Speaker 1: Five o five at fifty five r C Detalk Station,
Speaker 1: Happy Wednesday, the vacation and that's the way the news
Speaker 1: goes Yeah or doesn't, as the case may be, depending
Speaker 1: upon your perception of the top of the iron is right,
Speaker 1: Joe right, I was right here, Joe Trecker. Glad to
Speaker 1: see him in there where he belongs. The executive production booth.
Speaker 1: Jack Abden always loves seeing Jack's name on the rundown,
Speaker 1: and it happens every Wednesday of late the Trump's Biblical Cabinet. Wow,
Speaker 1: Jack Etherdan's going to be explaining himself at seven oh
Speaker 1: five on that one. Is there something biblical about Drum's cabinet?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we'll see what Jack has to
Speaker 1: say about it. I always appreciate his thoughtful insights and commentary.
Speaker 1: Brilliant man he is. So it's just a wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 1: addition to have him on the fifty five Casey Morning Show.
Speaker 1: My feeling about it anyway, and Climont County Veteran Services
Speaker 1: joins the program at seven forty. Always have great things
Speaker 1: to pass along and information to pass along to veterans
Speaker 1: and the veteran families. Today at seven forty. We'll be
Speaker 1: doing just that. And I'm really not to discount Jack
Speaker 1: at the other day or the Climont County veterans, but
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to eight oh five Alex Chionta Filo.
Speaker 1: He'll be commenting on things political. Ohio did great, Hamilton
Speaker 1: County not so much. I'm guessing those are the words
Speaker 1: of Joe Strekker on the rundown, stating the obvious. I
Speaker 1: just think of my wife's reaction before I went to
Speaker 1: bed on election. I certainly not knowing what the outcome
Speaker 1: of of the vast majority of the election is going
Speaker 1: to be, but having pretty much all the Hamilton County
Speaker 1: races completely called by that point in seeing that Hamilton
Speaker 1: County has gone full on one hundred percent blue. We
Speaker 1: lost Hamilton County prosecutor powers, we didn't get Sheriff Jim Neal,
Speaker 1: and then go around all the other races. It is
Speaker 1: just over my lifetime. I had the conversation just yesterday
Speaker 1: with someone about that, how is it that Hamilton County
Speaker 1: has gotten so damn blue? And my thought was, I
Speaker 1: guess people just left. You know, our population increases, the
Speaker 1: world is a much bigger place now we've got a
Speaker 1: lot more people in it, you know, physically bigger, but
Speaker 1: at least in terms of number of people, and over time,
Speaker 1: people you know, expand move. They want to build a
Speaker 1: bigger house on a bigger lot. They go out of
Speaker 1: Hamilton County and take their money and their conservative politics
Speaker 1: with them. Congratulations Claremont County, Butler County and Warren County. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Alex will comment on that, but inside baseball, will he
Speaker 1: tell us who JD. Van's replacement will be? Does he
Speaker 1: have any insight on that? About the State House? Is
Speaker 1: that your question, Joe? All of them are yours? How
Speaker 1: about no, I'm just gonna answer your question that will
Speaker 1: they be constituent friendly? Will the cats in Columbus be herded?
Speaker 1: Will they get on the same page? And what, if anything,
Speaker 1: can we do in Hamilton County? Of course, going back
Speaker 1: to the initial overarching conversation topics with Alex Chirantifido again
Speaker 1: eightoh five for that, and then a really wild episode
Speaker 1: with Judge Edna Polatano his column three cheers for Hunter's pardon.
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna wonder why Judge and Polatona might be
Speaker 1: happy about the pardon, And I don't know these are
Speaker 1: happy about the partner. He's happy about the discussion that
Speaker 1: he hopes will spring from it. Are you're going to
Speaker 1: have to go hardcore constitutional conservatism. The limitations on the
Speaker 1: federal government that are in bold letters in the Constitution.
Speaker 1: But the power of the federal government has gotten so
Speaker 1: big in spite of the limitations that the Constitution places
Speaker 1: on the federal government. At one point, there were no
Speaker 1: federal level crimes, with the exception of treason and I
Speaker 1: one other one. But you know, the idea that there
Speaker 1: could be prosecutions, for example, income to failure to pay
Speaker 1: income taxes. When the founding fathers created the document of
Speaker 1: the Constitution, states would be doing that. And there was no,
Speaker 1: of course provision for paying income taxes, and the Constitution
Speaker 1: wasn'manted to allow for that. But this whole idea of
Speaker 1: federal government, you know, expansion and the creation of the FBI,
Speaker 1: and all of these federal crimes. In the judge's position,
Speaker 1: I think from a hardcore pure constitutional perspective, they're all
Speaker 1: extra constitutional. So it's one thing to you know, say, yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody else would have been prosecuted under the law. Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden's getting a free pass. He is of course he's
Speaker 1: being treated better than the rest of us would be
Speaker 1: because he's the President's son. President's got the power of
Speaker 1: the part, and who else enjoys that. Well, he's getting
Speaker 1: the benefit of it, and it's really hurting the Democrats politically.
Speaker 1: You and I be mad about it because you and
Speaker 1: I would be in the crossairs of some federal agency,
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice of the FBI. We would be
Speaker 1: prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We would
Speaker 1: have already probably been in jail right now. But behind
Speaker 1: all that, the judge's point being, the Constitution doesn't even
Speaker 1: allow for any of that, so more of a legal
Speaker 1: theoretical kind of thing, and of course judge tends to
Speaker 1: do that, so it makes this conversations interesting. So if
Speaker 1: you want to give me a call five one, three, seven,
Speaker 1: four nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred eighty two to
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Speaker 1: Of course, case Hunter Biden's name is still all over
Speaker 1: the news and people are still reacting to it, and
Speaker 1: Democrats pulling their hair out over the whole thing because
Speaker 1: it made them all look like liars and idiots, and
Speaker 1: it took the wind out of their sales about being
Speaker 1: able to point to Donald Trump and say, oh, he
Speaker 1: thinks he's above the law. You know, you get the
Speaker 1: basic premise of it, But I thought this thing was
Speaker 1: particularly funny on a number of levels. Federal judge who
Speaker 1: was overseeing the Hunter Biden tax cases, had a bit
Speaker 1: of a rebuke of President Biden's claim issued or statements
Speaker 1: issued at the time he issued the pardon, the predicate
Speaker 1: for the pardon, the whole idea that he was treated unfairly.
Speaker 1: US District Judge Mark Scarze, Central District of California for
Speaker 1: keeping track q's President Biden, and what is described by
Speaker 1: Fox News as a scathing five page order of in
Speaker 1: the judge's words, rewriting history with the pardon and suggesting
Speaker 1: that the bread of the pardon granted to his son
Speaker 1: is unconstitutional. Speaking of things constitutional, maybe you we'll get
Speaker 1: the judge a comment on this. He wrote, quote, the
Speaker 1: Constitution provides the president with the broad authority to grant
Speaker 1: reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, but
Speaker 1: nowhere does the Constitution give the president the authority to
Speaker 1: rewrite history. Soar as he went on reacting to the
Speaker 1: President's statement on his son's tax case.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: The President asserts that mister Biden was treated differently from
Speaker 1: others who were late in paying their taxes because of
Speaker 1: serious addictions. The implication that Biden was among those individuals
Speaker 1: who ultimately paid taxes due to the due to addiction
Speaker 1: untimely taxes, rather not ultimately he did ultimately pay them.
Speaker 1: But that's beside the point of course I was addicted.
Speaker 1: I didn't pay my taxes. I'm sorry. It was my drugs.
Speaker 1: The judgment, that's not true. According to the President, no
Speaker 1: reasonable person who looks at the facts that mister Biden's
Speaker 1: cases can reach any other conclusion than mister Biden was
Speaker 1: singled out only because he is the President's son. But
Speaker 1: two federal judges expressly rejected Biden's arguments that the government
Speaker 1: prosecuted mister Biden because of his famelia relation to the
Speaker 1: President and the president's own attorney general and Department of
Speaker 1: Justice personnel oversaw the investigation leading to the charge. In
Speaker 1: the President's estimation, this legion of federal civil sergeon servants,
Speaker 1: the undersigned included, meaning himself the judge, are unreasonable people.
Speaker 1: Judge said he would dispose of the case. He was
Speaker 1: he found fault with the way the pardon was issued.
Speaker 1: It was a technical thing. He has a hyperlink link
Speaker 1: that that allowed people to go over clicking on the
Speaker 1: link to see the wording of the pardon. And he said,
Speaker 1: and that's not satisfactory. It's got to be formally executed.
Speaker 1: And I will dismiss all this stuff once has been
Speaker 1: formally executed. But I fought one of the comical points
Speaker 1: on this, The judge wrote, subject to the following discussion,
Speaker 1: the Court assumes the pardon is effective and will dispose
Speaker 1: of the case, referencing the formality. The Supreme Court long
Speaker 1: has recognized that, notwithstanding its nearly unlimited nature, the pardon
Speaker 1: power extends only two past offenses. Close quote. Now, why
Speaker 1: do I find that funny? Because, first off, you know,
Speaker 1: we all joke about and in awe of and dismay
Speaker 1: over the reality that you know, he gave basically Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden a free pass for literally anything the guy did
Speaker 1: that represents a federal crime. Now he can't pardon him
Speaker 1: for state crime. So if you know Hunter Biden committed
Speaker 1: murder in the state of New York, it may have
Speaker 1: been you know, going back to Nepolitana's point about the
Speaker 1: seis scope and expansive nature of the federal government and
Speaker 1: the crimes under it. Murder, I guess, in certain circumstances
Speaker 1: actually can be found to be a federal crime. But
Speaker 1: if he committed murder in the state of New York,
Speaker 1: New York law would govern and the pardon wouldn't cover him. So, okay,
Speaker 1: five years ago he blew somebody away with his formally
Speaker 1: disposed of in a trash can near a high school handgun,
Speaker 1: then he can still go to jail for it. But
Speaker 1: I think the judge is a little skeptical that hunter
Speaker 1: Biden is going to Oh, here's upon keep his nose clean,
Speaker 1: noting that the pardon power extends only two passed offenses.
Speaker 1: So judge pointing out that a hunter, don't go back
Speaker 1: to your old ways because that piece of paper that
Speaker 1: saved your life and your neck while ruining the political
Speaker 1: careers of a lot of Democrats and taking the wind
Speaker 1: out of their sales. As Trump gets ready to be
Speaker 1: sworn into office next January, you could still be held
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Speaker 3: They don't just want to control our healthcare live do.
Speaker 4: Control our children's buying through their education system. Loud.
Speaker 2: We have to fight to take America back and logo.
Speaker 5: You have the luxury of giving your opinion. It's just
Speaker 5: neighbors being neighborly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll agree with the whole heart Lake of course
Speaker 6: most of the time.
Speaker 3: Bring it back to what the founding fault is believes in.
Speaker 3: That's the individual whipping and the individual responsibility that goes
Speaker 3: with us.
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Speaker 1: Station five twenty on a Wednesday extra special Wednesday Listener
Speaker 1: Lunch Wednesday. Looking forward to that and I hope you
Speaker 1: are as well. Be a Price Hill Chili. Closing out
Speaker 1: the year, Bob Wetter, mister Wishtree himself is going to
Speaker 1: be there dressed as Santa Claus and strong encouragement for
Speaker 1: you to help out those in need by getting an
Speaker 1: ornament off one of the multitude of wish trees out
Speaker 1: there that are almost everywhere and you can ship it
Speaker 1: directly to the person in need of the group that's
Speaker 1: that hung the ornament up in need, I think you
Speaker 1: bring it back to wherever you pick up the ornament
Speaker 1: in the first place. Bob will give you all the
Speaker 1: details on that today. I just want to support the organization.
Speaker 1: Bob's been at this since nineteen eighty five. Just really
Speaker 1: a great thing he does every year. And as far
Speaker 1: as Listener Lunch goes, I did mention we're going to
Speaker 1: be a Price Hell Chili gonna go a new direction
Speaker 1: next year.
Speaker 2: Maybe.
Speaker 1: I know we have our favorite places to go and
Speaker 1: you know short on the list of course Priceal Chili,
Speaker 1: and Ron's Roost and Anderson Pub and Grow. And I'm
Speaker 1: not going to mention all my West Side places like
Speaker 1: Chandlers and anyway, folks who regularly tend Listener to Lunch
Speaker 1: know the pretty much the list. We're maybe going to
Speaker 1: maybe hitting some breweries next year. We're gonna start with
Speaker 1: High Green Brewery in January. That's on Winton Road. They
Speaker 1: got a really nice menu there. It looks like everything
Speaker 1: that it's going to have something for everybody in terms
Speaker 1: of the menu. And then back to Little Miami Brewery
Speaker 1: in Milford. I talked to Debbie, the woman who I
Speaker 1: sort of have on retention to shadow, to set up
Speaker 1: listener lunch. I said, maybe we can just, you know,
Speaker 1: once a month hit a new brewery. Lord knows there's
Speaker 1: no shortage of them. I said, first thing start with
Speaker 1: is that they have a at least reasonably comprehensive menu, and
Speaker 1: then we'll move on from there. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: the theory and the the idea behind it. We'll see
Speaker 1: how things shake out in twenty twenty five. Beyond that,
Speaker 1: I thought this was a little bit scary as Vva
Speaker 1: Ramaswammy and the Doge Department, looking for places to save
Speaker 1: money shut down. Ramaswammy wants to pull the plug on
Speaker 1: that battery plant over in Indiana. Of course, in order
Speaker 1: to make these batteries, you got to have the well
Speaker 1: rare earth minerals, right, the key ingredients for making these batteries,
Speaker 1: and sadly get the vast majority of that comes from China,
Speaker 1: so we directly support China's economy. Get a load of this.
Speaker 1: China just announced some restrictions banning certain specific rare earth minerals.
Speaker 1: So we have the Biden administration issuing new restrictions on
Speaker 1: China's semiconductor industry. They're calling it a tit for tat.
Speaker 1: Beijing announced an export ban on the following gallium, germanium, antimony,
Speaker 1: as well as other critical minerals with I would argue
Speaker 1: significant potential military implications for the United States. Bloomberg reporting
Speaker 1: on this one, saying that the Chinese Communist Ministry announced
Speaker 1: the new export controls yesterday morning, adding that tighter controls
Speaker 1: on graphite sales will also be seen, suggesting this ain't
Speaker 1: over yet. According to the statement, the US has generalized
Speaker 1: the concept of national security and politicized and weaponized econom
Speaker 1: trade and tech issues. It has abused export control measures
Speaker 1: and unreasonably restricted certain products. Are product exports to China?
Speaker 1: All true and with more to come if you think
Speaker 1: about what Trump's been saying, but you know, tariffs and
Speaker 1: export restrictions, et cetera. Now, Biden administration on Monday revealed
Speaker 1: broader restrictions on these artificial intelligence chips that can be
Speaker 1: delivered to China, prohibiting the sale of advanced chips to
Speaker 1: more than one hundred Chinese companies. In other words, the
Speaker 1: military and China is going to use them. We don't
Speaker 1: want to help the Chinese military with our cutting edge chips, Ergo,
Speaker 1: we're not going to send them there anymore. Commerce Secretary
Speaker 1: Go Riomando told reporters on over the weekend on Sunday,
Speaker 1: the move represented these strongest controls ever enacted by the
Speaker 1: US to degrade the PRC's ability to make the most
Speaker 1: advanced chips and that they're using in their military modernization.
