10-31-25 - 8am - Johnson on the Dem Shutdown and Mamdani

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Butterfinger yum, but I'd rather have a Cheico stick. Here's
your annoying dead air stuff is happening on November tenth.

(00:22):
But what happens between now and then? Are you taking
vacation next week? No, I'm here, damn it, I'm here.
You got to ruin everybody's day. He's got to ruin
my day. You know, once again, I'm wasting some vacation
days this year, and now with the change, I really can't.
You know, I can't try to squeeze in a day

(00:43):
or two here or there. I have to grovel towards Tepper.
You know, I have to go out there. And you
know I've already promised him at least twice to buy
drinks or dinner, and I haven't fulfilled that promise yet.
So I've got to do that. So then if I
ask for you know, I didn't take the whole week
Thanksgiving off? Could I maybe take it extra day here
or there? You know, you'll be like.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Real quick. Since we're talking about the change, we will
need some new rules of engagement. Looking at that Forrest
Gump rules of Engagement, it is almost ninety seconds long.
Too long for the new rules of engagements. We need
it under a minute and to have a look give.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Or take sixty seconds, I mean sixty five seconds, fifty
nine whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, sure, so we need situation with Michael Brown talkbacks
the text line and something clever and funny.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah you know, actually you could take you could edit
the Forrest Gumplin for Chris, not make him redo it
and take out just six thirty kh I'll w because
I was listening to him right, that's that is one
of my favorite ones. You could edit that out.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Why should I have to do the work when they
can do the work. But don't you understand here? Titled
should not work.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Because one I like them better and two I think
your title, your job description and title it.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Is what what? Michael? What is? What is my title?
I can't hear you right now? What's going on? But
he still can't hear you?

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Turn my microphone on?

Speaker 2 (02:27):
But huh huh huh? Who is the charge around here?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
May you know? I'm so bad? It's Friday and we've
got taxpayer release shots coming up pretty soon. And yes,
they will continue, they will continue. I had a couple
of people yesterday tell me that that's one of their
favorite segments on the program. I think it's because that's

(02:52):
a double click, Mike, or that's a good taxpayer relief shot.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Next you get the sheriff, and you get the compared
between our sheriff that we have here and the Canadian sheriff.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
That's well, and every time I play that one, we
have a couple of listeners in Canada and or maybe
more I don't know, but I inevitably get an email
or text message about something stupid that that sheriff or
in some other province or some other city up there,
that some other stupid sheriff has done. It's really it's

(03:25):
pretty interesting. Sweater Johnson. He knows there's something about him
that I like, and there's something about him I don't like,
and I can't quite figure out what it is. He's
one of those guys that you just well, probably you know,
not like me, because you all just love me, but
I can't quite figure out exactly. Maybe it's more like Dragon.

(03:49):
You know, we kind of like Dragon, but we kind
of like me, you know, do we really want to
be seen in public with them? That's that's kind of
Mike Johnson, right, you know, Dragon, red Beer kind of
the same thing. We're good I want to work our
way through this, but the Democrats are really beginning to panic.
So far, we've had the chairman of Delta Airlines come

(04:11):
out and say it's it's time, Democrats, you got to
stop this because we're suffering and you're putting air passengers
in danger. And I'm look, it's not the fault of
the air traffic controllers. They're overworked, they're overburdened, and they

(04:33):
I think what iHeart did I think when iHeart put
in the new three eighty six computers, I think they
sold the old ones to air traffic control. That's how
bad their system is. It makes our system look like
it's a brand new MacBook with an M five chip
in it. Yes, that's what it makes it look like.

