Party Like It's 1776

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And welcome to Thursday here on fifty plus. Thank you
all for joining me as we get closer to America's
two one hundred and fiftieth birthday only col some really
petty politics are being played out in Washington, d C.
Specifically around the White House where a handful of states.

(01:13):
This bothers me about our country right now. It's just
so peaky, petty, wishy, washy, whatever you want to call it.
Around the White House, where we are hosting the Great
American State Fair. There are several states a handful of
them anyway, that are not sending any representatives, not participating
at all in this great American state fair. The ones

(01:37):
that shine most brightly, as far as I'm concerned, in
a negative light, Connecticut, Maine, Illinois, Hawaii, Massachusetts, North Carolina.
You see the theme growing here right Oregon, Rhode Island,
and Washington. All of those states have opted not to
participate in the celebration of this country's two hundred and

(01:59):
fiftieth birthday. And that option they've chosen is no more
than a political stunt. It only reflects poorly on those
states leaders and their hatred of our president. And that's
the only reason they're doing it, is because Donald Trump
is President of the United States. And what these no
shows are doing really it's like it's like not going

(02:23):
to your dad's ninetieth birthday party because you don't like
the way he combs his hair. It's petty and it's pathetic,
and it just shows you how divided we are right now.
And by the way, I'll get off of that topic
now for a little bit. By the way, while I'm
thinking about it, if you have any ideas, I've always

(02:43):
asked this, but I'm going to ask it a little
more regularly so I can get a little more participation
from all of you. If there is a topic that
I have missed, if there is something that you need
to hear about, whether it's medical, whether it's financial, whether
it's travel, whatever, anything and everything goes so long as
the segments I cover tend to be of interest to

(03:06):
older people, to seniors and their wonderful thirty five plus
year old children who are monitoring mom and dad's health,
monitoring mom and dad's coming and going Hey, that's a
big part of this audience, and I'm really glad to
have those younger people on board. And all you've got
to do to reach me is either I talked about
this on Tuesday. All you have to do to reach

(03:28):
me is either send me an email just Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com, or you can use the talkback feature
at the iHeartRadio app. Go to KPRC, hit the talkback button,
tell me your first name and what part of town
you're from, and then tell me what you want to
tell me. You've got about fifteen seconds or so, and

(03:50):
that's a long time. Shifting back into the meat and
potatoes of this show and on a brighter side, not
just a different side, and a more optimist stick side.
I'll tell the story of Ellie Gotttheimer and Laura Mullen,
two high school friends whose families are somehow involved in
politics and spend lots of time in Washington, d C.

(04:12):
They have written a children's book called Schmoo and Ozzy
Go to Washington about social media and about how much
of the content there is divisive and destructive and just
really not what it should be to further enhance our country.
Ellie said it really well, and I'm going to paraphrase
a little bit here because I don't have the direct

(04:34):
quote in front of me in front of me, but
what she said was that most of this content is
about you against me, And if you think about a
lot of the stuff you see out there, that's exactly
what it is, that you against me. When she said
it ought to be about you and me against the problem.
That's how politics used to work in this country now though,

(04:56):
especially from the left. Man, if you disagree with something,
they propose something they want to talk about and they
believe in, they're gonna stomp away, They're gonna put on
a costume, grab a bullhorn, come back and throw water
bottles at you. These two girls wrote their book in
hopes of enlightening children too. They didn't bother with older people.
They know they can't change the opinions of people older

(05:19):
than they are. But if they can just help these
younger kids learn before the far left teachers have a
chance to indoctrinate them, they may be able to enlighten
these kids and let them see that working together to
solve problems is what helped this country get to its
two hundred and fiftieth birthday. They're still in high school,

(05:39):
still in high school. This gives me a lot of
hope for the future. And I was I was losing
some of that hope really up until I read this story.
All Right, it's time take a little break. Here on
the way out, I'm gonna tell you about Midway Meat
Market out there in Katie. It's on Old Highway ninety.
I want to make sure I get all these numbers right,
because I tend to con use them. You go out

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I ten, you go past ninety nine, and then you
take the Kadi exit that says ninety. There'll be a
big nine zero up there. That's the one you want
to get off. On and go through through there into town,
and on your left at the second light, you're going
to see a strip shopping center. West end of the center,

(06:21):
there's Midway Meat Market. Been there fifty seven years. I've
been going there almost that long, and I've always enjoyed
everything I've bought from there. They've been smoking their meats
the same way since they opened. They've been doing everything
pretty much the same way. If it's not broke, there's
no need to fix it right twenty five flavors of
premium sausage. They have got a wonderful lunch counter where

(06:43):
you can get a traditional barbecue lunch, all the sides,
all the fixings, all of that stuff, or you can
just get a good old fashioned cheeseburger and it's one
of the best you'll ever eat. I promise you that
I'm kind of partial to their fries too, but don't
tell my cardiologists that I'm not supposed to eat them.
I don't need a hole or but I'll nibble. I'll
nibble and make sure nobody's watching. They're that good. Midway Meatmarket.

