Trumpdate: Shutdown / $2K Checks / 50-Yr-Mortgages

With a little Trumpdate "halftime show" in the middle of the program to discuss the problematic police issue in Lincoln last night.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordie's Speaker of the House, is on TV. Let's
listen to just a moment of this, because it looks
like the government shutdown is coming to an end this week.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
And that they do, they'll need unanimous consent from all
Senators to fast track their final vote. As you know,
there are some procedural hurdles that one or more could
throw in the way, but we certainly hope that they
won't do that because so many people across this country
are desperate for the government to reopen. At the very
moment that they do that final vote, I will call

(00:32):
all House members to return to Washington as quickly as possible.
We'll give a thirty six hour formal and official notice
so that we can vote as soon as possible to
pass the amendedcy Our Bill and get it to the
President's desk. As you all know, and he said as
recently as last night, I was with him, and he
told the press he said, we want to get the
government open. He's very anxious to get the government reopened

(00:54):
and to end the Schumer shutdown.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
We all are.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
There'll be long days and long nights here for the
foreseeable future to make up for all this lost time
that was imposed upon us.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
That is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson there speaking
live here on news radio eleven ten kfab this. As
of last night, they had a procedural vote, which is
so dumb. If you had eight Democrats decide to join Republicans,

(01:24):
back away from Schumer and decide, all right, enough is enough.
The Republicans aren't going to budge, even though we think
they should, even though the media is telling the entire
American people every single day how awful this is and
how Republicans are to blame because they're in majority and
they got the President of the United States. These Republicans

(01:45):
are so stubborn they're not going to budge. So eight
Democrats said, all right, that's enough. We have Thanksgiving here
in just a couple of weeks. You've got, as Speaker
Johnson alluded to the Transportation Secretary, saying, starting this week
and certainly next week, air traffic in this country would
slow to a trickle. I don't know by you, but

(02:09):
I've got plans here in a couple of weeks, and
I'd rather not drive to those plans. We need, we
need to get the government back, which is such a
stupid thing to say, because when they're back in session,
what are they going to do to us? But let's
tell you how we got to this point. So yesterday

(02:30):
the United States Senate had a procedural vote. Technically, it's
seven Democrats and you got the one independent who always
votes Democrat, who broke ranks and joined the Republicans that
have voted a billion times to end the shutdown, to
end the shutdown, but it doesn't end the shutdown. This
was a all right, if you agree to this, we

(02:54):
will vote with you. Okay, Well let's have let's have
the first vote to see if we have the exact
same vote that you'll still vote with it. Why not
just have the vote. That's the vote. This is the
vote to set up the vote. Well wait a second,
I thought it was the Senate. Yeah, the Senate's got
to have the vote, which means now they had the vote.

(03:16):
This was last night, the vote to set up the vote.
If that next vote goes exactly the same way, then
it goes to the House, which is why Speaker Johnson
was saying, Hey, Don Bacon, Mike Flood, you guys got
to get back here. Let's go. We gotta potentially end
this government shutdown, potentially as early as Wednesday, perhaps maybe Thursday.

(03:36):
So the Senate had the vote to set up the vote.
The vote will be here in the next couple of days.
That will then kick it back to the House. The
House don't need anything more than a majority of Republicans
who will who've already voted a bunch of times to
d the shutdown. They'll vote to end the shutdown. Then
it goes to the President. He presumably signs it. But
of course this is Donald Trump we're talking about. There's

(04:00):
a possibility he could say not good enough, but he
thus far has not signaled that he would do anything
other than whatever it takes to end the shutdown and
make it look like Chuck Schumer loses. Who are the
Democrats that moved over here. We've got Dick Durban of Illinois,

(04:23):
Jean Shaheen, New Hampshire, Maggie's son New Hampshire, Tim Kine Virginia,
Tim Kane. That's an interesting one. It was Hillary's running mate,
Tim Kine of Virginia. John Fetterman, Pennsylvania. Not surprising. He's
been calling for this thing to shut down every day.
Every day he puts on a hoodie and says we

(04:44):
got to shut this thing down. Catherine Cortes Mastow of Nevada,
senator who wants desperately to be thought of as Alexandria
Ocazio Cortes. Maybe that's why she got elected. Her name
is Catherine Cortez Mastow. It's close enough. And then Jackie
Rosen of Nevada. Those are the seven Democrats. There's also

(05:06):
Angus King of Maine. He's an alleged independent who caucuses
with the Democrats and votes with the Democrats every single time.
But this one you could say, well, they decided enough
is enough. They're not going to hold the American people
hostage because the Republicans aren't voting to subsidize. You understand

(05:31):
the terms here, right, This is taxpayer money and increase
premiums for you on your private health insurance to subsidize
the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare. This is the plan
set up under obviously President Obama and forwarded by Nebraska

(05:55):
Senator Ben Nelson that allowed a government style type insurance plan.
And people are like, this is communism. We already have
Medicaid and Medicare, veterans Care and so forth. I mean,
I personally don't think the government should be involved in
any of these healthcare decisions. They're not involved in my

(06:18):
car insurance, they're not involved in my homeowner's insurance. So
I don't understand why, well, health insurance, we got to
get involved in health insurance. What makes any of these
idiots qualified to do any of this stuff. But they say,
we're going to have the Affordable Care Act, this is Obamacare,
and this is another very very reasonably prized, cost effective

(06:41):
health insurance. And people are like, but wait a second.
I know it's mean to deny someone because of pre
existing conditions, and it's no one wants to spend a
lot of money on any kind of insurance until you
need it and don't have it, and you realize, oh,
that insurance would have been a great idea, but I
didn't budget for it. So what We're just going to

