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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't touch the dial or change the channel because it's
Sunday at seven pm and you're listening to the hard
truth on WRKO. Good evening, everyone, I'm John Deeton. I
hope you had a great, blessed week. Every week I
end up saying, because it's the truth that there's news
to get to. There's never ever anything not to talk about.

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So let's jump off big news yesterday, at least big
news in the political arena, and that is Congressman Seth
Molten has officially launched his campaign to challenge Senator Ed
Markey in the Democratic primary. So Senator Molten in his

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announcement video, which I'll get to in a minute, I
found it quite interesting. He says, obviously some of the
same things that I've been saying. Right. He highlights the
fact that Ed Markey it will be eighty years old
if he's reelected and fulfills a full term, he would

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be eighty six years old in office. But more importantly,
Ed Markey has been a part of the Washington Swamp
for fifty years. That's a half a century. Seth Molten
pointed out that Ed Markey's been in office longer than
Seth Molten has been alive. I've made that point quite

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a few times. I've told you that the average person
in Massachusetts, which is gonna say the average voter, the
average voter in Massachusetts is thirty nine point five, so
we're going to round it up. Average voter's forty years
old in the Commonwealth. So not only is Ed Markey
twice the age of the average voter, He's been in

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Washington for a decade longer than the average person has
been alive. Okay, so I'm not surprised. I don't think
many people are surprised. There's been a lot of speculation
that Seth Molten would challenge Marky because he probably thinks

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that that seat is the most vulnerable. I don't think
anyone would think that Seth Molten would have a shot
at unseeing Elizabeth Warren in five years. So he's taking
a shot. And listen, Seth. I don't know Seth Moulten.
I've never met him. I'm not really a fan. Quite frankly,

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we disagree a lot on policy. He might not be
as far far left as Marky, which is gonna hurt him,
but he's still way left of me and left of
where he should be. In my opinion. You know, for example,
he wouldn't even support protecting girls biological girls competing against

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biological boys and a bill that was presented, even though
at one point he was criticized by the far left
in his party because he said he didn't want his
girls as a father being run over in the field
by biological boys. Now that's certainly a reasonable thing to say.
I'm a father of girls, so I get it. But

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then he's sort of, you know, because of that criticism
from the far left in his policy, you know, him
and hauled a bit, and when it came time to
prove that he felt that way, he chose not to. Again,
we're talking politics. We're talking about politics opportunism, and that's

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Seth Mote. Listen, Seth is ambitious. He ran for president
last time. He was like one of the quickest people
out of the race. But he serve is an ambitious individual.
He even challenged Nancy Pelosi and her leadership. His claim

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is that the old folks in the Democratic Party, the
Nancy Pelosi's, the Chuck Schumer's, the Ed Markey's need to
retire go away so that younger Democrats like him and
others can take control. Now. It's ironic, though, Seth, in

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his announcement video, he really just said the same playbook
as what Mark. He's saying is what all the Democrats saying,
and that is he claims that they're not fighting Trump enough,
that they're not fighting the federal government enough, and that
he needs to get in there because he'll fight Trump more.

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He's saying that in an announcement video in the middle
of a government shut down, that the Democrats have held
the American economy hostage and not voted for a continuing resolution,
which is a very clean resolution. I mean, Chuck Schumer
voted for the continuing resolution, the same one which actually

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just keeps the Biden payments going forward, basically, And they
voted no. Even though they keep voting yes for thirteen times,
they voted no this time because they don't like the
terms of the Big Beautiful Bill. I've discussed it. The
Big Beautiful Bill is certainly not a perfect bill, but

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that's usually not how our government works, that's for sure.
But the point right now, and we'll get to that
in a minute, But the point here is that Seth
Molten's claim of why Democratic voters should elect him is
because he's younger, basically, is what he's saying, and that
he'll fight Trump harder. Listen, President Trump has got two

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more years essentially in office, and then he's gonna go away. Okay, yes,
does he have twenty twenty eight hats and does he
like to poke the bear and say things that get
the Democrats and the media to lose their mind that
maybe he'll run a third term. He's not gonna run

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for a third turn. I mean, Donald Trump's eighty years old. Okay, Now,
maybe i'd challenge my what I'm saying if he was sixty,
but he's not. And so Trump's gonna be gone in
two years. So what's your vision, man? Your vision is
we gotta fight Trump. We gotta fight Trump, we gotta
fight Trump. That's not a vision. That's basically saying that

