06-28-24 FULL SHOW - So Just Who Is Running the Country Right Now

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sad thing. That's right, myfriends. Welcome, welcome, Welcome to
a well day after the debate Friday. It is Friday altogether. Now stop
it right now that that was veryfunny but very mean. We will not

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be having that not yet. Okay, kids, Now, if you are,
if you're literally like, if you'reif this is what happened. You
went to bed last night at seveno'clock and you just woke up and rolled
out of bed. Wait, you'resaying the time that someone should have gone
to sleep and not done in Debaila. Wait, but I'm just saying,
if you'd gone to sleep at sevenpm last night and you're just waking up,
right now, let me bring youup to speed, and then I'm

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gonna do my blog and then we'regonna get into the show. Last night,
there was what has to be oneof the most disastrous debate performances of
all time by President Joe Biden.He had one job last night, shish,
and that was to prove to theworld that he was not an old,

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doddering man, and within the firstten minutes he had multiple situations where
he was an absolute doddering old man. It was devastating, absolutely devastating,
and it put us you know,we were doing the Koa cast ros Kaminski
and Benjamin all right now, andwe were doing the Koa cast. It

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was so bad. It wasn't evenfun to make fun of him, That's
how bad it was. It tookthe joy of poking fun at someone away
because he appeared so affected by hisyears. And in contrast, Donald Trump,
who is not that much younger thanhe is, appeared completely with it,

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you know, whether or not youagree with what he said. Aside
physically, he presented himself in amanner that was downright dignified. I want
to talk about Donald Trump for justa minute and his debate performance yesterday,
because everybody's talking about Biden's disaster's performance, and I want to just I don't
want to let it go without talkingabout Trump's performance. All Trump had to

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do yesterday was was not come offas unhinged or crazy or dictatorial. So
all of his you know, grossexaggerations aside, and there were many that
he talked about his being the bestever that we know that was the worst
everthing. He just exaggerates all ofthat stuff. That stuff aside. He
came across very controlled and very measured. He never let Biden get under his

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skin, not once, and henever came off like a crazy person.
He started for a moment to beginto whine a little bit about being persecuted,
but he rained it back in.He had a very clear set of
talking points to the point where hewas disrespectful, in my view, to
the moderators in the way from thelast twenty minutes of the debate, he

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just ignored the questions and answered andtalked about whatever you wanted to talk about.
He just ignored them because he knewthat it was so bad for Biden.
He didn't have to really follow therules because no one was going to
talk about that. Trump met thebar that was put out for him,
and Biden stumbled badly over a barthat was lying on the ground already.

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And I don't know, Ayrod,did you see the video on the blog
today of Jill helping him off thestage. I did. Meanwhile, Donald
has just gone off on his ownaccord by himself. If you haven't seen
the video of Jill coming out tohelp Joe off stage and then Joe having
to get assistance from a production directoron the stage to show him where the

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stairs were while Jill held his handwhile he navigated the stairs. It was
just it was absolutely crushing. Thereare reasons why we're hearing two words today,
and that is twenty fifth Amendment.Well, we're going to talk about
all that stuff, but let metell you what's on the blog. If
you are new to the show oryou don't go to the blog, today's

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a hamdinger of a day to startmandy'sblog dot com. That's mandy'sblog dot com.
No apostrophe in Mandy's because you can'tdo that, I know. And
that's going to take you to thekaway page. Then look for the headline
that says six twenty eight to twentyfour blog, so just who is running
the country right now? Click onthat and here are the headlines you will

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find within Anyone's Missing Office half ofAmerican all with ships and clipmas as a
press plants today on the blog.He spent five days hold up at Camp
David, preparing the Democrats who've beencovering for Joe. Have a lot of
explaining to do. Joe says he'llbe back for a second debate if they
can get him to quit. Howdo Dems replace him? OMG watched Jill

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help Joe offstage even morning. Joecan't prop up Biden anymore? Who could
they replace Biden with? How theycan replace Biden? Will rank choice voting?
Bring up voter participation. Your stolenbike is probably in Mexico. Now
is the time to buy in Florida. The Supreme Court just enforced camping bands.
You could be profiled for being anAmerican. The Supreme Court reigns in

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the bureaucracy. The middle class isshrinking. But Chris Cuomo wasn't happy last
night. Aren't they supposed to bein the basket? No? Do you
now? You know how many balloonstwenty four minutes of election denial? We
graded the debate last night. Justlet fix at twenty four to seven.
Clean it Biden debate prep and aneasy way to increase your happiness And the

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cup of soup is ruining a SouthKorean mountain. Those are the headlines on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com.And you really should check it out.
It's pretty amazing. Obviously, there'sa lot of stuff about last night's debate.
So last night we did the debate, we did a reaction show,
which was really cool, and aretotally going to do that again because I
was awesome. I enjoyed the heckout of that, and I thought,

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Ben, I just want to givea big a shout out to Ben Albright.
He came out of the sports closetand he was like a full fledged,
you know, commentator, and hedid a fantastic job last night,
just super good job. So Benthen took calls. I listened while I
was on my way home, andas I was listening, I started to
get really angry because last night,the man who is in theory running the

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most powerful country on Earth demonstrated notjust to the American people, but to
the world. Do you think theydidn't watch that in China? Do you
think they didn't have that on inRussia? How about Iran? You think
that they weren't paying attention as thePresident of the United States got up last
night and looked like a man whoneeded to just lie down on the stage

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and go to sleep. He lookedlike he was one hundred years old.
If I may a headlined that Ijust read. Yes, John Stewart jokes
that Joe Biden has resting twenty fifthAmendment face after the debate performance, well,
the Babylon b wins the headline wardid you see theirs Trump indicted for
murdering an old man on CNN?Ruh, yeah, oh god, yeah.
Oh. The memes are the memesare flying today. And the reason

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I started to get angry last nightis that there is a group of people
in the administration whose job it isto insulate Joe Biden from the rest of
the world, so the rest ofthe world does not get to fully understand
his level of cognitive decline. Nowtoday and Ross played some of this earlier.

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He's at a rally, I thinkat Virginia, and he is mister
confident, funny guy. He's outthere, you know, krakadaga. He's
just he's working the crowd. He'sdoing all these things because it's noon,
you know, it's in the middleof the day. So here's what I'm
thinking, Hey, Rob, thisis what we should here's the here's the

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pitch meeting. How it's gonna go. Okay, you are the Trump campaign.
I am coming to you. Ihave an idea. Okay, mister
Trump, We've got a great ideafor the next debate. We feel really
good about this. We're gonna dosomething completely unprecedented. It's never been done
before. We think it's going tobring in a whole everybody's going to be
involved. How about this. We'regoing to do a wait for it,

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brunch debate. Okay, eleven am. Everybody has mimosas, maybe a buffet
and they watched the debate. It'sgoing to be incredible. Eleven am.
So the sun's going to be ano, thank you, Oh we did
last night. We don't need that. We have a successful debate. We
don't want to when we're going toback out. We crushed you. It's
over. We built the wall.The wall is how much we are above

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you now in the polls. It'sover. No, thank you. I
wouldn't debate them again if I wereTrump. No, there's no way I
would step back into the debate floor. I would just be like, Nope,
I'm good. The bidens. Youmask to be like whatever rules you
want, any time of day,any location, you can talk, you
can control the mics, whatever.Yeah, let us have it, please,
yeah, we need we no redemption? Please no, please, no,

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no, let us have it anyway. So the debate last night it
exposed just how bad President Biden actuallyis. And this is this is not
just bad news for the Democratic Partyin this upcoming election. This is devastating
news for the United States of America, for all of our international partners who

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rely on us. It is greatnews for the enemies who are all plotting
to do other nefarious things. Doyou think China's going to sleep on Taiwan
now? They know they have sevenmonths to invade, and at that point,
once they're already in place and they'realready invading, it's a lot harder
to get them out. And youhave Vladimir Putin who now has absolutely no

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reason to negotiate on Ukraine at all, and you have Israel that's like,
oh crap, this is our biggestally Oh crap. I mean, last
night was devastating, It was embarrassing, it was shameful, and part of
me, I know, a hugepart of me, to be perfectly honest,

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actually most of me feels like,you know what, punish the Democrats
for this. They deserve to reapthe fruits of their little machinations, because
what should have happened with the DemocraticParty is they should have welcomed primary opponents.
They should have welcomed RFK Junior.They should have signaled to people like

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Gavin Newsom, you know what aprimary challenge would be in order here,
and then they should have let theDemocrat voters decide if Joe should be the
candidate. If I'm a Democrat voterright now, I am beyond pissed off
because you weren't given any choice,and they knew that people around him knew
that this is Joe Biden, absolutelyknows that Joe Biden is not capable of

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being president. There's no way you'remarried to a man and you don't know
that he has slipped that far inhis cognitive function. Or she's just more
self absorbed than I thought she was, and I thought she was pretty self
absorbed. And all of these peoplehave enabled this, and all of these
people have allowed that to happen,and several people have texted in with some

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variation of I think this is exactlywhat the Democrat Party wanted. I think
that they were appalled or shocked byhis demise or declined behind doors and this
was their way of outing him.No, the way to out him was
to signal that the primary season wasopen and to allow the Democratic vote to

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make that choice. But the peoplein his inner circle, then they would
lose power, they would lose theability. And I'm guessing they're running the
country right now. You really thinkJoe Biden's the guy they call in the
middle of the night when something's goingwrong. I mean, you, guys.
It was clear clear that he wasstruggling with the time, especially looking

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at today where he's all Captain Peppiat two pm. Older people struggle with
that, But when you're the presidentof the United States, you don't get
to set a schedule based on whenyou're operating at peak capacity. Things come
up, decisions have to be madein a snap. So I don't believe

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this is what the Democrat Party wanted. I think they thought he would be
able to get it done. Ithink that they spent the last five days
pumping him full of information, sohe literally was so overwhelmed with information that
all he could do was try toremember and gurgitate that information in a dead
pan monotone the entire night. Iwatched Morning Joe, This morning. And

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as a matter of fact, Ihave some Morning Joe on the blog,
and out of all the left wingtalking heads, I like Joe Scarborough and
Nika Brazinski the least. They arethe most condescending and sanctimonious of every pair
or person who is talking on televisionon the left by far. And I