(04:55):
Which are blazing fast. By the way, United Airlines CEO
came out, it was either the head or the United
Auto Workers or the Teamsters. I forget, it doesn't make
any difference. But one of those union presidents at the
White House told the Democrats, now, when you've lost the airlines,
you've lost the unions. When you've got even different Democrat

(05:19):
groups saying it's time to stop the crap and vote
and reopen the government. Your tactics are losing. You've lost.
But Speaker Johnson did something. This was either yesterday or
day before he went to the floor, or he actually
went to the Speaker's press conference room, and he listed

(05:41):
off the demands that the Democrats have to reopen the government.
And I love this because we get bits and pieces
here and there about what's going on behind the scenes.
What is it that the Democrats are telling the Republican
Caucus that they need in order to get you know,
two more votes. Because we got Fetterman, the Senator from Arizona,

(06:06):
and Angus King or somebody we got. We got three senators,
three Democrat senators that recognize that it's done. I would
play a SoundBite from John Fetterman, but I haven't edited yet.
But Fetterman basically says, I don't understand why the Democrats
can't get their feces together and reopen the government. Like
Fetterman more and more every single day. Now, I know

(06:28):
he's gonna piss me off at some point, but when he's,
you know, saying things like that, you got to say, yeah,
where we go? Maybe? You know, I know this is
just a joke, and it's a bad joke. But strokes
do amazing things, don't they. They let you see the light.
Sometimes it's the light that you don't want to see, like, oh,
I'm crossing the other side, Speaker Johnson.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
There are simple facts about the Democrat shot down that
everybody needs to recognize. Here's four of them. First of all,
we have to have Democrats to reopen the government. You
know that in the Senate it requires sixty votes to
break an impact hanging on with Lily.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Sixty votes to stop debate. Technically, they're in the debate phase.
They're trying to get beyond the debate phase so they
can vote on the continuing resolution. This is procedurally what's happening.
That's called invoking culture. That requires sixty votes. That's one
of the historical rules of the Senate that slows down

(07:31):
some of the crazy stuff that the House does and
make certain that you have some sort unless you have
a supermajority of Republicans or a supermajority of Democrats in
the Senate, it's what requires compromise, and it's what requires
that you get some bipartisan support. And here where we

(07:53):
don't have a supermajority, we need sixty votes. So we
need some Democrats to come over and vote for us
or vote with us, just like all the ree know.
It's interesting in the House, which passed this clean cr
that's stuck now in the Senate, we lost a couple
of Republican votes, like Thomas Massy of Kentucky, but not

(08:16):
surprised by that, and we picked up Democrat votes. So
Democrats voted for this in the House. Now, some people
have suggested, and I think even Trump has suggested, this
is where the President needs to stay out of this.
This is not his fight. This is the fight between

(08:37):
the Article one part of our government, the House, and
the Senate, the Congress. So Trump needs to zip his
lips and shut up about this. I've heard I haven't
seen it yet, but I've heard that he's asking them
to invote the nuclear option, that is where you just
require a simple majority for everything, nominees, closing debate, everything.

(09:02):
Well that's what the Democrats did, and they did it
for judicial nominations, and that's what allowed us to get
some nominees on the bench. Well, I love it for us,
but I think it's a bad deal, a bad idea.
Writ large, the Senate needs to keep the filibuster and

(09:22):
the supermajority the sixty votes for I think they should
go back to doing it for nominees. That nuclear option
of only requiring a majority vote fifty one allowed us
to push through I think I think like one hundred

(09:43):
and twenty nominees that were stuck in the Senate. So Democrats,
see what you did. We told you if you blow
that up, we'll use it, and we did. Now. Am
I glad we used it? Yes? I think they should
have brown up in the first place. No, because I

(10:04):
like government mostly most of the time that works slowly
and methodically, particularly when it comes to passing bills like
increasing our taxes or taking away our freedoms, limiting our liberties,
all of that. I want them to slow down.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
No, it really keep it quit close to the podium. Now,
want anybody see this. Okay, we're gonna make it simple.
I had my fifteen year old son and some of
his friends were together over the weekend, and they wanted
me to explain it to him as simply as possible.
This is the little formulation. Okay, hey, fellows, remember from
Civics got to have sixty votes in the Senate. We
only have fifty three Republicans, so we must have Democrats

(10:44):
to do it. The Democrats are out trying to claim
that this is all on Republicans because we control the government.
We don't control the Senate without sixty votes, so you
have to have them. Now, they've voted thirteen times, those
Senate Democrats, counting the House and the Senate together to
voted thirteen times to keep the government closed.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Now, my guess is that after the November four election
next Tuesday, I think Democrats will cave and now Chuck Schumer,
some of them will. I think some will cross over
and vote for it. I think they're just trying to
hold out between now and Tuesday's election.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
And what they're demanding as a ransom to reopen the
government are some really crazy things they want. They want
to restore two hundred billion dollars in health benefits paid
for by US taxpayers to illegal aliens and non citizens.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
We can't do that, and you know that's a fact.
Now the cabal will tell you that's not true. Well,
it's against the law to do that. Well, that's like saying,
you know, it's it's against the law to it's against
the law speed, But people speed. Yeah, it's against the
law to provide those benefits to illegal aliens, but states

