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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordie's last night.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Nebraska first District Representative Mike Flood had a town hall
in Lincoln, drawing a crowd of seven hundred and fifty
some people. According to media estimates, I think seven hundred
and fifty of them, that would be one hundred percent
were anti Trump, anti Republican, anti Mike Flood pro Let's
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just make up anything in the world to and if
we yell loud enough and we all chant in unison,
then maybe people will believe this. Before we get to
some of those sound bites, let me give you an
example about which I am talking. Have you heard some
of the news stories here recently, and it's amazing that
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suddenly there are a lot of news organizations that care
about the shelves at food pantries across the country. There
are a lot of news stories that say, well, the
shelves are getting empty at food pantries across the country.
They're bracing for federal cuts in of course Trump and
the GOP's restrictions on Medicaid. They are causing people to
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have lost that money that they expected, the money that
they needed coming in so they could go and get food,
and now they can't buy it because of the Medicaid cuts.
They said, they told these guys to get back to work.
They have children to feed, and they can't go if
they can't feed their kids because they didn't get any
of this Medicaid and some of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program,
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the Snap food stamp stuff that restricted some of the
food that they got like pop like candy things, so
they can't get that, and so now they're turning to
the food banks. And people are going in droves to
the food banks to try and get food to feed
their children, and the food banks can't keep up. The
shells are empty. Okay, a couple things about that. First,
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sad reality, the shelves at the food bank are often empty.
There are not a lot of people who are donating
to the food bank. They could always use more donations.
Sad reality, There are a lot of people in our
community who do need that food and they go to
get it. Some of that food does not have a
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real long shelf life. Sometimes you get some people in
there pretty picky, going, well, I need to feed my kids.
I don't know what I can do with a sack
full of onions. Hey, kids, guess what we're having for dinner.
It's a sack full of onions. Here we go. Okay,
you get an onion, and you get an onion, like
the worst episode of Oprah Winfrey's show ever.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Everyone gets onions.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But the food stamps could always are food. The food
pantries could always use more food. But it's amazing that
the media outlets right now are going in there and saying,
all right, let's get a picture of some empty shelves.
Let's get a picture of a lack of volunteers around here.
That was the same thing you could have seen had
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you gone there eight months ago, eighteen months ago, years,
eight years ago. That is this sad reality for a
lot of food pantries across the country. What is the
lie in this? The lie is, and the media either
doesn't or won't tell you this as they talk about
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what people are bracing because of these Medicaid cuts and
so forth. When do the Medicaid restrictions take effect? When
is it that if you are currently in this country
and you're, as Mike Flood said last night, if you're
twenty eight years old and you choose not to work,
you don't get free healthcare in America, Or if you're
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in the country illegally, you don't get free healthcare in America.
But he talked about if you're able to work, if
you're able to work and you're twenty eight years old
and you choose not to work, you don't get free
healthcare in America. And he said that last night in
the crowd, and Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Like, boo, how dare you so mean?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
All right, so let's talk about that guy in the country,
legally able to work, twenty eight years old, able bodied,
decided I don't want to work. I just want to
bang on the drum all day or whatever it is
that he's thinking. When does he get booted off Medicaid? Well,
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a month ago when the Republicans signed that big, beautiful bill, right,
President Trump. Republicans passed the bill. President Trump signed the
bill right before an Independence Day. I was about a
month ago, Right, he was kicked off Medicaid a month ago?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
No? Oh, is it? Is it coming up? Like September first?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Is it the end of this year?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Is it a year from when the president signed it?
So like next summer?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Again?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
No January first, twenty twenty seven. You've got a year
and a half. Do you have kids? Do you have
kids right now at home? Who are that twenty eight
year old? Now here's the part of the show where
Lucy says she's glad she doesn't have kids, all right,
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anyone besides Lucy, do you have kids? Do you have
a twenty eight year old at home who's able to
work and chooses not to Would you give that shining
little example of humanity a year and a half to
get his life together, because that's what the big beautiful
bill has done. You have a year and a half.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, and a year and a half. You don't even
realize how fast that goes.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Better get started. Then you've got a year. You've got
a year and a half. Lucy, You've got a year
and a half to get your life together. Is not
enough time.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
The people who are.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Right now not working, able bodied, choose not to work,
are going to have to get a job. And it's
not even like a full time job, at least a
part time job to be eligible for Medicaid. People between
the ages of nine. You're kicking off old people nineteen
and sixty four, mostly single, able bodied males. You have
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until January first, twenty twenty seven to get your life together.
No one has been kicked off Medicaid right now, there
are no restrictions that have impacted anyone any differently than
five months ago. So the people who have been living
this way for the entire year are still in the
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exact same situation they were. There is no reason based
on anything Trump has done, the Congress is done, or
Congressman Mike Flood is no reason based on anything these
people have done. It would cause anyone to have to
go to a food pantry and get food. Well, I
had food coming in and then Trump slapped a food
out of my mouth. I ain't got no food in
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my mouth. I any food. We're in my sack onions
and they go into the food pantry and they clean
it out. There's nothing that the Trump administration or the
Republican Congress, there's not one single thing that they have
done that has changed anything for anyone in this country.
