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Don't you dare touch the doll it change the channel
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This is the Hard Truth. I'm John Deaton. Good evening. Everybody.
Got lots of information as always to talk to you
about this week. Last week I didn't get to the

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big No King's rally. I didn't get a chance to
talk about that because I ran out of time because
there's always so much to talk about. But I just
want to remind you that you can reach the show
at John at Hardtruthshow dot com, John at Hard Truth
Show dot com. And I got lots of stuff to

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talk about this week, lots of big things happening. But
first let's go back because I want to talk about
this No King's rally and listen. The First Amendment is
one of the most important amendments and rights that Americans

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have that separates us from the rest of the world.
It separates us from totalitarianism, from dictatorships. And so when
you say that you're protesting a king at a time
when there is no king, I just question that whole theme.

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And then when you think about the democratic leaders here,
I don't even want to call them leaders because they're
not the elected officials in Massachusetts who participated and who
made a big deal about the No King's rally. I

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want to make a comparison between what's going on at
the federal level in the United States versus what's going
on in Massachusetts at the state level. And in this Harrison,
we're gonna find out which form of government the federal
government with President Trump as the president, is the United

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States operating like an autocracy where one person is in
control or a few people are in control of everything,
or is Massachusetts operating the state government more like an autocracy.
And I'm just going to point out a couple of things,

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and I'll let you listening here tonight decide which one
you believe is the more autocratic state of government. Okay,
So we saw Elizabeth Warren, we saw Ed Marky. By
the way, Ed Markey made it a point to wear

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his trans scarf when he participated in the No King's rally,
and that was so subtle because Seth Molten, as we discussed,
has gotten into the Democratic primary to challenge Ed Markey.
And so the Trans movement, if you will, took issue

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with Seth Molten because he made the statement that as
a father of daughters, he doesn't want his daughters run
over on the field of a sports field by biological
boys who identify as girls. That's basically what Seth said,
and immediately the far left attacked him, and Ed Markey

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is of course going to tap into that discontent that
they have for Seth Molten in this Democratic primary election.
So just wanted to point that out to you. All right,
you also saw Bernie Sanders, AOC and all of them.
But my question is why call it no kings like

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do a protest. I don't blame anybody for getting up
and saying that they disagree with their elected leaders and
they want to demonstrate. As long as it's peaceful, then
my God, go to it. You want to stand outside
with a sign that on an issue that you feel
passionate about, even if I disagree with you on that position,

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I'm going to commend you for that, like good for you,
man or gal or whoever, good for you. But I
just don't understand this theme because if America was really
under a king, you couldn't protest. Like if I know
that you know Donald Trump, they're saying, well, he's acting

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like a king. Yet you're all allowed to demonstrate. No
one's shutting you down, no one's throwing you in jail
and trying to silence you. You're out there exercising your
First Amendment right. You don't have a first Amendment right
if you're operating under a government that has an autocrat

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or a king that is completely in charge, they wouldn't
allow it. I mean, I'll give you an example. Vladimir
Putin and Ruight. Now, that's a dictator. Vladimir Putin imprisoned
his political opponent. That is an autocrat. That is someone
who is going to cut dissent at the knees, not

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going to allow it, not going to allow a political challenger.
So that's how an autocrat works. Now. The other thing
is they had this no King's protest in the middle
of a government shutdown. So by the very definition that

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the Democrats, we're able to shut down the federal government,
and the Democrats are the minority party, all right. The
Republicans have the presidency, they have the Senate, and they
have the House. The Senate is by three seats or

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four fifty three senators that are Republicans, and the House
has a very small three to five member majority, but
Republicans are in charge, and so the minority party of
the Democrats. If we were operating under an autocracy, you
couldn't shut down the government. It's impossible. An autocrat is

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the one that's in control. And yet we're in the
middle of a government shut down. So that's what's going
on at the federal level. That gives you objective evidence
that we clearly don't have a king and we clearly
do not operate as an autocracy at the federal government level.