(11:59):
do it.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
They want billions of dollars in wasteful programs to be
returned to foreign countries for things that none of you
would agree with. We're not going to do that. They
want a half a billion dollars to go back to
left leaning news organizations paid for it by taxpayers. We
can't do that.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
And then, well, what's interesting about that particular example. We
have the same example of that going on in Colorado.
So you know Denver's trying to get this big ass
bond issue passed. Well, guess who is funding the yes
vote on that bond issue. NGOs they get taxpayer funding,

(12:36):
are then using some of your tax dollars if you're
if you pay taxes in Denver, they're then using some
of those taxes or they maybe it's all of us,
because some of these NGOs get federal tax dollars. They're
then using those dollars to organize, produce, and sell advertisement

(12:57):
on television and radio to pass that bond issue. I
think we should outlaw that if you receive tax payer
money and you're an NNGO, you cannot use that The politic.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
They want to cut fifty billion dollars from the rural
Hospital Fund that Republicans got signed into law July for
to prop up healthcare in red states and rural areas
around the country. It's too important, but.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
They want to take that away.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
They know that we can't do it. And now that
they've begun to admit what this is all about, thanks
lead you and put on another thing there.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
They're admitting.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
They're admitting what they're up to. Chuck Schumer said, every
day of the shutdown gets better for us, meaning the
Democrat Party. And you know, we had the top ranked,
the second ranked Democrat in the House, the minority whip,
who just said a few days ago, the end of
last week that we know that this is causing great
pain for the American people, but we have to use
this leverage. We don't have many times or we have

(13:54):
leverage like this. And so they've shown you what the
real motivation is. But ultimately, why are they doing all that.
Let me summarize this really quickly as simply as I
can for the civic students back home. Republicans are not
demanding anything, literally nothing. All we want is to reopen

(14:14):
the government.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
In fact, let me emphasize this clean cr As much
as I hate to admit, this maintains government spending at
Biden levels. This is just a continuation of the Biden
spending levels. That's all it is.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
The Democrats are demanding all those things that just showed
you on the chart, plus a lot more. When I
say they want to send money to foreign countries, this
is some of the things that they would propose that
we spend money on. Again, they're demanding this is a
ransom to reopen the government. Things like four million dollars
for global lgbtq I plus awareness campaigns around the world,

(14:53):
four million dollars for the LGBTQI plus democracy grants in
the Balkans. They want two million dollars for feminist democratic
Principles projects in Africa. We're not doing that. But again
the question is why why this sounds crazy? It is
why would they do this? And what we saw on

(15:13):
vivid display over the weekend was the re emphasis of
this fact. This is motivated purely out of fear. And
what do we mean by that? You saw the Democratic
leader in the House, Hakim Jeffreys, endorse Zoron Mamdani for
mayor of New York City.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
This is why it will not open at the earliest
until Wednesday, November.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Five, Friday. It was an illustration of what we're facing here.
The Democrats right now fear the far left activists more
than they fear air traffic controllers, border patrol agents, American
service members and so many others missing their paychecks. They
fear the Marxist insurgents like Mondani more than they fear

(16:02):
families and children going hungry from laps benefits that keep
food on their tables. They simply fear losing their own
political positions next November if they don't appease the angry
far left base right now, and they will appease that
base at any cost, no matter how much pains inflicted.

(16:24):
In fact, they've said in their own words, this gets better.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
For us day by day.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
How does it get better? Because they're proving to the
angry far left base and their party that they will
prioritize them over the American people. And simply put, it's
the profound fear in the Democratic Party that drives this shutdown.
It is not principle, it is not policy. It is
certainly not concerned for the constituents that they say that

(16:47):
they want to represent.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
He's absolutely right. The Democrats know that you're controlling interest
in their party right now is the Marxist wing, so
they they've got to stuck up to them. Maybe I
missed this part someplace on the show, your show or

(17:10):
the podcast, But what are you going to do? Just
move to a different part of the building. Where are
you going to physically be when you supposedly or do
go to Koa. You're sure in hell they're not flying
out to LA Please explain that aspect of your new promo.