(07:08):
Dot com is their website. It's an old old style
country values in an old style country store, but it's
also been updated with all the technology you need to well.
For example, they've got their website. Of course, the need
tap to pay, all of that stuff's in there too,
But mostly you're just going to find friendly people who

(07:28):
love what they do. Midway Meatmarket dot Com is the
website Midway Meatmarket dot Com. And one more quick conversation
starter before we jump out. Major retailers pulling shaving brushes
from their shelves because some of them are made with
badger hair and animal rights groups think they found cruelty
on badger farms. They're not killing the badgers, they're just

(07:49):
giving them haircuts to make brushes. Falling back on something
I talked about a little bit yesterday, I find it
really interesting that increasing numbers of moderate Democrats are leaning
more to the left and hitching their wagons to these
outspoken socialists, and they're climbing into bed with those wackos.
Way ahead of the November midterms. There's one group of

(08:11):
about a dozen moderate Democrats who are pulling away from
all of that and trying to bring more people along
with them because they see the handwriting on the wall.
But the bigger bunch of moderate Democrats in many cases
are just tickled pink and giddy with excitement over becoming socialists.

(08:32):
But if they do keep going, if they do help
those socialists get into office, they're going to find themselves
in a pit they can't get out of. Those socialists
are going to turn on those moderates as fast as
they can because they want to make room in their
party and their newly designed party for even more socialists
even farther to the left. Socialism isn't something you can

(08:53):
bring into play in small doses, although Moron Zomdani up
in New York is sort of doing that, and he's
already realized that all the people who agreed with his
ideas are none of the people he expected to pay
for him. He already waited too long. He wasted time
making sure he touched all the wacko boxes while he
picked who would run Ramdanni City. And now I don't

(09:14):
think he can get all his socialist plans up and
run him before the last millionaire moves out. Socialism has
to be installed pretty quickly once the right people are
in place, Otherwise the voters are going to begin to
see the truth about that concept. And it's as if
anybody in this audience wouldn't understand this. The socialism worldwide

(09:35):
throughout history has a one hundred percent historical failure rate.
All those millions and millions of people who migrated here
during the Biden administration, they didn't come from democratic republics.
They came from socialist and communist cesspools run by hands
full of people of evil, people who have access to

(09:56):
whatever they want, and they'll use that access to take
and then just toss the crumbs to their people. They
don't care about the people who live in their countries.
That's why so many millions of them wanted to come here.
That's why millions more have invaded Europe. That's why they're
going to all kinds of countries around the world. And
unless we want to end up assesspool, we're going to

(10:18):
have to keep that border of our shut and we're
going to have to demand a lot more of the
people who come waltzing in here and back to all
the people who migrated here legally and illegally. Those beat
down people walked and flew and floated here from around
the world, just desperate as could be to escape what
the far left is trying to make America look like.

(10:41):
And they're not going to go away quietly either. In
addition to the socialists and communists, there's that peaceful religion
whose most sacred book tells its followers to conquer the
world at any and every cost. Already, some states have
turned a blind eye to parts of cities and towns
now that allow sharia law to supersede state and federal law.
In the United States of America, there are tiny little

(11:04):
countries with one hundredth of the strength that we have
in this country. And if people were to come into
their country and try to pull that off, they said, no, no, no,
you're out of here. Take the next flight out. Nice
seeing you, but not us, not with this bunch we've
got in power. Now. Breathe, just breathe, take a pause. Okay,
I don't want to continue down this path just now.