Speaker 1: Said they. You know, they worked closely with experts and
Speaker 1: then history and allied countries to ensure that our actions
Speaker 1: protect national security while minimizing unintended commercial consequences. Well, maybe
Speaker 1: China isn't played by the commercial consequence rules, because of course,
Speaker 1: after that announcement was made, this announcement about the banning
Speaker 1: of these various rare earth minerals was announced. And here's
Speaker 1: where the fun part comes. China produces ninety four percent
Speaker 1: of the world's gallium eighty three percent of the germanium
Speaker 1: critical metals used in the production of semiconductors, LEDs, and transistors. Okay,
Speaker 1: and they had a breakdown here. I found this on Breitbart,
Speaker 1: the breakdown of rare earth materials used to make each
Speaker 1: go to Europe no longer necessary and ridiculously expensive f
Speaker 1: thirty five airplane. Nine hundred and twenty pounds in that one.
Speaker 1: You know, Arlely Burke DDG DASH fifty one looks like
Speaker 1: a destroyer of some sort. That's five two hundred pounds
Speaker 1: in one of those boats. And to cribbage, my submarine
Speaker 1: or friend in SSN with seven seventy four Virginia class
Speaker 1: submarine has nine thousand, two hundred pounds of rare earth
Speaker 1: ingredients going back to some of which China produces the
Speaker 1: vast majority of senior analysts at the consulting firm Trivia,
Speaker 1: a Trivium China guy named Joe Mazer, speaking with Bloomberg,
Speaker 1: said these export bands on critical minerals have been in
Speaker 1: the hopper for a long time and are intended as
Speaker 1: a warning. He said it's a clear signal of China's
Speaker 1: preparedness strike back more forcefully against the US economic pressure
Speaker 1: than it has in the past few years. Accord to
Speaker 1: data from the US Geological Survey, we here in the
Speaker 1: United States import about half our supply of gallium and
Speaker 1: germanium metals from right China. It's you know, they got
Speaker 1: you by the short ones, if you really think about it.
Speaker 1: We learned a lot of lessons in COVID nineteen and
Speaker 1: one of the biggest lessons I think we all learned
Speaker 1: is apparently we are just inextricably intertwined with I guess
Speaker 1: probably our biggest foe in the world, China. We get
Speaker 1: everything from him, including critical resources that may go into
Speaker 1: our pharmaceuticals. Five twenty six fifty five are seed de
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Speaker 5: As we embrace the end of an era.
Speaker 7: The outcome of this election is not just what we
Speaker 7: want to defeat.
Speaker 1: Does not mean we are defeated.
Speaker 5: There's plenty to celebrate this holiday season and it's dead.
Speaker 4: Hopefully this isn't the last time I call in feeling
Speaker 4: this good.
Speaker 2: I'm happy about everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's got a great game of people
Speaker 4: around him.
Speaker 2: I just want the man protected.
Speaker 4: I am so excited about the potential to changes.
Speaker 8: Government and the conversation's happening here.
Speaker 2: It's really exciting.
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Speaker 1: funds over the local story. A little over a year
Speaker 1: and a half after its debut, a safe Haven baby box,
Speaker 1: the one in Lovinon, was actually used to s render
Speaker 1: a baby girl, according to Lebanon Police. The box, located
Speaker 1: at the fire station on North Broadway, installed October of
Speaker 1: last year, the tenth one in Ohio. On Monday, Lebanon
Speaker 1: Police said the City of Lebanon Communications Center received an
Speaker 1: alarm from the box spent three point thirty in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Police fire responded They found a baby girl had been surrendered,
Speaker 1: immediately taking it since a children's hospital and Warren County
Speaker 1: Children's Service officials were notified. Of course, these baby boxes
Speaker 1: installed by fire departments across the country, giving parents the
Speaker 1: option to safely and securely and anonymously surrender a newborn
Speaker 1: if they're unable to provide care. Under Ohio law, the
Speaker 1: baby box, known as a Newborn Safety Incubator, allows parents
Speaker 1: to anonymously surrender the newborn without facing any criminal charges.
Speaker 1: Once the baby is placed inside, the device locks and
Speaker 1: sends a series of alerts to first responders. Thank god.
Speaker 1: Since it's launched in twenty sixteen, thirty five babies have
Speaker 1: been surrendered nation and wide in these baby boxes. I
Speaker 1: guess not everyone can work in advance with an adoption agency,
Speaker 1: so certainly I feel very confident that those babies will
Speaker 1: find good homes down the road. Let's pray for that,
Speaker 1: don't speculate that. According to the Cincinnati Fire Department, of course,
Speaker 1: we all know about the Dan Carterbeard Bridge. They're in
Speaker 1: the process of fixing it. It's taking a little while.
Speaker 1: We all know it started with a fire beneath the bridge,
Speaker 1: burning and melting the girders, obviously negating any argument from
Speaker 1: the nine to eleven skeptics that fire started by airplane
Speaker 1: fuel could burn a building down. If you can light
Speaker 1: a well, some rubber in a playground on fire and
Speaker 1: bring a bridge down, we know we have a problem
Speaker 1: to question who started it, and that's where the rumors
Speaker 1: circular are circulating. We heard initially maybe it was a
Speaker 1: car fire, maybe it was a homeless encampment SINCINNTI Fire
Speaker 1: Department of statement yesterday. Sharing information too soon can compromise
Speaker 1: the integrity investigation by jeopardizing witness safety, alerting potential suspects,
Speaker 1: and revealing crucial strategies. For this reason, until the fire
Speaker 1: investigative unit has definitive reason to share, we will not
Speaker 1: be able to share anything. So WCPO attended the Cincinnati Climate,
Speaker 1: Environment and Infrastructure Committee meeting held last night Apparently that's
Speaker 1: held bi weekly, and they asked each member of the
Speaker 1: committee about the status of the fire investigation. Basically, each
Speaker 1: of the council members, Mick Owens, Mark Jeffries, and Jeff Cramerton,
Speaker 1: as well as Seth Walsh merely confirmed what the fire
Speaker 1: department said. We don't know and we're not going to speculate.
Speaker 1: Mark Jeffries said, you know. They asked if the fire
Speaker 1: department needs to share an update on where they are,
Speaker 1: which is I suppose a legitimate question. Can you just
Speaker 1: least get us something Jeffrey's response, I do. I asked
Speaker 1: the city manager recently when we're going to provide an update.
Speaker 1: I know that there we're working diligently to get to
Speaker 1: the bottom of it. I think will be helpful now,
Speaker 1: given it's a few weeks to just provide an update,
Speaker 1: even if it's work in progress, like, hey, we don't
Speaker 1: have all the answers, but here are the areas we're exploring,
Speaker 1: I think will be helpful to share an update, So
Speaker 1: I agree something anyway. Nonprofit bike share program Red Bike.
Speaker 1: They have enough funds to operate until April next year.
Speaker 1: Apparently there are still questions if it can well go
Speaker 1: beyond that astute observation. For all those folks that are
Speaker 1: going to be riding bikes in January, you can get
Speaker 1: a red bike, don't count on it when the warm
Speaker 1: weather shows up. Though. You should see Jeff's face right now.
Speaker 1: It's times like this I wish we had a camera
Speaker 1: on him. Well.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Red Bike apparently looking for long term funding commitments to
Speaker 1: continue operations past April, they stayed looking for a three
Speaker 1: year commitment from public partners. Mark Jefferies Council members that
Speaker 1: he's been working with a coalition of partners for the
Speaker 1: last eight months as he's confident that the deal will
Speaker 1: be reached for funding before April. Quote, we've had considerations
Speaker 1: with Northern Kentucky and the Metro. I think in the
Speaker 1: early part of the year we will have all the commitments.
Speaker 1: Red Bike's new financial structure proposal includes moneys from Metro,
Speaker 1: Northern Kentucky, the City of Cincinnati, and maybe corporate sponsors
Speaker 1: or tourist partnerships. Which reminds me of a conversation I
Speaker 1: had yesterday. Wasn't it just yesterday Joe Strekker with Todd Zenzer,
Speaker 1: fraud expert and accountant expert, doing an analysis of the
Speaker 1: CINCINNTI pension program. All the money seems to go to
Speaker 1: pet projects, and we'll just throw the Red Bike program,
Speaker 1: as cool as it may be, into one of the
Speaker 1: pet projects. The penn is so underfunded. We have a colossal,
Speaker 1: slow moving train wreck facing us in the City of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Not doing anything about that. Though, if you didn't get
Speaker 1: to hear Todd. I recommend strongly you check out that
Speaker 1: podcast fifty five k SEE dot com. I'll be right
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Speaker 1: stick around.
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Speaker 1: happy Wednesday. Hope see you pray sill chilly for listener.
Speaker 1: Launch a judge trecker curbage, Mike, just send me an
Speaker 1: instant message on facebooks. Why can't red bikes be free
Speaker 1: like the street car? I know, I said, That's exactly
Speaker 1: what Joe said. Joe had written out of the top
Speaker 1: of the article. Just make it free. Yeah, all we
Speaker 1: need to do is red peel the laws of physics
Speaker 1: and we don't have to worry about friction and things
Speaker 1: like that. Blah, stacker stupid. Now you can call if
Speaker 1: you won. You know, I go. I say I'd rather
Speaker 1: talk to the listeners. But here we go, and wow,
Speaker 1: this is pretty amazing to me. Several top veteran affairs
Speaker 1: official in Tennessee had to resign following an internal investigation
Speaker 1: as well as a broader congressional probe into alleged sexual misconduct.
Speaker 1: Credit to Breitbart for reporting on this one, congressional investigators
Speaker 1: discovered that one single guy who resigned, whose name they
Speaker 1: did not say out loud, but sources familiar say was
Speaker 1: I say it was bargaining, was a bargaining unit biomedical employee.
Speaker 1: One guy had dozens of sexual relationships with women who
Speaker 1: worked at the Mountain Home VA Medical Center in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Investigation and investigators told Breitbart this one guy slept with
Speaker 1: no fewer than thirty two different women who worked at
Speaker 1: this one medical center, and the man had several of
Speaker 1: the women and bragged about their exploits, heading insult to
Speaker 1: injury on an online group forum on a government communication
Speaker 1: portal that VA officials used to communicate about veteran healthcare
Speaker 1: and facility operations. Apparently, what's more, sources familiar with the
Speaker 1: congressional investigation said the uncovered than an orgy of at
Speaker 1: least twelve officials who worked at the facility took place.
Speaker 1: At this point, not clear whether it happened on government
Speaker 1: I know, on government property at the VA facility or
Speaker 1: an off site orgy. But well, I guess the point
Speaker 1: that being that a dozen government workers all got together,
Speaker 1: all employed in the same place. At least two of
Speaker 1: the employees of the facility admitted to having sex on
Speaker 1: the grounds of the VA hospital. The senior Congressional aid
Speaker 1: familiar with the facts of the ongoing investigation, speaking with
Speaker 1: Breke bart quote, the fact that the culture would even
Speaker 1: allow this to happen in the first place is absolutely wild,
Speaker 1: and it all starts at the top, so it threatens
Speaker 1: to upend the closing days of the outgoing to Democrat
Speaker 1: President Joe Biden's administration. Couldn't go senior officials like VA
Speaker 1: Secretary Dennis McDonagh, I don't know. In addition to the
Speaker 1: biomedical employee, the guy who investigators said had sex with
Speaker 1: again thirty two different women, several other officials have also resigned,
Speaker 1: and the as the investigations have gotten in have intensified.
Speaker 1: The director of the Mountain Home facility also resigned, and
Speaker 1: at least two other employees there have resigned thirty two
Speaker 1: and one facility. Let's just say they have rather loose
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Speaker 1: krc Morning Show, crazy stuff regarding that pension plan and
Speaker 1: negligence on the part of our elected officials over a
Speaker 1: period of decades. Anyway, the stack is stupid. Apparently Raising
Speaker 1: Caine's dipping sauce really high on just Wreckords list of
Speaker 1: thumbs up, so much so that he said this maybe
Speaker 1: justified this stack of stupid article. Who can argue with that.
Speaker 1: Last Friday afternoon, thirty one year old woman arrested for
Speaker 1: strong arm robbery after she became a hostile both verbically
Speaker 1: and physically. That's in the arrest report after fast food
Speaker 1: workers did not include eight eight raising cane dipping sauce
Speaker 1: containers in her pickup order. What, according to the court reports,
Speaker 1: Mackenzie neil A Keeling rather picked up her grub from
Speaker 1: a Raising Caine's restaurant in Clearwater. Later discovering that she
Speaker 1: was missing eight packs of Caine's sauce, she went back
Speaker 1: to the restaurant spoke to the female manager who provided
Speaker 1: the achilling with the dipping sauce. However, the manager, Tatiana Herbert,
Speaker 1: declined her request that she provided with extra sauces in
Speaker 1: return for, in the woman's words, wasting her time in gasoline. So,
Speaker 1: after being denied the sauce, Keeling became what was described
Speaker 1: as hostile, both verbally and physically, began yelling at the eatery,
Speaker 1: disturbing staff and customers, and during this tirade, Kling shot
Speaker 1: out of her shot out her right hand with force,
Speaker 1: hitting Herbert in the in one of her legs, and
Speaker 1: then she then allegedly tried to tear off the victim's
Speaker 1: keys and Kine's ID from a lanyard attached to Herbert's belt.
Speaker 1: Police pointed out the victim was in fear and noted
Speaker 1: that a couple of raising Kine's employees were there to
Speaker 1: witness the whole thing, and the whole thing was captured
Speaker 1: on close circuit television footage. No kidding, just killing. Arrested
Speaker 1: and booked into the County Jail, from which she was
Speaker 1: released on a twenty five hundred dollars bond. Her lawyer
Speaker 1: entered it not plea on her behalf, presumably to give
Speaker 1: him enough time to negotiate a settlement agreement. And it's
Speaker 1: pointed out here, an extra one point five ounce container
Speaker 1: of Cain's dipping sauce, beloved by executive producer Joe Strecker,
Speaker 1: costs thirty nine cents. So these things aren't free, and
Speaker 1: you should have no expectation that you should be given
Speaker 1: eight of them with your one order of whatever Cain's
Speaker 1: product you bought. How's that we go to Western Connecticut,
Speaker 1: a multi million dollar mansion destroyed by a fire happened
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. Western Fire Department responded to the fire three
Speaker 1: forty PM. Said the callers initially described the incident as
Speaker 1: a garage fire, but when the firefighters got there, apparently
Speaker 1: the fire had rapidly extended to the home. And I'm
Speaker 1: staring at a picture of it and I would say, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's completely engulfed in flames. They tried what they called
Speaker 1: an aggressive fire attack. Anyway, the dangerous fire conditions were overwhelming,
Speaker 1: and the entire home burned down multi million dollar home.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: Apparently, in addition to that problem, a vehicle drove over
Speaker 1: the water supply hose on the road. Fire officials said
Speaker 1: that damaged the line and completely stopped the flow of
Speaker 1: water for several minutes, and at that point firefighters defensive
Speaker 1: operations were initiated and personnel remained unseen for more than
Speaker 1: sixteen hours. Cord to the Western Fire Department statement, the
Speaker 1: cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Western
Speaker 1: Fire Marshal. However, based on the preliminary investigation, it appears
Speaker 1: the fire began in the garage and was the result
Speaker 1: of deep frying a turkey. Idiots doing idiot things because
Speaker 1: there idiots home. Yet a stute observation, just tracker who
Speaker 1: pointed out they could figure out that this multi million
Speaker 1: it's actually three point eight million dollar home burned to
Speaker 1: the ground, but because of a turkey fire, they can't
Speaker 1: figure out what burned down the Dan Beard Bridge. Legitimate point.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, Florida man, let's stay in Florida. Mom
Speaker 1: there allegedly stole several items from Target using what they
Speaker 1: call a bar code trick, police said, though she posted
Speaker 1: incriminating evidence on her popular tictok account that ultimately alerted
Speaker 1: authorities to her crimes and leading to her arrest twenty
Speaker 1: three years yep. Marlena VELAs twenty two hosts a TikTok
Speaker 1: page posting more than three hundred and fifty six thousand
Speaker 1: followers that receives millions of views. Don't know why. Her
Speaker 1: Marlena Villas account features mom content with her two small
Speaker 1: children and also highlights products. Cape Coral Police Department accused
Speaker 1: they're stealing hundreds of dollars in merchandise from a Target
Speaker 1: store commenced. The caper commenced October thirtieth when the loss
Speaker 1: prevention team over at Target Cape Coral caught a woman
Speaker 1: using the self checkout register without scanning the product's actual
Speaker 1: bar codes. Instead, she allegedly scanned a fake bar code,
Speaker 1: of course, with cheaper prices and a press release, police
Speaker 1: said sixteen nights miscellanious household goods clothing were stolen. Total
Speaker 1: losses stolen items valued at five hundred dollars and thirty
Speaker 1: two cents. They verified this with Target security cameras. They
Speaker 1: shared video screenshots shots of her on social media pages
Speaker 1: and asked the public to help identify her as she
Speaker 1: was unknown to police, but of course, because she's not
Speaker 1: unknown on TikTok, officers ultimately found her TikTok account, which
Speaker 1: documents her getting ready on October thirtieth in the same
Speaker 1: outfit and glasses going to target.