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watched it this morning and even JoeBiden, Joe Scarborough was like, you
know what, he needs to stepaside. No, no, you don't
get to do that Democrats, youdon't get to do that now, because
the only way to do it,really, And I looked all over I
read so many different takes on thisthis morning. How what are the logistics
of replacing Joe Biden as the nominee. Well, the convention isn't until August

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eighteenth, and by the way,you'll be able to hear this show from
the convention thanks to our friends atRocky Mountain Voice. It's gonna be absolutely
incredible. But that being said,the process has to happen with breathtaking speed.
If you're going to do it atthe convention, if you declare an
open convention, which means that allof the delegates from all of the states

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are essentially released from their duty torepresent the voter's will because delegates are merely
supposed to go up to the conventionand then affirm what voters have already decided
in their state. That's how thewhole nominating process works. If you go
to an open convention, you're essentiallysaying to all the delegates, you can
cast your vote for whoever you wantto cast your vote for. And then

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what is it a free for allfor the next month and a half,
where all the Democrats who want torun Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, I
mean, I don't even know whoelse, so would be Kamala Harris stands
the reason that she'd want to bea part of this conversation, maybe,
and then at the convention the delegatesare all going to side. You've essentially
disenfranchised all the Democrat voters who yourobbed at the opportunity to vote for the

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candidate they really wanted by uh,basically signaling there is no primary. So
yeah, I hope Joe Biden,and I, by the way, believe
that Joe Biden will be the candidateunless something happens to him, Unless he
has a medical situation or something.And I'm not wishing this, by the

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way, but at this stage inthe game, would you be shocked if
all of a sudden, Joe Bidenhas a stroke and can't continue. I
mean, come on, I'm notsaying it'll happen. I'm just saying it
wouldn't surprise me at this point intime. So, yeah, Democrats,
you did this to yourselves. Youdid it to yourselves by elevating this guy

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in his basement with the help ofthe media to get him elected last time,
and now he's yours. You arealbatross around the neck of your party.
I want to hear your thoughts,so I'm opening up the phones in
the next segment three three seven toone, three eighty five, eighty five.
Back after this, an organization calledUnite America and Nick last night,
there are a lot of people whoare probably going to vote for Joe Biden,

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who are not going to vote forJoe Biden now and find themselves in
a pickle because their choices are casta ballot for a third party and a
lot of people say that could bea wasted vote or they're not going to
vote for Trump. And I thoughtit would be interesting to have a short
conversation about how does rank choice votingchange any of this, if at all?
What is this? What kind ofsituation are we facing now that would

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be different under a system like that? Well, Bendy, I do think
a lot of people are looking atthat debate last night wishing there were a
third, fourth, or maybe ina fifth podium right in a country of
three hundred and thirty million people?Is that the best you know we could
do? And that feeling well acuteright now in the presidential race is what

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I think a lot of voter votersfeel up and down the ballot years on
end in our election system. Howdo we change that? That's what election
reforms like ranked choice voting or openingparty primaries can do, which is bring
more and better candidates sort of intoour democracy. At a very practical level,
one of the reasons why there's nota third podium on stage is it's

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very hard for third party candidates tobe competitive. That's because when we vote,
we vote in a system that's knownas plurality elections. You choose your
favorite whoever gets the most votes,even if it's not a majority, wins.
Well, what that means is ifyou're a third party or independent candidate.
People fear of voting for you becausethey think they'll either waste their vote

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or worse cause the election of theirleast preferred candidate. Under a system where
you can rank your candidates, notjust choose only one, it guarantees a
majority winner, so you can votefor who you really want, even if
they may or may not be viable, so that you can always have your
second choice count if no one getsa majority on that first round. And
now what I think level the playingfield for candidates. Well, and here's

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the thing, and I'm going touse this as an example, and our
audience leans right, So they're goingto they're going to poopoo my example.
But this is a great example.So there's a lot of Democrats last night
who watched the debate and came awayand said, Joe Biden cannot do this
job. So maybe they're going tolook at RFK junior. Right, So
they look at RFK junior. Butdecide, to your point, what if
I vote for RFK junior and thenTrump ends up winning because I voted third

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party and he didn't get enough,So it would look like this, you'd
vote RFK junior number one, you'dvote Joe Biden number two, and after
you were eliminated, all of thosesecond place votes would go for Joe Biden
and ostensibly push him over the top. Correct. Correct. And I think
it works the other way too,because there are a lot of Republicans that
I think you would consider voting forRFK Junior, but fear Biden would win

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if they did, And so regardlessof I think political persuasion, what a
ranked ballot does is give the votersthe freedom to vote for who they really
want without having to strategically vote aroundwho they think they can win or what
would happen if they did that.And two states will actually be doing it

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this November. In Maine and inAlaska are the two states they'll be using
rank ballots for president. What we'retrying to do here in Colorado, of
course, is bring that similar systemto all of our state and federal offices
within this state and combine it withanother key reform, which is to open
our primary so that all candidates cancompete and voters can choose whomeever they want.

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The commonality between these reforms is justgiving more and better choices to voters
and giving more power to voters toelect who they really want. Nick,
I've learned after talking to you thelast time that the people who are who
are probably the most likely to befor this are people who are registered as
independent or unaffiliated because people that arein the two party system they don't want

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it because it strips away a lotof the power of the two party system.
Is that a feature or a bug? I would say, It's less
about parties, no part It's aboutpoliticians honestly who are in office right now
without really having to compete in competitiveelections, versus the people right who don't
have ballots that are really meaningful.And so this is a pro voter reform

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and I think Republicans, Democrats,and independents like the idea of having more
and better choices on their ballot andmore power in holding their leaders accountable.
It's the incumbent politicians that sometimes fearthe rules changing of the way that they
get into office in the first place. Well, Nick, we just saw
this with the primary. So manyof my listeners who live in either solidly

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Republican districts or solidly Democratic districts,they had no impact depending on where they
were. If you were registered Republicanin a democratic district, you had no
say and who just got elected.And by the way, you might think,
well, it's just the primary,let's wait to see what happens in
the general. No, for mostelections eighty two percent. In fact,

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for our state legislature, they wereeffectively decided on Tuesday, right, because
those districts are so lopsided, meaningheavily democratic or Republican. So for ds
and ours in those districts, youmay have seen a primary ballot where you
didn't have much choice on your ballot. And then, if you're like me
or half the state of Independence,you got two ballots in the mail and

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you had to choose voting for oneor the other. Well, under what
we're proposing with Colorado voters, firsteveryone would get the same ballot. You'd
be able to vote for any candidatefor any office, regardless of party,
and the top four finishers go tothe general election. It would make November
elections matter again and you'd have morechoice. And then, like we were
discussing before, you get the optionof actually ranking those candidates. What does

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this all mean. It really justmeans elected officials that have an incentive to
represent a true majority of their constituents, not just that loyal party base that
wind up deciding primaries like we sawon Tuesday. Nick Troyano with United America.
I put a link on the blogto you guys' organization. We're going
to be talking a lot more beforethe election because we are going to have
a valid agative on the ballot inNovember. But I appreciate you making time

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to kind of give a little glancingblow of what that might look like in
real time after that debate, well, last night's debate Tuesday's primary, two
more reasons why we need to improveour elections here in Colorado and why it
matters so much for the country.All right, Nick, thanks a lot
man. We'll talk again soon.That is Nick Troyana. You can find

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his information. You know how manypeople I saw Frank Luntz this morning on
I saw a clip somewhere. Idon't even know whose show he was on,
but he said that in his focusgroup. And Frank Luntz is a
guy that brings people in. Hebrings them all together, puts them in
a room, and he gives themthis little machine that they actually press buttons.
As the debate goes on, tosort of express their feelings about different

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topics, and then at the endhe pulls them at the beginning, and
then he pulls him at the end. And he's that in all of his
years of doing this, he's neverhad more people swing to one candidate after
a debate than they had last night. And these are all people who said
they were undecided, and they werefrom swing states. I was I questioned

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people who say, oh, I'mtotally undecided. How can you be totally
undecided? How can you have noopinion? Maybe you're leading more towards one
or the other, but in thiscase, they both have their own positives
and such staunch negatives. It's like, hmm, how do you know?
How do you feel? Yeah?I just don't know that. Being said,

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there's a lot of things to talkabout this one. Can I just
say this. I thought the CNNformat, which I really did not think
I was gonna like, I thoughtit worked really well. It took out
a lot of the nonsense, Allthe crosstalk was gone. Both candidates did
very very well staying in time,and I think there was maybe a couple
of times where somebody was almost finishedwith their comments and they shut their mic

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off. But for the most part, it really worked, and I think
it actually helped Trump more than ithelped Biden because it prevented him from giving
into his worst instincts. So hecame off looking rather presidentially yesterday. And
I had to wonder to myself,and I'd love to know your opinion when
we get back from this break.When people go through really challenging and difficult

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times, it changes them. Andthat's whether you are a normal person and
you have something challenging happen, youlose your job, or you lose a
loved one. I mean, difficulttimes shape us. And the Donald Trump
that was there last night blowhardiness aside, because he's a blowhard you guys.
Somebody sent me at text and said, oh, where did Trump lie about?

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Well, I mean, here's thething about Trump's lies. If he
just told the truth, the truthis so impressive. You know, when
he mentioned his tax cuts the biggesttax cuts in history, they weren't the
biggest tax cuts in history, butthey were the fourth biggest tax cuts in
history. So why not the biggesttax cuts of the modern era, or

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the fourth biggest tax skit of alltime, or more importantly, we gave
tax cuts to every tax bracket.We made sure everybody got them. But
by saying they were the best inthe world, it allows people to say,
look, Trump lied. I callthat blowhardiness with him. We know
it's the same as Joe Biden makingup stuff in his history, but that

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they don't ever make up a bigdeal about Joe Biden living in a neighborhood
full of every single ethnicity on theplanet, as he likes to say,
or that he taught law school,or whatever the fabulosity that comes out of
his mouth. It's exactly the same. But Trump last night had a level
of seriousness he did not have intwenty sixteen or twenty twenty in the debates.

