Sorry That You Made Poor Choices, You Had Your Chance

Sorry That You Made Poor Choices, You Had Your Chance

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Check out our website ninety four to three wsc dot com.
Now back to Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Plays.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
At seven thirteen on a Tuesday edition of the show.
We appreciate you joining in.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yeah, we're covering this morning's top stories. Google is announcing
a partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems that brings two hundred
megawatts of fusion power to the tech giant. The company
announced its plans to purchase power from Commonwealth's plant in
Virginia and expects to have four hundred megawatts of power
online by twenty thirty. The energy source is a form

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of carbon free energy derived from fusing two nuclei that
helps Google reach its sustainability goals. The announcement comes as
several tech companies shift to nuclear energy to sustain the
quickly rising demand for AI tools.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Huh, look how that worked out.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's the only way that they're going to be able
to power AI.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's like new clear energy, you know, Oh my god,
with the green new scam. We can't have nuclear energy
or coal or anything else. It's got to be solar
and wind. And look how the tides have turned.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, you know, I mean, well, I mean, we know
the Green New Deal was a scam, and they've been
against nuclear power all this time and then they come
out against fossil fuels. Yeah, and we're supposed to believe
that the sun and wind power can do it all,
can do it all, and it can't even touch our
normal consumption. It's nowhere near the level of that. And

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then this AI, it's amazing how much energy it consumes.
So if we're going to live in this you know,
computerized future, digital future, they're going to need to power
it one way or the other. And we don't have
enough power at the current moment, so they're gonna have
to look at nuclear.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
This is one of the first things when Trump is
on the campaign trail and bringing up AI and the
potential of embracing it. Is about the time when Elon
kind of came around on you know, into the campaign,
and it's one of the first things that he said
and made it, you know, very emphatic statements about how
much power it will take to power AI. No matter

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how you feel about it one way or the other. Well, absolutely,
its energy footprint is going to be huge.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well, as I said, I mean, it has to be
if there's going to be any kind of future for
AI at all. They need to power it one way
or another, and nuclear seems to be the only option
that provides enough energy.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, this would be interesting to follow and track not
only how people then I you know those who are
anti and have been, like you said, about nuclear for
so long? Are they Is it going to change? Are
you going to embrace technology? You're going to embrace AI,
You're going to embrace nuclear energy.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
How going to spin this? I'm not quite sure.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know either. I guess time will tell.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, the special interests will work their way into you know,
the into nuclear energy, I guess, and they'll figure out
a way to pay off these politicians and get the
special interests on board. I suppose that's how everything else works, right.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
True, one way or the other. Sadly we're talking about
lining political pockets.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, look at all these companies. Celindra comes to mind,
because that's the only one that I can remember the
name of, But there's plenty of those companies that took
not only federal grants, but grants from the states. I
was reading a story the other day. I can't remember
how much money Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan gave one particular
company it was millions and millions and millions of taxpayer

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dollars and then they up and left.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Oh yeah, big boone doggle no thanks to who at
Clender I believe was under rock. He was under President
Obama at the time. And what a scam, Holy cow,
complete waste of federal funding.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
So, I mean there's example after example after example of
these misguided programs that turn out just to be a
waste in a ripoff of the taxpayers. So and then
it's found its way into politics. And don't believe that
it's not that that's not all special interest driven too,

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and that there's payoffs to people and that there's dirty
dealings going on there and you know, and we don't
hear about it so much anymore, and people would be like,
oh stop, you know, the what about us? And with Biden?
I wonder how much money you know, Biden pocketed off of,
you know, all of these green laws that he passed

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in all of this.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Oh my god, I mean it goes back. I mean
Eleander and Obama here we are talking about. That was
Oh my gosh. So there was massive investigations into that
big federal loan, their failure, all the power and privilege
that came from it, and you know this griff just
sadly seems seemed to continue on into I say, the