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Now let's go to the state level, the commonwealth here
in Massachusetts, and you have a government where the people
got together on a ballot and by the way, the
ballot that allowed the state auditor to audit the state

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legislature was approved by the top lawyer in Massachusetts, the
Attorney General, Andrea Campbell. And Andrea Campbell determined that that
ballot question was in proper form and that it was constitutional.
And then the people voted on it and seventy two

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percent of the voters, which is difficult to do. It's
difficult to get seventy two percent of people in any state,
including the Commonwealth, to agree on something, but independence agreed
and and Republicans agreed and Democrats agreed, and they said, yes,

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it's a good idea, and we want to make it
the law to have the state legislature be audited. Where's
our tax paying dollars going to? How do contracts get rewarded? Right?
We want to make sure that there is in corruption.
We want to make sure that political donors, friends of

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government officials aren't getting no bid contracts, things of that nature.
How much money was spent on the migrant crisis, how
much money was spent on taxis or ubers for migrants,
for hotels, for meals, for clothing, and not just the migrants,

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but every issue. How's our government spending our heart earned tax.
That's what we need to have a right to and
we do. And so the voters voted and made it
the law. And immediately when the state auditor, Diana Desaglia, said, okay,

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it's the law. Now I want to do this audit
the people in charge. One could argue autocrats Ron Mariano,
the Speaker of the House in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
and Karin Spilker, the President of the Senate. Here at
the state level, he said, nah, nah, we don't think

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it's constitutional. They said, well, wait a minute. The attorney general,
who's the one that makes that determination, said it was
proper to be on the ballot. It is constitutional. So
what do you mean you're not going to let us Nope,
we're not going to let you do it. And guess what.
Mara Heally, the governor, said that she voted for it.

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Well where's she at. Why isn't she putting pressure to
have the state legislature auditor to follow the law? Elizabeth
Warren said she voted for it. Ed Markey said he
voted for it. Andrea Campbell said she voted for it.
But where are they now? Andrea Campbell is attacking Diana

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Dezaglia and not cooperating. It's her job to help enforce
the law. The law is the audit and she's nowhere
to be found. No, I take that back. I take
that back. Andrea Campbell. You can find her. You can
find her on TikTok doing dance videos about how many

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times she sued President Trump. What about the state you
live in? How about we comply with the law. There? Nope,
nowhere to be found. Bory Heally, nowhere to be found.
She's now attacking Diana Dzagli, Warren, Marquie, none of them.

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None of them come out and say, listen, you need
to comply with the law. So which one is more
of an autocratic system of government? One at the state
level here in Massachusetts, where the elected officials say we're
not going to comply with the law. You don't have
a right to see how we're spending your tax payer money,

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none of that. Or the federal government level where there's
a shutdown and there's all these protests and no one's
trying to stop you or prevent you from doing it.
I think it's pretty damn clear, and shame on the
elected leaders here for being the hypocrites that they are.

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Where are they? Where's Markie, Where's Warren? Where's Attorney General Campbell?
You're listening to the Hard Truth. Come back from the break.
Welcome back to the Hard Truth. You're listening to John Deaton.
That's me. I hope everybody's had a good week. You
can reach me at the show at John Adhardtruthshow dot com.

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I had some news that I made this last week.
It's been reported in the press. I'll talk about that later,
But before we took the break, I was talking about
the no King's rally, and I would highlight the fact
that we're in the middle of a federal government shutdown.
So let's talk about that for a minute, all right.

