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Speaker 4 (00:34):
Thank you, Mike McCann seven minutes after the art.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You're just waking up.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
But I'm an exchange in the strait of horror moves.
They were firing on a couple of our battleships, and
then we destroyed the origins of where that firing took place.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
According to the President Bell Dad.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It's a bloody master gun, but the sea's fire is
still intact. It was crazy at the Capitol yesterday, a
Memphis Democrat yelling and screaming on the House floor for
a succession from the state of Tennessee as Republican lawmakers
approved their new districting, and of course they were outrage
that they would carve up its only majority black district,
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one that is held by a white Jewish male even
as we speak. But they're wanting to secede now from Tennessee.
We'll see where that goes, for it looked a lot
like January sixth, though no one will play the insurrection card.
And the Southern Poverty Law Center is pleading not guilty
to multiple fraud and money laundering charges, and the Pistons
and the Thunder both up two games to nothing now
(01:30):
in their playoff series with wins last night. Well, Americans
are losing friends, and they're losing friends over politics at
record rates. Really, I pretty much thought those divisions had
already taken place. National Correspondent Roy O'Neil is here to
explain why and who seems to be walking away from
long term friendships. Yeah, that's been the general consensus of
my audience and talking about us talking about this, was
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that we kind of think this has already already happened.
There's more of it now.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well, what we're seeing, at least they're putting.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Some numbers to it.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
In this pretty broad large scale study that found more
than a third of Americans report having lost at least
one relationship.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Due to political differences.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
This could be a friendship, a family connection, even a coworker.
We all have that cubicle we avoid, right, and of
course romantic partnerships as well, all falling apart due to
political differences. And the numbers show that Democrats were more
than twice as likely to be the ones who walk away.
Sixty six percent of Democrats said they were the ones
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who ended it, compared to twenty seven percent of Republicans.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
There's nothing I could say in this segment Rory that
wouldn't be anecdotal, right, because all I know is the
life I'm experiencing. It does seem to me, and I
try to take you know, there's a couple of personal
friendships and a couple of things that have happened on
golf courses that kind of make up my anecdotal remark.
But I would say that the level of threat or
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the level of fear, because fear is the only thing
that responds with rage and anger, that's really fear. You
can't get rageful and angry if you're not first fear.
So I don't think I see on the right that
level of fear. There's more of a quiet confidence we're winning,
although when we were losing, I didn't sense it as great.
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They didn't like Barack Obama, they didn't like Bill Clinton,
but I didn't sense I mean, I am sensing on
the left confirming this report that there is an extreme,
unreasonable rage on the left. And if you don't see
that rage and share that rage, they don't really have
much use for you. Is that pretty much what I've
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experienced what you're describing.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Well, there's also this perception that people's opinions or what
they think they know about the other side are really distorted,
that people who experience these political breakups hold a much
more hostile and distorted view of the other side, which
then fee into all this. So I think that's that's
also at the heart of this is that and that's
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the matrix person.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Right, But that's the mation for the wrong thing, And
that's the matrix, right that that feeds it. So we're
having this alternate reality where you're watching those channels, listening
to those those speakers, or reading those stories or sharing
among the social media vitriol of your side. Meanwhile, the
other side's doing the same thing. It just gets further
and further, And it's amazing how it's not just a
(04:28):
political apology. The one thing you never bring up or
really hear any substance substance with is the actual policy
difference itself. It's always them and us, and there's like
a they're the problem and if they're the problem and
you support them, you're the problem kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
So what's the solution to all this?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I mean, they're obviously describing the divisions in this country,
do they have any sense of what.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Might be causing it and what would solve it?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Now, no prescription for a resolution here, but at least
we have a better handle as to just how bad
the problem has become. And I think this this idea
that we're angry at the cartoonish version of either side,
not really the people who are not really getting a
better idea of their understanding, I think is really fueling
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all this.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, because we have, like Mark hamill Is in the news,
he had this picture of Donald Trump which really made
it appalling. Is it's a picture of Donald Trump laying
as a corpse with his hands folded and the tombstone
reads his birth year forty six and death year twenty
twenty four, which would presume that it's really talking about
had that shooting taken place in Pennsylvania and he been hit?
(05:34):
And then the caption is if only And then Mark
Hamill gets a lot of grief for it, and he
apologizes by saying, well, actually I should edit for clarity.
He should live long enough to be held accountable for
his crimes. Actually I was wishing him the opposite of dead. Oh,
but I apologize if you found the image inappropriate.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Who wouldn't find the image in appropriate? Right? But that
I love that wording.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
You used the cartoon version of the other side, and
that's there's a lot of insensitivity built into that, all right,
So about one in three is what we're looking at.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Does that seem about right to you?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Thirty Well again it's thirty seven percent. So if we
got into one and three, that would be an improvement.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Scary enough, If Rory's gonna be back in the third hour,
we'll talk a little bit about at a time when
there should be potentially a deal with Iran, online sleuths
are raising red flags about suspicious items and timing of
investments in oil trading. We joked about this just yesterday.
How you know what, Every now and then the president
(06:36):
will say something. Oil goes down, Mark goes way up.
Then it slowly creeps in the different direction, and he
says something again, and we joked, we said, well, maybe the.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
President's just day trading.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Maybe some insiders are day training, and that is beginning
to get investigated. Rory's gonna be back in the third
hour with that story. All right, can't have your morning
show without your voice. We're going to start with just
so you know, I want to play this for you
so you know what everybody's talking about. This is what
it sounded like inside the capitol yesterday as a J
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six type revolt took place when the new district's lines
were voted on, and it didn't take long before Democratic
leaders and protesters were demanding that Memphis succeed from the
state of Tennessee listens. Obviously all control was lost. Sherry's
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in Bullfrog Corner, Mississippi. I think listening on Tupelo Radio,
and here's Sherry's perspective on Memphis becoming a part of Mississippi.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Good morning, Michael and your morning show listeners, which our
area is right on the border between Memphis and Mississippi.
We're already getting an overflow of criminals from Memphis so
that can set up their own city.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah, not getting much, not much desire to take you on, folks.
Let's go to Kenny and Saint Louis Keny.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Moi, Michael. Apparently those folks in Memphis.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Don't really realize that.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Their representative is a Jewish white guy.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
He's not just being cute. I mean this the redistricting
of this and even if it's jerry mandering, which again,
you know, we gotta go back to the main issue.