(07:02):
allow people to get a horrible health diagnosis and then
on that day go get health insurance. Health insurance will
fall apart. And when you have younger, healthier people not
getting insurance, that means that the only people with insurance
are going to be people that are using insurance. And
if you don't have the younger people who are paying
into insurance but not using as much of it. Then

(07:24):
the whole system collapses or gets very very expensive unless
you have taxpayer money subsidizing it. So the way that
they've been able to keep Obamacare rates lower, we're through
taxpayer subsidies. After they said no, no, your tax dollars
aren't paying for this, our tax dollars were paying for that,

(07:47):
and our premiums were going up because a lot of
these so called younger, healthier people who would otherwise be
inclined to get health insurance weren't doing it, or they
were going through Obamacare. The whole system gut absolutely top heavy,
and the only way that you can end it is

(08:11):
through exactly what happened with this shutdown. The Republican said
we are not going to continue to offer taxpayer subsidies
for Obamacare, which was a bad idea. On day one,
we were so close to ending it, and then John
McCain did the thumbs down thing, and now we have

(08:31):
a chance to really put a dent in government run
health insurance, which shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Not to mention that a lot of the people who
were taking advantage of Obamacare and would otherwise be given
an opportunity through your tax dollars to continue to have

(08:53):
some level of health insurance. Are people who are in
this country illegally. So the Republicans, seeing all of this
and seeing a majority, said we are not going to
allow this to happen. Democrats fought for it. We had
the government shutdown now for forty some days, and now

(09:18):
it looks like with this vote last night, should this
cabal of Democrats continue to vote with the Republicans here
in the next couple of days, it looks like the
shutdown will end. So who wins the Democrats? No? No.
Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United

(09:39):
States Senate and has Senate Minority leader, he wanted this
to continue. He's still saying, as is Bernie Sanders, this
is a very bad vote. Elizabeth Warren says it's a
terrible mistake. She said, the American people want us to
stand and fight for health care, and that's what I
believe we should do. This isn't had nothing to do
with health care. This has to do with government run

(10:02):
health insurance and who's paying for it. I don't know
about you, but I've done everything right well, I haven't
done everything right. But when it comes to I got
a job so I could get the benefits. I pay
for my health insurance through my employer. When I go
to the doctor and I have something that's out of

(10:23):
network or something that isn't covered, I pay for that.
I'm not going to ask my neighbors. I'm not going
to go door to door going hey, can you pay
for this? Can you pay for that? You know I
have a job. I have a job that affords me
the opportunity to have health insurance, private health insurance. So

(10:43):
why are my premiums going up? Why have I lost
the opportunity to be able to enjoy some of the
health insurance I had before Obamacare? Even though President Obama
said if you like your doctor, you like insurance, you
keep your doctor, you keep your insurance, that didn't happen.
We lost plans, people lost their ability to continue to

(11:06):
connect with their doctor. Our premiums and deductibles went up,
and then our tax dollars went up to subsidize all
of those on Obamacare. And in the meantime, none of
this has anything to do with healthcare. You get attacked
by a bobcat, you go to the doctor, the doctor
will treat you. It's just a matter of who's going

(11:27):
to pay for it, And overwhelmingly it's always the government.
Will the government. They're not doing the Nancy Pelosi bikini
car wash. That's going through your tax dollars. It's going
through an increase in your premiums for your private health insurance.
This has nothing to do with, as Elizabeth Warren says,
stand and fight for health care. This has nothing to

(11:48):
do with health care. This has to do with who's
paying for the insurance and who's paying when a bunch
of people are packing the emergency rooms because they're in
this country illegally, or if they decided not to get
help insurance and then they don't have any money or
they just skip out on the bill. Who pays for that?
We pay for it. And there are a lot of

(12:09):
American people who have said, I've done everything right and
and my costs keep going up. And now we have
an opportunity for the Republicans and Democrats to face off
and decide how should this go? Should we just keep
doing what we're doing. The Republicans said, this is a
tremendous opportunity for us to put our feet here sentiment

(12:32):
stone and not budge. Now would they have budged when
suddenly the media showed pictures of people living at the
airport because they can't get home or they can't get
where they're going and all that. No, these spineless uses
would have absolutely. We were like probably a day and
a half away from the Republicans completely folding. They would

(12:54):
have capitulated so fast, but Democrats blinked first. So who
wins the Democrats? They do not? Do the Republicans win
only because they were up against the Democrats who who
have Like if the Republicans only have one testy, the
Democrats have none. So I mean in a butt kicking contest,

(13:16):
the guy with one leg beats the guy who doesn't
have any legs. So did the Republicans win only because
the competition was weak. I'll tell you who says he wins,
and that is going to set up our Trump date
coming up next.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Scott Voices News Radio eleven ten kfaby.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
I'm Scott Vorhees and here in the Zonkers custom woulds
inbox Scott a kfab dot com got a press release.
I didn't realize I was on this mailing list. This
is from Team Bernie as in Bernie Sanders and and
Bernie says that today Omahans will gather in front of

(14:00):
Senator Pete Rickett's office Monday morning. That's today, we actually
noon at noon at Pete Ricketts's Omaha office, which is
right there off of one hundred and sixty eighth the
dodge right there on the south side of the road. There,
Omahans will gather in front of Senator Pete Rickett's office
on Monday to demand that he stand up for Nebraskans

(14:23):
and stop any attempt to shut down access to healthcare.
Republicans refusal to negotiate and their push for health care
cuts will not only raise premiums for twenty million Americans
who rely on Affordable Care Act coverage, but could also
strip healthcare entirely from another fifteen million people. Yes, the
people are in this country illegally, and as far as

