Mayorkas Impeachment Cobbler is a Confusing Recipe to Follow

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We're watching what's going on in Washington, DC in the Senate. Hey,
Matt case is my producer, Matt, can you tell the people what's actually
going on there? It says,now Colon mayorcis impeachment trial in Senate.
The colon, I don't think,you say, colon, Oh you don't.

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I don't think so. I shouldhave just maybe taken a brief like,
yeah, pregnant. Pause, yeah, Now why do pauses have to
be pregnant? I don't know.I don't usually call them that. Well,
here, here were the amendments.So they're uh, they just did
a vote on Ted Cruz's motion todebate the articles of impeachment for Alejandro my

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Orcus. He made a motion togo into closed session and debate them.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said no, I don't think he said that.
He said his time agreement offer toRepublicans included debate time in public. That
was rejected. Republicans didn't want todebate this in front of everyone, and

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yeah, he offered. Speaking ofSchumer, he offered a time agreement to
Republicans that would have allowed a certainamount of floor debate and votes on trial
resolutions, but we're trying to figureout if there's any Democrats that are even
going to listen to this, ifthere's any going to be any or is

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this really just the political grandstanding thatwe are allowed to believe that it probably
is. Republican Senator Eric Schmidt saidhe would not agree to a proposal that
would conclude with an unprecedented step inUS history dismissing an impeachment case without a
trial. So Chuck Scheaber says,hey, we'll spend a few minutes debating
on this, but we aren't makingany promises about anything that we're actually doing

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here. And then Ted Cruz is, well, let's get into a closed
session. Let's do a hard coredebate and guess how. The voting went
fifty one to forty nine against.Republican Senator John Kennedy proposed a motion to
adjourn until April thirtieth. I don'tknow what that exactly would accomplish, but

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that was also on forty lines,fifty one to forty nine. It failed.
My guess is that, Okay,Well, he's giving us a certain
amount of time. He said this, let's spend a couple of weeks getting
our arguments put together for this again. What would change between now and then?
Absolutely nothing, nothing zero. Nowon the other side, in the

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other chamber, one is in theSenate. This is the Senate, matt
case. What's the other chamber calledHouse of Representatives? Now the House of
Representatives. They have a guy incharge. Technically he's the leader of that
chamber. What do they call thatperson? It's a former track star,
Michael Johnson. Now that that's nothe's on a track star. He's he

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goes by, Mike, I whatif I called you, Matthew, How
would you like that? That's fine? No, it's fine. No,
it's not. You can call meany, call me anything but late for
dinner memory. Oh okay, okay, funny guy. Well, Mike Johnson's
faith facing his own his own pressure. There are more and more threats coming

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after him to try to oust himfrom his speakership. H Now, I
hesitate to say that this is goingto end up his political grandstanding because they
actually did remove a guy once.Remember that that wasn't all that long ago.
They were like, hey, KevinMcCarthy, we spent like thirteen votes

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in January to get you the gavel, and then by September we want to
get you out of here. Andby we, it's like eight Republicans that
were enough to side with the Democratsto create the chaos. And then for
three weeks we didn't have anybody.We had like four false starts on who
they were trying to get the gavel, get all these rumors of bowllying and
bad tactics, death threats. Yeah, yeah, to get like Jim Jordan

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the speakership. Again, what wasthe point of all of that to get
to Mike Johnson where they unanimously allof the Republicans said, that's the guy.
Well, Mike Johnson now is feelingmore and more pressure over his position
because he's trying to put a foreignaid bill together and that includes some money

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for Ukraine. And then our friendMarjorie Taylor Green's like, no, if
he does that, then we aregoing to oust him to and for what
Marge won't barge, So okay,So why do I mention all this?
These people are trying to do theirjobs. We're never gonna understand exactly how

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long it's going to take for someof these people to figure out what their
job actually is. I'm also unawareor not sure if there is a unit
party that's trying to be in chargeof everything. If so, they're doing
a heck of a bad job.Let's be honest, because every people on