Speaker 2: Marlee, you're stupid now shot.
Speaker 1: Marlena documents herself picking out items inside the store and
Speaker 1: placing them in her car after exiting the store. That
Speaker 1: TikTok post appears to have been deleted social media account,
Speaker 1: but police downloaded the incriminating video before it was scrubbed
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Speaker 1: just tuning in, and thank you for tuning in. Jack Aviden,
Speaker 1: we get to hear from Jack the brilliance of Jack
Speaker 1: advidon uh Trump's biblical Cabinet. That's the title of his
Speaker 1: subject matter today. I'm really looking forward to how Jack
Speaker 1: shakes that out. But he's always brilliant though. It's fun
Speaker 1: to listen to Jack. Seven Clarmont County Veteran Services returns
Speaker 1: to talk about well veteran services. Alex Charantifilo coming up
Speaker 1: with two hours. We're looking forward to having Alex on
Speaker 1: the program. Ohio Republican Party chairman he is, we'll get
Speaker 1: the inside baseball. Does he know anything about who jd.
Speaker 1: Vance's replacement is going to be? If he does, will
Speaker 1: he tell us State House?
Speaker 2: Just J.
Speaker 1: Ecker wants to know, will they be constituent friendly? Will
Speaker 1: someone be able to herd the cats that are the
Speaker 1: Republican Party here in the state of Ohio in Columbus?
Speaker 1: And what if anything can be done about Hamilton County.
Speaker 1: Obviously we've shifted completely blue. Is there any way to
Speaker 1: bring the flag back in Hamilton County? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Alex knows, but we're going to
Speaker 1: tap his intellect for that. In the eight o'clock hour,
Speaker 1: and of course, Judge Ennen of Polatano with an interesting
Speaker 1: take on Hunter Biden's pardon, moving away from whether or
Speaker 1: not it was right or wrong, regardless of the politics
Speaker 1: of it. The politano thinks that it's extra constitutional the
Speaker 1: crimes that he has and he was accused of committing, like,
Speaker 1: for example, the Second Amendment, the right to keep him
Speaker 1: bare arms shall not be infringe. Well, why is it
Speaker 1: then that you have to fill out an FFL form
Speaker 1: to acquire a firearm? At least in some cases, of course,
Speaker 1: you buy one from your neighbor. You don't have to
Speaker 1: do that. That's the gun show loophole that so many
Speaker 1: Democrats want to get rid of. But if, as the
Speaker 1: judge argues, the federal government and the constitutional you know,
Speaker 1: the original Constitution and as the country was founded, the
Speaker 1: republic that we are, which limits expressly the powers of
Speaker 1: the federal government to certain specific defined areas which do
Speaker 1: not include all include the thousands and thousands of federal
Speaker 1: crimes on the books. So yeah, Hunter Biden is guilty
Speaker 1: of the charges. He agreed that he was guilty. He
Speaker 1: admitted the lying on his income taxes, and he of
Speaker 1: course was found guilty of the firearms charge. If the
Speaker 1: underlying crimes are not constitutional, it's something to think about.
Speaker 1: It's food for thought. We'll be going to law school
Speaker 1: with Judge of Poloton at eight thirty to talk about
Speaker 1: that on a theoretical level. And I think at the
Speaker 1: end of the column that I that I'm thankful to
Speaker 1: get early. If history is a guide, my hopes, along
Speaker 1: with those of Thomas Jefferson, are illusory. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think the federal government is going to get rid of
Speaker 1: its criminal code. I'd love to hear from you. For
Speaker 1: got a comment five one three seven fifty, eight hundred
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Speaker 1: eighteen and t found And back over to Hunter Biden's
Speaker 1: and still the hot topic going on in the world today.
Speaker 1: We call that topic a I guess in radio that's
Speaker 1: what they call it anyway, speaking because they did all
Speaker 1: the behind the scenes research. The whistleblowers Joseph Ziegler and
Speaker 1: Gary Shapeley defending themselves in an opinion piece Hunter Biden's
Speaker 1: Pardon your tax dollars at work? Ordinary Americans are held
Speaker 1: accountable when they defraud the irs, not the president's son,
Speaker 1: stating the obvious. So we got this whole series of
Speaker 1: events leading up to the pardon of Hunter Biden. And
Speaker 1: as they point out, these Disney narrative shifts happened because
Speaker 1: of the two of us blew the whistle and exposed
Speaker 1: the preferential treatment the Biden Justice Department gave to a
Speaker 1: powerful political family. Our story never changed because we told
Speaker 1: the truth. Going back to the reasons, President Biden articulated
Speaker 1: for issuing the pardon of his poor son, who was
Speaker 1: picked on by evil forces in the government. That sounds familiar.
Speaker 1: They say President Biden's pardon is an insult to every honest,
Speaker 1: tax paying American. He claimed that his own Justice department
Speaker 1: unfairly targeted his son. On the contrary, we the irs investigators,
Speaker 1: produced mountains of evidence and testified under oath about the
Speaker 1: machinations his Justice Department, including mister Weiss, used to shield
Speaker 1: the Biden family from a thorough investigation of alleged corruption
Speaker 1: in Ukraine, Romania and China. Those of us who remember,
Speaker 1: these are the guys that wanted to interview him. These
Speaker 1: are the guys that were told they couldn't interview them.
Speaker 1: These are the guys that were victims of the slow
Speaker 1: walking of the investigation which caused the statute limitations to
Speaker 1: run out on all these behind the scenes criminal activity
Speaker 1: and probably FARO violations. As they point out that this
Speaker 1: year jury found Hunter Biden guilty of federal gun charges
Speaker 1: in Delaware, and he pleaded guilty to wilful. He emphasized
Speaker 1: that word wilful tax felonies in California. President's letter falsely
Speaker 1: suggests that his son was merely late in filing and
Speaker 1: paying his taxes because of serious addictions. He wrote that
Speaker 1: in such cases, when back taxes are paid with penalties
Speaker 1: and interests, they are often resolved without criminal penalties. But
Speaker 1: his son was treated different differently. That's malarkey, they wrote,
Speaker 1: of course, not even bailed reference to Joe Biden's favorite word.
Speaker 1: The American people need to know, and the President's letter
Speaker 1: omits that Hunter Biden admitted to intentional felony tax evasion,
Speaker 1: criminal charges for which ordinary Americans are held accountable every day.
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden admitted that he filed false tax returns with
Speaker 1: the Internal Revenue Service knowingly and willfully while sober false
Speaker 1: deductions taken on his tax return contradicted statements he made
Speaker 1: in his memoir, which he wrote while sober. These false
Speaker 1: deductions included things like sex club membership, luxury vehicle rentals,
Speaker 1: and house rentals for his then girlfriend. Ordinary Americans that
Speaker 1: be you and me or routine held accountable for that
Speaker 1: kind of tax fraudmund Hunter Biden will escape accountability because
Speaker 1: his father is president, and Joe Biden's letter doesn't mention
Speaker 1: that his broad pardon also absolves his son of any
Speaker 1: other crime in the past decade that the Justice Department
Speaker 1: didn't fully investigate. A public filing in August, Special Council
Speaker 1: Weiss's office allegs that Hunter Biden quote agreed to attempt
Speaker 1: to influence US public policy he was quote on behalf
Speaker 1: of a Romanian businessman, but didn't charge Hunter with a
Speaker 1: violation of the Foreign Agent's Relation Registration Act. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if those charges have a statute limitations, folks, But
Speaker 1: because they had the evidence that would support a Foreign
Speaker 1: Agent Registration Act a charge that could certainly be pursued
Speaker 1: by the Trump administration, that's obviously something that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: wanted to get ahead of the dishonesty that has infected
Speaker 1: the Washington political class must stop, they write, And the
Speaker 1: bureaucrats and the Justice Department and IRS who have abused
Speaker 1: their power and acted unethically ought to be held accountable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't hold your breath for that. I'm still waiting for
Speaker 1: Lois Learner to be held accountable for the actions that
Speaker 1: she committed und to the Obama administration. Not gonna happen,
Speaker 1: they write. The concert retaliation against us as whistleblowers should cease,
Speaker 1: and those responsibles should be held to account. Nonprofit efforts
Speaker 1: such as Defendwhistleblowers dot Com are helping. Without serious reform
Speaker 1: and major changes in personnel and policies, something like this
Speaker 1: will happen again. We the irs, investigator whistleblowers, will keep
Speaker 1: our oathes as sworn federal law enforcement officers, stand up
Speaker 1: for fair and equal treatment of every taxpayer and speak
Speaker 1: out against improper politization of the Justice Department, which of
Speaker 1: course was the point of their letter to the American people.
Speaker 1: Rules for thee, not for me. And the Democrats are
Speaker 1: getting angrier and angrier as they view the wasteland before them.
Speaker 1: In the aftermath of Joe Barton and Joe Biden's pardon
Speaker 1: of his criminal son, taking the wind out of their
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Speaker 1: Talk fifty on the AT and T phones. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the phone see what Jay's got this morning. Hey Jay,
Speaker 1: thanks for calling today and Happy Wednesday to you, sir.
Speaker 6: Happy Wednesday, Brian, Hey, I want to tell you that
Speaker 6: I really enjoyed the Todd Zenzer segment yesterday. I'm glad
Speaker 6: and I enjoyed it from from getting uh informed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're because you're not a resident, Because you're not
Speaker 1: a resident of the city, are you?
Speaker 3: I am not.
Speaker 6: And when I heard that what the city? You know,
Speaker 6: not being a resident of the city means, I don't
Speaker 6: get the vote on the mirror, I don't get the
Speaker 6: vote on the city council, I don't get any of
Speaker 6: the handouts.
Speaker 2: That continuously go on.
Speaker 6: And what I did, and I would encourage all your
Speaker 6: listeners to do the same, those of us who live
Speaker 6: outside of the big city limits of Cleveland and Sense
Speaker 6: and Columbus.
Speaker 2: I sent an email to my state.
Speaker 6: Senator Steve Wilson and encourage him to get on your
Speaker 6: program and send a preemptive message to Cincinnati first, and
Speaker 6: then go to Cleveland and Columbus and tell them that
Speaker 6: we are not going to entertain the idea of taking
Speaker 6: the pension issue that was created in Cincinnati and put
Speaker 6: that on the backs of the rest of Ohioans who
Speaker 6: live outside of the city limits.
Speaker 1: Ay Man, Jay Kid, that was my biggest question for
Speaker 1: Todd is is opers even if they even get down
Speaker 1: to a level that'll make it a viable option. That
Speaker 1: would I think that the payoff half of the debt,
Speaker 1: which is like down four hundred million, they got an
Speaker 1: eight hundred and fifty do million dollar hole or something
Speaker 1: like that. It would have to get down to four
Speaker 1: hundred million for OPAHS to even consider it. Why in
Speaker 1: the hell would the state of ote I would agree
Speaker 1: to take on the ridiculous this pension lie build it
Speaker 1: in the city of Cincinnati, ignored and underfunded for decades.
Speaker 1: It's insanity.
Speaker 6: I love you, I especially with the super majority of
Speaker 6: Republicans in Columbus, and I put this at the seat
Speaker 6: of the voters of Cincinnati, who have now turned every
Speaker 6: single seat, every city council member, every mayor, and every
Speaker 6: big city I'll get. Well, go beyond Cincinnati. I think
Speaker 6: I learned this on your program. Every city council member,
Speaker 6: every mayor, and every big city in Ohio is Democrat.
Speaker 6: So people inside the city limits to continue to.
Speaker 2: Vote this way, this is your problem. I don't get
Speaker 2: to vote, I.
Speaker 6: Don't get the weigh in on it. So therefore, why should.
Speaker 2: I, as a a a.
Speaker 6: Small business owner have to try to absorb this along
Speaker 6: with everything else. And so I would encourage everybody reach
Speaker 6: out to your politicians.
Speaker 2: And by the way, keep Alicia.
Speaker 6: Reese, I think city council member who's constantly talking about
Speaker 6: how she needs how we need to get up to
Speaker 6: Columbus to make sure that we get our half a
Speaker 6: billion dollars to pay in the stadium, because the Cleveland
Speaker 6: Browns are, you know, beating us to the trough while
Speaker 6: they're at at Columbus. Tell them we're not in the
Speaker 6: business to supporting private enterprise so quick, So don't think
Speaker 6: about coming up here looking for your football tax.
Speaker 2: We're not going to pay it.
Speaker 6: And keep your bad decisions inside the city limits. You
Speaker 6: guys have to clean this up, and people of Cincinnati
Speaker 6: need to vote better.
Speaker 1: No vote Democrats A jay and I think again going
Speaker 1: back to the question was raised yesterday and what the
Speaker 1: hell happened to Hamilton County? How did it get so ployed? Well,
Speaker 1: this is the kind of thing over time, anybody with
Speaker 1: a measure of common sense, it doesn't realize it doesn't
Speaker 1: want to have to deal with these outstanding obligations and
Speaker 1: knows full well that the taxes are going to going
Speaker 1: to have to go up to fill these holes that
Speaker 1: they still want. All this stuff and things that Cincinnati
Speaker 1: government things they can provide to them. He's just going
Speaker 1: to pack up your bags. You're going to move to
Speaker 1: Claremont County, or Warren County, or Butler County, or may
Speaker 1: even head across the river to the beautiful state Commonwealth
Speaker 1: of Kentucky. I'm glad you're doing that, Jay, and I
Speaker 1: hope you inspired other listeners to do exactly the same.
Speaker 1: Because if I'm in Columbus as an elected official and
Speaker 1: the city as society comes to me with hat and
Speaker 1: hands saying we're really gonna have a big problem here,
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, where did this start? I mean,
Speaker 1: how many years has this hole been getting bigger and bigger?
Speaker 1: How many years do you continue to throw taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: at new stuff and things. Oh, I see that you
Speaker 1: built a streetcar on debt. It's got five million dollars
Speaker 1: a year of maintenance and upkeep charges, and oh you
Speaker 1: call it free and you call it a success. You
Speaker 1: had to sell the railroad because you refuse to take
Speaker 1: care of the roads and infrastructure that you were responsible for.
Speaker 1: Since the moment in time they were built or constructed,
Speaker 1: you let them fall apart part every year, the number
Speaker 1: of miles of roads you're supposed to repair never gets addressed.
Speaker 1: And that problem just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger,
Speaker 1: to the point where you have to sell the most
Speaker 1: valuable money generating asset in the city of Cincinnati owns.