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Biden regime administration. We don't know who was a run
in the country at that time, who may have continued
to be lying in their pockets.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Well, el Gore made a whole new career out of
it after losing the presidency, you know, after losing them
running for president. He was vice president at the time,
and shifted Gears made his whole career about you know, uh,
the world's going to end. And he sounded like Greta
Thurnberg with all his warnings.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Gordon two by four and gretag Tunberg.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
I don't know, Yeah you get them, and yeah you
notice how like everybody like it, it's they changed.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
I know, I noticed. So she was Thunberg now she.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Was Sunberg for like years and now she's Tuneberg.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
I don't know, maybe she's she's grown up.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Same thing with Iran and Iran.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
I know cutter now it's Iran.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Like the media all of a sudden just changes, I guess,
so they can sound smarter than everybody else.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I almost think the way that they pronounce her name
now gives her some sort of respect. It just it's
kind of weird.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
She does not deserve any kind of respect. Abrego Garcia
will remain in jail after you express concerns over the
Trump administration saying he would be deported to a third
country he once released. Tennessee Federal Judge issued the ruling
on Monday. Brego Garcia's lawyers had asked the judge on
Friday to delay his release, warning that the Trump administration

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had made conflicting statements about whether he will be deported
after he's released ahead of a trial. He currently faces
federal human smuggling charges. He was deported to El Salvador
earlier this year before being returned to the US. After
Abrego Garcia was brought back to the United States to
face the human smuggling offenses, the Justice Department requested that

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he remained detained while awaiting trial, but Federal Magistrate Judge
Barbara Holmes earlier this month rejected that request and said
he should be granted pre trial release. The Justice Department
appealed that decision, and a US district judge set a
hearing for July sixteenth. On the request to revoke Holmes's
release order.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
I'm so sick of hearing about this guy.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, this judge wants to let him go, says he's
not a flight risk and that he can remain free
while he faces these human smuggling charges. And then now
his lawyers are like, no, leave him in jail. Maybe
you say, we're afraid they're they're gonna deport him again
out of the country. He's better off in jail. This

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is what a this whole thing has become.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, yeah, and maybe the attorneys are recognizing finally that
this administration is not messing around. They can say whatever
they want to say, bluster all they want, find all
their activist judges. But at the end of the day, well, look,
last week the Supreme Court spoke, we'll see if you've
got to wonder if that has a little something to
do with this case here.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, I know that the Trump administration said that there
were reports saying that they were going to arrest him,
and that ICE was going to arrest him and deport
him as soon as he was released by this judge,
and there were reports of that. The Trump administration said
that's not true, that's fake news. So now the lawyers

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are saying, well, there's a bunch of confusion and the
Trump administration is speaking out of both sides of their mouth,
and our clients better off in jail.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Sound a little scared.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Well, you know this guy and the left shirt chooses
odd people to support, to throw their.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Support strange bedfellows.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, and this is the guy, in case you didn't
notice at the time, or in case you forgot that
while he was in this El Salvador in prison, that
Senator von Holland went and paid him a visit. And
then they all started lining up, all the Democrats to
go check on the welfare of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And

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there's protesters out there with signs of his little fat
face kissing a baby, and they're trying to paint him
as just some poor Maryland dad, you know, who got
caught up in all this mess and he just wants
to be left alone. But the nasty Trump Administration's coming
after him.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I still don't see how any of this has worked
for them. How about the actual poor Maryland dad, who
are American citizens who are struggling to feed their children.
How do they explain this to their constituents?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, the Democrats don't care about them.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Well, I hope that this actual, real, poor legitimate Maryland
dad's out there. I mean, this is why we had,
I believe, a resounding win in November. People are finally
walking away from this nonsense.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, but you know, not enough people. If you ask me,
I don't know how you support all this. And I
don't know why the Democrats will kind of traction they
thought they were going to get by traveling to all
Salvador to go visit this guy and check on his
welfare and then turn it into a pr stunt. I
mean talk about misguided. Obviously, anybody can become, you know,