Yet these people showed up last night. Mike Flood tried
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to talk in Lincoln and people just weren't having it.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
We returned our spending on SNAP to our pre pandemic
level of twenty nineteen at sixty billion.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, that's that's the thing. As they're talking about food stamps,
people like you're cotting foodstamps. We returned it to where
we were pre pandemic. The pandemic is over, people. It
went up a bit in the pandemic. People weren't able
to work. They wanted to work, in some instances weren't
able to and so we had expanded foodstamps. That pandemic
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has been over. Depending on where you are in this country,
it's been over for years. Time to return that level
of governmental bridge from where you were to where you
want to be. Food stamps not a house, a bridge.
Time to return that to where it was before the
pandemic in twenty nineteen. People are losing their minds over this.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
They can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And we also said to states that have low error rates,
and Nebraska has low error rates, that there's going to
be incentive for states that do it right, and there's
going to be a disincentive for states that have a
high aer rate. Now you may disagree with the actual
number we arrived at, but going from sixty billion one
year to one hundred billion the next year, that was
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not That was the COVID pandemic. The pandemic is gone.
People have gone back to work. We are now at
the twenty nineteen levels, which I think are acceptable.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
All right, So Mike Flood tries to answer questions.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
People are yelling, what is the national debt ceiling limit?
And what is the current national debt?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
All right, Well, we'll come back to this in a moment,
because I thought that next there was a lady who
really got after it. Well, there was a lot of
people really got after Mike Flood to uh, to go
to a different SoundBite. Here's how k E TV News
Watch seven reported it on their news last night. Here
a couple of people came to ask some good, measured,
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common sense questions of their congressman.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
How much does it cost for fascism? How much do
the taxpayers have to pay?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I want to ask, why does it seem like when
you make your voting decisions they're based on capital rather.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Than the working class.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, these are good reason rational people. There was nothing
that Mike Flood said in terms of giving it back
to these people with the same volume and anger in
his voice that they had starting off. That's how they
started things off. How much does it cost for fascism?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I don't know. How much did it cost you to
get there? Last night, the.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Fascists are the people who are lying about what's going
on in this country. They think that this country is
benefiting from people who are able to work and don't work,
and somehow this country benefits from that. They think that
this country benefits from people were in this country illegally
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stealing identities from other immigrants and making their lives hard
and driving down wages and filling up emergency rooms and
making problems for public safety. They think that somehow this
country benefits from all of that.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
That's fascism.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They want their level of you know, you got to
do what we say, whether it's anything from immigration to
an advertisement for blue jeans. If you do anything other
than what we want, you shouldn't be allowed to exist
in this country. That's fascism. That's what they want. Congressman
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Flood tried to respond, He tried to answer questions. I
thought he did an amazing job last night. This went
on for about an hour and a half as all
these people packed in there and not a I don't
know how many of these individuals voted, but they just
showed up last night to be all mad.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
All right, So what are you guys going to do now?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
If you're all mad, you rally around a candidate, you
get out a message, and you run against him in
the midterm elections. It actually shouldn't be too hard. Oftentimes
in America's midterm elections, whoever the ruling party is, no
matter what's going on, people are like, I want to change,
and the other side is more pushed to go out
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and get that vote out. So what's your message? Who's
your candidate? Because I gotta tell you, if you come
out there and you just sound like this heading up
to the midterms, how much does it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Cost for fascism? How much do the taxpayers have to pay.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
If you if you just come out there with that message,
you will not win. Scott voice some of the emails
here Gina emails via the Zonker's custom woods inbox. Scott
atkfab dot com says, regarding that person screaming about how
much does fascism cost? I guarantee that she thinks that
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the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad is rasist and promotes eugenics. Yeah,
she's a real winner. President Trump responded to that ad.
By the way, and just in case you're just coming
out of a coma, hey, great to have you with
us stay off Dodge. Between seventy second and fiftieth we'll
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give you all the information you need to know as
you're trying to figure out what's happened since you went out.
There was an advertisment for blue jeans that featured an
attractive young woman wearing jeans. If you went into a
coma at any point before about ten to fifteen years ago,
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then you're like, yeah, what's the big deal, That's what
I thought. These ads all looked like well over the
last few years. Are not allowed to have an advertisement
featuring an attractive individual wearing blue jeans, certainly not one
like Sidney Sweeney, who is white, blonde haired, blue eyed,
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and as we learned yesterday, a Republican. So people said like, oh,
you know this advertisement with this woman out there with
their jeans, and there was a play on it that
said Sydney Sweeney has great genes, a play on genetics
meaning she looks great and she looks great in our
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gens as American eagle. Well, people said, oh, that means
that it's promoting eugenics. Great genes, you know, the great
genes g E n e s. The great genes are
blond hair, blue eyed, white skin. No, we're just blue jeans.
It's just a joke that she looks great. She looks
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great in these genes. You'd look great in these genes.
Oh would I look like Sidney Sweeney. So people lost
their minds about this ad, and President Trump, I guess
he was asked about it when talking to a gaggle
of reporters yesterday. He said, I love the ad. I
think it's fantastic. And then he found out that Sidney Sweeney,
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at least he says, is a registered Republican, and he said,
you'd be surprised at how many people are Republicans if
Sidney Sweeney is a registered Republican. I think her ad
is fantastic. I don't know. This is an actress who's
in TV shows like The White Lotus and Euphoria, two
shows I have heard of and do not watch. But
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President Trump responded to it yesterday, which is going to
cause people to even get more angry at this ad.