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both sides just refuse to agree witheach other on most of the major issues.
So anybody out there that wants totell me that there's a uniparty and
everybody's just like talking to each otherand like behind the scenes, you know,
like poking each other's in wink wink. We got this with the American
people never know what hit them.They can't everything that's like really important that

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we're hearing about debates, whether it'ssouthern border stuff, whether it's foreign aid
bills, whether it's you know,situation with our support for Israel and some
some regard. You're getting different,loud, different opinions, And could you

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imagine the chaos that would devolve herein an election year if Marjorie Taylor Green
and some of the other more radicalpeople in the Republican Party decide, you
know, Mike Johnson's not doing whatwe wanted him to do, so we're
going to remove him to could youimagine what does the health of our chambers
look like at that point to wherewe're doing a potentially unprecedented move by not

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even having a debate or a trialfor impeachment articles in the Senate. But
then you look at the other side, just like trying to impeach a person
in the cabinet and without really havinga backup plan as to what was going
to happen after that, it's reallyjust symbolic. You know, it's not
going to pass. Do you gotthoughts on any of this? You can

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call us a four h two fivefive eight eleven ten. The state of
American politics in Congress? What doesit mean? What does it mean for
us that they're basically just like,well, we're gonna kick people out.
We're gonna kick people out of thisthing and that thing. We're gonna have
people over here that are gonna havetheir own opinion and we're not gonna acknowledge
them. And we have to listento these people because they're gonna elect us
or we need them to vote forus, and we're gonna change our opinion

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just a little bit so they knowhow much that we care about them.
It's all we're getting played. We'regetting played for almost every angle. And
I'm I'm not saying that you knowall of the five hundred and thirty five
people that are in Washington, DCand Congress, they're all bad people.
It's not what I'm trying to sayhere, but how much of this is
actually politics and the game that youhave to play when you're in Washington.
How much of this is supposed tomake America better? How does removing Mike

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Johnson make America better? I don'tknow. Four Roho two five five eight
eleven ten is the phone number.Four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
We'll talk to you about this next. It's two sixteen on news radio
eleven ten Kfab Emery Sunger on newsradio eleven ten, kfab. I think
a Hay extram. When you saymatriculating, that's where I got it from.

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That's what it is. Matriculate theball up and down the field.
Yeah yeah, all right right,all Hank, Yeah, press some peace,
all right. Phone lines are openfor two five five eight eleven sin.
We're talking and speaking about the chaosthat is our Congress right now and
the two parties not aligning on basicallyanything, and it basically just being just

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gamesmanship from top to bottom. Colinis on the phone line. Colin,
thank you for the call today.What do you think about this? Well,
I think the real chaos that youknow, everybody's kind of agreed to
is the year twenty thirty two whenSocial Security is going to go and solvent.
They're going to cut benefits to seventyfive percent of what they are today.

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And right now, what Congress doesis every eight to ten years,
they doubled the national debt. Sothe further you know that they kicked that
can down the road, especially withSocial Security and Medicaid and solve Andy on
the horizon of the next eight years, they can't continue just double the national

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dead every eight to ten years.So the sooner that they face up to
that, the less chaotic things aregoing to be. And I see things
opposite of you, because I seethe people who want to push for the
change, who live in the realmof reality, who understand that we can't
double the national debt every eight years. Yeah, they're the agents who are

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fighting the chaos. Yeah. So, Colin, I guess we obviously know
the national debt is certainly something thatneeds to be tackled in some way or
addressed in some way at least toslow it down to a point where it
becomes a little more reasonable. Likeyou said, we're on a really rough
trend with it right now. Whatwould be a solution that you think would

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make sense for our government to notnecessarily just tackle this specific problem, but
the general chaos that we're seeing withthe two parties just not seeing eye to
eye and being in control of twodifferent chambers. Well, well, it's
very easy right now. They cometogether in a bipartisan way to spend more

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and to create more inflation. Theanswer has been to create more inflation,
and we see our Republican representatives andDemocrat representatives vote yes on inflation consistently because
that's how they come together. Whatwe're going to have to start seeing now
if we want to preserve Social Securityand Medicaid, is them coming together and

