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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, When can I a former impeachment manager, expect
the FBI at my door?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Ma'am? You want to know who was targeted by a
weaponized FBI?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Me, Kelly Nash, let me move on. Well, you should
read the book, and you should give that book to
every one of your constituents. The Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Did any Democrat any House or Senate sub committee hearing
yesterday come out looking like they knew anything about currently
what's going on inside Washington d C.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I was surprised how many of them got steamrolled, And
I mean, Cash Betel is an expert at that sort
of thing, but Scott Besson's not. And Scott Besson made
several of them look like clowns.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And for the life of me, I still have the
picture of him on New Year's Eve, somewhere in the
Bahamas trying to do the electric slide. Oh, that was hysterical.
She thought she was really going to hit him over
the head, and she ended up having a turn to
one of her colleagues and smiling because she didn't want
to be seen smiling. I guess behind the micro I
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don't know but that was hysterical yesterday Scott Bessett was priceless.
All right, So I don't think the biggest hearing going
on today is going to be going on and right
now I don't know what's going on spectrum blocking the news.
We got a news block here. What's going on? My
cable's not working. I'm not able to see the press
conference of the big announcement for the UK deal for
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a trade agreement. Anyway, Trump is going to be holding
that today. Now we mentioned a couple of things. Well,
i'll tell you what I only mentioned this first, isn't
interesting to hear all the reporting going on about the cardinals?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
What do you mean by that? The reporting on them.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
The way that they Certainly I think it was Timoth
who's your favorite Cardinal Timothy? What's his last name? Cardinal
Dolan Doli. Yeah, I believe it was. I could be
miss misquoting. I could be giving credit to a quote
here to the wrong person. I don't know, and I'll
paraphrase it because it can't have it in front of me.
But the Holy Spirit already knows who should be the
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next pope. Our job is to discern who that person
is with our voting.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I think that's the vibe. We're not Catholic, so we
don't know. Because I also heard somebody say the Holy
Spirit does not pick That was another one of the cardinals. Oh,
that we listened to for guidance, but the Holy Spirit
has not decided. So there's even disagreement amongst the cardinals
as to how this process works, which also would because
if the Holy Spirit just picked it, then you just
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have to listen. That was his point.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, well, God being omnipotent, omni president already knows. But
other than that, no one knows. No one knows, and
the Holy Spirit doesn't get a glimpse in that.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I don't know. I'm not in the room. So that's
the Holy Spirit in.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
The room they were talking about. Certainly this is and
again we're not Catholic. I'm not mocking the Catholics that
don't have an opinion on this, don't haven't contemplated it,
just listening to the reporting. But at some point, because
they are humans, it becomes a humanistic decision, and that
decision is going to be based on in our own
environment globally, which in a large part is at this
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point being guided through Donald Trump. Either through protest or
through the Maga movement, which is obviously far from the
Catholic Church and of devil worshippers according to most of the
talking heads on television, But it really becomes a political
kind of thing. Now, is there going to be a
Trump effect in this? They haven't come out and asked
that question. No one I've heard has actually said that
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out loud, but they are talking about and I didn't
even realize. The Catholic Church apparently need some better bookkeeping,
so the finances of the Vatican not in order. So
is this going to be is it? Will Doge have
an effect on this? So we're going to go to
clean up the bookkeeping inside the Vatican? Is that going
to be part of it? Will this be a pushback?
As we've seen and I think we talked about it
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briefly yesterday, from Australia to Canada, we've seen the liberals
standing up and making sure they make their way to
the polling process so they can push back against Donald
Trump's authoritarianism that he's now trying to be a dictator
for the world.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, according to Bill Gates this morning on CBS, he
said that Doze is going to kill two million people.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Wow, that sounds that sounds Wait wait a minute, what
that's what?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Bill Gates claims two million people will die if DOZE
is allowed to continue cutting funding. So I don't know
if that is going to I mean, if it affects
the Catholic pope selection too, maybe there'll be a dead
pope or something involved here. I'm not sure how Bill
Gates calculates two million deaths, but he says that what
we've done is almost irreparable. Already, we've already it's almost
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like the global warming thing. We've already gone almost too far.
You there with your I should be in school, and
yet I was. If you're going to pick up with it, we.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Got to bring in either a movie quote from Tombstone
to one of our favorite movies, or Greta Thumberg.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It should be in school, Bill Gates, should be somewhere else,
I'm sure. But you there with your never ending thirst
for profits.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Why don't you just go back to seating the sky
with tiny mirrors to reflect the sun's rays away from
our planet and save us all.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I can't wait to try your fake steak. I can't wait.
That will probably kill two people. The Bill Gates fake steak.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I've got to come out with the Bill Gates fake
steak sauce. Add some flavor to what's supposed to be
your meat. But the Bill Gates fake steak sauce, Now.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It doesn't taste like A one. It actually tastes like steak.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So you could get the steak sauce with the A
one or whatever. Why grill it, just just have a teaspoon.
What a great dinner. Thanks Bill. Oh my god, Bill
Gates has got to be stopped. This man.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, and with the Poulpe, the coverage is, like you say,
it's NonStop, it's relentless, it's everywhere. And I was reading
one of the posts about there's a group of women
that are outside the Vatican protesting the Vatican right now,
and they're burning pink smoke, because what is black smoke
means we don't have a pope. White smoke will mean
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that we do have a pope, and we're about to
make the announcement and they're burning pink smoke. And their point,
allegedly or apparently, is we have to be seen and
recognized in the Catholic Church, which they are seen and recognized,
aren't they? I mean, I've never been to a Catholic church,
but they need to be in a position of power.
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And one of the women was making the point, one
of the women's one of the women's was making the
point that if we're not in leadership, then you don't
have a representation of what it takes to continue society,
because you need both men and women in order to
continue society. But I would point out that every one
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of these cardinals and the Pope will be virgins, so
you also need married men. Should the married men be
petitioning to be they need to do. They don't have
equal footing or representation. They have no representation in there.
So everybody's got an ax to grind now with the
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Catholic Church, and they've got the funny maybe Trumpell hit
him with the Rico charges because of the funny bookkeeping.
Donald Trump is going to press charges. He's send Pam
Bondi over there to arrest the next pope. I don't
know what's going to happen next. It's getting crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Boy. When you stand up and protest the Catholic Church,
it's a pretty strong position.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Was there nothing else left to protest? Did you just
run out of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Boy, isn't that going to be a sad day when
we run out of stuff to protest? Impossible? No, I
did think that the the Democrats, certainly. I'm surprised the
Democrats aren't protesting how they do. We're actually having to
identify the voters because you can't just stroll in there
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and get a vote. You've been fully vetted as a cardinal.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Well these guys, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
So that's the equivalent to landholders. Yeah, so we got
to protest the way the vote's coming down. If you're
a Democrat, you ask for identification before they could vote.