In the town hall last night, Congressman Flood was also
asked about the Epstein files, and he said, when we
come back from the August recess, you'll find my name,
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said Mike Flood as a sponsor on a resolution from
the House Rules Committee to release the Epstein files in
a way that protects the victims and does not revictimize them. Again,
that's why there are those in the Trump administration saying, well,
we're not going to just open up all the files here.
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It's got the names of underage girls who've been victimized.
We're not going to put all these names out there.
See the media can all run over to them, going,
when did you see Trump there? How often is he
or whatever. What Mike Flood didn't say is whether there
are names of people in there, whether they've actually been
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accused of a crime, whether your name and a report
means that you've committed criminal activity. But he also said
that we look forward to having Glaine Maxwell come and
talk to investigators about this was the madam for Jeffrey Epstein.
Why hasn't anyone talked to her? Oh? Wait, they have.
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They've talked to her several times. They talked to her
all throughout the investigation that put her in jail, they
talked to her all throughout the Biden administration that put
together the Epstein files to begin with. And people somehow
think that they live in a world where the Biden
administration knew that Trump's name was all over this, that
Trump committed a lot of horrible, disgusting crimes, and they
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kept it under wraps. The Biden Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton,
Chuck Schumer administration had Trump dead to right with all
these different people saying yeah, here's a picture of me
and Trump doing horrible things. And they said, well, no
one needs to know about that. That you think you
live in a world where all this information is out there,
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but the Biden administration kept quiet. Do you think you
live in that world? You don't live in that world.
That world doesn't exist. Kyle emails scottikfab dot com and
says the Shrieking Harpies Party is never going to understand.
They don't want to understand. They don't even care about
winning anymore. They just want to hear themselves scream into
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the abyss. Here's how last night's town hall by Congressman
Flood and it. As he tried to make some closing remarks,
I want to say.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
A couple of things. Thank you to the University of
Nebraska Lincoln. Thank you to the UNL Police, thank you
to my staff, thank you to Nebraska Public media for
doing a great job tonight. Thank you to all the
numbers of the working media that are here, and most importantly,
thank you to all of you. If you need assistance
from my office, call my office, come see me.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I will be visible, I will be accessible.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And for those of you watching from home, please know
I am on your side. I never forget who I'm
working for, and it is an honor to serve you
and a privilege to serve you. In the United States Congress,
thank you very much and have a safe drive home.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Hey, thanks a lot for coming. They're just losing their mind.
He talked to them for an hour and a half.
He answered all of their questions. They so obviously several
of the people there didn't like his answers to their questions.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Okay, what is it.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
That you want? What in what world do you think
that we live in a district, a state, and area
a country where your way is the only way forward
and everyone thinks exactly the same way you do. They
have to otherwise, what what is it that you want?
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We had an election Mike Flood won convincingly. The people
in that district said, we want that man to go
represent our interests. The people who didn't vote for him
showed up and yelled at him for doing the things
that he was elected to do. Now, there's absolutely nothing
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wrong with having a difference of opinion from your elected representative.
That's why you have the town hall. That's why people
it was. At no time did it ever appear like
there was a prerequisite. Show me that you're a Mike
Flood supporter, show me that you voted for him, Tell
me how much you love him and President Trump and
the big beautiful Bill and all the rest of this
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stuff going on there. Are you a fan of Sydney Sweeney, Well,
then you get a microphone and you get a chance
to answer a question. They just passed the mic around.
Of course, the people that go to these town halls
know that, and they wanted an opportunity to scream and
shriek and yell and boo and drown out and cuss.
And I guess that's their right if they think that's
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a fun way to spend a Monday evening, that's what
they can do. But what exactly do you want You
asked a question, or you made a point, Congressman responded
to you, gave you the reasons why he voted the
way he did, some thoughts about what he thinks that
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some of the actions from Washington, DC will do to
our community or for our community. Okay, we might have
a difference of opinion. You're just gonna start yelling and
booing and screaming at someone. You remember how he took office, right,
It wasn't He didn't load up guns and tanks and
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get some supporters in a militia group and just go
take office. You know, they didn't some mally pirate their
way into office. They didn't show up in the first
district offices, either in Lincoln or in Washington, d C.
And say I'm the congressman now like some Mali pirates do.
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He ran for office, he was elected. He gets two years.
You have full capability to ask him questions you did.
He stood there for an hour and a half just
getting pelted with your verbal abuse, and he didn't seem
to get all that angry about it. I think it
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a few times that he tried to raise his voice
because people were yelling and screaming and he was trying
to get his answer out. You even had people who
disagreed with him last night who started off their comments
when they had the microphone by saying, hey, let's let
the congressman talk.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Those please went nowhere?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
What is it exactly that you want? I want you
to think the way I do? Well, I don't what then?
What then exactly?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
In an adult world, you don't have a ninety minute
temper tantrum where you're just yelling and whining and screaming.
