavioral

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health entity wanting to get lots of
LGBT youth. Maybe that could be another

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source of patients slash money money.
See you're a Meadows Behavioral Health. We've

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got Eagle Mountain Casino, a tele
Properties, the Tillarry County Suicide Prevention Task

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Force. Because again, this is
a big cudgel that the LGBT folks use.

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If you don't support us, then
you're leading kids to commit suicide,

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even though one that's not really supported
by the evidence. Two, it's basically

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a gun to your head way of
forcing someone to support you. Al Tura

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Centers for Health, Grace Note Music
Studio, the Sequoia Riverlands Trust. Some

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of the founders include the Sierra Health
Foundation, Arcis Foundation, and the California

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Endowment. So here are these huge
moneyed entities giving just a ton of money

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for an entity that supports basically that
seemingly is a pipeline to businesses to send

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them patients with mental health problems who
want hormone therapy so they can make money.

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I forgive me if I don't think
that all of these donors are completely

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altruistic. But that's the thing.
The LGBT, all of this Pride Month

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stuff is going to be presented to
you as if it is this is just

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grassroots Americana, and it's not.
It's all this corporate sponsored promotion of this

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fundamentally liberal order. Will we return? I want to talk about that how

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the word choice has sort of triggered
this in my brain thinking about liberalism and

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Pride Month. We'll get to all
that after the break. This is the

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juhnje already show on Power Talk.
So I was reading this a couple of

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tweets about the school choice debate.
Now I'm coming from the abortion debate.

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I cringe. I obviously am am
very involved in the abortion debate. People

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who are in favor of vouchers voucher
programs. Universal voucher programs were basically,

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instead of education dollars going directly to
a public school, instead of education tax

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dollars going directly to the public school, reshaping the way we think about elementary

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and secondary education by instead taking whatever
pot of money is designated to a public

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school per kid and giving it to
the parent and allowing the parent to kind

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of drive it and to take the
money and to use it for either a

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public school or for a private school. And that's honestly the way that things

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like cal grants work. Okay,
cal grants is like California state funded scholarship

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for lower income college aspirants who reach
certain kinds of criteria as far as high

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school achievement, certain kind of GPA, et cetera, and then they get

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a cal grant and they can use
the calgrant at pretty much any college or

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university, certainly within California. Not
sure if it travels out of state,

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but at any rate, I no, certainly within California, and you can

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use it at pretty much any public
school or private school. Okay, if

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you wanted to go to USC you
could use your calgrant there. If you

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want to go to UCLA or Fresno
State or cal Berkeley or Stanford, you

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can use a cal grant at pretty
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or private school, and no one
screams, you know, you could use

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it to go to Loyola Marymount,
and nobody screams that the cal grant is

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violating the sacred Wall of separation between
Church and State, which, by the

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way, the wall of separation between
church and state is not a thing that's

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actually in the Constitution. The only
thing in the Constitution is no establishment of

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religion that's actually in the constitution.
Wall of separation between church and state was

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from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote,
and liberals have repeated the phrase so often

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that it has become part of American
constitutional law, which is the greatest pr

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coup of all time anyway. So
that's kind of the argument behind people who

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are pro vouchers for elementary and secondary
education, and liberals hate it because liberals

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have this total monopoly over the public
school system, and liberals realize, well,

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if you let people leave public schools
with their tax dollars, they probably

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will and the public school might be
financially hurt by that. And that's what

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they really care about, is the
public schools. They care about the public

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schools as a job creation program for
adult liberals who for adults, you know,

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adults who are in charge of the
teachers' unions who don't want to see

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like, if they have fewer kids, then you might have to get rid

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of a couple of teachers. They
don't want that. And so you have

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liberals objecting to the idea that basically
the supporters of vouchers have labeled their movement

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school choice. And these liberals are
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use of the term choice, like, well, it's not much of a

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choice for the public schools who lose
out all money, or for people whose

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kids go to a public school where
the school might might start hurting or go

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out of visits. But booooh,
all of a sudden, the people adversely

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impacted by choices matter, which is
of course darkly ironic given the whole context

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of the abortion debate. But that
sort of made me think, like,

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how do they get away? And
this is relating to what I'm talking about

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about Pride Month and we're already seeing
this begin to crest. How is it

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that the abortion movement was able to
slap the label choice on it? We're

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pro choice? What do you mean? Choice is such a huge Like I'm

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sure, if you look up the
dictionary definition of the word choice, it

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probably takes up If you look at
the Oxford English Dictionary or a big dictionary,

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it probably takes up like a whole
page. Practically, it's this very

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big, broad concept, and for
some reason, the only political issue it

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that word by itself gets applied to
is abortion. Why. It's kind of

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the distillation of all liberalism and even
classical liberalism that people on the right purport

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to love. What is the foundational
premise of Enlightenment politics, of classical liberal

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poser politics? Foundational premise is really, you know, after the wars of

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religion in Europe, basically this idea
that well, let's stop fighting over religion.