You had to vet them and certify who they are.
Now they go along with the point that you had
to burn the ballots after any election. That way you
don't have any record of it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Well, you know Sean Duffy, you were talking about him
yesterday and so I started following him on Twitter and
he was making an announcement on his you know, like
a video announcement about how we've now got real ID
and this is being implemented today and this is your
last reminder. You've got to get a real ID if
you want to go into a federal building, if you
want to get on an airplane, those types of things.
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And I said, I have not yet heard the left.
Has the left come out and called these racist? And
if not, why because it's got to be just as
hard to get a real ID as it is to
get a voter idea.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh, it is real tough to get a real idea.
Sally still doesn't have verse because we didn't have a
copy of our marriage license. And this guy's gonna be
put in the mail today but costs five bucks to
get it from the Anderson County courthouse.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, how is a real ID not a white supremacist
thing to keep blacks from flying and keep them from
federal buildings? I would think that's what that's a natural
protest for them, and I haven't. I haven't heard any
of them yet. Maybe they are doing it just a
little quiet.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I think the staff for each of these congressmen and
senators have been busy writing these very tricky questions for
the Houses Senate subcommittee hearings of the Trump administration officials.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
After yesterday's performance, just give up on them. Give up
on that Yeah, abandoned ship.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, I mean Maxim Waters couldn't even read the question
that they had typed for a because she said they
were giving out personnel information as opposed to personal information
from the Treasury Department.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yes, she's she is now into this is elder abuse.
We've had several of these senators and whatnot where they
get into Okay, the family needs to pull them off
the stage. Yes, this is a Joe Biden moment.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
The family's making too much money off of them in
their position. Ask her husband, the banker.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I mean, that's got to be the case because she
and the people who continue to vote for them. That's
the thing that bewilders me.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
How does sink Johnson continue to hold a seat?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, he was mentally incompetent as a teenager, so I
mean he's only worsened with age. But I mean he
was probably forty five years old when he asked about
is Guam going to capsize?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I mean he asked the questions out loud that Joe
Biden thinks. So he.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Is the dummy puppet of Joe Biden's brain.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Exactly what he is. We just stumbled in the perfect
definition of Hank Johnson and House Member Georgia. By god,
that's hysterical, all right. So after we get all we
don't have any more hearings to my knowledge, lined up
for today, so we won't have any fun videos to
watch as the Democrats fall in their face trying to
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protest the Trump administration's cleaning up of the Biden administration.
And Joe Biden's already told you it was so successful
interview that he did with the BBC. If you haven't
seen that yet, it's about what twenty minutes long, I'd
say maybe twenty five minutes it's and most of that
is him stammering or just breathing. He takes up a
really long time to get words.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't I mean, why does it take so long
to say it?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
If you just took the question from the interviewer from
the BBC and edited out all the stammering and himming
and hawing and apparently a couple of naps he went into,
have just edited out all of that dead space. You
literally watch the entire forty minute interview in about twelve minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
They tried to rebroadcast it over here on VOC and
the dead air alarm went off, but his ex way.
He was asked why did you not continue your campaign
or something to that extent, and he went into this.
I don't even he went in one direction and then
he surprised me how he tacked back. And the tack
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back was that, you know, she was we had a
great candidate, she was fully funded. And I'm saying this
that like if this would be like if you turned
it up ten times the speed and then but you know,
it's just, you know, nobody expected from me to be
able to do what I had done in the first
three years, and it was just so, you know, really
hard to follow that because we're just too successful.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Even the easy questions they ask and all of them
were easy, but even the easiest of questions. So, now
one hundred and some odd days into it, do you
see Trump as the dictator?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
He wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm on saying it. You said it for three friggin years.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, I shouldn't even have to answer you. I forget
your why. I can write the answers for you. I
shouldn't even have to say it. What you're seeing right
now is the most chaotic hundred days in American history.
Donald Trump has violated every law known to the Constitution.
The Supreme Court has ruled against him numerous times, and
he still ignores the Constitution ignores the Supreme Court, putting
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America in great peril. Our stock markets are in chaos.
Every that's the answer, Ye, just say the BS and
then get off the stage.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What, for the life of me, I do not get it.
I don't understand how could that possibly be that you
ask you the question, that he asked you the question,
because you have been saying.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It and I'm again for those of you who forgot.
Just before Joe Biden left office. So in the interim,
Donald Trump was named as president. There's Joe Biden. He's
got what is he like two months left in the office. Yeah,
he signed a deal with the Creative Artist Agency. He
has an agent now who has to try to figure
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out how to get him into a movie or a
TV show or something like that. What they what you
saw yesterday on the BBC interview That is a demo
tape for them to try to pedal him around. Can
you how good of an agent do you think? I am?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
How am I going to get Joe Biden a guest
shot on anything?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I don't understand what just happened there? All right, So
we had all that come down yesterday. Now let's moving
forward and we were with baby breath, going to all
of our news web pages this morning, posting Curier State
newspaper wltxcsc all of them all over the state, trying
to find information on what happened, because I know we've
had a budget. We got to get a budget done.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We got a reckoning. Yeah, I got a recon in
ball over.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
A recon in Ball. Oh and by the way, Biden's
owned this morning. We're missing it, but I got a
is it a blackout? I got a blackout over here
in Spectrum Biden's own right now with the view.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
No eleven o'clock, eleven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Okay, hopefully I'm get in front of a television for
four eleven.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
This podcast will be over long before eleven. You can
get home if you need to.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
That's right, all right, So Biden's going to be able
to view.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Just check social media for the quote unquote highlights.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
That's great. Oh okay, Now we did check all the
web pages because we have several big issues coming down.
We do it. We had a dust up again between
the House Freedom Caucus and the what is it the
Students for Life. They're really starting to flex your muscle
over there.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I can tell you that if you look at the
state newspaper, we have no stories dated May eighth yet
except the one you're discussing, and the politics section, by
the way, now up to number two on the politics section,
tender eleven examining Colombia's ever expanding chicken tender scene. I
don't know how that's a political story, but it is.
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But yes, the Representative John mccravy, founder of the South
Carolina Caucus, has apparently driven a wedge between him and
a lot of the members. Twenty nine resigned, I guess yesterday,
and a lot of it has to do with the
fact that the what did they call it again, the
Students for Life of Life have been protesting a lot
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of these members who don't want to follow mccravy down
the we want a stricter abortion law than the one
we currently have.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So we got a we have a division now amongst
the already divided House Freedom Caucus.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yes, so I don't And again I'm looking now at
this is the May eighth report, so this is today.