(14:46):
the increase in premiums, those for the people who have
their premiums go up a little bit that would otherwise
be subsidized with your tax dollars. It's a matter of
who's going to pay for this, and the American people
voted for Republicans who stood their grounds and said, we're

(15:07):
not going to put tax dollars towards paying to subsidize
lower costs for people with health insurance. Your tax dollars
don't subsidize my health insurance. You got like Blue Cross,
Blue Shield, or at or all the rest of this stuff.
No one's tax dollars are paying to keep that lower.
But in the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare, it's got

(15:30):
to be tax dollars to keep those things lower. So
people are like, oh, isn't Obamacare great? Yeah, if the
American people are paying to keep the costs lower, and
the Republicans said, that's ridiculous. We're not going to do
that anymore. So they're they're saying, omahans will gather in
front of Senator Rickett's office today at noon to protest

(15:52):
Pete Rickitts. Isn't there. That's one you're going to be
yelling at, possibly an empty building or a building with
nice lady in there who answers the phones. You're gonna
be yelling at her. You're gonna be if people show
up for this Senator Pete Rickett's office there in that
little business park plaza off of one hundred and sixty

(16:12):
eighth in dodge that's right next to a daycare center.
Now it's cold today. I don't think the little kiddo's
are gonna be out there playing outside listening to what
I'm sure will be the not at all profane, he
said sarcastically. Protests where people are yelling at the side
of a building. So we got kids out there. We'll
have parents out there either picking up or dropping off

(16:35):
their kids today and they're gonna have to wait around
a bunch of angry protesters. That'll be good. These people
will be sane. That'll be fun for the kids. They're
in there trying to get nap time, and someone's out
there going shame shame kids trying to nap out there

(16:55):
on his cot. These people are yelling at the side
of an empty building, blocking traffic into What have we
got over there? I know where all the fast food
restaurants are. You got Runza, you got Burger King, you
got Taco John's, you got Subway. Yeah. I live in
that area. I'd frequent some of these places, so yeah,

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I know all the food in there. Who'd I miss?
There's a Scooter's kiosk in there, got a gas station,
and if it goes the protest goes into the night.
There's a pretty cool bar over there too. I forget
the name of the place, but that's where Scott Lautenbah
and I judged a Halloween contest years ago. Man, that
was a good time. I miss that, dude. So these

(17:39):
protesters would be out there yelling at the side of
an empty building, blocking traffic for people trying to get
a runza, and annoying kids at nap time at that
daycare center. The Jehovah's Witnesses Center is over there too,
but I don't know that they're Jehovah witnessing on a
Monday afternoon. Not really sure what they're doing, So that'll

(18:00):
be fun. That's in the inbox. My response to the
Team Bernie email has kicked a few minutes down the
road the start of a Trump date. Spoiler alert. President
Trump says he knows who won the government shutdown standoff,
and it's him. That's part of many stories involving the
President of the United States. Will compile them and present

(18:23):
them in a Trumpet date after a Fox News update
next Scott in the Zonker's custom Woods inbox got at
kfab dot com. As far as the protests plan for
today at noon, The totally organic protest plan for today
at noon at Senator Rickett's office one hundred and sixty
eighth in Dodge. Dave says, sorry, won't be able to
make it. Some of us have to work for a living.

(18:47):
And then the Geeze emails and says, so these federal
airline employees who did not report for work and held
other jobs some of them do, do they still get
back pay for not working?

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Of course they do, yep. And the American people should
know that. And I'll tell you who certainly knows this,
the people who are covering their shifts, working extra time
and a half, double overtime, pulling all these hours. Like, hey, sorry,

(19:24):
you know these guys all called in. We think that
they maybe they're legitimately sick. And you're like, I guarantee
you Tom is not legitimately sick. I guarantee you Tom
is legitimately on vacation playing golf. But yeah, they all
get their back pay too. How that works. Congress gets
paid the entire time as well. I know many of

(19:45):
them are like, I'm not taking a paycheck during this time.
They'll get back pay, and I guarantee they'll take it,
even Nancy Pelosi with their seventeen thousand percent increase in
her stocks during her million years serving the people of America. Right, So,
it looks like the government shutdown is ending here in

(20:05):
the next couple of days. Last night, the United States
Senate had the vote to set up the vote that
if the next vote goes the exact same way as
last night's vote, then the Senate will overcome that hurdle
which had been the sticking point that led to the shutdown.
They'll vote to end the shutdown. No capitulation on the

(20:26):
Republican's part to subsidize Obamacare premiums, though there are it
does look like a couple of things tucked into this
shutdown vote that are very interesting. We'll get to that here.
So then it we'll go back to the House. The
House Speaker of the House, as you heard earlier live
here in eleven ten kfab Mike Johnson says, mom, back, hey, Bacon,

(20:48):
let's go flood, Come on back here. We got to
vote in the next couple of days. So they'll vote
and then the President will sign it. The President, meanwhile,
has decided that the winner of the government shut down
is certainly not the Democrats. And you can argue the
Republicans only one because they were more stubborn for a
longer time. But Trump says, I'll tell you who won

(21:11):
the shutdown. I did, which sets up a phenomenon that
occurs quite regularly. We don't do this nearly as much
as we could. But when you have a lot of
different stories and the only thing that ties them together
is the President of the United States, we put them
together in something we call a Trump date.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Just shake it Trump, Just shake you truck, Just shake it, Truck,
Just shake it Trump.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Scott, when Gary
Sadelmeyer as here in just a few weeks and does
his final regularly scheduled morning show on Friday, December twelfth,
and then you jump in there early in the morning
with Jim Rose and Lucy Chapman. Are you gonna hit