Jerry redistricting is constitutional and necessary. Bodies move, people leave.
Your founding fathers wanted every state represented the same because
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we're the United States. That's why every state has two senators.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Originally states appointed those senators and their main job was
to protect states' rights and the interests of their states collectively.
Now they become a club of one hundred that's really
running the country, but your representatives. That was the people's house,
and that changes based on the populace and where it lives.
(09:13):
So these giant migrations from California, we got another big company,
del Tech, leaving Delaware and going to Texas. But we
have a lot of movement of people and major companies
from unfriendly blue states to more economically friendly red states.
That's going to change the makeup of the House of Representatives.
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And that's why you do a census every ten years,
because as more people live somewhere, more representatives are created,
and where they leave, they're lost.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We're looking at.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
About an electoral college map shift of about nine to
ten in the next three to five years. I mean,
it's significant, and the left knows it.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
The jerrymandering, and again it's laughable to say had started
in Texas with the Republicans. This has been going on forever.
You have taxation without representation up the entire Eastern Seaboard,
where you have states with forty five percent Republicans and
they have no representatives, so they could be screaming and
charging capitol buildings just like they did in Tennessee. I
(10:21):
am a fan of redistricting. I am not a fan
of jerrymandering, which is to politically manipulate the way the
states are drawn. Now if in Mississippi they feel like
that's happened in Tennessee, Okay, but this was more of
a January sixth sound and feel. Why isn't it an insurrection?
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And if you're going to make it all about race,
well then you got to come back to Kenny in
Saint Louis and say you do realize in this black
district your representative is a white Jewish male Steve Cohen.
It's not a throwaway point. George is also listening to
WRC and Memphis.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
Okay, Michael, I left Memphis back in January for good.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I could promise you North Mississippi and eastern Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I want no part of that. No takers. By the way,
thanks for the reminder.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
We want to welcome Northwest Arkansas's first FM news talker,
Freedom FM one on one point five Fayetteville, Arkansas. They
did accept to a boarding show. They are not officially
interested in Memphis. I'm trying to think why I didn't
get to Salisbury, Maryland. I think Jared is next.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Jeffrey rad and that other guy, Yeah, Michael, Michael, Yeah, yes, yeah.
Mark Hamill did do some other stuff there. He did
some voice acting. He did for Batman the animated series.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
He was the Joker.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
He did like a really bad purchase of Paranth and impersonation,
and then he did exact same voice for the Long Walk.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
So man of many voices too well, Mark Hamill, quick
I made the comment you know, is a guy done
some Star Wars and love boat anything.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I don't even know why.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
If you know, like if a treat falls in a
forest and no one's there, it doesn't make a sound.
Who cares if Mark Hamill posted, I mean he said nobody,
but what he posted is disgusting.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I made the sixth.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
That's a president dead, a corpse with his hands folded
across his chest in a suit, daisies growing around him,
and above him a tombstone.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It says Donald J.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Trump nineteen forty six to twenty twenty four, presuming the
bullet in butler killed him. And then the big caption
is if only this idiot posts it. Then he takes
it down and says accurate edit for clarity, he should
live long enough to be held accountable for his crimes.
(12:46):
Actually I was wishing him the opposite of debt. But
I apologize if the image. You found the image inappropriate,
And of course, like Jeffrey said, why is it always
our problem?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
What an inappropriate thing for you to post?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
What a revealing thing for you to post the idiot
syt is with you, not the force. You're the moron.
But I did bring up and then what was the
guy done? And apparently somebody mentioned the penguin. The joke
penguin was Burgess Meredith was the penguin. The joker was
always Caesar Rameiro. Yeah that is the original, but they're
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talking about the And then I got criticized because I thought,
I think Kamala Harris resembles Caesar Rameiro. And I didn't
mean anything mean by it. I just said she looks
like Caesar Rameiro. That's how I keep him straight. Caesa Romero,
and he'sa rock. My brother was working in Los Angeles
and came out during lunch break and sat down, knowing
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my brother he might have been puffing on something. I
don't know, maybe he was eating, and he's sitting on
a bench and he looks over and can't you just
picture Burgess Meredith like an old man, just sitting on
a bench eating lunch.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, feeding the pigeons.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
And then my brother struck up a conversation with him
and they used to sit and talk on this bench
outside his building.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
No, kidd, I would have loved to talk.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
About the old days and well, I mean just to
have quite a bit of his what was his name
in Rocky and I'm blanky Mickey. I mean, I would
have loved it have like a little old Mickey to
give me wisdom, pump me up for the day.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, ra bummed out, George, I would.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Have told you women weaken legs, Rocket that's it. But
I guess you know he did the voice in the
animated Batman. Other than that and then you know Star Wars.
This guy hasn't had a career, but he's a very
very angry leftist. I'm very interested to see what you
guys think of that that report. I can tell you
I can only speak anecdotally. That's why I don't speak
of it very often. But I find those on the
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left very angry, and have I lost friendships we start
getting to spouses. I really feel for people in that case.
But but that becomes almost biblical, and are you unequally yoked?
Because if you've got your your God's right and if
you're ques are coming from God and not culture, they
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don't start tugging in different directions. And I don't know
how two can become one in Christ without the Word
of God, without the values from the Word of God,
the commandments from the Word of God, the expectations from
the Word of God, and the rules for those values beliefs,
which is Scripture. I don't know how some of these
(15:23):
politics are pulling you apart. I think you got a
faith issue more than a political issue. But it is
tragic to see and it looks like about thirty seven
percent of us I have lost friends over this, and
that anecdotally feels about right.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
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Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
When you meet a lot of people, you come to
find that when you try to have a conversation about
things like open.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Borders or boys and girls' sports, and things like that.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
People on the left cannot justify it, they can't explain it,
they can't defend it, and they can't persuade you to
their site, so they get angry.
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And then just cut you off.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
It's just an irrational reaction to irrational question.
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A great weekend. Now, just do like Michael and Mary
in the morning. It's your morning shit like that that
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I'm on the radio, I'm talking to I'm just working
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It's going to happen. I feel it.
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Speaker 4 (18:36):
I stand corrected by Roger listening to k ste in Sacramento, California.