They do not tell me in this story that I
can see, and maybe one of them will be listening
and go back and edit it. How many members were
there in the House Freedom Caucus before twenty nine resigned.
Is that half? It's the caucus? Is it?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
There were forty nine members prior, but this says forty
two percent, So the numbers don't add up.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh you saw the forty two.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I thought it was forty nine members.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Where did you see that?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
One of the headlines says forty two percent of the
people that backed out.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But okay, now here we go. Now I've just looked
and found it at the near the bottom. Members of
the group, which had fifty five lawmakers listed on its
website as members have objected to the tactics by outside
third party groups that are calling for further abortion bands.
And then, like you said, it's the Students for Life Action.
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Jason Rappert is the founder, I guess of that. And
he says if these lawmakers are upset, and he called
out one I can't remember which one. They said, the
one who's a pastor who resigned. He said, apparently he's
not reading the scriptures in his church, because the right
answer is no legal abortions. That's the right answer if
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you're looking for the church's answer.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, so I get it. If you want to be
a hardliner. But at some point you got to realize
that you when you step onto the ball field, you
got to understand the rules of the game. If you
don't know the rules, you can't win. Now, everyone, we
went through this before and we ended up with a
six week heartbeat bill and that wasn't good enough for
the hardliners. I get it. But it's a step in
the right direction. And like you mentioned, you quoted Ronald Reagan.
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I believe it was yesterday or the day before. Don't
whatever the paraphrase was, don't let good get in the
way of better. So take what you can get.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yea perfect You don't want to get perfect in exactly
because that's because again, you're never going to get everything
you want because there's there's so many other people who
don't want what you want. So we're just trying to
persuade more people towards our side. And every little inch matters, absolutely.
So you're affecting people's lives. Are you affecting all of them?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You know? But you are. You're making a step in
the right direction, and you're dealing with a lot of
different factions. And here, again, as pointed out, the rules
of the game, what's you step on the house for
you know it. You can't walk out of there with
everything you want. Otherwise it would not be a House
or representatives. It'd be a house of representative and it
be you. But even the governor didn't have that power,
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certainly not in the state of South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And it's you know, it needs to be mentioned. I
think that in this story where the twenty nine legislators left,
we don't know whom started it, but there has been
flyers printed up about mccravy, and again they didn't like
McCravey pushing for stricter abortion laws and trying to embarrass
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them and or say I agree with the Students for
Life Action group who wants to have you primaried. So
somebody were not saying it was all of y'all, but
somebody did put out flyers about mccravy, which he says
are absolutely faults, and he.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Put them out on Palm Sunday.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
That he referred to Beth Bernstein. He said something about
we don't want a Jew. I wouldn't be on a
caucus that had a Jew, or something like that. He said,
I never said that. And then there was another one
where there was an openly gay a Republican who I
don't think is in the in the House anymore, but
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he said something derogatory about that individual, and he says,
I absolutely did not say anything like that. This is
again we're getting into the Trump territory where you've got
a general saying I heard him say that the people
who fought in World War two are suckers and losers.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You see, had a thing a long time to sort
all that out. Meanwhile, do we have any answers on
what we're going to do with the House and Senate
versions and did we already come out of conference with
that with the budget that we're going to be to
talk about later today, I don't know. There's no information
on that. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The number one story in politics right now over at
the Posting Courier is South Carolina lawmaker's lag behind on
rural maternal health crisis. So they're not talking about Bud,
they're not talking about anything the maternal health crisis in
the rural areas and the lawmakers need to do a
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better job.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The other thing was having to do with the separation
or the tort form bill, having to do with legal
with the liquor poor license and restaurants and the insurance
rates that were dictated by the way a law was written,
and we were searching for that, like six o'clock this morning,
you would have thought they were able to move something.
And a couple of the articles. Let us believe that
there was a State House agreement, not a House of
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Representatives agreement as opposed to the Senate agreement by the
state House representative. But we could agreement, but we could
never come up with an article that absolutely the pointed
anything in particularly written. And what did they write, what
did they pass if in fact they passed something.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, my understanding is that on Wednesday, the what's his
name in the Senate said I hate everything about this,
this melding of the House and the Senate bill. If
I remember right, it was the Senate that was going
to be more specific and the House was going to
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be more broad. Or maybe it's vice versa. Either way,
one was only going to address liquor liability and the
other one wanted to include like construction liabilities and a
bunch of other things. He said, I hate it, but
as the head of the Senate he was agreeing to
vote for it. But it didn't say that story was
written like Wednesday morning, and we never got an update.
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Did they vote on it? What happened? Here?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It is?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now we're on the final day. It's Thursday. It's ten
twenty five in the morning.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Now I feel like I'm outside of the Vatican waiting
on some smoke to come out of the chimney. Are
we going to find out? Do we get a budget bill?
Do we just burn it? What do we do? I
don't know. Well, is it going to be like the
Supreme Court? They come down a decision today? They just
bump dump a bunch of decisions like a document dump
and by deministration at six point thirty on a Friday,
late afternoon. So do we get all this information at
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once once the session closes today? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, again, this gets back to the point we kind
of made on the rast thought is that there's just
a lack of reporting in our state, and we've had
a bunch of budget cuts to local media, whether it's
television or the newspapers, where they have not prioritized politics.
And quite honestly, I wouldn't either if I was them,
because if you're looking for clicks talking about which restaurants
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got the best and worst reviews gets you far more
attention than letting you know what your legislators are doing.
South Carolinians are like most Americans. We don't care about
politics in the damn truth. But they don't care. They
just don't care, and they'll care when it comes presidential
election time. You can always see that they don't care
because in the off years like this upcoming election, this
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is going to be an off year you'll have. Normally
we get what like sixty percent of Americans to show
up for a presidential vote. That are people who are
qualified to vote yes. But in an off year you're
going to get half of them eight percent. Yeah, it'll
be an embarrassment.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And nobody cares about South Carolina politics. When you live
in the state of South Carolina, how could you not
care about what's going on here? Plainly, we're here left
bitching about potholes. Yeah, that seems to be the only issue.
Everybody's got a commonality on it. We still can't get
the potholes fixed.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
But this is why for those of you who complain
about extremism, and I hear this a lot from a
lot of people, a lot of Republicans and conservatives they
don't like the extreme right. Okay, that's just the way
they put it. They but if you want to end
extremism to the left and to the right, then you've
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got to show up for regular votes because it's really
in who can get the base out. The people on
the furthest ends of the spectrum are the ones that
are most motivated. They're plugged in stud they're plugged in.