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a bipartisan way to spend less.And the people who have been pushing for
changes and for Jim Jordan to beSpeaker of the House, they think we
need to be bipartisan and start spendingless. Otherwise, the people who want
to spend more, they just wantsocial Security to go and solve it in
eight years. Yeah, and obviouslythat's a different kind of tactic here,

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Okay, Colin I guess last thingfor you. I appreciate you, Colin,
and I love talking to my listeners. I love like picking their brain
about stuff. Is there anything tobe gained by having Mike Johnson removed a
Speaker of the House at this point, I think it would be good to
go into the election, especially understandingthat we're eight years away from social security

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and solvency, and they doubled thenational debt every eight years. It would
be good for the Republicans to say, hey, voters, we know you
started the Tea Party a decade anda half ago, and we are finally
going to start doing what we campaignedon a decade and a half ago.
We're going to get a Jim Jordantype in the Speaker's office, and finally

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we're going to actually put Republican wordsinto Republican action, because otherwise it just
disenfranchises voters. And that's a bigreason why you see Republican turnout so low,
because when you vote for decades forless spending and they just always compromised

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to create more inflation, It's like, what can you do in democracy you
want? You feel like you don'thave a voice because you vote Republican because
of their messaging, but they justdon't follow through where if they follow through
up front, or if Mike Johnsonbecomes to Mike Johnson, we thought he
was going to be that's going toreally motivate Republicans to get out of vote

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because what they've been voting for fordecades, Well it might look like it's
finally going to become a reality.Well, we're gonna have to see,
because you know, he had thatcome to Jesus meeting if you will,
with Donald Trump last week and theydid their press conference together and try to
figure out they can get on thesame page. So we'll see if there's
something like that this Ukraine aid billor this foreign aid bill, or however

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you want to say it. Youknow, Marjorie Taylor Green says if he
proposes that, she's going to pushfor his removal. And there seems to
be a little bit of traction withsome of the other more loud and outspoken
people in the House. But we'llsee if anything actually comes to that.
I just don't understand what the backupplan to that would be. Colin.
I appreciate your thoughts today, Thanksfor the call. Thank you. Yeah,

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So anybody else out there, wantsto call you can't four h two,
five, five, eight to eleventen. We do have word that
the Senate has officially voted to killthe first impeachment article against Alejandro Myorcis.
There were two of them. Thevote was fifty one a forty eight to
one. The additional one was SenatorLisa Murkowski of Alaska. She's a Republican,

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but a moderate Republican. If youwant to call her that. She
voted present. I don't know whyis it, because then we could say
her name. She wanted to bedifferent than everyone else because a present vote
in a no vote basically are thesame. The same outcome comes. Maybe

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she thought it was just attendance orrole call. You know. That's that
would be dumb though, because wevoted this, like, well not we,
but the people have Alaska voted thisperson to represent them in the Senate.
That doesn't make any sense. Theycalled their name. She's like,
yeah, I'm here, she saidpresident. I guess she's mad that they're
like. She doesn't want them togo through with the articles of impeachment,

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but she also doesn't want to breakparty lines, so instead of voting no,
she's just like, hey, Idon't like this, and I'm just
gonna say present, as if thatmade any difference whatsoever the games these people
play like she's doing that so peoplenotice that she didn't vote no, even
though it didn't change how the voting, Like, like, what the difference

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was if you don't say yes?Isn't that a no? I mean in
this situation? Yeah, so it'sa no. Yeah, But she didn't
say no. She said present.She should have so didn't count in the
score. She should have said whatRandy Jackson says, that's a note for
me. Dog, you think thatwould be a good look for the Uh?