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And I got a video I want to play with you,
and I got to tell you it's one of the
most well it's a video, but you're only going to
hear the audio on the radio. But when you listen
to it, I got to tell you, honestly, it's one
of the most disturbing things that I've ever listened to

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in politics. And obviously that's a big statement to mad
because our politics suck. This toxic division that we're in,
it sucks. The way that these elected officials are acting sucks.
It's a betrayal of the public confidence. It's the betrayal

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of their oaths. But what I heard from the Minority
with Catherine Clark, who is from Massachusetts and in the
House of Representatives like third in charge when it comes
to the Democratic Party and the House of Representatives, what

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she said is sickening and it disqualifies her as far
as I'm concerned, to ever be seriously considered for re election.
And I hope that somebody would common sense primaries her
I hope somebody would common sense who's on the opposite
side as a Republican. It takes her on in the

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general election because what she said is absolutely disgusting. But
she's not the only one to say it. On November one,
you were going to have forty million Americans lose Snap benefits. Now,

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I'm very familiar with Snap benefits. It wasn't called Snap
when I was a kid. It's called food stamps. It's
the same thing Snap food stamps. Many of you know
that I come from extreme poverty. I was the first
one to graduate high school in my family. My mother
was a single mother on welfare and food stamps. I

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had a deadbeat dad who abandoned us, living in one
of the worst neighborhoods in America. And so when I
say that, it affects me on an emotional level to
think about and I'm not thinking about the people who

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abuse the system. I want all of you to understand
that I witnessed people on food stamps that shouldn't be
on food stamps. There is fraud, waste, and abuse that
goes on. There's no doubt about that. And those able
body people should work, and those able body people shouldn't
take advantage of the system. I get that. I'm with

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you on that, but there are people are people who
are American citizens who are in desperate need of help.
With the greatest country in the world, were the richest
country in the world, we can't have our children starving.

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And I don't care if you're a Democrat, Republican, Independent,
I don't care what your race is. I don't care
about your ethnicity. We can all oh. I surely agree
that America says, born into the greatest country in the
world shouldn't starve. And I got to tell you, I

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get emotional when I talk about it because I was
one of those kids. I listened to my mom cry
at night because she put us to bed hungry. And
trust me, those are the worst childhood memories I have.
I've disclosed in my book and on this show that

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I was raped as a child for two years, brutally, brutally,
brutally raped and beaten, and the child predator had threatened
to kill my mother if she found out or if
anyone found out what he's doing to me. In three
years earlier, when I was six, I saw her get
stabbed and almost bleed out in front of me, So
you can imagine what that does to a kid's mind.

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A child's mind never told us soul what was happening
to me. And as bad as that was, it pales
into comparison psychologically and mentally. When my mother put me
to bed and I said, but Mommy, I'm hungry, Mommy,
I'm hungry, and she says, I'm sorry, son, I'll try tomorrow.

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MAMMYA figured it out tomorrow. And then I listened to
her cry in her bedroom, and every tear felt like
a boulder when it would hit the floor, and I
could feel the shame and the humiliation in those tears
and in those cries. It's terrible and it's not fun

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for people. And there are millions and millions of Americans
who are going to lose their food stamps. That's their
way of getting food on the table. They're going to
go hungry because of this shutdown, because of politics. Because
of politics, think about that, we're gonna let americans. I'm

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not talking about illegal aliens. I'm not talking about undocumented migrants.
I'm not talking about people who abuse the system. I'm
talking about American children are gonna go hungry because of politics.
Shame on all these people in Washington who put politics

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before people, who put political agendas before people, and so
over the weekend, Catherine Clark was interviewed, Okay, and so
was several other prominent people senators, US congressmen. And here's

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a video and an audio of what they said about
this lockdown, about what they said about the fact that
children are going to go hungry, and the greatest in
the richest country in the world. And you decide for
yourself if I'm engaging in hyperbole, if I'm being hyperbolic

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or dramatic by calling it disgusting, you tell me here
it is. Of course, there will be, you know, families
that are going to suffer, but it is one of
the few leverage times we have. Without a resolution to
the shutdown, snap benefits could come to a halt on

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November first to reopen the government, and we lose our leverage.
Roughly forty two million people are at risk of losing
critical food assistance. Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage.
Family are headed into a bleak holiday season, possibly with
no government food assistance because of the general shutdown. More leverage.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said this week, quote, every
day gets better for Democrats, the longing a shutdown goes on.
How is today getting better? As Chuck hu was say,
I don't think this is better for anything? Did I exaggerate?
Was I engaging in hyperbole when I said it's disgusting

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They're going to lose a leverage? That's what these children are,
That's what these Americans in need, are pawns in some
political gain that career politicians want to engage in. It's
one of the worst comments I think I've ever heard.