They're all about for.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Life is showing you exactly how to will power.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, and they're a one issue group. That's it, that's
all we care about. We're going to find and we're
going to find. You don't think Students for Life Action
Group can find in South Carolina one hundred thousand people
who feel the same way that they do. One hundred
thousand is a very slim, slim group of people compared
to five point three million.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
But if you get one hundred thousand phone calls at
any given House or Senate member's office, well.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Hell, you might even win an election. You could you
might be able to primary somebody. Because in a primary,
in an off season like this, you're talking about in
a local.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Race, three hundred votes.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I mean, it's going to be not by us it's
going to be nobody, except it'll be every person who
listens to this podcast in thirty five others. That's who's voting.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, it's really strange when he's talking to South Carolinians
and I'm talking about highly educated South Carolinians and you
get into a conversation about something going on with politics,
and then you start talking about specifically one issue. Okay,
whether it let's say it's energy. Now, I understand we
do have some kind of agreement with a broad sweeping
energy bill. I'd like to read more about that as well.
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But energy in the state of South Carolina is going
to be a huge concern. Water in the state of
South Carolina is going to be a huge concern. But
you got people that don't even realize that we get
an energy problem in the state of South Carolina. And
we've had a lieutenant governor on this podcast on the
show talking about how close we've come to actual blackouts
as opposed to brownouts. But we've talked about this before
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because a couple of things going on at the same time.
All the industry moving in, but we're not keeping up
with the infrastructure. Look at all the people moving in.
I had a doctor. Tell me, I won't mention his name,
he is a doctor. Tell me you know when we
hit retirement age, God help us if we want to
see a doctor. We got so many people moving to
this state. We don't have the infrastructure needed. And you
(26:43):
talked a minute ago about how we laing a Behinda
one a particular health costs in the state of South Carolina.
In the rural areas, that's going to be the way
it's going to be. In the major metropolitan areas. We
don't have enough healthcare to take on the number of
people that were taking on in this state, and we're
taking on a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well, I mean it's hard before This is probably not
going to make you feel any better, but Elon Musk says,
within the next five years, you're not going to need
a doctor.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Well, that's hopefully AI will save us all. And who knows,
we could become a textile state again. I'm go get
a bunch of robots, so and some clothing over here,
and you want it to buy everything from Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
All right, So I'm just I just went just to
make sure I was not imagining things. I'm just trying
to scroll down to South Carolina Okay, So the best
turnout we've had going back to two thousand and two,
the best turnout that we've had for an election of
registered voters in South Carolina was the twenty twenty election
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when you got sixty five percent. That's the highest we've
ever had in this state. If you look at the
off year before it and the off year after it, well,
the off year after it, particularly forty two percent turned out.
So we're not going down to half, but we're but
we're going forty two percent of registered voters show up
(27:58):
to decide who will be your congressman, who will be
your mayor, who will be your You know, these are
important jobs. Even school board, as we've learned, has become
a very important position. But if you look at traditionally
in the state of South Carolina, I mean, when you
go back before the Trump election, you're talking literally fifty
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two percent of the vote, fifty four percent of vote,
and in the off years you're looking at thirty four
thirty two, thirty five. Nobody has given a crap. And
it's certainly not us alone. I mean, you know, my
former home state of Connecticut, biggest turnout they ever had
was the election of Joe Biden. They got seventy percent
of the vote out that you know, it's all about
(28:44):
Joe Biden. We got we got to stop save democracy.
Well in a state like Connecticut, which was hyper sensitive
to that, and that's probably I'm gonna guess seventy eight
percent registered Democrats you register in that state, unlike here
where you don't register as a party. Seventy eight percent
are registered Democrats. You still only got seventy percent of
(29:05):
the people to come out.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah, and you're.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Talking about we got to save democracy and they believed
it and they couldn't give a crap about it. I mean,
I mean, if you look at like other states during
the saving of a let me just go up to
the they have this rundown of the battleground states. Arizona
for twenty twenty. So these are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, sixty eight,
(29:28):
sixty eight, seventy three, sixty six for Nevada, seventy two
for North Carolina, seventy for Pennsylvania, seventy five for Wisconsin. Again,
this is the biggest election of your lifetime according to everybody.
Twenty twenty was it, and they've all gone down for
the twenty twenty four, every one of them went down.
So Trump won because there wasn't as many people thinking
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they had to save democracy.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Well, it just seems like if you're a South Carolina
House member or Senate member, then because we have remember,
I think the very first of the scaling back of
the local reporters. I can't remember who the reporter was
the state newspaper release, but his single beat was the
state House period. I can't remember his name, but I
(30:13):
damn will remember the day that Jack Kenzie was cut
from WYSTV.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
And he wasn't happy about it.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You can't tell by looking at it, because he doesn't
really look happy about much except when you see him
now in social media. He's got a great life. Maybe
he just didn't like work in the state beat. I
don't know, but we have lost so many of our
local reporters now, and our local reporters for TV and radio.
I don't know about the Posting Courier, They've got a
(30:41):
good number of local reporters. The Posting Courier just went
over and make sure that they have now become the
newspaper up Record is doing a pretty good job, not
just with the acquisition of smaller newspapers which have always
had strong subscription rates, but also to put per since
in Greenville, Florence and the like. So I guess the
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Post and Courier is going to be your go to
for news. But they're not ever going to be overstaffed
because it's all driven by Corporate America. They are a
corporate office with the local Charleston, South Carolina address.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Well, when I look at WIS right now, the number
one story at WIS shows that there are woke organization.
South Carolina leads the nation in school book bands after
board votes to remove ten more titles. So we are
the most oppressive state in America for those of you
who want to be educated. We don't even allow books
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at this point. So I don't know if I can
still get it on Kindle or if there's an opportunity
electronically to get it.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I think it's been blocked by your IP address if
you're in the state of South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, I'm sure if I tried to order these books
on Amazon's.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Is the ss that we've seen large tractor trailers being
pulled over search for books and we burn them right
there on the interstate.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It's like a weekly thing.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Here.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
We thought the tiger burn was a big deal down
as Bryce, wait till we started with the book burns.
So now we're at twenty one books total. All of
these are targeted in school public libraries, the school libraries,
not the public libraries and the school libraries. And these
books in particular are for the fifth graders and younger
so kindergarteners to fifth graders going in learning how to
(32:21):
perform oral sex on one another. Why would a fourth
grader need that information? How has the educational experience been
diminished because they do not have the ability to study that.
I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Withhold comment until tomorrow because I just thought about a
funny book which you can't get at a public school.
Not now, No, not because the SS officer alas going
around here with damn lighter fluid and matches.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Do we have her photoshopped into an SS uniform yet
banning all these books
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, When can I a former impeachment manager, expect
the FBI at my door?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Ma'am? You want to know who was targeted by a
weaponized FBI?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Me, Kelly Nash, let me move on. Well, you should
read the book, and you should give that book to
every one of your constituents. The Jonathan and Kelly Show.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Did any Democrat any House or Senate sub committee hearing
yesterday come out looking like they knew anything about currently
what's going on inside Washington d C.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I was surprised how many of them got steamrolled, And
I mean, Cash Betel is an expert at that sort
of thing, but Scott Besson's not. And Scott Besson made
several of them look like clowns.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And for the life of me, I still have the
picture of him on New Year's Eve, somewhere in the
Bahamas trying to do the electric slide. Oh, that was hysterical.