(17:34):
There's a Koa campground near found somewhere between like Pueblo
and Wallsenburg. Somewhere, there's a Koa campground.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Just look at where I'm pointing.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
It's yeah, Dragon's pointing to it right now. Just look
at that right there, right there. It's just right there. Yeah. Yeah,
it's where the blonde chick across the hall resides, or
the guy that doesn't want legs.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
She's gonna have to be no longer the blonde chick
across the hall. She's gonna be the blonde chick that
comes on after you, the.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Blonde chick that nags at me all the time. That's
what it's gonna be. Yeah, that's what it's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Well, she does come on to ruin Ross Kaminski's show
when they do their little cross talk, so she could
essentially do the same thing and be the blonde chick
that ruins your show, you know.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
But the thing is, you know, you know, I don't
wear pants in the morning because I.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Just you know, but thankfully you always sit down.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Right but over there because Ross doesn't like WASH's legs.
I'll probably have to start wearing pants over there because
I'm not gonna sit in that chair, by the way,
one of the nice new chairs that I've been begging for,
you know, the high chair that you know is you
can elevate and like, actually see what you're doing already broken? Yes,

(18:56):
have you got noticed that?

Speaker 2 (18:57):
I've got the only one that works and iguard this
thing practically with my life.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'd like to know where do you know where the
arm rest is? For that child? It's broken now, it broke.
They threw it away. What you couldn't be fit. It
couldn't be repaired.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's cheap plastic.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
What do you expect what he had to be? It
looks like it was screwed on. Just get some you know,
get some Phillips screws and just screw it back on.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
It was a little sheath that goes over that arm
that the slight itself cracked and broke. Oh yeah, just
throw that away.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
I want to talk about for a little bit before
we get to taxpay relief shots, just my gut feeling
about the future of New York City. Now, you may
not care about New York City, but I do, and
I do simply because like Washington, d C. I've got
a lot of history in New York City. There there
was a time period in my life where representing a client,

(19:59):
a PubL we'll get traded company that was going through
a Chapter eleven bankruptcy, I spent for all the better
part of the year flying out of Dia every Sunday
night or Monday morning and getting to Loguardia, getting into town,
having meetings that afternoon, dinner that night, working dinners, and

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then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then flying back sometimes Thursday night,
but usually Friday sometime, and then you know, lather rents
repeat over and over and over for almost an entire year.
I would say, out of fifty two weeks, probably did
it for about forty weeks, forty five weeks maybe, So
I've got a real affinity. Plus just all the other

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times I spent in New York before that doing business.
So I've just got this infinity for New York. And
when my granddaughter wanted to go there a few weeks ago,
I was more than happy to take her. Now, I
couldn't live in New York City, Don't get me wrong,
I just can't. I just can't imagine not being or

(21:04):
being that far away from the undisclosed location, which is
the entire opposite of what New York City is. Where
I live, even in Highland Ranch is the opposite of
what New York City is. But it's great to spend,
you know, three or four days there every now and
then because there's so much history. George Washington dug in
against the Red Coats. You can, you know, the Restaurant's Broadway,

(21:27):
you can the nine to eleven Museum, the Empire State
Building Observatory, the Freedom Tower Observatory, I mean, all those things,
a statue of Liberty. It's just an amazing place. It
is concrete canyon lands, but it is wall streets nonetheless,
But the idea, the ideology of the things that need

(21:50):
to be done to fix New York City because it
needs fixing. Don't get me wrong, it's it's it's a
crappy place in some ways too. But the drama and
perhaps even more am I tired of the ideology getting
in the way of the practical solutions that could help
New York City. Mom, Donnie, he's a radical who will

(22:15):
bring about Islam's conquest of America. He is the foot
in the door. He's a communist. It will further destroy
New York City. Now he's ultimately I think could be
good for New York and the country because we will
be instead of me pointing across the pond to London

