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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I remember an interview with our former Congressman Tom tim Crado.
His introduction to government work was I think Reagan appointed
him to something within the educational department. And he went
in first day and wanted to take a look around,
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and they said something about a library, and he said, oh,
we have a library. And they took him down the
hall and he sees this woman who's a quote unquote
librarian next to a magazine rack or a pamphlet rack.
This woman had a full time government paid job handling
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a magazine rack. That was their library.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's good work if you can get it. I'm in
charge of the pamphlets. Look all the library. We call
the library. We got a library here of pamphlets. Uh.
We'll get back to Lisa Murkowski in just a minute.
But I got two. I don't know why I find
these two stories funny, but I just I need. I
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need to laugh for a moment. Dragon handed me. You know,
Dragon comes in her hands me to these stories and
I skim the headlines and there's usually one or two
that catch my eye. And this one caught my eye.
This is a chicken and egg story. Uh. And I
don't mean like the cost of eggs, I mean like
which came first. Longtime Denver liquor shop ordered to stop
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selling booze over crime problems. The subhead, the head of
Denver's Excise and Licenses Department, decided not to renew the
liquor license for Avondale Auvundale Liquors at the corner of
Fourteenth and Federal Boulevard. Huh, I wonder what's going on
at Federal Boulevard and Fourteenth Street. Anybody in that area
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right now? Cruise around to send us a send us
a photo story. Jeremy jehoel Over at nine News wrote
this from drug use, drug deals and fights. The City
of Denver decided not to renew the liquor license for
Avondale Liquors because of persistent problems with crime in and
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around the property. The longtime liquor store location at thirteen
sixty five Federal Boulevard was acquired by a new owner
approximately five years ago, but over the last several years,
neighbors have complained about a criminal element loitering around the area.
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In October, nine News interview neighbors who said the liquor
store attracted people who get intoxicated then sleep on their
porches and walk through their backyards. I wonder if there
isn't at nine news a video to a camp accompany this.
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Let's see if we can this is this is live
radio right here, spur of the moment. We're doing this
extemporaneously Avondale Liquors.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So don't forget your computer searching noises. Do do do
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Speaker 2 (03:18):
Do do doo? Oh, I hit the wrong button. Sure enough,
we've got dragon, we got platform. Hang on for a
second while I get through the commercial. Let's see do
do skip the ad in okay, turn it back on.
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Constantly crossing your property and using your front porch like
it's theirs.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Here's a guy sitting for smoke.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You need to leave the premises immediately. I'm calling the
cups on you.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
To people sleeping on the patio furniture, you need to
leave those premises right now.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I've been here for fifteen years now.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
This doorbell camp footage comes from Rodrigo Lozano, who lives
just down the road from the Abindale Liquor store off
of Federal. It's just south of Colfax by the stadium.
Like other neighbors, we spoke to. He blames the liquor
shop for attracting a clientele to the area.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
The whole neighborhood has been feeling quite unsafe, and we've
been seeing a really big influx of homeless people. Also,
you know, people have using drugs and gets theirs.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Let's pause the video for just a moment, because, huh.
Both the story and the video indicate that this liquor
store has been there for quite some time now. They
do indicate that a new owner bought it five years ago,
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but over the last several years, people are beginning to complain.
And by the way, on the video, it's not people
sleeping on the porches or on the front step or
the stoop or whatever you want to call it the
front door of the liquor store. It's druggies, homeless, illegal
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aliens that are wandering around in that neighborhood. One one
like ring doorbell camera shows what appears to me, at
least appears to me to be a drugless homie, homeless,
a homeless druggie wandering around the back porch looking at
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the patio furniture, trying to find a place to I
hope just lay down. I hope not like you know,
do number two.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
But here's a guy sitting for a smoke.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You need to leave the premises immediately. I'm calling the
coup on you.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
To people sleeping on the patio furniture.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
You need to leave those premises right now. I've been
here for fifteen years now.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
This doorbell cam footage comes from Rodrigo Lozano, who lives
just down the road from the Avondale Liquor Store off
of Federal.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's just south of Colfax by the Stadium.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Like other neighbors we spoke to, he blames the liquor
shop for attracting the clientele to the area.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
The whole neighborhood has been feeling quite unsafe, and we've
been seeing a really big influx of homeless people. Also,
you know, people have using drugs and alcohol.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
His back alley is a disaster with empty boxes of
booze and syringes. Another neighbor sent us images of people
passed out and smoking something with foil in their hands.
Is the Avondale liquor store around the corner really to blame?
City Council emails show Denver police at a crime rate
analysis over a two year period that top bar in
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this bargraph shows police calls to the Avondale far exceed
police calls to five other liquor stores in the area.
Last year, police responded to calls here two hundred and
thirty six times for things like assaults. If we do
the math, on average, police came here every two out
of three days in the year twenty twenty three, and
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so far this year as of September fourth, that call
rate has increased to about one police call nearly every day.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Two years ago, the owners of the liquor.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Store almost lost their license over crime complaints and liquor violations.