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It's there's no humanity in it. Man, There's no humanity
in politics anymore, I guess. And whether it's Bernie Sanders
calling it leverage or Chuck Schumer. And for Chuck Schumer
to say every day that the lockdown goes longer gets

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better for Democrats. Can you imagine that it gets better
for Democrats? Oh, so we know what the strategy is.
It's pretty clear, Chuck Schumer said, the quiet part out loud.
It gets better for Democrats because the Republicans are in control.

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They believe that when people can't eat, when kids are
going to bed hungry, when people may die, that the
American public and the voter will blame the party in charge. Well,
the Republicans are in charge. So we're going to use

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food insecurity and human lives as a way to piss
off and anger the American public so that they turn
on Republicans so that a year from now in the
mid term elections, we Democrats will gain power of the
House or the Senate, and in twenty twenty eight maybe

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one of us will become president. That's what's going on.
That's what's going on. And you know, Chuck Schumer just
in March voted for a clean resolution that just said, hey,
let's continue keeping the government open. It's just the status
quo of payments. Pay the military, pay air traffic controllers,

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pay the people at the federal government, at federal employees,
TSA fund, food stamps for the people that needed the
forty two million Americans. He voted for that thirteen times,
but this time he said no, because they want certain
things to be granted for them. They're upset that Trump

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won and the Republicans passed the big beautiful bill and
they disagree with it because they're not in control to
extend the Obama tax credits and all of that stuff.
And they want to basically use this leverage of the
Republicans being in control so that the American public gets

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angry at the Republicans. And that's their strategy, and it's disgusting.
It's a disgusting strategy. And there's two Democrats who agree.
Fetterman from Pennsylvania has come out against the Democratic Party
and said, shame on them, Let's reopen the government. So

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we're going to continue talking. This is the hard truth.
I'm John Deeton. Come back from the break. Okay, welcome
back from the break. Listen to the hard truth. I'm
John Deaton. So we're talking about the Schumer shut down.
He voted thirteen times prior to keep the government going
this time because he believes every day gets better for

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Democrats and they're going to win the twenty twenty six
elections because everyone's going to be mad and take it
out on the party in charge, the Republicans. So what
I want to know from you is who do you blame.
Do you blame the Republicans more, Do you blame the
Democrats more? Someone like Fetterman and the Senator from Georgia,

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they voted with Republicans to keep the government open. The
Democrats the other Democrats did not, and so both sides
have said they're not going to budge. Like Bernie Sanders
in that clip said, if we vote to reopen the government,
we lose all our left rich and we're going to see.

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You know, you've got some people believe that the Republicans
will cave in because of political pressure because of elections
next year. Some people believe the Democrats will. I guess
we're going to find out. I mean, what's said is
going into the holiday season, holiday season and government shut

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down there looks like there's no end in sight, doesn't
look like it's going to reopen anytime soon. And so
there you go. Now let's switch to local news because
this just happened today when I'm recording the show. And

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that is another arrest here in Massachusetts related to elected
officials in charge and their staff. And we have an
aid to more heal who worked out of the West
Springfield office of the Governor, who was arrested. Now this

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aid was arrested. We get this people eight kilos of cocaine,
eight kilos of cocaine, and in that cocaine, eight kilos
of it was going to be delivered to a state
building delivered to this aid and he was arrested. And

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it's just another part of the Healey administration that shows
you what's going on who's in charge. I mean, we've
seen so many we've seen turnover. Governor Healey has the
highest turnover of any one term governor probably in decades,
in decades. But this is the problem we have here.