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No one can really be sure about
what the truth is, the moral

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truth, ethical truth, objective political
truth, objective truths about human nature.

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No one can be sure about that, and we shouldn't have a politics that's

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ordered towards that ultimate good. Here
we had, you know, Protestant kingdoms.

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We had Protestant kingdoms and Catholic kingdoms
fighting each other in Europe because they

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disagreed about that. Well, let's
just say, no one knows what it

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is, So no one knows the
objective truth. No one knows the objective

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moral order, and so the only
thing our politics can deal with is choice.

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Is freedom is liberty, your liberty
to make choices. So what our

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government will be about is maximizing your
capacity for free choices. You decide the

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good for yourself, and as long
as you're not stepping on somebody else's toes,

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then you can continue to carry on
making choices. Abortion is kind of

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the most extreme expression of that.
Who's to say whether killing a baby is

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good or not? It's choice.
I'm choosing what's good for me. But

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what about this other person you're hurting? Well, that person can't make choices

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the way that I can, so
why should I bother? Choice becomes the

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definitive thing, And that's why the
LGBT movement has been so successful. I

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think as we head into all this
Pride Month stuff, why everyone sort of

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why it's been able to gain so
much momentum because it's able to be presented

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as well. This is just about
individual choice. Who are you to say

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that an individual choice is bad?
Well, I'm just maximalized. There is

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no objective moral There is no objective
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state can or should orient itself towards
which businesses can or should orient themselves if

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it makes other people feel excluded.
It's the ultimate distillation of liberalism. And

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it makes me sort of amazed at
how these big words get attached to these

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political movements that are at the heart
of liberalism. Choice for abortion, pride

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for sexual activity between persons other than
a man and a woman. It kind

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of it's pretty striking, though,
Like, how did that just sort of

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work out about to get into conspiracy
land here? So I think I'll just

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pump the brakes on that, but
understand that that's what it's about. And

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American conservatism has always been in this
tug of war, honestly between the Enlightenment

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thinking that was in various ways animating
the Founding Fathers, and the Bible.

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You know, to be frank,
if I'm thinking about what's the common ground

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of Christianity that united basically all the
Christian denominations in America, it was pretty

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much the Bible. So you've got
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does present a knowable, an objectively
knowable sense of human nature, an objectively

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knowable sense of human ethics, an
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and very much sense a political vision
that is not just well, let everyone

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do what they want, ever,
let everyone maximize their own choices. No,

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some choices are deemed as being quite
wrong and nation judgeworthy. So I

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think this is the kind of thinking
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of the left. Is it's the
logical end conclusion of these fundamental liberal and

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I mean classical liberal, not just
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liberal ideas. When we return the
Trump trial, closing statements are happening,

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and how to think about the whole
thing that's next on the John Girardi Show,

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Trump trial is winding down, closing
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Biden administration wants you to know that
President Biden is being totally fair about all

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this. He's not commenting, he's
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all commenting, other than all the
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other than the fact that he's having
a campaign. His campaign is doing an

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event right outside the courtroom where President
Trump he's being tried for these crimes,

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and that President Biden might give a
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White House because he's totally not that. This is totally not about politics.

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The prosecution of Donald Trump just had
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That's of course why he had all
these claims against him that could have been

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made in twenty twenty one or twenty
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but which for some reason or other, were not made until after March

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or April of twenty twenty four,
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Republican primary and was sort of locked
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less, when there was no other
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whatever. It's almost like it was
like a whole Democrat plan to prosecute him

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at the most inconvenient time possible because
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candidate and then if he was convicted
that that would absolutely sink his campaign and

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ensure another Biden victory. It's almost
like this exact playbook is kind of what

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the Biden what the Democrats did in
twenty twenty two, where they kept actually

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giving money in the Republican primaries to
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possible the guy who ran for governor
of Pennsylvania, Carrie Lake. In Arizona.