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you're going to engage in constant gridlock for the next
two years. But when Trump's gone, what are you gonna do? Then?
You know, Massachusetts can't just succeed the Union and pretend
to be its own country and not be engage with
the federal government. We send so many tax dollars to
the federal government and we don't get back what we

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send in. So we need some cooperation. We need people
to get into elected office who will work not just
fight against people, but fight for people. And that is
absolutely missing in Seth Moulten's announcement video. It's missing in
the already elected leaders like Marky. All they do is

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stand against other things, complain and hate the federal government
and hate Trump. Listen, everybody listening to this radio knows
I'm not a big Trump guy, But my god, how
about fighting for people? How about fighting for things? How
about fighting for issues instead of just saying I'm against,

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I'm against, I'm against. And so I found that to
be a glaring omission in Seth Molten's announcement. Now, Seth
is trying to cash in on this generational divide, and
you see this happening. You see it in the main
Senate race that's going on, where you have younger, more

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progressive Democrats saying that the old Democrat guard is out
of the question. But I got to tell you, Seth
Molten isn't part of that left progressive He's not left enough,
and I think that's going to play out. Listen. When
the poll came out in February of twenty twenty five

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that showed that I had it potentially could beat ed
Markey in a head to head Senate race. The Democrats
did a poll. Now they didn't publish it, so I
can't analyze the methodology and all that, but they did
a poll. It was reported on internally amongst Democratic primary voters.

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Now I know there's some polling out there of general voters.
And I think that Seth Molten would win against Marky
if it was a general election, just like I think
I will beat ed Marky if I were to get
in in a general election. But in a Democratic primary,
where you have the more activist, more progressive members of

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the Democratic Party, that's a different animal entirely. And that
internal Democratic primary poll that listed every congress person in
Massachusetts all nine against Marky. Now I'm talking about auchinclous
and Lori Trehan and Seth Molten. I ain't a Presley

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and the others. Guess who was the only one to
beat Markey in that Democratic primary poll. I ain't a Presley,
That's right, I ain't a Presley. That's how left you
gotta be in a Democratic primary here in Massachusetts. And

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so with that said, I can tell you there's a
lot of people that are now on the lookout. Will
I ain't a Presley jump in the race? Will there
actually be not Seth Molten versus Markuye, but Seth Molten,
I ain't a Presley and Markey in a three way race.

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That's a very different race. Listen, Molten versus Markeye, in
my opinion, will not be the same as when Joe
Kennedy challenged Marky five years ago. Listen, Joe Kennedy was
a terrible candidate, and I think he was just resting
on his name right A Kennedy in Massachusetts, and he

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couldn't win against Marky. Markey blew him out by ten points.
And I do think Seth Molten would do much better
than that. I think he would certainly cut that lead
in half. But one on one, I would think that
Marky and a lot of political experts believe this would

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edge Seth Moulten out. And if you look at the
reaction of many in the Democratic Party at Seth Moulten's announcement,
you could see why. Okay, and so I think Seth
loses the one on one. But what about if Presley
gets in the race. Now? That changes the dynamic entirely.

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We're going to continue this conversation when I come back
from the break. You're listening to The Hard Truth. I'm
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We're going to continue this conversation when we get back.

(11:57):
Thank you. All right, everybody, welcome back to It's a
Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. Thank you so much for listening.
Before we took the break, we were talking about will
Aana Presley get in the Democratic primary and how does
that change the dynamic. Well, like I said, there was
reporting of an internal poll of Democratic primary voters that

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showed that only Aana Presley could beat Marky. Now, I
don't know what's going to happen. We don't even know
if Aina Presley's going to get in the race. If
she does, you know, there's a lot of people who
think that the far left activist of the Democratic Primary

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party that they would go and they would support Diana
Presley because she is the leftist of listen. I didn't think,
really you could get more left than Ed Marky if
you want me to be blunt, I don't really think
mark he's necessarily that left. But he says those things

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in order to stay elected. All right, Just as a
reminder of what I'm saying, ed Markey supported a constitutional
amendment to ban abortions when he was a congressman. Only
when he decided to run for statewide office in Massachusetts.
He looked at the polling and he saw that if

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he wanted to be elected in Massachusetts, with over seventy
somewhere between seven and eighty percent of people in Massachusetts
believe up until a certain point that a woman has
a right to choose. Okay, Now they also seventy eighty
percent don't believe in late term abortions. Okay, I certainly