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I did a rod sled fans inAlaska that vote for her? I
don't think they're tuning in. Ithink they're out working on their sleds.
Is anybody in Alaska tuning into this? No? Like that's why she does
it? Who is alejandrais? Yes? Exactly? You know who cares absolutely
nothing about this whole process? Alaskansmaybe Hawaiians too, Right, Oh,

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we shouldn't be laughing like this,but we are, you know what,
because you can't laugh at yourselves?And what do we do like the present?
Well, we're had to take partin the process OLESA appreciate that to
twenty eight. We'll let you knowif that second one gets killed too,
and if that does, then thatpretty much wipes out this whole thing.
Shock her there. That's on theway, And we have to talk a

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little bit more about people feeling they'vebeen spied on and paranoia, especially with
people of an advanced age. AndI'll explain that because something happened in Ohio
that I feel like could add intothis conversation as well. We'll do that
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they're doing stuff over there in theSenate. Senate voting on a variety
of things with the Alejandro Myorcis impeachment, and they are Democrats trying to kill
each of the first two articles.The first article was wilful and systemic refusal
to comply with the law that didthat got killed party lines. And then

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Lisa Murkowski, the Alaska Sentator,she was the she voted present. So
that was the only weird thing.The fifty one Dems or dim leaning people,
they voted as we figured they would, to kill it, and the
other forty nine did not. They'retrying to go to Mike Lee, Republican

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Centaer set a motion to go toa closed session again. That failed.
They are trying to adjourn that failed. There's nothing, Matt, is this
not the most insane thing. They'revoting multiple times, different people are making

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motions to adjourn because they just wantto try to keep that there so they
can like get back to the drawingboard on it. Why though, what
chance, like are you waiting forlike Bernie Sanders to kill over or something
backdoor deals? You know, likehow how what is going to change?

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What is going to change here?We knew this was going to happen,
and we know what would happen.Even if they vote to adjourn and they
accept that and they're not going toThey're just gonna try to kill it right
now. It could get killed inthe next hour. But instead of doing
that, they're just continuously making motionsto adjourn and it gets killed and shot
down by the fifty one Democrats?What are we doing here? This is

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what I'm talking about? Well,Greg emailed, then this is what I
was going to talk to you about. Greg said, you heard a quote
from Schumer about this impeachment today andhe called it the most groundless, most
politically motivated impeachment in the history ofthe US. Now he goes on,
I'll get his punchline here in asecond. But the most groundless and most

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politically motivated impeachment in the history ofthe United States. Didn't the Democrats spend
four solid years trying to impeach DonaldTrump eventually doing so. Weren't they trying
to impeach him before he even tookoffice. Weren't they trying to blame him
for some Russian collusion that they nevercould prove, for the way he got

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elected in twenty sixteen? What intarnation. I hate political hyperbole. This is
all I can say to you,ladies and gentlemen listening to this fine radio
program here on eleven ten kfab donot buy in to political hyperbole. As

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crazy as the times are that we'reliving in right now, it doesn't help
anybody to say this is the mostinsane time of all time. Like the
sixties happened, like race riots andthe hippie movement and woodstock and the civil

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rights movement and all that stuff thatwas all happening. I'm experimental substance abuse.
It was all coming to a headat the same time. Oh,
and we were in Vietnam. Okay, Like, read about what happened in
the sixties and then come back tome about this day and age. Read
about the eighteen sixties. Where,Matt, do you remember what happened in

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the eighteen sixties? Yeah, civilwar? Now, I would say that
would be probably a bit more chaoticin the United States than this is all
I'm saying is if you want tomake the argument that this is the craziest
thing, the most insane thing thatever happened, or this is the worst
of all time, or this isthe best of all time, it's just

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not. We have no historical contextto that whatsoever. So I hate it
when a guy likes Schumer. Histhe pompoutness, like the arrogance, the
pompousness of a guy like Schumer lookingdown his nose and his glasses that he
sits on the bridge of his nose, looking down at the rest of us
peons, acting like he's some holierthan thou guy had to stop myself from

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having to get the FC seed there. Uh oh, you better watch that
button over there that can save me. I'm watching it. It's not going
anywhere. Schumer decides that he's gonnalook at us through his little bifocal looking
glasses and tell us that this isthe most egregious, groundless, most politically

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motivated impeachment in the history of ourcountry. How dare you, sir?
How dare you? In what worlddo you have the grounds to say that
to us? And it will makeus believe that after less than a decade
ago, you and the rest ofyour political peons, your your peasants,

