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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you ever want to host a show, like a
talk show like Michael Brown or an art show like
Hunter Biden, become a lawyer, explain, mister Redbeard?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What do I have to explain? I didn't leave the
talk back. I'm assuming a is them trying to create
a new lawyer joke for you, since I've heard him
all and he was trying to say that, you know
that was a total fail. You're a Hunter Biden. I
guess that's the joke. Hunter Biden a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I think he is?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Is Hunter Biden a We know.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That Joe said he taught law school, so there's that.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Let's see. According to the Google AI overview, yes, Hunter
Biden is a lawyer. He's in American lawyer, businessman and
convicted felon.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
He has a Jurisdoctor degree and held the position of
counsel in the law firm A Boy Chiller Flexner, LLP
in twenty fourteen, according to Wikipedia. So this is isn't
that interesting? So I I use Chrome for the text
line and our clipping services and our sound bites, and
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so that's what was up because I was reading text messages.
So the default search engine for Chrome is Google. I
don't use I use on Safari, I use Go but
or I use Brave occasionally. But isn't it interesting that
the Google artificial Intelligence overview only cites Wikipedia as their source.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's a reliable source. Nobody can edit that.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Come up. That shows you how stupid a is. Before
we get to sometimes Dragon from the stories that he
puts over here next to me to use. Sometimes we
cross paths, and so I did my Michael Brown minute
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this morning, and then I'm looking over here at the
stories and he has the Michael Brown minute as one
of the stories. Same source too. By the way, you're welcome, yeah.
Courtesy of Westward. The reporter is Katie Cheshire Cheshire like
a cheshire cat. Grocery prices in Denver have risen by
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nearly eighteen percent since twenty twenty, and a recent report
suggests that overcharging at King Soopers could be part of
the reason. I like the way you know that's that's
speaking of lawyers. That's the way A reporter avoids any
sort of defamation charge by saying that recent reports meaning
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not me, I'm just telling a story. Suggests that overcharging
at King Supers could be part of the reason. But
then here's Wyatt is part of the reason. She writes,
the Denver Grocery Store Worker Union members discovered what they
believed to be overcharging and inaccurate pricing at Colorado grocery stores.
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So consumer Reports, you know, the famous nonprofit Consumer Reports,
They hooked up with something called The Guardian, which I
assume they mean the newspaper, and the Food and Environment
Reporting Network. So they all got together to prove Colorado
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Kroger workers were correct. The story says, according to Consumer Reports,
King superstores across the nation. Now I didn't know that
King Superstores were across the nation? Are they referring to Kroger?
Because I thought King Supers was more regional. But on line,
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I know regularly charged customers more than the list of
price tag to the tune of an average of eighteen
point four percent. So our grocery prices up eighteen percent
because of inflation or another eighteen percent because of overcharging. Independently,
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she writes United Food and Commercial Workers Local Something, the
Colorado Grocery Store Union surveyed dozens of King Supers and
City Market stores across the state. The union found misleading
price tags, leading to the overcharging of consumers in every
single store they surveyed. Now it doesn't say you know,
it just says dozens. So in the dozens they surveyed,
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in every single one of those, they found overcharging. The
United Fooding and Commercial Workers Union Local seven, in an announcement,
says this the scale of this problem has led to
King Supers and City Market potentially taking millions of dollars
every year from Colorado consumers through false pricing. Now they've,
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you know, they've been in negotiations for a new union contract.
So I wonder, I wonder if they have a motivation
in trying to find out whether this was true or not.
King Supers has significantly cut the workforce and stores across
the nation since twenty nineteen. They just shows the number
of hours dropped by eighteen point three percent. Now that's interesting.
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Overcharging has an average of eighteen point four percent, and
the workforce is dropped by eighteen point three percent, and
just find that interesting. Consumer reports found that the stores
with the most significant pricing errors had lost ten point
three percent of their workforce on average between twenty nineteen
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and twenty twenty four. Now King has a make it
Right policy where if a customer points out of price discrepancy,
the store will fix the problem. Now are we supposed
to be impressed by that?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I mean that should be standard practice, should be your
standard practice.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Kingsoopers has a make it right policy. How about you
just double check your pricing and your pos's.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, make it right would be Oh, you're gonna give
me ten percent off now, since I found it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Since I found your estate right? Yes, ummm let me
just read this paragraph. Though. King Soopers has a quote
make it right close quote policy where if a customer
points at a price discrepancy, the story will fix the problem.
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That system relies on customers knowing the price tag said
for each item and catching issues themself. Else So, the
president of the union says it's time for government regulators.
Of course, we need more government regulation to hold King
Supers and City Market accountable for deceiving their customers. Now,
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if they can prove, don't get me wrong, if they
can prove that this is a systemic and a corporate
policy to do this, or they are aware of it
and they're not doing anything to correct it, then you
might have a reason for the Attorney general to do something. Otherwise,
King Supers stop it. Now, this makes me. I ran
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into King Supers to pick up something for Tambers. She
needed some broth or something something she was cooking, and
that Now I wonder, am I supposed to like see
what the price tag? You imagine going in, you're buying
three hundred dollars worth of groceries. I don't know how
many items that is? What is that four items? You
buy three hundred dollars worth of groceries, you get four items?