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Now, I want to remind oneof you is going to win some
ticket to see New Kids on theBlock. We're going to do it as
the lucky break for someone today.I think you guys are starting to understand
the lucky break concept. So yeah, I hope you get your lucky break
today. At some point in theshow Lucky Break. We're gonna take a

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break right now, a rod soa lot of people on our text line
right now, and now's the timeto call us by the way, three
three seven one, three eighty fiveeighty five is the number a lot of
people on our text line commenting about, you know, if the Democrats replace
Joe Biden with a young, vibrantcandidate, then it's all over. But
the reality is is this, Itwould be almost impossible to replace Joe Biden

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at the top of the ticket unlesshe died, and the systems that are
put in place in some states actuallyrequire him in a texture Texas to me
earlier that Jason Chaffits made this point. Today, some states have codified into
law that whoever appears on the primaryballot must appear on the general election ballot

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whoever wins that primary, So hewouldn't even be able to appear on the
ballot in a few states. Andthen there is the very significant question of
who is gonna step in. Lastnight, Gavin Newsom was caught on camera
saying, I do not I willnot stab I will not turn my back

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on Joe Biden, and neither willanyone else in the Republican Party. So
I think they're going to try andride this horse up to November. I
just don't see how. I don'tsee how how he continues, and now
Ross played some of his audio fromhis rally earlier today. Joe Biden sounded
great, by the way, whenoh wait, is Trump talking right now?

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Is he talking? I see he'sat a rally. I see it.
Okay, He's gonna talk one o'clock. So Trump's gonna talk at one
o'clock. We played a little bitof Joe Biden. We'll play a little
bit of Trump when we get backfrom the news. But I have it
up and I don't see anything aroad. Okay, let me do this.
Let me just talk. Oh Kathleenin Boulder, Hello, Kathleen,
what's on your mind? Yes,In observation of the program last night,

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seeing when our Donald Trump spoke aboutsomething, oh Biden looked at him like,
what are you talking about? Thatis a clue to me. He's
not. He has no clue whatis going on. Well, there was
a lot that happened last night,Kathleen that made me think he has no

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clue what's going on. For me, it was when he was talking about
something and then he just trailed off, and then he came back and said
we beat Medicare, And I waslike, wait, what what is happening?
Right now, and I don't thinkhe knew what he was what was
happening at that point. I agree, it's a disgrace. It's a disgrace
to all of us who have workedour whole lives, paid taxes and you

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know, walk the straight and narrowand then we get some full like that.
Well, Kathleen, I think alot of people are sharing your feelings
today, that is for sure.So the process to replace Joe Biden is
very, very convoluted, and Ijust don't think it's going to happen.
So the question is how do youbounce back from this? What would have
to happen? I mean, doesJoe Biden have to drop down and start

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doing one arm push ups at arally to make people forget about this?
And it's here's the problem, becausenow all of these people in the left
wing media last night, they werethey were they were all but wailing as
they were talking about this last night. So that's not going to go away.
He's lost the confidence of the peoplethat have carried his water for some

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time. That the problem for themis they hate Donald Trump more than they
feel a responsibility to, you know, expose the fact that Joe Biden is
in a period of cognitive decline.We're going to take a quick time out.
When we get back. I've gota bunch who text messages. Three
O three seven one, three eightyfive eighty five is the phone number.
We'll be write that The Mandy ConnellShow is sponsored by Belle and Pollock Accident

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and injury lawyers. No, it'sMandy Connell, May Conall, Ka Ninemdo
Welcome, Welcome to the fucond hourof the show. Obviously, the biggest
story of the day is the performanceof President Joe Biden last night at the

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debate against Donald Trump. I've gota couple of questions, and i want
to talk real quickly about the debateformat for a moment, because I actually
I thought I was going to notlike it. I loved it. It
worked so well. It allowed fora longer conversation without all the crosstalk.
We did have crosstalk last night.Did anybody else notice the only cross talk
we had was about golf handicaps?Is there anything more like Thurston Howell the

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Third than two old guys standing aroundarguing about golf handicaps? You know,
when I was a nice president,I got my handicap down to six.
As Ross said last night, Idon't think either of these guys should be
talking about handicaps anything. Nobody needsthat. But for a lot of people
that worked, the CNN format workedreally well, and a lot of people

(31:25):
on the left last night. SoI'm following Twitter as I do after this
event for live reaction. It seemedthat more people on the left were furious
with CNN because the moderators did whatmoderators are supposed to do, which is
ask questions, keep time, andask follow ups. What are you laughing
at? What did you just see? An idea of how to choose who

(31:47):
gets to be president between these two? Oh jeez, my mom just sent
me this from Robbie Sloak, acomedian. I say, give them both
a Roka remote and the first oneto start a movie gets to be president.
Wow, we will never have anotherpress it again. No, it
would just go on forever. AndI say that as someone who cannot work
a Roku remote, I think that'sa bar that's too high. Too high.
I'd love to hear from you guys. Three three seven one, three

(32:09):
eighty five eighty five. I wouldlove to hear from any of you who
actually were planning on voting for Bidenfor whatever reason, maybe you hate Trump.
It has this created an issue foryou. The thing about Trump is
we all know exactly who he is, right, Every single bit of dirty

(32:30):
laundry in Trump's life has been exposed. And then last night we saw all
kinds of drawers by Joe Biden.They're just out there hanging now now we
know. So what are you goingto do if you were going to vote
for Joe Biden, even if you'reunaffiliated last night and then you saw that
last night? What do you donow? Three O three seven one,

(32:51):
three eighty five eighty five is thenumber? Hey Warren, you are on
KOA, what's on your mind?Ahi? Manny? I didn't plan on
listening to any of the debate,but I caught him a little bit of
it. I had to run anair last night, listened to it on
KLA respected Trump being a blow hardand uh soul of hyperbole and if not

(33:15):
outright wise and Biden being a bumblingold man. But Ross brought up the
point earlier today. Caught a littlebit of his show. He was cutting
into Biden's rally in North Carolina andwas saying, you know, where was
where was that Joe Biden last night? He's he's being lucid and dynamic and

(33:38):
so on. And I just thoughtabout some of the older people in my
life that that I've dealt with stepfather, particularly, who has all had Alzheimer's,
that during the daytime they're relatively lucidand you can make sense with them

(34:00):
sometimes and so forth. But astoday progresses, they get progressively worse,
to the point where evening comes andthey call it sundown, and evening comes
and they lose contact with reality.Now I'm not saying that Biden's fully into
dementia yet, but I think thatshows maybe the onset of some of those

(34:24):
things. And I mean, theguys eighty one, eighty two years old,
how could he maybe not? Andyou know, I'm not all that
far behind him. I'm pushing seventy. But I saw some of that with
my stepfather. I saw it withJoe Biden a little bit last night.

(34:44):
You know, somebody's got to bethe adult and say, you know,
Grandpa, you can't live on yourown anymore. The car keys away from
him. Unfortunately, he has thecar keys to the entire nation, right
and so it's not just. It'syeah, it's not just. And this
is what's so concerning. And oneof the things I talked about in the
last hour was my concern that itwasn't just us watching this debate. It

(35:07):
was our it was our allies,it was our enemies. It was China,
it was Russia, it was Iran. They all saw the same thing
we saw. And they're not goingto watch his rally in Virginia today to
see that during the day. Hey, if we attack while he's asleep,
we're okay. You know, thisis dangerous, and I am incredibly irritable
that there are a lot of peoplein his immediate sphere who knew this was

(35:30):
going on, and they still havebeen telling people that he's absolutely capable of
running the country. Don't ask anyquestions about his age. He's so virile.
It's unbelievable. They've been lying tous, they've been lying to Democratic
voters, And now the chickens havecome home to roost and they're all asleep.
All the chickens are sleeping right now, because you know, all of

(35:51):
that was exposed, that the guyis, you know, he's an old
man, and the fact that hedid and get charged with the illegal possession
of secret documents and so on.Bear's that. Yeah, the guy that
was in charge of that said,I can't charge him, he's not capable

(36:12):
of He's an elderly A likable yeah, a likable elderly man with a bad
memory. Right, That's that's howhe described the President of the United States.
And now we know why. Nowwe know why, Warren, I
appreciate the phone call very much.All right, thank you? Three oh
three seven one, three eighty five, eighty five. Got a lot of
really good text messages. This onesays Biden was given the questions ahead of

(36:32):
time, he wore an earpiece andhad smart contacts on that display text in
the field of you. That's youguys, you guys. Can we just
not? Can we not? Imean, the performance was absolutely disastrous for
President Biden. And now you're goingto bring in nonsense that is going to

(36:54):
obfuscate from the fact that he hada terrible performance last night. Do I
think he had an earpiece? No? Do I think he had smart contacts?
Are you kidding me? He can'teven read the teleprompter and you're gonna
put contacts in his eyeballs. Imean, this isn't mission impossible, So
don't make this any more complicated thanit needs to be. I am with

(37:15):
Ross where he used to confirmed.Ross didn't like this text and said so
on the air. Now you canadd Mandy didn't like this text and said
so on the air as well.So many personal attacks on these candidates.
The bottom line is the country wasgood under Trump and the country under Biden
sucks. Now. I'm gonna Ithought about this last night too. I

(37:35):
was like, Okay, the questionare you better off today than you were
four years ago? That is apowerful question, because most people are not.
Lack of the loss of buying powerhas been tremendous. I mean,
when you have to spend twenty percentmore right now to get the same stuff
that you used to get two yearsago, that is felt in a way

(37:57):
that is spread evenly. And Iknow you've that rich people are super insulated
from this stuff, and they areinsulated far more than the rest of us
are. But that being said,I go to the grocery store and I
know I'm getting old because I'm doingthe thing my dad used to do.
I saw bacon, you know,I love writes brand Bacon Rights Brand bacon
should let me new endorsements. I'mgoing to reach out to them. I
should be talking about their bacon.But it hit a new high at King

(38:22):
Supers eighteen ninety nine for two anda half pounds, No, for one
and a half pounds. How manyslices roughly, Uh, it's a pack.
It's about they're thick slices, sothat it's that thick and it's about
that wide. So it's a poundand a half bacon. But I was
like eighteen ninety nine, I rememberwhat bacon was free ninety nine a pound

(38:44):
if I may, Yes, atrip to Walmart and a trip to Sam's
for the wife and I yeah,combined five hundred dollars. Oh oh so
yeah, everybody's feeling it. Yeah, I mean that was like a full
restock because we are about but fivehundred dollars for two people. So now
I'm watching a recap of Joe Bidenat this rally in North Carolina, and

(39:07):
he's doing the kind of angry oldman yelling you know what I'm talking about.
You did see last night what Iwas talking about where he starts this
sideways smile when he starts to getmad. What are you talking about That's
when I knew that Trump was gettingunder Biden's skin. No, I don't
believe in the earpiece, Texter,I do not believe in the earpiece.