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a campaign manager, and this is what they're being directed
to do to garner support.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
And insult to injury doing so on our dime as
s taxpayers, And the whole thing is just it's one
just add another layer of like anger to this onion.
It's just disturbing and disgusting and I don't see where
it's gaining them any support a positive way.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
It's insulting to all law buying United States citizens and
even guests to this country that are on visas, and
immigrants who have been naturalized, and the people who were
born here and grew up here, every single one of them.
This is an insult to the Big beautiful bill is
an obscene. Monday, on MSNBC's Deadline, Senator Corey Booker said

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that President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful domestic policy package was
a moral obscenity. Booker said, I think it's a moral obscenity,
and it is violence in the sense of what it
will do to many families, by denying them healthcare when
they're sick, by denying them food when their children are hungry,

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denying our senior's critical care in their later years, denying
the disabled the kind of support that they need. This
bill is a moral obscenity, and I'm stunned that only
a few senators on their side of the aisle, they
have even been willing to speak to the impact they
will have their states, their constituents, their rural hospitals, their families,
their children, and their state. All he did was stop

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short of showing a video of the Republicans throwing Graham
off the side of a cliff in.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Their wheelchair, exactly all the things that he just stated
could happen if the largest tax cut in American history
was thrust upon people period, any people. You could go
down the list of what he just said, their children, elderly,
all this. I mean, this is what the Democrats do.
Boy are they scrambling to save face.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
We know how fiscally, how fiscally responsible the Democrats were
before Trump came along right and blew everything up and
just you know, blew the budget all the hell and
started wasting all this money. While the poor Democrats have
been so fiscally responsible all these years and throughout the
Biden administration.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
I mean moral obscenity. Look at what Doge uncovered that
our taxpayers were paid for trans ballets and other countries,
all kinds of sick, insane things that we knew nothing about.
And Democrats are over here chiding, finding, exposing, defunding this stuff.

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Meanwhile he's out here saying Granny's going off a cliff
when none of that is going to happen.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Well, they're still trying to frame this is this is
some kind of buddy deal from Trump giving tax breaks
to his billionaire friends. I mean, it's an outright lie.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
It is an outright lie. They're you know, they're calling
it a blue collar boom with this bill, it's quite
the opposite.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
It's quite the opposite of a blue collar boom.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
No, it's quite the opposite of what you just said
that Democrats are claiming. It's it's the opposite between you know,
thirty and eighty thousand dollars, you're going to get five, ten,
twelve thousand more dollars back, keep money that you've earned.
I mean, the when it comes to the child tax
care credit, this is another thing you want to talk about,

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something that affects your voters as Democrats. I mean, this
child tax care credit, it's I think it's doubling, if
not more. I mean, there are a lot of things
in here that Republicans do not like. We know this.
They're literally fighting over it as we speak in the
Senate right now.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
I for one, would like to see taxes cut across
the board and simplified. Rather than pick and choose which
groups of people are going to pay less taxes or
get tax credits, or do this, buy an electric vehicle,
get a tax cut. They're going to do away with that.
That's why they're saying, Elon's so upset. Parents have kids

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and get a tax break, and you get a tax
break for this and a tax break for that. How
about you just even do away with the irs and
do some kind of consumption tax or something, or flat
tax or whatever it may be. But the tax code
needs to be simplified, not added to. And so that's
where I have a problem with this.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Well, but this will put more money in people's pockets,
and that cash will be accused back into our economy. Well,
working in middle class Americans. This is a necessity blue
collar boom, bigger paychecks. There's going to be historic tax
relief for workers. We cannot forget, you know, all of

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the no tax on tips, over time, social Security. I mean,
there's so many things in here that will, in turn.
Trump's emphatically said this over and over. It will in
turn bring prosperity back to Americans. Majority of Americans, blue
collar boom. So the idea they're trying to pedal that

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this is a big tax breaks his rich friends, it's
just preposterous.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
But well, that part of it's prosper preposter I don't
know why I can't say that this morning, but anyway, ridiculous,
you know, but look at how it's loaded down with
all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
But it is going to promote growth and help small businesses.
I mean, there's a lot of things here that is necessary.
And I know you're saying you don't like that. What
made in America tax breaks with the interest deductions on
loans for you know, new American made vehicles. There are
a lot of people listening right now that like to
get a new car again. But well, guess what, maybe
me that little incentive, it.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Still can't afford a new car with the tax break.
So I mean, come on, now, that kind of stuff
drives me nuts, and it doesn't need to be in
this bil. What they needed to do was cut the
taxes and ramp up the military and maybe fix any
kind of other little problems that are going on. But again,
every time they get to vote on it and then