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There were multiple candidates like this running
for Senate seats or governor's seats who

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were super Trump aligned and super Trump
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The Democrats funded them in the primaries. Those Republicans won in their primaries in

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twenty twenty two, and then they
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two, resulting in a hugely disappointing
election for Republicans. It's almost like the

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Trump trials were designed that way,
by which I mean, of course they

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are. Whether Biden sat down with
anyone to discuss it that way, that's

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clearly what has happened, okay,
And Biden is going to pretend like he

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has nothing to do Oh well,
the prosecution of Donald Try, I had

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nothing to do with it. I'm
my hands are cleaning all this bs.

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Biden could have prevented all this,
okay. Biden could have said to the

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Department of Justice. He certainly could
have interfered to say listen this these you

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know. Biden at any time could
have withdrawn the special counsel who was appointed

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to oversee Trump's federal trials Jack Smith. Jack Smith, who's overseeing the federal

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trials for all the stuff associated with
January sixth that Trump has tried with and

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for the document's scandal at mar A
Laco. Trump Biden could have at any

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time intervened, and especially after the
charges were after the Special Council declined to

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move forward with any charges against Biden
for his obvious inappropriate storage of documents at

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his house in Delaware and at his
office in DC. Biden could have just

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come out and said, you know
what, I'm partning President Trump for anything

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having to do with documents as long
as we get everything back, pardoning President

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Trump, and I'm the director or
just I'm directing the Special Council not to

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move forward with this. That he
would have looked like the bigger man,

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honestly. Or he could have said, look, the January sixth thing,

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We're going to move past this as
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in all these charges that Trump is
facing that are either weak or in the

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case of mar A Lago, it's
totally hypocritical that Trump's being charged with it

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but not Biden. Biden could have
made them go away, and even the

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state level prosecutions of President Trump,
where Biden doesn't have direct control. Biden

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doesn't necessarily have Biden does not have
the authority as President of the United States

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to tell Alvin Bragg, who is
the District Attorney of Manhattan. Alvin Bragg,

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who's running Trump's prosecution in Manhattan right
now, is a New York state

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official. Biden is a federal official. So Biden technically does not have any

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direct oversight to stop Bragg from continuing
this prosecution. He's not the governor of

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New York, he's not the Attorney
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don't know how exactly New York law
would work with regards to even if the

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Governor of New York or the Attorney
General of New York necessarily has the ability

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to stop Alvin Bragg. But you
know what, you know what could happen

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though, If you're the District Attorney
of Manhattan and the President of the United

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States gives you a phone call,
you probably take it. I'm pretty sure

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you don't have anyone more important to
call you. And if the President of

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the United States says, hey,
listen, you know and I know that

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this is not the strongest case in
the world. Your predecessor declined to bring

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this the Southern District of New York. The federal prosecutors declined to bring this

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case. The Federal Elections Commission didn't
bring any charges with regards to any of

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this stuff with Trump paying Stormy Daniels
and whether that was a campaign finance violation.

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Blah blah blah blah blah. You
know this is a weak case.

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You know you're stretching the law.
You know that this could very easily get

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overturned on appeal. Drop these charges
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The president could have done that.
He didn't, and it probably would

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have worked. He could have done
the same thing with the old Fanny Willis

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down in Fulton County, Georgia.
Hey, this is a stretch. Calling

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the Trump effort to have like backup
elector calling this a rico case is kind

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of ridiculous. There was no ongoing
criminal enterprise here, Okay, after the

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election was kind of resolved and over, the enterprise ceased to exist like that.

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That's not what a rico is for. Rico's are for like a crime

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was committed, and the Corleone family
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right, That's what RICO is for. It's not for stop the steal

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efforts that happened in Atlanta in Georgia
from twenty twenty, from November one,

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twenty twenty until you know, January
twentieth of twenty twenty one. That's not

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what RICO is for. So Biden
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He knew the politics of the timing. He understood the timing. Merrick

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Garland understood the timing. Everyone understood
the timing. Trump what Biden wanted and

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his political people wanted, and they
couldn't overtly coordinate it. I'm sure,

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but I'm sure there were some ways
in which this was either understood or there

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was a wink wink nod or whatever
it was, or other operatives discussed this,

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and I'm sure they put enough buffers. This reminds me of the Senate

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Tote testimony of Willie Cheach from Godfather
Too during the Senate hearings where he said,

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did Michael Corleoni ever specifically instruct you
to murder someone? No? There

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were always buffers. Yeah, Yeah, the family had a lot of buffers.