We forgot one and I remember liking it. I was,
I think a freshman or sophomore in high school Corvette
Summer because it was my I had such a crush
on Annie Pott's Annie Potts, Mark Hamill. I think Danny
Bonaducci was in that too, right Red All right, so
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we had two movies, but he's still an idiot. We
agree on that this comes from Blake Michael. Evil people
have taken control of government, set up a propaganda education
system which dumbs down the people, to set up a
social utopia. Little law backfire because they're ignorantly aligning with Islam. Well,
that's one of the dangerous badfellows they're making in this
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socialist Democrat movement that was designed to first take over
the Democrat Party, then remove the electoral College, then dismantle
the Republic. They are now betting themselves with Islamis, so
they're about and you can see that even within the
squad right. So I don't know what progressivism started with
Woodrow Wilson. It was supposed to end with Barack Obama
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and then he was supposed to move on to the
world stage, but that all ended when Hillary lost to Trump.
Don't ever forget Donald Trump and Jack Kennedy are the
only two that were never supposed to be president. That's
why I worry for the president's safety. I don't know
what percentage of the Democrat Party now is because of
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the amount of well conservative Reagan Democrats they've left.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
They're independent now.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
But I don't know what the percentage of progressive to
socialist to Islamist is. I think Islamist plus socialists equals
more than progressive, but I don't know what percentage of
that is Islamist. But they have made Blake is right,
they made a bedfellow, well, someone that does not have
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the same common goal one wants to take over the
entire country, to convert it or kill it. Michael, have
not only lost friends over politics, I've lost family. See
that's tragic when I hear this is Steve writing that
just simply did not happen to me. I don't have
that set of circumstances. I don't have any well, I
have one that kind of bothered me. I take that back.
(20:54):
It was it's just a second cousin. But it's somebody
that was very involved in my childhood and I really
loved her. And I went back for a funeral and
I'm trying to have an old connection we had and
it simply couldn't happen.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Because of politics. So I guess.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
But it's not like I've lost a brother, or it's
not like one of my mother or father crazy leftists.
I mean, that has to be so painful. I feel
for you, Steve, I really do. This country is so
divided right now. I have to wonder are the best
days behind us. Paul Harvey Wants delivered a speech I
(21:32):
was at for the Salvation Army and it was on
that topic. We were talking yesterday about the advantage Marco Rubio
has over JD Vance. If nothing else is fifty four
to forty. Now, I can tell you I was as
smart as I am today at forty, But I wasn't
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the person of seasoning, substance, character and perspective that I
am sixty. Fifteen years is a big advantage. I look
back at that forty year old and they just choke him.
I look back at me at twenty, and I want
to do worse than choke them. So I can tell
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you when I was in my twenties at that speech
with Paul Hervey, I was somewhat of a pessimist. I
was thinking, our best days are definitely behind us. It's
just farming and disgrace. That's all that lies ahead, I
can tell you. And then here comes this old man
and David T. Sanati and I are experiencing the same
thing with doctor Allan. Doctor Allen is so filled with optimism.
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I'm almost ashamed to be in his presence that I
don't have the level of C. S. Lewis confidence that
he does. Because I can't lose faith in America until
I first lose faith with all of Americans and the
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faith full Americans that God is standing with. So I
have to lose a little bit of faith in God too.
Donate well, He who begins a good work is always
faithful and just to complete it. That's not only our
salvation story, it's our nation story. I don't think God
created that I think America can certainly walk away from God,
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but I don't see it in totality, and I don't
think God's prepared to walk away from the faithful and
the elect.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And the remnant among us.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
But yeah, that was Paul Harvey's host speech, and it
blew me away because I was definitely a pessimist at
the time, a cynic at the time. And to watch
this older, wise man, the same one who blew you
away with if I were the devil, the one who
told you what the devil would do to destroy America.
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And like Nostra Damis only wished he could have in
the quad trains has come true. He would if he
were alive today, look at you and tell you. And
I remember looking back at my life times when I
was younger and I really thought, well, this is it.
Everything's been destroyed, I've lost everything, it's over, it's hopeless.
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Those were the very moments I was on the verge
of a miracle. Funny how when we're weak God becomes strong,
when we're out of control, he begins to take control. Well,
there's life lessons in that, but I'm not going to
preach to you. You'll get that on Sunday. But even
as a nation, I would look at us and say, oh,
it looks really bad, which is exactly why I think
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you're on the verge of a miracle. And this will
end one day with you looking around, some guy will
be staying there, going so where are your enemies?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Now?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Go and send no more. But it's pretty bad, it's
pretty divided. I feel your pain. I'm so glad it
hasn't happened yet here around me anyway. Anyway, that's related
to the new study that's out that about we've lost
about thirty eight percent. The divisions have gotten so great
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politically that we've lost about thirty eight percent of our relationships.
I don't think anecdotally that's the case with me, and
I certainly don't have any like with my spouse that
would be.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
But this is why you've got to marry. You know.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
One of the first things we used to learn in
Bible study, right, you can't be unequally yoked. Well, then
you meet her and you know you're attracted to her,
and you think, well, maybe she'll change, or you know,
you start doing it and you're going in different directions.
The two must become one. In Christ, there can be
no differences in worldview biblical view, and if you got
that straight, you're not gonna have a lot of political
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differences either. It will shape your governance self and civil.
But that's got to be horrifying to be in a
marriage with somebody that is so filled with rage and
hatred towards Donald Trump or opposing views. I can't even
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relate to that. All I could do is pray for you.
These are very, very divided times, and for thirty eight
percent of our friendships, they're destroyed, or so says the report.
All right, President Trump says, the ceasefire is still intact,
even though we had a little bit of an exchange,
a little love kiss, if you will. Well, they fired
at some of our boats, and then we took out
what was firing at us.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
They're dead, we're not. Boats are fine.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
But the President didn't make it clear if this ceasefire
doesn't happen, they're gonna get it, and they're gonna get
it worse. Southern Poverty Law Center is pleading not guilty
to multiple fraud and money laundering charges. We'll see how
they fare. I don't think it's going to be well.
And the Pistons and Thunders take it to a lead
in their series and guess what it's time for Sounds
of the Day.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
She's going to get smoked. He's got the stock.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I really don't know what he said at the end
of this, and I don't think he knows what he
said either.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's got to be a big misunderstanding. I'm going lan,
I'm going l well. I love your garbage truck.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
The redistricting lines were voted on in the Tennessee legislature.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
And then all you know what broke loose?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I mean, it looks like January sixth sounds even worse.
