Hour 1 : Filibuster Talk

In Hour 1 of the show, Jon talks about the Government shutdown and he gives his thoughts on what should be done with the Filibuster.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Look at the current government shut down in some past
Democrat actions. The state of Minnesota opened their twenty five
legislative session and the late Melissa Hortman speaker didn't have
the majority in the House, so she told her side
of the aisle to not show up for work. She
kept herds from showing up for three weeks because she

(00:20):
didn't have the majority of the ours showed up every
day to do the work the voters asked.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Them to do so, so juvenile acting.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Remember several months ago, Texas lawmakers were set to meet
for redistricting and the governor called a session.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yep, you guessed it.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
The d's decided to flee the state to not show
up to conduct a business. Now the federal government is
shut down, and you guessed that the Democrats aren't having
their way.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
They sit and they pout about it.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
The Democrats in Washington, who are supposed to represent their voters,
they just represent their party.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
The men are like kids. I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Pick up my Tanka trucks from the sandbox and just
to go home. The women pick up their barbie dolls
and power to as they walk home. As a baby boomer,
of which I could have guessed with the Tonka truck
in sandbox reference. That's not a negative, by the way,
I just kind of kind of assume that. As a

(01:23):
baby boomer, I have wondered what at the lawmakers on
the state and federal level didn't have an R ORD
after their name, would they be able to engage in
common sense and get things accomplished for the people? Just
think being a Democrat politician on the state and federal side,
or the local national newsroom waking up every day having
to be ticked off about somebody or something.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
What a life To answer the.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Question, however, of that they didn't have RS and d's
next to their name, would they be able to engage
in common sense and get things accomplished?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
No.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
And we have the perfect example of that when it
comes to our school board elections that are supposed to
be non partisan.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
And they're absolutely not. I was having this discussion with.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Melinda about this very thing, wherein it was just a
few years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
We were looking at actions campaign moves that might have
been in violation or may have been contrary to the
nonpartisan aspect of school board elections, and we would argue
about those about those particular things and whether or not

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they were or were not sort of in violation in
spirit of these being nonpartisan elections, And now we've arrived
at a place where we're not even debating it anymore.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
On the school board level, they're absolutely partisan, ridiculously. So
it's very much in line with the same sort of
analogy when it comes to indoctrination in schools. We used
to argue, what is or isn't in particular lesson plans
in doctrination? Is this lesson plan? Is this inclusion in

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the classroom akin to indoctrination? But we still ultimately looked
at it at indoctrination being bad. Now we don't anymore,
to the point where even school board leaders in Minnesota
just over the course of the past week have said that,
you know, if you are neutral in the classroom, that
is a bad thing. Let me add something else to

(03:37):
this as I open up the show this morning, So
the friend of the show who wrote this, thank you
very much for doing so. By the way, I know
you were anonymous, or else I would have given you credit,
but I assume that you wanted to stay anonymous. As
a matter of fact, I'm going to put this up
in studio. I have places where I can pin things
to the sound blockers on the walls.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I'm going to pin this up because I enjoyed it
that much.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
But it was a nice little recap of the course
of the past year here in Minnesota. There's another recap
that I found overnight that's going to weigh in heavily
with what we'll talk about this hour. Matt wallsh at
the Daily Wire just to recap the last few months.
He posted on X Charlie Kirk shot in the throat
on stage, we'll hear from Erica Kirk. We have some

(04:21):
audio of her time us speaking with Jesse Waters on
Fox News this hour.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, Charlie Kirk shot.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Thousands of leftists spend weeks celebrating openly, and now those
same individuals are trying to discredit Erica Kirk. Leftist militants
take to the streets committing and calling for more violence.
Attorney General candidate in Virginia expresses his desire to murder
conservatives and watch their children die. Democrat voters turn out

(04:51):
in mass to vote for him. He wraps up saying,
do you understand your enemies yet? These are both interesting
snapshots of where we are and part of the narrative
that we'll talk about on the show this morning, because
I feel this push and pull or a ven diagram,

(05:14):
if you will, where the circles crossover and sort of
the future of the country, and then on one side
there is a ridiculousness to all of it that is
less distressing and concerning when you look at these issues
both locally and nationally, and with the ridiculous aspect of it,

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you also have the genuine concern about the future of
the country, and those two things again in the ven
diagram both form together in our response and where is
the country heading? I'm going to work through both of these,
both on a distressing, concerning level and also on a
level of.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Ridiculousness because there is.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Zo Ron Mamdani is probably one of the best examples
of sort of the duality, if you will, of the situation.
He's a snake oil salesman. He's a caricature. Can he
implement some dangerous policies?