(22:13):
us with loud rap music like this first thing in
the morning. Well, yeah, I presume that's what the people want, right,
Oh the people say no, All right, Well we'll see,
we'll see. But here we are in a Trump day.
The President says, I won after no kings, rallies and

(22:33):
forty days of furloughed workers and flight delays and other
things that start with f. The Democrats have finally realized
the political damage of holding out. I don't see how
the media still supports the Democrats, and the Democrats are
still crowing that last week's election went so much in

(22:55):
their way. It shows the American people want the Democrats
to continue to keep the bold. They know they know
that this was not going to go well for them now.
They should also know that the mid term elections, which
might flip the balance of power in the Congress, is
not for another year. We'll have at least one hundred

(23:17):
and twenty seven different crises between now and then. We
won't even remember this government shutdown. How many of us
when we heard about this is the longest government shutdown
since the last one that went thirty seven days or
whatever in twenty eighteen, we were like, it did I
don't even remember that. There's no way the American people

(23:38):
will still harbor the concerns or scars or eye rolling
by this shutdown in twelve months from now. Everything else
that happens over the next twelve months will certainly make
us forget this. There are a lot more crises on
the future. I'm sure that there are people in government
and outside of government who have on that. Anyway, the

(24:03):
President says that this is a huge win for Trump
and MAGA because the Democrats blank they walk away without
the Obamacare extension they demanded, which would have been your
tax dollars going to make someone else's government run health
insurance costs lower. That's what this was all about. The

(24:23):
deal on the table says, look, we will vote in
the future on the Democratic plan to extend Obamacare tax credits.
There's still a chance the Republicans can cave. But Trump
is saying, look, this Obamacare scam is ending. The Democrats
are trying to send money quote all caps on true

(24:46):
social quote straight to their best friends in the insurance industry.
They are making a killing while health coverage only gets worse.
He said, if the Democrats got their way again, they're
in for another huge payday at the expense of the
American people. Talking about the Democrats and the healthcare stocks

(25:08):
that soared after Obamacare's passage, which Democrats are not the
only ones that have stock in healthcare companies. But what
the President is saying is we have another plan. The
Republican should re route healthcare dollars straight to Americans, and
he's talking about a two thousand dollars a person check

(25:31):
that would go out. Just something he floated while going
to an NFL football game yesterday and talking about it
with the guys on Fox Sports. You'll be forgiven if
you miss this. We'll pick up our Trump date and
see when you can pick up your two thousand dollars
check next.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Scott Vorhees, News Radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
The President of the United States attended a football game yesterday,
first time that a president sitting press and it has
gone to an NFL football game that wasn't like the
Super Bowl, just a regular season football game since Jimmy
Cotta went and caught a game in nineteen seventy whatever.
I don't know eight whatever it was, but I don't

(26:16):
know what. He probably went to a Falcons game. But
the President was there in DC yesterday for the Detroit
Lions Washington Commander's game. It was not much of a game.
Lions absolutely led the commanders to the slaughter on this
one and whooped him. It wasn't without some fun. Detroit

(26:40):
Lions receiver i'man ra Saint Brown, one of the better
i'man ras I've ever seen, also the only one. He's
a receiver for the Detroit Lions. He scored a touchdown
and then he pointed into the stands where Trump was
sitting up there in the skybox and began doing the
Trump dance, you know, the little exaggerated like there's little

(27:01):
punching dolls that like Trump danced to the YMCA. I'm
on Ross. Saint Brown did the Trump dance and pointed
up to the stands. They asked him about it, and
Saint Brown said, yeah, I heard Trump was going to
be at the game. I don't know how many times
the President's going to be at a game, so I
decided to have some fun. He wasn't the only one.
Quarterback of the Lions, Jared goff I thought it was

(27:24):
cool to see the President's playing fly so low over
the stadium. He said, it was awesome he was here.
Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell said, I wasn't paying attention.
I was coaching a football game. But that's cool. You're
talking about the President of the United States. That's a
big deal. So here they go to the three stars

(27:46):
on the Detroit Lions to ask them what they thought
about Trump being there gave them all an opportunity to
trash him, and they went over three. If they were
expecting any of these guys to trash him, It's almost
like these guys realize, you know what, it doesn't do
me any good as a football player to upset half
of the country. How about I throw a football, I

(28:09):
catch a football. I coached the football. Not a bad idea.
It's amazing that some people can't do that. Now. The
people at the game certainly let it be heard. The
President was trying to read a proclamation in honor of
Veterans Day, and as he's on the screen drowned out

(28:36):
by booze, he's trying to read a proclamation in honor
of our veterans. I got to find the text of
that so I can tell you what he said, because
the people at the game couldn't hear it because they
were booing. The president an oath to members of the military.

(29:02):
As there were military members who were enlisting at that time.
They were on the field, and these people are up
there booing as the President is enlisting members of the military.
You get the commander in chief to do an on
field enlistment ceremony during a break in the game, and

(29:23):
he's reciting the oath, you know, I state your name,
that kind of thing, and no one could hear any
of it because we don't like Trump. That just a
couple of days here yesterday, before Veterans Day tomorrow and
before today's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United
States Marine Corps. And these people are like military commander

(29:47):
in chief boo. But then the President was all smiles
talking with the guys in the broadcast booth and said,
you know, we might have to give the American people
two one thousand dollars a person. This is what he
said on Truth Social and talking more about this, He's
considering giving most Americans a two thousand dollars check. Where

(30:11):
do we get this money, he says, from tariffs. He
says a dividend check of at least two thousand dollars
a person, not including high income people, will be paid
to everyone. He said, those who oppose the tariffs are fools.
He says this could be a great way to as
the Republican the evil Republicans are voting to deny subsidize

(30:35):
health care costs, health insurance costs for millions of Americans.
Here's a check. Put it towards your health insurance. Put
it to towards a new pair of shoes, buy stocks
with it, whatever. He said, this could do a great
thing by helping these eligible adults exceed the revenue generated
by tariffs and put that towards their health care costs.