And of course the chance for or succession from the state.
And if your morning show is an indication Arkansas this
morning and Mississippi not interested in you, manfes, so you
might want to work things out. I love this one,
Jensaki explaining how democracy. You know, if if Democrats don't win,
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democracy's failing. If their issues in platform and policy views
and candidates don't win, it's a threat to democracy. What
a convenient game to have set up, right, But how
does democracy work within democrats? How'd it work for Bernie
Sanders in twenty sixteen where they rigged it for Hillary
(28:24):
or Bernie Sanders in twenty twenty when they rigged it
for Joe or Democrat primary voters in twenty twenty four,
when you weren't even given a chance. Joe drops out
and they just handed to Kamala Oops, and we waited
till after you voted. I mean, Democrat primary voters haven't
had to say and who would be president and three different,
(28:45):
three consecutive primary process. And yet here's Jen Psaki saying
that just doesn't happen in America.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I mean, even if we.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Have fifty candidates coming up, we're all going to get
to pick our candidate.
Speaker 10 (28:59):
Exact it is that you, the people out there, get
to choose. There is no thank god, dark room in
Washington where people sit around they decide here's who the
nominee is going to be. Typically, that's not how it happens.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Democracy works.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
There's going to be a whole process and maybe thirty
people won for president. And the thing with Barack Obama
is he wants to leave space for that. But what
is exciting about it is that you, the people out there,
get to.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Choose bigger than a giraffe. And of course what she's defending.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Barack Obama.
Speaker 11 (29:36):
Barack Obama in his big interview from his new library
was Stephen Colbert, and what a mouthful that was.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I should just let the other sound respond to this,
but of all people to lecture us on what is
and is not improper use of presidential powers, the man
who allowed Russiagate, here's Barack lecturing the use of government agencies.
Speaker 12 (30:16):
The idea is that the attorney general is the people's lawyer.
It's not the president's CONSIGLIERI right.
Speaker 13 (30:23):
Even when it's Bobby Penny, that's Bobby pretty and so uh.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
Two of the core principles of a democracy. We can
survive a lot bad policy, funky elections. There's a bunch
of stuff that you know, we can overcome. We can't
overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system, the awesome
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power of the state.
Speaker 13 (30:53):
You can't have a situation in which whoever's in charge
of the government starts using that bigger than a giraffe
after all of four. Honest, both sides are guilty of that.
But I like this. This was the response that was
given a Hemingway response to Varney's question concerning Barack Obama.
(31:20):
Listen that this response is.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Just perfect it's actually reprehensible commentary from the man who led,
who instigated the Russia collusion hoax, one of the most
horrific things to ever be perpetrated on the country. He
refused to accept his loss, and so he orchestrated this
entire effort to run a coup against the incoming president.
It caused so much trouble, There were so many people
(31:44):
put in prison, political opponents, and it was all based
on something he himself knew was a lie. I am
glad that people like Ron DeSantis and Senator Eric Schmidt
and Ari Fleischer and just a wide variety of Republican
voices have condemned this lying from this former president so
much to destroy rule of law. Holding people accountable for
what they did to the country is not lawfair, It's
(32:07):
simply justice.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
And I might add am I the only one noticing
Hillary and Baroque popping up a lot lately. I only
have time for one more. I guess I'm gonna go
with the mayor's race in Los Angeles. You probably know
him from reality TV, but he's a candidate for mayor
and his numbers went through the roof. And it was
moments like this that created that search for Spencer Pratt.
(32:29):
The discussion is on homelessness with an incompetent mayor and
one of the top counselors who are responsible for the
problem and shouldn't be allowed to hail the solution. Here's
how he addresses Counselor Romin.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Listen say, counsel of Robin acts like she doesn't have
any authority with this homelessness. She was the third most
powerful person in city council. She runs the homeless housing thing.
She acts like this is just mayor best. First off,
inside safe, I like to say inside safe makes all
of us outside unsafe. The reality is, no matter how
many beds you give these people, they are on supermth
(33:07):
they are on fentanyl. The DEA Statistics says ninety three
percent of this is a drug addiction problem.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Nitthya.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Counselwoman Robin's plan for treatment. First, I will go blow
the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her and we can find
some of these people she's gonna offer treatment for. She's
gonna get stabbed in the neck.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I almost lost coffee through my nostril the first time
I heard him say he's gonna get stabbed in the neck.
That's when reality meets narrative. He had a great debate,
and I suspect, I mean, I don't know. We're gonna
We're gonna see pretty soon if California has awakened and
the governor the governor's primary as well as this Mary's race.
(33:51):
I gotta get this one. It might make us a
little late, but this, this is AOC. This is this
party that's trying to really take over the country, but
starting by taking over the Democrat Party. Here's is so
view of a billionaire. Never mind everything you've learned in economics.
This is her explaining why they'll never see the job creation,
they'll never see any of the good. It's just you cannot.
(34:13):
It is impossible for you to be a billionaire. That's
just an impossible thing. And here's AOC explaining it.
Speaker 14 (34:20):
There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. Right,
you can't earn a billion dollars, That's right, You just
can't earn that. That's exactly correct. You can, you can
get market power, you can break rules, you can do
(34:43):
all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws, you
can pay people less than what they're worth. But you
can't earn that right, and so you have to create
a myth that, since you didn't earn that, you have
to create be a myth of earning it.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
And I remind you she will be the leading Democratic
candidate for president of the United States until they rig
the election for Robbie Manuel and Westmore. I don't know,
can you earn two hundred and fifty thousand a year
or is that evil too?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
She's gonna get smoked. He's got to stop. I really
don't know what he said at the end of this sentence.
I don't think he knows what he's said either. It's
got to be a big misunderstanding. I'm gonna win. I'm
gonna wins.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Three.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Why do you like my Robbie love.
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Speaker 4 (00:34):
Thank you, Mike McCann seven minutes after the art.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You're just waking up.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
But I'm an exchange in the strait of horror moves.
They were firing on a couple of our battleships, and
then we destroyed the origins of where that firing took place.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
According to the President Bell Dad.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It's a bloody master gun, but the sea's fire is
still intact. It was crazy at the Capitol yesterday, a
Memphis Democrat yelling and screaming on the House floor for
a succession from the state of Tennessee as Republican lawmakers
approved their new districting, and of course they were outrage
that they would carve up its only majority black district,
(01:09):
one that is held by a white Jewish male even
as we speak. But they're wanting to secede now from Tennessee.