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Not as much as most people I think understand and
I'll explain.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
But he's also again just an actor.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
People bought into it, and they're going to quickly realize
what a mistake that was because a few things that
zo Ron Mamdani can do are things that will immediately
show negative results because what he believes in is simply
not sustainable.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
We'll also dive into the shutdown.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
As the letter said, FAA is reducing air traffic, which
is going to cause disruptions right here at MSP, So
if you're flying anytime soon, we'll give you details on that.
We'll also discuss the latest with Red Guard to the
filibuster exercising the nuclear option, and there's a narrative that
has formed around this that's really had me thinking a

(07:11):
lot about whether or not we should get rid of
the filibuster. I'll share with you my view hasn't changed necessarily,
but I want to lay out the particular scenario that
has emerged surrounding that. And we do have a lot
of ground to cover today. We'll talk about our local elections.
Jacob Fry did go and win the mayoral race in
Minneapolis yesterday, so we won't have to see these socialist

(07:31):
policies as upfront and in our face as people in
New York will.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
We'll talk about that coming up just after seven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
And of course throughout the show today, I want to
hear from you email me Justice at iHeartRadio dot com.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
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Speaker 1 (07:47):
App, and obviously some of you already are, you can
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Speaker 5 (07:57):
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Speaker 2 (08:11):
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Speaker 1 (08:15):
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Speaker 2 (08:40):
If I'm glad you're with the show this morning.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
As we continue the broadcast here from the iHeart Radio App,
and now that I actually have things back up and running,
we can get to a few of your talkbacks from
the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
There is no problem too big or too small for
the government to fix. Or I'm from the government and
I'm here to help. Which one is a scarier quote.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Why not both they both suck.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Probably there's no problem too big or too small for
the government to fix. And as I mentioned, there's gonna
be this push and pull this morning, the genuine concern
which will always sort of be the baseline of the
commentary here on the show, but also the level of
ridiculous that is ridiculousness that is attached to that genuine concern.

(09:38):
I mean, and take the case. Once again, we're gonna
talk a lot about Mom Donnie this morning, but this
would have been applying to omar Fat had he won
the Minneapolis election. Like he cannot single handedly move forward
on policy to implement all of these free things that
he said he was going to do. He doesn't have

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the ability to go and raise taxes that way on
the citizens of New York City to bring that money
in to the point, and I have the audio evidence
of it where again he's asking for money from voters.
A part of this is a big grift. There's some
policy he can enact, and we will talk about that.
Let's get to a few more of your thoughts though,

(10:18):
before we talk about where we're at with the shutdown currently.

Speaker 7 (10:22):
Hey, John omar Fa, tay I get he wanted to
win the mayor oyal election so he could grease the
skids for more for broad stars, increasing his net worth.
What motivates a guy like Mondami to be there? It
is the same sort of thing, is it other stuff?
Is it idealism, have a great day?

Speaker 2 (10:43):
I think it's a bit of a combination.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I think power is probably the easiest answer I can
give you if you go back and look at the
history of this clown.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
He's been a bit of a grifter.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
He's done a lot of different things attempting to go
and make a name for himself. I've seen this a lot.
Typically you don't see success out of it. There's an
individual that I'm actually thinking of from Arizona that was
very much like this. He would shift with the political wins,

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his party affiliation. A lot of it for him, I
believe just came down to a level of insecurity and
his desire to be accepted by the public. But Mam
Donnie's been involved in all kinds of different endeavors that
haven't brought about success, and he's finally landed on one.
It doesn't make him any less dangerous. But I also

(11:39):
don't think he's very genuine or authentic.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Either.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
He's found a pathway and I believe he believes in
the things that he is saying. But mostly I think
it's power money. I was going to save this for
later on, but like Mam Donnie, is kind of like
if Zach Dyala Roacha from Rage against the Machine ran
for office in one and he ran for office under

(12:06):
this idea that he was oppressed. For those of you
of a certain age and know what I'm talking about,
you're welcome for those that don't. So Rage against the
Machine the popular rock band going back to the late
nineties into the Actually I guess they would have just
been in the early two thousands, mid two thousands, and
they had this very sort of down with the man,