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don't believe in late term abortions. However, up into a
certain point, Marky said, you know what, I'm going to
be pro choice, and he ran for Senate and ever
since he's been you know, mister pro choice. Even though
he supported a constitutional amendment, all right. Listen, he was
part of the fossil fuel industry. He got donations from

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fossil fuel companies, the Chevrons and the Standard Oil, all
those type of companies. But he started seeing he was vulnerable.
So he latched onto this young upcoming congresswoman by the
name of AOC who was talking about climate change. And

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so Ed Markey said, hey, I'll be the co sponsor
of that bill. And he latched onto that enthusiasm and
became mister Green New Deal, even though he didn't have
the moral courage to vote for it himself. All right,
just think about that, Ed Markey is the co sponsor
author of the Green New Deal. It comes up for
a vote, and that man doesn't have the political courage,

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the intestinal fortitude to vote for his own bill because
he knows it's a scam. He knows that it will
never happen. Right, But it's a talking point. It's a
talking point that appeals to the far left members of
his party. But I ain't a Presley. Now we're talking
to a new level, all right. Some would argue that

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she's more borderline not socialist communists, and she's going to
be even more of a progressive. And she's younger, So
some people believe that the moderates will split between Seth
Molten and her. And this is the interesting dynamic. You
never know if it's a three way race. I think

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Marky beats Molten one on one, two or three points
in my opinion. Presley gets in a race marking might
not be second. I mean, the Moderates might go to
Molten and the the Progressives go to Presley. So it'll
be very interesting. I'm fascinated to find out if there's

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going to be a three ray, three way race in
the Democratic primary for the United States Senator, which could
give a huge advantage to the Republicans. Okay, imagine this.
I want everybody to just imagine this for a moment.
Imagine a Republican candidate who people get behind in the

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party and they decide, you know what, we're going to
get behind this candidate from the outset, and that candidate
could run a general election campaign from day one, not
have to go to one hundred RTCs. That's Republican town

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committee meetings. Sometimes there's four people there, sometimes there's forty.
But if the Republicans came together, the Republicans, the Conservatives
unenrolled who lean a little right or center right, if
they all came together supported a candidate while the Democrats
are beating each other up, and trust me, in that

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Democratic primary, you're going to see some of the most
far left ideology that you've ever seen. It's going to
be the following people, mark my words. It's going to
be open borders. It's going to be amnesty and citizenship
for all twenty million illegals. It's going to be biological

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men can compete against women. It's going to be all
of these alternative energy mandates. They say they are concerned
about the environment, but they're going to push offshore wind,
which absolutely impacts our environment and our oceans and our

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fishing industry, but they're going to support it. They're going
to no gas stoves. It's going to be crazy, and
it's going to be tax tax, tax, tax tax, because
remember that's their solution everything right, candy tax, prescription tax,
millionaire's tax, a new car tax on the car tax.

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I mean, it's crazy, and you're going to see them
go so far left. And if the Republicans can come
together get behind a candidate, and that candidate is someone
who appeals to unenrolled voters, independents and even disenfranchised Democrats,

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and that person faces Ed Markey or I Ain't a Presley,
for example, Republicans could win and history could be made
and so you know, I've been contacted several times by
the media. Uh you know, dating what houses impact your
decision with Seth Molten getting in the race. Well, I

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can tell you it does not dissuade me. It doesn't
discourage me in any way. But we'll see. You know,
I haven't officially decided. I am talking to people. I'm
seeing if there is a team that I can assemble
that could actually win. I'm not getting in this race

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unless I and when I say, I mean we, unless
we can win a seat. I'm not interested in just
winning the primary. I did that last time, and I
want it big. I wanted by sixty five percent with
two other people on the ballot. That doesn't interest me
at all. Okay, what interests me is giving Massachusetts a

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voice in the United States Senate, and we don't have
a voice. I got over forty percent, I got over
one point three million people who voted for me, and
we don't have a single voice in Washington. That represents
common sense, that represents working people, that represents taxpayers, that

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represents transparency, that represents term limits, that represents single issue bills,
you know, things that are common sense. And so it'll
be very, very interesting because I can tell you what
the Democrats are doing. You want to know why Elizabeth Warren,