We'll see where that goes, for it looked a lot
like January sixth, though no one will play the insurrection card.
And the Southern Poverty Law Center is pleading not guilty
to multiple fraud and money laundering charges, and the Pistons
and the Thunder both up two games to nothing now
(01:30):
in their playoff series with wins last night. Well, Americans
are losing friends, and they're losing friends over politics at
record rates. Really, I pretty much thought those divisions had
already taken place. National Correspondent Roy O'Neil is here to
explain why and who seems to be walking away from
long term friendships. Yeah, that's been the general consensus of
my audience and talking about us talking about this, was
(01:52):
that we kind of think this has already already happened.
There's more of it now.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well, what we're seeing, at least they're putting.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Some numbers to it.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
In this pretty broad large scale study that found more
than a third of Americans report having lost at least
one relationship.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Due to political differences.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
This could be a friendship, a family connection, even a coworker.
We all have that cubicle we avoid, right, and of
course romantic partnerships as well, all falling apart due to
political differences. And the numbers show that Democrats were more
than twice as likely to be the ones who walk away.
Sixty six percent of Democrats said they were the ones
(02:30):
who ended it, compared to twenty seven percent of Republicans.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
There's nothing I could say in this segment Rory that
wouldn't be anecdotal, right, because all I know is the
life I'm experiencing. It does seem to me, and I
try to take you know, there's a couple of personal
friendships and a couple of things that have happened on
golf courses that kind of make up my anecdotal remark.
But I would say that the level of threat or
(02:58):
the level of fear, because fear is the only thing
that responds with rage and anger, that's really fear. You
can't get rageful and angry if you're not first fear.
So I don't think I see on the right that
level of fear. There's more of a quiet confidence we're winning,
although when we were losing, I didn't sense it as great.
(03:20):
They didn't like Barack Obama, they didn't like Bill Clinton,
but I didn't sense I mean, I am sensing on
the left confirming this report that there is an extreme,
unreasonable rage on the left. And if you don't see
that rage and share that rage, they don't really have
much use for you. Is that pretty much what I've
(03:41):
experienced what you're describing.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Well, there's also this perception that people's opinions or what
they think they know about the other side are really distorted,
that people who experience these political breakups hold a much
more hostile and distorted view of the other side, which
then fee into all this. So I think that's that's
also at the heart of this is that and that's
(04:04):
the matrix person.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Right, But that's the mation for the wrong thing, And
that's the matrix, right that that feeds it. So we're
having this alternate reality where you're watching those channels, listening
to those those speakers, or reading those stories or sharing
among the social media vitriol of your side. Meanwhile, the
other side's doing the same thing. It just gets further
and further, And it's amazing how it's not just a
(04:28):
political apology. The one thing you never bring up or
really hear any substance substance with is the actual policy
difference itself. It's always them and us, and there's like
a they're the problem and if they're the problem and
you support them, you're the problem kind of a thing.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
So what's the solution to all this?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I mean, they're obviously describing the divisions in this country,
do they have any sense of what.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Might be causing it and what would solve it?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Now, no prescription for a resolution here, but at least
we have a better handle as to just how bad
the problem has become. And I think this this idea
that we're angry at the cartoonish version of either side,
not really the people who are not really getting a
better idea of their understanding, I think is really fueling
(05:11):
all this.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, because we have, like Mark hamill Is in the news,
he had this picture of Donald Trump which really made
it appalling. Is it's a picture of Donald Trump laying
as a corpse with his hands folded and the tombstone
reads his birth year forty six and death year twenty
twenty four, which would presume that it's really talking about
had that shooting taken place in Pennsylvania and he been hit?
(05:34):
And then the caption is if only And then Mark
Hamill gets a lot of grief for it, and he
apologizes by saying, well, actually I should edit for clarity.
He should live long enough to be held accountable for
his crimes. Actually I was wishing him the opposite of dead. Oh,
but I apologize if you found the image inappropriate.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Who wouldn't find the image in appropriate? Right? But that
I love that wording.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
You used the cartoon version of the other side, and
that's there's a lot of insensitivity built into that, all right,
So about one in three is what we're looking at.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Does that seem about right to you?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Thirty Well again it's thirty seven percent. So if we
got into one and three, that would be an improvement.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Scary enough, If Rory's gonna be back in the third hour,
we'll talk a little bit about at a time when
there should be potentially a deal with Iran, online sleuths
are raising red flags about suspicious items and timing of
investments in oil trading. We joked about this just yesterday.
How you know what, Every now and then the president
(06:36):
will say something. Oil goes down, Mark goes way up.
Then it slowly creeps in the different direction, and he
says something again, and we joked, we said, well, maybe the.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
President's just day trading.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Maybe some insiders are day training, and that is beginning
to get investigated. Rory's gonna be back in the third
hour with that story. All right, can't have your morning
show without your voice. We're going to start with just
so you know, I want to play this for you
so you know what everybody's talking about. This is what
it sounded like inside the capitol yesterday as a J
(07:06):
six type revolt took place when the new district's lines
were voted on, and it didn't take long before Democratic
leaders and protesters were demanding that Memphis succeed from the
state of Tennessee listens. Obviously all control was lost. Sherry's
(07:36):
in Bullfrog Corner, Mississippi. I think listening on Tupelo Radio,
and here's Sherry's perspective on Memphis becoming a part of Mississippi.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Good morning, Michael and your morning show listeners, which our
area is right on the border between Memphis and Mississippi.
We're already getting an overflow of criminals from Memphis so
that can set up their own city.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah, not getting much, not much desire to take you on, folks.
Let's go to Kenny and Saint Louis Keny.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Moi, Michael. Apparently those folks in Memphis.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Don't really realize that.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Their representative is a Jewish white guy.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
He's not just being cute. I mean this the redistricting
of this and even if it's jerry mandering, which again,
you know, we gotta go back to the main issue.
Jerry redistricting is constitutional and necessary. Bodies move, people leave.
Your founding fathers wanted every state represented the same because
(08:49):
we're the United States. That's why every state has two senators.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Originally states appointed those senators and their main job was
to protect states' rights and the interests of their states collectively.