I mean, I get two hours every morning, but I'm
not an adult. I'm a blowhard. Reasonable people are supposed
to act like reason. I don't know why I expect
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anyone to act like a reasonable person when they're out
in public. I don't know if you've been out in
public recently. It's scary out there a lot of un
reasonable people. But if you just boil it down to
let's say you've got children hearing nothing from luth now
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here's the part of the show where Lucy says she's
glad she doesn't have kids. All right, twice this hour.
Let's say you've got kids, and your two children are
starting to have a disagreement and it turns into an
argument and a full blown temper tantrum.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
How do you deal with that as a parent? Do
you just let it go, and you want me to
respond to that house.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'm not necessary. I'm we have a few people listening
to this program. I'm talking to them.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Oh, well, you said you haven't heard from me two times.
I'm assuming it's twice that you played this is.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, No, I've heard, I've heard, I've heard said something before.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I heard that SoundBite twice this hour. Okay, let's take
it away from kids. You've got adult coworkers who are
having a disagreement. Would you let them stand there and
just yell at each other for nine minutes or do
you try and intervene and say, okay, let's let's try
and find a way forward here.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, I mean.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
He's not doing things away I want Okay, Well he
was We hired this person to do the job this way,
and he's doing the job that he was hired to do.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, what I don't like.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That's not how i'd do it. Okay, Well you're not
the person doing the job. Thank you very much for
your input. We're happy to sit here and talk to you.
Do you have a question. My question is.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
How come he won't do the job away?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I want him to do it well, because we discussed
this and we decided this was the way to do
the job. Now, this job is open next year. If
you want to do this job, convince your coworkers that
this is the way that you would do the job,
and that you're the person to do the job. But
in the meantime, job needs to be done. This is
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the person hired to do the job. I'm still waiting
to hear your input on how the job could be
done better. Don't take money away from people who need it.
All right, Okay, we're not any other questions. You're a fascist?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
All right?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well that's that's name calling. That doesn't help us out.
All right, let's talk to someone else.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I'm not done.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Okay, that's how this town hall went last night. And
these people yelling, screen booing, freaking out, what exactly do
they think should happen here? What did they want last night?
Did they think the congressman flub was going to say,
you know, I didn't realize that so many of you
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felt so strongly about this. I'm going to vote completely
differently than how I voted then, how the overwhelming majority
and this people in this district voted me into office.
And you know what, maybe it's better if I just resigned.
I'm just going to resign.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay. Oh what happens if I resigned? Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
They appoint another Republican into this position. Okay, so my
resigning doesn't do any good. All right, Well, I guess
there's an election next year. Do you guys have a candidate.
The Democratic Party in this state is so bad that
they've got an independent candidate running for Senate and Dan Osborne,
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he's the guy that ran against deb Fisher just last
year didn't win. So now he's like, I'm running for
Senate again. This time I'm running against Pete Ricketts. And
the Democrats don't have a candidate. They don't have anyone
who wants to run in Nebraska's Senate race against incumbent
Republican Pete Ricketts. This last time against Ricketts they found
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and this is, we have so many elections because he
was out the rest of the term from Ben Sas
and we had to have special elections and all this stuff.
So the next the last time, here they find a
kindly old gentleman named Preston Love Junior.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Good guy.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But they looked across the entire state of Nebraska and
they couldn't find anyone who wanted to run, and Preston's
the kind of guy that's like, really, no one, no
one's going to represent our party, all right, I'll do it.
So out of that virtue he runs for office. He
knew he didn't have a chance, but he was out
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there running because no one else would. And so now
here we are again, and the Democrats aren't even gonna
put me one up. They're not even gonna put me
one up. Dan Osborne like, I'm running as an independent
because I don't want to be lumped lumped in with
those Democrats. Now, I'm happy to take all their money.
And the state Democrat parties says, all right, we're endorsing
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Dan Osborne. They don't have a candidate. We had hundreds
of people filled this town hall meeting last night, yelling, angry, screaming.
Maybe they should be angry at their own party. Presuming
these guys are all Democrats, they should be angry at
their own party. They don't even try in this state.
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They don't even put up candidates. They don't try and
put out a message or a candidate with a good message.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
They don't really campaign across the state.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Sometimes in state wide offices, things like treasure or auditor
or stuff like that. They don't even put up a candidate
for things like this.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Why bother.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Forgetting that Democrats do win statewide office in Nebraska. Bob
Kerrey Ben Nelson list goes barely on and it doesn't
go that much further, but it has happened. You find
the right candidate with the right message, you get that done.
But they don't even try. So, yeah, I'm not surprised
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that these people last night were all mad their own
party has abandoned them. The Republican is voting the way
that he was voted in to vote. Kamala Harris goes
on TV the other night. Stephen Colbert asks her who's
the head, who's the leader of the Democratic Party in America.
She's like, Ah, there's lots of leaders, they don't have one,
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And so these guys are throwing a temper tantrum, you know,
on that level, I guess I don't blame them.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven on News Radio eleven
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Scott Vordie's last night.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Nebraska first District Representative Mike Flood had a town hall
in Lincoln, drawing a crowd of seven hundred and fifty
some people. According to media estimates, I think seven hundred
and fifty of them, that would be one hundred percent
were anti Trump, anti Republican, anti Mike Flood pro Let's
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just make up anything in the world to and if
we yell loud enough and we all chant in unison,
then maybe people will believe this. Before we get to
some of those sound bites, let me give you an
example about which I am talking. Have you heard some
of the news stories here recently, and it's amazing that
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suddenly there are a lot of news organizations that care
about the shelves at food pantries across the country. There
are a lot of news stories that say, well, the
shelves are getting empty at food pantries across the country.