The owner who bought the liquor store nearly five years
ago blames nearby bus stops for the crime. The problem
area is too many bus stations, train stations. They have
connections from a different place, he told us over the phone.
As for Lozano, he may sell his home because he's
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had enough.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Well, it's pretty frustrating, you know, for homeowners around here,
because you know, you want to leave in peace and you.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
See all these things happening.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
And city counselor Jamie Torres spoke about two years ago
against the liquor store's renewal, but the shops settled with
the licensing agency and agreed to provide a security officer,
but this time, the city says a visit to the
shop back in May resulted in the store selling an
undercover and underage police cadet alcohol and that there was
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no security office here on site. Council Member Torres says
she plans on pushing for non renewal again this year
during a hearing that is set for October twenty third.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Back to you guys, look, I'm not trying to and
I'm not going to sit here and say that the
liquor store was their hands were clean. No. If they
said they were going to hire a security guard and
they failed to do so, then that violated part of
the agreement. And if you're not smart enough to realize
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that the City and County of Denver is watching you closely,
and then you sell liquor to an underage undercover cop,
then that's on you too. But it's not all the
liquor stor's fault either. I also got to kick out
of the guy that says I've had enough, I'm going
to sell my home. They probably better call Frank Durant,
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you know why, because it's going to take magic to
sell that house. So why do you want to sell
your house? Well, because we have people sleeping on the
patio furniture in the back, because we have people taking
dumps out in the back alley, because we have people
that wander through the yard all the time. Oh, sounds
like a wonderful place. You want how much for it? Oh,
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I'll give you a tenth of that for it? Yeah,
they better called Frank. So I find it fascinating too
that the focus of nine News is on the liquor
store and kind of glosses over the homeless, the druggies,
the illegal aliens, all of the people that are congregating
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around this place. And of course I love the part
from the store owner about well, really it's the fault
of the You got the bus stops, you got an
RTD stop, you get all these stops bringing these people
in from everywhere, because we know they travel all over
the place. Denver, Denver, you can do better. You won't,
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but you can. So. The other person that caught my
attention this morning Bernie Sanders, Senator Bernie Sanders himself a millionaire.
He knows we never refer to millionaires and billionaires anymore.
We never talk about tax cuts with millionaires and billionaires.
It's only for the billionaires. And you know why, because
Bernie's a millionaire and you can't say millionaires and billionaires
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when you're a millionaire. Bernie is begging for money.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I am once again asking for you a financial support.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I don't have to.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Tell anybody that we're living in dangerous and unprecedented times.
We are fighting now against the oligoux Elon Musk and
the others.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He can only name one, Elon Muskin. You know all
the others who Warren Buffett, Peter Keiel, Bill Gates, who
name on Bernie, come on because some of them, most
of them are on your side.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Or essentially running the government, the richest people in the world.
If we're taking on Trump's movement toward a authoritarianism, putting
more and more power into his own hands, undermining.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You mean putting more and more power into the executive
branch where executive authority resides, which will get us back
to Lisa Murkowski in just a moment.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
The Congress challenging the courts not knowing what the constitution.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Is about, says the socialist communists that we don't know
what the Constitution's about God. I love these people.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
We are right now engaged in a major struggle to
make sure that the Congress does not pass legislation which
is massive tax breaks to billionaires.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I think, wait a minute, we're fighting desperately in Congress
to make sure that they don't pass tax cuts to
give you all this money to billionaires. No, you're I mean,
I know I'm quibbling here, but you want to resend
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already existing tax rates and tax brackets so that you
can take more money out of the working class people
that you ostensibly represent, Or you want to take more
money out of corporations that will just pass the cost
of those goods and services onto the people who consume
those goods and services. So Bernie, you don't get it, Bucko,
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you just don't get it. But you don't get it
because you're a communist.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Cuts medicaid, education, and programs that working families desperately need.
I am going to be running around this country along
with others to rally the American people to continue to
fight for justice, to stand up to Trump and the
authoritarianism that we are seeing. To be successful, We're going
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to need you a help. So please, if you can
send twenty seven dollars anything that you could a pod,
we'd much appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Thank you very much. Hey Britany, where'd you get the
twenty seven dollars? What's the twenty seven dollars about? Let's
go back to Lisa Murkowski for a minute, because she
is one dip.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
I mean, the executive basically blows by Congress or rules
right over Congress, and we allow that we're seating our responsibility.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, let's say for a moment that you are, you're
seating your authority. Well, why don't you take it back?
