Who Decides Our Elections

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Jesse Kelly show. Let's have some fun on a Wednesday hopday.
Life is freaking grand. Put a smile on your face.
We have crested the hump of the week and it's
all down heel from gear. We have such a big

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show today. It's one of those things. I'm about to
tease a lot of things, and I'm not making any
promises that I'm getting to everything. Here's what we're gonna do.
I am reluctantly because of a conversation I had this
morning with a congressman. I am reluctantly going to talk
about the Epstein stuff from yesterday, and then I'm moving on.

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I honestly don't even feel like it, but I feel
the need to tell you what I know and just
express something, and then we're gonna move on. Hopefully that'll
just be a few minutes, maybe a couple segments, I
don't know. We're gonna talk more about affordability. We're going
to talk about the Communists being after your children. Will
of course set aside sometime to make fun of Michelle

(01:07):
Obama tracking down all these poor illegal slave kids in
the country. A woman got set on fire in Chicago
by a repeat felon emails, so much more coming up
tonight on the world famous Jesse Kelly Show. Now, I'm
going to read you something. I am not going to

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tell you who it's from because I was not given
permission to do so. And that's just the way it's
going to be. A sitting member of Congress. I was
texting with this guy today and he was disheartened beyond belief.

(01:50):
This guy is one of the good ones. And contrary
to what you and I like to believe, sometimes there
are some really solid people there. They're just like you,
they're just like me. They want to save the country,
they're there to do some good. And he sounded close
to retirement. I'll be honest with you, that's how crushed

(02:11):
he was. In fact, I probably don't need to read
it exactly what was he crushed about, because you know,
we had that big Epstein vote last night. It was
something like four hundred and twenty seven to one. We
had the big Epstein vote. The House voted, hey, release
the files. The Senate voted okay, okay, sounds good. So
what's the problem. Well, let me walk you through this.

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In case you've kind of been out of the news.
There is a congresswoman by the name of Stacy Plasket.
She's a congresswoman from the Virgin Islands. I know, it's weird,
It's okay. Well, Democrats thought they were going to hurt
Trump and hurt Republicans with the release of all this
Epstein stuff. But it turns out that Stacy Plasket was

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so close with Jeffrey Epstein that while she was having
a meeting a committee meeting, meaning she's interrogating someone, someone's
standing in front of sitting in front of her, and
she's asking them questions under oath, Epstein is texting her
the questions to ask the person during the committee meeting. Now,

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I know multiple members of Congress, and I don't know
of one of them who would. Now I've never done it,
but who would text me back during a committee meeting.
Maybe they would, I don't know, but that's kind of
business time. So as all this stuff gets laid out,
Stacy Plaskett doesn't look that great. Democrats look terrible. It's

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now the story of the day.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Here was her and I got a text from Jeffrey Epstein,
who at the time was my constituent, who was not
public knowledge at that time that he was under federal investigation.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
It was already knowledge, it was public knowledge that he
was a criminal.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
And who was sharing information with me.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Okay, well that's a lot obviously. Okay, so now she
looks bad. She has to defend herself, but it's not
really defensible what happened. And remember this is not my opinion.
These are black and white things. This happened Democrats, because
they're communists, and all that matters is the revolution quickly
locked shields and attempted to defend her. Here's Jamie Raskals.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, they want to give them another headline, which is
that they've arraigned a Democratic member for taking a phone
call from her constituent, Jeffrey Epstein, in the middle of
a hearing. And of course I don't think there's any
rule here against taking phone calls in a.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Hearing, right, Grijalva, she's a new member of Congress, said this.
I know she's a Democratic colleague was texting with a
sexual predator in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, I think it's important for us to understand what
that whole transaction was. Having been able to see just
what happened been with my colleague and an attempt to
censure him in Chewie Garcia. I know that, like most
of the time, when you hear one little snippet of
what happened, it's not the full story, and you don't
have the full.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Story it just obviously, as you can figure out, they
were trying to censure her, essentially punish her for this
egregious thing that she did. Democrats are stopping it. Okay,
Jasmine Crockett went so far? Is to just tell a
gigantic line. Remember, as you know, communists lie about everything