They're bracing for federal cuts in of course Trump and
the GOP's restrictions on Medicaid. They are causing people to
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have lost that money that they expected, the money that
they needed coming in so they could go and get food,
and now they can't buy it because of the Medicaid cuts.
They said, they told these guys to get back to work.
They have children to feed, and they can't go if
they can't feed their kids because they didn't get any
of this Medicaid and some of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program,
(01:28):
the Snap food stamp stuff that restricted some of the
food that they got like pop like candy things, so
they can't get that, and so now they're turning to
the food banks. And people are going in droves to
the food banks to try and get food to feed
their children, and the food banks can't keep up. The
shells are empty. Okay, a couple things about that. First,
(01:49):
sad reality, the shelves at the food bank are often empty.
There are not a lot of people who are donating
to the food bank. They could always use more donations.
Sad reality, There are a lot of people in our
community who do need that food and they go to
get it. Some of that food does not have a
(02:09):
real long shelf life. Sometimes you get some people in
there pretty picky, going, well, I need to feed my kids.
I don't know what I can do with a sack
full of onions. Hey, kids, guess what we're having for dinner.
It's a sack full of onions. Here we go. Okay,
you get an onion, and you get an onion, like
the worst episode of Oprah Winfrey's show ever.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Everyone gets onions.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But the food stamps could always are food. The food
pantries could always use more food. But it's amazing that
the media outlets right now are going in there and saying,
all right, let's get a picture of some empty shelves.
Let's get a picture of a lack of volunteers around here.
That was the same thing you could have seen had
(02:54):
you gone there eight months ago, eighteen months ago, years,
eight years ago. That is this sad reality for a
lot of food pantries across the country. What is the
lie in this? The lie is, and the media either
doesn't or won't tell you this as they talk about
(03:17):
what people are bracing because of these Medicaid cuts and
so forth. When do the Medicaid restrictions take effect? When
is it that if you are currently in this country
and you're, as Mike Flood said last night, if you're
twenty eight years old and you choose not to work,
you don't get free healthcare in America, Or if you're
(03:38):
in the country illegally, you don't get free healthcare in America.
But he talked about if you're able to work, if
you're able to work and you're twenty eight years old
and you choose not to work, you don't get free
healthcare in America. And he said that last night in
the crowd, and Lincoln.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Like, boo, how dare you so mean?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
All right, so let's talk about that guy in the country,
legally able to work, twenty eight years old, able bodied,
decided I don't want to work. I just want to
bang on the drum all day or whatever it is
that he's thinking. When does he get booted off Medicaid? Well,
(04:18):
a month ago when the Republicans signed that big, beautiful bill, right,
President Trump. Republicans passed the bill. President Trump signed the
bill right before an Independence Day. I was about a
month ago, Right, he was kicked off Medicaid a month ago?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
No? Oh, is it? Is it coming up? Like September first?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Is it the end of this year?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Is it a year from when the president signed it?
So like next summer?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Again?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
No January first, twenty twenty seven. You've got a year
and a half. Do you have kids? Do you have
kids right now at home? Who are that twenty eight
year old? Now here's the part of the show where
Lucy says she's glad she doesn't have kids, all right,
(05:17):
anyone besides Lucy, do you have kids? Do you have
a twenty eight year old at home who's able to
work and chooses not to Would you give that shining
little example of humanity a year and a half to
get his life together, because that's what the big beautiful
bill has done. You have a year and a half.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, and a year and a half. You don't even
realize how fast that goes.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Better get started. Then you've got a year. You've got
a year and a half. Lucy, You've got a year
and a half to get your life together. Is not
enough time.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
The people who are.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Right now not working, able bodied, choose not to work,
are going to have to get a job. And it's
not even like a full time job, at least a
part time job to be eligible for Medicaid. People between
the ages of nine. You're kicking off old people nineteen
and sixty four, mostly single, able bodied males. You have
(06:20):
until January first, twenty twenty seven to get your life together.
No one has been kicked off Medicaid right now, there
are no restrictions that have impacted anyone any differently than
five months ago. So the people who have been living
this way for the entire year are still in the
(06:41):
exact same situation they were. There is no reason based
on anything Trump has done, the Congress is done, or
Congressman Mike Flood is no reason based on anything these
people have done. It would cause anyone to have to
go to a food pantry and get food. Well, I
had food coming in and then Trump slapped a food
out of my mouth. I ain't got no food in
(07:02):
my mouth. I any food. We're in my sack onions
and they go into the food pantry and they clean
it out. There's nothing that the Trump administration or the
Republican Congress, there's not one single thing that they have
done that has changed anything for anyone in this country.