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your your your piss ants over thereon the on the DNC side of things,
actively try to impeach a Republican presidenton no grounds of their own,
over and over and over again.How dare you? What are we doing
here? We'll just wait, we'llgive you more updates. I'm sure we're

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just a few minutes away from themkilling the second impeachment article, not actually
doing a trial. And then wehave the rhetoric that the Republicans have to
come back with and say, look, these people did not they don't respect
our government, they don't respect therules that are in place, they don't
respect the Constitution. And that's alegitimate argument if they are not going to
go out of their way to atleast hear the trial, even if at

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the end of the day they wouldhave voted the same way anyway, and
we would have just wasted our time. At least that's what the government system
is set up to do. Thisstinks. If you have thoughts on it,
you can call us at four ohtwo five five, eight eleven ten,
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radio eleven ten Kfab. Matt,you are the foremost expert on doppelgangers.
What say you, Japeto versus ChuckSchumer? Is that close enough match?
Oh? I don't know. I'dhave to look at it. Well,
look at it like Schumer, lookat Schumer. I think I think there's

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a I think there's room for theChuck Schumer. Like if we were doing
and the only thing is the hair, we'd have to throw a wig on
Chuck as he looks down his nosethrough his glasses at the rest of us.
Well, Geppetto had they have thesame position, they have the same
bifocal positioning. But Geppetto has avery nice full mustache the stash too,

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yeah, and a full head ofhair. There's no way a guy could
get mustache he out and win anelection. I don't see why not.
We've done this, We talked aboutthis, Tom Thomas Dewey end but yeah,
yeah, but he had that waslike the worst mustache of all time.

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The guy looked like a sleeve lookedlike the kind of guy walking into
a bank with a bad check.Look like the kind of guy standing at
the bridge trying to sell it toyou, hand it out pamphlets. So
you're saying Thomas Dewey is a badexample, then why Matt has no one

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legitimately high profile won a national electionrocking the old mustache because Tom Scarett hasn't
run for office. That's why.That's that that that that's not how it
works. It doesn't how it doesn'twork that way. I want a guy
who's got a mustache that curls up, you know, you know that the

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you know, like a taft,Yeah, like taft. Why just taft
keep getting brought up on this show? Uh, unofficial ambassador of the Emery
Songer Show. No, no,No, William Howard Taft. That's the
guy. He's been brought up alot. Now. The Hams Bear is

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more an ambassador for this program thanWilliam Howard Taft. He just happens to
be like a general punchline. Wekeep going to that well because there's a
lot of well to be you know, harvesting wasn't enough bathtub though, and
that was the problem. That wasone of the problems. Another problem.
This guy ended up being like thechief Justice of the Supreme Court after his

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presidency. How's that work? Hey, I know you weren't that great at
being the president, but here beon the Supreme Court. How's that work?
But he does, he does havethe mustache. And I think he's
the last guy we did that,right. We talked about it after Taft,
like because Roosevelt teddy Roosevelt had amustache, right, But then it

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was Taft and he had the stash. But then Woodrow Wilson wins, and
then after Wilson it's Harding, noCoolidge, no Hoovert, no fdr no,
and then Truman. And that's whenTruman wins reelection with beating Dewey.
And a lot of people say it'sbecause women didn't want to vote for an
ugly guy with the mustache. Idon't think a guy running for office for

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the presidency, he's even stashed himselfup. I don't remember one. There
you go anyway. I don't knowhow we got here, But this was
a lot more fun to talk aboutthan being really angry at the Democrats just
being revolting. That they're not revolting, they revolt on the American people all

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the time. They're revolting? Isin like taste, like, yeah,
that was revolting. You can usethem both ways, right, Why not
both revolting in the way that wedid it as a verb, we are
revolting. That's a verb. Theway I used it is it's an adjective.
Oh, that was revolting described something. This English lesson brought to you

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who said he was being watched bythe government. He couldn't figure out how

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to watch the video footage, buthe knew he was being spied on.
How prevalent is paranoia with elderly peoplein our communities. You could be a
part of the conversation as we haveit next right here on news radio eleven ten KFAB