Now they become a club of one hundred that's really
running the country, but your representatives. That was the people's house,
and that changes based on the populace and where it lives.
(09:13):
So these giant migrations from California, we got another big company,
del Tech, leaving Delaware and going to Texas. But we
have a lot of movement of people and major companies
from unfriendly blue states to more economically friendly red states.
That's going to change the makeup of the House of Representatives.
(09:35):
And that's why you do a census every ten years,
because as more people live somewhere, more representatives are created,
and where they leave, they're lost.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We're looking at.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
About an electoral college map shift of about nine to
ten in the next three to five years. I mean,
it's significant, and the left knows it.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
The jerrymandering, and again it's laughable to say had started
in Texas with the Republicans. This has been going on forever.
You have taxation without representation up the entire Eastern Seaboard,
where you have states with forty five percent Republicans and
they have no representatives, so they could be screaming and
charging capitol buildings just like they did in Tennessee. I
(10:21):
am a fan of redistricting. I am not a fan
of jerrymandering, which is to politically manipulate the way the
states are drawn. Now if in Mississippi they feel like
that's happened in Tennessee, Okay, but this was more of
a January sixth sound and feel. Why isn't it an insurrection?
(10:41):
And if you're going to make it all about race,
well then you got to come back to Kenny in
Saint Louis and say you do realize in this black
district your representative is a white Jewish male Steve Cohen.
It's not a throwaway point. George is also listening to
WRC and Memphis.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
Okay, Michael, I left Memphis back in January for good.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
I could promise you North Mississippi and eastern Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I want no part of that. No takers. By the way,
thanks for the reminder.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
We want to welcome Northwest Arkansas's first FM news talker,
Freedom FM one on one point five Fayetteville, Arkansas. They
did accept to a boarding show. They are not officially
interested in Memphis. I'm trying to think why I didn't
get to Salisbury, Maryland. I think Jared is next.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Jeffrey rad and that other guy, Yeah, Michael, Michael, Yeah, yes, yeah.
Mark Hamill did do some other stuff there. He did
some voice acting. He did for Batman the animated series.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
He was the Joker.
Speaker 9 (11:47):
He did like a really bad purchase of Paranth and impersonation,
and then he did exact same voice for the Long Walk.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
So man of many voices too well, Mark Hamill, quick
I made the comment you know, is a guy done
some Star Wars and love boat anything.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I don't even know why.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
If you know, like if a treat falls in a
forest and no one's there, it doesn't make a sound.
Who cares if Mark Hamill posted, I mean he said nobody,
but what he posted is disgusting.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I made the sixth.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
That's a president dead, a corpse with his hands folded
across his chest in a suit, daisies growing around him,
and above him a tombstone.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It says Donald J.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Trump nineteen forty six to twenty twenty four, presuming the
bullet in butler killed him. And then the big caption
is if only this idiot posts it. Then he takes
it down and says accurate edit for clarity, he should
live long enough to be held accountable for his crimes.
(12:46):
Actually I was wishing him the opposite of debt. But
I apologize if the image. You found the image inappropriate,
And of course, like Jeffrey said, why is it always
our problem?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
What an inappropriate thing for you to post?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
What a revealing thing for you to post the idiot
syt is with you, not the force. You're the moron.
But I did bring up and then what was the
guy done? And apparently somebody mentioned the penguin. The joke
penguin was Burgess Meredith was the penguin. The joker was
always Caesar Rameiro. Yeah that is the original, but they're
(13:20):
talking about the And then I got criticized because I thought,
I think Kamala Harris resembles Caesar Rameiro. And I didn't
mean anything mean by it. I just said she looks
like Caesar Rameiro. That's how I keep him straight. Caesa Romero,
and he'sa rock. My brother was working in Los Angeles
and came out during lunch break and sat down, knowing
(13:42):
my brother he might have been puffing on something. I
don't know, maybe he was eating, and he's sitting on
a bench and he looks over and can't you just
picture Burgess Meredith like an old man, just sitting on
a bench eating lunch.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, feeding the pigeons.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
And then my brother struck up a conversation with him
and they used to sit and talk on this bench
outside his building.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
No, kidd, I would have loved to talk.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
About the old days and well, I mean just to
have quite a bit of his what was his name
in Rocky and I'm blanky Mickey. I mean, I would
have loved it have like a little old Mickey to
give me wisdom, pump me up for the day.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, ra bummed out, George, I would.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Have told you women weaken legs, Rocket that's it. But
I guess you know he did the voice in the
animated Batman. Other than that and then you know Star Wars.
This guy hasn't had a career, but he's a very
very angry leftist. I'm very interested to see what you
guys think of that that report. I can tell you
I can only speak anecdotally. That's why I don't speak
of it very often. But I find those on the
(14:41):
left very angry, and have I lost friendships we start
getting to spouses. I really feel for people in that case.
But but that becomes almost biblical, and are you unequally yoked?
Because if you've got your your God's right and if
you're ques are coming from God and not culture, they
(15:03):
don't start tugging in different directions. And I don't know
how two can become one in Christ without the Word
of God, without the values from the Word of God,
the commandments from the Word of God, the expectations from
the Word of God, and the rules for those values beliefs,
which is Scripture. I don't know how some of these
(15:23):
politics are pulling you apart. I think you got a
faith issue more than a political issue. But it is
tragic to see and it looks like about thirty seven
percent of us I have lost friends over this, and
that anecdotally feels about right.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
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Speaker 2 (17:07):
Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
When you meet a lot of people, you come to
find that when you try to have a conversation about
things like open.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Borders or boys and girls' sports, and things like that.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
People on the left cannot justify it, they can't explain it,
they can't defend it, and they can't persuade you to
their site, so they get angry.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
And then just cut you off.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
It's just an irrational reaction to irrational question.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
A great weekend. Now, just do like Michael and Mary
in the morning. It's your morning shit like that that
would work. We are you talking to? I know there's
a lot of I gotta talk. Hang on it.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I'm on the radio, I'm talking to I'm just working
on the Mike and Mary jingle.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I'm going to add her to this show one day.
It's going to happen. I feel it.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
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Speaker 4 (18:36):
I stand corrected by Roger listening to k ste in Sacramento, California.
