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I watched the whole Biden press conference
yesterday so that you didn't have to and

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just want to talk through a couple
of things with it and sort of my

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sense of what's going to happen,
which frankly, it seems like it's going

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to shift day to day. So
I guess the first thing, My first

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big takeaway from the press conference was
the tension of it all. Biden was

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late showing up to this NATO thing
where he was going to introduce President Zelenski

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from Ukraine, and then, in
that very non difficult task of introducing Zelensky

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to all these NATO people, he
referred to him as President Putin, which

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you'd have to think of all the
mistaken names that he could use for Vladimir

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Zelensky, Vladimir Putin would be the
absolute worst one. So he was running

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late for that, and then he
runs late for this press conference that was

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scheduled. It was like over,
it was like super duper late, and

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people were starting to like openly speculate, is he not going to show up?

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What's going on? Is he not
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on? So he finally shows up, and let me just sort of describe

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the structure of it. He starts
out with prepared remarks and then he opens

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himself up to take what turned out
to be about eleven questions, including follow

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up questions. So he starts by
delivering these prepared remarks with a teleprompter.

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And I thought, and now,
granted we're grading all of this on a

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curve, okay, I'm watching it
with my expectations just basement low. And

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I thought his initial prepared remark,
because he did a decent job, he

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seemed kind of vigorous. Thought,
oh, he's actually handling this pretty well.

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But then he gets off the teleprompter, and the whole energy changes.

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The minute he gets off the teleprompter, the whole energy changes. He gets

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asked his first question is about Kamala
Harris's competence to run the country, and

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he then proceeds to say, I
wouldn't have picked Donald Trump to be my

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vice president if I didn't think she
could do the job, and he screws

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up the names he calls. He
refers to Kamala Harris as Donald Trump,

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and everyone in the room other than
him notices the mistake and kind of gasps.

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He does not notice it, does
not correct it. He did correct

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it when he screwed up Zelenski's name
and called him Putin. But he completely

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doesn't notice it, and it's all
that anyone's thinking and talking about for the

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entire rest of the press conference.
Now he then gets into he gets asked

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other questions, and there are a
lot of Democrats who try to who are

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There's some Democrats anyway who are trying
to argue he did so well for the

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rest of it, other than you
know, referring to his vice president by

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the name of his chief political opponent. He did so well. During the

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rest of the press conference, he
didn't do so well. He got into

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clearly kind of stump speech material.
And I know a little bit of this

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feeling. I do enough public speaking
and next tembraneous talking where I kind of

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know I have certain topics that I've
talked about enough times, whether it be

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on the radio or in speeches or
things like that, where if I get

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into my groove, I can just
talk about it. And that's clearly what

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Biden was kind of doing. His
answers were usually wandering and meandering. It

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was kind of him just sort of
spitting out everything he kind of knew about

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topic X, Y or z whether
it was really responsive to a question or

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not, and very long winded answers
with no obvious sort of like mental clock

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for him to realize, boy,
I've been going on. I've been going

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on a really long time with this. He clearly doesn't have that anymore.

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And he talks so slowly now you
can tell he's just old. It's not

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even really a question of like dementia
or stuff like. He's just old.

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And I've heard a lot of the
theories or arguments about whether it maybe he

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has Parkinson, and that's kind of
convincing, but I think just more than

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an he's just old. Like it's
just the natural decline of your physical and

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cognitive abilities that happens over time,
and it only ends one way. So

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he didn't have any other huge gaffs, though a lot of the things he

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was saying just seemed kind of implausible. He clearly wasn't really being responsive to

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a lot of the questions. He
was just going on and on and on.

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He had all these criticisms for Israel
without simultaneously a lot of criticism for

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Hamas, which a lot of sort
of pro Israel people pointed out. He

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I mean, he was just he
was very boring. Honestly, it was

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incredibly boring. At a certain point, you realize, like, is he

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He's talking and talking and talking,
and a part of me was almost wondering

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if he was just sort of filibustering
a little like this, This press conference

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is only going to go for a
certain amount of time. If every answer

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he gives is like ten minutes long, maybe he can limit this press conference

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from being, you know, a
twenty question free for all. He can

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limit it to maybe like eleven questions
total. So I don't know if that

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was part of his strategy, if
there was any strategy, but that's what

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happened is I think the total number
of questions probably got reduced. It seems

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like maybe the total number of questions
would be reduced because just how long he

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took to answer everything, And some
of the questions were real dumb questions,

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like one guy from AFP. Some
foreign reporters said, what do you have?