(30:57):
Is this going to work? I don't. I don't know.
They've said, we haven't discussed this with the President. We
were wondering whether he just came up with it during
the football game. I know a lot of people are like,
I don't think that I want a check from the
government when we're running major deficits in this country. But

(31:19):
I wouldn't tear it up either. For most of the
last hour we were into a Trump date, the President
said I won the shutdown. We gave you some insite
as to why he might make that claim and why
he might be right. He also said, this is I
don't know if this is right or wrong. I'm not

(31:40):
gonna tear up the check if I get it. I mean,
come on, but it is funny that the President's been saying,
don't vote for mom, Donnie. This is socialism In New
York City, this guy has a comedy, he's gonna redistribute. Well,
if this is terrible. By the way, I've got two
thousand dollars checks I'm gonna send out to all Amyriamricans

(32:00):
right now because we got tariff money coming in and
we want to share it with the American people. Like
kind of sounds like the same thing that mom Donnie
was talking about. That's what socialism is. Like, No, it's not,
it's not. It's it's just giving us back our money.
It's no different than the tax return money. Okay, Okay,

(32:23):
I'm not sitting here taking a major stand one way
or the other. I'm just saying, if I get a
two thousand dollars check from the government, I'm gonna cash
it so before they run out of the money. I
wouldn't hang on to that check too long. But why
if we're running daily bazillion dollar deficits, annual trillion dollar deficits,

(32:48):
why are we I I know, Oh, Scott wants to
be a buzz killed. The government wants to give us
some money back. Scott's like, I don't need it. I
need it. I'm not saying I don't, I just I
just anyway, we talked about some of that, and we've
got more Trump date to come, but I want to
take halftime here in our Trump date and call attention

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to this story out of Lincoln. This was last night,
and this is the second time here in the Omaha
Lincoln Growing Together metropolitan area that this kind of thing
has happened. And what should have, what could not should have,
but what could have certainly happened in both of these

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instances is at least two dead cops. But we don't
have two dead cops. We've got an officer recovering from
a gunshot wound to the head, and we've got a
dead guy in Lincoln. But both of them I think
are tied into the same thing, and that is all

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of these anti cop activists, or I'll give the benefit
of the doubt to some people. These are mental health advocates,
but I don't think they fully appreciate the danger that
lurks every time nine one one is called and police

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officers show up. Now, the advocates and the anti cop people,
I can't nothing will ever make the anti cop people
like Mom Donnie happy. They would prefer that all the
cops be defunded and all the cops all the departments
be defunded and disbanded will go with the advocate people,

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the mental health advocates. What they have been saying is
if nine to one one is called and there's someone
suffering from a mental health emergency, we don't need to
send police officers out. These people aren't dangerous, they just
need some help, and it'd be better to send a
counselor out there, some sort of therapist, someone may be
a volunteer, maybe a retired person. They can go out

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out there and say, hey, it looks like someone needs
a hug, and then they hug it out and we
get the person the help they need, and we don't
need cops out there acting all cop like, going all right,
I need you to down on the ground. They're only
gonna make the situation, whereas cops are scary and they're mean,
and they're not trained to handle mental health issues and

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all the rest of the stuff. Now, certainly, in some
instances that's right. Police officers aren't mental health therapists and professionals.
They're called to deal with threats or potential threats. But
here in Omaha, just weeks ago, we had business owners
call nine to one one say there's a guy out
here acting crazy, bothering people who work here, bothering people

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who are shopping here at this gas station. We think
this guy is having a real, real mental health issue,
and so the cops showed up. And because I think
the activists, both well intentioned won and the very anti
cop ones have either through department directive or just planning

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seeds in individual officers heads, the cops went out there,
maybe not acting as aggressively towards someone who's just having
a little mental health problem. What am I gonna do?
I'm gonna I'm gonna go up against someone who's having
an episode. What am I gonna pull my gun? All

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these people are gonna see me tackle this guy, get
him on the ground. They're like, he's just having a
bad day. Why are you doing? And then so they hesitate.
Police officers can't hesitate. The hesitation here in Omaha, at
that gas station near one hundred and twentieth and Dodge
Streets a few weeks ago led to an officer pulling

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a taser when this guy was acting aggressive and dangerous
when he should have grabbed a gun, and then the
perpetrator he went for his gun, and the officer realized,
oh no, I just brought a taser to a gunfight.
And as the officer was pulling for his gun, the
guy took a shot at the cop, grazed his head

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with a bullet. Nearly took this officer's life because the officer,
I think, for whatever reason, decided all right, we're I
don't know if it's a good idea to get after
this guy. And this is a mental health situation We've
been told or I've seen in the news. I might

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only just make it worse. And so meanwhile, as he's
putting on kid gloves with this guy, guy pulls out
a gun. So last night in Lincoln, at eight o'clock,
officers go out to a home in the area of
South fifty fourth and Meredith Streets. That's southeast Lincoln, where

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a guy was according to nine to one one, someone
called and said he was reported to be having a
mental health crisis. Officers show up. He's attempting to break
into a house through a basement window. So the officers
are like, all right, so they said he's having mental
health issue. Did they do the same thing, Especially in Lincoln,