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Lorie trey Hand and others immediately supported Ed Markey. I
can tell you right now you don't have to be
a political genius to figure this out. They want Ed
Markey to win. They want more Heey to win. They
assume more Ahelly's gonna win. They assume Ed Markey is

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going to win. Ed Markey at eighty years old, after
just before around the four year term four years, I
mean it's a six year term. Ed Markey decides to
retire and resign. Well, guess what happens when you have
a United States sitting senator resign or die. The sitting

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governor of that state will then pick someone to fill
that seat until you can have a special election. Remember
that's how Scott Brown won. There was a special election
in everything because of Ted Kennedy had passed away. Well,

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Ed Markey decides to retire, and if it's more a Heally,
you want to know who she's gonna pick. She's going
to appoint Michelle Wu Elizabeth Warren's protege, and you can
bet your butt Elizabeth Warren wants to see Michelle Wu
on the other side of the Senate seat in Massachusetts.

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That's what the Democrats do. They coronate, They pick how
they're going to stay in control. And so yeah, Seth
Moulten is trying to throw a monkey wrench in that,
and certainly a Republican candidate can throw a monkey wrench
in that and the people can decide. That's how it's

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supposed to be. You know, the Democrats always saving democracy
by sacrificing democracy and coronating. They tried to coordinate Hillary Clinton,
they tried to coronate Kamala Harris and here in Massachusetts,
trust me, that's going to be the plan. So I'm excited.
I hope that I get confidence in the team that

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I can assemble. And if I am confident in the
team that I can assemble, then then maybe I'll run
again because I really believe that we have a shot
at making real progress, not just in the Senate race,
in the governor's race. You know, I think last week,

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I think I played the announcement video for Mike mcnogue,
and I've had Brian short Sleeve on here, and I've
had Mike Conneely on here, and I'll certainly invite mister
mc Mike mcnogue on here to talk about his vision.
And so I believe there's a real good chance that

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the governor's race can be won. I believe the Senate
seat can be one. I believe that state Senate and
State rep seats can be won. And so it's an
exciting time. You know, we've been under this one party
rule for so long. I know many of you are
depressed about it, but you know where change begins. It
doesn't begin by winning an election. Change begins by believing

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that you can win in an election. That's when real change.
So if you believe we can make this happen, you
listen to the hard truth Come right back, Welcome back
to the show. You listen to the hard truths. I'm
John Deaton. You can reach the show at John at
Hard Truthshow dot com. John at Hard Troopshow dot com.
I'm hoping next week to highlight some individuals independent journalism.

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I've brought this topic up many times, and I'm gonna
give you an example of why independent journalism is so
necessary and so important in today's world, especially in today's politics.
We just witnessed, in my opinion, one of the greatest

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attempts at gas lighting that we have ever witnessed here
in the Commonwealth, and it pertains to our sitting Governor,
Mora Healy. Now some of you are aware, and you
there's even video of this, and mass Fiscal Alliance has
been great online sharing this stuff. And I'm going to

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share one of their posts on x and videos here
in a second. But let's just remember Mora Heally. You know,
she believes in this net zero mandate by twenty fifty,
which we'll talk about in a minute. It's insane, right,
like Massachusetts is gonna solve climate change by itself, our

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little commonwealth, seven million people, We're gonna solve climate change
by mandating net zero, punishing all of our taxpayers, punishing
all our small businesses, sending jobs not just overseas, but
to other states because businesses can't comply with this nonsense.

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We don't even have the infrastructure in place to comply
with this nonsense. Okay, now I say nonsense. I'm not
talking about climate change. Climate change is a real thing.
I think be able to forge your rent and your
groceries is more of an existential threat to you right
now than climate change. But it's real. I'm talking about this,

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this unreasonable mandates of net zero by twenty fifty. Well,
Governor Heay, when she's Attorney general, she was up there
bragging about how she's gonna stop all these new gas pipelines.
No more new natural gas pipelines. They won't expand it, right,
which will help with our energy costs. And she wasn't

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having it. Well, now she's when people are experiencing skyrocketing
energy prices due in many ways due to these alternative
energy mandates. I mean, just look at your bill and
you'll see supply eighty dollars, delivery charge three hundred and

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ninety or something crazy. And then when you look at
delivery charge, you see offshore serve charge, solar sor charge.
And well, Governor Healy facing an election that we just
talked about in the last segment, all of a sudden,
she's changing her tune and she just scratching her head

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like she doesn't understand why Massachusetts citizens are experiencing energy
costs seventy percent above the national average. So let me
play for you what I describe as one of the
greatest gas lighting attempts in modern political history. Okay, let's

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check this out. I've been about bringing more gas supply
into Massachusetts. You know, I never stopped pipelines. Remember I
stopped two gas pipelines from coming into this day in
terms of gas. You know, I think I've been pretty
clear and consistent about this. I have advocated for the

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expansion and also to oppose new gas infrastructure in this state.
We absolutely need to do that. Okay. When she says
I never stopped any natural gas pipelines, that's this year.

