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Speaker 1: what's going on next Tuesday, the general election. And as
Speaker 1: was well anticipated, the Republicans, especially Donald Trump, is already
Speaker 1: claiming fraud, already claiming that if he loses, the election
Speaker 1: is rigged. He cannot lose without a rigged election. He
Speaker 1: says that the only free election in this country is
Speaker 1: if he wins, and he's got a whole lot of people.
Speaker 1: This is where the detractors of Donald Trump are saying
Speaker 1: that he is a risk to the democracy of this country.
Speaker 1: Here's what Basically the reason is the one that resonates
Speaker 1: to me in a big way. I mean the personal stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't like him because as an individual and I
Speaker 1: find him I don't think he is fit personality wise,
Speaker 1: moral compass wise to be the president. But the argument
Speaker 1: that he is a risk to democracy makes sense because
Speaker 1: of what Trump and his followers have done. So many
Speaker 1: people in this country do not believe there are fair
Speaker 1: elections anymore, that our democracy is gone, and elections are
Speaker 1: the most secure we have ever had because of the
Speaker 1: backlash of these attacks. The elections are the safest, the
Speaker 1: most secure we've had in the history of the United States.
Speaker 1: Yet they are rigged. And I'll tell you where it's
Speaker 1: really coming down ground zero in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is a
Speaker 1: make or break and whoever wins Pennsylvania probably wins the presidency.
Speaker 1: So let's look at some of the posts and some
Speaker 1: of the conspiracy theories that are now flying around. Nuns
Speaker 1: in Erie, Pennsylvania are being accused of perpetrating voter fraud. Nuns,
Speaker 1: there is a suburban Philadelphia election line snaffoo. There was
Speaker 1: a line snaffoo, and that's being amplified across the world.
Speaker 1: Under half an hour and on Tuesday a rally, Trump
Speaker 1: declared quote, they have already started cheating. In Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: and across Pennsylvania, local and state officials are warning that
Speaker 1: Trump and his supporters calling into question the integrity of
Speaker 1: the election already is a huge risk. And this is
Speaker 1: before a single ballot has been counted. As I said
Speaker 1: earlier before the election, one hundred and thirty lawsuits have
Speaker 1: already been filed. I mean, it is devastating, by the way,
Speaker 1: as far as the rigging of the previous election, when
Speaker 1: Joe Biden won and still the majority of Republicans, seventy
Speaker 1: four percent of Republicans still believe it was rigged. My
Speaker 1: question has always been to them, how did those lawsuits
Speaker 1: get past sixty four judges? How did that work? The
Speaker 1: Democrats are that smart? How did they convince every single government,
Speaker 1: every single state government, fifty of them to certify the elections.
Speaker 1: Are the Democrats that smart? And if they are, we'll
Speaker 1: stop right now. We've got Kamala Harris as president. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you right now. If the Democrats are that smart,
Speaker 1: of course they're not. Republican Secretary of Pennsylvania, the top
Speaker 1: election official, Al Schmith, Republican Republican really conservative, said in
Speaker 1: the previous twenty four hours, there have been several widely
Speaker 1: disseminated videos that were out completely out of context or
Speaker 1: were outright lies. Here's the quote. Sharing social posts filled
Speaker 1: with half truths or even outright lies is harmful to
Speaker 1: our representative democracy. That's the issue where the risk to
Speaker 1: our democracy is. And he added, voters should get information
Speaker 1: from trusted sources. Well, let's trusted sources. The Internet info wars.
Speaker 1: That's where trusted sources are. The major news outlets are
Speaker 1: not trusted, the major networks not trusted, the major newspapers
Speaker 1: not trusted, the major services reuters not trusted. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: You have to go from trust to sources. And there's
Speaker 1: no such thing as trust the sources anymore. Mainstream it
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. And that's Trump. That is Trump. And I
Speaker 1: don't care what side of it is you're on. You
Speaker 1: tell me that Trump did not start this. He absolutely did.