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All these other countries in Europe are
terrified if you don't win the election.

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What can you tell them? If
Donald Trump wins the election, which

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is such a softball, would a
complete waste of time question? Now,

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I guess the thing though, that
sort of struck me. Was while I

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was bored for a lot of it, there was still this tension that I

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just don't know that he can survive
because of his obvious age, because of

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the obvious disaster that the debate was, which he referred to as my stupid

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mistake at the debate. It wasn't
a mistake at the debate. That's how

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he referred to his debate performance as
a stupid mistake. No, a stupid

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mistake is leaving the popcorn in the
microwave. To a stupid mistake is you

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know, heating up a bowl of
macaroni and cheese, but you left the

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spoon in the bowl of mac and
cheese and now there's a fire. That's

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a mistake. There was nothing that
was a mistake about his debate performance.

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He's just bad. He just wasn't
He was just clearly senile. That's not

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a mistake. It's not a whoopsie
day. It's not like his shoelaces were

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untied. But since his debate performance, there's just going to be this intense

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scrutiny of everything he does, and
every gap he makes is just gonna be

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another piece of evidence of Yeah,
this guy isn't with it, And so

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I had the sense the whole time
watching it of like it was almost like

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I was watching an extremely delicate brain
surgery or something where any mistake, any

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slip up by the surgeon would result
in disaster. Like people were framing it

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that way at the start of this
thing that Biden's whole political career was hinging

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could be hinging on this press conference. And I think that's the thing that's

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kind of I think is unsustainable for
the Democrats, is that every single thing

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Biden does in public where he doesn't
have a teleprompter is going to be a

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make it or break it moment.
At any minute, Biden could say or

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do something or have an appearance that
results in catastrophe for him. And that

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was my I guess that was my
big takeaway the whole time was I'm sitting

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there like at any I'm I'm like
on the edge of my seat for this

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man who is I don't think anyone's
been on the edge of their seat to

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listen to Joe Biden talk ever in
his life. I mean, the guy

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has been a blowhard from day one, since he was running for president nineteen

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eighty seven, since he was running
for Senate in nineteen seventy six. Like

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he is not a particularly insightful man. He is not a particularly intelligent man.

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He is not a particularly inspiring man. He's he was the most one

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of the more mediocre politicians in Washington
who always thought of himself as something great

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and has now gotten to this position
of being a president of the United States.

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I've just and but here I am
on the edge of my seat.

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Why because I could see a disaster
happening any minute, and I still think

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there's a distinct possibility of him having
to drop out. Why well, if

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the donors refuse to give, if
they're big money donors, refuse to fund

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a campaign that they where they don't
see a path to victory, if they

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are like this candidate Joe Biden is
senile and we will not fund his campaign,

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then that's the disaster scenario. I
mean, at a certain point,

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Ben Biden has to go. Okay, I mean presidential campaigns like this,

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they're hauling in something like two hundred
million dollars per month until the election,

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and they got to be spending that
much. They need money coming in because

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they got a lot of money going
out. And if Biden. If the

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donors sort of universally shut off that
faucet valve, that's that's the problem.

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And that's sort of what as ridiculous
as it is that George Clooney has become

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a major voice in all of this. George Clooney the worst batman ever.

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I shouldn't be mean to George Clay. My wife and I actually love all

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the Oceans movie, Oceans eleven,
Oceans, twelve Ocean things. We love

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all those movies. So I find
it hard to despise George Clooney too much,

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even though he's a big fat liberal. But what Clooney's op ed to

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the New York Times where he said, yeah, Biden looked about this bad

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at the Biden looked about this bad
at the fundraiser I threw for him with

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Obama, He's got to step down. Clooney's saying that is sort of representative

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of the donor class. I mean, that's the class that Clooney's tied in

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with. So that's a huge problem
for Biden. Now, I my last

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takeaway before I maybe shift away a
little bit from the press conference yesterday.