We forgot one and I remember liking it. I was,
I think a freshman or sophomore in high school Corvette
Summer because it was my I had such a crush
on Annie Pott's Annie Potts, Mark Hamill. I think Danny
Bonaducci was in that too, right Red All right, so
(18:58):
we had two movies, but he's still an idiot. We
agree on that this comes from Blake Michael. Evil people
have taken control of government, set up a propaganda education
system which dumbs down the people, to set up a
social utopia. Little law backfire because they're ignorantly aligning with Islam. Well,
that's one of the dangerous badfellows they're making in this
(19:22):
socialist Democrat movement that was designed to first take over
the Democrat Party, then remove the electoral College, then dismantle
the Republic. They are now betting themselves with Islamis, so
they're about and you can see that even within the
squad right. So I don't know what progressivism started with
Woodrow Wilson. It was supposed to end with Barack Obama
(19:43):
and then he was supposed to move on to the
world stage, but that all ended when Hillary lost to Trump.
Don't ever forget Donald Trump and Jack Kennedy are the
only two that were never supposed to be president. That's
why I worry for the president's safety. I don't know
what percentage of the Democrat Party now is because of
(20:04):
the amount of well conservative Reagan Democrats they've left.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
They're independent now.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
But I don't know what the percentage of progressive to
socialist to Islamist is. I think Islamist plus socialists equals
more than progressive, but I don't know what percentage of
that is Islamist. But they have made Blake is right,
they made a bedfellow, well, someone that does not have
(20:31):
the same common goal one wants to take over the
entire country, to convert it or kill it. Michael, have
not only lost friends over politics, I've lost family. See
that's tragic when I hear this is Steve writing that
just simply did not happen to me. I don't have
that set of circumstances. I don't have any well, I
have one that kind of bothered me. I take that back.
(20:54):
It was it's just a second cousin. But it's somebody
that was very involved in my childhood and I really
loved her. And I went back for a funeral and
I'm trying to have an old connection we had and
it simply couldn't happen.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Because of politics. So I guess.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
But it's not like I've lost a brother, or it's
not like one of my mother or father crazy leftists.
I mean, that has to be so painful. I feel
for you, Steve, I really do. This country is so
divided right now. I have to wonder are the best
days behind us. Paul Harvey Wants delivered a speech I
(21:32):
was at for the Salvation Army and it was on
that topic. We were talking yesterday about the advantage Marco Rubio
has over JD Vance. If nothing else is fifty four
to forty. Now, I can tell you I was as
smart as I am today at forty, But I wasn't
(21:54):
the person of seasoning, substance, character and perspective that I
am sixty. Fifteen years is a big advantage. I look
back at that forty year old and they just choke him.
I look back at me at twenty, and I want
to do worse than choke them. So I can tell
(22:20):
you when I was in my twenties at that speech
with Paul Hervey, I was somewhat of a pessimist. I
was thinking, our best days are definitely behind us. It's
just farming and disgrace. That's all that lies ahead, I
can tell you. And then here comes this old man
and David T. Sanati and I are experiencing the same
thing with doctor Allan. Doctor Allen is so filled with optimism.
(22:45):
I'm almost ashamed to be in his presence that I
don't have the level of C. S. Lewis confidence that
he does. Because I can't lose faith in America until
I first lose faith with all of Americans and the
(23:07):
faith full Americans that God is standing with. So I
have to lose a little bit of faith in God too.
Donate well, He who begins a good work is always
faithful and just to complete it. That's not only our
salvation story, it's our nation story. I don't think God
created that I think America can certainly walk away from God,
(23:30):
but I don't see it in totality, and I don't
think God's prepared to walk away from the faithful and
the elect.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And the remnant among us.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
But yeah, that was Paul Harvey's host speech, and it
blew me away because I was definitely a pessimist at
the time, a cynic at the time. And to watch
this older, wise man, the same one who blew you
away with if I were the devil, the one who
told you what the devil would do to destroy America.
(24:08):
And like Nostra Damis only wished he could have in
the quad trains has come true. He would if he
were alive today, look at you and tell you. And
I remember looking back at my life times when I
was younger and I really thought, well, this is it.
Everything's been destroyed, I've lost everything, it's over, it's hopeless.
(24:30):
Those were the very moments I was on the verge
of a miracle. Funny how when we're weak God becomes strong,
when we're out of control, he begins to take control. Well,
there's life lessons in that, but I'm not going to
preach to you. You'll get that on Sunday. But even
as a nation, I would look at us and say, oh,
it looks really bad, which is exactly why I think
(24:52):
you're on the verge of a miracle. And this will
end one day with you looking around, some guy will
be staying there, going so where are your enemies?
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Now?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Go and send no more. But it's pretty bad, it's
pretty divided. I feel your pain. I'm so glad it
hasn't happened yet here around me anyway. Anyway, that's related
to the new study that's out that about we've lost
about thirty eight percent. The divisions have gotten so great
(25:25):
politically that we've lost about thirty eight percent of our relationships.
I don't think anecdotally that's the case with me, and
I certainly don't have any like with my spouse that
would be.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
But this is why you've got to marry. You know.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
One of the first things we used to learn in
Bible study, right, you can't be unequally yoked. Well, then
you meet her and you know you're attracted to her,
and you think, well, maybe she'll change, or you know,
you start doing it and you're going in different directions.
The two must become one. In Christ, there can be
no differences in worldview biblical view, and if you got
that straight, you're not gonna have a lot of political
(25:58):
differences either. It will shape your governance self and civil.
But that's got to be horrifying to be in a
marriage with somebody that is so filled with rage and
hatred towards Donald Trump or opposing views. I can't even
(26:19):
relate to that. All I could do is pray for you.
These are very, very divided times, and for thirty eight
percent of our friendships, they're destroyed, or so says the report.
All right, President Trump says, the ceasefire is still intact,
even though we had a little bit of an exchange,
a little love kiss, if you will. Well, they fired
at some of our boats, and then we took out
what was firing at us.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
They're dead, we're not. Boats are fine.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
But the President didn't make it clear if this ceasefire
doesn't happen, they're gonna get it, and they're gonna get
it worse. Southern Poverty Law Center is pleading not guilty
to multiple fraud and money laundering charges. We'll see how
they fare. I don't think it's going to be well.