(39:28):
I don't This person said, question, I have issues with Trump, But
what exactly was he lying about.He does embellish about his accomplishments, but
when it comes to the things thatmatter, like the economy and the border,
he was spot on. So inmy estimation, he was truthful most
of the night. Now, okay, this is the point that I want
to make very very clearly about whatyou're saying when you give Donald Trump a

(39:52):
pass on all of the embellishments andthe exaggerations like I passed the largest tax
cut in the into history. That'snot accurate. He passed the fourth largest
tax cut in history in the grandscheme of things. Does that matter?
Does it make any difference? Thefact of the matter is the man cut
taxes on everyone. But because hecannot say I passed the fourth largest tax

(40:16):
cut in history and has to exaggerateexaggerations are lies. Okay, he is
not being accurate in his portrayal.Now, if you just reined it in
and talked about his accomplishments, becauseyou could even say I made sure everybody
got a tax cut, which istrue one of the Trump tax cuts.
Everybody got a tax cut. Hehas a lot of but he doesn't.

(40:38):
And that is the ammunition that peopleon the left need to say that he
lies all the time. Now,the people on the left that say he
lies all the time blatantly ignore JoeBiden, just make him crap up on
a regular basis. But again,does it really matter if Joe Biden lived
in a neighborhood full of Greeks,Puerto Ricans, Jews, what other ethnicity
in this one neighborhood he says helived in. Does it really matter?

(41:00):
I don't know in the grand schemeof things that doesn't. But it's still
a lie. So you can closeover it and say they're embellishments. I
call it braggadociousness. You know,he just tends to exaggerate his own awesomeness.
But they are still lies. Arethey the most critical, horrible,
awful lies? No? Are theylies about people dying? No? Oh?

(41:21):
Last night, Joe Biden actually didsay at one point, if I'm
not mistaken, that no one diedon his watch? Oh, Oh,
just tell those people, tell thosepeople in Afghanistan. They must still be
alive. You know, info Warsjust got shut down for lying about people
still being alive when they were actuallydead. So maybe they should see the
president. Now. No, itwasn't, And now people are parsing,

(41:46):
I thought it was the biggest taxthat's not what he said. He said
I passed the biggest tax cut inhistory, which is not right. So
they're inconsequential lies, but they're stilllies. All that braggadociousness is still a
lie. So if you're on theleft and you're trying to prove what a
liar Donald Trump is, implying thathe's lying about the big stuff, then

(42:07):
you're going to point out all thelittle ways that he lives. But again,
they don't give the same treatment toJoe Biden when he just makes things
up. Mandy from the text line. A number of people on CNN last
night after the debate suggested it maybe time for Biden to step down.
Trump's campaign needs to run a loopof all of them on every one of
his political ads. That is goingto be you guys, that the entire

(42:29):
reaction last night to the debate isgoing to be a huge problem for Joe
Biden because maybe he bounces back,maybe he comes back at this rally in
Virginia and he does much better today. He did way better today than he
did yesterday. But that being said, to your point, all of that
stuff, all of his sycophantic mediapeople that have been absolutely propping him up,

(42:50):
the same people who thought it wasa brilliant stroke for him to campaign
from his basement and gave him politicalcover, all of them saying he's too
old. Absolutely, that's going tobe a devastating paid d Those will be
the last people that would ever sayanything like that. So if they are,
yeah, then you know it's bestexactly because they know what those words
mean. Because if they thought thathe will in or should stay in the

(43:13):
race, they wouldn't contemplate saying thosethings because they know what those words means.
That's another push towards it possibly happening. Well, I uh, it's
going to be. Well, I'mwatching right now. He's coming to the
rally in Virginia. Trump is Trumpis having a rally in Virginia. So
as soon as he starts talking,wasn't he supposed to be at one?
Did you miss it waiting as soonas he comes in because we've played some

(43:36):
Biden comments earlier, we'll type Trumpbecause they'll talk about the debate. For
sure. I'm guessing that he justgoes for the jugular and just absolutely takes
Joe Biden out in this. Inthese comments, we'll see this person,
says Mandy. This is a completelyunimportant question. Was Joe Biden in last
night's audience? And was Joe Bidenlooking towards her when his mouth would open

(43:58):
while looking dazed and can y'all inFlorida when I lived in Southwest Florida,
Southwest Florida has what's called season,and season is when all of the retired
people show up for the winter,and the average age in Fort Myers during
season it goes from like thirty nineto like one hundred and eight. Okay,
the oldest people in America come toFort Myers for the winter. And

(44:22):
you'll occasionally see people and we gaveit a name, and it's mean,
and it's I'm just letting you knowwe called it. He's doing the alligator.
Alligators when they are resting, willrest with their mouths open. Because
here's a fun fact about alligators.Their bite strength is all in closing.
They have no bite strength in opening. So if they're going to close their
they want their mouth ready to closebecause that's where all their bite strength is.

(44:45):
Right, So they lay on thebank with their mouth open. And
Joe Biden is an alligator a lothe alligators all the time, just mouth
agog And if anything makes someone looksuper old, it is that. Hey,
Karen, we were on kaway.What's on your mind? Well,
I call it with a limerick foryou. Mate. Oh I'd love to

(45:06):
hear it. Karen. It's notdirty, is it? No, not
at all? Okay, I'm ready. Is this about last night's debate?
Yes, it is okay. It'sCNN held a grudge match for all with
sneers, jeers, and insults oncall. While Maga was roasted, Pidonomics

(45:30):
was roasted, but at least Joeavoided a fall. Oh that is fantastic,
Karen, that's absolutely fantastic. Thankyou for that. You're very welcome.
I heard you say you'd like limericksand I do too, So there
you go. Oh, well,I'm now, Karen. Do you have
any interest in going to see NewKids on the Block tonight at ballerina.

(45:54):
I'd like to say I do,but I think you someone else would be
better, sir, with you knowwhat, Karen, I appreciate your honesty,
but right now you're in the leadfor Limerick of the Day. It's
the first one, but you haveset the bar very very high, very
very high. Well, I'm gladto know that. All right. I'd
like to surrender if I went aprize, I'd like to surrender to somebody

(46:15):
who's a fan of New Kids.I will do that. Karen, You
are lovely. Thank you so muchfor your call. You're welcome, all
right. Thank you. See,now, do we not have the nicest
listeners in the entire world. Wedo. Now. I kind of want
to see if anyone else has anyother good ones too. Yeah, Limerick,
let's do it. That's a wayto give it away, right there.
A Limerick contest is now happening.You have two options. You can

(46:37):
send the Limerick VI our text lineat five six six nine zero, but
that's a lot to text. Oryou can call us three oh three seven
one three eighty five eighty five andwe will accept your limericks about last night's
debates. When we decide we comeacross the best one. I think we
just go, you know, togive it to h Yeah, when it's
so good it's undeniable. Yeah,so the right now, three O three
eighty five, because I think that'sthe best way to'd be like, yo,

(46:59):
you win, you there, yougo, let's go. Mandy is
Joe was walking onto the stage.You was he waving to and saying hello
to? Each campaign had people there, but they did not have a true
studio audience. So like, I'msure that Joe had staffers there. Jill
was there obviously because Jill came upand helped him off the stage at the

(47:22):
end of the debate. So theyeach had a few people there, but
there was just no studio audience there. Mandy says this dexter. I wouldn't
call Trump a liar on that,He's just clumsy and braggadocious. In the
meantime, we have a crooked aspresident who lies NonStop and who has a
media who lies NonStop to protect him. I'm telling you, guys, exaggerating

(47:44):
about things is lying about things.I mean, we can couch it in
whatever terms that we want to couchit in. And this is why what
frustrates me A lot about Trump becausehe lies about things that don't matter when
the truth works just as well.He's it's like, it's like he has
so and this is gonna sound soabsurd. I realize it as I say

(48:07):
it. It's gonna sound absurd.But it's like he has so little self
confidence and self worth that he feelslike whatever it is, he has to
embellish, he has to make itbetter because no matter how much it is,
it's not good enough. Right.That's a sign of insecurity in my
mind, when you when you cannoteven you, you take your wins and

(48:29):
you try to make them better becauseyou don't think the winds are enough.
That is a sign of insecurity inmy mind. So I'm wondering, is
it really a lot of people arewilling to blow past that? And I
get it. I understand who Trumpis in that respect, And honestly,

(48:52):
when you lie about something that doesn'tmatter, I don't care. But it
does make me wonder if you're gonnalie so easily about something that doesn't matter,
but how easily are you gonna lieabout things that do matter? But
the reality is that throughout the Trumpadministration, for the most part, about
big issues what Trump has said hasturned out to be true. And I'm

(49:12):
talking about in terms of foreign policydecisions and the economy and things of that
nature. So it's like, onthe big stuff he's been proven right,
but the dumb stuff that doesn't matter, he continues to feel the need to
exaggerate about and I just don't getit. I really don't. Mandy.
I have an unrelated question, howcome eight to fifty KOA has so many
concert tickets to give away because theyfinally realize that our audience actually goes to

(49:37):
concerts and if you note the sortsof concerts that we have, this is
where our key demographic is it trulyis? And you think New Kids on
the Block? Yea, New Kidsin the Block was famous thirty years ago.
Come on, it's been a while. So yeah, we're happy about
it. I like giving our peopletickets because I, for one, love

(49:58):
concerts, and I know a lotof our listeners do as well. Based
on the response that we get forthese things, which is ridiculous. So
many people, so so many people. All right, Uh, oh,
Incognito in Longmont has a limerick.Okay, Incognito, it's not dirty,
is it? No? Absolutely notOkay, okay, hit me. Birds

(50:20):
do it, and fly fries doit, and die dogs do it and
stick to it. So why can'tyou? And I? First of all,
it's not a limerick in the properlimerick form. So I'm going to
have to dehee you because of thatincognito. Uh, because that was not
a proper limerick. And I'm astickler for the rules when we actually have
rules, and the only rule isit has to be a limerick. Three

(50:44):
oh three seven one, three eightyfive eighty five. You can also just
call and continue to react to lastnight's debates. Is this the end of
Joe Biden's presidential aspirations? That's aquestion I have an answer for next.
On the break, a rod waslike, I don't know the structure of
a limerick. I said, well, here how it works. The first
two and the last line must rhyme. It goes five lines total. First

(51:06):
two rhyme with the last line,and then you've got two lines in the
middle, lines three and four thatrhyme with each other. Here's the limerick
that I just wrote. There oncewas an old man named Joe whose reactions
had grown kind of slow. Hehad a debate where his lunch got eight
and now everyone thinks he should go. That's how you do it, my
friends, Thank you, thank youvery much. Now I got a bunch
on the text line that I wantto do, and then I've got four

(51:28):
callers, and then we're gonna giveaway some tickets based on this pas one
had. You have to get itin in the next nine minutes. Were
cutting it off. Yeah, andTrump is going to be speaking here in
a few minutes. We're gonna cutto him and when that comes up,
So let me do this quickly,Mandy. There once was a man from
Scranton who was always just a Rantonhe said with a blank stare as he
pooped in his underwear. Man,I wish I was from Canton. So

(51:52):
we're gonna leave that one out becausethere's a poop reference. And it show
me a clown who can grunt likea monkey, unthinkably greedy and verbally clunky.
Then gather some predators, self servingsenators, put them in charge of
the whole freaking country. Close butnot quite the right format, very very
good. There once was a mannamed Biden whose dementia his party was Hiden.