Yet these people showed up last night. Mike Flood tried
(07:23):
to talk in Lincoln and people just weren't having it.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
We returned our spending on SNAP to our pre pandemic
level of twenty nineteen at sixty billion.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, that's that's the thing. As they're talking about food stamps,
people like you're cotting foodstamps. We returned it to where
we were pre pandemic. The pandemic is over, people. It
went up a bit in the pandemic. People weren't able
to work. They wanted to work, in some instances weren't
able to and so we had expanded foodstamps. That pandemic
(07:56):
has been over. Depending on where you are in this country,
it's been over for years. Time to return that level
of governmental bridge from where you were to where you
want to be. Food stamps not a house, a bridge.
Time to return that to where it was before the
pandemic in twenty nineteen. People are losing their minds over this.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
They can't believe it.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
And we also said to states that have low error rates,
and Nebraska has low error rates, that there's going to
be incentive for states that do it right, and there's
going to be a disincentive for states that have a
high aer rate. Now you may disagree with the actual
number we arrived at, but going from sixty billion one
year to one hundred billion the next year, that was
(08:42):
not That was the COVID pandemic. The pandemic is gone.
People have gone back to work. We are now at
the twenty nineteen levels, which I think are acceptable.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
All right, So Mike Flood tries to answer questions.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
People are yelling, what is the national debt ceiling limit?
And what is the current national debt?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
All right, Well, we'll come back to this in a moment,
because I thought that next there was a lady who
really got after it. Well, there was a lot of
people really got after Mike Flood to uh, to go
to a different SoundBite. Here's how k E TV News
Watch seven reported it on their news last night. Here
a couple of people came to ask some good, measured,
(09:22):
common sense questions of their congressman.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
How much does it cost for fascism? How much do
the taxpayers have to pay?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I want to ask, why does it seem like when
you make your voting decisions they're based on capital rather.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Than the working class.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, these are good reason rational people. There was nothing
that Mike Flood said in terms of giving it back
to these people with the same volume and anger in
his voice that they had starting off. That's how they
started things off. How much does it cost for fascism?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I don't know. How much did it cost you to
get there? Last night, the.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Fascists are the people who are lying about what's going
on in this country. They think that this country is
benefiting from people who are able to work and don't work,
and somehow this country benefits from that. They think that
this country benefits from people were in this country illegally
(10:21):
stealing identities from other immigrants and making their lives hard
and driving down wages and filling up emergency rooms and
making problems for public safety. They think that somehow this
country benefits from all of that.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
That's fascism.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They want their level of you know, you got to
do what we say, whether it's anything from immigration to
an advertisement for blue jeans. If you do anything other
than what we want, you shouldn't be allowed to exist
in this country. That's fascism. That's what they want. Congressman
(11:05):
Flood tried to respond, He tried to answer questions. I
thought he did an amazing job last night. This went
on for about an hour and a half as all
these people packed in there and not a I don't
know how many of these individuals voted, but they just
showed up last night to be all mad.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
All right, So what are you guys going to do now?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
If you're all mad, you rally around a candidate, you
get out a message, and you run against him in
the midterm elections. It actually shouldn't be too hard. Oftentimes
in America's midterm elections, whoever the ruling party is, no
matter what's going on, people are like, I want to change,
and the other side is more pushed to go out
(11:49):
and get that vote out. So what's your message? Who's
your candidate? Because I gotta tell you, if you come
out there and you just sound like this heading up
to the midterms, how much does it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Cost for fascism? How much do the taxpayers have to pay.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
If you if you just come out there with that message,
you will not win. Scott voice some of the emails
here Gina emails via the Zonker's custom woods inbox. Scott
atkfab dot com says, regarding that person screaming about how
much does fascism cost? I guarantee that she thinks that
(12:30):
the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad is rasist and promotes eugenics. Yeah,
she's a real winner. President Trump responded to that ad.
By the way, and just in case you're just coming
out of a coma, hey, great to have you with
us stay off Dodge. Between seventy second and fiftieth we'll
(12:51):
give you all the information you need to know as
you're trying to figure out what's happened since you went out.
There was an advertisment for blue jeans that featured an
attractive young woman wearing jeans. If you went into a
coma at any point before about ten to fifteen years ago,
(13:12):
then you're like, yeah, what's the big deal, That's what
I thought. These ads all looked like well over the
last few years. Are not allowed to have an advertisement
featuring an attractive individual wearing blue jeans, certainly not one
like Sidney Sweeney, who is white, blonde haired, blue eyed,
(13:32):
and as we learned yesterday, a Republican. So people said like, oh,
you know this advertisement with this woman out there with
their jeans, and there was a play on it that
said Sydney Sweeney has great genes, a play on genetics
meaning she looks great and she looks great in our
(13:53):
gens as American eagle. Well, people said, oh, that means
that it's promoting eugenics. Great genes, you know, the great
genes g E n e s. The great genes are
blond hair, blue eyed, white skin. No, we're just blue jeans.
It's just a joke that she looks great. She looks
(14:14):
great in these genes. You'd look great in these genes.
Oh would I look like Sidney Sweeney. So people lost
their minds about this ad, and President Trump, I guess
he was asked about it when talking to a gaggle
of reporters yesterday. He said, I love the ad. I
think it's fantastic. And then he found out that Sidney Sweeney,
(14:38):
at least he says, is a registered Republican, and he said,
you'd be surprised at how many people are Republicans if
Sidney Sweeney is a registered Republican. I think her ad
is fantastic. I don't know. This is an actress who's
in TV shows like The White Lotus and Euphoria, two
shows I have heard of and do not watch. But
(15:01):
President Trump responded to it yesterday, which is going to
cause people to even get more angry at this ad.