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There was one point at the end
where Biden is trying to give an answer

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about you know, someone asked him, you know you've acknowledged limitations. How

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can you continue to say you can
do the job if you've acknowledged that you

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have certain physical limitations. Biden then
says, no, no, no,

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I don't have any limitations, and
then proceeds to talk about his limitations,

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which basically involve, hey, let's
start events earlier. It's just like,

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well, why do you need to
start events earlier. That's a huge concession

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that, yes, you are limited. I just need to PRAI myself,

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praise myself. And at the end
of his answer, he says, by

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my staff, they always add things, they always add things. At the

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end, gonna catch hell from my
wife about that. And it was a

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very weird It was almost like he
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like ruefully talking. What does he
mean He's gonna catch hell from his wife

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because of all the stuff late at
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schedule. You know, because he's
president of the United States, he's got

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important stuff that needs to get dealt
with sometimes at eight o'clock at night.

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I'm gonna catch hell from my wife
for this. I was that is so,

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I mean, so it sort of
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his staff under the bus, which
clearly someone had coached him don't do that,

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because he made a big point of
that in his Stephanopolis interview after a

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bunch of pressed leak that he was
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to performance. And it sounds like
he's acknowledging. I mean, it's almost

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like he's acknowledging all these sort of
whispers and rumors and suppositions that people make.

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That is Jill Biden like really driving
the bus here. Like you would

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think that a concerned spouse would want
her ailing husband, her ailing and obviously

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aging husband, to take a step
back, but she clearly does not.

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All Right, when we return,
I want to talk about an interesting for

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Biden, an interesting analog, the
story of Bo Biden and his continuing to

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campaign for governor of Delaware even though
he had a serious cancer diagnosis. Next

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on the John Girardi Show, Let's
go back in history and talk about a

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sort of forgotten piece of Biden family
history. Let's go back to twenty fourteen.

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Now, in twenty fourteen, President
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was going to run for governor of
Delaware. He announced this in twenty fourteen.

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The election would be in twenty sixteen. He announced this, but then

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kind of disappeared in twenty fourteen,
wasn't seen making a lot of public appearances,

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even though he had sort of announced, Hey, I'm planning to run

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for governor. And obviously, if
Joe Biden's son is wanting to run for

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governor of Delaware, that's a big
deal. Biden was the vice president at

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the time. Biden was a legend
in Delaware politics. He had been a

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Senator representing Delaware for thirty six years
or something before he became the vice president.

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That's a significant thing. And Bo
had an impressive background military veteran,

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you know, seemingly not as much
of a screw up as his brother Hunter.

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So Bo announces in twenty fourteen that
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but then he kind of disappears from
public life, and a lot of people

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were sort of puzzle like, where
is he. The Biden camp insisted that

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this lack of appearances was not serious. He was actually ramping up his work

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and what was happening. Well,
Bo had been diagnosed with very serious cancer

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and was dealing with it, and
the Biden folks did not tell anyone this

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man who announced that he's running for
governor and it's twenty fifteen, a year

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before the governor's election. They didn't
even concede that he was seeking medical attention

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until two weeks before he died in
twenty fifteen. So there's stories going back

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from February of twenty fourteen where basically
people were asking about his Bo's health.

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No one's saying anything, claims that
he had a clean bill of health.

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In twenty fourteen, he gets hospitalized
and he declined all these interview requests about

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his health and his political future.
He was telling people, no, no,

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no, I'm good. I got
lucky. Then after Bo's death,

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the Biden's revealed he had glile blastoma, a cancer with a five year survival

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rate of seven percent and an average
survival time of twelve to eighteen months after

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diagnosis, and that he likely was
diagnosed no later than twenty thirteen. In

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twenty seventeen, Joe Biden went on
the view and he's talking with Megan McCain

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and it's this kind of weepy interview
because Biden's talking about his son Bo,

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and Megan is talking about her dad, John McCain, who had passed away,

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and Biden had been friendly with John
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Senate together forever. And this is, honestly this kind of interviews stuff.