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all the time, not just small little eyes not shading
the truth. They will look at a body of water
and tell you, well, the water is not wet. All
that matters is the revolution. So they will tell gigantic,
verifiable lies to your face and repeat them over and
over and over again without the slightest moral hesitation, because

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their morality doesn't in any way the morality of human beings.
Here is Jasmine Crockett keep in mind, as she reads
this list aloud, the Jeffrey Epstein's she's discussing, none of
them are the Jeffrey Epstein. They all just share the
same name. So it's just a gigantic life.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein
as I had my team digg in very quickly, met Romney,
the NRCC, Lee Zelden, George bush Win, Read McCain, Palin
Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear. If this

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is the standard that we gonna make, just know we
gonna expose it all. And just know that the FEC filings,
they are available for everybody to review.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
It's a lie. She knows it's a lie. She knows
your liberal am Peggy is dumb enough to believe the lie.
So that's why they tell it big gigantic lies, outright lies,
verifiable lies, easily verifiable life. You knew it was a lie.
You paid attention to the news about eight hours ago.
Verifiable line. All right, Why did the vote to censure

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Stacey Plasket to punish her for what she did? Why
did the vote fail? Well? It failed because because we
have a problem in our midst Corey Mills is a
congressman from Florida. You can do your own research. It's
he's got all kinds of controversies around him, not not one,

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multiple multiple. It's it's ugly. The financial stuff. It's just
it's really really bad, and it failed because Republican leadership
cut a deal with Democrat leadership that essentially went something
like this, hey don't punish Stacy Plasket and we won't

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punish Corey Mills. Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee, one of
the good ones. No, he's not the one I was with.
The audio is a little fuzzy, said this. He just
exposed it all. So it failed. And what they did
was they cut a deal. They cut a.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Deal on another on an ethics starred on a Republican
and that's just wrong. If does everybody out just stand
on their own if it were truly, we don't care
whose party.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Tim Burchard exposed it. Anna Pauline A Luna, another one
of the good ones.

Speaker 7 (08:25):
She said it, and I was wondering if the Speaker
of the House of Representatives can explain why leadership on
both sides, both Democrat and Republican, are cutting back end
deals to cover up public corruption in the House of
Representatives from both Republican and Democrat members of Congress.

Speaker 8 (08:38):
The General Lady has not stated a popular a proper
parliamentary inquiry very much, But.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
I think the American people know what happened tonight.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Text I got this morning from one of the good ones,
one of the boy boy do we need him there?
Texts me, and he says right out three words, I
hate it here. That's aw Man, and I knew he's
not the look. He's not one of these where your
emotions on your sleeves, touchy feely guys. Oh that's four words.

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Shut up, Chris, I went to community college. One of
those words can but whatever, We don't need you counting numbers.
I hate it here, he says. We went back and forth. Hey,
what's wrong? He is there to drain the swamp, to
save the country, and to have our own GOP leadership torpedo.

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A vote to censure an evil communists was about enough
to have him put in his retirement papers and not
run for reelection. Spend my morning, well not my morning,
spend probably twenty minutes trying to talk him off the ledge.
Think I successfully did, but spent quite a while this
morning trying to talk him off the ledge. Let's talk

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about Washington, DC, politics, life, America, good people before we
move on to so many other things. Let's talk, shall we?
All the Epstein stuff got voted yesterday, released the files,
and then of course they came out already and said, well,
we have to redact some things for national security reasons,

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which of course begs the question would why would why
would there be national security reasons for Jeffrey Epstein's files? Anyway,
setting outside, they failed to censure Stacey Plasket, who was
texting with Jeffrey Epstein during a committee meeting. Democrats are
knee deep involved in the Epstein stuff, and they failed

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to center Stacey Plasket because Republican leadership cut a deal
with Democrat leadership. We'll protect our guy, you protect your girl.
We'll all work out well. And the good ones are
mad about it.