In the town hall last night, Congressman Flood was also
asked about the Epstein files, and he said, when we
come back from the August recess, you'll find my name,
(15:22):
said Mike Flood as a sponsor on a resolution from
the House Rules Committee to release the Epstein files in
a way that protects the victims and does not revictimize them. Again,
that's why there are those in the Trump administration saying, well,
we're not going to just open up all the files here.
(15:43):
It's got the names of underage girls who've been victimized.
We're not going to put all these names out there.
See the media can all run over to them, going,
when did you see Trump there? How often is he
or whatever. What Mike Flood didn't say is whether there
are names of people in there, whether they've actually been
(16:07):
accused of a crime, whether your name and a report
means that you've committed criminal activity. But he also said
that we look forward to having Glaine Maxwell come and
talk to investigators about this was the madam for Jeffrey Epstein.
Why hasn't anyone talked to her? Oh? Wait, they have.
(16:28):
They've talked to her several times. They talked to her
all throughout the investigation that put her in jail, they
talked to her all throughout the Biden administration that put
together the Epstein files to begin with. And people somehow
think that they live in a world where the Biden
administration knew that Trump's name was all over this, that
Trump committed a lot of horrible, disgusting crimes, and they
(16:51):
kept it under wraps. The Biden Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton,
Chuck Schumer administration had Trump dead to right with all
these different people saying yeah, here's a picture of me
and Trump doing horrible things. And they said, well, no
one needs to know about that. That you think you
live in a world where all this information is out there,
(17:12):
but the Biden administration kept quiet. Do you think you
live in that world? You don't live in that world.
That world doesn't exist. Kyle emails scottikfab dot com and
says the Shrieking Harpies Party is never going to understand.
They don't want to understand. They don't even care about
winning anymore. They just want to hear themselves scream into
(17:36):
the abyss. Here's how last night's town hall by Congressman
Flood and it. As he tried to make some closing remarks,
I want to say.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
A couple of things. Thank you to the University of
Nebraska Lincoln. Thank you to the UNL Police, thank you
to my staff, thank you to Nebraska Public media for
doing a great job tonight. Thank you to all the
numbers of the working media that are here, and most importantly,
thank you to all of you. If you need assistance
from my office, call my office, come see me.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I will be visible, I will be accessible.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
And for those of you watching from home, please know
I am on your side. I never forget who I'm
working for, and it is an honor to serve you
and a privilege to serve you. In the United States Congress,
thank you very much and have a safe drive home.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Hey, thanks a lot for coming. They're just losing their mind.
He talked to them for an hour and a half.
He answered all of their questions. They so obviously several
of the people there didn't like his answers to their questions.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Okay, what is it.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
That you want? What in what world do you think
that we live in a district, a state, and area
a country where your way is the only way forward
and everyone thinks exactly the same way you do. They
have to otherwise, what what is it that you want?
(19:19):
We had an election Mike Flood won convincingly. The people
in that district said, we want that man to go
represent our interests. The people who didn't vote for him
showed up and yelled at him for doing the things
that he was elected to do. Now, there's absolutely nothing
(19:40):
wrong with having a difference of opinion from your elected representative.
That's why you have the town hall. That's why people
it was. At no time did it ever appear like
there was a prerequisite. Show me that you're a Mike
Flood supporter, show me that you voted for him, Tell
me how much you love him and President Trump and
the big beautiful Bill and all the rest of this
(20:00):
stuff going on there. Are you a fan of Sydney Sweeney, Well,
then you get a microphone and you get a chance
to answer a question. They just passed the mic around.
Of course, the people that go to these town halls
know that, and they wanted an opportunity to scream and
shriek and yell and boo and drown out and cuss.
And I guess that's their right if they think that's
(20:21):
a fun way to spend a Monday evening, that's what
they can do. But what exactly do you want You
asked a question, or you made a point, Congressman responded
to you, gave you the reasons why he voted the
way he did, some thoughts about what he thinks that
(20:43):
some of the actions from Washington, DC will do to
our community or for our community. Okay, we might have
a difference of opinion. You're just gonna start yelling and
booing and screaming at someone. You remember how he took office, right,
It wasn't He didn't load up guns and tanks and
(21:06):
get some supporters in a militia group and just go
take office. You know, they didn't some mally pirate their
way into office. They didn't show up in the first
district offices, either in Lincoln or in Washington, d C.
And say I'm the congressman now like some Mali pirates do.
(21:27):
He ran for office, he was elected. He gets two years.
You have full capability to ask him questions you did.
He stood there for an hour and a half just
getting pelted with your verbal abuse, and he didn't seem
to get all that angry about it. I think it
(21:48):
a few times that he tried to raise his voice
because people were yelling and screaming and he was trying
to get his answer out. You even had people who
disagreed with him last night who started off their comments
when they had the microphone by saying, hey, let's let
the congressman talk.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Those please went nowhere?
Speaker 2 (22:11):
What is it exactly that you want? I want you
to think the way I do? Well, I don't what then?