Why don't you You have a majority in the Senate,
You've got a majority in the House, So why don't
you stand up and take whatever authority you think that
Trump has you surped from you? Why don't you stand
up and take that back instead of just moaning about
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it to some you know Dufuss reporter in the hallways
of the Senate Heart Office building, Heartsentate office ability. Why
why don't you just do that? Why don't you introduce,
you know, legislation to take that power back, keep that
keep that permanent workforce in place.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
I believe that you can absolutely be a one hundred
percent supporter of President Trump and still stand up for
the institution of the Senate, for the for the legislative branch,
with our authorities that are prescribed to us specifically by
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the Constitution. And so but if we don't, if we
just say, well, we like his policies and so therefore
we're going to see some of our authorities.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Okay, then why don't you go in and find out
where the waste, fraud, and abuse is. Oh, that's right,
because you're grifting off it. That's right. That's why you
don't do it, because then we might find out that
you're actually part of the grift.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I don't think that this is the last time you're
going to see that. And you know when when Biden
was in office.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
The reason when Biden was it got cut off. I
don't have a clue, but that brings me back to
an article in the Wall Street Journal that just happens
to mention a old Supreme Court case in which it
appears to me that Justice Scalia may end up getting
his vindication. The old case is Morrison v. Olsen. I
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think this was cash want to say ninety eight or something.
I forget what. Anyway, it was a seven to one decision.
I forget who was missing at the time, but Scalia
was the only dissenting opinion. Scia, his fullest expression of
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the view that's now being tested by the Doge litigation
going on, came in his it was nineteen eighty eight,
came in his descent in Morrison, the ULSA, the Supreme
Court upheld. They upheld the appointment of an independent council
to investigate a former Justice Department official, and Sclea found
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it absurd that a person exercising prosecutorial power executive power
could be largely unaccountable to the Attorney General and the president.
This whole thing about independent council. Hey, you don't answer
to anybody. Wait wait a minute, he says, because he
summed it up as they write with his typical clarity.
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The Constitution, he wrote, says, quote, the executive power shall
be vested in a president of the United States of America.
This does not mean some of the executive power, but
all of the executive power. He wrote. M Now he
was overruled seven to one, but it seems to me
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that we're kind of funding our way back to Oh,
the great constitutional expert, Justice lah was probably right all along,
he instinctively understood that if you're going to run the
executive branch, then you need authority over those people that
work in the executive branch, including an independent council. Yeah,
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those lawsuits may go the.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Michael state in local doge. Hell, my wife started one
here at the house. Now I've got account for every
penny that I spend, and I had to tell her
five things that I did last week.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Well, oh, I have no responsibility for all the doses
out there that are controlling your spending at home. The
founder of an LGBT group, I saw a great thing
somewhere yesterday, maybe on X where a group of gay
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individuals are really upset about the lgb UH and now
the T being at the t Q I A plus
plus whatever it was. And the argument was that lesbian, gay,
and bisexuality is a sexual preference and a transgender and
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all the other you know, the transgender, queer, intersexual, I
forget what the others are, plus plus plus whatever they
all are. That those are all identities as opposed to
a preference, and that the identities have now created such
controversy that the sexual preferences are now getting second billing
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and are now being plumped in with all of the
craziness that the gender identity crowd is pushing. I love
to see a good catfight and I love I love
watching that, and they actually make it. I think a
fairly legitimate and good point. But anyway, this founder of
an LGBT pride group in the UK is now facing
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dozens of criminal charges linked online messages in which he
and another man spoke about kidnapping and raping children. What
is wrong in the UK? Steven Ireland, co founder of
Pride in Surrey, and David Sutton, a volunteer with the
same organization, are accused of thirty eight separate offenses, including
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conspiring to sexually assault children, planning child sex offenses, and kidnapping.
Their defense attorney Gallhoo by the name of Alex Rickler,
presented Ireland's explanation regarding Watt's app messages from three years ago,
which allegedly include discussions of snatching or kidnapping school children,
which Ireland is described as a fantasy taboo chat. Well,
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let's just say for a moment that it is a
really sick fantasy taboo chat. Are you so stupid you're
going to put that particularly in the UK, where they're
monitoring everything that you say and do. Not that they're
not trying to do that here, but then they're clearly
doing it there. So even if it is just some
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sort of stupid fantasy taboo chat that you're having, which
I find in of itself really sick, the speech police
in the UK are going to come and get you.
But the prosecutors argue that the conversations went far beyond
anything hypothetical. Both men allegedly actually plotted to target children
outside school facilities while they would pretend to be talent
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scouts or music managers. So Ireland told the jurors that
his visits to schools were conducted in a professional like
this is so stupid, in a professional manner, intended solely
for educating students about the LGBT community. Well, I find
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that to be creepy. I find that to be like,
that's not really your job, and that's not really what
you ought to be doing, Like, go away if you
want to do it. If you want to do that,
then I don't know if there's ever any appropriate forum
to do that, But that's kind of up to the
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parents if the parents want to do that. And then
the same Yahoo by the name of Ireland addressed accusations
regarding a alleged visit alleged to a swimming pool with
illicit motives. He labeled that conversation as simply role play.