Speaker 1: And Schmidt as other authorities are worrying that the attacks
Speaker 1: will erode faith in our system of representative governments. And
Speaker 1: of course it's setting the stage for some really fierce
Speaker 1: like legal challenges after the election, much less one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty that have already been filed, which by the way,
Speaker 1: some are legitimate. That's the problem. There are some legitimate
Speaker 1: lawsuits that have been filed attacking the voting process in
Speaker 1: very technical issues. But now that's expanded to fraud is
Speaker 1: happening all over Pennsylvania, widespread fraud. It's being rigged by
Speaker 1: the Democrats. Why wouldn't it be why do the Democrats
Speaker 1: only rig this? By the way, why woudn't the Republicans
Speaker 1: rig the election? Two to go making sure that Trump wins.
Speaker 1: Republicans are honest and Democrats are They're, you know, all dishonest,
Speaker 1: including the Republican election officials, which at least there are
Speaker 1: at least half of them are Republican. Democrats have convinced
Speaker 1: them to rig the election. I would think that some
Speaker 1: Republicans would argue that asking the Democratic officials to rig
Speaker 1: the election for Kamala Harris, but that does not happening.
Speaker 1: That doesn't exist now Pennsylvanian and the argument that the
Speaker 1: election has been rigged already by the Democrats. Trump has
Speaker 1: already said that it is a rigged election, and one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty lawsuits have already been filed, and now
Speaker 1: keep in mind that's before Tuesday. After Tuesday, you're going
Speaker 1: to see hundreds more filed, but only in battleground states
Speaker 1: and only in counties where Trump loses, and in those
Speaker 1: counties it is rigged. That's not to say it's not
Speaker 1: rigged all over the country, but it doesn't. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: file a lawsuit in a county where it didn't matter
Speaker 1: or Trump had won. And it's really tough Pennsylvania. By
Speaker 1: the way, he had one of the most the biggest
Speaker 1: number of lawsuits in twenty twenty, but that occurred afterwards.
Speaker 1: And by the way, as I've said, every single one
Speaker 1: of those was deemed frivolous by the courts. Lawnie lost
Speaker 1: his law license because of his lies. John Eastman, who
Speaker 1: was responsible for that ridiculous attempt or argument that Mike
Speaker 1: Pence could stop the election by failing to count the votes.
Speaker 1: He lost his law license, and they're looking at criminal
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's been indicted yet or not.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. And so here's what's going on.
Speaker 1: This is a quote on truth Social that happened Wednesday morning, yesterday.
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania is cheating, getting caught at large scale levels rarely
Speaker 1: seen before, and demands an immediate law enforcement intervention. By
Speaker 1: the way, foreign operatives are also playing a role in this.
Speaker 1: In the Pennsylvania issue, for example, there is a recent footage,
Speaker 1: viral footage showing a person destroying mail in ballots, obviously
Speaker 1: destroying Trump ballots. That's a given, and that was a
Speaker 1: hoax created by Russia. Russia wants to see disruption in
Speaker 1: the United States. And so you have a lot of
Speaker 1: claims in Pennsylvania circulating on x There's an election integrity
Speaker 1: community launched by a pack that was created by Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: and it's for people to share suspected fraud. There's one
Speaker 1: that's gone crazy Alex Jones, right conspiracy theorists. And there
Speaker 1: is a report of a bus of non English speaking
Speaker 1: citizens fast tracked to the front of voting lines. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, there is no voting at this point other
Speaker 1: than mail in. I don't think polls are open in
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania yet. Conservative activists Scott Presler shared a video an
Speaker 1: official speaking at a public meeting about a batch of
Speaker 1: last minute voter applications and here is and those should
Speaker 1: be investigated. Well, guess what the district attorney did investigate
Speaker 1: and say none of those were fraudulent. The point is,
Speaker 1: these allegations are being investigated and the election officials are
Speaker 1: doing their job. So here's what's happening. You have Trump
Speaker 1: supporters arguing, here's fraud. It should be investigated. This is
Speaker 1: the Elon musk, It should be investigated, leaving out that
Speaker 1: it was investigated and deemed legitimate. Okay, I don't even
Speaker 1: know what to do with that. Now, there was a question,
Speaker 1: legitimate question, a complaint about county workers in Bucks County
Speaker 1: closing down the line too early, and it raced across
Speaker 1: social media, and of course, and it was investigated, and
Speaker 1: Buck's officials said it was a miscommunication because people lined
Speaker 1: up to apply for on demand mail ballots briefly told
Speaker 1: they could not be accommodated because the lines were too long,
Speaker 1: and they got all of the votes in. They got
Speaker 1: their ballots, and of course the argument is they couldn't
Speaker 1: get them, and leave out the fact it was investigated
Speaker 1: and they did get them. Now, there's also an investigation
Speaker 1: of twenty five hundred possible fraudulent voter resident registration applications
Speaker 1: that was submitted to the election board. The workers notified
Speaker 1: there were irregularities as in boxes were not checked off.