What then exactly?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
In an adult world, you don't have a ninety minute
temper tantrum where you're just yelling and whining and screaming.
I mean, I get two hours every morning, but I'm
not an adult. I'm a blowhard. Reasonable people are supposed
to act like reason. I don't know why I expect
(22:49):
anyone to act like a reasonable person when they're out
in public. I don't know if you've been out in
public recently. It's scary out there a lot of un
reasonable people. But if you just boil it down to
let's say you've got children hearing nothing from luth now
(23:15):
here's the part of the show where Lucy says she's
glad she doesn't have kids. All right, twice this hour.
Let's say you've got kids, and your two children are
starting to have a disagreement and it turns into an
argument and a full blown temper tantrum.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
How do you deal with that as a parent? Do
you just let it go, and you want me to
respond to that house.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'm not necessary. I'm we have a few people listening
to this program. I'm talking to them.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Oh, well, you said you haven't heard from me two times.
I'm assuming it's twice that you played this is.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Yeah, No, I've heard, I've heard, I've heard said something before.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I heard that SoundBite twice this hour. Okay, let's take
it away from kids. You've got adult coworkers who are
having a disagreement. Would you let them stand there and
just yell at each other for nine minutes or do
you try and intervene and say, okay, let's let's try
and find a way forward here.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Well, I mean.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
He's not doing things away I want Okay, Well he
was We hired this person to do the job this way,
and he's doing the job that he was hired to do.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yeah, what I don't like.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
That's not how i'd do it. Okay, Well you're not
the person doing the job. Thank you very much for
your input. We're happy to sit here and talk to you.
Do you have a question. My question is.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
How come he won't do the job away?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I want him to do it well, because we discussed
this and we decided this was the way to do
the job. Now, this job is open next year. If
you want to do this job, convince your coworkers that
this is the way that you would do the job,
and that you're the person to do the job. But
in the meantime, job needs to be done. This is
(25:05):
the person hired to do the job. I'm still waiting
to hear your input on how the job could be
done better. Don't take money away from people who need it.
All right, Okay, we're not any other questions. You're a fascist?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
All right?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well that's that's name calling. That doesn't help us out.
All right, let's talk to someone else.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I'm not done.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Okay, that's how this town hall went last night. And
these people yelling, screen booing, freaking out, what exactly do
they think should happen here? What did they want last night?
Did they think the congressman flub was going to say,
you know, I didn't realize that so many of you
(25:51):
felt so strongly about this. I'm going to vote completely
differently than how I voted then, how the overwhelming majority
and this people in this district voted me into office.
And you know what, maybe it's better if I just resigned.
I'm just going to resign.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Okay. Oh what happens if I resigned? Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
They appoint another Republican into this position. Okay, so my
resigning doesn't do any good. All right, Well, I guess
there's an election next year. Do you guys have a candidate.
The Democratic Party in this state is so bad that
they've got an independent candidate running for Senate and Dan Osborne,
(26:32):
he's the guy that ran against deb Fisher just last
year didn't win. So now he's like, I'm running for
Senate again. This time I'm running against Pete Ricketts. And
the Democrats don't have a candidate. They don't have anyone
who wants to run in Nebraska's Senate race against incumbent
Republican Pete Ricketts. This last time against Ricketts they found
(26:56):
and this is, we have so many elections because he
was out the rest of the term from Ben Sas
and we had to have special elections and all this stuff.
So the next the last time, here they find a
kindly old gentleman named Preston Love Junior.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Good guy.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
But they looked across the entire state of Nebraska and
they couldn't find anyone who wanted to run, and Preston's
the kind of guy that's like, really, no one, no
one's going to represent our party, all right, I'll do it.
So out of that virtue he runs for office. He
knew he didn't have a chance, but he was out
(27:39):
there running because no one else would. And so now
here we are again, and the Democrats aren't even gonna
put me one up. They're not even gonna put me
one up. Dan Osborne like, I'm running as an independent
because I don't want to be lumped lumped in with
those Democrats. Now, I'm happy to take all their money.
And the state Democrat parties says, all right, we're endorsing
(28:01):
Dan Osborne. They don't have a candidate. We had hundreds
of people filled this town hall meeting last night, yelling, angry, screaming.
Maybe they should be angry at their own party. Presuming
these guys are all Democrats, they should be angry at
their own party. They don't even try in this state.
(28:25):
They don't even put up candidates. They don't try and
put out a message or a candidate with a good message.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
They don't really campaign across the state.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Sometimes in state wide offices, things like treasure or auditor
or stuff like that. They don't even put up a candidate
for things like this.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Why bother.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Forgetting that Democrats do win statewide office in Nebraska. Bob
Kerrey Ben Nelson list goes barely on and it doesn't
go that much further, but it has happened. You find
the right candidate with the right message, you get that done.
But they don't even try. So, yeah, I'm not surprised
(29:04):
that these people last night were all mad their own
party has abandoned them. The Republican is voting the way
that he was voted in to vote. Kamala Harris goes
on TV the other night. Stephen Colbert asks her who's
the head, who's the leader of the Democratic Party in America.
She's like, Ah, there's lots of leaders, they don't have one,
(29:31):
And so these guys are throwing a temper tantrum, you know,
on that level, I guess I don't blame them.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
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