(12:27):
down with government Rah. They're T shirts or always adorned
with Shay Guavara. They were big proponents of socialism. They
all came from incredibly wealthy neighborhoods in a beach community.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
In southern California.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
They were suburban, wealthy kids raging against the machine, acting
as if they were oppressed, but they were just doing
it through their music. It's nothing new, but that's all Mom,
Donnie is. He's very much the wivalent as if Rage
against the Machine had run for office on this idea

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that they're oppressed and you're oppressed, and they're going to
go and fix all of your problems. All right, let's
get to where we are with the shutdown in the filibuster.
First off, MSP is on this list, as the FAA
said yesterday that it was taking the extraordinary step of
reducing air traffic by ten percent across forty high volume

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markets beginning this Friday to maintain travel safety, as traffic
controllers exhibit signs of strain during the ongoing government shutdown,
and we were already strained for air traffic controllers, FAA
Administrator Brian Bedford said in a news conference. I'm not
aware of my thirty five year history in the aviation
market where we've had a situation where we're talking about

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these kinds of measures.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
On a side note, by the way, have you guys
seen the.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Footage of that UPS flight that crashed in Louisville, Kentucky
a few days ago?

Speaker 2 (13:59):
My godsh man an.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Engine caught fire right on takeoff, dropped off the plane.
They were already traveling at a speed where it was
too late for them to stop the plane. They had
to proceed with the takeoff procedures, but they were doomed
and the footage that has been released from several different
dash cam videos just absolutely horrendous. A side note on this,

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you know, my son Logan is the aviator that he is,
spends a lot of time with MSP Live working with
that group as they filmed the air traffic coming in
and out of MSP. Loves going down and filming the
planes and documenting them. He actually has footage of that
very flight of that very ups airliner here at MSP

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when it had traveled here a few times before. He
was showing this yesterday up on his YouTube channel. Just
absolutely tragic. So with this FAA move, whether or not
this puts pressure on Democrats to come to the table
and actually end the shutdown remains to be seen. Yesterday,
Senate Majority of Leader John Thune said that Republicans still

(15:07):
lack the votes to end the filibuster. Despite President Donald
Trump's renewed push to eliminate the procedural hurdle to break
the record setting government shutdown, and we'll talk about this.
Trump continues to speak about wanting to scrap the filibuster
and there's an interesting narrative that has emerged, and I
can very much see both sides of the argument. In

(15:32):
order to eliminate it or to keep it, I'll share
with you my thoughts because I've spent some more time
sort of breaking down in my mind what this would
actually mean and whether or not Trump is right in
wanting to end the filibuster. So I'll share again my
commentary on that. We'll get to your thoughts as well from
the iHeartRadio app coming up on Twinsday's news Talk AM
eleven thirty and one oh three five FM.

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Speaker 2 (16:44):
Morning, You're fascinating to talk to. So thank you for
the heads up on that.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Let's get to a few more of your talkbacks before
we get into filibuster discussions.

Speaker 9 (16:56):
Wow, thanks to Omar Fete, Jacob Fry won a third
four year term.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
I never thought that would be possible.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
A lot of people were saying that they expected that
Jacob Fry was going to win, and even early on
I had mentioned and this isn't you know, I'm not
trying to do a humble brag here, but I ended
up being correct on this. I had thought that Omar
fates rise to prominence in that race was largely because

(17:35):
of the commentary arounds Ohran Mom Donni and how both
of those individuals align in terms of their beliefs. I mean,
he was getting attention and Omar Fat was going to
get attention. But when Mom Donnie ended up getting so
much of the attention and the concerns began to grow
that he could win, and of course he did, because

(17:56):
voters are stupid. Omar Fat's profile increased dramatically, and it
increased dramatically on the national stage. Don't think for a
second the dollars weren't also rolling in from outside of
Minnesota for his campaign. Thankfully, at least the voters had
the wherewithal to know that that would have been even

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more disastrous than already the disastrous Minneapolis mamby b may
Or Mom Jean's Jacob Fry With that, let's go to
our foes of the show this morning, John and Justice.

Speaker 10 (18:30):
So from Eton Prairie. You know the guy you're describing
when you try to describe mon Donnie, you discard describing
Donald Trump. Huh, griffs everything right in your face.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
His family's made five billion dollars.

Speaker 10 (18:44):
Why he's for his two presidencies so far?