Speaker 1: I am an American citizen and they're checking if those
Speaker 1: boxes are not checked off, which are not allowed to
Speaker 1: count those votes, and so now there's a question of
Speaker 1: was that simply a minor problem where the vote should
Speaker 1: be counted? There's a lawsuit going on and are should
Speaker 1: they be counted? Should they not be counted? And that
Speaker 1: is I think a legitimate lawsuit. But those votes have
Speaker 1: those ballots have been segregated while the investigation is going on.
Speaker 1: What is going on when there is a legitimate argument.
Speaker 1: The cops are investigating, the election officials are investigating. And
Speaker 1: at this point, is there any widespread fraud? Absolutely not,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. And the one where there's any question, the
Speaker 1: investigation starts with the election officials and law enforcement. But
Speaker 1: that's widespread fraud. And by the way, what you have
Speaker 1: twenty five hundred votes right the ballots that said I
Speaker 1: am a US citizen cross it off And there is
Speaker 1: some kind of question as to even when they do
Speaker 1: cross off. Isn't non American citizens that are claiming that
Speaker 1: they are are citizens being investigated? Why is it only
Speaker 1: the Democrats do that? No Republicans wouldever lie on a ballot. Ever,
Speaker 1: no Republicans should be counted because there are none that
Speaker 1: do that. Only Democrats are cheating. It's that crazy, and
Speaker 1: the fear is that our election process and doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how safe it is, it doesn't matter if Trump loses.
Speaker 1: It is rigged. And you're going to see Republicans all
Speaker 1: over the country who have lost. They're going to go
Speaker 1: forward with that Mantra, governor of Arizona last time out,
Speaker 1: who lost to a Democrat. Right, the Democrat, the Republican
Speaker 1: candidate rigged election. I should have won. Well, you didn't
Speaker 1: have the votes. It doesn't matter. It was rigged why
Speaker 1: I lost the election. Oh god, it is so scary.
Speaker 1: I hate that. Hate that, hate that. All right, Uh
Speaker 1: now I want to move to what's going on with
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. And the reason I'm doing that is
Speaker 1: because no, you know what, Yeah, here's what. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. What's going on with the Court? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I was a little confused about what topic we're going
Speaker 1: to do. And let me tell you the numbers. First
Speaker 1: of all, we start with the number of Supreme Court justices.
Speaker 1: We have nine, by the way, that's not in the constitution.
Speaker 1: We get a many as we want. Nine actually was
Speaker 1: created in the eighteen sixties. Before that, we bounced around
Speaker 1: with numbers and the Supreme Court. Here's what's wrong with it.
Speaker 1: It's a lifetime appointment, and it's not supposed to be political.
Speaker 1: Because it's a lifetime appointment. These Supreme Court justices should
Speaker 1: not be influenced by politics. Going backwards and forwards, I
Speaker 1: think those days are still here gone. You tell me
Speaker 1: that the three last justices that were appointed by Trump,
Speaker 1: which by the way, is totally legitimate, are not politics,
Speaker 1: were not involved, and the overturning of Roe was not involved.
Speaker 1: Of course it was. Now people and liberals are up
Speaker 1: in arms. Oh my god, it's political. It's horrible. It's terrible.