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This is where Joe Biden set sort
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presidential run, because he comes off
in this as you know, here's Megan

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McCain crying about her dad and he's
crying about his son. He comes off

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as very you know, sort of
approachable, but he talks about it in

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this clip, and gosh, he
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he does today. He's talking in
this clip about Bo continuing to run for

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governor of Delaware through his illness as
if it's this very inspiring story. And

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I think at the time in twenty
seventeen, when there were no sort of

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stakes attached to it and it was
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point, everyone was sort of oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's

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nice, how inspiring he continued to
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But a lot of stuff has happened
since that. Well, now we've got

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Joe Biden as President of the United
States and his health failing or at the

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very least he's aging, And for
me, my assessment of this just personally

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has changed. Okay, So my
dad, as many of you listened to

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the show, my dad, doctor
Joji, already passed away back in March.

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He had been diagnosed with bladder cancer
about three years ago, and in

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March of twenty twenty three he had
a procedure where we learned previously unbeknownst to

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all of us, that my dad's
cancer had spread very aggressively to a bunch

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of other parts of his body,
and the cancer was such that it hadn't

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appeared in any scans or any blood
tests or anything like that. So it

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was this huge shock to our family
in March of twenty twenty three when we

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learned that my dad had this,
you know, very aggressive cancer and that

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his you know, five year prognot
was about as bad as bo Biden's was,

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and my dad would proceed to only
live for one more year after we

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learned that. So we learned that
in March of twenty twenty three, and

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he passed away in March of twenty
twenty four. And I just think seeing

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my dad and the and obviously,
you know, brain cancer is different from

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bladder cancer that my dad was dealing
with. But I mean my dad retired

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from work right after that. I
mean, he realized he couldn't continue working

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consistently. You know, he would
come into Vali. So my dad was

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a surgeon of Valley Children's Hospital.
You know, he would come to Valley

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Children's for presentations or things like that
and stuff educational stuff for the residents.

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But he didn't. He stopped having
a consistent schedule of sorty. He officially

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retired. And I just think like
if my mom had encouraged or forced or

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God forbid forced him to keep working
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I would have been, Mom,
are you insane? And it makes me

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wonder, like what is with the
Biden family. They kept encouraging both seemingly.

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Did they keep encouraging bo to keep
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he knew he was gonna die of
cancer. They keep encouraging Joe to run

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for president when it's clear he's failing
at the very least, Maybe just say

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I'm going to be a one term
president and that's it. And even in

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the press, conference. He talked
about that he gave these very implausible reasons

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for why he decided he wouldn't be
a transitional president, which is what he

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had said during the campaign, which
some thought in the in the twenty twenty

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campaign, he had said something about
maybe wanting to be a transitional president,

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which a lot of people thought was
a signal of I'm only to serve for

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one term. And his explanation for
why that change just seemed implausible. Well,

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I've got to finish the job.
I've got it, and it all

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seemed focused on him. He's the
best one to finish the job, which

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is just that just doesn't It just
seemed so implausible. Anyway, the bo

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Biden health thing seems like a very
odd, weird parallel when we return no

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to another Clovis unified bond next on
the John Gerardi Show. I feel like

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one of my callings as a commentator
on local politics is to be an apostle

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against bond measures. I think this
is one of my I want this to

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be my calling card in local politics
is consistent advocacy against the very concept of

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the bond measure. The bond measure
as a vehicle of government funding. It

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is the absolute favorite. It's it's
something that California loves in spite of the

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fact that at a statewide level,
our bond plus pension debt is at something

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astronomical like one point six trillion dollars
over time that we have to pay off

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in bond and pension debt that we
owe. But especially at the local level,

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in the local scene, President Unified, Clovis, Unified, Central,

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Unified. School districts love bond measures. They love bond measures, and school

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districts always have kind of an upper
hand in getting bond measures past. They

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you know, they have the apparatus
of the school not totally at their disposal,

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but you know, kind of there
are ways that you can can utilize

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the infrastructure of a school to help
promote a bond measure in a way of

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a whole school district, and how
many parents send their kids to the public

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school district within the school district's boundaries
most of the parents do. There are

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ways that they can utilize the infrastructure
of a school district in order to promote

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the passage of a bond. And
it's always something that's going to be appealing

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to local developers and builders and construction
companies. They like big government construction contracts

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that they can hop onto. So
all of these business interests tend to align

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towards bond measures and promoting bond measures. Now, what is a bond?

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What is a bond? I think
a lot of times people hear about a

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bond measure and they don't actually understand
what it is. So here's the story

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about it. Why am I talking
about this? Clovis Unified. Clovis Unified

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says it needs a four hundred million
dollar bond for high school and other projects.