Speaker 7 (10:51):
And I was wondering if the Speaker of the House
of Representatives can explain why leadership on both sides, both
Democrat and Republican, are cutting back end deals to cover
up public corruption in the House of rep Presentatives for
both Republican and Democrat members of Congress.

Speaker 8 (11:04):
General Lady has not stated a popular a proper parliamentary
inquiry too much.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
But I think the American people know what happened tonight.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
They do, and this is the kind of thing that
doesn't just dishearten the good people in Washington, DC. You've
seen these moments before. If you've been paying attention for
long enough, so have I. You've had these moments, these
moments where you almost slump your shoulders and say, man,

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screw this, it's not even worth it. I'm done with politics.
That screw them all. I'm not even voting anymore of it.
If you've said things like this, I want you to
know something. I have to I get it. I have
had multiple moments in my roughly twenty year involvement in

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politics where I have sumped my shoulders and said, you
know what, man, screw this. I'm I'm going to go
back to just watching football on the weekends and just
not ever turning on the news, and I'll just be
a dumb normy who doesn't participate in my country. I
don't care anymore. It's worthless that I want to do
an attempt to encourage you with something though. Before we

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move on and we're going to talk about affordability and
the education system and everything else. We have all kinds
of stuff to get to. I wanted to encourage you
with this that that is exactly what the evil, evil
people in this country want. In fact, lots of the time,
that's the purpose of it. Have you ever heard of

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Tokyo Rose. Maybe you have, maybe you haven't. But Tokyo Rose,
she was a woman. She would come on over the air.
During World War II, our troops would be out on
ships in the Pacific, or occasionally, if you got your
hands on a radio, you'd be on land. Let's say

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you're in Okinawa, you're in Guadalcanal. You're a marine, you're
a sailor. You've watched your friends die, You're going through hell,
and you're looking for any kind of an escape. You
can only smoke so many cigarettes, you can only talk
about so many girls and food and things like that.

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Back home. You're always looking for an escape. And music.
Music is one of those very powerful things. Music creates
feelings in people. I know you've experienced it, even if
you didn't necessarily know what was happening. If you listen
to music that's upbeat, you're going to get more upbeat

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and feel good. If you listen to music that's said
everybody hurts, you're gonna be more sad. Women will do this.
Ob does this. If you want to have a good cry,
if you're already sad, you turn on sad music and
just wade into it, right, I do the opposite. But
whatever to each his own. Music is powerful. It creates
feelings in people. Japan understood the power of not just music,

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of demoralization. So what they did was this, They would
put out music over the airwaves. Japan did this music's
coming out over the airwaves? What kind of music? All
the popular music of the day, All the music back
in the day, back in the forties that the troops
would be listening to if they were at the drive

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in movie theater with their girlfriend back home, that they'd
be listening to in a bar. That all the music
that you would want to hear if you're a nineteen
twenty year old man. Japan grabbed it and played it.
But in between the music, in between the music, Tokyo
Rose would come on the air and she would say

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things like, Hey, oh, you Marines getting ready to en
invade Okinawa tomorrow. I want you to know you're all
going to die. We've already made plans to kill every
one of you. Your mom back home is going to
get a letter over and over and over and over
and over again. Why Well, to demoralize the other side

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is more powerful than you can imagine, and evil people
know it, and evil people will use it to their advantage.
Don't let them get you down, even on bad nights
where you find out corrupt GOP leadership cut a corrupt

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deal with Democrat leadership. So a corrupt GOP congressman and
a corrupt Democrat congresswoman would not find themselves in serious trouble,
even on days like that, when your shoulders slump over
and you say, screw this, I'm watching the game and
I'm out of politics. Take a day if you need it,
take a breath, eat a pizza, then get back on