She thought she was really going to hit him over
the head, and she ended up having a turn to
one of her colleagues and smiling because she didn't want
to be seen smiling. I guess behind the micro I
(01:00):
don't know but that was hysterical yesterday Scott Bessett was priceless.
All right, So I don't think the biggest hearing going
on today is going to be going on and right
now I don't know what's going on spectrum blocking the news.
We got a news block here. What's going on? My
cable's not working. I'm not able to see the press
conference of the big announcement for the UK deal for
(01:21):
a trade agreement. Anyway, Trump is going to be holding
that today. Now we mentioned a couple of things. Well,
i'll tell you what I only mentioned this first, isn't
interesting to hear all the reporting going on about the cardinals?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
What do you mean by that? The reporting on them.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
The way that they Certainly I think it was Timoth
who's your favorite Cardinal Timothy? What's his last name? Cardinal
Dolan Doli. Yeah, I believe it was. I could be
miss misquoting. I could be giving credit to a quote
here to the wrong person. I don't know, and I'll
paraphrase it because it can't have it in front of me.
But the Holy Spirit already knows who should be the
(02:01):
next pope. Our job is to discern who that person
is with our voting.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I think that's the vibe. We're not Catholic, so we
don't know. Because I also heard somebody say the Holy
Spirit does not pick That was another one of the cardinals. Oh,
that we listened to for guidance, but the Holy Spirit
has not decided. So there's even disagreement amongst the cardinals
as to how this process works, which also would because
if the Holy Spirit just picked it, then you just
(02:26):
have to listen. That was his point.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Okay, well, God being omnipotent, omni president already knows. But
other than that, no one knows. No one knows, and
the Holy Spirit doesn't get a glimpse in that.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I don't know. I'm not in the room. So that's
the Holy Spirit in.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
The room they were talking about. Certainly this is and
again we're not Catholic. I'm not mocking the Catholics that
don't have an opinion on this, don't haven't contemplated it,
just listening to the reporting. But at some point, because
they are humans, it becomes a humanistic decision, and that
decision is going to be based on in our own
environment globally, which in a large part is at this
(03:07):
point being guided through Donald Trump. Either through protest or
through the Maga movement, which is obviously far from the
Catholic Church and of devil worshippers according to most of the
talking heads on television, But it really becomes a political
kind of thing. Now, is there going to be a
Trump effect in this? They haven't come out and asked
that question. No one I've heard has actually said that
(03:28):
out loud, but they are talking about and I didn't
even realize. The Catholic Church apparently need some better bookkeeping,
so the finances of the Vatican not in order. So
is this going to be is it? Will Doge have
an effect on this? So we're going to go to
clean up the bookkeeping inside the Vatican? Is that going
to be part of it? Will this be a pushback?
As we've seen and I think we talked about it
(03:49):
briefly yesterday, from Australia to Canada, we've seen the liberals
standing up and making sure they make their way to
the polling process so they can push back against Donald
Trump's authoritarianism that he's now trying to be a dictator
for the world.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, according to Bill Gates this morning on CBS, he
said that Doze is going to kill two million people.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Wow, that sounds that sounds Wait wait a minute, what
that's what?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Bill Gates claims two million people will die if DOZE
is allowed to continue cutting funding. So I don't know
if that is going to I mean, if it affects
the Catholic pope selection too, maybe there'll be a dead
pope or something involved here. I'm not sure how Bill
Gates calculates two million deaths, but he says that what
we've done is almost irreparable. Already, we've already it's almost
(04:36):
like the global warming thing. We've already gone almost too far.
You there with your I should be in school, and
yet I was. If you're going to pick up with it, we.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Got to bring in either a movie quote from Tombstone
to one of our favorite movies, or Greta Thumberg.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It should be in school, Bill Gates, should be somewhere else,
I'm sure. But you there with your never ending thirst
for profits.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Why don't you just go back to seating the sky
with tiny mirrors to reflect the sun's rays away from
our planet and save us all.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I can't wait to try your fake steak. I can't wait.
That will probably kill two people. The Bill Gates fake steak.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I've got to come out with the Bill Gates fake
steak sauce. Add some flavor to what's supposed to be
your meat. But the Bill Gates fake steak sauce, Now.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It doesn't taste like A one. It actually tastes like steak.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
So you could get the steak sauce with the A
one or whatever. Why grill it, just just have a teaspoon.
What a great dinner. Thanks Bill. Oh my god, Bill
Gates has got to be stopped. This man.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Well, and with the Poulpe, the coverage is, like you say,
it's NonStop, it's relentless, it's everywhere. And I was reading
one of the posts about there's a group of women
that are outside the Vatican protesting the Vatican right now,
and they're burning pink smoke, because what is black smoke
means we don't have a pope. White smoke will mean
(06:26):
that we do have a pope, and we're about to
make the announcement and they're burning pink smoke. And their point,
allegedly or apparently, is we have to be seen and
recognized in the Catholic Church, which they are seen and recognized,
aren't they? I mean, I've never been to a Catholic church,
but they need to be in a position of power.
(06:46):
And one of the women was making the point, one
of the women's one of the women's was making the
point that if we're not in leadership, then you don't
have a representation of what it takes to continue society,
because you need both men and women in order to
continue society. But I would point out that every one
(07:08):
of these cardinals and the Pope will be virgins, so
you also need married men. Should the married men be
petitioning to be they need to do. They don't have
equal footing or representation. They have no representation in there.
So everybody's got an ax to grind now with the
(07:28):
Catholic Church, and they've got the funny maybe Trumpell hit
him with the Rico charges because of the funny bookkeeping.
Donald Trump is going to press charges. He's send Pam
Bondi over there to arrest the next pope. I don't
know what's going to happen next. It's getting crazy.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Boy. When you stand up and protest the Catholic Church,
it's a pretty strong position.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Was there nothing else left to protest? Did you just
run out of stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Boy, isn't that going to be a sad day when
we run out of stuff to protest? Impossible? No, I
did think that the the Democrats, certainly. I'm surprised the
Democrats aren't protesting how they do. We're actually having to
identify the voters because you can't just stroll in there
(08:14):
and get a vote. You've been fully vetted as a cardinal.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Well these guys, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
So that's the equivalent to landholders. Yeah, so we got
to protest the way the vote's coming down. If you're
a Democrat, you ask for identification before they could vote.