Speaker 2 (18:46):
You're talking crap.

Speaker 10 (18:47):
About bue Donnie. You got beat at your own game, man.
And you guys love communists. You guys love China, don't you?
Trump loves China. He loves communists. By boys, It's not.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Even like worth the response. That's what Republicans have to be,
which is why these elections are absolutely winnable, because people
like Foe with the show Phil represent not all of
the Democrat voters, but a lot of them ignorant, uneducated

(19:24):
on the issues, blindly following along with whatever is spewed
out of the mouths of commentators on MSNBC.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, I'll give Phil credit where credit's due. At least
he's brave enough to go and leave a talk back.
There are plenty of individuals, especially up on X that
want to go and spout all kinds of nonsense and
yet are too cowardly to go and comment on the
iHeart Radio app.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Hey, good morning, John.

Speaker 11 (19:56):
Yeah, I agree with President Trump on the filibuster. It's
time to get rid of it. The Democrats would do
it to us, and we know they would do it
to us. They started at first when it came to nominations.

Speaker 12 (20:08):
So yeah, let's get rid of it. Let's pass voter ID,
Let's pass all the good stuff we know that works,
that's common sense, before the Democrats ever get power back
and destroy the country.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
I want to play these comments that rolled in first
before I get into my commentary. It's often on the
show wherein I have top acts that roll in before
I end up sort of laying out my view upon
something and then unfortunately, like the contradictions don't align.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
So I want to make sure.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
That these comments that I'm going to play for you,
these all came in prior to Mike diving into the
latest regarding this issue and whether or not we should
get rid of the filibuster.

Speaker 9 (20:52):
Morning John, What if they had to earn the right
to not have the filibuster in place for a particular vote. So,
in other words, if they had a balanced budget perhaps,
or if they were to you know, maybe limit themselves
to once a year, or there was some benchmark that

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they had to achieve and there was to be able
to use it.

Speaker 10 (21:16):
Eos this as a screening baby here, Okay, I.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Think that's the first. I don't think we've had a
screaming baby on the.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Well.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
I mean, apart from the you know, foes of the show,
we haven't had apart from Phil, we haven't had screaming.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Babies on the podcast before any sense.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
We're almost to freedom Friday, Like we're just about there
by the way. Tomorrow in studio we have Salt and
Pepper with us Akkamoraw will be joining us, but Grace
Keating and Catherine we'll both be on the show tomorrow
from Center of the American Experiments.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Looking forward to that.

Speaker 13 (21:55):
Good Morning John. In my opinion, these individuals who are
standing in the way of opening the government should be
relieved of their duties as a senator or congress person.
And if you're anybody who's going to be traveling through
the airports over the Thanksgiving holiday, should the government not open,

(22:15):
I would be very nervous because you have a lot
of disgrunctled people at a very busy time and things
could go sideways and I would not want to be
part of that.

Speaker 14 (22:25):
Absolutely, do not get rid of the filibuster. It's there
as a major speed bump. If we didn't have it
under Biden, we'd have been screwed, bood and tattooed. So yeah,
it needs to stay there. Don't capitulate to the extortion
and make them do what's right.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, so let's get into this.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Trump yesterday argued again that by getting rid of the philibuster,
Republicans would win so much that Democrats would be hard
pressed to take over the Senate. And this is where
the gamble comes into play. And I can see both
sides of the issue. There's one lynchpin in this that
has me lean one direction over another.

Speaker 14 (23:05):
Though.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Now, just getting everybody up to speed for those in
the back and the foes of the show, ending the
Senate filibuster sets the threshold to pass most legislation through
the Upper Chamber at sixty votes and reduces the bar
to pass bills to a simple majority. This is why,
again for the foes and those who don't listen well enough,

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this is why this is the Democrats shutdown, because it's
the Democrats that continue to not provide the necessary votes
to pass it. You get rid of the philibuster, and
then the Republicans can move forward and do it with
the simple majority. Okay, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
how slowly I go and explain it. I will still
get those of the show leaving talkbacks going.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
It's the Republicans. They run every You still have members
of Congress saying you have all the power, this is
your shutdown, and just ignore the facts anyway. The President
reiterated on.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Fox News last night, downplaying concerns about ending the long
standing Senate rule. With Fox host Brett Berry, he says,
I think if we got rid of the filibuster, we
would approve so many things, approve so many things, common
sense things, wonderful things, that it would be hard to
beat us. If we don't, it's going it's always going
to be a slog I have no doubt in my