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So am I expected to spend three hundred dollars on
four items? And I have to actually check and write
down the price on the shelf and then checked as
they go through it. Yes, that's how. That's how to
make King Soopers pay right down the item and the
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price that's in the aisle and then tell them, no,
you can't just you know as they scan rapidly. No,
you have to scan, wait for me to check what
it shows, you know, as you watch the little monitor
that displays the price, and then you check your written
list and then say, okay, now you can scan the
next item. How long if it take the checkouts to
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go through that?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh, you seem to have irritated somebody on the text line.
Michael get to AOC right now.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Okay, let's see what other stories do I have that
I can be set.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I mean, arguably, it is one person sending the text
three separate times, and uh, the the font gets bigger
and bigger, so you know, yeah, that would look Yeah, Michael,
get to AOC. Michael, get to AOC right now. Michael,
get to AOC right now.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
First, first one was at nine fourteen oh one, and
then nine fourteen forty six, and then nineteen fifteen thirty eight.
Let's refresh. Now I get four emojis. Yep, I actually
do want to do the AOI. You know, normally I'd
be passive aggressive and say screw you and I do
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something else, but I like I like this story, so
AOC had you know what, I'm gonna stop the EOC
stuff because you know, she's not Chaer, she's not Bono,
She's she's not Michael, She's Alexander at Cossio Quartet. I
just need to nobody, you know, you just know me
by Michael or your case, sir, that's just far too wordy.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You want to spend that much extra time referring to
her by full name versus just AOC.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Now I have to weigh. Well, first of all, I'm
not going to change the world. Everybody's gonna keep calling
her AOC true, so I as well just give in, true,
just give up. I'll give it, okay. So AOC here
is if you're driving, both hands on the wheel, steering wheel.
If you're drinking, swallow, if you're eating, swallow, you can
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just swallow whatever you're doing, just swallow. Thank you deeper.
That's Dragon red Beard. This is Michael. She has not
been seen wearing her engagement ring for more than seventeen months,
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so that has started.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
She's engaged.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
She got she got engaged. She was proposed to by
her fiance Riley Roberts in April of twenty twenty two.
He proposed and gave her a cracker jack, a zero
emission ring. Now, how do you get it? Because it's
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recycled gold. Wait a minute, I don't care if it's recycled.
To recycle gold, don't you have to do something?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Still got to heat it up.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You still have to heat it up to get it
out of the like if it's a you had to
do something to it, or if he came out of
ear rings or it came out of a stud he
came out of. Yeah, so it's not what bull crab anyway,
It was valued at three thousand, fifty seven dollars four cents. Apparently,
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she's been wearing the ring until November of twenty twenty three.
Since now, who's paying attention to this? But here's what's
kind of cool about the story. However, since November twenty
twenty three, the ring has been absent from her left
hand during numerous public events, including recent televised appearances, committee hearings,
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and the Bernie Sanders Fighting the Oligarchy tour. So, now
here's the crux of the story. It raises questions. Financial
records show the couple continues to share a residence in Queens.
They were seen together in March of twenty twenty four,
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so just a couple of months ago they were seen together.
She also referred to Roberts as her spouse in House
Ethic Committee filings, though AOC's congressional office. The spokesperson for
office clarifies they are not legally married. Now don't know
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what that means. If you've been living together with the
intent to be and she's calling him her spouse, then
it must be I don't know what New York common
law marriage rules are but they must have a common
law marriage. But here's the reason the story's actually interesting
to me, because their unmarried status has significant financial implications
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because if he's a long term partner and not a
legal spouse whatever, that might mean a common law spouse,
a married spouse, whatever. Roberts is not required to disclose
his financial activity, including his stock trades, or his employment
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details as part of AOC's congressional financial disclosures. So that's
pissed off the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust. They're
arguing that the loophole that exempts him from disclosing anything
undermines transparency. In a statement, the spokesperson, actually the I
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think it's the president of the Foundation for Accountability and
Civic Trust says when a member is not legally married
but in a long term relationship similar to marriage, these
concerns still apply even though there is no disclosure requirement.
Now that's kind of interesting, And the reason I find
it interesting is this because AOC has actually been involved
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in legislative efforts she wants to ban, which is fine
with me. Uh oh, I agree on something I've not
actually seen. Read the legislation but I understand the general
just to the legislation, she wants to ban individual stock
trading by members of Congress and their spouses, So her
proposal would not apply to her fiance slash common law husband,
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slash spouse, slash boyfriend, whatever. Her proposal would not apply
to Roberts unless they actually marry, allowing him to continue
trading stocks without restriction or transparency. Now, other members of Congress, right,
you know, crackety crabby old Nancy Pelosi, She's made millions
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of dollars in stock market in recent years. Investors and
fund managers have even created their own financial products that
actually mimic the trades made by members of Congress by
using publicly available data, such as as lawmaker are required
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to disclose market transactions over one thousand dollars. So I
guess you can maybe now go buy an EFT or
buy a some sort or subscribed to some sort of
hedge fund that mimics the trades of what they do.
They're fascinating. Now if you're following members of Congress, who's
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the oh it's unusual Whales, which I follow on X.
They're a financial technology startup. They actually began analyzing the
trades about five years ago. According to this story story
finding that academic literature underestimated Congress's trading edge. They've they've
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documented nearly one hundred million dollars in trades made by
about fifteen Senators and forty House members. They call their
system crews. Kruz. I don't see what that stands for
in this story, but imagine that. How do you do
your trading? Oh? I follow members of Congress. I just
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I just execute trades based on their executions. And yeah,
that made millions of dollars doing it. You we may
have found something that Congress is actually good at insider trading. Wow,
just take your portfolio and just have it. Mimic Nancy Pelosi.