(11:26):
It just makes the show seem so dark and ugly,
and I don't like that. I don't mind calling out
dark and ugly, but I also don't want to dwell
on it. So I'll wrap it up on there for now,
and I'll finish this segment kind of by saying conservative
people will absolutely have to speak up beginning today. We
got to start talk againing today to hold the fabric

(11:46):
of our country together. And if we don't, it's not
gonna take but a handful of years, we're gonna be
facing something far worse even than socialism. I'm afraid. Breath pause,
let it out, Take a little spice out of the saucy.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Here.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Something guaranteed to make you quit thinking about politics or religion.
And I had to go all the way to Pakistan
for this story. Well I didn't go there, obviously, but
I read about it. After two lawyers filed suit and
thousands of people signed petitions, Pakistan finally has scrapped its
plan to tax feminine hygiene products. I don't know at

(12:22):
all whether we tax them or not, but I sort
of agree with Pakistan that they are they're feminine essentials
and thus should be exempt from taxation, you know, like
golf balls and fishing lures should be for the men
in our country. Just saying that for a friend, all right,
And to continue this international journey, we're on word that

(12:42):
Amsterdam sidebar, been there, enjoyed that beautiful place. Amsterdam has
enacted a permanent ban of visual ads on billboards and
bus stops for anybody want to guess what you can't
see on a billboard or the wall of a bus
stop now where Not long ago, it was mostly chicken
wings and shiny cars trying to compete for those spaces.

(13:06):
It'll have to be something else moving forward. And I'm
not really sure what, but Amsterdam looking to be carbon
neutral by twenty fifty, good luck, and it wants its
citizens to consume fifty percent less meat by the same time.
Good luck. Amsterdam has banned cars and meat products from

(13:29):
Pardon me, I got a little hiccup from those billboards
and bus stops. And by the way, if they sent
many people here to watch the World Cup games, they
may have to kick that whole meat consumption gold down
the calendar a few years. If those Amsterdamers get a
taste of Texas barbecue, they're gonna go home wanting to
start raising cattle. And you know what, I'm gonna go

(13:51):
a minute or two more on American socialists and the voters,
not the power brokers, but Amican and socialists are being
sold down the river. And when socialists take over, ask
anyone who's lived in one of those socialist countries. They
came here from when socialism, not when it's just a
little seedling poking its head into the sunlight. But when

(14:14):
it finally comes into full bloom, that's when the people
who wanted it so badly will realize what they've done
to themselves. There won't be any food in the free
grocery store, there won't be any jobs except for poverty
wages in government run businesses and factories, and all the while,
the people in political power will gain weight almost as

(14:36):
fast as their bank accounts. You get what you vote for, socialists,
Good luck to you. Hanging around the international theme I've
somehow stepped into for today's show, I'll take us up
to Canada, the part where they grow the crazy people
and the story of someone who on camera described that

(14:58):
person and I quote here city housing, Hamilton resident, a
working class trans woman working with disabilities end quote and
blah blah blah. There's a lot more to that one.
And all the while that person and another person in
the frame were I don't even know how to tell
you that. I mean, it's just what were they doing.

(15:20):
They were flapping little sock puppets on their hands, as
as though they were signing to a hearing impaired Kermit
the frog this, I believe it's a woman. As she
goes on to say that whatever she represents to us,
be that a sex worker, a person with mental illness,
and she threw out a couple of more oddball descriptives

(15:43):
of herself. Finished her quote with if I can do it,
so can you. But I don't want to do it.
I don't want to be what you are, what you
and your sock puppet pretend to be. And the longer
we applaud this, the longer we as a society say, yeah, sure,
get up there and use your sock puppet and we'll

(16:03):
figure it out, It's just going to become more and
more difficult to figure out what on Earth is going on. Okay,
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(17:36):
welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you all for listening.
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(17:57):
want to take another little dive into the Supreme Court's
decision to allow birthright citizenship to continue even for the
babies of illegal immigrants. This is, as Tom Homan said
this morning, a national security concern. We're not talking about
one or two women coming across the border pregnant and
then maybe having their babies and staying here to raise

(18:20):
that child. What our security teams and our law enforcement
are seeing is the the problem. Here's the problem, tens
of thousands, literally of Chinese and Russian women coming here,
having their babies to establish that US citizenship and then
just going right back to their home countries where those

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and I'll wrap it in quotes, where those American babies
are raised under foreign values and in places where America
is considered an enemy, a serious enemy, and a serious
threat to their countries. And once those babies go through
full educations along that line, make sure that they know
that America is the bad guy. Those same kids, a

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lot of them, are gonna come back here, enjoy all
the rights of an American citizen, but at the same
time be quietly working maybe to destroy us through their
home country. Well, you can't call America home. Really. They
were only here, not even until they got out of diapers,
And in many cases they just have the baby, they

(19:27):
wait until the hospital releases them, and then jump on
the jet plane and go back across the ocean. There
are a couple of names for what they're doing. One
group calls it birthright tourism, and the other calls them
anchor babies. And anchor babies apply more to the people
who I think have their children in the United States
and then stay here. But that birthright tourism thing is

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going to be a problem, not this year or next year,
but in the coming years, and Judge Alito was quick
to point that out in his dissenting opinion yesterday. Smart
people throughout American security are warning that this is a
major concern, not just some little thing to not worry about.
And few, if any other countries in the world allow this.