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your horse. Don't let don't let them get you down.
It's verbatim what I told that congressman who was ready
to retire this morning. Don't let the bad guys demoralize you.
It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Wednesday.
I'll hobday so before we get to the affordability stuff

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of the news and things like that. So I'm doing
a little self experiment. I teased it before the show,
and Jewish producer Chris was really mad that I wouldn't expand.
So I'm gonna go ahead and tell you, Chris. At
the same time I'm telling all of the United States
of America. Even though I'm warning you right now this
is the dumbest, most pointless thing in the world. It

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fascinates me. The human mind fascinates me. What makes people tick?
Doesn't it fascinate you? Not just that people do think?
Why do they do things? What drives people to do things?
And we've had to talk before about a candy dish,
and secretary has a candy dish there, and we've joked
about it's always the three Musketeers left because it sucks,

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and people will tell you it doesn't suck, but it
doesn't lie. The candy dish doesn't lie. When people have options,
they don't choose three Musketeers. I I know we're about
to talk about affordability, so I don't want to rub
my wealth in anyone's face. But I don't just have

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one highlighter here at the studio. We buy the five
pack of highlighters here, five different colors. In case you're
curious what I do with them. I try to make
connections in my mind between stories and audio and things
like that. So I highlight things just so what pops

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into my head. Trying to do a better show. Anyway,
Wealthy five pack of highlighters. The first time we got
a five pack of highlighters, the yellow ran out right away.
Why I'm used to yellow highlighters. It was always the
one I grabbed first. Whatever the biggest thing was the

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thing I had to highlight the most, I went yellow.
Now I've moved on. Now, in an effort to save money,
I'm trying to evenly distribute my highlighter usage. But I
don't track it. I just try to grab a different
one for a different story or a different topic. I

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have a pink one, a green one, a yellow one,
a blue one, and an orange one in front of me.
If you're watching, Yes, that's a chalk bottle that I
keep them in. Which one's going to run out first?
I don't know, Chris says yellow. Still, I don't know.
And what does it say about my mind if one

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has a bunch left and the other one runs out first.
Maybe nothing. Maybe there's some psychiatrist nerd listening who will
understand there's some meaning behind it. But one's gonna run
out first, Chris, And I'm going to be curious as
to why what Chris, I was right that this was stupid.
I warned you it was stupid. Okay, I warned you

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that it was stupid. I can't help myself. I have
stupid things that run through my head. Let's talk about
something horrible, then, Chris, we'll talk about something important and horrible. Good. No, no,
you did it. You don't want to talk about stupid.
Then let's talk about real stuff. How about this one Marist? Now,
Marist is a polling company I should clarify, and a

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bad one. I want to make sure I'm clear about this,
A bad one. Don't do the extremely dumbed down thing
we do on the right. And every time there's a
pole you see that you don't like, you say all
the polls lie. We do that every time, and then
when we see when we like, we say, oh that's
a good pollster. No, there are good posters and there

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are bad posters, depending on the methodology, how many people
are pull the questions they asked? Who you actually asked?
What percentage of Republicans? What percentage of Democrats? There are
good pollsters, there are bad pollsters, and there are sometimes
really reputable good posters who have polls that don't make
us feel very good because we're not doing very good.