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When you heard her bragging that she prevented new gas lines,
that was in twenty twenty two. So when she says
things today that are completely opposite of what she said,
she literally is trying to rewrite history. But listen, she's
a typical politician. You know that she's likely lying whenever

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her lips are moving. So you know, you could just
chalk it up to my god, these politicians or liars,
they'll say anything to get elected. They'll say anything that,
no matter how directly contrad victory, it is the something
they said the previous day. We could chalk that up.

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My question, and my issue is when she stands up
on that podium in front of all the reporters, Beacon Hill,
and she says, quote, I never stopped any noon gas lines.
How in the world does not somebody raise their hand

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and say, Governor, that's simply not true. Governor, just three
years ago, as Attorney General, you bragged, you were on
stage bragging about stopping new natural gas pipelines, and now

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you're going to say that you didn't and call her
out on it, like, I just don't understand that, or
why why would they give the governor a pass like that?
It's insane. You know, if I run for office and
I say something that is an absolute contradiction of something
I've said before, you think they're going to bring it

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up to me. You think they're gonna ask me, Hey, John,
how the heck can you reconcile that man but not her?
It is mind boggling to me. And it's sad and
it's pathetic because people are suffering. You realize that people
in the Commonwealth right now are choosing between medicine, their

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electric bill, groceries, and they're like, well, you know, my
out of pocket expense for my monthly medication, but I
can't afford that, and the skyrocketing grocery bill and the
skyrocketing electric bill, so it is crazy. I've talked to developers.
We have a housing crisis. We need a couple hundred

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thousand new homes for sure, and we need them today, okay,
which has been exasperated, of course by the illegal migrant
crisis that's been mishandled obviously by Governor Heally. And it
takes two years for builders to even pull departments. So
imagine that we got a housing crisis, an affordable housing crisis,

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but it takes two years to pull departments. It's insanity.
But on top of that, I've talked to low income builders,
people in Fall River, New Bedford, other areas, and they're like, John,
you know, we could build government housing. You know that
is Section eight welfare and whatnot for low income folks.

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But in order to do it, we can't tap into
natural gas. We have to build all electric units. And
if we do that, we can't charge enough rent if
we include utilities, because the electric bills are going to

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make it unaffordable. And if we keep electric outside and
make the tenant pay, they can't pay it. And so
we're in court trying to evict everyone because they can't
afford their electric bill. And he says so guess what,
we just don't build. It's not economically feasible. John. And

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so that's the state that we're in right now. And
Mora Healy is up there saying all this nonsense and
untruth line, let's call it what it is line, and
no one calls her out. Now. The only one people
calling her out are independent journalists. You know, Jessica Machado
that I've had on this station. I'm going to I

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have invited John Gately Jack to come on this show.
He's out there calling out Mark Urban's out there calling
it out and others. I apologize for for missing some
of them out there, but those are the names that
jump out at the top of my head. I didn't
write anything down, but we're going to highlight them because
what they're doing is at least trying to hold these

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leaders accountable, accountable for their actions, accountable for their words.
And shame shame on anyone that was in the press corps.
I don't care if it pisses you off. I don't
care if you're going to come after me for saying this.
I'm going to stand by what I say. Shame on
you for not calling Governor Healy out and sitting there

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and letting her simply lie through her teeth and not
even question her. Okay, and listen, we're in the middle
of a shutdown and we've got to deal with two
major issues in this country. One of them is energy
prices and the other's healthcare. I'll talk about healthcare in

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the next segment, but energy prices. If you look at
this AI boom that we're in artificial intelligence boom, the
amount of electricity that is needed for artificial intelligence is unbelievable.
They used to complain about bitcoin mining using electricity. I
mean the data centers that are needed. They're talking about

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five hundred billion dollars a year. That's a half a
trillion dollars a year needs to be invested by Microsoft
or open ai or Elon Musk's Rock and XAI or
Anthropic and all these artificial intelligence companies. This race, this

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race for AI, it requires these data centers. And wherever
these data centers are, the amount of electricity there they're
taking from the grid is going to rise the prices
of regular people, right because they're going to be so
much consumption to power the data centers for artificial intelligence.