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mind get rid of it, said the president. The President
admitted the choice to push for ending the filibuster is tough,
not just for the consequences of potentially a Democrat takeover,
but because of the feelings of his allies in the
Senate who disagree with the need to end the filibuster.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
So with that, here's the scenario. It goes like this,
if you end the filibuster, okay, and you assume if
and win, you have to assume that if and when
Democrats regain congressional majority at ease, they would go and
end it anyhow.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
That's the argument.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
That's the argument that Trump is laying out, like if
we don't end it now, and I've heard other people
make similarly, you know, well known and respected conservative commentators
saying it doesn't matter when they're siding with the president,
saying if he doesn't end it now, win and if
the Democrats get into power, they are going to end
the filibuster.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Okay. So you end the filibuster past Trump's agenda.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Then that would mean shoring up, in my opinion, shoring
up election integrity, reinforcing the inability of those that are
here in the country illegally to vote mandate voter IDs
just to name a few things, just just go full
throttle on Trump's agenda, making it harder, as Trump said,

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for Democrats to win. Okay, now, if the GOP does that,
if and when Democrats get into power, because this is
what Trump's argument is. Trump is of the opinion that
if we do this, and we do all these wonderful things,
then the Democrats won't be able to go and recapture power.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
History would say otherwise.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
And if you get rid of it, it does all
but guarantee that Dems will attempt to undo everything that
Trump did or worse, or don't end the filibuster, and
we continue this partisan blame game.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
So it really comes down to do you believe that
in ending the.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Filibuster, the Republicans will put forward an agenda and pass
it that will keep Democrats from being able to capture
future majorities.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Here's the one thing about this that.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Sticks out the most to me, and I'm actually going
to default to Representative Max Rymer. He said this on
the past few Freedom Fridays. But I continuing I continue
to lean towards not going with the nuclear option, because
I believe the Democrats are hoping that the GOP does
it for them so they can do that very thing

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in the future, so that they can go and undo
everything that Trump did without having to be burdened with
the filibuster question, because then the Democrats will be faced
with the same dilemma. Right suddenly. You know, there's a
reason why they call it the nuclear option. But I

(27:35):
don't think it's just because you'd be nuking the filibuster.
I think it's also because what do nuclear weapons do.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Ultimately? Right now? They're deterrence.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Obamas because we have these weapons, but I know you
have those weapons and neither of us want to use them.
Maybe that was the original intent of the nuclear option.
I just always thought the new uclear option was because
we were blowing up the filibuster. And I think that's
what Democrats want because they don't want to be the
ones to have to decide that.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
I get.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
I understand the arguments, and based off of even what
I laid out at the start of the show, with
what's just happened in Trump's first year in office, it
would lead one to believe that regardless of what Trump does,
if we keep it in place. If the Democrats get
back into power, they're going to get rid of it themselves. However,

(28:29):
I also think that right now they're holding out, and
they will probably hold out longer with the shutdown while
this debate between Trump and congressional Republicans continues.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Let's get to some of your thoughts from the iHeartRadio app.
Now that I've.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Set the table, let's go and have a feast of talkbacks.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
That was awful.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
That was a horrible analogy. That was really I'm sorry.
I apologize that was a talk host failure.

Speaker 9 (28:58):
John. We have to do a temporary end of the filibuster.
As AOC stated after the election, Mom, Donnie, we're in
a war. The social compact that existed between the two
political ideologies in this country has gone. We have to
temporarily end the filibuster to help win this war and
win this battle so we can move forward and gain

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the moment and then the twenty twenty six and then
the subsequent election and eight years of President J. D. Vance.

Speaker 15 (29:30):
Yeah, that last call, it brings up a good point.
I think President Trump should start talking about expanding the court.
I think you should continue, but make more of an
effort to make it to put it out there and say, well,
we're thinking about it, we're.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Thinking about expanding the court to twenty six.

Speaker 7 (29:47):
Make it.

Speaker 15 (29:48):
Start doing it. You should start talking about it. Watch
their heads explode.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Good morning, Bob from Lake Elmo. And we don't need
to get rid of the filibuster rule. Let's just put
one new rule in place. If they cannot pass a
budget and they be in Congress by September thirty, every year,
they are prohibited from running for reelection, all of them.
They need to get their job done. They have one job,
pass a budget, get it done. If they don't get

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it done.