He denied any real intent, but he's specifically charged with
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twenty one different counts, including one count of child rape,
three counts of enticing a child under thirteen to engage
in sexual activity, and one countersexual assault. Together, the pair
face thirteen joint charges encompassing conspiracy solicitation of child sexual offenses,
and then the other guy faces another four further charges
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involving the creation of indecent photographs of children. So now
we've got child born involved. The organizer of this group was,
according to all reports I can find in the UK papers,
was actually active on social media until last year, railing
against the Turf regime, the trans exclusionary Radical Feminists group,
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and denouncing skeptics of transgenderism as non inclusive, anti trans,
dangerous and highly damaging to the lives and well being
of incredibly brave people, all of which should have been
the right to be who they truly are. I don't
know what all's going on in the UK. But you know,
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we had all the child grooming cases, we had all
the child rape cases, all of which the Labor Party
was aware of and the current Prime Minister was aware of.
But when he was when he was some sort of
special prosecutor, refused a prosecuting of these people. And then
late last year they had of a Canadian Pride organization
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affiliated with this UK Pride organization was also arrested on
child sex abuse and in pornography charges. There's a real
sickness in the world again. I you know, I got
an I don't have time to go, I don't care
about finding it. But I got an email from someone
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that listens. I don't know whether I think they listened
on the weekend program, but just berating me. I mean,
you know the British word for a cigarette, right that
a British cigarette in the UK is called a fag. Well,
this guy was using the term pejoratively in reference to
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gays and was just going on about talk show hosts
in this country are just always just somehow gosh. I
wish I could find a stupid email in time to
read it to you. I can't read the whole thing
to you because of the language that he uses. But
it was simply amazing that for me to have an attitude,
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a libertarian attitude. This is I really don't care what
your sexual preference is, and I mean that sincerely. I
just don't care. But to this guy, if if you
are someone that doesn't care about someone's sexual preference, then
you too must be that British word for a cigarette
and you have no guts and you are like every
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other talk show host in the country who refuses to
stand up and denounce it. It's not my job to
deny bounce that that's someone's sexual preference. And I again
don't care. What I've told you I care about is
I care about children being mutilated in pursuit of this
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identity thing that's going on. And if you're going to
allow people to get by with that, and you're allowed,
you're going to allow them to get by with the
crimes that they commit against children, then the entire system
is broken. The entire system utterly sucks. We allow these
things to go on, and for someone to say, well,
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unless you're going to denounce people who happen to be
bisexual or gay or lesbian, then there's something wrong with you.
Bite my ass shut up speaking of which, though the NSSA. Yeah,
that NSSA is investigating government employees talking about fetishes and
transgenderism on government chat networks. Now, if you want to
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root out misuse of taxpayer resources, explain to me what
these logs have to do with the function of the NSA.
Because the chat logs were obtained by City Journal in
New York show that NSA, CIA, and EIA employees discussing polyamory,
transgender surgeries, explicit sexual topics on government time using nssay's
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interlink messaging platform. Essentially almost the same thing that I
fired that guy for twenty five years ago. Now it's
all Now it's blown up. They're not They're no longer
just watching it, they're actually chatting about it. Sources claim
that discussions were legitimized. How can you possibly imagine a
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way to legitimize a discussion about all these sexual preferences
and the gender identity, these transgenderism and everything else. Can
you can you think of a way that they might
want to legitimize it? There, let me help you out,
they claim, as part of the agency's DEI initiatives, and
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they were just trying to understand the LGBTQ plus employee
and all the resource groups that were there so that
they could better understand all the LGBTQ plus IA people
in the NSA, the CIA, and the d IA, and
how could they could better you know, help them. When
you review the chat logs reported by City Journal, you'll
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find employees discussing all the male to female transgender surgeries,
hair removal and estrogen injections, and the experience of sexual
pleasure post castration. That's one of the actual conversations reported
by the City Journal. Now, the employee provided the chat
logs claimed that he had witnessed hundreds of sexually provocative discussions,
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always taking place on taxpayer time, So you would expect
some repercussions, right. The NSA confirm the authenticity of the
chats and then said this, We're going to take action
against any and all employees who abuse the system. What
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do you think that means? No, it's not a rhetorical question.
I'm really serious. What do you think that means? Because
you know, we have we have an hour handbook that
we can't abuse company equipment. Now, I've always taken that
to mean that I can't take my foot and kick
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in these monitors like I'd like to or rip off
the broken blinds off the window and maybe they'd finally
get fixed. But I wonder if that's what it means,
because part of it is that it can lead to
things like probation all the way up determination if you
abuse the equipment. So what do you think the NSA
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means that they're going to take action against the people
that they found or the people they do find who
abused the system. I don't think it means squat. I
don't think the USA will do anything Morning Brownie and Dragon. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
Before I retired as a commercial truck driver, I was
required to daily contact my dispatch to let them know
that one I was okay for on time delivery and
two that I had sufficient hours for a reload. And
if not, why I have no sympathy for these government workers.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Have a good day. Well, that talked back just caused
me to go back to something I decided not to do.