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Morning Brownie. Hey, I remember back in twenty twenty one
when I sent in a talk back that featured my
wife's chickens and rooster. Does that count for anything? I
have a great day. Don't we have? Hang on a second? Uh?
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Do do do do? Do? Papa vump bump bump, bump,
bump bump bum some on the text line. Yes, goober
number ninety seven to ninety eight. Michael I was correct.
Per chat gpt I Heart announced its talkback feature on
February twenty eight, twenty twenty two. So if you left
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a talkback in twenty twenty one, nobody heard it. But
I do remember. I think we had I think we
have heard those chickens before. Yes, I do think we've
had the chickens before.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And I think there was like a cold rollout of
the talkbacks prior to them actually announcing the talkback feature,
and we.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I think, actually, I think you're actually I think you're right,
and we I think I think we started playing with
it and then we were already playing with it when
they announced. Yeah, I think I think you're right. So
ask chat GPT, when did Michael and Dragon start talking
about talkbacks? See if they can answer that question. See
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how smart that damn artificial intelligence is? Anyway, Speaking of
AOC during the break, I was curious about any news
about AOC, and sure enough, if in New York, I
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guess I'd put it this way. In New York, if
you want to figure out a way to increase crime,
Alexander Cassi Cortes is your answer. Major crime rose by
an eye popping seventy percent in AOC's Bronx and Queen's
district since she took office in twenty nineteen during the
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defund the police, and obviously she's a socialist too, more
than double the citywide increase of thirty percent over the
same time period, according to a New York Post analysis. Now,
apparently not everybody's happy about that. I mean, I don't
understand why people would be upset about a seventy percent
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increase in crime, but they're not Guadalupe Alvarez. She lives
in Elmhurst. It's at one hundred and tenth. She's lived
in one hundred and tenth police precinct her entire life.
It is one of several constituents who has ripped the
jet setting absentee squad member for letting the district turn
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to trash while she focuses on elevating herself on the
national stage. Miss Alva or Guadalupe says, quote, she's not
doing the S word. She doesn't live in the neighborhood.
She doesn't care. Crime in the one hundred and tenth
precinct where Guadalupe lives is up one hundred and five percent.
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Alvarez just happens to be a former AOC supporter who
now has a braw ful across the street from her home. Wow,
that's like living in Dragon's neighborhood. The only difference is
Dragon owns the brawl full across the street in his neighborhood.
That's his place.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Now.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
It would be nice to think that that Guadalupi would
stop voting for Democrats, But that's not how it's gonna work, right,
because once the jurisdiction has been sucked into the moustrom
known as the Democrat death spiral, they just keep voting.
Democrat looks out the window, surveys the Colorado horizon and realizes, oh,
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just like in Colorado now, as the Black Lives Matter
movement phenomenon demonstrated, Democrats kind of you rising crime in
their you know, and their policies as not a bug.
But I think they believe it's a feature. Otherwise, why
would they actually exacerbate crime in there in their districts.
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The Post adds this. At the height of the defund
the police Movement ALC slammed they proposed one point five
billion dollar cut to the New York Police Department as
not going far enough. That year, New York's finance canceled
an incoming cadet class that would have added more than
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eleven hundred officers to the police force. Now, if you
think that it's over, you would be wrong. Just last year,
which by the way, is twenty twenty four, last year, Dragon,
twenty twenty four was last year. Yes, it was last year,
but it wasn't a year ago. It was only five
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months ago. You were still twenty twenty four, five months ago,
five months, But.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
It was also twenty twenty four, a year ago, well,
actually four.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Months and twenty days ago.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It was twenty twenty four. Yeah, so it wasn't a
year ago, but it was also a year ago, because
one year would go from today was twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
A year ago from today was twenty twenty four. Correct,
But twenty twenty four was last year, But twenty twenty
four wasn't a year ago.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yes, thank you, all right, and no stop.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
But yes, last year, she and other squad members voted
against a resolution condemning efforts to defund local law enforcement agency.
And why would you want to be a cop with
a Marxist socialist like AOC in charge? Because if the
cops actually do their job, then they're going to end
up being like Derek Chauvin. And again we see that
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the election of socialist Marxist Democrats is both a cause
and an effect of societals decay. And if you don't
think that Democrats aren't just really anti law enforcement, let's
go to the want to be next President of the
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United States. No, not Gavin Newsom, his hair's too nice.
We're going to go to tam Walls because tam Walls
gave and gave a commencement address, and Tim Walls decided
to say this.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Donald Trump's modern day Escapo is scooping folks up off
the streets. They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped
off to foreign torture dungeons, no chance to amount of defense,
not even a chance to kiss the loved one goodbye,
just grabbed up by massed agents, shoved into those vans
and disappeared to be clear, there's no way for us
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to know whether they were actually criminals or not. Because
they refused to give them a trial. We're supposed to
just take their word for it.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Let me just say this about this first of all, estoppo, No,
I don't think so. Disappearing them not, I don't think so.
These are they're only going after right now, the criminal
illegal aliens, which is kind of redundant, but because an
illegal alien is already illegal. But they're going to after
the criminal ones, the ones who have criminal convictions, either
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here or from another country. And yes, they're sweeping them
up and they're taking them to a detention center. And oh,
by the way, the decision by the Trump administration to
stop the temporary protected status from Venezuelans was upheld by
the US wasn't actually technically upheld, but it was allowed
to continue yesterday by the Supreme Court on an eight
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to one vote. Only Jackson Brown or Brown Jackson, I
like to call her Jackson Brown actually descended so on
the topic of Trump closing the illegal immigration floodgates that
Biden or whomever was in charge had opened wide up.