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And I touched upon this earlier when I was talking
about the No King's Rally and is Massachusetts more of
an autocracy or is the federal government? And it's clearly Massachusetts.
And this is what I can say about Mora Heally,
and I mean this sincerely. She must be the most

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non transparent governor in the United States of America that's
in office right now. I mean, they won't provide transparency
for what they do. Again, back to this autocratic nature.
She invoked the emergency over the migrant crisis for years,

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and that allowed her to act unilaterally. When she declares
an emergency, she gets to make decisions on the fly
the way she wants to and she doesn't have to
really disclose everything because we're in a state of an emergency.
She abused that power, and again she's fighting the state

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auditor state auditor is showing that there's no transparency, complaining
and instead of complying, morri heally plays politics and attacks
Diana Zaglia. And like I said during the first segment
of the show tonight, where are they? Where's Governor Healey?
When it comes to the audio, how come she's not

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using her voice to say, yes, I voted for it
as a citizen and a resident of Massachusetts. I wanted
the audit of the state legislature. And why isn't she
using her power and influence? Every day they talk about Trump,
they talk about Trump, and they ignore everything. My god,

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you've got to love Massachusetts in America more than you
hate Trump and they don't. Seth Molten's announcement video is
you're not fighting Trump hard enough? Ed Marky's fighting Trump
every day, Maria Healy every day. That's fine, you can

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fight him, but you shouldn't hate the president more than
you love the people of the state that you represent.
That's the point. You should love America more than you
despise or hate a particular person who's in the president.
The presidency is transient. We're going to have a different

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president in twenty twenty eight. Whether it's JD. Vance or
whether it's Gavin Newsom or who knows they're talking to AOC.
But whoever going to be the president, it's not going
to be Donald Trump, that's the bottom line. That's a fact.
But your love and desire to improve the lives of

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the people that you represent in the state that you're in,
that's really got to override politics. And it doesn't, and
it's disgusting and I'm sick of it. I'm really really
sick of it. We need transparency more than ever today,
especially Massachusetts. We need it at the federal level, there's

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no doubt about that. I don't care who's the president, Republican, Democrat,
doesn't matter. But here in Massachusetts, we need transparency more
than ever because listen, this show is called The Hard Truth,
So I'm going to give you the hard truth. Massachusetts

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is in trouble, plain and simple. Massachusetts is in trouble.
Let me give you a few stats so I don't
be so general and generic. Did you know that if
you take all fifty states, which state is last in

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housing affordability when you compare what people make to the
prices of homes or the prices of rent. Massachusetts ranks
dead last in housing affordability right where the have the

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second highest national the second highest average statewide average of
how much a home cost at six hundred and seventy thousand.
Only Hawaii does better more than that. But when you
count salary versus housing costs, Massachusetts dead last in housing affordability.

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Did you know that the housing here homes or rent
is one hundred and six percent higher than the national average.
Take all the other states, the national average one hundred
and six percent. I mean, twenty five percent would be significant,

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fifty percent would be big, seventy five percent would be crazy.
It's one hundred and six percent. People. That's how unaffordable
a home is for people. That's how unaffordable rent is
for people. In fact, homelessness in Massachusetts from twenty twenty
three to twenty twenty four increased seventy four percent. Seventy

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four percent, it's almost a double. It's crazy. Groceries are
twenty percent higher in Massachusetts than the national average, and
if you get into the Boston area it's higher than
twenty percent. It's like thirty percent. That's groceries. Okay, Now,

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let's talk about electric bill. Electric bill a Massachusetts household
pays double you heard me, double in electricity bills than
the national average. Double. Okay, Now natural gas. Remember more

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heally bragging about stopping those two natural gas pipelines from
coming in that she now denies, saying, well, Massachusetts households
pays sixty five percent higher natural gas costs than everyone
else in the country or the national average sixty five percent.