(52:12):
Oh crap, here we go therewas a debate which then sealed his
fate because his mumbles and lion,I doubt i'd win, say this person,
just in case, I don't needthe tickets. But well done,
well done. There once was acandidate named Biden, who from most Americans
was hiding. Along came Trump,who kicked his rump, and boy howdy
did the polls ever widen that fromDave. All right, let me go

(52:34):
to get some phone calls. Okay, uh, Greg, you are on
kaway. Let me hear you limerickman, you my twin sister, mother,
mister, let's do it. Isaw a man upon the stair,
a little man who wasn't there.He wasn't there again today I got.
I wish he'd go away. Shedid a happy moron. He doesn't give

(52:57):
a damn wish I was a mauro, my god. Perhaps excellent, very
but technically not a limerick, butvery very good poetry. Hanging there,
Greg, hang on for a second, Patty, do you have a limerick
for me? As you just calledto say? Hi? No, I
don't have a limerick. But myquestion is this. The Funding family keeps

(53:19):
telling everybody how much they love eachother. In fact, Jill said about
seven times how she loved Joe fromthe very beginning. But if you care
about somebody and you love them,you don't allow them to be embarrassed or
made fun of or treated like theyare being treated like he's being treated as

(53:40):
one human being to another. Thisis elder abuse and it should and people
should be paying attention to the factthat they just want him up there yep,
I think, or whatever they wantyep. Not caring well, Patty.
I mean, power is a isa very special form of love.
And they rather have their power thando the right thing for Joe Biden.

(54:06):
And that's the sad truth that's peopleneed to realize. That's what's wrong with
the world. Yep. And soit's on displite in our government. I
amen, do you, Patty?I appreciate that very very much. I
am going to get one more.John. You are on, kay,
you got a limerick for me?I do? How are you today?
I'm good, I'm good. Letme hear it all right, here goes.

(54:29):
I cannot be called the Joe hater, but thank god that the session
ran later it was far past bedtime. Joe's act wasn't sublime. He just
isn't a master debater. Okay,hold on for one second. Is Mark
got one as well? Because Igot a couple more on the text line,

(54:49):
Hang on really quickly here, letme do this. Let me find
the one from our friend the wineYogi, which I laughed so hard at.
There once was a Joe from Dellawho needed Jill to get anywhere.
He took to the stage, feltmoments of rage and uh then well you
know anyway booty juice that made melaugh entirely too start to too hard,

(55:14):
and then I have one more,yes, exactly, trying to find the
one more. There once were twomen from Nantucket. Neither could speak.
They just mucked it. They're bothso se nile their words do revile.
We can hope that they both kickthe bucket. So there you go.
Yeah, yeah, There once wasa man from a man from Cork who

(55:37):
got limericks and haiku confused. Yes, well done, well done, text
gil, Yes there let's see here. I think that's it. Okay,
so who wins? I think wehave a right now in my mind to
tie between John on the phone andthen the kick in the bucket. Those

(55:57):
are both pretty darn guests. That'sjust the I like John's limericks, so
let's just give John John you wantto go see New Kids on the Block.
Yeah, I'm kind of like thatlady that called earlier. I couldn't
name a song. You tickets?Well, you know what, Well,
the Stones already happened, So ifwe gave you Stones tickets, that would
be a huge disappointment. I knowso. But seriously, if there's somebody

(56:22):
else that could go to the showand enjoy it, all right, I
appreciate it. Thank you for yourhonesty. Can you shout out to the
other text and see okay, Yeah, and we'll give the tickets away.
We'll find a way. Let metalk to this nice gentleman while we're trying
to sort that out. Find outwhat's going on in Kansas. Mark,
you are on Kowa. What's onyour mind? All right? Mandy?

(56:45):
I had a question or two andthen a suggestion for the Damns. Shoot.
Uh, First of all, dothey have time now to replace it?
Assuming they come to their senses andrealize that Joe's not going anywhere,
do they have time to select another? Well, that's where things get really
unwieldy, Mark, because it lookslike this the only way that the delegates

(57:06):
who have because everybody's already voted ina primary, right, so those delegates
from each state are committed to JoeBiden. So the only way that those
candidates delegates could be an open changetheir wait, let me do that again,
could unlock their vote is if JoeBiden says I am no longer running
for office. But even if hedid that right now, there is an

(57:28):
issue that there's laws on the booksin some states that say whoever appears on
the primary ballot must appear on thegeneral election ballot unless they die. Now
that's the first part of the problemthat has to be worked out. The
second part of the problem is howdo you select the replacement candidate? Because
you do not have time to putthis to the vote of the people.

(57:49):
You don't have time to allow peopleto decide. So what ends up happening
is a very small group of partyinsiders and leadership will get together and decide
who that candidate might be, andthen they will have to go the convention
which starts August nineteenth, eighteenth ornineteenth, and they would have to make
the case and win over the delegatesthere. At the Democratic National Convention,
So the thought of all this inreality makes me say it is incredibly unlikely.

(58:15):
Unless Joe Biden dies okay, oris completely incapacitated by a massive stroke
or something like that, it isvery unlikely that he will be replaced at
the top of the ticket. Isit is too unwieldy, and the Democrats
have made this bed. So Idon't feel sorry for him, right,
you know, because they've been lyingand covering for him, So I don't
feel sorry for him in this situation. But they ultimately would have to just

(58:39):
ride you know, Joe Biden's theirhorse. They're gonna have to try and
ride him over the finish line.Okay. Well, the thought that I
had if they could replace him wasbring in Michelle Obama. You know,
well, Michelle Obama has been veryclear that she she does not want to
do this. She already said multipletimes she has well think about it.

(59:01):
From Michelle Obama's perspective, Michelle Obama'salready had the presidential experience because she was
first Lady. She already knows thatalong with the prestige and the power,
there's a whole bunch of pain inthe assery that that people don't want to
deal with and right now, Ihappen to believe, and I got this
from people who are far more knowledgeableabout inside politics than I am. When

(59:22):
it comes to the Democratic Party,Obama and Michelle still have an incredible amount
of influence in the party without havingto deal with the downside. They have
more money than they'll ever need intheir lives. They have multiple homes.
They've got a home in Georgetown,a home in Hawaii. They travel the
world on yachts with famous people.Why in the world would you want to

(59:43):
step backwards when you're still maintaining powerbehind the scenes without having to bear the
responsibility for any of that power.Okay, I get that. Well,
who's another viable tenate? Well,right now it is the list that I
have seen in lude Gavin Newsom,which is would I mean, nobody wants
the rest of the country to belike California. Gretgen Whitmer from Michigan,

(01:00:07):
who I actually think would be aformidable candidate, but I don't Again,
I don't think they can replace himas of right now. We've also had
conversations about Pete Pete Botaedge Jedge,which honestly talk about a guy not ready
for that kind of leadership role.That's Pete Booted Judge. I mean,
he took two months off in themiddle of the transportation crisis during COVID because

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they adopted a new baby. I'mall for family leave, but if you
take an important job like that,you got to do it, you know
so, And who else has beenon that list? I can't think of
anybody else, Nobody that I thinkis a shoe in. Oh, Kamala
Harris, of course, But KamalaHarris doesn't have a lot of positives going
for her right now. Her pollinghas always been abysmal, She's always had
imaging issues. I just don't seeit happening. So they don't have If

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they had a great candidate in thewings, I think you'd see a far
bigger effort. But they know there'snobody that's a lock, and they risk
alienating a lot of voters that theytold Joe Biden was fine, right,
They were like, hey, JoeBiden's fine, let's just vote for him.
It's a very difficult way forward forthe Democratic Party right now. Yeah.
Well, I don't want them towin because I'm a such conservative,

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but I I just hate to say, you know, nobody else is saying
this, but I really feel kindof sorry for Joe Biden. Oh I
do too. We were supposed tohave fun and make fun of both of
them last night. It wasn't evenfun making fun of them. Okay,
I'm late for a break. Igotta go, But I appreciate the phone
call. In the sentiment, we'retalking about last night's debate. We're talking
about the outcome of last night's debate, and we're waiting for Donald Trump to

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take the stage at his Virginia rally, and we're going to take some of
that audio as well. The thingthat I found the most shocking this morning
was that this morning the Biden administrationthat the camp has already come out and
said, you know what, I'mgoing to come back for a second debate.
I'm ready, of course, asI said earlier in the show,

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I'm sure that the Democrats are goingto propose a brunch debate. It's never
happened before, people, it wouldbe amazing. It's clear that they cannot
try to do another debate after ninepm, because no, he can't do
that. I'm waiting. You knowwhat is the a ron, do me

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a favor? Go to YouTube,Google three am phone call political ad and
find that ad because this should beresurrected. And I want to say,
I don't remember who they ran thead against. What does it say?
Did you find it Hillary Clinton?Is it against Hillary Clinton? Or was

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it her ad? I can't remember. That was two thousand and eight.
I think let's play it. Justplay the ad. Give me the audio
on this. I can't right,it's in my head. Go ahead,
Oh Ad? Oh sorry, Ad, I thought you said I've got it,
So just let me know. We'rejust gonna okay, Ready, here
we go. This from the HillaryClinton's first run for office in two thousand
and eight. I'm pretty sure.It's three am and your children are safe

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into sleep. But there's a phonein the White House and it's ringing.
Something's happening in the world. Yourvote will decide who answers that call,
whether it's someone who already knows theworld's leaders, knows the military, someone
tested and ready to lead in adangerous world. It's three am, and
your children are safe into sleep.Who do you want answering the phone?