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Here are the details story by Laura
Diaz and the Fresno b Clovis voters

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might be deciding whether to approve a
multi million dollar bond measure to help pay

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to finish some construction projects and keep
up with maintenance, including bringing district buildings

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up to code. District representatives said
ongoing construction at new school sites such as

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the new Clovis South High might be
left undone if the bond measure is listed

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in the November ballot but doesn't pass. So this is a four hundred million

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dollars bond measure. But what is
a bond? Let's explain. A bond

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is a loan it is a loan
to some municipal or governmental and a school

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district, a state, a community
college district, et cetera. So,

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as with most loans, as with
essentially all loans, if it is in

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fact a loan rather than a gift, as with all loans, you have

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to pay it back, and as
with most loans, you have to pay

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it back with interest. Now,
how does a governmental entity pay back a

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loan? Not with its own money. Governmental entities don't have their own money.

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They get money from the taxpayers.
That's where they get money. And

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where for school district bond measures,
where does that money come from? It

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comes from your property taxes. So
your property taxes includes baked into it a

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certain percentage that is there to pay
off several different iterations of Let's say you

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live in within the boundaries of Clovis
Unified. For example, if you live

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within the boundaries of Clovis Unified,
there I think at least two bond measures

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that you're paying for still through your
property taxes. Why. Well, because

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most bond measures have a thirty year
repayment schedule with interest. So Clovis Unified

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has passed bond measure. You know, maybe they passed one bond measure twenty

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years ago. They passed another bond
measure in well, they passed one bond

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measure in twenty twenty. They passed
another bond measure. I think back around

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twenty ten or twenty eleven or something
like that. And there was probably another

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bond measure back in two thousand that
were still around two thousand that we're still

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paying for because Clovis Unified tends to
do this, They tend to do another

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bond measure to fund a bunch of
stuff every year every ten years or so.

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Rather so we just keep paying and
paying and paying. And here's the

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thing. When you pay back alone
with interest, how much do you pay

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back? It's a four. So
it always gets billed as this is a

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four hundred million dollar bond measure for
Clovis High for Clovis Unified. Four hundred

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million dollars for Clovis Unified. Wow, so wonderful we get four hundred million

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dollars spend on updating our schools.
Everyone loves schools, right, four hundred

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million dollars. If you just vote
yes, you just vote yes, and

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four hundred million dollars magically falls from
the sky. Well, they forget to

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tell you what what should be included
frankly, in every and in every story

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about a bond measure. What should
be included is not just the dollar amount

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that the school district gets. What
should be included in every single story is

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how how much interest the taxpayers are
going to pay? Because guess what,

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with interest rates as high as they
are right now, I guarantee you if

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it's a four hundred million dollar bond
measure, that Close Unified is going to

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get four hundred million dollars worth of
benefits from the taxpayers are going to have

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to pay eight hundred million dollars because
that's how interest works. Interest over the

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course of thirty years. You're not
It's not like Close Unified gets four hundred

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million and the taxpayers pay four hundred
million. No, it's a loan.

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It has interest. You have to
pay the interest on top of the principle,

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and over thirty years with interest rates
as high as they are right now,

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I mean they're interest rates as high
as eight percent right now. If

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you have for a thirty year loan, if you have an interest rate of

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even six percent, you're paying double. Okay, the interest is the same

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size is just as great as the
principle, you might be paying more an

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interest than in principle. And this
is why I despise the bond system so

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much. It is a It is
a sneaky way for politicians to try to

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say, Look, it'll just be
a tiny little increase, a tiny little

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increase in your property taxes, just
a tiny fraction of a percentage increase in

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your property taxes, and we'll get
four hundred million dollars. No, that

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tiny increase in my property taxes over
the course of thirty years is going to

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pay for eight hundred million dollars.
So we're gonna spend eight hundred million dollars

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to give Clovis Unified four hundred million
dollars worth of improvements. That's what we're

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doing now. The other thing they
try to say is, well, we're

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going to structure it in a way
that doesn't increase your taxes. And they

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say this with a straight face,
without any other explanation. No, no,

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no, we've structured it. It's
not going to increase your taxes at

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all. And what they mean is
that basically they're just extending out farther the