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I'm sure there were a lot of
buffers in between Biden and Alvin Bragg,

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between Biden and Jack Smith, between
Biden and Fanny Willis. So no,

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Biden didn't overtly tell them, but
he's obvious. This is the obvious

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Democrat strategy. And of course by
oh, I'm not being involved. And

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then he has a campaign rally right
outside the courthouse where the closing arguments are

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happening today for the Trump trial.
They march out Robert de Niro for it,

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which I love Robert de Niro.
If Robert de Niro's in a movie

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probably makes it a better movie.
Every movie I've seen with Robert de Niro

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has been pretty good. Robert de
Niro. Robert de Niro has been ranting

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about Donald Trump since twenty fifteen about
how terrible he is. Not one vote

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in America has shifted because of the
Robert de Niro constituency, Like not one.

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Nobody's like, Oh, Robert de
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Hmmm, I should vote against him. And that's the thing. Like,

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I think this strategy by Biden might
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there's a very good chance that there's
gonna be a hung jury in the Trump

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trial in Manhattan, which if there
is, guess what, that's a big

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win for Trump. He can continue
to he can very fairly say, look,

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even a Manhattan jury wouldn't convict me
of this. These are baseless,

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phony, baloney charges design to derail
my candidacy. But even if he is

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convicted, I don't know how much
it moves the needle. How are there

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people out there who are like waiting
to hear if Trump gets convicted or not

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to decide if they're going to vote
for him? After all this time Trump

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came on the national scene in twenty
fifteen, it's twenty twenty four. Do

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you really not know what you think
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I mean, come on, all
right, when we return, just to

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resummarize what the Trump trial is actually
about and is not actually about. Next

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on the John Girardi Show, just
to remind people, as the closing our

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arguments are happening today in the Trump
trial, what the Trump trial is actually

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about. I saw, like a
conservative outlet and avowedly conservative outlet casually tweet

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this out about today's Trump trial for
alleged hush money payments. It's not a

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trial about alleged hush money payments.
Hush money payments are not illegal. Is

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it sleazy? Sure, it's not
illegal, And it's not even what he

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was charged with for allegedly making hush
It's not alleged he made hush money payments.

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We all know that that's known,
and it's not illegal. It's quite

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possibly not a campaign finance violation.
I mean, it is certainly not a

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campaign finance violation, though there are
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within the context of this trial,
and the jurors have not really been appropriately

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instructed. I think about what federal
election law is. What the trial is

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about is allegedly fraudgilant falsification of business
records. That's what it's about. Whether

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Trump in paying Michael Cohen, who
he had paid Stormy Daniels. Trump repays

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Michael Cohen in a series of monthly
installment payments. He labeled it in his

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books as legal expenses. Were they
legal expenses or were they repayment of a

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loan? That is the core of
the case. That's the actual crime,

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calling it legal fees rather than repayment
of a loan? And did Trump knowingly

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and intentionally do it? What was
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something and intending to do so.
Was he actually frauding anybody? Defrauding anybody?

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Fraud doesn't just mean anything dishonest.
Fraud means lying from money, lying

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in order to get yourself either money
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I lie to the bank about my
income and I get a bigger,

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more favorable loan. That's fraud,
all right. Trump may have misstated the

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nature of it, although I'm not
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it's not unreasonable to in certain contexts, in certain ways, and all the

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other stuff that Coen was doing for
him to label some of this as attorneys

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as attorney's fees. Even if that
was wrong, whom was Trump defrauding?

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How was he getting money out of
it? He wasn't. He actually lost

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money on it. If he had
called it loan repayment, he would have

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had to spend less because Cohen,
if it's legal fees to Coen, Coen

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had to pay taxes on it.
So Coin said, hey, you gotta

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give me like twice as money so
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Otherwise I'm getting bilked. And by
the way, Cohen stole sixty thousand dollars

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of Trump's money. So that's what
the case is. Allegedly about falsification of

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business records. It's not a quote, hush money case. That'll do it

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for John Girardi Show. See you
next time on Power Talk