Tim Wallas is out there proclaiming at the University of
Minnesota Law School commencement ceremony that no, no, no, no.
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He went on to say that this is what the
crumbling of the rule of law looks like in real time,
and it's exactly what the founders of this nation feared,
a tyrant abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies, those
illegal aliens, those in particular criminal illegal aliens or escape goats.
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You know, illegal alien gang members are wreaking havoc on
American streets, and he thinks they're just put upon scapegoats.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
The tyrant rhetoric, the gescapo rhetoric is as reckless as
it is hypocritical. On at least four different occasions, Trump
has avoided assassination attempts too serious, too possible, So calling
him a tyrant probably is like a siren's call to
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those all unhinged lefty Marxists out there, all the one
to be assassins, because that was explicitly tied to American
assassination history. According to witnesses, John Wilkeson Booth shouted sick
simper taranmus after murdering Lincoln. I don't know, maybe they
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should just stick to making statements with seashells on the seashore.
Maybe that would be okay if they just did that.
Speaking of Democrats, as long as we're talking about democrats,
the Palm Springs bombers year about this, A twenty five
year old self described, I've never heard this phrase before.
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A pro mortalist has been identified as an attacker who
had detonated a car bomb outside of a fertility clinic
in Palm Springs this past weekend. He killed himself and
injured four other people. According to the sources, some guy
named Barcas Edward Barkas is allegedly described or allegedly described
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his fanatical pro death beliefs in some manifestos as being
against bringing people into the world without their consent to
spare them from future suffering. According to Caseyl News out
of Los Angeles, no wait a minute, he's upset because
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he was brought into the world without his consent. Now
he's apparently opposed to suffering, unless you're sado massacres. I
think most of us are opposed to suffering. So he
set off a bomb to kill and main innocent people,
the guy who's opposed to suffering. So I guess, once
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again we prove that it's all about you know, it's
all about their beliefs, it's all about feeling good. Well,
you know, I want to end suffering. So I'm gonna
go out, I'm gonna I'm gonna carbomb someplace, and that
brings us next to somebody that you'll win. The year.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Five months ago, it was twenty twenty four. A year
ago was twenty twenty four. A year and four months
ago was also twenty twenty four. It's a damn metric system.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
So assuming that progresses continue to progress, people like this Bark,
this guy that is all pissed off that he was
born without his consent and wants to eliminate suffering, so
he tries to kill and name other people and kill himself.
I think kind of represents the humans just ought to
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be eliminated from Earth and then you know, Mother Earth
can just be yourself, and you know, we can just
go back to prehistoric days and man just will just be,
you know, in the twinkle of God's eye.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Kind of Hillary, as I posted the other day, this
very blatant effort to basically send a message most exemplified
by Vance and Musk and others, that you know what
we really need from you women are more children. And
what that really means is you should go back to
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doing what you were born to do, which is to
produce more children. And they are talking about, you know,
cash benefits for children the more children you have. This
has been tried by the way in other countries and
has not worked. Or metals if you have six children,
while they're contemplating cutting Medicaid, while they have no interest
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in paid family leave or funding quality childcare. They're cutting
head start. I mean, you go down the list of
all the programs that support child rearing and the care
of children and create you know, some safety net for
women who are in the workforce, the formal workforce, as
well as you know, raising children. So this is another
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performance about concerns they allegedly have for family life.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
But if you had.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Read the Heritage Foundation's Project twenty twenty five, despite Trump
saying he knew nothing about it, if you had read it,
it's all in there. It's all in there. Return to
the family, the nuclear family, return to being a Christian nation,
returned to you know, producing a lot of children, which
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is sort of odd because the people who produce the
most children in our country are immigrants, and they want
to deport them. So none of this adds up. But
you know, one of the reasons, why aren't.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Isn't it interesting? Wait a minute, you just donald to me.
I hadn'tought it's when I heard this earlier. So she
says that, you know, apparently Republicans want women just to
stay home and have babies, which stupid. That's not what
we want at all. Who we want a higher birth rate? Yes,
but it's okay to import families immigrants. Why would that be, Oh,
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because they have large families. So she's four illegal aliens
coming in because they have large families. And by the way,
isn't Hillary a mother herself, didn't she get birth to
a child?
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Economy did so much better than comparable advanced economies across
the world. Is because we actually had a replenishment, because
we had a lot of immigrants, legally and undocumented.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Does she just confirm the great replacement theory? Does she
just say that.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Who had a you know, larger than normal by American
standards families? So this is just another one of their
you know, make America great again by returning to the
lifestyles and the economic arrangements of not just the nineteen fifties.
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I mean, let's keep going back as far as we can.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, let's just go back to the seventeen hory. Let's
just go back to the you know, the fifteen hundreds. Yeah,
just club womit and dragging them around by the hair
and that, right, Hillary, that's kind of what you're saying
isn't it
If you ever want to host a show, like a
talk show like Michael Brown or an art show like
Hunter Biden, become a lawyer, explain, mister Redbeard?