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which tends to be a bit more bleeding heart perhaps
I think than here in Omaha. But the officers in Lincoln,
I don't think that they did a very good job,
either through department directive, seeds planted in the officer's head,
or carelessness. They obviously didn't do everything that they know

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they're supposed to do. And if they were called up
and they said this guy is dangerous and he has
a gun, they certainly would have given this guy the
full search. But seeds planted. Mental health activists are leaning
on the department. We don't need to have cops out
there doing all the cops stuff. This guy needs to

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be evaluated and put into emergency protective custody or whatever,
or maybe he just needs his med don't worry, he's
not dangerous. So what happened They put him in custody.
It's said here according to a dispatch from the Lincoln
Police Department, that the officers searched the guy and he
was placed into custody. Was he handcuffed because whatever, he

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was in custody and he was searched, But amazingly, he
while in the back of the Was he in the
back of the cruise here he interviewing witnesses. Yes, he
was seated in the back of the police cruiser. And
while the police were interviewing witnesses and this guy was
in the car, he shot himself. He killed himself in

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the back seat of this police car. It's set here.
According to the Lincoln Police Department, he was able to
move his hands to the front of his body. Was
he handcuffed? Was he handcuffed well? Was he handcuffed with
his hands behind his back? Is he Houdini? He was

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able to move his hands to the front of his body,
where he pulled a gun from inside his own pants.
I thought they searched this guy. They obviously didn't search
him well enough. Or maybe this guy is just an
absolutely fascinating magician. I don't know where he had his
gun hit, but you know, generally they searched these kind

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of places. At least police would if they think that
this guy is dangerous. And if you're out there doing
this kind of crazy stuff, you're dangerous. But these officers
have been told, hey, you know, we should hold we
should hold the officers to the same standard as a
mental health counselor they don't need to be cops in
this instance. It's only gonna get worse. So what happens
to the cops, poltasers, the cops don't do a search,

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and this cop in Omaha got shot in the head.
This who knows what this guy could have done. He
could have easily been lying there and wait in the
squad car. Police gets in, they start to drive off.
Cops shot in the back of the head by this guy.
It's said when the situation is resolved in a tragic

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way by the guy shooting himself. He should not have
had access to a gun leading up to and certainly
during the post police search process. What is happening. We
gotta let cops be cops. And I know you're like,
but some guys, hey, how many of these instances do

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you need? These are two situations right here in the
Omaha Lincoln area where we could have had dead police officers,
or dead home owners or dead people gassing up their
car or whatever it could have been you and your family.
I think they've told these officers, hey, put on the
kid gloves and you know, just try and try and

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resolve the situation. Don't be mean and all that. For
officers and the public safe safety and their sake, they
need to be able to do cop stuff. The officer
who's cruiser in which this occurred as on administrative leave.

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They're doing an investigation. The incident was captured on body
worn and cruiser cameras. So that's what happened in Lincoln
last night. We please please let cops be cops. Meanwhile,
we have basically a bounty on the head of Border
Patrol law enforcement, and we'll start there as we get

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back into our Trump date next.

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Just took a little side step away from the Trump
date to a moment ago to talk about the police
action and Lincoln last night. But I will work my
way back to the Trump date here by talking about
a federal source telling Fox News border Patrol agents have
received an alert that the leadership of the Latin King's

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Street Gang. I didn't realize they had like a vote,
Do they have board meetings? Does someone take minutes? The
leadership of the Latin King's Street Gang has issued a
shoot on site order targeting immigration officers and federal agents

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operating as part of the Operation Midway Blitz. That's Chicago.
And then of course the media says Ice is just
being mean. The ripping families apart Ice is like, we
got people actively throwing stuff, bottles, rocks, molotov cocktails and
taking shots at us. Is what happened in Dallas. Who

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knows what could happen s Portland or Chicago next. And
now you've got a street gang saying you see Ice
shoot them like a bounty on their heads. And I'm
guessing this is the first time in the media you've
heard this. Most of the mainstream media is not going

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to tell you about that or this next story as
we continue. Now, well, we'll check back in now with
our Trump date. Now, talk about Trump, Tump, that's right,
talk about Trump. Front page news in England over the
weekend had to do with the President of the United States.

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As the head of the BBC. That's BBC one, BBC two,
BBC three, BBC four. They only have one chance. So
the head of the BBC and the British broadcasters top
news executive, they both resigned because of what the BBC
did with Trump. They when did this happen? They'd recently

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edited a speech that Donald Trump made on that fateful day,
the worst day in American history, worse than nine to
eleven or Pearl Harbor. According to some people, January sixth,
twenty twenty one. I'm only mocking it because I don't
think it rises to the nine to eleven or Pearl

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Harbor level. Some of you do your nuts anyway. The
speech that Trump made on January sixth, twenty twenty one
before the riot happened at the Capitol. So why did
the head of the BBC and their top news executive

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both resign? This was on their Panorama documentary that edited
Trump's speech to make it seem like what he said
was We're going to walk down to the Capitol and
I'll be there with you, and we fight, we fight
like hell. But didn't he say that? Yes, he said

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the first part, and then nearly an hour later, in
talking about something completely different, he said something he said
the last part. So what he said was, quote, We're
going to walk down to the Capitol and we're going
to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

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Did you know that? He said that? But what about
the fight like hell? Yeah, later he was talking about
you know, winning, you know, we have to you know,
keep fighting here and against this or that, and we
gotta fight like hell, and I'll be there with like
He's just because he lost the election and was about
to leave the White House. He wasn't going away. I'll