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amount of time that we're paying for
bond measure payments in our existing property taxes,

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so basically extending the term that we
have to keep paying extra in our

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property taxes. So that's how they
get away with saying, oh, because

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I remember hearing ads like this,
Oh, vote for this bond measure for

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clothes Unified. It'll raise four hundred
million dollars and it doesn't raise taxes at

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all. I'm like, that's not
how money works. Money doesn't just magically

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appear out of nowhere. There's no
way that four hundred million dollars just magically

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appears without someone paying it. And
that's what they mean is basically they're just

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extending it, whereas before we would
just stop paying extra in our property taxes

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because some prior ballid initiative bond measures
term expired. Basically, they just keep

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riding this gravy train forever and just
let your complacency with the up. That's

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just what property taxes are, yep. That's just what property taxes are here

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here in the Clovis areapyep. They
just let your complacency do the work for

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them and say, well, we're
not increasing taxes, yeah, but you're

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increasing the duration that we have to
keep paying these stupid taxes, the existing

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taxes that exist with no letup.
So again, when this comes up now,

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when we return, and I want
to talk about when this comes up,

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just remember, a bond is a
loan, it's a loon you have

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to repay with interest. If it's
a four hundred million dollar bond measure,

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it means we're taxed eight hundred million
dollars to pay for it. When we

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return, I want to talk about
the phony, baloney reasons for why allegedly

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we need this four hundred million dollar
bond that's next on the John Girardi Show.

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Clovis Unified is already beating the drum
for another four hundred million dollar bond

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initiative to be put on the ballot
this November. And I am continuing my

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my campaign, my lifelong crusade against
the concept of the bond measure as a

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funding mechanism for local government. I
think it's an idiotic thing to do.

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It's going to cost US eight hundred
million dollars in taxes to get four hundred

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million dollars worth of benefit. Because
that's what a bond is. A bond

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is a loan to a municipal entity. It's a loan that the taxpayers have

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to pay back with interest, and
with interest rates as high as they are

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for a loan that's going to have
a thirty year term of repayment, we're

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probably gonna wind up paying over eight
hundred million dollars to get four hundred million

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dollars worth of benefit. It's an
incredibly inefficient way of funding things, but

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it's a thing that school districts like
because they can sell it to taxpayers with

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a bunch of phony bologny arguments like, oh, it won't increase your taxes

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because you're already paying for a bunch
of prior stupid bond measures that we already

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passed, and we'll just have you
continue paying these till Kingdom come rather than

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ever letting the terms of prior bond
measures just expire so that your property taxes

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could actually go down sometime. Fancy
that. No, no, no,

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we'll just continue to have your property
taxes be high. Now here's some of

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the reasons why why allegedly do we
need a four hundred million dollars bond measure

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to help pay to finish According to
the Fresno Bee story, to help pay

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to finish some construction projects and keep
up with maintenance, including bringing district buildings

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up to code. District representatives said
ongoing construction at new school sites such as

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the new Clovis South High might be
left undone if the bond measure is listed

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in the November ballot but does not
pass. And they're talking about Clovis South

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High School. So we if we
don't pass a four hundred million dollar bond

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measure, and this is always what
happens, Clovis Unified says, Oh,

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if we don't pass this, here's
all these things that won't happen, and

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they're holding a gun to your head, so you have to vote for this

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stupid thing. Ongoing maintenance. Why
isn't the normal budget paying for this?

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Why isn't normal revenue paying for ongoing
maintenance and bringing classroom buildings up to code.

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That should just be part of normal
maintenance. You shouldn't need to pass

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another bond initiative to pay for it. Secondly, to finish construction on Clovis

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South, why did we start construction
on Clovis South without a sense that we

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had the tax pay that we had
the tax revenue necessary to finish it.

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We just had a bond initiative that
passed in twenty twenty. We need to

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do another bond measure for close Unified
in twenty twenty four. I mean,

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for God's sakes, usually Clovis Unified
at least as the decency to wait ten

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years four years. So no,
I refuse to pay for things like this.

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If you're starting a new high school, you shouldn't start it until you

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know you're gonna have the revenues to
pay for it. Absolutely not vote no

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on any bond measures. Sick and
tired of bond measures. That'll do it

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for John Gerardy Show. See you
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