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They can get a valid American passport. They're going to
be able to vote in our elections and potentially gain
high level security clearance because it says so right there
on that birth certificate they are Americans born in America.
The only problem we're going to have down the road
is that they're not going to be loyal to America

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because for eighteen or twenty years, all they've heard is
how bad we are. That's a big concern and it
should be really something. It's really frustrating that people don't
pay much more attention than they do to this too.
It's not those little babies that are the problem. It's
the teenagers and grown ups that they're going to become,
and how those teenagers and grown ups view us. You

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know what, I just had a really good idea here.
It is, we're gonna honor. We're gonna honor the World
Cup soccer matches that are being played in North America,
Central America, and South America, and we're going to do
so at work in this manner. Every forty five minutes,
we're gonna take a break of about ten or fifteen minutes,
and then in the middle of those forty five minute

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periods about halfway through, about the twenty one to twenty
two and a half minute mark, we're going to take
a three minute hydration break. Honestly, that was a little
bit of a headshaker to me when FIFA and the
World Cup announced that there would be hydration breaks halfway
through each half. I get that the weather's hot in
North America this time of year. I understand that. But

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for all the times I've watched World Cup matches, all
the reading I've done about World Cup matches, I don't
ever remember a story of any one of those athletes, athletes,
athletes who fell over because they were dehydrated. World class
soccer players are some of the fittest men on the planet,

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and they're conditioned to perform for forty minutes forty five
minutes at a time, then take a little break, and
then come back out and perform for forty five more minutes.
I remember a study done years ago that pegged professional
boxing as the sport that needed the most conditioning. What

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we call soccer would probably be up there around the
same level as boxing if players on the other team
were allowed to punch you as you ran past them.
Sometimes my mind takes really weird turns. Apologies if that
didn't make any sense to you, or you just thought
I'd lost my mind. I haven't lost my mind. I
promise I can assure you. Sometimes I do misplace it though.

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Moving on, the mother of Sheridan Gorman, the eighteen year
old college student who was shot and killed by an
illegal immigrant in Chicago, let Congress have it. In testimony
that focused on left leaning politicians who placed the rights
of illegal immigrants above those of US citizens. This woman's
daughter was shot for absolutely no reason, and this pathetic

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excuse for a man just walked up and shot her
dead while her friends watched in horror. And if you
think this grief stricken mother's wrong about the left, think
back to the State of the Union address. Remember that
President Trump played an ace on these people and everybody
in Congress and asked simply that all members of Congress

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who put American citizens' rights above those of illegal immigrants
stand up. Everyone on the right sprang to their feet,
and every single politician on the left, every one of
those cowards just sat and remained seated, so scared that
standing up would bring scorn from their colleagues. When they

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had to know. Putting Americans first isn't an option. I'm
pretty sure it's part of the oath you take when
you get that office and when you swear that you
will take care of Americans. And really, sadly, they knew
they would get away with it because they're backed up
by the media, and they knew that that scene wasn't
going to show in many places or for very many times,

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and so they got away with it more or less.
When that happened. When that happened earlier in the year,
a lot of really smart people said this clip ought
to run on every political ad in the country. It
doesn't need background music, it doesn't need voiceover. Just President
Trump telling Congress that if they support American citizens over

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foreign immigrants, stand up and then just let that image
of all of them sitting down sink into voters' heads.
That's just downright despicable. It really is clueless. Idiot and
Governor Tim Wallas from Minnesota got himself in trouble with
most people on social media after he came out and
called the Supreme Courts ruling on transgender athletes in women's

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sports cruel, not to the little girls who have to
watch naked boys walk through the locker room, but to
transgender athletes who have no business being in the wrong
locker rooms. Here's a quote from him and I quote,
as the Supreme Court says states can be cruel to
trans kids, my message is clear here in Minnesota, we