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Now? That ad should be HillaryClinton? And I approved this message.
Oh so she was running against BarackObama. That's when she was running against
Barack Obama. So here's the thing, you guys. That ad needs to
be resurrected, but it needs toend with a voice going oh oh oh,

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I mean, do you want thatguy that was on the debate stage
last night getting woken up in themiddle of the night saying we're under attack.
No, no, we do not. That is not a thing we
need, not at all. Andnow Biden says, I'm ready put me
in. I can't wait for thesecond debate. It's a bold strategy because
if I'm Donald Trump, there's noway I do a second debate. Absolutely

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not a snowball's chance in hell,zero percent chance that that happens. Now,
you remember doing the last political cycle, Trump had a really bad debate
as Joe Biden was campaigning from hisbasement, and that ended up being the
last debate. So Joe Biden iscoming out and saying, yep, I
can't wait for the next debate,waiting for Trump to say, yeah,

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no, I'm not gonna do it. So Biden can run around and go,
yeah, I tried to, Iwas, I beg for a second
debate, but he wouldn't do it. Why I ought to come over there
and beat you up. His teamhas also come out and said zero percent
chance he steps down. So shouldwe feel bad at all? I actually

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felt bad for Joe Biden last night. I did because I went into tonight's
our last night's to mate with thefollowing because we were doing the k WA
cast and thanks to all of youwatched us on Facebook. And I wanted
him to do poorly because I don'twant him to win, but I didn't
want him to do that bad.You know. I thought maybe he could
pull that out of a ditch,but maybe not. When we get back,

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we got to talk about some ofthe Supreme Court decisions that have been
handed down, because oh my goodness, these are life changing, game changing
decisions that are being made, especiallyone that could make big, big,
big changes to how cities deal withhomelessness. We'll talk about that next.
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Benny Donald, keeping Sad bab Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the third
hour of the show. Earlier today, during Ross's show, President Biden,
was it a rally in Virginia.Well, now Donald Trump is at a
rally in Virginia, and he wastedno time in getting to what happened last

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night. Let's hit that audio arod. Thank you very much, thank
you, thank you. Hello Virginia. Did anybody last night watch a thing
called a debate? No time,no time. But as you saw on

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television last night, we had abig victory against a man that really is
looking to destroy our country. He'sthe worst, he's the most corrupt,
the most incompetent president of the historyof our country. He's got him a
hatreak. This is forty five dashforty seven. That crook at Joe Biden

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spent the entire week at Camp David, resting, working, studying. He
studied very hard. He studied sohard that he didn't know what the hell
he was doing. He got thedebate rules that he wanted, he got
the date that he wanted, hegot the network that he wanted with the

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moderates he wanted. No amount ofrest or rigging could help him defend his
atrocious record. It's not defensible.I don't care who you were. You
could be the late Great Clarence Darrow. Has anyone ever heard of Clarence Saro?
He was not quite a good debater. Yeah, not as good as
your governor. But that's okay,Hello, governor. I can't miss this

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guy in the crowd. But hisson's much better looking than him. Joe
Biden's problem is not his age,it's not his anything. Really, it's
got no problem other than it's hiscompetence. He's grossly incompetent. You know,

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they keeps saying, oh, it'snot that. For just a second.
This is a very interesting This isan interesting approach because everybody's hitting Joe
Biden on his age, and Trumpcomes in and says, it's not his
age, it's his incompetence, thereforetaking himself above the frame, which is
not Trump like. Now, let'sgo go ahead place more see peopable things

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making a fortune. I knew aman that it's seventy nine. He was
never a success, and he madea billion, billion and a half dollars
from seventy nine to ninety two.And that's what it is. It's not
his age, it's his competence.He's not respected anywhere in the world.
Our country is being laughed at,all over the world. Biden is using

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the weaponization of his Justice Department,the FBI, local district attorneys, and
attorneys general to try and win anelection against his political opponent. That happens
to be made you know who Iam, something that actually was unthinkable in
our nation, which is very commonin third world countries or in Brenana Res

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public talking. What he's doing isusing the enforcement to try and hurt his
political opponent. Every one of thosethings last night you saw that was all
started by this guy, this crookedguy. And not only I cooked him
and he's just sut this down becausenow he's gonna do it. And what
he does, you know, firstof all, he looks great. He

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looks really good. He sounds great, he sounds confident. The crowd is
going wild. It's got to behotter than you know what in Chesapeake,
Virginia out in the sun. Butthis is super interesting that he is not
going for the jugular on the factthat he's too old. Maybe he knows
that Joe Biden's only a couple ofyears older than he is. So he
comes out and says, look,I knew people in their seventies that were

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successful eighties Wow, that's a verybold approach. So we won't necessarily spend
a lot of time in a rally. If you've seen a Trump rally,
know how they go. And heseems like he's moved on at this point
to attacking Joe Biden at every levelfor a corruption. Right now, he's
talking about Ukraine and watching it liveup here, talking about making Europe pay

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their pay their fair share. Iwonder what his polling data shows with older
people, how he's performing with peopleover sixty five, because last night,
one of the things he kept comingback to was that Joe Biden was destroying
Medicare and heal. I mean,he sounded like a staunch Democrat, to
tell you the truth, when hetalked about the way Democrats were going after

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entitlements. So I don't know ifhe has polling numbers that say he's not
doing well with people over sixty five, because a lot of this conversation seems
to me to be guided and gearedtowards that group of people. Now,
we didn't talk about this yesterday.I had it on yesterday's blog, but
if you look at who voted inthe Colorado primary, you see that in

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a vast majority of the ballots thatwere cast in the primary were cast by
people over the age of sixty.Here in Colorado, young people did not
vote. And because so many ofthose races were ultimately going to be the
race that determined who was going togo into the legislature because the districts were
so safe. Essentially, our legislatureis being made up by people over the

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age of who were voted on bypeople over the age of sixty. So
if that's who's voting in the primaries, if that's who's voting in Colorado and
other places, Donald Trump is tailoringhis message to meet that. You can
always text us your reactions to theKawa Common Spirit health text line at five
sixty six nine zero And Hi,Mandy, last night's debate was pathetic.

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I'm scared for the country, Butdon't you think immigration is a bit reason
for inflation and drugs? And lastnight Benjamin Albright, who is much smarter
political animal than most people realize,we were talking about inflation specifically, and
he said, oh, you know, it's corporate profiteering and things of that
nature, and supply chain issues andthose are a part of it. But
a vast majority of inflation is becauseof government overspending, and that's what we

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have a significant issue within in thiscountry. And we've talked about this.
If you listen to the show,you know that every empire eventually falls because
of they loot the treasury, theyspend themselves into the ground, and then
after that happens and their society sortof falls on hard times. Then they
are overcome and taken over, butnot until they drive themselves into a place

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where their debt and their inflation isso high. And inflation comes from government
overspending, and the Fed by loweringinterest rates so much and keeping them so
low during Sorry Donald, by keepingthem so low during COVID, they allowed
the government to keep borrowing at verylow rates. They basically juiced the economy

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by telling government, you know what, go and borrow right now. Interest
rates are two percent. You cando it. You can do it.
That's one of the reasons they keptinterest rates so low. If they were
truly market responsive, interest rates wouldhave gone up way before that. In
governments when they rack up a hugeamount of debt, and right now we're
like thirty five trillion in debt,it's a number so big you can't really
even rationally wrap your head around it. And that's not just Joe Biden,

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that's not just Donald Trump, that'snot just Barack Obama. This out of
control deficit spending started in nineteen seventywhen we detached from the gold standard,
not the actual year nineteen seventy,early nineteen seventies. We detached under Richard
Nixon, and out of control spendinghas been a bipartisan event. There's been

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no serious effort to curb government spendingsince the Congress of nineteen ninety four that
was led by Nuke Gingrich. Hegave Congress a challenge, let's work on
this, let's get spending under control. And as soon as that Congress was
gone six years later, all ofthat spending just went right through the roof
again. So inflation comes from thatbecause when governments saddled themselves with a huge

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amount of debt, what do theydo? They print more money. And
during COVID, one third of thedollars in circulation today were printed during COVID
one third. It was an unprecedentedamount of increase in the money supplied.
During COVID. They were printing moneyso fast it wasn't even funny that's the

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root of inflation. So inflation isone of those things that the only thing,
the best thing we can do isshrink government spending. At the end
of World War Two, of course, we were running this huge debt to
GDP ratio. I mean it wasit was massive, and we were spending
and spending and spending because it wasWorld War two. And after World War

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Two there were two factions in thegovernment. There was the faction and that
said, well, we can't cutgovernment spending now because the economy would crash.
We can't do it. The governmentis keeping the economy alive. Well,
luckily those people lost the conversation andthey contracted government spending dramatically over a
very short period of time, andit unleashed the prosperity of the nineteen fifties.