Speaker 2 (00:16):
What do I have to explain? I didn't leave the
talk back. I'm assuming a is them trying to create
a new lawyer joke for you, since I've heard him
all and he was trying to say that, you know
that was a total fail. You're a Hunter Biden. I
guess that's the joke. Hunter Biden a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I think he is?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Is Hunter Biden a We know.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That Joe said he taught law school, so there's that.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Let's see. According to the Google AI overview, yes, Hunter
Biden is a lawyer. He's in American lawyer, businessman and
convicted felon.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
He has a Jurisdoctor degree and held the position of
counsel in the law firm A Boy Chiller Flexner, LLP
in twenty fourteen, according to Wikipedia. So this is isn't
that interesting? So I I use Chrome for the text
line and our clipping services and our sound bites, and
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so that's what was up because I was reading text messages.
So the default search engine for Chrome is Google. I
don't use I use on Safari, I use Go but
or I use Brave occasionally. But isn't it interesting that
the Google artificial Intelligence overview only cites Wikipedia as their source.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's a reliable source. Nobody can edit that.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Come up. That shows you how stupid a is. Before
we get to sometimes Dragon from the stories that he
puts over here next to me to use. Sometimes we
cross paths, and so I did my Michael Brown minute
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this morning, and then I'm looking over here at the
stories and he has the Michael Brown minute as one
of the stories. Same source too. By the way, you're welcome, yeah.
Courtesy of Westward. The reporter is Katie Cheshire Cheshire like
a cheshire cat. Grocery prices in Denver have risen by
(02:39):
nearly eighteen percent since twenty twenty, and a recent report
suggests that overcharging at King Soopers could be part of
the reason. I like the way you know that's that's
speaking of lawyers. That's the way A reporter avoids any
sort of defamation charge by saying that recent reports meaning
(03:02):
not me, I'm just telling a story. Suggests that overcharging
at King Supers could be part of the reason. But
then here's Wyatt is part of the reason. She writes,
the Denver Grocery Store Worker Union members discovered what they
believed to be overcharging and inaccurate pricing at Colorado grocery stores.
(03:25):
So consumer Reports, you know, the famous nonprofit Consumer Reports,
They hooked up with something called The Guardian, which I
assume they mean the newspaper, and the Food and Environment
Reporting Network. So they all got together to prove Colorado
(03:45):
Kroger workers were correct. The story says, according to Consumer Reports,
King superstores across the nation. Now I didn't know that
King Superstores were across the nation? Are they referring to Kroger?
Because I thought King Supers was more regional. But on line,
(04:05):
I know regularly charged customers more than the list of
price tag to the tune of an average of eighteen
point four percent. So our grocery prices up eighteen percent
because of inflation or another eighteen percent because of overcharging. Independently,
(04:28):
she writes United Food and Commercial Workers Local Something, the
Colorado Grocery Store Union surveyed dozens of King Supers and
City Market stores across the state. The union found misleading
price tags, leading to the overcharging of consumers in every
single store they surveyed. Now it doesn't say you know,
it just says dozens. So in the dozens they surveyed,
(04:51):
in every single one of those, they found overcharging. The
United Fooding and Commercial Workers Union Local seven, in an announcement,
says this the scale of this problem has led to
King Supers and City Market potentially taking millions of dollars
every year from Colorado consumers through false pricing. Now they've,
(05:15):
you know, they've been in negotiations for a new union contract.
So I wonder, I wonder if they have a motivation
in trying to find out whether this was true or not.
King Supers has significantly cut the workforce and stores across
the nation since twenty nineteen. They just shows the number
of hours dropped by eighteen point three percent. Now that's interesting.
(05:36):
Overcharging has an average of eighteen point four percent, and
the workforce is dropped by eighteen point three percent, and
just find that interesting. Consumer reports found that the stores
with the most significant pricing errors had lost ten point
three percent of their workforce on average between twenty nineteen
(05:57):
and twenty twenty four. Now King has a make it
Right policy where if a customer points out of price discrepancy,
the store will fix the problem. Now are we supposed
to be impressed by that?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I mean that should be standard practice, should be your
standard practice.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Kingsoopers has a make it right policy. How about you
just double check your pricing and your pos's.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, make it right would be Oh, you're gonna give
me ten percent off now, since I found it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Since I found your estate right? Yes, ummm let me
just read this paragraph. Though. King Soopers has a quote
make it right close quote policy where if a customer
points at a price discrepancy, the story will fix the problem.
(06:51):
That system relies on customers knowing the price tag said
for each item and catching issues themself. Else So, the
president of the union says it's time for government regulators.
Of course, we need more government regulation to hold King
Supers and City Market accountable for deceiving their customers. Now,
(07:12):
if they can prove, don't get me wrong, if they
can prove that this is a systemic and a corporate
policy to do this, or they are aware of it
and they're not doing anything to correct it, then you
might have a reason for the Attorney general to do something. Otherwise,
King Supers stop it. Now, this makes me. I ran
(07:34):
into King Supers to pick up something for Tambers. She
needed some broth or something something she was cooking, and
that Now I wonder, am I supposed to like see
what the price tag? You imagine going in, you're buying
three hundred dollars worth of groceries. I don't know how
many items that is? What is that four items? You
buy three hundred dollars worth of groceries, you get four items?
(07:55):
So am I expected to spend three hundred dollars on
four items? And I have to actually check and write
down the price on the shelf and then checked as
they go through it. Yes, that's how. That's how to
make King Soopers pay right down the item and the
(08:19):
price that's in the aisle and then tell them, no,
you can't just you know as they scan rapidly. No,
you have to scan, wait for me to check what
it shows, you know, as you watch the little monitor
that displays the price, and then you check your written
list and then say, okay, now you can scan the
next item. How long if it take the checkouts to
(08:44):
go through that?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh, you seem to have irritated somebody on the text line.