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stand with and value our trans neighbors and youth. End quote.
Social media fired back and made it perfectly clear that
most of us with common sense disagree with what he said.
On ex Republican Senator Julia Coleman posted this and I quote,
What's cruel is making a teenage girl already uncomfortable in

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her own skin, change in a locker room next to
a naked boy. What's cruel is letting our girls get
the blank kicked out of them by biological mails on
the field and lose out on scholarships and more chances
to compete. What's cruel is putting your base above female
safety and opportunities. You tell him, Julia, I shudder to

(26:06):
think where we'd be right now if the cackler and
the town clown became president and vice president of the
United States. And in case you didn't read it today,
Tim Walls just accepted a pay raise for his last
six months in office. For the last six months, he's
going to be making more than sixteen thousand, six hundred
dollars per month. If he's smart, when he leaves office,

(26:27):
he'll partner up with some of his constituents and open
a few leering centers. So rounding home and back to
the lighter side actually sort of a plus side more
than a lighter side. And if you're a Trump Hayton lefty,
you just might want to sit down for this. Thanks
in great part to the deportation of bad people and
the actual arrests, prosecutions, and imprisonment of dangerous criminals, the

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US murder rate is on pace to be its lowest
since the FBI started keeping track in nineteen sixty. Happened
by accident. It wasn't magic. It happened by law enforcement
doing its job. Kind of funny how that works too.
You know, when you take the criminals off the street,
crime goes down. Imagine that. All right. To wrap up

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dot edu slash aging. All right, so here we are
rounding third and headed home. And thanks to you all
really for being here on the day before the day
before we celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. And
I'm gonna let you know a little in advance that
I'm taking tomorrow off, and my friend Callum Red is

(28:38):
going to put together a really good best of edition
of the show for us. I'm taking off tomorrow because
I want to be here Saturday morning to get this
momentous day off to a great start. And I know,
I know some of you will be listening over the
weekend and maybe think about answering a question I intend
to ask as soon as I get on the air
Saturday morning. Well, I feel like it just cuts straight

(28:59):
to the point. What makes America great? The way I
see it? Of course, I think we could probably there's
enough good answers to that question to fill six or
eight hours, starting with the freedom we have to talk
about our country however we please. And there are unfortunately
lots of people here now Americans who don't like the

(29:19):
way things are going In an increasing number of countries
around this world too. Speaking out against the government will
get you silenced at best and thrown into prison at worst. Well, no,
that's not the worst thing, actually, come to think of it.
But over here, in the Land of the Free and
the Home of the brave, we can say what we want.
We have a constitutional right to do so. But what

(29:43):
I don't like about The way things are going now
is that sometimes, somehow, people to the far left believe
that their opinions are the only ones that matter, and
that every other position should be silenced. And lately, when
somebody dares to share a different point of you, the
left twists off and resorts to the same tacky, time

(30:04):
wasting tactics, trying to convince conservatives that left is right
and right is wrong. It saddens me, honestly to see
grown men and women being interviewed by these independent journalists.
These are people who are easily old enough to be grandparents,
and they wind up flipping off conservatives and yelling vulgarities

(30:25):
at anybody who dares to disagree with them. And I
have to wonder, as the cliche goes, if those radical
grandmas kiss their grandchildren with those lips. So anyway, I'll
be out tomorrow, then back in the saddle Saturday morning
to celebrate this country's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Holy Mackerel,
I am really thrilled that so many towns and cities

(30:47):
and states have plans to celebrate this big birthday too.
It's hard to imagine the sacrifices made by so many
people over two and a half centuries, all the lives
given so that we can live in the freest, strongest
country on earth. And like I said a minute ago,
there are a lot of people around here who don't

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feel that way just now, and they're entitled to their opinions.
Sadly though, they're missing an opportunity around this big birthday
to reach out, get everybody sitting around a table somewhere
with or without an adjacent bar that might help, and
just talk. Just air it out without screaming, without cursing.

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Just talk about what you think is the best way
for the country to go. Then let somebody else talk
about what they think is the best country or best
way to go, and then just let it unfold from there.
I mentioned those two high school girls yesterday who have
written a book about the Internet and social media and
how it's so divisive in how most of the time

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it's you against me, them against the others, when in fact,
this brilliant young woman vote it should be you and
me against the problem. And that's what the other side,
I believe, has to has to realize before we're going
to get anywhere. So moving back to some newsy stuff. First,

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somebody in Columbus, Ohio, home to an enormous population of Somali's,
actually raised the Somali flag above City Hall there and
got as much pushback from all over the country as
you can imagine, and maybe even a little more than that.
The Parks in Wreck Department actually posted this on X
quote Happy Somali Independence Day. As we celebrate the unification

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of the Trust Territory of Somaliland and the State of
Somaliland into the Somali Republic in nineteen sixty, city Hall
will be raising the flag of Somalia end quote. And
excuse me, Lawful immigration into our country requires people to
swear an oath to the United States to become Americans.