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And yet we can't look back onthat and show politicians, look,
look what happens when we cut governmentspending. You allow people to keep their
own money. And that would havebeen great, That would have been absolutely
fantastic if we now didn't have thirtysix trillion dollars in debt, because we're
not going to be able to cuttaxes with any real significance unless we dramatically

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cut spending. And that's not goingto happen because, first of all,
politicians love the government. It allowsthem to give favors to whomever they want
to give favors to. Second ofall, they're working with all the people
that they're then going to they're supposedto cut. It's very frustrating. Inflation
would be dramatically impacted by either presidentsaying we are going to, at a

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minimum try to get our budget balanced. Just balance the budget. It would
be amazing. It'll never happen becauseI mean, why would they. Massive
rulings today, really really important andinfluential rulings have come down today and they've
been overshadowed by the debate last night. But we're going to jump into a

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couple of them right now. Oneof them absolutely clipped the wings of the
administrative state in Washington, d c. It is a vote that overruled a
tremendously important decision from nineteen eighty fourcalled Chevron versus Natural Resources Defense Council,

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which has become known as the ChevronDoctrine. The Chevron Doctrine both beheld that
if Congress has not directly addressed thequestion at the center of a dispute,
a court was required to uphold theagency interpretation of the statute as long as
it was reasonable. This has beenused to shut down so many complaints levied

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at government agencies that overstep their bounds. In a thirty five page ruling by
Chief Justice John Roberts, the Justicehas said, no way. That is
a fundamentally misguided way of looking atthis. And John Roberts in his ruling
said that the issue here, andit might have been in Neil gore Such's

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opinion, I don't know which one. I'm sorry, I read it this
morning and I've forgotten one of themsaid that because the common man and the
common man could be male or female, you know what I'm saying, the
common man doesn't have the ability toideologically capture of bureaucracy or an agency.
Now, if you have a politicianand that politician does something wrong, you

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can hold them accountable at the ballotbox. We don't have that option to
hold the bureaucracy accountable. And becauseof that, because there's a zero percent
chance that the common man will everhave enough sway to capture an agency,
they should have the right to havea judge or the legal system determine the
veracity of that order based on whatis reasonable. It shouldn't just be the

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agency says, Okay, here's whatwe've decided. And now that we've decided
this, we think it's reasonable.Therefore, the court must defer to us.
This is huge. This is likean earthquake when it comes to the
bureaucracy in Washington, d C.But that wasn't the only earthquake that came
out. Today, the Justice isruled in favor of a January sixth defendant,

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and these are both on a straightconservative versus liberal justice lines six to
three. The Justice is ruled thatthe law that Joseph Fisher was charged with
violating, which bars obstruction of anofficial proceeding, applies only to evidence tampering,
such as destruction of records or documentsin official proceedings. This ruling could

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upend charges against about three hundred Januarysixth defendants. The same law is also
at the center of two of thefour charges brought by Special Council Jack Smith
against President Donald Trump in DC.Now, this is not the Trump community
case, Okay, this is justa case where a guy who had been
charged with this crime said, wait, a minute. That crime doesn't even

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apply to me, absolutely not.The US Court of Appeals had said,
look, the meaning of the statuteis unambiguous, so that it applies to
all forms of corrupt obstruction of anofficial proceeding other than the conduct that is
already covered by the prior subsection inthe law. But the Supreme Court vacated

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that decision, interpreting the law morenarrowly to apply only to evidence tampering.
So that's a super big deal thatdropped today. The court also in a
you know what, I'm going todo this. On the other side,
there was a case out of Grant'sPass, Oregon, where a group of
members of the homeless industry there suedthe city of Grant's Pass for their camping

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ban, and there was an earlierruling in a federal court that said a
city had to provide a bed andif there was not an available bed,
they could not enforce a camping ban, and that ruling has kept a lot
of municipalities from doing something much tougherabout homelessness. This changes everything. I'll
explain the rest on the other sideof the break. In the last segment

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that the January sixth decision was asix to three decisions along ideological lines.
That is not correct. Katanji BrownJackson joined Justice Roberts in the main opinion
and Amy Coney Barrett dissented in thatcase. So she did not think that
was a great idea. Now wehave more I was talking about Grant's Pass.

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This case. This case is huge. I mean, this case is
earth shattering when it comes to allowingmunicipalities to deal with homelessness at any level.
You got to go back in timeto when a decision called Martin versus
the City of Boise was decided bythe Ninth Circuit and that was in twenty
eighteen, and it said that theEighth Amendments ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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bars the imposition of criminal penalties forsitting and sleeping outside by people who are
homeless and who don't have access toshelter. Well, today, the Supreme
Court absolutely tossed that entire line ofthinking. It was a case involving Grant's
Pass. Oregon, and it hasa city of about just under forty thousand

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people, has as many as sixhundred people that are living homeless on any
given night. And in twenty thirteen, the city decided to increase enforcement of
existing ordinances that bar the use ofblankets, pillows, and cardboard boxes while
sleeping within the city. Violators facefines of two hundred and ninety five dollars,
which increases to five hundred and thirtyeight dollars if not paid. When

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they get two citations, Grant's Passissue in order banning them from city property,
and if they violate that order,they can be convicted on criminal trespass
charges, which carry penalties up upto thirty days in jail and a twelve
hundred and fifty dollars fine. Sothe Supreme Court just said, yeah,
no. The justices agree with theCity grants Pass that the ordnance simply bar

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camping on public property by everyone anddo not violate the Constitution's ban on cruel
and unusual punishment. Neil Gorsitz wrotethe majority opinion, and he said that
this serves many important functions talking aboutthe Eighth Amendment, but does not authorize
federal judges to dictate this nation's homelessnesspolicy. Instead, he suggested such a

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task should fall to the American people. Justice is Sonya Sotomayor, Elena Kagan
and Katanji Brown Jackson dissented and arguedthat the majority's ruling focuses almost exclusively on
the needs of local government and leavesthe most vulnerable in our society with an
impossible choice either stay awake or bearrested. No, no, if there's

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another choice, and that is acceptso many offers of help that are out
there. This is a game changer. I mean, this is this is
so incredibly important. I don't knowif you guys remember the many conversations that
I had with Mayor Michael Hancock aboutthis, because he came on the show
on a monthly basis like he promisedhe would, but we talked about it,

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and he referenced this case out ofBoise, Idaho as the reason that
Denver couldn't be more aggressive in gettingpeople off the streets. I'm one of
those people that think that as uncomfortableas homelessness probably is for people struggling with
mental health issues and addiction, livingon the streets is not something we should
allow in our society. It isinhumane, and so yeah, I want

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to make it uncomfortable. I wantto make it sort of so people are
are incentivized to take the other option, which is let's get you some help,
let's get you some treatment. Buty'all, we better have that help
and treatment available. We better haveways to help people get out of homelessness
forever. And it's a very difficultAnd I'll be perfectly honest when I say
I think there will always be somelevel of homelessness. There are some people

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who are never going to be ableto take care of themselves in any decent
way. But the way it hasexploded, the way that we know from
the week he spent on the streets, Mayor Mike Kaufman from Aurora, we
know that many of these people areon the streets by choice, because of
their addictions, because they don't wantto have to live by anyone else's rules,

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because they can get by just fineand sit around and get high all
day. That shouldn't be allowed.We should not just be buying death on
the installment plan, as stepped versBob Kote used to say. We should
be absolutely making it uncomfortable enough peoplewill want to accept the help to get
off the streets. And this rulingis earth shattering in its ability to do

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that. Now, there's a coupleother opinions. One today that Justice has
limited an sec tool to penalize securitiesfraud. And this is a financial services
thing. It's pretty high level.But all it says is, if you've
been accused of securities fraud, youhave the right to be to have your

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case heard by a jury. Andthat was kind of surprising that that wasn't
already a thing. So there yougo, and that was on ideological lines.
So between this, the January sixthdefendant ruling, the overturning of the
Chevron doctrine, it has been abig, big session. Not sexy cases,

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right, not cases. There's noabortion cases coming down now. The
only thing left is the ruling onthe Trump immunity claim. That could come
out Monday, because I don't thinkthey're going to release anything else this afternoon.
So the Supreme Court's had a veryvery busy time. And I saw

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somebody on Twitter reacting to some ofthese cases and it's it's hilarious. For
years when conservatives had to deal witha you know, more liberal majority,
every once in a while somebody wouldtalk about, oh, you need to
expand that. A Supreme Court itis the ongoing drum beat. It is
absolutely the non stop drum beat fromthe left that we have to expand the

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Supreme Court, we have to getmore people in there, we have to
do something about lifetime appointments, whichactually I'm perfectly fine with. I don't
think lifetime appointments should be a thing. I mean, if you're some organization
and you want to give somebody alifetime appointment, that's fine. Well,
why in the world should you geta lifetime appointment to something so important as
the Supreme Court's That's never made senseto me. And I understand that it

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takes a while to become a goodjurist, to understand the problem as to
become a good Supreme Court justice.So maybe that term is twelve years,
maybe that term is sixteen years.I don't know. But we certainly don't
need people on the Supreme Court forforty or fifty years. We just don't.
So that is all the stuff thathappened to the Supreme Court today,

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and it's all very very big news, I mean, super super big news.
Now, those of you on thetext line Mandy, are you starting
to see how fake January sixth was. January sixth, the event was not
fake, it was real. Itwas shameful, it was embarrassing. Was

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it an insurrection, No it wasnot. Was it an attempt to overthrow
the government, No it was not. But it certainly wasn't fake. We
all watched it on TV. You'reas bad as the people trying to tell
us today that Joe Biden did greatlast night. We all saw what happened.
It was terrible. It was ariot. It was awful. Now,

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the charges that are being filed againstpeople who just committed the crime of
walking through the Capitol when they wereallowed to walk through the Capitol and not
stopped in any way, shape orform, that's ridiculous. Trying to put
the people in jail for going andgoing to the Capitol and doing the dumb
thing they did. It's ridiculous,especially because on the other side of the

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aisle, no one goes to jailfor rioting and burning things down and destroying
things and killing people. No onegoes to jail. So yeah, it's
ridiculous, But it wasn't fake.Mandy, Why don't you just come out
and say the truth. I'm talkingabout homelessness. The main truth is many
of our young people do not wantto work. A non addicted young person

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who is in good mental health isnot choosing to live on the streets so
they don't have to work. Drugaddicted young people, Yes, they are
living on the streets because they cansit around at a high all day and
people will bring them food and dropit off, and they bring them off
coats in the winter, and theygive them tens to keep them, you
know, separated from the elements,and all of those wonderful, big hearted

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people are enabling their addictions and theirmental illness. But I don't think it's
just I don't want to work.Those kids are living in their famili's basements,
kids on the streets, They haveway more issues than that, Mandy.
It's also all broken families. Theycannot even go back to this is
a family's responsibility homeless is at whatpoint? And let me I'm gonna be

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genuine about this because we've talked aboutthis, and there's whenever a teenage child
does something, commits a crime,there's this big we just saw it happened
in Michigan where the parents were actuallyheld responsible for a teenager's crime. But
at what point when you have anadult child, meaning they are over the

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age of eighteen, At what pointif they are severely mentally ill, living
on the streets, completely detached fromreality. At what point do you stop
blaming the family, because I willtell you a lot of families have tried
everything, but once someone turns eighteen, they are on a talk. They're
an individual with individual rights as anadult, and it is impossible, absolutely

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impossible to do anything to have someonecommitted. To have someone just put on
a psychiatric cold is often a tremendouslyhigh barred Trust me, the families of
these people, a lot of themwould move heaven and earth to bring their
loved one home. But the realityis is that once you're an adult,

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it is incredibly hard to do that. So that's a gross oversimplification about the
blame or the role of families,because families bankrupt themselves trying to help their
adult children. And these people areso far gone and they're being enabled and
it's perfectly fine to live on thestreets that the families can't do anything.
Mandy, please realize that there arethree groups in Scotis the Conservatives, the

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liberals, and this weird middle groupconsisting of Roberts, Amy, Cony,
Barrett, and Kavanaugh. Probably sometruth to that. I've seen a lot
of I've seen a lot of Coloradoparks downtown who were just abandoned and have
turned to drugs. I don't Ican't read. That doesn't make sense.