Speaker 14 (30:14):
Fired, well, there may be good things getting rid of
the filibuster, at least for Republicans. My litmus test, as
always is the Second Amendment, because that's a civil right issue,
it's a constitutional issue, and the Republicans are bad on it.
Look at the big beautiful bill.

Speaker 16 (30:34):
They went out of their way to suck out pro
Second Amendment things and it took massive backlash to put
it back in. I have no faith in the Republican
Party that they will not institute more gun control like
they did.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Hey, John, great show. As always, historically, the Democrats have
always been better at the long game politically than the Republicans.
If the Republicans and the Buster, the Democrats are just
going to use it against them and claim to have
the moral high ground like they always do, don't be stupid, Republicans.

Speaker 17 (31:13):
Moral high ground arguments are no longer valid.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
John.

Speaker 17 (31:17):
It's sad to say, but the Democrats won't just do
it when they get power back. They will stack the courts,
and they will do everything in their power to prevent
Republicans from getting power back. They will be corrupt when
they do it. Republicans will be better at it.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
You're right, and the difficulty about this debate is that
none of us really know for sure.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
But it's important to note that often my commentary generalizes.
I'm a talk show host. When we look at the issues,
we generalize, what are we ultimately talking about. We're talking
about people. We're talking about the individual elected officials who
still have to go and face their own constituents in

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their respective districts in their respective states. I say all
of that because it's easy to step back and take
a thirty thousand foot.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
View, look at the lay of the land, and.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Make an assumption like that which was just made moral
arguments are no longer valid. The Democrats will go and
do this if they were to get power again. So
the Republicans should go, as an argument would go and
get rid of the filibuster. Now move forward with their agenda,
and then hope that Democrats don't get into power again.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
But I still contend.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
That the way in which politics work is not completely
destroyed yet. Individuals still have to get elected, they still
have to run for office. They're still going to end
up having challengers, and because of that, things like getting
rid of the filibuster are still potentially toxic for a

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lot of Democrats serving in Congress that don't live in
incredibly far left districts, are more moderate by Democrat standard districts.
Let's go here, born John Ire. As of now, I'm
against nuking the filibuster.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
But I also want to back to the old philibuster
where you actually have to stand to TAF for how
many hours?

Speaker 17 (33:32):
Now?

Speaker 6 (33:32):
With that'd be, it said, do you know of any
way that is there a way that they'd use it
and then reinstate the filibuster at all?

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Or I don't know the rules as far as if
it goes away, if there's you know, the ability to
go and reinstate it later on. I do not I
do not know. I can look into that though, and
I want to make a quick point to reinforce what
I was saying a moment ago. We'll talk about this

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and coming up later on in the show when we
look at some of the local issues, and specifically Caro
Levin has a pretty entertaining piece talking with local political
analysts regarding breaking down the results of the election. But
the point I wanted to bring up that's not being
discussed right now is that when you look at say,

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the Abigail Winsome Sears race Abigail Spamburger, and most people
aren't talking about this.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
She actually ran a.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
Relatively moderate Democrat Democrat campaign, and this speaks to my
point over Democrats still have to go and play to
their constituents.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Their base voters.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
She pushed back on many of the liberal stances, whether
it was on you know, racial lines, on trans issues.
He was incredibly vocal about how those issues were not
helping Democrats win elections now and wouldn't in the future.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
And it was her that really.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Ended up dragging Jay Jones over the finish line to
victory in spite of his fascination with death via those
texts for people that didn't want to go and split
their vote. So I just use this as an example
of the continued commentary around Obviously the post election analysis,
these were mostly blue states. This is not some major

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harbinger for Republicans the sky isn't falling, but also on
issues like we're talking about right now, Democrats are not
going to want to be the ones to go in
nuke the filibuster for the same reason that Republicans aren't
going to be the ones to want to go in
nuke the filibuster. All Right, we had several comments that
rolled in regarding foe of the show, Phil. I'll sprinkle

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a few of those in. We'll get some more of
your talkbacks as well.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
We'll also talk.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
A bit about Urkikirk recalling the last moments with Charlie
before he was assassinated, and we have an immigration update
to dive into before we turn our attention into over
to local politics. Some commentary regarding what exactly the newly
elected Saint Paul mayor is going to do differently than
Melvin Carter. It's all coming up on Twin City's News

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