Speaker 1: I'd call this a problem of your own making. I
Speaker 1: got two words for you, and it ain't Happy Birthday, Goodbye,
Speaker 1: go back to Cincinnati. Well, that is if I was
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Speaker 1: Don't forget I think about casy dot com. Appreciate Jay
Speaker 1: bringing up that. I mentioned it several times this morning,
Speaker 1: and normally I don't over and over and over remind
Speaker 1: you about specific podcasts. But Todd Zenzer did a brilliant
Speaker 1: analysis of that pension problem situation going on in downtown Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: And you know, there they are off chasing pet projects
Speaker 1: left and right. You know, hey, the pension problem keeps
Speaker 1: getting worse worse every year. We're paying out of principle,
Speaker 1: we're losing money, the investments not getting the rate of
Speaker 1: return that we thought it was going to get. Problem
Speaker 1: keeps getting worse. They keep ignoring it. It's one of
Speaker 1: the things he brought up is I can't remember which
Speaker 1: council person wanted to for the taxpayers of the cities
Speaker 1: Cincinnati to pay for installing. Was it stained glass windows
Speaker 1: in Avondale?
Speaker 2: Joe?
Speaker 1: Isn't that what he said? Joe can't remember something like that,
Speaker 1: but it was stained glass windows for homes. Okay, you know,
Speaker 1: I love stained glass windows. I don't expect somebody else
Speaker 1: to pay for them. But any event, just one minor
Speaker 1: of you know, brightened, shiny object that they want to
Speaker 1: chase the check and that allows me to segue nicely
Speaker 1: over to this thing we were making fun of in
Speaker 1: the last hour, The Red Bike. I'm described as a
Speaker 1: nonprofit red bike share program. You may have seen those
Speaker 1: downtown if you borrow the bike and you know it's
Speaker 1: motorized and you con cruise around. They do have enough
Speaker 1: fund to operate until April, but according to Daniel Goodman
Speaker 1: and Rowan reporting the for WCPO, there are questions about
Speaker 1: whether it's going to last beyond April. Props to Joe
Speaker 1: Strecker for observing that probably very few people are going
Speaker 1: to want ride around on a red bike when it's
Speaker 1: seventeen degrees out, but ignore that reality. Red Bike looking
Speaker 1: for long term funding commitments to continue operations past April.
Speaker 1: They say they're looking for three year commitments from public partners.
Speaker 1: Mark Jefferies, counselman, said he's been working with a coalition
Speaker 1: of folks over the last eight months. He says he's
Speaker 1: confident that a deal can be reached for funding, saying
Speaker 1: we've had conversations with in Northern Kentucky and Metro I
Speaker 1: think early part of the year we'll have all the commitments.
Speaker 1: Read my new financial structure proposal includes money from Metro
Speaker 1: Northern Kentucky, the City of Cincinnati meaning taxpayers, and maybe
Speaker 1: corporate sponsors. And if corporate sponsors step up to the
Speaker 1: plate want to do that, put their little logo on
Speaker 1: the red bite. I am all about doing it that way.
Speaker 1: Bike share requires subsidies for all users. Consultants analyze that
Speaker 1: a fair box only covers thirty seven percent of overall
Speaker 1: costs per ride, and the Go program requires further subsidies
Speaker 1: to lower the cost. And again going back to the
Speaker 1: high comedy props the just tracker again, just make it free,
Speaker 1: with props to Cribbage Mic for making the same comment.
Speaker 1: You know, like the street car. If you make it free,
Speaker 1: then it doesn't cost anybody anything. Not how that works.
Speaker 1: Since a fire department refuses to say what happened yet
Speaker 1: in terms of how the Big Mac Bridge aka Dan
Speaker 1: Daniel Carter Beard Bridge caught fire, they say sharing information
Speaker 1: to soon can compromise the integrity of the investigation by
Speaker 1: jeopardizing witness safety, alerting political our potential suspects, and revealing
Speaker 1: critical strategies. For this reason, until the fire investigative unit
Speaker 1: has definitive reason to share. We will not be able
Speaker 1: to share anything, so we're not going to get any updates.
Speaker 1: Channel nine followed up with the Cincinnti Climate Environment Infrastructure Committee,
Speaker 1: which held its meeting last night. Several council people were there,
Speaker 1: Mika Owens, Mark Jeffries, Jeff Cameronon and others, and each
Speaker 1: of them was asked do you know anything, and all
Speaker 1: of them, looking back at the Cincinni Fire Department statement
Speaker 1: said no, we don't know anything, but we'd like to
Speaker 1: get some information. So keep your popcorn out, folks. Someday
Speaker 1: we may find out. Six thirty five. If you see
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Speaker 1: for another twenty minutes. At the top of the our
Speaker 1: name is Jack. Addit in Trump's biblical cabinet. Will be
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Speaker 1: Jack the brilliant Jack Advident on the program. We do
Speaker 1: that every Wednesday at seven oh five. Glad to see
Speaker 1: today is no different than the norm. Uh fast forward
Speaker 1: one hour from now, we get the Claimont County Veteran
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Speaker 1: veteran friends in the audience. Alex Trout Tofilo. At eight
Speaker 1: h five, we will talk inside Baseball on JD Vance's replacement.
Speaker 1: Will Alex reveal anything about who the replacement might be?
Speaker 1: Has someone been chosen yet that we don't know about it?
Speaker 1: How about the State House? A think got to be
Speaker 1: a constituent friendly question from us, Trecker. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: know on that one in advance and we'll see what
Speaker 1: he has to say about that. And can we do
Speaker 1: anything about Hamilton County? Is it a lost cause getting
Speaker 1: Hamilton County to get more conservative? And I say the
Speaker 1: answers no. Judge of Poltano also at eight thirty, I
Speaker 1: say the answer is no, it can be done. You
Speaker 1: can turn things around. And I think you saw that
Speaker 1: with the presidential election. Who thought Donald Trump was gonna win.
Speaker 1: None of the Democrats. I mean, we had eight constant years,
Speaker 1: if not more, of just constant badgering, prosecutions, law fair, demonization.
Speaker 1: The whole mainstream media is always one hundred percent against him.
Speaker 1: He couldn't walk outside his front door about getting criticized
Speaker 1: for how he ran outside his front door. Racist, misogynist,
Speaker 1: Nazi came out, the Nazi thing, the threat to democracy,
Speaker 1: which of course they're well, they don't have that argument
Speaker 1: anymore given Joe Biden's parting of Hunter Biden. But the
Speaker 1: left wing policies in democrats cities that unfolded during the
Speaker 1: period of time over Joe Biden's presidency, the defunding the police,
Speaker 1: lack lives matter protests, just this absolute you know, the
Speaker 1: decriminalization of things. And of course California has been living
Speaker 1: with that for a little bit longer than just the
Speaker 1: Biden administration. But the effects are literally being felt, and
Speaker 1: none of the effects are positive ones. I mean, going
Speaker 1: back to Todd Zenser's comments about the financial state of
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati, how you can't get rid of
Speaker 1: the pension obligation. I'm sorry. What you have done is
Speaker 1: pet project yourself and failure failed to do your jobs.
Speaker 1: Roads have fallen apart, Bridges are falling apart. The stuff
Speaker 1: you're supposed to take care of, you well pushed to
Speaker 1: the side in favor of this organization funding that organization.
Speaker 1: You know the fill in the blank. You probably have
Speaker 1: your own favorite list. Mine happens to be number one.
Speaker 1: The streetcar, but we all know that. But another Democrat city, Chicago,
Speaker 1: you may have heard of it. Mayor Brandon Johnson, Democrat
Speaker 1: among a city overwhelmingly Democrat. I live there. I know
Speaker 1: how bad it is to be a conservative individual in Chicago.
Speaker 1: He's getting airfral from his own people, which makes sense.
Speaker 1: Democrats fighting back against Democrat policies, most notably Chicago's New
Speaker 1: Arrivals Mission, which of course relates to illegal immigrants, Sanctuary
Speaker 1: City declaration, and everything that goes with it, food, clothing, houses, housing, shelter, education, etc.
Speaker 1: So far has cost the city five hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: four and a half million dollars since August of twenty two,
Speaker 1: and the mayor is now trying to overcome a one
Speaker 1: billion with a B budget shortfall by the end of
Speaker 1: the year. The solution a sixty million dollar property tax increase,
Speaker 1: and of course the residents there that probably voted for
Speaker 1: mayor of Brandon Johnson are not real happy about it.
Speaker 1: And I watched some video from this open hearing they
Speaker 1: had the other day on this and they are mad
Speaker 1: as hell. One woman, I got a great way we
Speaker 1: can do with this budget. First, let's start with cutting
Speaker 1: off illegals getting free everything, free housing, free schooling, free food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's start with that. That'll save us a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Let's start there. And let's start with you. Your salary.
Speaker 1: You're going down in history, is the worst mayor in America.
Speaker 1: Let's start with cutting yours. You make too much money.
Speaker 1: It's a cheap shot. But Rah, one of the residents,
Speaker 1: said that she is an immigrant who came to the
Speaker 1: United States legally, and that she, in her words, very
Speaker 1: very embarrassed for what my other fellow Latin American citizens
Speaker 1: are doing in this city. On behalf of the people
Speaker 1: that work, on behalf of the people that pay taxes,
Speaker 1: on behalf of the people that can contribute to the city. Said,
Speaker 1: I like to make clear that not everyone's the same.
Speaker 1: These people came with a wide door open, and they
Speaker 1: feel entitled to many things that nobody has. There are
Speaker 1: US citizens suffering from poverty, there are US citizens on
Speaker 1: public aid, and these people are here just enjoying the
Speaker 1: benefits becoming delinquents and they have no consequences. One guy said,
Speaker 1: after asking for mayor's undivided attention. So this just proves
Speaker 1: to you the lack of leadership that you show in
Speaker 1: this city. You can't even give me straight eye contact.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to let you know now, the people
Speaker 1: of Chicago, we're done with you. The new Arrivals program,
Speaker 1: he said in April, was to provide short term emergency
Speaker 1: shelter to manage the humanitarian crisis, while making long term
Speaker 1: investments in the city's capacity to handle future challenges related
Speaker 1: to displacement and emerging migration patterns. In other words, this
Speaker 1: ain't over. This flood of illegals is going to continue
Speaker 1: to come into this country. Oh but maybe a presidential
Speaker 1: watch had something to do with stopping the flow. Maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe, if Donald Trump can bring about a closed
Speaker 1: border and can solve the problem of at least the
Speaker 1: criminal immigrants. I do not believe as I sit here
Speaker 1: today and I will not believe that there is going
Speaker 1: to be such a thing as mass deportation. That's a label.
Speaker 1: The Left is stuck on this because they're going to
Speaker 1: talk just get the humanitarian crisis mass deportation. This is
Speaker 1: like rounding up the Japanese and putting them in internment camps.
Speaker 1: You can hear the rhetoric right now. But if you
Speaker 1: start with the criminals, if you start with the known convicted,
Speaker 1: bind through process, people who are out on the street
Speaker 1: committing crimes, Immigrants who have come here and let allow
Speaker 1: to be stayed, like in sanctuary cities where they have
Speaker 1: committed crimes, that have been through the system, prosecuted or
Speaker 1: maybe even released back out on bail or no bail.
Speaker 1: You got them demonstrallly having committed a crime. Start there,
Speaker 1: and it's to be one of those now who can
Speaker 1: argue with that kind of things. Start from the premise
Speaker 1: that they're here illegally, that you have the right to
Speaker 1: deport them. Let us put them at the front of
Speaker 1: the hearings because they've committed crimes, proving themselves to be
Speaker 1: well a danger to the citizenry. This is something someone
Speaker 1: in elected capacity has an obligation to do. Uphold the
Speaker 1: laws of the United States of America protect us from
Speaker 1: threats both foreign and domestic. That kind of stuff welcome
Speaker 1: to well, threats domestic people who have no legal right
Speaker 1: to be in our country, committing felonies and killing people
Speaker 1: and raping children in traffic children if you know where
Speaker 1: they are and you have them dead to right, or
Speaker 1: they have been convicted of something like that is the
Speaker 1: other side, the left or whoever supports this unmitigated, unflowed,
Speaker 1: unregulated flow of humanity into our country. Are they going
Speaker 1: to try to argue that they shouldn't be deported. There
Speaker 1: aren't enough seats at the trough right now, and I
Speaker 1: don't believe you can accomplish getting every single human being
Speaker 1: who qualifies as an illegal entrant into our country out
Speaker 1: of our country. It will be chaos. It would take decades.
Speaker 1: So let's just start with the hardened criminals. Let's start
Speaker 1: with the known gang members. Let's start with well, the
Speaker 1: people on the terrorists watch list. Let's start with maybe
Speaker 1: trying to use some of those efforts like the efforts
Speaker 1: they engaged in for the January sixth rioters. They spend
Speaker 1: tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, if not
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions, searching for that one old lady that
Speaker 1: they saw on video that they haven't been able to
Speaker 1: find yet. Well, i'll tell you what, you got two
Speaker 1: million known god aways. You don't know who they are.
Speaker 1: They could be members of terrorist organizations. Why don't you
Speaker 1: start trying to look for them in the same way
Speaker 1: you started looking for the old lady that was at
Speaker 1: the Capitol building on the January sixth. Just suggesting it,
Speaker 1: but you got really really pissed off residents in Chicago,
Speaker 1: same thing in New York. If you've ever looked at
Speaker 1: any of these meetings, they're not happy. And they're the
Speaker 1: ones that elected these clowns into office. They're the ones
Speaker 1: that decided they wanted to be a sanctuary city, and
Speaker 1: now seeing the aftermath and experiencing the pain and anguish
Speaker 1: and seeing their taxpayer dollars go someplace that they shouldn't
Speaker 1: be going, seeing their schools being overwhelmed by people who
Speaker 1: do not speak English and therefore soak up the resources
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Speaker 10: It's seven o five. All right, Happy Wednesday listener, once
Speaker 10: Wednesday at see priest Chili. Wednesdays at this time means
Speaker 10: and thank god, it means the brilliant. Jack Addaden returns
Speaker 10: to the program to offer his commentary renaissance man, lawyer, anchorman, author, historian, raconteur.
Speaker 10: Welcome back, Jack Adaden. It's great to have you on
Speaker 10: the fifty five KRC Morning Show again.
Speaker 2: My friend.
Speaker 9: Happy holidays, Brian, Joe, all of our friends and neighbors.
Speaker 9: We're now well into advent, the preparation for Christmas. You
Speaker 9: already have your tree, of.
Speaker 1: Course, although we're missing a string of lights. You know,
Speaker 1: every year, Jack, and we went through this again, literally
Speaker 1: every year we buy brand new lights to replace the
Speaker 1: ones that, for whatever magical reason, decide to die over
Speaker 1: the storage period of the summer. You put the damn
Speaker 1: tree up and you find out, you know, half your
Speaker 1: light strings don't work. So we have a half lit tree.
Speaker 1: Got to go out today. Probably should have done it yesterday.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the tree is up. It's just not finished yet.
Speaker 1: Damn those lights really really anger me. They have like
Speaker 1: an internal self destruct mechanism. It's just part of the
Speaker 1: joy of the season. Oh that's joy.
Speaker 9: This here, Honika, by the way, coincides with Christmas, and
Speaker 9: all of that got me thinking about something I hope
Speaker 9: people won't find blasphemous. Is Donald Trump try to assemble
Speaker 9: a biblical cabinet?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 9: Wait, I am in no way equitting Trump with God,
Speaker 9: the Father or the Son. And since he escaped assassination twice,
Speaker 9: he's not a ghost, but God's partners. We're not all
Speaker 9: obvious choices, and neither are President Trump's. For instance, when
Speaker 9: God picked Moses to leave the Jews at a bondage
Speaker 9: in Egypt, Moses himself said, Lord, you got the wrong guy.
Speaker 9: He pleaded, I am slow of speech and tongue, and
Speaker 9: he had other issues. Moses was quick to lose his temper,
Speaker 9: as when he caught the ungrateful Israelites worshiping a golden calf.
Speaker 9: Where's you're Moses?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's when Moses smashed the tablets that God gave
Speaker 9: him that contained the Ten Commandments your tone. For all
Speaker 9: of that, the Israelites had to wander around the desert
Speaker 9: for forty years. So even if he looked like Charlton Heston,
Speaker 9: Moses was not which you would call central casting to
Speaker 9: be a leader. Neither were the New Testament Disciples Brian Brian.