And the Pistons and Thunders take it to a lead
in their series and guess what it's time for Sounds
of the Day.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
She's going to get smoked. He's got the stock.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I really don't know what he said at the end
of this, and I don't think he knows what he
said either.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It's got to be a big misunderstanding. I'm going lan,
I'm going l well. I love your garbage truck.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
The redistricting lines were voted on in the Tennessee legislature.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
And then all you know what broke loose?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I mean, it looks like January sixth sounds even worse.
And of course the chance for or succession from the state.
And if your morning show is an indication Arkansas this
morning and Mississippi not interested in you, manfes, so you
might want to work things out. I love this one,
Jensaki explaining how democracy. You know, if if Democrats don't win,
(28:03):
democracy's failing. If their issues in platform and policy views
and candidates don't win, it's a threat to democracy. What
a convenient game to have set up, right, But how
does democracy work within democrats? How'd it work for Bernie
Sanders in twenty sixteen where they rigged it for Hillary
(28:24):
or Bernie Sanders in twenty twenty when they rigged it
for Joe or Democrat primary voters in twenty twenty four,
when you weren't even given a chance. Joe drops out
and they just handed to Kamala Oops, and we waited
till after you voted. I mean, Democrat primary voters haven't
had to say and who would be president and three different,
(28:45):
three consecutive primary process. And yet here's Jen Psaki saying
that just doesn't happen in America.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I mean, even if we.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Have fifty candidates coming up, we're all going to get
to pick our candidate.
Speaker 10 (28:59):
Exact it is that you, the people out there, get
to choose. There is no thank god, dark room in
Washington where people sit around they decide here's who the
nominee is going to be. Typically, that's not how it happens.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Democracy works.
Speaker 10 (29:14):
There's going to be a whole process and maybe thirty
people won for president. And the thing with Barack Obama
is he wants to leave space for that. But what
is exciting about it is that you, the people out there,
get to.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Choose bigger than a giraffe. And of course what she's defending.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Barack Obama.
Speaker 11 (29:36):
Barack Obama in his big interview from his new library
was Stephen Colbert, and what a mouthful that was.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I should just let the other sound respond to this,
but of all people to lecture us on what is
and is not improper use of presidential powers, the man
who allowed Russiagate, here's Barack lecturing the use of government agencies.
Speaker 12 (30:16):
The idea is that the attorney general is the people's lawyer.
It's not the president's CONSIGLIERI right.
Speaker 13 (30:23):
Even when it's Bobby Penny, that's Bobby pretty and so uh.
Speaker 12 (30:31):
Two of the core principles of a democracy. We can
survive a lot bad policy, funky elections. There's a bunch
of stuff that you know, we can overcome. We can't
overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system, the awesome
(30:51):
power of the state.
Speaker 13 (30:53):
You can't have a situation in which whoever's in charge
of the government starts using that bigger than a giraffe
after all of four. Honest, both sides are guilty of that.
But I like this. This was the response that was
given a Hemingway response to Varney's question concerning Barack Obama.
(31:20):
Listen that this response is.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Just perfect it's actually reprehensible commentary from the man who led,
who instigated the Russia collusion hoax, one of the most
horrific things to ever be perpetrated on the country. He
refused to accept his loss, and so he orchestrated this
entire effort to run a coup against the incoming president.
It caused so much trouble, There were so many people
(31:44):
put in prison, political opponents, and it was all based
on something he himself knew was a lie. I am
glad that people like Ron DeSantis and Senator Eric Schmidt
and Ari Fleischer and just a wide variety of Republican
voices have condemned this lying from this former president so
much to destroy rule of law. Holding people accountable for
what they did to the country is not lawfair, It's
(32:07):
simply justice.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
And I might add am I the only one noticing
Hillary and Baroque popping up a lot lately. I only
have time for one more. I guess I'm gonna go
with the mayor's race in Los Angeles. You probably know
him from reality TV, but he's a candidate for mayor
and his numbers went through the roof. And it was
moments like this that created that search for Spencer Pratt.
(32:29):
The discussion is on homelessness with an incompetent mayor and
one of the top counselors who are responsible for the
problem and shouldn't be allowed to hail the solution. Here's
how he addresses Counselor Romin.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Listen say, counsel of Robin acts like she doesn't have
any authority with this homelessness. She was the third most
powerful person in city council. She runs the homeless housing thing.
She acts like this is just mayor best. First off,
inside safe, I like to say inside safe makes all
of us outside unsafe. The reality is, no matter how
many beds you give these people, they are on supermth
(33:07):
they are on fentanyl. The DEA Statistics says ninety three
percent of this is a drug addiction problem.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Nitthya.
Speaker 6 (33:14):
Counselwoman Robin's plan for treatment. First, I will go blow
the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with her and we can find
some of these people she's gonna offer treatment for. She's
gonna get stabbed in the neck.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
I almost lost coffee through my nostril the first time
I heard him say he's gonna get stabbed in the neck.
That's when reality meets narrative. He had a great debate,
and I suspect, I mean, I don't know. We're gonna
We're gonna see pretty soon if California has awakened and
the governor the governor's primary as well as this Mary's race.
(33:51):
I gotta get this one. It might make us a
little late, but this, this is AOC. This is this
party that's trying to really take over the country, but
starting by taking over the Democrat Party. Here's is so
view of a billionaire. Never mind everything you've learned in economics.
This is her explaining why they'll never see the job creation,
they'll never see any of the good. It's just you cannot.
(34:13):
It is impossible for you to be a billionaire. That's
just an impossible thing. And here's AOC explaining it.
Speaker 14 (34:20):
There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. Right,
you can't earn a billion dollars, That's right, You just
can't earn that. That's exactly correct. You can, you can
get market power, you can break rules, you can do
(34:43):
all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws, you
can pay people less than what they're worth. But you
can't earn that right, and so you have to create
a myth that, since you didn't earn that, you have
to create be a myth of earning it.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
And I remind you she will be the leading Democratic
candidate for president of the United States until they rig
the election for Robbie Manuel and Westmore. I don't know,
can you earn two hundred and fifty thousand a year
or is that evil too?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
She's gonna get smoked. He's got to stop. I really
don't know what he said at the end of this sentence.
I don't think he knows what he's said either. It's
got to be a big misunderstanding. I'm gonna win. I'm
gonna wins.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
Three.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Why do you like my Robbie love.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
That job instruct We're all in this together. This is
your Morning Show with Michael nil Joanno
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