You had to vet them and certify who they are.
Now they go along with the point that you had
to burn the ballots after any election. That way you
don't have any record of it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Well, you know Sean Duffy, you were talking about him
yesterday and so I started following him on Twitter and
he was making an announcement on his you know, like
a video announcement about how we've now got real ID
and this is being implemented today and this is your
last reminder. You've got to get a real ID if
you want to go into a federal building, if you
want to get on an airplane, those types of things.
(09:04):
And I said, I have not yet heard the left.
Has the left come out and called these racist? And
if not, why because it's got to be just as
hard to get a real ID as it is to
get a voter idea.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Oh, it is real tough to get a real idea.
Sally still doesn't have verse because we didn't have a
copy of our marriage license. And this guy's gonna be
put in the mail today but costs five bucks to
get it from the Anderson County courthouse.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, how is a real ID not a white supremacist
thing to keep blacks from flying and keep them from
federal buildings? I would think that's what that's a natural
protest for them, and I haven't. I haven't heard any
of them yet. Maybe they are doing it just a
little quiet.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I think the staff for each of these congressmen and
senators have been busy writing these very tricky questions for
the Houses Senate subcommittee hearings of the Trump administration officials.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
After yesterday's performance, just give up on them. Give up
on that Yeah, abandoned ship.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, I mean Maxim Waters couldn't even read the question
that they had typed for a because she said they
were giving out personnel information as opposed to personal information
from the Treasury Department.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yes, she's she is now into this is elder abuse.
We've had several of these senators and whatnot where they
get into Okay, the family needs to pull them off
the stage. Yes, this is a Joe Biden moment.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
The family's making too much money off of them in
their position. Ask her husband, the banker.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I mean, that's got to be the case because she
and the people who continue to vote for them. That's
the thing that bewilders me.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
How does sink Johnson continue to hold a seat?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, he was mentally incompetent as a teenager, so I
mean he's only worsened with age. But I mean he
was probably forty five years old when he asked about
is Guam going to capsize?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I mean he asked the questions out loud that Joe
Biden thinks. So he.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Is the dummy puppet of Joe Biden's brain.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Exactly what he is. We just stumbled in the perfect
definition of Hank Johnson and House Member Georgia. By god,
that's hysterical, all right. So after we get all we
don't have any more hearings to my knowledge, lined up
for today, so we won't have any fun videos to
watch as the Democrats fall in their face trying to
(11:15):
protest the Trump administration's cleaning up of the Biden administration.
And Joe Biden's already told you it was so successful
interview that he did with the BBC. If you haven't
seen that yet, it's about what twenty minutes long, I'd
say maybe twenty five minutes it's and most of that
is him stammering or just breathing. He takes up a
really long time to get words.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I don't I mean, why does it take so long
to say it?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
If you just took the question from the interviewer from
the BBC and edited out all the stammering and himming
and hawing and apparently a couple of naps he went into,
have just edited out all of that dead space. You
literally watch the entire forty minute interview in about twelve minutes.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
They tried to rebroadcast it over here on VOC and
the dead air alarm went off, but his ex way.
He was asked why did you not continue your campaign
or something to that extent, and he went into this.
I don't even he went in one direction and then
he surprised me how he tacked back. And the tack
(12:26):
back was that, you know, she was we had a
great candidate, she was fully funded. And I'm saying this
that like if this would be like if you turned
it up ten times the speed and then but you know,
it's just, you know, nobody expected from me to be
able to do what I had done in the first
three years, and it was just so, you know, really
hard to follow that because we're just too successful.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Even the easy questions they ask and all of them
were easy, but even the easiest of questions. So, now
one hundred and some odd days into it, do you
see Trump as the dictator?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
He wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'm on saying it. You said it for three friggin years.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, I shouldn't even have to answer you. I forget
your why. I can write the answers for you. I
shouldn't even have to say it. What you're seeing right
now is the most chaotic hundred days in American history.
Donald Trump has violated every law known to the Constitution.
The Supreme Court has ruled against him numerous times, and
he still ignores the Constitution ignores the Supreme Court, putting
(13:26):
America in great peril. Our stock markets are in chaos.
Every that's the answer, Ye, just say the BS and
then get off the stage.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
What, for the life of me, I do not get it.
I don't understand how could that possibly be that you
ask you the question, that he asked you the question,
because you have been saying.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It and I'm again for those of you who forgot.
Just before Joe Biden left office. So in the interim,
Donald Trump was named as president. There's Joe Biden. He's
got what is he like two months left in the office. Yeah,
he signed a deal with the Creative Artist Agency. He
has an agent now who has to try to figure
(14:07):
out how to get him into a movie or a
TV show or something like that. What they what you
saw yesterday on the BBC interview That is a demo
tape for them to try to pedal him around. Can
you how good of an agent do you think? I am?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
How am I going to get Joe Biden a guest
shot on anything?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I don't understand what just happened there? All right, So
we had all that come down yesterday. Now let's moving
forward and we were with baby breath, going to all
of our news web pages this morning, posting Curier State
newspaper wltxcsc all of them all over the state, trying
to find information on what happened, because I know we've
had a budget. We got to get a budget done.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
We got a reckoning. Yeah, I got a recon in
ball over.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
A recon in Ball. Oh and by the way, Biden's
owned this morning. We're missing it, but I got a
is it a blackout? I got a blackout over here
in Spectrum Biden's own right now with the view.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
No eleven o'clock, eleven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Okay, hopefully I'm get in front of a television for
four eleven.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
This podcast will be over long before eleven. You can
get home if you need to.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
That's right, all right, So Biden's going to be able
to view.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Just check social media for the quote unquote highlights.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
That's great. Oh okay, Now we did check all the
web pages because we have several big issues coming down.
We do it. We had a dust up again between
the House Freedom Caucus and the what is it the
Students for Life. They're really starting to flex your muscle
over there.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
I can tell you that if you look at the
state newspaper, we have no stories dated May eighth yet
except the one you're discussing, and the politics section, by
the way, now up to number two on the politics section,
tender eleven examining Colombia's ever expanding chicken tender scene. I
don't know how that's a political story, but it is.
(15:59):
But yes, the Representative John mccravy, founder of the South
Carolina Caucus, has apparently driven a wedge between him and
a lot of the members. Twenty nine resigned, I guess yesterday,
and a lot of it has to do with the
fact that the what did they call it again, the
Students for Life of Life have been protesting a lot
(16:25):
of these members who don't want to follow mccravy down
the we want a stricter abortion law than the one
we currently have.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So we got a we have a division now amongst
the already divided House Freedom Caucus.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yes, so I don't And again I'm looking now at
this is the May eighth report, so this is today.