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These are staggering numbers. People, families, now working families are
paying eight hundred to one thousand dollars per month for
natural gas bills. You know, you'll see supply and it'll
be like eighty dollars, delivery charge, five hundred dollars, and

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then you'll see solar serve charge, offshore winds served charge,
net zero mandate, certain charges. All this nonsense that they
try to calll clean energy, that nothing clean about it.
That's driving people. Now, health care cost Oh my god,

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we're gonna shut down because of it. But it's Massachusetts
is at the top, top two three states and health
care costs. And then when you talk about childcare costs,
the average in Massachusetts is twenty four thousand dollars a
year for childcare costs. Guess what, people, Massachusetts is the

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most expensive in America when it comes to childcare costs.
What's that result when you add all that? Oh, and
I forgot one last factor. Massachusetts is dead last in
job growth. Dead last. You know how difficult it is
to be fifty out of fifty. That takes like real

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effort of incompetence or intentional nonsense. And the result, one
hundred and thirty five thousand residents have moved out of
state who are in the prime years of their working life.
These are people who pay taxes. One hundred and thirty
five thousand have left. At the same time, we've taken

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in thousands and thousands of undocumented, unemployed immigrants who can't
speak English, who cause all kinds of issues. It's a
broken system of the status quo because of this one
party rule. You listen to the hard truth. Come back,
Welcome back to the show. Listening to the hard truth.

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I'm John Deaton, all right, So I went over those stats.
Number one most expensive state where people can't afford a home.
What that means is dead last, and housing affordability ranked

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number fifty out of fifty. Also fifty out of fifty
in private sector job growth. We're at the top of
migration out of the state of people in the prime
of their working lives. So we've got people who are

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leaving the state who could provide working revenue, in other words,
tax revenue because they're going to get tax because they're
working and they've got thirty years of working and they're leaving.
That's tax revenue leaving the state. Businesses leaving the state

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because of the tax We can't even get athletes here.
The millionaire's tax stops. The athletes don't want to come
to the to live in Massachusetts. And the Democrats in
charge the status quo here. Their solution is raised taxes.
We're seeing it over and over Wu in Boston Mayor Wu.

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She wants to be able to raise taxes. We're seeing
overrides across the state of towns that have to increase taxes.
That seems to be the solution to everything. You're chasing
more and more people out. And so it's clearly a
broken system here in Massachusetts. And then you've got to

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sit back and you have to ask it. We can't
even get an audit, that's how broken it is. And
it's because this one party that's in control believes that
you out there are not going to vote someone else
in right, That's what they believe. That's why they keep

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pounding the table a Trump Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, hate Trump,
hate Trump, because they want to create this toxic image
of a Republican so that they can stay in charge
and so that people here in Massachusetts it will always
be this major supermajority blue state. That's what they believe

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and think about it. You have to blame the Democrats
in Massachusetts because there's no Republican voice. So when I
say broken system and status quo, you're talking about governor,
lieutenant governor, Secretary of state, auditor, attorney general, all belong

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to one party. That's every statewide office in Massachusetts one party.
Then we get to the federal government and you have
nine members of the House of Representatives, all nine one
party Democrats, two United States Senators one party Democrats. So

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we know who to blame. And we talked about the
shutdown and that Schumer said every day the government is
shut down is better for Democrats. Remember that video. That's
what he said. Because the strategy is that the voters
will punish those in charge, and those in charge at

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the federal level are Republicans. So that's the strategy. How
come that strategy doesn't work here in Massachusetts because there
is only one party. I got forty percent of the vote,
forty point four percent when I ran for Senate against
Elizabeth Warren last year. One point three to four million

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voters voted for me. But there's not one Republican voice
in Massachusetts. There's not one Republican voice in New England.
And that's the status quo. It's a broken system. And
it's not just that they're all Democrats. It's that some

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of them are far left radicals, radicals who favored illegal
migrants over American combat. That's that's who come back with
one leg, one arm, one eye, where they're blinded, completely