I'm going to do it anyway. So on the text line,
I get a link to a story over on x
about Houston Internal Revenue Service employees being laid off. In
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them sharing their story, it's a three minute package. I
don't want to play the whole thing, but I want
you to just kind of hear a little bit of it,
and then I want to give you some perspective.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
A former IRS employee right here in Houston.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
He was one of thousands of federal employees abruptly laid
off this week.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Abruptly. Is anybody ever laid off? Like you know?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah, come two weeks, we're gonna fire yours.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah that does that ever happen? No?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Okay, sat down exclusively with Michelle Choi to share how
he's feeling and his message to those in power.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
How you feeling, how you doing? There? Nothing there?
Speaker 10 (30:56):
As he waits for an official termination letter to arrive
at a front door, Intarles shared the toll the last
forty eight hours has to take.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
It on him. I can't believe this is happening, and
it happens so fast. Like I said, I was just
in training. I was just in training. I waited four
months to go to training. Now I find that fascinating.
So you're in training, which means you're on probation. I've
never known of any company that doesn't have a policy
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that says, as long as you're a probationary employee or
as long as you're in training, we can let you go.
We can decide no, you're not doing for on the
training bye, or you didn't pass your probation by So
they're talking to the wrong person now again. If I
feel sorry for this guy, of course I feel sorry
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for him. I feel badly for him. He didn't he
thought he was okay just to be fired.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
He's one of six thousand plus federal employees who work
for the Internal Revenue Service fire this week as part
of mass layoffs happening under the Trump administry. Shod The
majority of those workers, like Charles, were probationary workers employee
for less than a year.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Charles told us more.
Speaker 10 (32:06):
Than two dozen employees were laid off from his office
here off Guessner. He says it took over a year
to get his dream job as a tax exempt officer
dealing with nonprofit organizations and compliance.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And I get that, But I thought I would just
do a quick little search and just see what one
of my artificial intelligence apps shows me. So my question was,
what are some of the major layoffs in Houston, Texas.
Here's the results I got. In twenty sixteen, Chevron laid
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off six to eight thousand employees globally to cut costs
and simplify operations. I wonder if any television station in
Houston talked to any of those individuals. In twenty twenty five,
Chevron plans to lay off thousands more of employees as
part of a cost cutting drive. I wonderful we'll see
any stories about them. Texas Children's Hospital last year reduced
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its workforce by five percent, including some of leadership positions.
What if they saw that coming? Did they get interviewed?
The layoffs came after the Fetch Rating Services downgraded the
hospital's bond rating from DOUBLEA to A minus because of
their operating income losses. Shell last year cut Global and
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Oil and Guests Exploration and Development division by twenty percent.
Shell's electricity retailer laid off one hundred Houston employees. Halliburton
laid off one thousand workers as its Houston headquarters due
to a downturn in energy markets. UTMB Health laid off
two hundred positions because of a budget shortfall. Ingram Micro
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laid off about eight hundred and fifty employees to reduce
costs and eliminate redundancies. Oh so, Ingram Micro. Whatever the
hell that company is laid off eight hundred and fifty
employees as part of a cost cutting measure and also
as part of the cost cutting measure eliminating redundancies. Now,
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I wonder if I do an AI search for HMM
show me television reports about Chevron Texas Children's Hospital, Shell, Aliburton, UTMB,
Ingram micro show me TV programs interviewing laid off workers. Yeah,
(34:34):
I'm not gonna waste my time either. Just a little
perspective
I remember an interview with our former Congressman Tom tim Crado.
His introduction to government work was I think Reagan appointed
him to something within the educational department. And he went
in first day and wanted to take a look around,
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and they said something about a library, and he said, oh,
we have a library. And they took him down the
hall and he sees this woman who's a quote unquote
librarian next to a magazine rack or a pamphlet rack.
This woman had a full time government paid job handling
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a magazine rack. That was their library.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It's good work if you can get it. I'm in
charge of the pamphlets. Look all the library. We call
the library. We got a library here of pamphlets. Uh.
We'll get back to Lisa Murkowski in just a minute.
But I got two. I don't know why I find
these two stories funny, but I just I need. I
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need to laugh for a moment. Dragon handed me. You know,
Dragon comes in her hands me to these stories and
I skim the headlines and there's usually one or two
that catch my eye. And this one caught my eye.
This is a chicken and egg story. Uh. And I
don't mean like the cost of eggs, I mean like
which came first. Longtime Denver liquor shop ordered to stop
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selling booze over crime problems. The subhead, the head of
Denver's Excise and Licenses Department, decided not to renew the
liquor license for Avondale Auvundale Liquors at the corner of
Fourteenth and Federal Boulevard. Huh, I wonder what's going on
at Federal Boulevard and Fourteenth Street. Anybody in that area
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right now? Cruise around to send us a send us
a photo story. Jeremy jehoel Over at nine News wrote
this from drug use, drug deals and fights. The City
of Denver decided not to renew the liquor license for
Avondale Liquors because of persistent problems with crime in and
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around the property. The longtime liquor store location at thirteen
sixty five Federal Boulevard was acquired by a new owner
approximately five years ago, but over the last several years,
neighbors have complained about a criminal element loitering around the area.