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be there with you as we got to win the
midterm elections and win back the presidency, and we fight
and we fight like hell, which by the way, is
the same kind of phrasing that all kinds of Republicans
and Democrats and everyone on this side of your mom
has ever said when they get all fired up talking
about politics. But what he didn't say is what the
BBC edited to make it look like. He said. They

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made it look like he said, We're going to walk
down to the Capitol and I'll be there with you,
and we fight. We fight like hell, which is what
some people in this and other countries feel like. Well
that's what Trump said, right, He said, We're going to
walk down to the Capitol and we're going to cheer
on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And then

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approximately fifty minutes later, he said the line about moving
into the future. We fight, we fight like hell. So
this is another win for Trump, He sued, I don't
know how you sue the BBC, But he once again,

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I don't know if he's gonna win any money. And
all this stuff. But he got a couple of people
fired and exposed the anti Trump bias that exists in
media that isn't telling you. You've got Border patrol agents
who are actively being shot at, and they've got bounties
on their heads from the gang members that they're trying

(48:34):
to round up and deport because they're in the country illegally.
They're dangerous sombres, they're human and drug traffickers, they're murderers,
their identity thievers, and all the rest of this stuff.
And Ice is out there trying to restore the rule
of law in this country and they might get killed
because of it. And they're still going to work and
trying to do this very difficult work. But we have

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a government shutdown that seems to be coming to an end.
What didn't get tucked in there was tax subsidies to
bring down Obamacare costs. But something did get tucked in there.
I mentioned this an hour ago and said I'll bring
that up later in the show. You thought I forgot,
didn't you. There's still time for me to forget, but
I plan on bringing it to you next time. Scot

(49:22):
I like James Brown's style. At no point did he
ever say please or a humbly request that if you
can find a moment in your day, feel free to
get on the good foot. No, he just just tell
you what to do, get on the good foot, not please,

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if you could find it in your heart to moment.
I don't. I don't think you'll regret the opportunity to
get on the good foot. If you want to, I
can show you some ways to get on the Nope,
he's just get on the good foot. I like James
Brown's style. I'm Scott Vorhees. I have none of that style.
But I'm here with you on news radio eleven ten

(50:08):
KFAB and I'm so glad you're here with me. We talked,
oh boy, an hour and a half ago about the
shutdown coming to an end. The Democrats have seemingly decided
that taxpayer subsidies to artificially decrease costs for obamacareholders, which

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is why the government shut down, why the government continued
to be shut down. That's what the sticking point was.
The Democrat. Enough Democrats seven plus an independent who's essentially
a Democrat, they all voted with the Republicans last night
to say, all right, that's enough. So this was the
vote last night to set up the next vote that

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if everyone votes the same way, will end the shutdown.
As far as the Senate is concerned, it'll go back
to the They got to vote on this because there
is stuff in here, so the House had to vote
on it. They presumably will because the Republicans are not
bound by some of the same vote issues as the

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Republicans in the Senate. So the House will voted up,
send it to the president. President will sign it. Government
shut down here, Oh, should be ended in the next
couple of days. But it's not like there's not stuff
in there. This is, after all, a budget bill of
sorts right now. The deal to reopen the government would

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federally outlaw many hemp derived products. And I don't think
they're talking about your hemp wallet, your T shirt made
out of hemp. I would not advise trying to smoke it,
maybe in a pinch, but I don't think it's going

(51:58):
to produce the outcome seeking This would erase the gray
area that let people get high under federal oversight from
hemp derived products. Well, if we're not talking about like
hemp to build rope, what are we talking about. We're
talking about and trust me, and I tell you I

(52:19):
don't really know what we're talking about. I understand some
of the terms. I see this. I see the marketing,
and there's one thing that is a hemp derived product
that I thought was kind of like along the same
lines as what they were talking about with CBD lotions
and oils and things like that. With the right application.

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They say, some of these CBD oils, now they're not
going to get you high. You put a little lotion
or ointment there on, say a sore elbow, and you
can feel better. I'm like, okay, what's the problem. Well,
there was something else that was being sold online in
some of these marijuana these stores that you'll find in

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all these different strip malls, they all have like pot
leaf as as part of their logo. There's interesting plays
on the four twenty, which, as everyone knows, is the
time you smoke. But I guess though I don't, I
see a lot of people don't seem to be bound
by the four twenty thing. It's always four twenty somewhere
for some of these people. They sell these things in

(53:24):
gas stations. They I think you can get these things
in like elementary schools, and it goes under the name,
it goes into a lot of different names, but it's
essentially something called Delta eight. And I was asking someone
who does know about these things, because he was talking
about getting delta and all this stuff. I said, it
doesn't like get you high, does it. He goes, oh, yeah,

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it does. Like well, wait a second, how how on
the world. He's like, I don't know, dude, but you
gotta try. It's like, I'm good, I don't need to
try it. But I don't think it's that this guy
is a lightweight. He just is like, yeah, I don't
know how it works, but it works. You get some
of this stuff with the delta and strap yourself down, Grandma.

(54:06):
That stuff will get you stone to the Bejesus belt.
And I don't know how it's legal. What happened was
there was a previous loophole in a farm bill in
a previous administration that allowed Delta eight, a hemp derived

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compound and can get you high, to not only be
sold but flourish. So the Republican leaders say we're going
to outlaw some of these hemp derived products. Essentially shutting
down your delta would ban ninety five percent of hemp

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extract products. This at a time when not only the
people Nebraska, as you know, voted to allow medical marijuana,
and then the leadership of Nebraska said, yeah, we're gonna
get on that, and then they've been slow walking and
slow walking the actual implementation of the medical marijuana this
entire time, with no end in sight. But as they're

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doing that, some of the same people that say no,
we don't want recreational marijuana legal in Nebraska. Even though
I don't know how many concerts and sporting events and
like kids Christmas programs you go to, it seems like
there's always people just openly sparking or e singing it
up and it's marijuana. It's all marijuana. These guys have

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no problem. I don't see police rushing in there going hey, pal,
you can't do that. It's all over the place. People
are smoking pot while they're driving to work in the morning.
So all these people that say we don't want legal
recreational marijuana, look around you Ellen, it's legal essentially now.