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I know where you stand politically, and you obviously know
where I stand politically. We have to get past that
and figure out what's going to win or lose elections.
So again, back to this poster. Who's a bad poster?
I want to clarify they legitimate. Merist is legitimately not
a great poster. But they ran a poll on something

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called the generic ballot. Now that is something maybe you've
heard of before. Let me pause because I want to
explain what that actually means. A generic ballot. What in
the world is a generic ballot? You call somebody someone
actually answers and chooses to answer your questions, and you
simply say, hey, who do you trust more on the economy,

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the border, or if you want to go super generic
with the generic ballot, you say, who are you going
to vote for in the midterms? Which party do you
like more? Way generic Marist Again, admittedly a bad polster
just did one. They have Democrats up fourteen points in

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the generic ballot. Stop for a second. You are correct
that that's a bad polster. Even a bad polster is
probably not off that far. But let's let's let's build
in for the fact that Marist sucks. You know what,

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that's way builded in. Let's cut that number in half.
Let's say seven points. That's a lot. All right, that's
a lot. Why why are we looking at an ugly midterm?
Have you bought Burger lately? Have you bought anything? I look,

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here's here's a story. It's it's not huge, but Fox
Business hidden cost of home ownership jumps, tightening the squeeze
on buyers. Now what hidden costs? Well, there are all
kinds of costs that come with owning a home, but
I have one that's near and dear to my heart.
In fact, we got an email someone else just went

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through the same thing our AC went out. And I'm
sure this is a complete coincidence. Our AC went out
this is last summer, about five minutes after the warranty expired.
So too bad, so said, you have to buy an
entirely new air conditioning system for the house. The last
air conditioning system I had to buy in my life

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was years and years and years ago. I admit that
years ago. And I don't remember the sizes and brands.
I know there were different ones, but it was four
thousand dollars. That's a lot of money. This film was
nine when he gave me the price. Of course, I
tried to remain calm. I said, I'm going to get

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another opinion, and I did. Actually I got two other opinions,
and they were all roughly the same. Life is expensive now,
very very expensive.

Speaker 8 (23:45):
Now.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Now I didn't get that that nine thousand dollars bill
and say that's ridiculous. I'm voting for Democrats. But of
course I would never do that, and you would never
do that. I'm not saying that. I'm not putting that
on you at all. You're not an You understand there
are all kinds of things that go behind that. I
know you get it, then I get it. It would

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never occur to me. I was mad for a variety
of reasons, mainly because I didn't want to spend nine
thousand dollars. But I got it, you got it. I'm
not going to have a political hissy fit about it.
I am not. You are not. The American people are

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they are? And the American people, the normies in the
American people, I shouldn't say all American people. The normies
in America are the ones who decide elections. They are
the ones who decide elections, and that is a frustrating
place to be for people who are knowledgeable and people

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who are involved. It's, in fact, it's one of the
most maddening things in the world if you allow it
to just completely take over your mind. I'll stew on
this hours before I calm myself down. How is it
that we're in a place that the noormy morons are
the ones who will choose the direction of the United

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States of America? How can that be? Shouldn't it just
be the most knowledgeable. Shouldn't be shouldn't it be you?
Shouldn't it be me? Shouldn't it just be us who care?
We care enough to pay attention. Okay, but let's not
do the childhood thing and say it shouldn't be that way.
It is that way. How bad is it? I'll tell

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you in a minute. It is the Jesse Kelly Show
on a wonderful Wednesday days. Ignorant people inside our elections
and the drives is crazy. And I've got a I've
got a doozy for you here you want to hear
about that. This is from Woke Spy. The headline is

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ignorant people want to keep the Department of Education informed.
People don't quote at the outset at fifty one percent
of respondents said they opposed shutting down the department, while
thirty eight percent supported the idea. Oh that's bad, So
they don't want to shut down an apartment of the education, Okay.
After learning that K through twelve funding would remain in

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place and that functions would be reassigned to other federal agencies,
support rose to fifty six percent. Opposition declined to thirty percent.
Now it is hard to take in and accept that

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these are the morons who decide elections. People will go
to the polls and vote for who leads their community,
their state, and their country without even the most basic
knowledge of how those things actually work, of the functions

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of government, what they should be, what they do, what
they don't do, and it drives us nuts. So as
you hear me rant and rave for the next year
about affordability, about inflation and immigration, inflation and immigration, inflation
and immigration, try to bear with me because I'm trying