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In October, nine News interview neighbors who said the liquor
store attracted people who get intoxicated then sleep on their
porches and walk through their backyards. I wonder if there
isn't at nine news a video to a camp accompany this.
(03:05):
Let's see if we can this is this is live
radio right here, spur of the moment. We're doing this
extemporaneously Avondale Liquors.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So don't forget your computer searching noises. Do do do
doo too? Do do do.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Do do doo? Oh, I hit the wrong button. Sure enough,
we've got dragon, we got platform. Hang on for a
second while I get through the commercial. Let's see do
do skip the ad in okay, turn it back on.
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Constantly crossing your property and using your front porch like
it's theirs.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Here's a guy sitting for smoke.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
You need to leave the premises immediately. I'm calling the
cups on you.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
To people sleeping on the patio furniture, you need to
leave those premises right now.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
I've been here for fifteen years now.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
This doorbell camp footage comes from Rodrigo Lozano, who lives
just down the road from the Abindale Liquor store off
of Federal. It's just south of Colfax by the stadium.
Like other neighbors, we spoke to. He blames the liquor
shop for attracting a clientele to the area.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
The whole neighborhood has been feeling quite unsafe, and we've
been seeing a really big influx of homeless people. Also,
you know, people have using drugs and gets theirs.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Let's pause the video for just a moment, because, huh.
Both the story and the video indicate that this liquor
store has been there for quite some time now. They
do indicate that a new owner bought it five years ago,
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but over the last several years, people are beginning to complain.
And by the way, on the video, it's not people
sleeping on the porches or on the front step or
the stoop or whatever you want to call it the
front door of the liquor store. It's druggies, homeless, illegal
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aliens that are wandering around in that neighborhood. One one
like ring doorbell camera shows what appears to me, at
least appears to me to be a drugless homie, homeless,
a homeless druggie wandering around the back porch looking at
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the patio furniture, trying to find a place to I
hope just lay down. I hope not like you know,
do number two.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
But here's a guy sitting for a smoke.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You need to leave the premises immediately. I'm calling the
coup on you.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
To people sleeping on the patio furniture.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
You need to leave those premises right now. I've been
here for fifteen years now.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
This doorbell cam footage comes from Rodrigo Lozano, who lives
just down the road from the Avondale Liquor Store off
of Federal.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
It's just south of Colfax by the Stadium.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Like other neighbors we spoke to, he blames the liquor
shop for attracting the clientele to the area.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
The whole neighborhood has been feeling quite unsafe, and we've
been seeing a really big influx of homeless people. Also,
you know, people have using drugs and alcohol.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
His back alley is a disaster with empty boxes of
booze and syringes. Another neighbor sent us images of people
passed out and smoking something with foil in their hands.
Is the Avondale liquor store around the corner really to blame?
City Council emails show Denver police at a crime rate
analysis over a two year period that top bar in
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this bargraph shows police calls to the Avondale far exceed
police calls to five other liquor stores in the area.
Last year, police responded to calls here two hundred and
thirty six times for things like assaults. If we do
the math, on average, police came here every two out
of three days in the year twenty twenty three, and
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so far this year as of September fourth, that call
rate has increased to about one police call nearly every day.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Two years ago, the owners of the liquor.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Store almost lost their license over crime complaints and liquor violations.
The owner who bought the liquor store nearly five years
ago blames nearby bus stops for the crime. The problem
area is too many bus stations, train stations. They have
connections from a different place, he told us over the phone.
As for Lozano, he may sell his home because he's
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had enough.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Well, it's pretty frustrating, you know, for homeowners around here,
because you know, you want to leave in peace and you.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
See all these things happening.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
And city counselor Jamie Torres spoke about two years ago
against the liquor store's renewal, but the shops settled with
the licensing agency and agreed to provide a security officer,
but this time, the city says a visit to the
shop back in May resulted in the store selling an
undercover and underage police cadet alcohol and that there was
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no security office here on site. Council Member Torres says
she plans on pushing for non renewal again this year
during a hearing that is set for October twenty third.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Back to you guys, look, I'm not trying to and
I'm not going to sit here and say that the
liquor store was their hands were clean. No. If they
said they were going to hire a security guard and
they failed to do so, then that violated part of
the agreement. And if you're not smart enough to realize
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that the City and County of Denver is watching you closely,
and then you sell liquor to an underage undercover cop,
then that's on you too. But it's not all the
liquor stor's fault either. I also got to kick out
of the guy that says I've had enough, I'm going
to sell my home. They probably better call Frank Durant,
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you know why, because it's going to take magic to
sell that house. So why do you want to sell
your house? Well, because we have people sleeping on the
patio furniture in the back, because we have people taking
dumps out in the back alley, because we have people
that wander through the yard all the time. Oh, sounds
like a wonderful place. You want how much for it? Oh,
(09:17):
I'll give you a tenth of that for it? Yeah,
they better called Frank. So I find it fascinating too
that the focus of nine News is on the liquor
store and kind of glosses over the homeless, the druggies,
the illegal aliens, all of the people that are congregating
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around this place. And of course I love the part
from the store owner about well, really it's the fault
of the You got the bus stops, you got an
RTD stop, you get all these stops bringing these people
in from everywhere, because we know they travel all over
the place. Denver, Denver, you can do better. You won't,
(10:04):
but you can. So. The other person that caught my
attention this morning Bernie Sanders, Senator Bernie Sanders himself a millionaire.