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It's like the same saying oh, yeah, Nebraska has a
death penalty, we do, what is it? Well, we don't
exactly have a means of carrying out the death penalty.
But we are a death penalty state. We just the
only the only means of carrying out a death penalty
is life in prison. What is it that's killing you time?
We don't have anything else that's allowed to execute somebody.

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So we have a death penalty, we don't have it.
Medical marijuana is legal, but you can't get it anywhere
right now. Recreational marijuana is illegal, but it seems like
everybody has it all the time whenever they want it,
whether it's some of the illegal stuff or some of
the legal ish stuff like this these delta THC products,

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which it looks like when the government gets shut down,
potheads will be able to fly to some of the
states where they more look the other way at recreational marijuana,
but they won't be able to get it in the
local gas station or or outlet around town like they
can now. So what am I saying? Uh? Stock up

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if that's what you I don't care what you're into it.
But it looks like this is gonna be that little
seed tucked in to the government shut down bill, the
one that would end the shutdown here this week. Didn't
even realize they were working on that did you. I didn't,

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And all of this stuff as we now ramp down
our Trump date for today, I think all of this
comes down to, I think the same thing that got
Trump elected twice and got mom Donnie elected in New
York City, and that is people are complaining that everything

(57:50):
is too expensive, and here comes someone saying we're gonna
cut this and we're gonna empower the work or that.
It's two sides of the same coin. It's respond to
Americans that say, look, I'm working, some are and everything's
just too expensive. What are we going to do about that?
I mean, it's a real problem if you've got young

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people that say, I'd like to have the American dream
and buy a house, but I can't afford to buy
a house. So here comes Trump going all right, it
seems like we have a problem, and yo, I'll solve it,
President Vanilla Ice. If there is a problem, yo, I'll
solve it. What do we have here? We have mortgage

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rates that are coming down, ticking up a little bit,
coming down a little bit. But it's I mean, when
you've got people who enjoy a mortgage rate somewhere in
the threes for a thirty year mortgage and right now
it's twice that, which is still historically really really low.
You got just the mind effect of, oh, I can't

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afford this. And so if costs on a thirty year
mortgage with mortgage rates where they are are this, people
are like, I don't know if I can afford that. Well,
it has to do with a lot more than just
the mortgage rate and the thirty year mortgage. It has
to do with the property taxes. If you look at
what you're actually paying, no matter what your mortgage rate is,

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if you're paying a mortgage every month, look at what
you're spending on that mortgage, and it's incredibly low compared
to the taxes. It's property taxes that's not a president thing.
That's your city council, that's your state legislature, that is
your school board, that's your property taxes are the ones

(59:36):
that make that whole mortgage payment so high. And if
you don't have the money to come up with whatever
the percentage is now it used to be twenty I
think it's probably still twenty percent down payment, it might
be ten now ten percent down payment, then you have
to do mortgage insurance, and that costs a lot of money. Too,

(59:56):
and all of that adds up to a cost. A
lot of people say we can't pay. So Trump says, well,
I have an idea. How about this. We'll just just
like was it President Roosevelt who came up with the
thirty year mortgage. Trump's like, we'll just do a fifty

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year mortgage. You're paying the same price, but we're spreading
out the payments over an extra twenty years, which is
going to decrease that monthly cost quite a bit. You
know this, maybe you've been out there looking at cars
and you're like, wow, I sure like that car. But
if we finance this over sixty months, it's a pretty

(01:00:40):
big payment. And they're like, hey, just finance it over
six years. Find us over seven years. Well, we have
no problem. We'll just do like a what would that
be seventy two month or eighty four month car payment.
I mean, you're gonna keep the car. This car is
gonna run great seven years. Isn't you know unreasonable to

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keep a car? Right? And people are like that does
lower the cost. Trump is like, well, just do a
fifty year mortgage, significantly lower monthly payments and make it
more attractive than renting. I'm sure this was not music
to the years of all the people building apartments all
over Omaha and the country. They're like, wait, what stop

(01:01:22):
the hammering for a second Trump is doing. But immediately
people are like a fifty year mortgage. These people are
gonna be paying a mortgage the rest of their lives.
You'll be underwater, You'll never with all the Okay, here's
the argument here. It's true, I don't think a fifty
year mortgage is a great idea for most people. So
here's what happens. You go to get your mortgage and

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your options are on the table in front of you,
everything from your fifteen year, your adjustable rate you're thirty,
maybe there'll be a forty year mortgage in there, or
all the way up to a fifty year mortgage. What
you do is decide what works better for you. No
one's saying you have to do the fifty year mortgage.
It's an option, right. You don't like it, then don't

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do it. At the same time, we do have to
look at what is keeping these rates these payments so high,
and that's property taxes. But that takes it away from
the Oval office and puts it on your local officials.
So I'm saying that is now the end of our
Trump Date. Today, Tom and Trump is a long that

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might be the longest Trump Date we've ever done, almost
a two hour Trump Date. Baby, hope you enjoyed it.
And Trump. We didn't even get to the pardons for
Juliani and others. But Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. There's always
time for more Trump Dates. As we wrap up the show.

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