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serving our country, providing the freedom that we benefit from.
And they don't even get priority because of this one
party rule because some of them are so left. Biological
boys get to compete against girls in sports, Biological men

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get to compete against women in sports. A kid identifies
with the opposite gender. So yes, we'll just say that
you can have surgery, life altering surgeries. Can't get a tattoo,
but you can get estrogen blockers, you can get testosterone,

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you can have all kinds of things done to you.
It's broken, man, It's a broken system because they've went
so far left, and I'm hoping that they've went so
far left that they've offended some of you listening that
might view yourself as center left voters. And so they

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can't even work with the federal government. Think about that.
That's how bad it's gotten that they won't work, they
refuse to work. If you're in the United States Senate
or you're in Washington as a congressman or a congresswoman,

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you should have one test. Is it good for Massachusetts
in America? If it is, then you support it. It
doesn't matter if you call it republican, red, blue, liberal, progressive, whatever.
Is it good for America in Massachusetts? It is. Support it.

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It's not. It hurts America. It's terrible for Massachusetts. Don't
support it like it really is that simple, but they
don't approach it that way. Give you an example of
what I'm really getting at. When I was in the
Marine Corps, I served seven years of active duty and

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in the military, the commander in chief changes. If you
stay in long enough, you're going to have more than
one commander in chief that you serve in the military
under and oftentimes it'll be from a different party. In
my service. That applied when I first got in the

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Marine Corps and I went on active duty, Bill Clinton
was the president, he was the commander in chief, and
before I got out, George W. Bush was the president
command in chief, so Democrat. To begin my military service,
was my commander in chief Republican. At the end. When

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I was retired medically from the Marine Corps in two
thousand and two, it was George W. Bush. And I
want you to think about this, Do you think that
my job performance changed depending on who the commander in
chief was? And the answer was absolutely not. You learn

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that it doesn't matter. All that matters is the job
before you're doing the best job you can period period.
You know, my first tour duty, I received a pretty
big honor. I was at Yuma, Arizona, and I was
at the border umacrossing and I was a Federal Prosecutor's

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special assistant the United States Attorney and I would I
participated in helping bring down basically drugs coming in from
the cartels from our border. And after three years I
was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, an MSM Meritorious Service Medal,

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which is a pretty significant award, especially in your first tour.
Rarely do you get in your first tour. I know
that sounds like bragging, but I'm just telling you the truth.
And it was signed by Bill Clinton. Now do you
think that I agreed with everything Bill Clinton said when
I was on active duty as a judge advocate, as

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I was prosecuting cases, as I was stopping drug infiltration,
working with border security, the FBI, the Naval Criminal Investigator Service.
That's ncis No, I didn't agree with everything Bill Clinton said.

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I didn't agree with everything that Bill Clinton did as
commander in chief. I just did my job, man, That's
all I did. I did my job and so and
Clinton gets out and George W. Bush wins the twenty
two thousand election. Do you think I agreed with everything

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George W. Bush said? Nope? Do you think I agreed
with everything that George W. Bush did? Nope? Do you
think it affected my job? And the answer is no. Now,
just think how refreshing it would be if we could
get a United States senator who took that same approach,

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who said, you know, I may agree with the president
on these things. I may disagree with the President on
some other things, but I'm just going to do my job, man,
and my job is to help the people of Massachusetts,
make working families better, have better access to healthcare and

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job growth, less taxes, all those things, and try to
help lift poor people. I was one of those poor
people who lifted myself out of poverty. Let's help poor people.
Let's implement policies that lift poor people out of poverty.
That would be the job. And I would work with

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the President on things that we could work together. And
I agree with order, security, deregulation of energy and business markets, peace, infrastructure,
all those things. And I'll fight the President on things
that I disagree with. How refreshing would it be to

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have someone like that in the United States Senate? Well,
we may have that opportunity real soon. Stand by people,
I'm John Deaton. See you next week.