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You're going to have a problem and that's going to
skyrocket even more are electric prices. And it's not that
difficult to figure out. People. It's called common sense. We
have to expand natural gas here in the Commonwealth, not
ban it. We eliminate this. We got to say no

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to this offshore win nonsense that I've talked about before.
We've got to utilize nuclear, all right, I don't understand
these people. Nuclear is an absolute viable way. These small
modular reactors are incredible. They can power three hundred thousand
homes and take no more than a couple acres of land,

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unlike solar and wind. You listen to the hard truth.
Come back, Welcome back to the show. You listen to
the hard truth. I'm John Deeton. You can reach me
at John at Hard Troopshow dot com. John at Hard
Troothshow dot com. All right, the last segment, we're talking
about this Massachusetts nonsense. We have to end the net

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zero mandate that has been set by twenty fifty. You're
not we don't have the infrastructure. The grid will collapse.
We've got to implement nuclear. Like I said, these small
modular reactors, they're actually built off site and parts almost
like think of a fabricated home, a manufactured home that

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can be built in a factory and then brought These
These are not like the Three River Island kind of
massive nuclear sites that take ten years. We could put
We could put like four to eight of these small
SMRs geographically in certain locations long across the Commonwealth, and

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we could actually have nuclear. These SMRs. They're carbon free, man,
and they're efficient, and they run a ninety five percent Okay,
that's incredible, and we could get for sure forty percent

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of our electricity and power could be produced by nuclear
if we do it the right way. So of course
we implement solar, just so you know, solar's fantastic. Man,
I got solar panels in my house, unlike Ed Marky,
by the way, the co author the Green New Deal. Oh,

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by the way, I drive a fully electric vehicle, unlike
Ed Markey, the co author of the Green New Deal.
Talk about hypocrisy. But a solar's fantastic in certain parts
of the land where you could have a field. But
solar farms take up massive amount of land. Offshore wind

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takes up the construction and the damage to the ocean
in our fishing industry, So we can do some hydro.
We can even come from Canada through the Berkshires potentially
and help Western mass with some limited nuclear sites with
these SMRs expand natural gas. So there is a way

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a multifaceted, common sense energy transition plan. But you've got
these politicians like Ed Markey and AOC and I ain't
a Presley, and all of them just say, oh, offshore wind,
offshore wind as that that's the solution, and solar solar, solar,

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that's it can be part of the solution. Okay, So
if they need to stop talking this nonsense. And the
last thing I'll say about this is Massachusetts has this
net zero mandate by twenty fifty. I want to ask
the Governor Healy, what about China? What's your plan for China? Governor? Governor,

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you know that climate change is a global issue, right,
It's not limited to Massachusetts. You do know that, right,
Governor Healey. Oh, by the way, Governor Healey, Ed Markey,
let me ask you this. You are aware that Massachusetts

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entire annual that means yearly people are yearly carbon emissions
equals less than two days in China. Our yearly carbon
footprint is less than two full days in China. So

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when I ask what are you doing about China, I'm
not being facetious, Okay. I'm making the point that you
don't punish our businesses and our citizens unfairly punish them
our taxpayers to solve a global problem. You implement common sense.

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And the final thing I'll say is that their plan
actually is stupid. And the reason I say that is
because it does not reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.
It actually prolongs our dependency on fossil fuels. Because sometimes

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the wind doesn't blow, sometimes the sun doesn't s and
if you're taking natural gas out of the equation, you're
going to have these massive gaps, especially at peak hours,
where the alternative energies can't maintain the demand. And when
you have these gaps and energy, how do they get fulfilled.

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They get fulfilled by coal. They get fulfilled by natural gas,
but oftentimes coal the dirtiest of all. And so you're
not getting us off fossil fusia, prolonging the dependency because
you refuse to inject common sense. When you sit down

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and you think about these, you just want to get
elected and you want to say things that sound nice. Right,
The Green New Deal. All right, you want to say
these buzzwords that are that's music to the ears, to
certain elements within your party, it's nonsense. That's why if
I do run again, one of my themes, okay, is

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people before party, truth over politics. That's what it's got
to be about. Because I got news for everyone out there.
I've talked to people. People are struggling, man, and they're
not They're not asking for ideology, They're asking for solutions.