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That doesn't make sense at all.Camping is pitching a tent in a spot
multiple days. If they rolled outa sleeping bag under a bush, left
before daylight, and left no trash, were they really camping? I don't
think they were to the law correctly. The problem is is that a vast
majority of homeless people don't do anyof those things you just said. They

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leave trash behind because they don't haveanywhere to use the bathroom, they don't
have anywhere to get food, theydon't have anywhere. You know, in
a perfect world, if homeless peoplewere like little night ninjas that just rolled
out a sleeping bag and slept,we would not have any problems. You
would have one single issue. Butthat's not at all what happens. They
create massive camps, They leave humanwaste everywhere, drug paraphernalia everywhere, garbage

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everywhere. And you can't live inDenver and not be aware of that.
I mean, really, come onHappy Independence Day to those jailed because of
Jay six. The Supreme Court gotthat right. How many defendants will sue
There are about three hundred defendants thatwill be directly affected by today's ruling.
But I'm more interested to see whathappens with the charges because Jack Smith charged

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Donald Trump with the crime under theold interpretation, So does this mean more
charges are going to be dismissed inthat case? These are very big deals,
very very very big deals. Now, got a lot of stuff on
the blog that we're not going totalk about today, but I do want
to get this story in before theend of the show on a Friday,

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because I think it is great news. You will hear from people try to
tell us that everything is horrible,that the middle class has shrunk in the
United States of America. And guesswhat, they're right. The middle class
shrank by ten percent over the fiftytwo year period ending in twenty twenty three.

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But it's not all it seems tobe. Before you talk about how
just the rich get richer, youneed to understand the middle class shrink by
ten percent, but the upper classgrew by eight percent and the lower class
grew by three percent. So outof that ten percent, you have people

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moving up out of the middle classat a double the rate almost actually no
double the rate of people moving downto the lower class. When I see
stuff like this, you know whatI think of I just think this is
this is a sign that our wayworks because economic mobility, being able to

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go from the class to the upperclass, or conversely, being able to
go from the middle class to lowerclass, is a hallmark of capitalism.
And though sometimes things happen to peopleand they knock them out of the middle
class, in the lower class,a lot of the times it's bad decision
making, and you can always reversethose decisions and move yourself back up.
Look who just walked in the studio. It's my boss, Dave Tepper.

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You're the boss, Mandy. I'mglad you look. I'm glad you know
that now I do know so lastto be here. Well, thanks for
being here, and thanks for bringpizza last night. I had no idea.
I thought I was being popcorn fordinner last night. It was like
not so toa approved no, Butit was a lot of fun. It
was fine. It's just so funto get the listeners involved like that,

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to get people interacting like that.It was so much fun to get all
the interaction during the Kowa cast andthen the post reaction show getting people on
that was I love the reaction show. That was great. That turned out
to be terrific. So it's justgreat to get everybody involved like that,
and you guys do terrific with it. If there's another debate, and I
really think that's a big if.Bid to said he's in. But if
I'm Trump, I'm like, no, no, no, no, we're

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not doing that again. We coveredeverything, We covered it, and they
did. They covered all the topics. I'm just say, now, you
got your win. If you're Biden, I get that, you want another
another shot at that? I meanit was uh yeah, I'm not surprised
that most think Trump won. Iwould have figured he probably would have.
What I did not expect was Ican't even say Biden collapsed. He never

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even got off the ground, gotoff the ground. So him getting beat,
I was not shocked by that.I figured that Trump would be a
better performer in that space. Butthe level in which Biden uh just was
a disaster was beyond expectation. Andif I'm him, yeah, you want
another you want another go at it? If you're Trump, You've you've got

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the one white, white, whitebother. Ross and I were talking about
the fact that last night, Imean, we were looking forward to making
Serki commentary, you know, likehaving it was like beating up on someone's
grandpa. I didn't even want tomake fun of him. It was that
bad. It was. I remembergoing in, you know, to the
studio there with with Grant, andyou know, I'm just listening to you

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guys, I'm watching the KOA castback there, and I'm hearing you all
describe it, and I'm like,well, this is Theater of the Mind.
It doesn't look that bad. Andso I went in and I went,
wow, yeah, it looks spacedI mean, yeah, spaced out,
you know, and it was,uh, you felt, I felt,
I think kind of like you musthave just a little sorry for the

(01:36:34):
old fella exactly stop it. Imean, did anyone checked that guy's pulse
before he went out there and anyonegoing, hey, hold on a second
here. But I was super badabout all the people that have been protecting
him and propping him up. Theyknew, they absolutely knew they had to
have had doesn't know, yes,you know, I mean there's no way,

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well as you put some buddy inposition to be successful, right,
and like a lot of that isthroughout the day. If the guy is
not feeling well, it's still like, is this putting him slash us in
the best position for success? AndI'm sure it's everything is easier the day
after, but you gotta be going, wow, I mean to have at
least to be able to explain whywe pulled him last minute would have been

(01:37:23):
a hell of a lot easier toclean up than this result. Correct,
And you know they reap what theysew. But you're in here to get
your ass kicked on a Friday?Is that what it's your? Sorry?
Did I say? You know?I'm adding a new thing of a day
Limerick of the day. I canrun Limerick like abra. It took me
thirty seconds right to Limerick. I'man amaze. Like if this radio thing

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doesn't work out, professional Limerick writer, I'm going to get cards printed Limerick
Limerick writer, Limerick writ So yougive me a topic, I write you
a Limerick. It's fine. SohAnd now it's time for the most exciting
segment on the radio. Guid inalmost a Biden version, the bad the

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kind of you were looking for towe beat medicare Okay, anyway, Today's
dad joke of the day. Please, Well, good news that the boss
is here, because boss I justgot hired at the Gullantine Factory. Another
side hustle. I'll be heading theretomorrow. Wow. Wow, Today's limerick
of the day. There once wasan old man named Joe whose reactions had

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grown kind of slow. He hada debate where his lunch got eight and
now everyone thinks he should go.That is the limerick of the day.
So that as long as I canremember to do that, I know it's
it's a gift topical. It's acompletely useless, unmarketable gift that I have.
So there you go. What isour word of the day? Please?
It is a noun atonomy atonomy mE t O N Y M hymtonomy

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atonomy one more time, m etautonomy? Why am why autonomy? I'm
I'm I have no idea, LikeI can't even figure out the root words
there atonomy. I have no idea. Well, it is referring to something
by one of its attributes or bya related word matony. Can you just

(01:39:17):
have a sense? Usually does thisone doesn't have sences? Oh? No,
nothing for you atonomy. Well,I don't know the trivia question either,
so I'm striking out left and right. What is the capital like Morocco.
I'm telling you it's a gift.It's a gift. Yeah, I
have no idea. First I waslike, Tangiers, let's go with that.

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Tangiers, no robot sitting on theAtlantic coast. The city, which
dates back to the twelfth century,is a hub for the textile industry.
There you go, robots, robots. Yeah, all right, that's vacation.
Is that gonna be your next vacation. A friend of mine, when
she was there at early twenties withher dad, someone offered camels in exchange
for her in Morocco. Yeah.She was like, well, how many

(01:40:03):
camels are we talking? I wantto know. I want to know my
value in Morocco. They would notgive an number. Okay, what is
our jeopardy category? I love thisone? Fringe worthy office lingo. Oh.
Figuratively speaking, you might put thisin an issue to be handed later,
handled later, or perhaps an issueto be handled never put a blank

(01:40:27):
in the issue? What a blank? Oh, Mandy, what's a pin?
Correct? Yes, it's one ofmy least favorite This two word phrase.
I love that one. This twoword phrase meaning chat or connect may
have started as a sportsman of whatis touch base? That is correct?
I know all of these. You'rejust kidding me. You're in steeped in
this where you should All of thesethese are all heard on the fourth floor

(01:40:51):
on a daily basis these days.This one is a good one you might
have. Let's see. It's away of saying reconnect later, with a
dash of needless geometry thrown in forgood measure. Mandylet's circle back. That
is correct here all of you,but you do I speak like you do

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not. Here's why you do not. Here's what I should be more professional?
This is your hands. I haven'theard this one in my age.
It's a sonar inspired way to saycontact me when correct. Yea. And
finally, it's a three word phrasemeaning at one's own expense, in a
needlessly worry way of seeing, ofsaying unavailable at one's expense, Yes,

(01:41:35):
you are blank? What's out ofpocket? That is correct? I was
just about to say, listen,I'm put to lay up. I am
such a layup at this. Ithink you've had me here about four times.
I don't know if I think I'moh for all of them, well,
you know what, you're not alone. There's a lot of people that
I am undefeated against. Yeah,but I've probably enough. No, if

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you don't play enough, And here'sthe thing I say this everybody. The
more you play the east zeer itgets like Ross's music game. At times,
I'm like, all right, didyou get today's That was harder?
It was hard, but this one, my brain just it's just it's like
it's such a backward thing. Ithink we need to do yacht rock the
music game. I want to do, Like I'm going to pick a yacht

(01:42:16):
rock song for Ross's game, Iwould want to play against you in that
you'll get them all. What well, if I'm choosing the songs, yeah,
fine, so we'll have to bringthat up. Well done, Dave
Tapper, day done well. Iwas just talking about myself. Well done
and well done last night. Itwas a lot of fun. And if
there is another debate, we'll doit again. But right now, KOA

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Sports is ready to go, sowe're gonna make room for that. Keep
it right here on KOA