Speaker 9: Jesus did not choose any temple scholars, no generals. Yes,
Speaker 9: Herod had generals, Jesus gave them a pass. He instead
Speaker 9: chose nobody who would be considered experience much less distinguished.
Speaker 9: Jesus set out to save the world with a few fishermen,
Speaker 9: alongside a tax collector, a thief, and a zealot, what
Speaker 9: today we'd call a fanatic. Jesus was not looking for
Speaker 9: men and women who could work smoothly with the Jerusalem establishment,
Speaker 9: because he wanted to establish an entirely new way of
Speaker 9: thinking and acting. The religious member of my family, Aimesley,
Speaker 9: always gave the fish eye to the disciples, and yes
Speaker 9: that as a religious pun. Fish was the first Christian symbol.
Speaker 9: Because when the going got rough and Jesus was arrested,
Speaker 9: the disciples headed for the hills. Peter, the future rock
Speaker 9: of the church, even denied Jesus three times, the really
Speaker 9: brave ones were women, as my wife never tires of
Speaker 9: reminding me. Yet, once the disciples grew backbones, they were
Speaker 9: willing to be martyred, and they weren't seeking riches or advancement.
Speaker 9: They weren't looking for some revolving door. They believed fervently
Speaker 9: in their cause. Contrary to what the establishment media says,
Speaker 9: Donald Trump is not looking for knee jerk disciples. At
Speaker 9: one point, his vice president JD. Vance of Middletown denied
Speaker 9: Trump pretty vividly. Another heretic, Elon Musk Trump, but didn't
Speaker 9: hesitate to reach out to him. He is not only
Speaker 9: a visionary but also a patriot. More than anybody. His
Speaker 9: ex platform is preserving the foundation of our freedom, free speech,
Speaker 9: and now Elon and Cincinnati's own Vivek Ramaswami will help
Speaker 9: shrink government to assize that's fit for free citizens, not dictatorship.
Speaker 9: Trump's cabinet is not devoid of experience. Soon to be
Speaker 9: treachery Secretary Scott Bessant is one of the most respected
Speaker 9: masterminds on Wall Street. By the way, Besson happens to
Speaker 9: be gay, but unlike Biden's Transportation Secretary Pete Buddha Judge
Speaker 9: Bessen was not picked because he's gay. Besson to unlike
Speaker 9: paternity leave, Pete is actually qualified to do his job
Speaker 9: or take incoming borders.
Speaker 1: Are Tom Homan.
Speaker 9: He's going to build on his previous work with Ice
Speaker 9: to secure our borders and to port vicious criminals, drug dealers,
Speaker 9: and human traffickers who were waved in by Biden and Harris.
Speaker 9: Those illegals have been beefing up blue congressional districts from
Speaker 9: California to New York, from which Democrats have fled. Yes, folks,
Speaker 9: the census counts illegals, including illegals who should have been
Speaker 9: deported years ago. One point four million of these serious
Speaker 9: criminals have already had hearings and are now sitting in
Speaker 9: detention facilities, eating three squares a day, waiting to.
Speaker 2: Be to it.
Speaker 9: Yet Biden and Harris have let them stay at taxpayer expense.
Speaker 9: Now we have to admit some other Trump nominees appear
Speaker 9: to be more problematic. The biggest surprise was Trump's original
Speaker 9: choice for Attorney General, Florida Congressman Matt Gays. But look,
Speaker 9: even Jesus made one bad pick. Although many believed Judas
Speaker 9: was meant to fulfill biblical prophecy, and maybe Trump had
Speaker 9: a plan too. Matt Gates denies accusations that he had
Speaker 9: sex with the teenager Trump, who has been the target
Speaker 9: of damnable lies starting with Hillary's fake Russia dossier. Trump
Speaker 9: believed Matt Gates because even Biden's Justice Department refused to
Speaker 9: prosecute him. And now we'll have to see how things
Speaker 9: shake out with Pete Hegseth. But in any event, Brian
Speaker 9: Trump now has the nominee he probably should have picked
Speaker 9: in the first place.
Speaker 2: For Justice.
Speaker 9: Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi scans of experience, and
Speaker 9: anybody who's heard Pam on Fox for years knows she
Speaker 9: will fight like a zealot against political lawfare at Justice,
Speaker 9: including the FBI, which Cash Bettel will cleanse the way
Speaker 9: Moses melted down the Golden Calf and Jesus turned out
Speaker 9: the Temple money changers. In short, Donald Trump knows that
Speaker 9: the whole Washington establishment, the corrupt globalist in too many cases,
Speaker 9: bipartisan Washington establishment needs to come to Jesus moment. The
Speaker 9: elites don't care about ordinary American people, which is why
Speaker 9: ordinary people like us, the extraordinary people, maybe not like us,
Speaker 9: who work hard, raise families, and celebrate this holiday season
Speaker 9: for all the right reasons. Trump knows we the people
Speaker 9: need a different kind of elite. And in the season
Speaker 9: of hope, I pray this new religious cabinet consume, get
Speaker 9: down to work.
Speaker 1: I wondered how you were going to work all that
Speaker 1: in I saw the headliner the caption Trump's Biblical Cabinet.
Speaker 1: I was kind of joking around all morning. I have
Speaker 1: no idea which way Jack's going to go with this one.
Speaker 1: I didn't know either. I like it, just I hope
Speaker 1: for the best.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: You always do a great job bring things full circle.
Speaker 1: That's why you're so brilliant man. Now, let me you know.
Speaker 9: There was one other thing I wanted to mention. Unless
Speaker 9: you want to touch on this, and I know you've
Speaker 9: been hitting hard as well as you should. This Hunter
Speaker 9: Biden clemency from a devoted father. That's a croc. I
Speaker 9: haven't seen enough comment about this, so maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 9: I think that's sitting around the Thanksgiving table with a
Speaker 9: Hunter Biden sentencing now, I think eleven days away, everybody
Speaker 9: is worried that Hunter is going to rat on the
Speaker 9: big guy and the whole Biden family in order to
Speaker 9: make some money selling the book and going on TV.
Speaker 9: There is still a chance after Biden leaves office, Hunter
Speaker 9: will do that because he'll always be hard up, and
Speaker 9: I think he's passed the golden period of his artwork.
Speaker 9: But yeah, there was absolutely nothing benevolent about this. The
Speaker 9: way that Biden has treated his children driven them in
Speaker 9: large measure to drug dependency and a lot of other
Speaker 9: poor behavior. Look at the Trump kids, every single one
Speaker 9: of them. They've all turned out to be sterling citizens.
Speaker 9: Joe Biden had to give this pardon to save himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose that there is something in that. And
Speaker 1: of course, you, being a lawyer, you understand this as
Speaker 1: well that since Hunter Biden has been forgiven and given
Speaker 1: a free pass for literally any federal crime he had
Speaker 1: committed over the past decade plus, he no longer can
Speaker 1: claim the right, or the Fifth Amendment right to be
Speaker 1: free of self incrimination, because on any issue that crops
Speaker 1: up criminally that he has facts involving, he could be
Speaker 1: called as a material witness and be forced to testify,
Speaker 1: even if it would have been against his criminal interest.
Speaker 1: Without the pardon, So that's gone and he then becomes
Speaker 1: a rather interesting target for depositions.
Speaker 9: So if he rants, if he rats Brian, I think
Speaker 9: he's going to want to be paid for it. But yes,
Speaker 9: your point is well taken.
Speaker 1: Well, you're going to love this quote. I read this.
Speaker 1: A federal judge was the dismissal of the tax case issue,
Speaker 1: and he first saw found that it was lacked the
Speaker 1: appropriate form, So there's a technical issue before he dismisses
Speaker 1: the case. But he had a few things to say
Speaker 1: about it, and he initially pointed out, you know, constitution
Speaker 1: does give him broad authority to grant reprieve, but it
Speaker 1: does not give him the authority to rewrite history. And
Speaker 1: so he gave him a tongue lashing about that no
Speaker 1: reasonable person look at the facts and they could reach
Speaker 1: any of the consideration that Biden was singled out orly
Speaker 1: because he's the president's son. And then the judge says, hey,
Speaker 1: but two federal judges expressly rejected Biden's agreements. Hunters arguments
Speaker 1: that the government persecuted and prosecuted him because of his
Speaker 1: famil relations with the president, and the president's own attorney
Speaker 1: general and Apartment of Justice personnel oversaw the investigation which
Speaker 1: led to the charges and the President's at estimation this
Speaker 1: legion of federal civil surgeons, the unservants, the undersigned, included
Speaker 1: the judge, are unreasonable people. So yeah, that whole contingency
Speaker 1: in cadre of folks that worked under the Biden administrations,
Speaker 1: all the one that brought these charges against them. But
Speaker 1: this is the part you're going to get a kick
Speaker 1: out of. To your point that he may want to
Speaker 1: sell his information or for his own personal benefit or otherwise,
Speaker 1: you know, rat them all out, he said. Subject to
Speaker 1: the following this discussion, the Court assumes the pardon is
Speaker 1: effective and we'll dispose of the case. The Supreme Court
Speaker 1: long is recognized that notwithstanding its nearly unlimited nature, here
Speaker 1: you get to the punchline. The pardon power extends only
Speaker 1: to past offenses. I think that was kind of a
Speaker 1: shot over the bowel that he expects Hunter Biden to
Speaker 1: go back and start engaging in criminal conduct after at
Speaker 1: some future date. So pardon only applies to things in
Speaker 1: the past. And real quick before you go, you mentioned
Speaker 1: hope at the end of your monologue.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 1: I'm optimistic and maybe overly so, and I keep looking
Speaker 1: for someone perhaps with a greater sense of logic and
Speaker 1: reason to burst my bubble or at least support my
Speaker 1: hope for this musk rama swimy doge Department. They're not
Speaker 1: paid officials. They exist outside of the government. They're going
Speaker 1: to basically sit in a room, unpaid, go through the
Speaker 1: books and try to cut everything. Now, I'm optimistic. I
Speaker 1: don't know that what they are going to present and
Speaker 1: hand over to Congress by way of recommendations for consolidations
Speaker 1: or cuds or whatever, I don't know if that's going
Speaker 1: to be embraced by everybody. But what this is going
Speaker 1: to do and why I'm finding my hope, is that
Speaker 1: it's going to educate the American people on both sides
Speaker 1: of the political ledger about who the people are that
Speaker 1: want to protect these ridiculous vested interests in taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: and political boondoggles. It's already started with regard to the
Speaker 1: Inflation Reduction Act, that nonsensical Green New Deal, and you've
Speaker 1: already got Republican governors and Republican representatives from states who
Speaker 1: get a lot of ethanol money and carbon capture money.
Speaker 1: They're saying no, no, no, no, we're we're we're gonna
Speaker 1: make a lot of tax payer money on that. We
Speaker 1: really need those programs. See it started already.
Speaker 9: Well, that's always the greatest problem. We have it right here,
Speaker 9: Mike Turner up the street. As far as Vivek and
Speaker 9: Elon go, it's no slight to them to say that
Speaker 9: what they really are as advisors. There's there's a long
Speaker 9: tradition of that. FDR had a man named named Bernard Baruch,
Speaker 9: Woodrow Wilson had General House. Every president has advisors, and
Speaker 9: that doesn't mean that they're not immensely powerful. And depending
Speaker 9: on the quality of the recommendations that those who come
Speaker 9: up with, and I think they're going to be sterling too,
Speaker 9: there's going to be a big change in the direction
Speaker 9: of this government.
Speaker 1: I hope so. And at minimum we're going to learn
Speaker 1: who the bad actors are on both sides of the equation.
Speaker 1: Because if it's something that is there's so much fraud, waste,
Speaker 1: and abuse, I think every effort along those lines to
Speaker 1: ferret it out is a great idea. And you'll see
Speaker 1: as of today quite a few Democrats are actually saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a good idea. Now they want to, you know,
Speaker 1: support this doge concept because they want to protect their
Speaker 1: turf in a lot of ways, and by supporting it,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll be able to control what is and isn't cut.
Speaker 1: But that's where the sausage is made, and that's what
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to, finding out who the people are. Jackie.
Speaker 9: Let me alert people to one thing. Yeah, that you're
Speaker 9: going to be hearing that the DOGE recommendations will be
Speaker 9: expensive because we're going to have to give severance pay
Speaker 9: of people and retraining. Now there's already a commitment to that,
Speaker 9: but those are one time payments. Yes, what we are
Speaker 9: living with goes on to eternity. To get back to
Speaker 9: the biblical side.
Speaker 1: It sure does get a little theology lesson couple with politics,
Speaker 1: so Jack added, and you'll find a podcast at five
Speaker 1: cars dot com. Jack until next Wednesday. God bless you sir,
Speaker 1: Thanks for being on the program every week, and my
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Speaker 1: Chili last one of the years celebratory mood. We are
Speaker 1: going to be and I know Santa Claus is going
Speaker 1: to show up aka Bob letter from the wish Tree.
Speaker 1: There'll be a wish tree there at price still Chili,
Speaker 1: and I'm strongly encourage my listeners to help those on
Speaker 1: life margins by grabbing an ornament off of the wish
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm very proud of the I think this is
Speaker 1: the fortieth year for that. In any event, we get
Speaker 1: to the talk about County Veteran Services Steve Belzo in
Speaker 1: studio to talk about some things they got going on
Speaker 1: for my veteran friends, local stories, and this is you know,
Speaker 1: actually it's a wonderful thing. It's sad on so many levels,
Speaker 1: but fortunately we have what are called now safe Haven
Speaker 1: baby box and the one in Lebanon was just used
Speaker 1: to safely surrender a baby girl. Webanon Police said. This
Speaker 1: is a year and a half after it was installed.
Speaker 1: Boxes located at the fire station on North Broadway installed
Speaker 1: of October last year, the tenth safe Haven baby box
Speaker 1: in the state. Lebanon Police say Monday the City of
Speaker 1: Lebanon Communications Center received an alarm from the box about
Speaker 1: three thirty in the afternoon. Police and fires showed up,
Speaker 1: finding a baby girl had been surrendered. Theyby immediately taken
Speaker 1: to since sint Children's Hospital and Warren County Children's Services
Speaker 1: officials were notified. These boxes are being installed in fire
Speaker 1: departments across the country, thus allowing parents the option to
Speaker 1: safely and securely as well as anonymously surrender in newborn
Speaker 1: if they are unable to provide care for it. Under
Speaker 1: Ohio's safe Haven Law, baby Box allows parents to again
Speaker 1: anonymously surrender newborn without any criminal charges related to it.
Speaker 1: Once the baby's inside the box, it locks itself and
Speaker 1: then sends a series of alerts to first responders. And
Speaker 1: since safe Haven's launch in twenty sixteen, thirty five babies
Speaker 1: have been surrendered nationwide. That's according to their website. So
Speaker 1: one wife saved and going back and please, please, please,
Speaker 1: if you care about finances and you want to know
Speaker 1: what politicians are capable of doing by way of destruction
Speaker 1: in terms of budgetary realities. Todd Zinzer on the program
Speaker 1: yesterday talking without the City of Cincinnati and the Pension
Speaker 1: problems that they face which are seemingly insurmountable. And one
Speaker 1: of the things that he was joking about, sort of
Speaker 1: half joking, is just the reality. And Westside Jim Keefer
Speaker 1: told me it was council member Kearney whose idea was
Speaker 1: for the city to pay for stained glass windows. I
Speaker 1: believe it was in Avondale. And this is after Todd
Speaker 1: and I'd been talking about the six hundred and nearly
Speaker 1: seven hundred billion dollars a million dollar hole in the
Speaker 1: pensions program which has been just ignored largely for the
Speaker 1: past several decades. With that, I pivot over to the
Speaker 1: Red Bike program. Nonprofit Red Bike. They just announced they
Speaker 1: have enough funds for you to ride a red bike
Speaker 1: all winter long up until April of next year, but
Speaker 1: then they don't they have any money after that. They're
Speaker 1: looking for what they describe as long term funding commitment
Speaker 1: so they can continue operation past April when the weather
Speaker 1: gets warm enough to ride a bike. Council Member Mark
Speaker 1: Jefferies said he's been working with a coalition it would
Speaker 1: be partners over several months and said he's confident a
Speaker 1: deal is going to be reached with funding before April,
Speaker 1: including funding from vriety different sources going back to budgetary
Speaker 1: problems facing the city. They say money from Metro Northern Kentucky,
Speaker 1: the City of Cincinnati, and maybe some corporate sponsors or
Speaker 1: tourist partnerships. The latter two I embrace all day long.