Speaker 1: Read the constitution. President nominates, Senate confirms, and if you
Speaker 1: have a president of one party and the Senate of
Speaker 1: the same party, you have a confirmation. Bitch and moan
Speaker 1: all you want, because there were times when the Court
Speaker 1: was insanely liberal, when you had Thurgood Marshall, when you
Speaker 1: had William O. Douglas. Douglas put on the court, I
Speaker 1: mean you talk about First Amendment. I've told this story
Speaker 1: many times. There was a case or cases of pornography
Speaker 1: and Douglas and they showed those films to the court
Speaker 1: to look at what was pornography and what wasn't. They
Speaker 1: actually had screenings in front of the Court of Porno.
Speaker 1: Douglas wouldn't even go. I don't care. It's all protected
Speaker 1: by the First Amendment. Third, Good Marshall, the first black
Speaker 1: Supreme Court justice, who was a lead attorney in Brown
Speaker 1: versus Board of Education, he would always go because he
Speaker 1: just happened to love Porno and he would be running
Speaker 1: to the place where they screened those And by the way,
Speaker 1: that was that was that came out of the Brethren,
Speaker 1: a book that Woodward and Bernstein wrote, which I believe
Speaker 1: every word of it because they're the ones that broke
Speaker 1: the Watergate case. And so the court is political, and
Speaker 1: the problem is that usually the justices are nominated and
Speaker 1: confirmed in their fifties. So when a president cident makes
Speaker 1: a nomination, when a president nominates and it's confirmed, that
Speaker 1: goes on for thirty or thirty five years. The legacy
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump is not going to be his presidency.
Speaker 1: The legacy is going to be that he put three
Speaker 1: justices on the Supreme Court who are insanely conservative. But
Speaker 1: that is his right, that is the Constitution. I don't
Speaker 1: like those three justices. I'm in favor of Roe v. Wade,
Speaker 1: but you know, how much pitching can I do about that?
Speaker 1: Is there a way to undo all of that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The argument which makes sense to me. Justices have twelve
Speaker 1: year terms. That's it. And then then that space is
Speaker 1: re nominated. And if you're going to have a Democrat,
Speaker 1: as far as it goes now, you're going to have
Speaker 1: a liberal justice. If you're going to have a Republican,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a conservative justice. I mean, is
Speaker 1: that an answer? Yeah, it is. So the only thing
Speaker 1: in the Constitution is we have a Supreme Court nominated
Speaker 1: by the President, confirmed by the Senate, and interpret the
Speaker 1: law of the land. By the way, that was up
Speaker 1: in the air too. Did you know that until eighteen
Speaker 1: oh three that established the power Supreme Court case called
Speaker 1: Marbury versus Madison. That's just a fact that is completely
Speaker 1: useless that I just wanted to throw in there. Asked
Speaker 1: me what I had last night for dinner. I don't
Speaker 1: have the foggiest notion. Asked me what our last segment was.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But you can look up Marbury versus
Speaker 1: Madison and you'll see the powers of the Supreme Court delineated. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's what companies are doing, and that is they're firing
Speaker 1: people for little, tiny infractions. Now, you wouldn't think if
Speaker 1: you steal a package of paper clips, for example, can
Speaker 1: a company fire you for that? Absolutely, that's cause you
Speaker 1: take a credit card. I mean that one's a little ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But there's some real stuff happening made up for a meta.
Speaker 1: Employees were fired for spending twenty five dollars meal allowances
Speaker 1: allowances for their own stuff buying at Kroger. Now you
Speaker 1: take an employee and do you fire him for that
Speaker 1: as opposed to just writing him or her up? You
Speaker 1: bet when you want to get rid of that employee.
Speaker 1: Why are they doing that, I'll tell you why. They
Speaker 1: can lay off that employee unless there's a contract, or
Speaker 1: unless there's some policy, you can be laid off. But
Speaker 1: that means that there's some financial issues going on with
Speaker 1: the company. And all of a sudden, you have the market,
Speaker 1: you have customers looking at there's something wrong here, or
Speaker 1: business goes down, or because of the pandemic, there was
Speaker 1: that incredible rush afterwards to hire everybody, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, we got too many people here. So do
Speaker 1: you fire them? No? Yes? Do you lay them off? No? No?
Speaker 1: You fire them for cause, because that is legitimate, that
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with how good your business is
Speaker 1: doing or not. And that way you get unwanted in employees.