Michael get to AOC right now.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Okay, let's see what other stories do I have that
I can be set.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I mean, arguably, it is one person sending the text
three separate times, and uh, the the font gets bigger
and bigger, so you know, yeah, that would look Yeah, Michael,
get to AOC. Michael, get to AOC right now. Michael,
get to AOC right now.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
First, first one was at nine fourteen oh one, and
then nine fourteen forty six, and then nineteen fifteen thirty eight.
Let's refresh. Now I get four emojis. Yep, I actually
do want to do the AOI. You know, normally I'd
be passive aggressive and say screw you and I do
(09:39):
something else, but I like I like this story, so
AOC had you know what, I'm gonna stop the EOC
stuff because you know, she's not Chaer, she's not Bono,
She's she's not Michael, She's Alexander at Cossio Quartet. I
just need to nobody, you know, you just know me
by Michael or your case, sir, that's just far too wordy.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You want to spend that much extra time referring to
her by full name versus just AOC.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Now I have to weigh. Well, first of all, I'm
not going to change the world. Everybody's gonna keep calling
her AOC true, so I as well just give in, true,
just give up. I'll give it, okay. So AOC here
is if you're driving, both hands on the wheel, steering wheel.
If you're drinking, swallow, if you're eating, swallow, you can
(10:35):
just swallow whatever you're doing, just swallow. Thank you deeper.
That's Dragon red Beard. This is Michael. She has not
been seen wearing her engagement ring for more than seventeen months,
(11:03):
so that has started.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
She's engaged.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
She got she got engaged. She was proposed to by
her fiance Riley Roberts in April of twenty twenty two.
He proposed and gave her a cracker jack, a zero
emission ring. Now, how do you get it? Because it's
(11:33):
recycled gold. Wait a minute, I don't care if it's recycled.
To recycle gold, don't you have to do something?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Still got to heat it up.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You still have to heat it up to get it
out of the like if it's a you had to
do something to it, or if he came out of
ear rings or it came out of a stud he
came out of. Yeah, so it's not what bull crab anyway,
It was valued at three thousand, fifty seven dollars four cents. Apparently,
(12:10):
she's been wearing the ring until November of twenty twenty three.
Since now, who's paying attention to this? But here's what's
kind of cool about the story. However, since November twenty
twenty three, the ring has been absent from her left
hand during numerous public events, including recent televised appearances, committee hearings,
(12:36):
and the Bernie Sanders Fighting the Oligarchy tour. So, now
here's the crux of the story. It raises questions. Financial
records show the couple continues to share a residence in Queens.
They were seen together in March of twenty twenty four,
(12:56):
so just a couple of months ago they were seen together.
She also referred to Roberts as her spouse in House
Ethic Committee filings, though AOC's congressional office. The spokesperson for
office clarifies they are not legally married. Now don't know
(13:16):
what that means. If you've been living together with the
intent to be and she's calling him her spouse, then
it must be I don't know what New York common
law marriage rules are but they must have a common
law marriage. But here's the reason the story's actually interesting
to me, because their unmarried status has significant financial implications
(13:42):
because if he's a long term partner and not a
legal spouse whatever, that might mean a common law spouse,
a married spouse, whatever. Roberts is not required to disclose
his financial activity, including his stock trades, or his employment
(14:03):
details as part of AOC's congressional financial disclosures. So that's
pissed off the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust. They're
arguing that the loophole that exempts him from disclosing anything
undermines transparency. In a statement, the spokesperson, actually the I
(14:30):
think it's the president of the Foundation for Accountability and
Civic Trust says when a member is not legally married
but in a long term relationship similar to marriage, these
concerns still apply even though there is no disclosure requirement.
Now that's kind of interesting, And the reason I find
it interesting is this because AOC has actually been involved
(14:53):
in legislative efforts she wants to ban, which is fine
with me. Uh oh, I agree on something I've not
actually seen. Read the legislation but I understand the general
just to the legislation, she wants to ban individual stock
trading by members of Congress and their spouses, So her
proposal would not apply to her fiance slash common law husband,
(15:19):
slash spouse, slash boyfriend, whatever. Her proposal would not apply
to Roberts unless they actually marry, allowing him to continue
trading stocks without restriction or transparency. Now, other members of Congress, right,
you know, crackety crabby old Nancy Pelosi, She's made millions
(15:40):
of dollars in stock market in recent years. Investors and
fund managers have even created their own financial products that
actually mimic the trades made by members of Congress by
using publicly available data, such as as lawmaker are required
(16:01):
to disclose market transactions over one thousand dollars. So I
guess you can maybe now go buy an EFT or
buy a some sort or subscribed to some sort of
hedge fund that mimics the trades of what they do.
They're fascinating. Now if you're following members of Congress, who's
(16:22):
the oh it's unusual Whales, which I follow on X.
They're a financial technology startup. They actually began analyzing the
trades about five years ago. According to this story story
finding that academic literature underestimated Congress's trading edge. They've they've
(16:43):
documented nearly one hundred million dollars in trades made by
about fifteen Senators and forty House members. They call their
system crews. Kruz. I don't see what that stands for
in this story, but imagine that. How do you do
your trading? Oh? I follow members of Congress. I just
(17:06):
I just execute trades based on their executions. And yeah,
that made millions of dollars doing it. You we may
have found something that Congress is actually good at insider trading. Wow,
just take your portfolio and just have it. Mimic Nancy Pelosi.