Speaker 1: You can get a corporate sponsor, make it work fine,
Speaker 1: that's less taxpayer dollars to go for that program. Bike
Speaker 1: Share requires subsidies for all users. Props to WCPO Danielle
Speaker 1: Goodman and Andrew Rowan for the reporting on this. Consultants
Speaker 1: analyze that the fair box only covers thirty seven percent
Speaker 1: of the overall cost of the bike per ride. The
Speaker 1: Go program requires further subsidy for lower cost so the
Speaker 1: new plan spreads the investment across multiple stakeholders. It's a
Speaker 1: comment from a counsulman, Jefferies and said it's a very
Speaker 1: sensible plan. Bike Share Program board voted to shut red
Speaker 1: Bike down per in March because of funding issues that
Speaker 1: arose after it's lost a major sponsor. Executive director Doug
Speaker 1: mcclinty previously told WCPO that would have taken well over
Speaker 1: a quarter of a million dollars to really make sure
Speaker 1: that we're not having to close things down, but multiple
Speaker 1: organizations across creators SINCINNY have pledged to fund the Red
Speaker 1: Bike program. They have four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: totally pledged. I guess ridership down this year versus last,
Speaker 1: but its Go pass program has seen a steady increase
Speaker 1: in popularity, at least according to Red Bike. It's a
Speaker 1: five dollar monthly membership for low income customers compared to
Speaker 1: full fare thirty dollars monthly memberships. And again that go
Speaker 1: program requires further subsidies to keep the cost down. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if they can't find the money for that program.
Speaker 1: So at thirty six, if you have Kesee talk station,
Speaker 1: we're gonna learn some things from Carmack County Veteran Services.
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Speaker 1: The talk station seven forty one here, I could you
Speaker 1: have k City talk station so happy it's Wednesday, listener
Speaker 1: on It's Wednesday. As I keep reminded folks throughout the morning,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be a price heal chilly today, last one
Speaker 1: of the year. Come and enjoy some food, food, fellowship
Speaker 1: and the celebratory nature of the holiday season. It's always
Speaker 1: a great time, at least from my perspective, and it's
Speaker 1: always a great time, and it's a wonderful thing for
Speaker 1: me to invite into the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Speaker 1: Anybody that's looking out for veterans causes and someone who does,
Speaker 1: Steve Bozo with the Clarmont County Veterans Services. You can
Speaker 1: find him on my Comer County Veterans dot com. Steve.
Speaker 1: Good to have you here, my friend.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Brian, and just a shout out to our
Speaker 4: fellow warriors out there on the streets listening.
Speaker 1: Amen, Amen to all of them. And whatever kind of
Speaker 1: holiday you're celebrating, I personally don't care. My only point
Speaker 1: is at least be in a celebratory mood. I feel
Speaker 1: like we've been living with so much anger division. The
Speaker 1: politics has gotten so out of hand, absolutely the elections
Speaker 1: behind us. Let's exhale, let's enjoy and embrace each other
Speaker 1: this holiday spirit. And that was one of the wonderful things.
Speaker 1: I don't to eat into your time, but thanks I
Speaker 1: was just telling you about Thanksgiving, about my diet, just
Speaker 1: how wonderful it was, the p con pie. But uh,
Speaker 1: zero discussion of politics, great, nothing, zero, zilch, nada. No
Speaker 1: one brought up anybody's name, No one said yay. No
Speaker 1: one said, oh my god, this sucks. It was just
Speaker 1: talking about family and how great the food was. No
Speaker 1: more dissension, it was so wonderful. And then you know
Speaker 1: the other component of it was, you know, I was
Speaker 1: waiting for all hell to break loose to day after
Speaker 1: the election, regardless who won, the riots in the streets
Speaker 1: and again, oh my god. Anyway, Steve Beck over to
Speaker 1: the Climate K Veteran Services ROI return on investment. That's
Speaker 1: I said, I didn't get any notes today and you
Speaker 1: said return on investment? Like, no, the hell?
Speaker 4: Yeah, how do we spend this for veterans? Let's let's
Speaker 4: talk about I'm from the senior enlisted, from the sergeant major.
Speaker 4: There is constant investment in the troops. You're constantly teaching
Speaker 4: to benefit them both in war time and in peace.
Speaker 4: How do you improve your life? How are we going
Speaker 4: to combat the enemy. It's always this direction and redirection
Speaker 4: so that we are the most competent lethal force that
Speaker 4: we can be. Now, bring that back out in civilian world.
Speaker 4: I've got to start out though, Brian. The seventh of
Speaker 4: December is coming up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone knows what I hope is right.
Speaker 4: God's say December seven's coming up. We all know the
Speaker 4: attack on Pearl Harbor World War two, the door that
Speaker 4: the enemy kicked open that engaged our involvement. Now I
Speaker 4: bring that up because one World War two veterans. They
Speaker 4: are passing away and going to Devin's hats quicker than
Speaker 4: we can count. But yet they're still out there.
Speaker 2: So thank you.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 4: You've set a precedent of who America is on the
Speaker 4: global scale. So great job. There is also a degree
Speaker 4: of leadership, or lack thereof behind December seventh. There's conversation
Speaker 4: that we actually knew the Japanese Imperial Army was looking
Speaker 4: at data at the United States and the time to
Speaker 4: hit them days in advance of December seventh. Yes, I've
Speaker 4: heard that President Roosevelt put a little bit of leadership
Speaker 4: effort and forethought into where do you think if they
Speaker 4: are wheld, they come from Japan?
Speaker 1: Right, right, specific exactly between California and Japan.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, we have this small bump out in
Speaker 4: the middle of the ocean, right so to fly sorties.
Speaker 4: This was an aircraft flying a mission. We call them sorties. Yeah,
Speaker 4: two to four hours out.
Speaker 1: Every day.
Speaker 4: Do you think we would have seen the Imperial Army
Speaker 4: steaming towards Hawaii life effected a strike on them in surprise,
Speaker 4: rather than on us. The lack of leadership and decision
Speaker 4: making is what affected Pearl Harbor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now.
Speaker 4: It's behind us. So what's in front of us now?
Speaker 4: Veterans are on active duty, veterans come on effective duty.
Speaker 4: And what I want to talk about is that the
Speaker 4: lack of a leadership by our government for our veterans.
Speaker 4: We often look at the military individual just twenty years. Wow,
Speaker 4: that's great. Twenty years. You're thirty eight years old. You've
Speaker 4: got a lifetime retirement already, better than one four oh
Speaker 4: one k fifty percent of your base pay for the
Speaker 4: rest of your life at twenty years. Back in the
Speaker 4: late eighties early nineties, the government came out with what
Speaker 4: was called the Reducts Plan. Now, the Reducts Plan is
Speaker 4: what fifteen years, a career service member could receive a
Speaker 4: thirty thousand dollars bonus. The trade off fifteen years, I'm
Speaker 4: going to send a thirty thousand dollars bonus to your
Speaker 4: bank account. I'm attacks at first, So at twenty percent, right,
Speaker 4: you're maybe receiving twenty four thousand now, right, Now for
Speaker 4: that is that when you hit twenty years and you retire,
Speaker 4: and let's say A seven for one of the branches
Speaker 4: retires at twenty years, fifty percent of his base pay.
Speaker 4: That base pay now, because you accepted that thirty thousand
Speaker 4: dollars bonus at fifteen years is reduced to forty percent.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, I'm giving up ten percent of my retirement
Speaker 4: every year for the rest of my life. Now, consider
Speaker 4: it's about two hundred and fifty dollars a year that
Speaker 4: you're giving up. And in ten years the government would
Speaker 4: have reclaimed it's thirty thousand dollars or it's twenty four
Speaker 4: thousand dollars at lent tea. Yeah, right, what eight years
Speaker 4: is twenty four? Yeah, I'm sure they'd give ten years. Right,
Speaker 4: she retired twenty years. I've paid them back two hundred
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Speaker 1: Steve Belzo from Clemont County Veteran Services. Find them online
Speaker 1: at Claremont County Veterans dot com. Okay, you set the
Speaker 1: stage for why it's a bad idea to take that
Speaker 1: thirty grand dangling care to fifteen years into service. Right
Speaker 1: if you just wait, you're gonna get so much more
Speaker 1: by way of your your your post service retirement retirement
Speaker 1: of fits.
Speaker 4: It's but you know, in the lifespan of retirement of
Speaker 4: a veteran that equates to almost six hundred to eight
Speaker 4: hundred thousand dollars, because not only are you giving up
Speaker 4: ten percent of your carrement pay, your cost of living
Speaker 4: adjustments are next until you hit sixty two, you get
Speaker 4: a one time cost of living adjustment where the rest
Speaker 4: of the world gets it every year, right, or the
Speaker 4: United States? Right, the social curity says, oh, this is
Speaker 4: the cost of living adjustment. You don't get it, so
Speaker 4: your retirement pay is declining every year. We are advancing
Speaker 4: this economy.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Let's just all explain in detail to active service members
Speaker 1: at fifteen years when they're offered this very very tempting
Speaker 1: I'm going to go buy a new car thirty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars payment.
Speaker 4: You know, how many would you see in line with
Speaker 4: their fingers in their ears even though you're trying to
Speaker 4: teach them, because all they see is the fact period
Speaker 4: of thirty thousand dollars. So it's the education, right, it's
Speaker 4: having as a leader.
Speaker 2: Stop right.
Speaker 4: My admin's not allowed to sign it until they come
Speaker 4: see me that they want it, and they're gonna dance
Speaker 4: the boogie dance in front of me to validate why
Speaker 4: this is beneficial to them, and then I get to
Speaker 4: turn it back on them. This is what that's going
Speaker 4: to cost you. Now, when we consider that, where's the wisdom?
Speaker 4: If I'm not there, where's the wisdom I'm not Oh,
Speaker 4: thirty grand looks great, sounds great, man, boy, could I
Speaker 4: pay off some bills today? We're just going to start
Speaker 4: increasing them again tomorrow. Right, it's like the credit card scheme, right,
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna start adding to it. So it's like
Speaker 4: you taking your foreign car to Steve's oil change. I
Speaker 4: just started it down the corner. Come on, bring your
Speaker 4: car over to me. I'll change the oil. Brian, I've
Speaker 4: got I've got a filter and a couple of courts
Speaker 4: of oil. I don't know what weight they are. Would
Speaker 4: you take your car to me?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: No, right, So I had foreign exchange absolutely right, certified technicians.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 4: And so when we're talking now outside the military, my
Speaker 4: office Claremont County Veteran Service Office, my service officers are
Speaker 4: as certified as your mechanics are at foreign exchange. They
Speaker 4: are certified with the state, they are certified nationally. They
Speaker 4: are smart, intelligent, and have the ability to file paperwork
Speaker 4: with the VA in accordance with how the VA wants
Speaker 4: to see it. There are things of primary presumptive secondary conditions.
Speaker 4: But just like the reducts plan, who does that benefit?
Speaker 4: Obviously the government, the VA decides, I'm we are going
Speaker 4: to let veterans apply on their own behalf now, so
Speaker 4: we're gonna put it out on our website. Do you
Speaker 4: really think that's going to benefit the veteran?
Speaker 1: If there are pitfalls and problems and traps that you
Speaker 1: can fall into, then the answer is no. It requires
Speaker 1: someone like you to explain it does.
Speaker 4: It is atrocious. Alls I have to have is an
Speaker 4: old form. Alls I have to have is an inappropriate
Speaker 4: sequence of filing. And all this gets denied and then
Speaker 4: I've got to set an appeal, so it's one of
Speaker 4: two months to hear back. Now I got it to
Speaker 4: set an appeal, it's one to two months for that,
Speaker 4: and it keeps snowballing. So then what happens They call
Speaker 4: my office and want to talk to my service officers.
Speaker 4: What did I do wrong? I did this on my own.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like your friend back in high school
Speaker 4: decide he's going to rebuild his own motorcycle and he
Speaker 4: ends up taking all the boxes of parts down the
Speaker 4: local motorcycle shower and go, I couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 4: We you assemble it, which would have been more economical
Speaker 4: for your friend.
Speaker 1: Always hire the professional. Hire the professional. Rests money.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, and agreed, So my services they're free. Make
Speaker 4: the appointment. I'm not even charging you to put the
Speaker 4: motorcycle back together.
Speaker 1: That's that's awesome advice, Steve. It's terrific what you do.
Speaker 1: And I know everyone there shares your enthusiasms health the
Speaker 1: American veterans.
Speaker 2: They do.
Speaker 1: That's the great thing about it. It's not the government,
Speaker 1: you know. I know you were government anty in the
Speaker 1: sense you're funding, but you know, the point is you're
Speaker 1: on the side of the veteran. You have a fiduciary
Speaker 1: obligation to the veteran. Yes, it's not something written down
Speaker 1: it says that because you could steer them in the
Speaker 1: wrong way and say no, no, just go ahead and
Speaker 1: fill off the form online. They'll take care of it.
Speaker 1: Or you can walk through the pitfalls, the challenges and
Speaker 1: the concerns that they may very well fall in to
Speaker 1: avoid the whole headache. And they're happy and you are
Speaker 1: fulfilled in your.
Speaker 4: Mission and they're tracking your claim for you.
Speaker 1: See Claremont County Veterans dot Com. Stephen, the cur will
Speaker 1: take great care of you. God bless you, stee you
Speaker 1: for your service for our country, your continued service for
Speaker 1: the American veteran and everything you all do out there
Speaker 1: day to day. It is my pleasure. I love love
Speaker 1: helping out the veterans. Seven fifty seven fifty five KR
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Speaker 1: do a little aftermath. We're going to find out about
Speaker 1: jd Vance's replacement maybe and is Hamilton County a loss
Speaker 1: cause he'll be up next.
Speaker 2: Look what it happened.
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Speaker 1: very happy Wednesday to you friend Thomas. Inviting everyone to
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Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing everyone and been looking forward to
Speaker 1: this moment in time all morning when I saw him
Speaker 1: on the rundown. Welcome back to the morning show, Alex Chanceafilo,
Speaker 1: head of the Ohio Republican Party. That's a pleasure to
Speaker 1: have you on the morning.
Speaker 2: Show, Brian, Good morning, sir, Good to be with you.
Speaker 1: Did you have a particularly thankful Thanksgiving this year, sir?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I certainly did. I, as I've told
Speaker 3: a lot of friends, this is the most enjoyable post
Speaker 3: election period of my career. We obviously had a very
Speaker 3: good night here in Ohio, an excellent night actually, So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm thankful for good things. But you know, Brian, much
Speaker 3: like yourself, I know I see you on social and
Speaker 3: I know a little bit about you. I'm grateful to
Speaker 3: have a wonderful family and a hugely supportive and solid,
Speaker 3: loving family. That's that's all around me, And that's really, Brian,
Speaker 3: what ultimately matters, my friend, You and I both know
Speaker 3: and that that was great. Watch a little football. None
Speaker 3: of it any good.
Speaker 2: You know, all the teams I cared about went down.
Speaker 3: But you know, Ohio State loses the Michigan, the Bengals
Speaker 3: take another painful loss, the Bearcats get beat.