Speaker 1: And by the way, when they file for they file
Speaker 1: for unemployment, firing for cause they don't collect unemployment. What
Speaker 1: is cause, well, stealing paper clips, maybe that's cause because
Speaker 1: you've stolen from the company or meta for example, taking
Speaker 1: your twenty five dollars meal allowance and spending it for
Speaker 1: stuff other than meals. There is a company that is
Speaker 1: a real interesting company called payhowk and Payhawk. What it
Speaker 1: does is pay attention to companies who hire them and
Speaker 1: for example, credit cards for lunch. If they go over
Speaker 1: a certain limit, immediately they're declined and the company is
Speaker 1: told and in real time they can say no in
Speaker 1: the company. They don't have to walk, They don't even
Speaker 1: have to worry till at the end of the month
Speaker 1: when the report is made. It happens right now. So
Speaker 1: and this is happening more and more and more for small, tiny,
Speaker 1: little infractions, because it makes sense. It's not the infraction
Speaker 1: per se, it's all the financial reasons reasons around it.
Speaker 1: So here at iHeart, I don't know of anybody who's
Speaker 1: been fired for stealing. There may be, and it depends,
Speaker 1: obviously on the level of stealing. I will tell you
Speaker 1: that when I took pencils and pens and paper clips,
Speaker 1: no one boy bothered me. When I set up my
Speaker 1: office my home studio, and I walked out the door
Speaker 1: with microphones, equipment, speakers, computers, no one bothered me. Uh
Speaker 1: but that's iHeart good place to work. They're not going
Speaker 1: to screw with you. Neil you ever come on, I've
Speaker 1: seen you walk out with monitors and no one cares. Yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm looking at my microphone right now. You
Speaker 1: know how they engrave. You know the name of the company.
Speaker 1: You know there it is iHeartMedia right there on the microphone.
Speaker 1: I didn't get fired. The point I'm making, obviously, is
Speaker 1: it makes a whole lot of sense for a company
Speaker 1: that wants to get rid of someone, a company that
Speaker 1: wants to contract employees, and the best way to do it,
Speaker 1: as far as the company is concerned, is to not
Speaker 1: lay them off, fire them for cause on stealing and
Speaker 1: stealing can be any number of things. Meals at the office.
Speaker 1: If you're working late and all of a sudden you're
Speaker 1: spending too much, or you're taking the meal later on
Speaker 1: after you go home. And also there's a real effect
Speaker 1: on the company's remaining employees, and they're looking at a
Speaker 1: coworker being fired for spending thirty five dollars instead of
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. And one of one person who was
Speaker 1: fired described it this way. It's like you're driving down
Speaker 1: a street every day with a thirty mile per hour
Speaker 1: speed limit and no one bothers you, and you're driving
Speaker 1: thirty seven forty miles an hour regularly and nobody cares,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, one day you're pulled over
Speaker 1: and you get a ticket, and the cops all of
Speaker 1: us sudden, are nailing you for But you didn't bother
Speaker 1: me yesterday. You've seen me go across here the entire year. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, in the case of the cops, we have
Speaker 1: to make our quota and you happen to be there
Speaker 1: by the way. The police will say there's never a quota.
Speaker 1: You know that, don't you. They say that doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: And do I believe the police, you know, I'm so
Speaker 1: pro cop, not a chance. I think there are quota
Speaker 1: systems up and down, the system up and down. The
Speaker 1: police hierarchy. All right, guys, we're done with that, all right.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to throw that at you, because paper
Speaker 1: clips don't steal them around here. By the way, Neil,
Speaker 1: you were in management here for a while. Okay, what
Speaker 1: was the policy was there if you take paper clips
Speaker 1: or pencils or whatever sort of You know, I understand
Speaker 1: if you steal there's obviously you can be fi eric
Speaker 1: for cause. But how much did they enforce it while
Speaker 1: you were in management? How much did you enforce it?
Speaker 2: I don't recall a whole lot of thievery. I think
Speaker 2: probably around the pandemic, some toilet paper went missing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, by the way, but good point.
Speaker 2: I don't remember, you know, any any cases were large
Speaker 2: enough to to react to.
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