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Raising foreign flags over public buildings is a slap in
the face to every American and especially to all of
those tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, I don't know,
across history, all of those people who gave their lives
in defense of American freedom. Speaking of Somali's, ilhan Omar's
name is popping up in Minnesota fraud documents and more

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than just once or twice. The records are sealed by
the court, so we can't see anything and when asked
by the Way if she'd go ahead and allow those
records to be released, the congresswoman refused. Hmm, I wonder why.
On a somber note, this month marks the anniversary of
the Hill Country flood along the Guadalupe River that claimed

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more than one hundred and thirty victims, including those twenty
five campers and two councilors from Camp Mystic. My friend
Captain Scott no Know went up there and stayed for
a couple of weeks, and he shared some really heartbreaking
stories with me afterward. Say a prayer for those folks.
I think that would be appropriate. Back to the sad
divide in this country. Pena pinyon, Pennsylvania State Rep. Eric

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Davanzo was told to leave the floor by its speaker,
a Democrat named Joanna McClinton. She told him his patriotic
suit was not allowed. Now bear in mind, she's the
same person who wrote during Pride Month that she wanted
everyone to feel safe being exactly who they are. Representative
Devonzo is a proud American and that's who he is,

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and he displayed that pride by wearing a red, white
and blue suit. The hypocrisy of the left. It just
is staggering and ever present. Two days from this country's
two hundred and fiftieth birthday, two hundred and fifty years
of men and women dying so we can all live
free and express ourselves as we like. And McClinton thinks
she's above constitutional freedom shifting gears. I guess sort of.

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Kamala Harris has reached out to none other than Moron
Zomdani for some pointers on gaining favor with soci interesting
thing about the Socialist Party claiming to represent the working
class like they so often do, doesn't really stack up
that way. According to a recent survey published by The
New York Times, only four percent of the party's members

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hold blue blue collar jobs, eighty percent are white, and
that same percentage have college degrees. All that money wasted
on the university wasted on a good degree in a
good field, And if they get what their professors told
them was the way to go, they'll find themselves in

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a breadline someday. Meanwhile, World Cup fans keep posting social
media stuff about how amazing and how awesome this country is.
Nothing but praise and admiration for our entire country. Little
things we take for granted every day, are not available
in most other countries around the world. Open your eyes, socialists.

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There's a reason millions of people have come here over
the years, and it's not just for the Tater Tots barbecue.
Just about out of time for this edition of fifty plus.
So what I want to do, I guess right now,
is kind of wrap up a little bit a couple
of things. Number One, be careful with the construction on
the freeways and the way people are going to be
driving trying to get to beach houses and lake houses

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and parties and all of these other things that are
going on this weekend. There was another horrible wreck involving
tractor trailers, more than one, just this morning, and I
don't want any of my people to be tangled up
in something like that down the line. And I really
wish somebody would tell the people who put up those
construction cones and barrels and whatnot to give a little

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bit more room in each lane so two semi tractor
trailers can go down that freeway at seventy five miles
an hour sixty or whatever they're driving and manage to
get through those construction areas without bouncing off each other.
I'll take this last minute too, to kind of bring
the light back up a little bit and make it

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a little more uplifting going into this giant birthday party
we're going to have. Here's a good one, A guy
diagnosed with leukemia inspired more than eight thousand people to
join the stem cell donor Registry. And one more really
good news. Medically, since nineteen ninety nine, the Tri Delta
Sorority has raised a total of one hundred and twenty

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five million dollars for Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital. We
work for them as well around here every year, for
I want to say twelve years now, we have a
golf tournament first Monday in December and we have a
radiothon around that same time, and for the past several
years we have managed to raise at least a million

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dollars for Saint Jude. And one more stat that led
me to exactly where most of these socialists are these days?
How about this? A record twenty five million young adults
now under the age of thirty five. Guess where they live?
In a van down by the river. No, that's not true.
They actually live with their parents out a degree, but

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can't get a job. Everybody stay safe this weekend. Okay,
Happy birthday America.