Speaker 2: I know that the hat trick of bad.
Speaker 1: You know, it's tough being a football fan here in
Speaker 1: Ohio of late, But anyway, the games have been enjoyable.
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed watching football more this year I think than
Speaker 1: any year of my life. In spite of the fact
Speaker 1: that most of the teams that I support are losers,
Speaker 1: I'm just starting to enjoy the game. Maybe it's my
Speaker 1: old age kicking in, but anyhow, Yes, and you're right,
Speaker 1: I'll double down on your on your your noting thanks
Speaker 1: for wonderful family. I mean without family, I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be I wouldn't be Alie right now without
Speaker 1: my wife and family. So, without further ado, one of
Speaker 1: the reasons that Thanksgiving was so wonderful, in addition to
Speaker 1: taking a break from a ridiculous diet and enjoying pecan
Speaker 1: pie made by my wife, nobody taught politics, and it
Speaker 1: was a glorious thing. We all just sort of just
Speaker 1: smiled and chatted and remembered and had stories to tell
Speaker 1: and what we were doing in our lives, and that
Speaker 1: was a refreshing experience. And I feel a little lighter
Speaker 1: after the election is over, because I really and I
Speaker 1: don't know how you felt, or those in your inner
Speaker 1: circle felt, but I think most of my listeners, because
Speaker 1: I've heard from so many of them, were really concerned
Speaker 1: about the day after and that it was going to
Speaker 1: some sort of riot in the street kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Most notably, and I want to just get your reaction
Speaker 1: on this point on that if Trump had not won
Speaker 1: the popular vote, they would have been screaming in the
Speaker 1: streets about getting rid of the electoral college. Right. Oh,
Speaker 1: here it happens again. The popular vote went for you know,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harrison. Nonetheless, the electoral college bubble burst nothing. The
Speaker 1: silence is deafening, and it's beautiful, and it just it
Speaker 1: just it was like a tremendous weight had been lifted
Speaker 1: off my shoulders out about over the abundance of concern
Speaker 1: that I had been keeping internally.
Speaker 3: Well, no, I agree, and you know the noise that
Speaker 3: I experienced eight years ago. Actually, and I won't recount
Speaker 3: the whole story, but I was. I was an elector
Speaker 3: for President Trump even eight years ago, meaning I was
Speaker 3: one of you know, at the time, seventeen or I
Speaker 3: think it was seventeen people that went to the electoral College,
Speaker 3: and I was inundated with calls and emails and letters
Speaker 3: sent to me saying ignore the will of Ohio voters
Speaker 3: and do not, let you know, do not name Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: That noise was overwhelming and really pushing back and I've
Speaker 3: heard none of that. I mean, I really think, Brian,
Speaker 3: I really my observation of this election cycle was, especially now,
Speaker 3: the nation got a major course correction, and.
Speaker 2: You're seeing it.
Speaker 3: I mean, you see things like AOC stripping her bio
Speaker 3: of her chosen pronouns, right. I mean, I think that
Speaker 3: Democrats are saying, gosh, we went too far, too fast,
Speaker 3: something we've been saying forever. And you know, I said
Speaker 3: for really a year, especially as the Ohio chairman, because
Speaker 3: I would get these calls saying, well, you know, it's
Speaker 3: not a swing state anymore, and I would say, listen,
Speaker 3: it's not that the state has changed that dramatically. Our
Speaker 3: populations haven't shifted. The Democrats shifted. They they left the
Speaker 3: mainstream of American politics. And you're seeing it now, you know,
Speaker 3: from some of the gray hairs in their party. James Carville.
Speaker 3: I saw something with Ron mcmanuel saying, you know, we've
Speaker 3: we've lost our way. We've been saying that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I you know, the Democrats used to talk about kitchen
Speaker 3: table issues as well, and we would have a healthy debate,
Speaker 3: you know, Brian, about how to split up the American pie,
Speaker 3: how to how to make the best use of this
Speaker 3: this wonderful capitalist system of ours, and that stopped that
Speaker 3: that the Democrats have walked away. They don't even believe
Speaker 3: in the system anymore. It seems to me most Democrats,
Speaker 3: you know, barely sort of support the Constitution and patriotism
Speaker 3: in the Statue of Liberty. So you know, it's that's
Speaker 3: that's where they are. And you know they've paid a
Speaker 3: price at the poll. So uh, you know, we've seen
Speaker 3: we've seen a shift here over the last month where
Speaker 3: I think even Democrats are chasened a bit and they
Speaker 3: know that, you know, they I know that they have
Speaker 3: to find themselves back to the center of American politics.
Speaker 2: So this is going to continue to happen.
Speaker 1: Amen. And I guess the mere fact that although I
Speaker 1: know he is going to be sworn in as president,
Speaker 1: he is the next president Donald Trump. They no longer
Speaker 1: have that whipping boy that they would card out literally
Speaker 1: every other word in any subject matter they were talking about.
Speaker 1: You know, the Congress accent fails, the passive piece of legislation.
Speaker 1: What's Trump's fault, Well, he's not in office, amn its
Speaker 1: trumps fault Trump drop trum trump tr Trump. And they
Speaker 1: tried to build it up so much and make people
Speaker 1: feel so guilty for even uttering the man's name with
Speaker 1: anything positive to say about him. People shut their mouths,
Speaker 1: kept quiet and low, and behold, he got elected president,
Speaker 1: and he got elected by the majority of the people
Speaker 1: in the country. On top of it, so boom, the
Speaker 1: whole argument is gone, and leaving them with what nothing
Speaker 1: other than to recalibrate, readjust and realize that the majority
Speaker 1: of American people are not woke. They're not in favor
Speaker 1: of DEI, they're not in favor of defunding police, not
Speaker 1: in favor of decriminalizing the system. And we've all witnessed
Speaker 1: the aftermath of those ridiculous policies that have been embraced
Speaker 1: over the past four to six years. Man, it's uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's I'm sorry. I'm just really enjoying on a
Speaker 1: sort of a Shoden Freud a kind of level right now.
Speaker 1: Except for Hamilton County. I can ask you about that one.
Speaker 1: Is it too late? And I part of me wants
Speaker 1: to think, you know, and we can talk about some
Speaker 1: of the larger issues Jdvans for example here Alex, But
Speaker 1: you know, Hamilton County. I went to bed knowing that
Speaker 1: it was all blue. We lost the prosecutor, we didn't
Speaker 1: get the shareff we got. You know, we all knew
Speaker 1: what the outcome of the other races was going to be,
Speaker 1: you know, depending on where they were. But blue, blue, blue, blue, blue,
Speaker 1: all across. But as you look out over the landscape,
Speaker 1: and you know, sort of like the discussion we're having
Speaker 1: right now, people are rejecting. They are reversing, They are
Speaker 1: going back on what used to work. The bluest cities
Speaker 1: in the country are screaming their bloody heads off over
Speaker 1: the resources being allocated to the illegal immigration flow. They're
Speaker 1: screaming about their neighborhoods being taken over by drug addicts
Speaker 1: and drug dealers. All the stores being closed is because
Speaker 1: no one prosecutes a crime for stealing. Stores are closing.
Speaker 1: It's in the citizen read. The Democrats who elected the
Speaker 1: woke officials to put these pauses into place are now
Speaker 1: seeing the aftermath and demanding that they do a one eighty. Now,
Speaker 1: with that said, can that happen in Hamilton County?
Speaker 3: Well, you know the answer is that I remain hopeful.
Speaker 3: You know, I left being the chair there a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago, and I you know, I walked very carefully.
Speaker 3: What's happening here? I still live here half the time,
Speaker 3: so you know, it's important that things go well in
Speaker 3: Hamilton County. Look, the answer really is this, Brian, It's
Speaker 3: an answer unfortunately I've given a long time. I mean,
Speaker 3: big cities really across the America, that's not It's certainly
Speaker 3: believed me having gotten around the state. It's the exact
Speaker 3: same conversation is happening in Cleveland. The exact same conversation
Speaker 3: is happening in Columbus. You know they have am can
Speaker 3: tell you in Columbus for instance, they've really the Republican
Speaker 3: Party there and they've got a great, strong leader, much
Speaker 3: like we have here. They just you know, they didn't
Speaker 3: even field candidates because you know, you're picking your spots.
Speaker 3: I mean, the future really for Hamilton County is I've
Speaker 3: got a couple of prescriptions and they're not you know,
Speaker 3: none of them aarticularly sexy. I mean, but one thing
Speaker 3: I want Hamilton County residents to not forget is you
Speaker 3: are an important voter to the messaging here in Ohio.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, Hamilton County delivered one hundred and seventy thousand,
Speaker 3: roughly votes for Donald Trump. Just to give you a comparison,
Speaker 3: Butler County, which is a very red county, delivered about
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifteen thousand votes for Donald Trump. So
Speaker 3: we need Hamilton County fully functioning, fully voting, and the
Speaker 3: same is true for Bernie Marino and everybody else. So
Speaker 3: you know, the impact that big counties have on this
Speaker 3: statewide ticket, it's not going away. So you know, these
Speaker 3: counties matter very very much now, these county level races,
Speaker 3: I think. So the first thing is you can't lose
Speaker 3: sight of that as a Republican in Hamilton County. The
Speaker 3: second thing is, you know, we can actually, you know,
Speaker 3: begin to field targeted races with candidates with crossover appeal.
Speaker 3: And sometimes, you know, that's a hard message to hear,
Speaker 3: especially from you know, some of my really conservative friends,
Speaker 3: and I count myself among that group, but it's hard
Speaker 3: to say it, but sometimes you have to find and
Speaker 3: I think most of the powers had that. I think
Speaker 3: she had ran a wonderful campaign, but you know, you're
Speaker 3: just you're just in a blue city and it just
Speaker 3: makes it harder and harder. But you know, look, I mean,
Speaker 3: as I've as I've shared with the local chairman here
Speaker 3: and the ones in Cleveland and Columbus, you know, don't
Speaker 3: don't You know you have to celebrate what you were
Speaker 3: a part of, and that is winning Ohio because, believe me,
Speaker 3: Ohio does not go for Donald Trump without Cleveland, Columbus
Speaker 3: and Cincinnati showing up in huge numbers. And make no mistake,
Speaker 3: Brian Republicans in Hamilton County turned out. They did turn out.
Speaker 3: The problem is there's just too many people in the
Speaker 3: cities continuing to hear this left wing message from the
Speaker 3: Democratic Party. And look, can we turn that around? I
Speaker 3: think we can. You're seeing us make inroads, certainly with
Speaker 3: halfcan American males for making inroads. You're seeing crime as
Speaker 3: a key issue for our party. So yeah, there is
Speaker 3: hope ahead, but you know it's going to take a slow,
Speaker 3: steady progression and candidates who can speak to issues that
Speaker 3: Democrats care about in the big cities.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, I like meless of power. She
Speaker 1: went literally everywhere in the county, all over the place,
Speaker 1: much in the same way Donald Trump as a presidential candidate,
Speaker 1: went into areas and neighborhoods and edit forums that no
Speaker 1: other Republican president would have dare trod and he proved
Speaker 1: and got unable to was able to get his message out.
Speaker 1: I mean, even just by running a candidate that may
Speaker 1: have a very low likelihood of winning as a Republican,
Speaker 1: you can get forced the other side to have to
Speaker 1: address these key issues. And that's kind of where my
Speaker 1: hope comes from, because those far left wing policies have
Speaker 1: ruined cities, and even the Democrats who voted for the
Speaker 1: people who enacted them realize that. And that's why I
Speaker 1: think there's a positive direction opportunity here. So let's pause,
Speaker 1: weib bring Alex back because we want to talk about
Speaker 1: Jade Vance's replacement and how things are looking in Columbus
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Speaker 1: Twenty on a Wednesday, Brian Thomas with are the Ohio
Speaker 1: Republican Party Chairman Alex tirant Tofilo going a little aftermath
Speaker 1: post election analysis of the state and one of the
Speaker 1: things we got to talk about now JD. Vance and
Speaker 1: what a wonderful a choice he ended up turning out
Speaker 1: to be and maybe future President of the United States
Speaker 1: of America. Hometown hero JD. Who's going to replace JD? Vans? Alex,
Speaker 1: any inside baseball on that you want to let my
Speaker 1: listeners know about.
Speaker 3: Well, Brian, no, I'm having some fun. Yeah, No, I
Speaker 3: mean Lexa, the governor makes this appointment. For anyone listening
Speaker 3: to they, I'd understand that the governor of Ohio, under
Speaker 3: our state constitution makes this makes this appointment to the
Speaker 3: United States Senate.
Speaker 2: And there are many good candidates.
Speaker 3: And really the reason I'm being a little coy and
Speaker 3: having some fun with you is there are some people
Speaker 3: that think can quote Republican Party makes this call the
Speaker 3: Republican Party's antithy I run, we don't look, we're we
Speaker 3: think there are a slew of great candidates. You know,
Speaker 3: if I start naming them, I probably miss some. But
Speaker 3: you know, certainly Frank Larrose is interested who's our secretary
Speaker 3: of State. I think that's been out there. Jane Timpkin,
Speaker 3: who's you know, a native Cincinnati and actually now lives
Speaker 3: in Can'ton, Ohio. And a name that's well known in
Speaker 3: Republican Party circles, you know, Warren Davidson, I know is interviewed.
Speaker 3: Who's our congress my congressman on the west side of
Speaker 3: Hamilton County.
Speaker 2: I don't know that.
Speaker 3: I don't I think I've made news. I'm even sure
Speaker 3: he interviewed. I just think he might be interested, So,
Speaker 3: you know, I just there are lots of good people.
Speaker 3: Again I've left out other names, people that maybe in
Speaker 3: this part of the state do not know might carry
Speaker 3: from central Ohio. I think is one of the names
Speaker 3: that's been bandied about. So you know, there are other
Speaker 3: people that have shown an interest in this. You know,
Speaker 3: lots of people have, I mean, being a United States
Speaker 3: Center or you know, it's one of the one hundred
Speaker 3: most powerful legislative jobs in the world. Really, so if
Speaker 3: the governor has to make a call here, you know,
Speaker 3: the timing of this, I just don't know. I mean
Speaker 3: I believe and I don't have any you know, sort
Speaker 3: of inside information here necessarily, but I believe that's gonna
Speaker 3: run right up until right around January to twentieth's only
Speaker 3: because Senator advances vote, you know, in a Senate that's
Speaker 3: you know, only a couple votes of going the wrong
Speaker 3: way there. So I think his vote will be needed
Speaker 3: to confirm him any of the President Trump's nominees. So
Speaker 3: you know, I think that you're going to see that
Speaker 3: that run, you know, into January. I don't think we're
Speaker 3: gonna have news on that front, you know, for some time.
Speaker 3: And listen, I mean, my job and the job of
Speaker 3: the Ohio Republican Party is to elect Republicans. That's the
Speaker 3: number one obligation of the organization. So we'll we'll wait,
Speaker 3: and you know, whoever the nominee of the Republican Party
Speaker 3: is in twenty twenty six, that's who will run.
Speaker 2: Brian, This is one of important point.
Speaker 3: Do I just again, I know you've got some of
Speaker 3: the most educated listeners anywhere, but people need to understand
Speaker 3: that whoever gets appointed will run two times in four years, and.
Speaker 2: That is a daunting task, I want to tell you.
Speaker 3: On others, someone like Bernie Marino had to raise four
Speaker 3: hundred to million dollars that's a number that's hard to
Speaker 3: say for people who have to raise money. And I'm
Speaker 3: one of those folks. So it is a serious commitment.