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it's so close that that makes it even more wasteful
because now these each of these senators can leverage their
the power they have over it when it comes down
to one or two votes, they can leverage, you know,
getting their special interests or their campaign donors taking care
of and all of this, and it's just more out
of control government. And so from that sense, yeah, it

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frustrates me. But we need the tax cuts, we need
the added military spending and it will at the end
of the day. I think, like Trump said, add money
to the coffers of the United States still, But that
doesn't mean that the United States is spending responsibly. Oh No,

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we're spending very irresponsibly. And we're hanging this debt over
our kids and grandkids in great grandkids' heads, and and
somebody needs scheme along at some point and do something
about that. Or we're going to get to the point
in the future where we're seeing it already. You see
Trump complaining about Jerome Powell not cutting rates and how

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much that's costing the US government just in interest payments.
Once you get down the road to the next economic
downturn and the interest rates or even boom, or they
need to cool it right and raise the interest rates
to cool off the economy. What's going to happen, Like
we're going to be to one hundred percent of the
income coming into the government to service its debt.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
So during the Vodama right now, you would be trying
to get rid of the newborn investment accounts. This is
part of the Big Beautiful Bill where Trump's trying to
establish the Trump Investment Account for newborns. So Grandpa Blazeah. Yeah,
I don't want to start a newborn savings account to
secure the financial future for every American child from birth.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
No, I do not. You know, give people their money
back and let them spend it however they want. And
if they spend it poorly, guess what they're going to
end up poor and sorry you had your chance.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
God forget bid. We give historic tax breaks to oh
US seniors, people who are struggling over the last several
years with just trying to make it meet over time,
people make tips. I mean, just I keep saying the
historic tax relief for workers, I mean fifteen percent tax

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cut for Americans earning between thirty and eighty thousand dollars
a year. How many people right now? Fifteen percent? Wouldn't
that be nice to have that back in your pocket
to decide what to do with.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
But I think this includes what the tax cuts that
we've already received, So I don't think that's in addition
to this.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Is well overtime tax cuts. It is, and that's why
they're calling it a blue collar boom. It's the big,
beautiful bill and what it delivers with it when it
comes to the largest tax cuts with working in middle
class American.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
But I think they're kind of combining the two together,
which is the extension of the tax cuts and making
them permanent. The tax cuts that we already enjoy that
Trump instituted in his last administration, and then those are
set to expose. So the main purpose of this big,
beautiful bill is to make them permanent. And then there's

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some additional tax cuts in there. But I think when
they're sitting there championing, you know how much money this
is going to save everybody, they're including the tax cuts
that we've already enjoyed.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
They're literally promising bigger paychecks for on average increase in
take home pay of over ten thousand dollars a year.
I'm just thinking what I could do with ten grant.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Ten extra grant compared to what your current paycheck is,
or compared to what it would be if this bill
doesn't pass.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Right, I understand where you're going with this, but I
this maybe this yes is lumping in the no tax
on tips, Social Security. You know the workers within that range.
I mentioned the thirty to eighty K but and the
main America tax breaks and all the other things.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Well, these votes and you know they're trying to put
amendments in there, and already it's failed to cut off
a funding of medical care for legal immigrants. No, can't
do that.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Now, how do you think that's gonna go over in
the House? Well, this is what I mean like that,
that's not going to go over.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Well, there's a lot of things that aren't going to
go over well in the House.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
So how they think this is going to get anywhere
near fourth of July passing? Guess we'll see. Got a
few more days here.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Well, and you see this all the time. I mean,
this is a chance for you know, these politicians to
get up there and filibuster and say all these things
and then change their mind at the last match.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
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