(17:31):
Morning Brownie. Hey, I remember back in twenty twenty one
when I sent in a talk back that featured my
wife's chickens and rooster. Does that count for anything? I
have a great day. Don't we have? Hang on a second? Uh?
(17:54):
Do do do do? Do? Papa vump bump bump, bump,
bump bump bum some on the text line. Yes, goober
number ninety seven to ninety eight. Michael I was correct.
Per chat gpt I Heart announced its talkback feature on
February twenty eight, twenty twenty two. So if you left
(18:19):
a talkback in twenty twenty one, nobody heard it. But
I do remember. I think we had I think we
have heard those chickens before. Yes, I do think we've
had the chickens before.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
And I think there was like a cold rollout of
the talkbacks prior to them actually announcing the talkback feature,
and we.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
I think, actually, I think you're actually I think you're right,
and we I think I think we started playing with
it and then we were already playing with it when
they announced. Yeah, I think I think you're right. So
ask chat GPT, when did Michael and Dragon start talking
about talkbacks? See if they can answer that question. See
(19:01):
how smart that damn artificial intelligence is? Anyway, Speaking of
AOC during the break, I was curious about any news
about AOC, and sure enough, if in New York, I
(19:22):
guess I'd put it this way. In New York, if
you want to figure out a way to increase crime,
Alexander Cassi Cortes is your answer. Major crime rose by
an eye popping seventy percent in AOC's Bronx and Queen's
district since she took office in twenty nineteen during the
(19:46):
defund the police, and obviously she's a socialist too, more
than double the citywide increase of thirty percent over the
same time period, according to a New York Post analysis. Now,
apparently not everybody's happy about that. I mean, I don't
understand why people would be upset about a seventy percent
(20:07):
increase in crime, but they're not Guadalupe Alvarez. She lives
in Elmhurst. It's at one hundred and tenth. She's lived
in one hundred and tenth police precinct her entire life.
It is one of several constituents who has ripped the
jet setting absentee squad member for letting the district turn
(20:29):
to trash while she focuses on elevating herself on the
national stage. Miss Alva or Guadalupe says, quote, she's not
doing the S word. She doesn't live in the neighborhood.
She doesn't care. Crime in the one hundred and tenth
precinct where Guadalupe lives is up one hundred and five percent.
(20:52):
Alvarez just happens to be a former AOC supporter who
now has a braw ful across the street from her home. Wow,
that's like living in Dragon's neighborhood. The only difference is
Dragon owns the brawl full across the street in his neighborhood.
That's his place.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Now.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
It would be nice to think that that Guadalupi would
stop voting for Democrats, But that's not how it's gonna work, right,
because once the jurisdiction has been sucked into the moustrom
known as the Democrat death spiral, they just keep voting.
Democrat looks out the window, surveys the Colorado horizon and realizes, oh,
(21:34):
just like in Colorado now, as the Black Lives Matter
movement phenomenon demonstrated, Democrats kind of you rising crime in
their you know, and their policies as not a bug.
But I think they believe it's a feature. Otherwise, why
would they actually exacerbate crime in there in their districts.
(21:55):
The Post adds this. At the height of the defund
the police Movement ALC slammed they proposed one point five
billion dollar cut to the New York Police Department as
not going far enough. That year, New York's finance canceled
an incoming cadet class that would have added more than
(22:16):
eleven hundred officers to the police force. Now, if you
think that it's over, you would be wrong. Just last year,
which by the way, is twenty twenty four, last year, Dragon,
twenty twenty four was last year. Yes, it was last year,
but it wasn't a year ago. It was only five
(22:36):
months ago. You were still twenty twenty four, five months ago,
five months, But.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
It was also twenty twenty four, a year ago, well,
actually four.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Months and twenty days ago.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It was twenty twenty four. Yeah, so it wasn't a
year ago, but it was also a year ago, because
one year would go from today was twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
A year ago from today was twenty twenty four. Correct,
But twenty twenty four was last year, But twenty twenty
four wasn't a year ago.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yes, thank you, all right, and no stop.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
But yes, last year, she and other squad members voted
against a resolution condemning efforts to defund local law enforcement agency.
And why would you want to be a cop with
a Marxist socialist like AOC in charge? Because if the
cops actually do their job, then they're going to end
up being like Derek Chauvin. And again we see that
(23:33):
the election of socialist Marxist Democrats is both a cause
and an effect of societals decay. And if you don't
think that Democrats aren't just really anti law enforcement, let's
go to the want to be next President of the
(23:57):
United States. No, not Gavin Newsom, his hair's too nice.
We're going to go to tam Walls because tam Walls
gave and gave a commencement address, and Tim Walls decided
to say this.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Donald Trump's modern day Escapo is scooping folks up off
the streets. They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped
off to foreign torture dungeons, no chance to amount of defense,
not even a chance to kiss the loved one goodbye,
just grabbed up by massed agents, shoved into those vans
and disappeared to be clear, there's no way for us
(24:32):
to know whether they were actually criminals or not. Because
they refused to give them a trial. We're supposed to
just take their word for it.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Let me just say this about this first of all, estoppo, No,
I don't think so. Disappearing them not, I don't think so.