He knows we never refer to millionaires and billionaires anymore.
We never talk about tax cuts with millionaires and billionaires.
It's only for the billionaires. And you know why, because
Bernie's a millionaire and you can't say millionaires and billionaires
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when you're a millionaire. Bernie is begging for money.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
I am once again asking for you a financial support.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I don't have to.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Tell anybody that we're living in dangerous and unprecedented times.
We are fighting now against the oligoux Elon Musk and
the others.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He can only name one, Elon Muskin. You know all
the others who Warren Buffett, Peter Keiel, Bill Gates, who
name on Bernie, come on because some of them, most
of them are on your side.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Or essentially running the government, the richest people in the world.
If we're taking on Trump's movement toward a authoritarianism, putting
more and more power into his own hands, undermining.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
You mean putting more and more power into the executive
branch where executive authority resides, which will get us back
to Lisa Murkowski in just a moment.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
The Congress challenging the courts not knowing what the constitution.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Is about, says the socialist communists that we don't know
what the Constitution's about God. I love these people.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
We are right now engaged in a major struggle to
make sure that the Congress does not pass legislation which
is massive tax breaks to billionaires.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I think, wait a minute, we're fighting desperately in Congress
to make sure that they don't pass tax cuts to
give you all this money to billionaires. No, you're I mean,
I know I'm quibbling here, but you want to resend
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already existing tax rates and tax brackets so that you
can take more money out of the working class people
that you ostensibly represent, Or you want to take more
money out of corporations that will just pass the cost
of those goods and services onto the people who consume
those goods and services. So Bernie, you don't get it, Bucko,
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you just don't get it. But you don't get it
because you're a communist.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Cuts medicaid, education, and programs that working families desperately need.
I am going to be running around this country along
with others to rally the American people to continue to
fight for justice, to stand up to Trump and the
authoritarianism that we are seeing. To be successful, We're going
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to need you a help. So please, if you can
send twenty seven dollars anything that you could a pod,
we'd much appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Thank you very much. Hey Britany, where'd you get the
twenty seven dollars? What's the twenty seven dollars about? Let's
go back to Lisa Murkowski for a minute, because she
is one dip.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
I mean, the executive basically blows by Congress or rules
right over Congress, and we allow that we're seating our responsibility.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, let's say for a moment that you are, you're
seating your authority. Well, why don't you take it back?
Why don't you You have a majority in the Senate,
You've got a majority in the House, So why don't
you stand up and take whatever authority you think that
Trump has you surped from you? Why don't you stand
up and take that back instead of just moaning about
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it to some you know Dufuss reporter in the hallways
of the Senate Heart Office building, Heartsentate office ability. Why
why don't you just do that? Why don't you introduce,
you know, legislation to take that power back, keep that
keep that permanent workforce in place.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
I believe that you can absolutely be a one hundred
percent supporter of President Trump and still stand up for
the institution of the Senate, for the for the legislative branch,
with our authorities that are prescribed to us specifically by
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the Constitution. And so but if we don't, if we
just say, well, we like his policies and so therefore
we're going to see some of our authorities.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Okay, then why don't you go in and find out
where the waste, fraud, and abuse is. Oh, that's right,
because you're grifting off it. That's right. That's why you
don't do it, because then we might find out that
you're actually part of the grift.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I don't think that this is the last time you're
going to see that. And you know when when Biden
was in office.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
The reason when Biden was it got cut off. I
don't have a clue, but that brings me back to
an article in the Wall Street Journal that just happens
to mention a old Supreme Court case in which it
appears to me that Justice Scalia may end up getting
his vindication. The old case is Morrison v. Olsen. I
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think this was cash want to say ninety eight or something.
I forget what. Anyway, it was a seven to one decision.
I forget who was missing at the time, but Scalia
was the only dissenting opinion. Scia, his fullest expression of
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the view that's now being tested by the Doge litigation
going on, came in his it was nineteen eighty eight,
came in his descent in Morrison, the ULSA, the Supreme
Court upheld. They upheld the appointment of an independent council
to investigate a former Justice Department official, and Sclea found
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it absurd that a person exercising prosecutorial power executive power
could be largely unaccountable to the Attorney General and the president.
This whole thing about independent council. Hey, you don't answer
to anybody. Wait wait a minute, he says, because he
summed it up as they write with his typical clarity.
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The Constitution, he wrote, says, quote, the executive power shall
be vested in a president of the United States of America.