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Why do you think communism, I mean socialism is on
the rise. Why do you think mandami is out there.
I've talked about this before. Because they need solutions. And
if you can't afford your groceries, and some charming you
know guy comes along or down and says, hey, I
can get you free groceries or free transportation, or at

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least your groceries that are reduced costs. I can control
your rent. I can reduce your rent. People want to
hear that because they need solutions. Okay, We've got to
deal with the healthcare issue. I talked about energy, all right.
I got to get through this because I'm running out

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of time. I had a lot to talk to you
about this week. This government shut down. Who's going to win?
I don't know. You know, the Democrats think that they're winning.
The Republicans think that there when I can tell you
who's not winning. American people are not winning, and the
Democrats it is their fault. Let me be clear. Okay,
there was an election. You don't like the big beautiful bill,

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you don't like the cuts and the credits. I get it,
I have issues myself, but you don't shut the government
down to try to negate the election. And that's what
they're doing. They're trying to say, unless you take out
what you put in in the big beautiful bill and
extend these Obama tax credits, Obamacare tax credits, we're going

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to shut the government down. That's just not how you
do it. You've you you don't try I to nullify
an election by holding the American economy hostage. And that's
what they're doing. As terrible precedent, because guess what when
the Democrats are in control one day and they have
the House and the Senate, well, Republicans can turn around
and say, well, we just don't like the result of

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the election. We don't like your bill, so we're going
to shut the government down unless you change your mind.
It's just not the way it's supposed to work. Now,
the one thing we've learned is that the Affordable Care
Act is not affordable, and it really has never been affordable.
It's always had to rely on government subsidies. Now the

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Democrats are pushing for those subsidies. And I got to
tell you, I got a lot of criticism for Republicans
on this. Healthcare is a serious problem, and the Republicans
all they're doing, in my opinion, is saying told you
Obamacare was a bad idea. I told you, I told
you the Affordable Care Act wasn't going to be a

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But they're not offering a solution. You got to offer
a solution, man. Listen. Here in America, taxpayers guarantee student
loans for college, We guarantee housing Fannie May, for example,
small business loans through the SBA. But if you can't
afford your healthcare, what we're going to let you die? Like?

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You can't have that approach, and you can't just say, well,
taxpayers shouldn't play any role. We played role in almost everything.
So we've got to deal with this. Listen. I encourage
all of you out there to google the Gilded Age,
because I believe that the Gilded Age is now the
modern Age. The guilded Age was rampant with corruption. You

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had a political corruption, a wealth gap was just so bad.
You had these governments, these these companies that had monopolies
like Standard Oil, the railroad, the roth Childs, and the
Rock of And along came a Republican by the name
of Teddy Roosevelt, and he engaged in what's a what's

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called the Square Deal. Okay, And we've been living in
the corruption era. Insider trading, the Clinton Foundation, she's Secretary
of State, receiving donations from foreigns. Dick Cheney gives a
no bid contract to Halliburton. We're seeing that in Massachusetts
with the service stations where they won't do an audit.

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We live in the corruption era, and we need a
bold Republican like Teddy Roosevelt to come in and say,
I'm going to save capitalism because I see that socialism
is on the rise, just like it was in the
Gilded Age. And he brought down these monopolies. He bust
the trust of the Rockefellers in the Rothschilds, and small

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businesses were able to thrive and competition and real capitalism
took hold, and I believe Teddy Roosevelt actually saved capitalism them.
Now we can break up the three PBMs. They have
ninety percent of the prescriptions in this country. We can
ban the secret rebates and the kickbacks. We can make

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Medicare negotiate for all drugs, not just a few drugs.
Think about it. Medicare is the number one client for
big pharma. Well, guess what Medicare should be able to
negotiate all of those drugs. How about price transparency. We
can do that, making that the big farmer has to
produce all of the prices. We can shop a microwave,

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we can look at multiple websites and all the different costs,
but we can't shop for insulin. We can't shop for
blood pressure or blood thinner or whatever other pharmacy. We
need to protect the independent pharmacies in places like Dorchester
and Roxbury. We got to stop them from owning insurance
companies and everything else. He listens are a hard truth.

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See you next week.