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to get to point through to me and to you
about what will actually decide elections. And as I said before,
whatever you're hot on, it's probably something very very worthy.
I'm not insulting whatever issue you are hot on. Everyone

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has their own motivations and things they like me. You
know how hot I am against abortion, I've always I've
always just been that way. I'm at I'm borderline militant
about it. I just despise it, despise it. I don't
demand the GOP run on it. I don't also so

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make this critical, critical mistake. I also don't think it's
an issue that matters to normies. It just doesn't. Does
that mean abortion stopping it is not important? Of course, Doc,
It's majorly important. We're killing babies. It's hugely important. Whatever

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your thing is, election integrity, hugely important. You could argue,
it's everything. You could argue if you dig into Democrat
cheating in elections long enough that it's the only thing.
I'm not insulting your passion about it. Normans don't care.
They don't care Normanis, don't care about Epstein, they don't

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care about all these Israel arguments people have. Normies don't
really actually care that much about taxes. Did you know
that normies don't care about spending. I know that's insanely said,
and we can go into that more, but I'm talking
about government spending. They don't care, they don't normies because
they're uninformed morons. Normies they vote on what's happening in

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their life, in their household, and in a way that's understandable.
I call them morons, but I guess that's the essence
of being a normy. It's not necessarily that you're a moron.
You just don't necessarily care about the politics of your country.
You only care about you and focus on you, which
is a bit myopic, but it is the way it is.
Myopic is a great word that I learned last night, Chris.

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I knew I was going to work it into the
show today. I worked it into the show in the
first hour. I might point out, in fact, I'm going
to use it again today. I might use it several
times today now that I've learned a new word. Yes,
I will, Chris, Why are you being so myopic? I will?
That's another one. You know what, starting a tally? That's

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too hang on, I gotta write this down. That's too
already that I've view anyway back to what we're saying.
But there are also things that the administration has got
to keep in mind. They know about affordability, they're talking
about it a lot now, they understand they have to
address it. But here's one that went right by you,

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almost went by me, Usdade. That's the Department of Energy.
They partner with Microsoft. Do what well you've heard of
three Mile Island nuclear reactor. By the way, nobody died
in that disaster. I know they lied to about all that,
but no one died. It was fine, It all worked fine.
But three Mile Island got shut down. They're going to

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fire it back up again. Sweet, all right, they're given
a billion dollar loan out. Sounds good. Microsoft is involved, great,
sounds good. If those energy costs down, we need we
need more nuclear power should be going on all over
the country. Oh except Microsoft is going to buy all

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the energy from it for the next two decades. This
is all about AI data. This is about data centers,
is really what it's about, which we've discussed before on
the show. These data centers are enormous. They they can't
possibly build them fast enough. They're also energy suckers, like
you cannot believe. They just hoover up energy. We don't

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have enough energy to power them fast enough. So so
I understand the game. Microsoft is gonna get it. Microsoft's
gonna figure figure out how everything gets built, then Microsoft's
gonna get all the power from it for two decades.
I understand that. Now, that's the kind of thing that
looks good on the bottom line of the country but

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doesn't look good on your bottom line or my bottom line.
And I know there are all kinds of reasons for it.
I get it. But that's the kind of thing that's
gonna hurt us in the midterms. How about we just
built thirty new nuclear reactors and it's all going to
bring down your power bill. Your power bill every month.

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Next month, your power bill is going to be twenty
percent less because we just got a nuclear reactor on board. Boom.
Now we're talking baby. Now we're ready for the midterms.
Nobody in the midterms is going to go to the
polls and vote for the GOP because Microsoft got their
own nuclear plan. We have got to stay focused, at

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least our elected officials. You can still focus on what
you care about. Obviously, it's not my job to tell you,
and I'm gonna stay focused on what I care about.
But we have got to make sure kitchen table issues
remain at the forefront because the normies don't know any better.
They know about the cost of Burger, and beyond that,
they own no squad