Speaker 3: Bernie Marino is you know, he is he He had
Speaker 3: to have broken records on the amount of miles that
Speaker 3: the man put on his on his vehicle because he
Speaker 3: was all over the state. The commitment to take on
Speaker 3: this challenge is a real one. These are not just
Speaker 3: TV TV appearances and speeches. This is a commitment that's
Speaker 3: a seven day a week commitment for years. And I
Speaker 3: you know again, Brian, well, well, I've got the floor
Speaker 3: on that point. I do want to just make one
Speaker 3: additional point. I wish people sometimes could see behind the
Speaker 3: curtain what I've seen for a long time, and that
Speaker 3: is the commitment that people make to actually run for office.
Speaker 3: And I know there's a cynicism Brian, around politics and
Speaker 3: about politicians, and you know, some of that's the warranted,
Speaker 3: but you know, these people work very very hard for
Speaker 3: the right to go and represent you, and somebody like
Speaker 3: Bernie is a post to child for that. Others I mean, well,
Speaker 3: it's the powers work very very hard.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: Sharon Kennedy is notorious. Our chief Justice here in Ohio
Speaker 3: for just having laid it out. I mean, these people
Speaker 3: set aside their lives, and I look, I got a
Speaker 3: little taste of that myself. You know, I went I
Speaker 3: probably went a month without you know, a serious day
Speaker 3: where I didn't do anything political. So, you know, again
Speaker 3: not being a martyr, but people should understand during this
Speaker 3: holiday season some level of gratitude towards these people and
Speaker 3: the work they put out to go and fight for us.
Speaker 2: I think is is you know, I think is merited.
Speaker 1: So it is, and you know, the the jaded and
Speaker 1: cynical among us then say, well, there's a reason they
Speaker 1: work that hard for us, because they're going to go off,
Speaker 1: you know, not you know, being of modest financial means,
Speaker 1: and like every other human being that ends up getting
Speaker 1: elected and going to d C. Somehow magically they come
Speaker 1: back multi millionaires. Which is why I like guys like Moreno,
Speaker 1: I like Ramas swimming, I like must because they seem
Speaker 1: to be wanting to do the job for the good
Speaker 1: of the people. They don't need the damn money, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Well, there's no question I mean, I you know, Bernie
Speaker 3: marino Is has taken a pay cut for that you
Speaker 3: can be sure or as are lots of other people
Speaker 3: in this business who I know personally, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's a serious commitment. And look, I mean
Speaker 3: that cynicism is healthy sometimes, Brian, because we should hold
Speaker 3: these people to account. You know the other point I
Speaker 3: would quickly make, and I know you're not answer the question,
Speaker 3: but what we as Republicans need to do. And I've
Speaker 3: told this to everybody, and I've said it every time
Speaker 3: I've been part of winning elections and losing ones. We
Speaker 3: now got to go do the job. I mean, we
Speaker 3: enjoyed this victory really for about two or three days.
Speaker 3: But we must as Republicans go and do what we
Speaker 3: said we're gonna do under Donald Trump's leadership. We're gonna
Speaker 3: have the House in the Senate federally, we must do
Speaker 3: what we said deportations, we must steal the border. We've
Speaker 3: got to cut taxes. We've got to you know, keep
Speaker 3: the cut the tax cuts that we're in place to
Speaker 3: keep this economy growing, cut prices, drill for energy, all
Speaker 3: the things. And I say, Donald Trump is a guy
Speaker 3: who has a checklist. This guy's tireless too. He works
Speaker 3: his tail off. We got to do these things so
Speaker 3: that the pendulum does not swing back, because ultimately, in
Speaker 3: American politics it tends to swing back. These wins can
Speaker 3: be fleeting, but we must do what we said we
Speaker 3: are going to do. So people like me who have
Speaker 3: to go out and sell the Republican Party and talk
Speaker 3: about our accomplishments, not just you know, our aspirations.
Speaker 1: Amen that Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, Alex Charantafila. Alex,
Speaker 1: if you and I don't talk before the Christmas season
Speaker 1: kicks in, I hope you have a very merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Best to health to you and your entire family, And
Speaker 1: again I share your true appreciation for family and the
Speaker 1: importance of it. God bless you, my friend. I hope
Speaker 1: we get to talk again real soon.
Speaker 2: Me too, Mary. Christmas to you and your family and
Speaker 2: all your listeners. Brian, thanks so much, Thanks much.
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Speaker 1: right now on zoom call. Welcome back here, Honor. You
Speaker 1: know how much I look forward to this. It looks
Speaker 1: like you're at a different venue today.
Speaker 8: I am. I am I'm in my office in New
Speaker 8: York City, where I will be for the next I
Speaker 8: don't know how long.
Speaker 1: Slightly different schedules.
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Speaker 1: Look, you're looking great. I'm sure you've got a whole
Speaker 1: lot on your plate, as you typically do. And we'll
Speaker 1: find out what's going on with judging freedom coming up
Speaker 1: at the end of the segment, as we always do.
Speaker 1: But this one I've been calling all morning an upcoming
Speaker 1: constitutional law lesson. We're going to be We're going to
Speaker 1: be engaged in a deeper die because when I read
Speaker 1: the topic, or when I read your columns heading, you
Speaker 1: captured the column three cheers for Hunter's pardon, and I
Speaker 1: started worrying, because you know, every once in a while,
Speaker 1: my listener's perspectives on politics and life will come into
Speaker 1: a measure of disagreement with the judge, like I can't
Speaker 1: believe he said that. And I'll defend you all day long.
Speaker 1: I'll defend your position even if I disagree with it,
Speaker 1: because we engage in a thoughtful conversation, and I wasn't
Speaker 1: expecting you to back up to where you went when
Speaker 1: I was starting to read the column, and the point
Speaker 1: being fundamentally the original point that you make regularly one
Speaker 1: that the foundation, the highest law of the land in
Speaker 1: our country is the Constitution, and it limits the size
Speaker 1: and scope of government so much so that Hunter Biden
Speaker 1: shouldn't even have been charged into these because they don't
Speaker 1: have the authority for the various charges like, for example,
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment. You shouldn't have to fill out a
Speaker 1: form to have your exercise your Second Amendment. So go ahead,
Speaker 1: I make you please.
Speaker 8: So there's two charges here. I mean, first of all,
Speaker 8: no one can really analyze what's going on in Joe
Speaker 8: Biden's brain. I don't know if he knows what's going
Speaker 8: on fair enough in his brain. This is obviously Joe Biden,
Speaker 8: the father over Joe Biden, the institutionalist who were railed
Speaker 8: against the concept of pardons, who railed against Gerald Ford's pardon.
Speaker 1: Of Richard Nixon.
Speaker 8: There are, of course, just by way of background, two
Speaker 8: classes of pardons, one for a specific crime, and one
Speaker 8: a broad form for all crimes that you might have committed,
Speaker 8: whether charged or uncharged, whether known or unknown. That's the
Speaker 8: pardon that Ford gave to Nixon. That's the pardon that
Speaker 8: Joe gave to Hunter. But the crimes for which he
Speaker 8: was prosecuted, you and I would not have been prosecuted
Speaker 8: for them. The tax crime, he actually paid the taxes
Speaker 8: with interest and with penalty, and they still prosecuted him
Speaker 8: because of pressure the Republicans put on the Justice Department.
Speaker 1: The gun crime.
Speaker 8: Under the Supreme Court's ruling, the current gun laws are
Speaker 8: supposed to reflect what they were in seventeen ninety one.
Speaker 8: When the Second Amendment was adopted. In seventeen ninety one,
Speaker 8: you could smoke all the hemp you wanted and still
Speaker 8: carry a sidearm proof. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were
Speaker 8: millionaires by selling hemp.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I they can't make this upright, no, I know.
Speaker 1: And at some point and maybe we can just look
Speaker 1: at that one specific issue, the FFL form you have
Speaker 1: to fill out, and also the barrel length restriction rules.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to have a special license for
Speaker 1: short barreled rifles and all these layers of laws. I
Speaker 1: am wondering whether now we have with the current you know,
Speaker 1: the Brewin decision and the others, if we have this
Speaker 1: opportunity now for someone, for example, Hunter of Biden could
Speaker 1: have defended himself and said, no, this FFL nonsense, even
Speaker 1: though I was stoned out of my mind and I
Speaker 1: lied on the form. This FFL nonsense is unconstitutional on
Speaker 1: its face because none of it existed at the time
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment was acknowledged by the Bill of Rights,
Speaker 1: and ergo, you can't put that kind of impediment in
Speaker 1: front of me when I'm trying to exercise my Second
Speaker 1: Amendment rights.
Speaker 8: So the standard definitions of crime, you know this, I
Speaker 8: know this, many of your listeners probably do, has three requirements.
Speaker 8: One the crime is promulgated by a legitimate authority that
Speaker 8: has the authority to make the event a crime.
Speaker 1: Two that there was harm.
Speaker 8: Three that there was a victim.
Speaker 2: There was no harm here.
Speaker 8: The gun that he bought, he had his girlfriend throw
Speaker 8: away in a dumpster before it was ever even fired.
Speaker 8: There was no victim here. I suppose the government would
Speaker 8: claim it was a victim because he lied to the government,
Speaker 8: But the government can't show that it was harmed by
Speaker 8: its victimhood. And then we get back to where we started. Brian,
Speaker 8: does the Congress have the authority to make these things
Speaker 8: a crime? This will scandalize the public. What I'm about
Speaker 8: to say. You know this, and lawyers know this, and
Speaker 8: students of the Constitution know this. The Constitution authorizes just
Speaker 8: two crimes. Debasing the money supply, you know, putting out
Speaker 8: a coin that's half gold and half pewter and claiming
Speaker 8: it's all gold and getting the full face value for it.
Speaker 8: Debasing the money supply and then that coin is out
Speaker 8: in the money supply. And treason, which is defined in
Speaker 8: the Constitution as giving aid and comfort to the country's
Speaker 8: enemies or waging war against against the States. How many
Speaker 8: crimes has Congress created five thousand, one and ninety nine,
Speaker 8: and only two of them are authorized by the Constitution.
Speaker 1: And that's why I said we were going to law
Speaker 1: school today, because you know a lot of people said, well, listen,
Speaker 1: anybody else on the planet, we would be prosecuted if
Speaker 1: we had that many some suspicious activity reports on our
Speaker 1: multiple bank accounts with money flowing three the inflowing them
Speaker 1: from from foreign governments into our own personal hands. They
Speaker 1: would have investigated us had we done something like that.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't have slow walked the IRS investigation to the
Speaker 1: point where they let the Statute of limitations run, they'd
Speaker 1: have been all over us like white on rises. My
Speaker 1: dad used to say. But to your point, there are
Speaker 1: five and ninety nine federal crimes on the books now,
Speaker 1: only two of which really are legitimate under the limitations
Speaker 1: of the Constitution. The balance are in the hands of
Speaker 1: the states. The states, as you acknowledge in point out
Speaker 1: in your historical review in the column, would be responsible
Speaker 1: for prosecuting anyone who violated the law.
Speaker 8: Correct like the Whiskey Rebellion, where a bunch of farmers
Speaker 8: in western Pennsylvania in seventeen ninety one to two three
Speaker 8: and four refused to pay an exercise tax on whiskey
Speaker 8: because they needed to sell the whiskey to stay alive
Speaker 8: and operate their farms, and they resisted the tax collector
Speaker 8: with violence. They were prosecuted in a Pennsylvania state court.
Speaker 8: Two of them were prosecuted for treason. How can failure
Speaker 8: to pay a tax be treason? Well, they persuaded a
Speaker 8: federal judge that using violence against the federal tax collector
Speaker 8: was the moral equivalent of treason. They were convicted and
Speaker 8: George Washington pardoned them. In the first part presidential pardons
Speaker 8: in American history now there is a downside to this,
Speaker 8: to Joe, not to Hunter. Last week, if Hunter was
Speaker 8: dragged before the House Oversight Committee and sworn to tell
Speaker 8: the truth and said, and they asked him, did you
Speaker 8: funnel money to your father from Barisma when he was
Speaker 8: Vice President of the United States?
Speaker 2: Answer?
Speaker 8: I refusually declined to answer on the grounds of the
Speaker 8: Fifth Amendment right. Ask him that question tomorrow. He has
Speaker 8: to answer it. He has no Fifth Amendment right. By
Speaker 8: accepting the pardon, he gave up his Fifth Amendment.
Speaker 1: Rights and ergo, he could be a witness in some
Speaker 1: future prosecution related to some criminal activity on a federal level.
Speaker 1: Because this pardon only absolves him of federal crimes state crimes,
Speaker 1: it does not involve ergo, he could be still criminally
Speaker 1: prosecuted in a state had he done something during this
Speaker 1: window of time. I don't know. Go ahead.
Speaker 8: His testimony, of course, could also be used to embarrass
Speaker 8: humiliate the father. It's too late to prosecute the father.
Speaker 8: Let's say that Joe was bribed just hypothetically when he
Speaker 8: was vice president. The statute of limitations is five years,
Speaker 8: so it's too late to prosecut him. It's not too
Speaker 8: late to impeach him even after he leaves office, and
Speaker 8: of course it's never too late to tarnish his legacy.
Speaker 8: But his own Justice Department said he's a doddering old
Speaker 8: man and he can't put him in.
Speaker 2: The defense chair.
Speaker 1: And given his age and his obvious health issues, it
Speaker 1: could be that, you know, God rest his soul. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's not around for a long time. Hunter Biden may
Speaker 1: very well find himself in need of money, and Ergo
Speaker 1: could write memoirs and expose everybody and everything that's gone
Speaker 1: on in the name of making literally millions of dollars correct.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 8: Most of the people that I interact with are furious
Speaker 8: about the pardon because they hate the father and they
Speaker 8: hate the son, and they think that the father it's
Speaker 8: a kruk and he helped the Sun get away with
Speaker 8: being a crook. But all of that is a legitimate
Speaker 8: opinion that is widely held. My analysis is based upon
Speaker 8: what I suggest and argue is a prudent reading of
Speaker 8: the Constitution, a Madisonian reading of the Constitution, which says
Speaker 8: the Constitution chains down the federal government. Congress can't give
Speaker 8: itself the power to enact laws that the Constitution doesn't
Speaker 8: authorize it to an act.
Speaker 1: Well, I can only wait for the day when someone
Speaker 1: can raise these arguments, have standing to raise them, raise
Speaker 1: them in a federal court, and maybe make it up
Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court, who would say, you know what,
Speaker 1: after two hundred and fifty years, you're right, this is
Speaker 1: gonna stop real quick. I just got to read this
Speaker 1: line the judge who is dismissing the I believe it's
Speaker 1: the tax case. And apparently the pardon wasn't properly filed.
Speaker 1: So he made a point about the appropriate nature of
Speaker 1: the filing. You know how courts aren't judges are with
Speaker 1: eyes properly being dotted and teas crossed. Yes, I'm going
Speaker 1: to dismiss it when it's properly filed with me. But
Speaker 1: he had this today, had this to say, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was rather funny. Something for the following discussion.
Speaker 1: The court assumes the pardon is effective and we'll dispose
Speaker 1: of the case. The Supreme Court long has recognized that,
Speaker 1: notwithstanding it's nearly unlimited nature, the pardon power extends only
Speaker 1: to past offenses, which to me sounded like this sort
Speaker 1: of perception that Hunter Biden was going to go back
Speaker 1: to criminal activity on a going forwards.
Speaker 8: Right, imagine if you could pardon someone into the future.
Speaker 1: My god, Judge edit of Politano, I always love our conversations.
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking everybody to law school today and reminding
Speaker 1: us that the Constitution is a limiting document. Enjoy yourself
Speaker 1: in New York if that's possible, and have a wonderful week,
Speaker 1: and I'll look forward to next one day, Wednesday and
Speaker 1: another great conversation with you, sir.
Speaker 2: Right right back at you.
Speaker 8: Colonel Douglas McGregor on Judge Freedom today, what's going on
Speaker 8: in South Korea? And why is Joe Biden continuing to
Speaker 8: extend the war in Ukraine to dump it into Donald
Speaker 8: Trump's lap.
Speaker 1: I think you're right on that one, Sir. Can't make
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