These are they're only going after right now, the criminal
illegal aliens, which is kind of redundant, but because an
illegal alien is already illegal. But they're going to after
the criminal ones, the ones who have criminal convictions, either
(25:03):
here or from another country. And yes, they're sweeping them
up and they're taking them to a detention center. And oh,
by the way, the decision by the Trump administration to
stop the temporary protected status from Venezuelans was upheld by
the US wasn't actually technically upheld, but it was allowed
to continue yesterday by the Supreme Court on an eight
(25:24):
to one vote. Only Jackson Brown or Brown Jackson, I
like to call her Jackson Brown actually descended so on
the topic of Trump closing the illegal immigration floodgates that
Biden or whomever was in charge had opened wide up.
Tim Wallas is out there proclaiming at the University of
Minnesota Law School commencement ceremony that no, no, no, no.
(25:49):
He went on to say that this is what the
crumbling of the rule of law looks like in real time,
and it's exactly what the founders of this nation feared,
a tyrant abusing power to persecute scapegoats and enemies, those
illegal aliens, those in particular criminal illegal aliens or escape goats.
(26:12):
You know, illegal alien gang members are wreaking havoc on
American streets, and he thinks they're just put upon scapegoats.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You know.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
The tyrant rhetoric, the gescapo rhetoric is as reckless as
it is hypocritical. On at least four different occasions, Trump
has avoided assassination attempts too serious, too possible, So calling
him a tyrant probably is like a siren's call to
(26:45):
those all unhinged lefty Marxists out there, all the one
to be assassins, because that was explicitly tied to American
assassination history. According to witnesses, John Wilkeson Booth shouted sick
simper taranmus after murdering Lincoln. I don't know, maybe they
(27:09):
should just stick to making statements with seashells on the seashore.
Maybe that would be okay if they just did that.
Speaking of Democrats, as long as we're talking about democrats,
the Palm Springs bombers year about this, A twenty five
year old self described, I've never heard this phrase before.
(27:29):
A pro mortalist has been identified as an attacker who
had detonated a car bomb outside of a fertility clinic
in Palm Springs this past weekend. He killed himself and
injured four other people. According to the sources, some guy
named Barcas Edward Barkas is allegedly described or allegedly described
(27:50):
his fanatical pro death beliefs in some manifestos as being
against bringing people into the world without their consent to
spare them from future suffering. According to Caseyl News out
of Los Angeles, no wait a minute, he's upset because
(28:10):
he was brought into the world without his consent. Now
he's apparently opposed to suffering, unless you're sado massacres. I
think most of us are opposed to suffering. So he
set off a bomb to kill and main innocent people,
the guy who's opposed to suffering. So I guess, once
(28:33):
again we prove that it's all about you know, it's
all about their beliefs, it's all about feeling good. Well,
you know, I want to end suffering. So I'm gonna
go out, I'm gonna I'm gonna carbomb someplace, and that
brings us next to somebody that you'll win. The year.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Five months ago, it was twenty twenty four. A year
ago was twenty twenty four. A year and four months
ago was also twenty twenty four. It's a damn metric system.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
So assuming that progresses continue to progress, people like this Bark,
this guy that is all pissed off that he was
born without his consent and wants to eliminate suffering, so
he tries to kill and name other people and kill himself.
I think kind of represents the humans just ought to
(29:31):
be eliminated from Earth and then you know, Mother Earth
can just be yourself, and you know, we can just
go back to prehistoric days and man just will just be,
you know, in the twinkle of God's eye.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Kind of Hillary, as I posted the other day, this
very blatant effort to basically send a message most exemplified
by Vance and Musk and others, that you know what
we really need from you women are more children. And
what that really means is you should go back to
(30:06):
doing what you were born to do, which is to
produce more children. And they are talking about, you know,
cash benefits for children the more children you have. This
has been tried by the way in other countries and
has not worked. Or metals if you have six children,
while they're contemplating cutting Medicaid, while they have no interest
(30:31):
in paid family leave or funding quality childcare. They're cutting
head start. I mean, you go down the list of
all the programs that support child rearing and the care
of children and create you know, some safety net for
women who are in the workforce, the formal workforce, as
well as you know, raising children. So this is another
(30:55):
performance about concerns they allegedly have for family life.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
But if you had.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
Read the Heritage Foundation's Project twenty twenty five, despite Trump
saying he knew nothing about it, if you had read it,
it's all in there. It's all in there. Return to
the family, the nuclear family, return to being a Christian nation,
returned to you know, producing a lot of children, which
(31:24):
is sort of odd because the people who produce the
most children in our country are immigrants, and they want
to deport them. So none of this adds up. But
you know, one of the reasons, why aren't.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Isn't it interesting? Wait a minute, you just donald to me.
I hadn'tought it's when I heard this earlier. So she
says that, you know, apparently Republicans want women just to
stay home and have babies, which stupid. That's not what
we want at all. Who we want a higher birth rate? Yes,
but it's okay to import families immigrants. Why would that be, Oh,
(32:01):
because they have large families. So she's four illegal aliens
coming in because they have large families. And by the way,
isn't Hillary a mother herself, didn't she get birth to
a child?
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Economy did so much better than comparable advanced economies across
the world. Is because we actually had a replenishment, because
we had a lot of immigrants, legally and undocumented.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Does she just confirm the great replacement theory? Does she
just say that.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
Who had a you know, larger than normal by American
standards families? So this is just another one of their
you know, make America great again by returning to the
lifestyles and the economic arrangements of not just the nineteen fifties.
(32:52):
I mean, let's keep going back as far as we can.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, let's just go back to the seventeen hory. Let's
just go back to the you know, the fifteen hundreds. Yeah,
just club womit and dragging them around by the hair
and that, right, Hillary, that's kind of what you're saying
isn't it
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