(22:36):
or the United Kingdom, or France or Germany, or putting
to some South American crabhole country somewhere, I'll just be
able to point, hey, just look across the Hudson. Yeah,
just from where we are. It's the Hudson, not East River.
Just look across the Hudson. Because he will show how
bad their platform is. And quite frankly, because New York

(22:58):
is a Democrat stronghold New Yorkers deserve. Now I know
there's a right winging holy war going on right now
about man Dami and about Curtis Sliwa, and about you know,
Curtis made a really good point last night on Brett
Bear's program. I could be everybody's calling for for him

(23:20):
to withdraw from the race. Even if he withdrew from
the race today, he's on the ballot. And his point
last night was, even if I get run over by
a bus and I've become a grease spot on this road,
I'm still on the ballot. So stop that stupid fight.
There's plenty of fodder otherwise to deal with. If Mom

(23:40):
Donnie is an existential threat like the asteroid the size
of Texas in Armageddon, then there is no ideology conservative,
liberal or otherwise that should get in the way of
making sure that anyone, including you know, the old people
killing Andrew Cuomo, beats him out of the top spot.

(24:02):
We could push Cromo or another guy out in four
years if necessary, as long as we don't usher in
the end of New York. The major irritant for me
is that this is what the message he is, but
no one wants to act on a legitimate solution. If
if Mam Donnie is the existential threat to life, liberty,

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and pursuit of happiness. The consultant class says that he is.
Then the only way to stop him is a two
man race. Poles suck, but I've learned how to read
what is accurate in them and what is not when
they all group together in different outlets arrive at the
same conclusion. And in this case, that Mam Donnie has

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generally less than fifty percent supporting the polls but is
always at least in the mid forties with his opponents
combining for over forty percent, then I tend to believe
they have the pose of what is going on. For example,
Fox News, Mom Donnie is at forty SI CUOMA thirty one,
sly with fifteen. Mom Donnie's up sixteen. Hill Emerson Poll

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Mom Donnie at fifty, CUOMO at twenty five, slywa A
twenty one. That's got Mom Donnie up plus twenty five.
The Marri's Pole, Mom Donny's at forty eight CUOMO to
thirty two Slido sixteen that's got Mom Donnie up sixteen points.
All three of those polls released this week Wednesday. Emerson

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is probably the outlier, but the reason is not so
much Mom Donnie's support as it is measuring Cuomo lower
than the other two. Either way, Mom Donnie doesn't have
a commanding margin. Here's what these posters have. If we
were to combine Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa into one candidate,

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not mon Domi. In other words, you're voting against Mom Dommy.
Fox News would have Mom Donnie still up one, that
Hill Emerson would still had Mam Donnie up plus four,
and Marris would have him at a tie. So there
is no reason, I think to believe that Cuomo is
in this race other than not as bad as Mandanni.

(26:15):
There's what's the reason to vote for him?

Speaker 2 (26:19):
The name.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Or his father? Is that it his dead father. The
only reason to vote for him, but only against Mandanni,
especially if you're right being conservative Maga American, like you
know most people that listen to this program. Then there's Curtis.
Curtis Is. You know, I've known Curtis since he's for decades.

(26:44):
Who doesn't owe it to anyone to be the guy
to drop out. But we ought to be realistic. You
go back to November two, twenty twenty one, he ran again.
Curtis ran against Eric Adams. You know what The results

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were four point nine million registered voters. Turn Out was
one point one million, twenty three point three nine percent.
Eric Adams garnered sixty six point nine nine percent of
the votes seven hundred and fifty three thousand, more than
three quarters of a million votes. Curtis got less than

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half a million, three hundred twelve thousand, only drew twenty
seven point seven six percent of the vote. But then
you got the problem that New York City rolled out
like this for party registration in the twenty twenty four
presidential election. In the Bronx, Democrats up sixty four percent,
Brooklyn Democrats up fifty nine percent, Manhattan Democrats up sixty

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two percent, Queen's Democrats up forty eight percents, That Island
Democrats up six six percent. Staten Island Richmond County does
vote heavily Republican, but still Democrats are up six point
four percent. But the others are still big time Democrat
margin counties, even with the solid Trump trend in some
of them, like I mean, Trump did very well in