They do not tell me in this story that I
can see, and maybe one of them will be listening
and go back and edit it. How many members were
there in the House Freedom Caucus before twenty nine resigned.
Is that half? It's the caucus? Is it?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
There were forty nine members prior, but this says forty
two percent, So the numbers don't add up.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh you saw the forty two.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
I thought it was forty nine members.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Where did you see that?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
One of the headlines says forty two percent of the
people that backed out.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
But okay, now here we go. Now I've just looked
and found it at the near the bottom. Members of
the group, which had fifty five lawmakers listed on its
website as members have objected to the tactics by outside
third party groups that are calling for further abortion bands.
And then, like you said, it's the Students for Life Action.
(17:34):
Jason Rappert is the founder, I guess of that. And
he says if these lawmakers are upset, and he called
out one I can't remember which one. They said, the
one who's a pastor who resigned. He said, apparently he's
not reading the scriptures in his church, because the right
answer is no legal abortions. That's the right answer if
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you're looking for the church's answer.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, so I get it. If you want to be
a hardliner. But at some point you got to realize
that you when you step onto the ball field, you
got to understand the rules of the game. If you
don't know the rules, you can't win. Now, everyone, we
went through this before and we ended up with a
six week heartbeat bill and that wasn't good enough for
the hardliners. I get it. But it's a step in
the right direction. And like you mentioned, you quoted Ronald Reagan.
(18:25):
I believe it was yesterday or the day before. Don't
whatever the paraphrase was, don't let good get in the
way of better. So take what you can get.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yea perfect You don't want to get perfect in exactly
because that's because again, you're never going to get everything
you want because there's there's so many other people who
don't want what you want. So we're just trying to
persuade more people towards our side. And every little inch matters, absolutely.
So you're affecting people's lives. Are you affecting all of them?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You know? But you are. You're making a step in
the right direction, and you're dealing with a lot of
different factions. And here, again, as pointed out, the rules
of the game, what's you step on the house for
you know it. You can't walk out of there with
everything you want. Otherwise it would not be a House
or representatives. It'd be a house of representative and it
be you. But even the governor didn't have that power,
(19:18):
certainly not in the state of South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And it's you know, it needs to be mentioned. I
think that in this story where the twenty nine legislators left,
we don't know whom started it, but there has been
flyers printed up about mccravy, and again they didn't like
McCravey pushing for stricter abortion laws and trying to embarrass
(19:42):
them and or say I agree with the Students for
Life Action group who wants to have you primaried. So
somebody were not saying it was all of y'all, but
somebody did put out flyers about mccravy, which he says
are absolutely faults, and he.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Put them out on Palm Sunday.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
That he referred to Beth Bernstein. He said something about
we don't want a Jew. I wouldn't be on a
caucus that had a Jew, or something like that. He said,
I never said that. And then there was another one
where there was an openly gay a Republican who I
don't think is in the in the House anymore, but
(20:17):
he said something derogatory about that individual, and he says,
I absolutely did not say anything like that. This is
again we're getting into the Trump territory where you've got
a general saying I heard him say that the people
who fought in World War two are suckers and losers.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You see, had a thing a long time to sort
all that out. Meanwhile, do we have any answers on
what we're going to do with the House and Senate
versions and did we already come out of conference with
that with the budget that we're going to be to
talk about later today, I don't know. There's no information
on that. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
The number one story in politics right now over at
the Posting Courier is South Carolina lawmaker's lag behind on
rural maternal health crisis. So they're not talking about Bud,
they're not talking about anything the maternal health crisis in
the rural areas and the lawmakers need to do a
(21:08):
better job.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The other thing was having to do with the separation
or the tort form bill, having to do with legal
with the liquor poor license and restaurants and the insurance
rates that were dictated by the way a law was written,
and we were searching for that, like six o'clock this morning,
you would have thought they were able to move something.
And a couple of the articles. Let us believe that
there was a State House agreement, not a House of
(21:34):
Representatives agreement as opposed to the Senate agreement by the
state House representative. But we could agreement, but we could
never come up with an article that absolutely the pointed
anything in particularly written. And what did they write, what
did they pass if in fact they passed something.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Well, my understanding is that on Wednesday, the what's his
name in the Senate said I hate everything about this,
this melding of the House and the Senate bill. If
I remember right, it was the Senate that was going
to be more specific and the House was going to
(22:07):
be more broad. Or maybe it's vice versa. Either way,
one was only going to address liquor liability and the
other one wanted to include like construction liabilities and a
bunch of other things. He said, I hate it, but
as the head of the Senate he was agreeing to
vote for it. But it didn't say that story was
written like Wednesday morning, and we never got an update.
(22:29):
Did they vote on it? What happened? Here?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It is?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Now we're on the final day. It's Thursday. It's ten
twenty five in the morning.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Now I feel like I'm outside of the Vatican waiting
on some smoke to come out of the chimney. Are
we going to find out? Do we get a budget bill?
Do we just burn it? What do we do? I
don't know. Well, is it going to be like the
Supreme Court? They come down a decision today? They just
bump dump a bunch of decisions like a document dump
and by deministration at six point thirty on a Friday,
late afternoon. So do we get all this information at
(22:58):
once once the session closes today? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, again, this gets back to the point we kind
of made on the rast thought is that there's just
a lack of reporting in our state, and we've had
a bunch of budget cuts to local media, whether it's
television or the newspapers, where they have not prioritized politics.
And quite honestly, I wouldn't either if I was them,
because if you're looking for clicks talking about which restaurants
(23:25):
got the best and worst reviews gets you far more
attention than letting you know what your legislators are doing.
South Carolinians are like most Americans. We don't care about
politics in the damn truth. But they don't care. They
just don't care, and they'll care when it comes presidential
election time. You can always see that they don't care
because in the off years like this upcoming election, this
(23:46):
is going to be an off year you'll have. Normally
we get what like sixty percent of Americans to show
up for a presidential vote. That are people who are
qualified to vote yes. But in an off year you're
going to get half of them eight percent. Yeah, it'll
be an embarrassment.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
And nobody cares about South Carolina politics. When you live
in the state of South Carolina, how could you not
care about what's going on here? Plainly, we're here left
bitching about potholes. Yeah, that seems to be the only issue.
Everybody's got a commonality on it. We still can't get
the potholes fixed.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
But this is why for those of you who complain
about extremism, and I hear this a lot from a
lot of people, a lot of Republicans and conservatives they
don't like the extreme right. Okay, that's just the way
they put it. They but if you want to end
extremism to the left and to the right, then you've
(24:37):
got to show up for regular votes because it's really
in who can get the base out. The people on
the furthest ends of the spectrum are the ones that
are most motivated. They're plugged in stud they're plugged in.
They're all about for.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Life is showing you exactly how to will power.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, and they're a one issue group. That's it, that's
all we care about. We're going to find and we're
going to find. You don't think Students for Life Action
Group can find in South Carolina one hundred thousand people
who feel the same way that they do. One hundred
thousand is a very slim, slim group of people compared
to five point three million.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
But if you get one hundred thousand phone calls at
any given House or Senate member's office, well.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Hell, you might even win an election. You could you
might be able to primary somebody. Because in a primary,
in an off season like this, you're talking about in
a local.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Race, three hundred votes.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I mean, it's going to be not by us it's
going to be nobody, except it'll be every person who
listens to this podcast in thirty five others. That's who's voting.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, it's really strange when he's talking to South Carolinians
and I'm talking about highly educated South Carolinians and you
get into a conversation about something going on with politics,
and then you start talking about specifically one issue. Okay,
whether it let's say it's energy. Now, I understand we
do have some kind of agreement with a broad sweeping
energy bill. I'd like to read more about that as well.
(26:03):
But energy in the state of South Carolina is going
to be a huge concern. Water in the state of
South Carolina is going to be a huge concern. But
you got people that don't even realize that we get
an energy problem in the state of South Carolina. And
we've had a lieutenant governor on this podcast on the
show talking about how close we've come to actual blackouts
as opposed to brownouts. But we've talked about this before
(26:23):
because a couple of things going on at the same time.
All the industry moving in, but we're not keeping up
with the infrastructure. Look at all the people moving in.
I had a doctor. Tell me, I won't mention his name,
he is a doctor. Tell me you know when we
hit retirement age, God help us if we want to
see a doctor. We got so many people moving to
this state. We don't have the infrastructure needed. And you
(26:43):
talked a minute ago about how we laing a Behinda
one a particular health costs in the state of South Carolina.
In the rural areas, that's going to be the way
it's going to be. In the major metropolitan areas. We
don't have enough healthcare to take on the number of
people that were taking on in this state, and we're
taking on a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well, I mean it's hard before This is probably not
going to make you feel any better, but Elon Musk says,
within the next five years, you're not going to need
a doctor.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Well, that's hopefully AI will save us all. And who knows,
we could become a textile state again. I'm go get
a bunch of robots, so and some clothing over here,
and you want it to buy everything from Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
All right, So I'm just I just went just to
make sure I was not imagining things. I'm just trying
to scroll down to South Carolina Okay, So the best
turnout we've had going back to two thousand and two,
the best turnout that we've had for an election of
registered voters in South Carolina was the twenty twenty election
(27:36):
when you got sixty five percent. That's the highest we've
ever had in this state. If you look at the
off year before it and the off year after it, well,
the off year after it, particularly forty two percent turned out.
So we're not going down to half, but we're but
we're going forty two percent of registered voters show up
(27:58):
to decide who will be your congressman, who will be
your mayor, who will be your You know, these are
important jobs. Even school board, as we've learned, has become
a very important position. But if you look at traditionally
in the state of South Carolina, I mean, when you
go back before the Trump election, you're talking literally fifty
(28:22):
two percent of the vote, fifty four percent of vote,
and in the off years you're looking at thirty four
thirty two, thirty five. Nobody has given a crap. And
it's certainly not us alone. I mean, you know, my
former home state of Connecticut, biggest turnout they ever had
was the election of Joe Biden. They got seventy percent
of the vote out that you know, it's all about
(28:44):
Joe Biden. We got we got to stop save democracy.
Well in a state like Connecticut, which was hyper sensitive
to that, and that's probably I'm gonna guess seventy eight
percent registered Democrats you register in that state, unlike here
where you don't register as a party. Seventy eight percent
are registered Democrats. You still only got seventy percent of
(29:05):
the people to come out.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah, and you're.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Talking about we got to save democracy and they believed
it and they couldn't give a crap about it. I mean,
I mean, if you look at like other states during
the saving of a let me just go up to
the they have this rundown of the battleground states. Arizona
for twenty twenty. So these are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, sixty eight,
(29:28):
sixty eight, seventy three, sixty six for Nevada, seventy two
for North Carolina, seventy for Pennsylvania, seventy five for Wisconsin. Again,
this is the biggest election of your lifetime according to everybody.
Twenty twenty was it, and they've all gone down for
the twenty twenty four, every one of them went down.
So Trump won because there wasn't as many people thinking
(29:51):
they had to save democracy.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Well, it just seems like if you're a South Carolina
House member or Senate member, then because we have remember,
I think the very first of the scaling back of
the local reporters. I can't remember who the reporter was
the state newspaper release, but his single beat was the
state House period. I can't remember his name, but I
(30:13):
damn will remember the day that Jack Kenzie was cut
from WYSTV.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
And he wasn't happy about it.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
You can't tell by looking at it, because he doesn't
really look happy about much except when you see him
now in social media. He's got a great life. Maybe
he just didn't like work in the state beat. I
don't know, but we have lost so many of our
local reporters now, and our local reporters for TV and radio.
I don't know about the Posting Courier, They've got a
(30:41):
good number of local reporters. The Posting Courier just went
over and make sure that they have now become the
newspaper up Record is doing a pretty good job, not
just with the acquisition of smaller newspapers which have always
had strong subscription rates, but also to put per since
in Greenville, Florence and the like. So I guess the
(31:03):
Post and Courier is going to be your go to
for news. But they're not ever going to be overstaffed
because it's all driven by Corporate America. They are a
corporate office with the local Charleston, South Carolina address.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Well, when I look at WIS right now, the number
one story at WIS shows that there are woke organization.
South Carolina leads the nation in school book bands after
board votes to remove ten more titles. So we are
the most oppressive state in America for those of you
who want to be educated. We don't even allow books
(31:36):
at this point. So I don't know if I can
still get it on Kindle or if there's an opportunity
electronically to get it.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I think it's been blocked by your IP address if
you're in the state of South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, I'm sure if I tried to order these books
on Amazon's.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Is the ss that we've seen large tractor trailers being
pulled over search for books and we burn them right
there on the interstate.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It's like a weekly thing.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Here.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
We thought the tiger burn was a big deal down
as Bryce, wait till we started with the book burns.
So now we're at twenty one books total. All of
these are targeted in school public libraries, the school libraries,
not the public libraries and the school libraries. And these
books in particular are for the fifth graders and younger
so kindergarteners to fifth graders going in learning how to
(32:21):
perform oral sex on one another. Why would a fourth
grader need that information? How has the educational experience been
diminished because they do not have the ability to study that.
I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Withhold comment until tomorrow because I just thought about a
funny book which you can't get at a public school.
Not now, No, not because the SS officer alas going
around here with damn lighter fluid and matches.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Do we have her photoshopped into an SS uniform yet
banning all these books
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