(28:10):
these Democrat counties, and he's done so in the past
two elections, but he didn't win. Rudy Giuliani, the crime
fighter America's mayor who became the icon after nine to
eleven Bloomberg, who used his fortune to make a viable
public Republican winnable, but he actually turned out to be

(28:33):
a Democrat candidate in disguise. Slida becomes decades too late
to be a threat to that seat. So what I'm
trying to say here is that Curtis is not going
to win. And I think the analysis is clear, and
I'm trusting you so I can tell you what you
want to hear. I'm telling you what you need to

(28:54):
hear so you can reconcile reality with what is likely
to be the outcome next Tuesday. If if Donnie is
truly the threat to society the consultants say he is,
and I think he probably is, then every multi millionaire
in tycoon in New York City should have met immediately
after Mom Donnie won the primary in June to decide

(29:16):
which single candidate would be his opponent in November. They
would have decided on Clomo, maybe even possibly Eric Adams,
the incumbent. I don't know, but they could have solved
this the root of the problem. Next Brannie Dragon, They're
all wrong. Everybody loves a butterface.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Just depends on how many bags you need one, two,
or three.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
The bad thing about him is I could take that
in so many inappropriate directions because he's just inappropriate, correct,
totally inappropriate, which is why we love him. You know,
if if Mom Donnie were say just a four year
arrangement and is really bad politics could be tolerated, I

(30:14):
would expect them to be booted out by the voters
in twenty twenty nine. But because of the danger with
the way the elections are run in this country, especially
in the state light in New York, where you got
automatic voter registration, you got all the mail in ballots
to go around, plenty of population density to harvest the
hell out of leftover ballots. In a close race, there

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may be no ability to vote a out. Everything that
I've talked about ties back to the neglect of the past.
We have failed to teach our children what to expect
from government, how to preserve the freedom of this great
American experiment. Republicans have abandoned the urban areas, yet we
expect them somehow to rally in a time of a

(30:55):
perceived crisis. There aren't enough that if they all rallied
around it would make difference, which is what I'm trying
to point out. Notably, we have accepted gradual changes to
our elections that allow ballance to be counted for weeks
on end, and then for trannical incumbents to stay perched
in their offices without fear of error getting evicted by
the voters. So maybe the chickens have already come home

(31:20):
to roost and mom Dommy just happens to be the
first one to actually land on the perch, and New
York will suffer for it. And I know you think, well,
it's something side of the Hudson. I don't have to
worry about it. That's the canary in the coal mine.

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Now we've got other canaries other places. Dearborn Michigan, for one.
Go look at that Portland, Maine. Go look at that Denver, Colorado.
Go look at that. We've got a lot of canaries around,
but we just keep plucking along. And you look at
the stupid, dumb ass Republican Party in Colorado. It's as

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dysfunctional as Chevy Chase's family at that Christmas dinner they had.
It's truly dysfunctional. At some point, we've got to get
serious about our politics. We've allowed the culture, which I
do believe leads the politics. We have allowed the culture

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to so infect the politics. And then we've allowed the economy,
the culture, political correctness, everything else to just make those
of us who work for a living try to be
productive members of society understand the concept of individual liberty
and individual freedom. We've just become well, we're too busy

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to get involved with that. We're too busy to even
you know, try to convince within our own sphere of
influence how wrong things are. And I just find it
the juxtaposition of our national politics with the election of
Trump and the sweep that he made in the electoral

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college and in the popular vote says to me that
the majority of Americans really do want to fix this stuff.
But then when it gets down to state and local,
we tend to forget and we just well, you know,
and we're too busy. So all those so called billionaires
and the Wall Streeters and everybody else in New York
that fear him, well, sucks to be you, doesn't it.

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You could have done something and you didn't do it.
There's a lesson in that to be learned for all
of us. Watch, you know, I got a stupid mailer
in the mail yesterday from the Douglas County Commissioners, a
full four color magazine, all telling me about what they're doing.

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Really So, rather than spend that money on maybe fixing
a pothole somewhere, repairing a bridge, or maybe given some
sheriffs and their deputies are raised, you sent me a
stupid magazine