This does not mean some of the executive power, but
all of the executive power. He wrote. M Now he
was overruled seven to one, but it seems to me
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that we're kind of funding our way back to Oh,
the great constitutional expert, Justice lah was probably right all along,
he instinctively understood that if you're going to run the
executive branch, then you need authority over those people that
work in the executive branch, including an independent council. Yeah,
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those lawsuits may go the.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Michael state in local doge. Hell, my wife started one
here at the house. Now I've got account for every
penny that I spend, and I had to tell her
five things that I did last week.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Well, oh, I have no responsibility for all the doses
out there that are controlling your spending at home. The
founder of an LGBT group, I saw a great thing
somewhere yesterday, maybe on X where a group of gay
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individuals are really upset about the lgb UH and now
the T being at the t Q I A plus
plus whatever it was. And the argument was that lesbian, gay,
and bisexuality is a sexual preference and a transgender and
(18:28):
all the other you know, the transgender, queer, intersexual, I
forget what the others are, plus plus plus whatever they
all are. That those are all identities as opposed to
a preference, and that the identities have now created such
controversy that the sexual preferences are now getting second billing
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and are now being plumped in with all of the
craziness that the gender identity crowd is pushing. I love
to see a good catfight and I love I love
watching that, and they actually make it. I think a
fairly legitimate and good point. But anyway, this founder of
an LGBT pride group in the UK is now facing
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dozens of criminal charges linked online messages in which he
and another man spoke about kidnapping and raping children. What
is wrong in the UK? Steven Ireland, co founder of
Pride in Surrey, and David Sutton, a volunteer with the
same organization, are accused of thirty eight separate offenses, including
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conspiring to sexually assault children, planning child sex offenses, and kidnapping.
Their defense attorney Gallhoo by the name of Alex Rickler,
presented Ireland's explanation regarding Watt's app messages from three years ago,
which allegedly include discussions of snatching or kidnapping school children,
which Ireland is described as a fantasy taboo chat. Well,
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let's just say for a moment that it is a
really sick fantasy taboo chat. Are you so stupid you're
going to put that particularly in the UK, where they're
monitoring everything that you say and do. Not that they're
not trying to do that here, but then they're clearly
doing it there. So even if it is just some
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sort of stupid fantasy taboo chat that you're having, which
I find in of itself really sick, the speech police
in the UK are going to come and get you.
But the prosecutors argue that the conversations went far beyond
anything hypothetical. Both men allegedly actually plotted to target children
outside school facilities while they would pretend to be talent
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scouts or music managers. So Ireland told the jurors that
his visits to schools were conducted in a professional like
this is so stupid, in a professional manner, intended solely
for educating students about the LGBT community. Well, I find
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that to be creepy. I find that to be like,
that's not really your job, and that's not really what
you ought to be doing, Like, go away if you
want to do it. If you want to do that,
then I don't know if there's ever any appropriate forum
to do that, But that's kind of up to the
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parents if the parents want to do that. And then
the same Yahoo by the name of Ireland addressed accusations
regarding a alleged visit alleged to a swimming pool with
illicit motives. He labeled that conversation as simply role play.
He denied any real intent, but he's specifically charged with
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twenty one different counts, including one count of child rape,
three counts of enticing a child under thirteen to engage
in sexual activity, and one countersexual assault. Together, the pair
face thirteen joint charges encompassing conspiracy solicitation of child sexual offenses,
and then the other guy faces another four further charges
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involving the creation of indecent photographs of children. So now
we've got child born involved. The organizer of this group was,
according to all reports I can find in the UK papers,
was actually active on social media until last year, railing
against the Turf regime, the trans exclusionary Radical Feminists group,
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and denouncing skeptics of transgenderism as non inclusive, anti trans,
dangerous and highly damaging to the lives and well being
of incredibly brave people, all of which should have been
the right to be who they truly are. I don't
know what all's going on in the UK. But you know,
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we had all the child grooming cases, we had all
the child rape cases, all of which the Labor Party
was aware of and the current Prime Minister was aware of.
But when he was when he was some sort of
special prosecutor, refused a prosecuting of these people. And then
late last year they had of a Canadian Pride organization
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affiliated with this UK Pride organization was also arrested on
child sex abuse and in pornography charges. There's a real
sickness in the world again. I you know, I got
an I don't have time to go, I don't care
about finding it. But I got an email from someone
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that listens. I don't know whether I think they listened
on the weekend program, but just berating me. I mean,
you know the British word for a cigarette, right that
a British cigarette in the UK is called a fag. Well,
this guy was using the term pejoratively in reference to
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gays and was just going on about talk show hosts
in this country are just always just somehow gosh. I
wish I could find a stupid email in time to
read it to you. I can't read the whole thing
to you because of the language that he uses. But
it was simply amazing that for me to have an attitude,
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a libertarian attitude. This is I really don't care what
your sexual preference is, and I mean that sincerely. I
just don't care. But to this guy, if if you
are someone that doesn't care about someone's sexual preference, then
you too must be that British word for a cigarette
and you have no guts and you are like every
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other talk show host in the country who refuses to
stand up and denounce it. It's not my job to
deny bounce that that's someone's sexual preference. And I again
don't care. What I've told you I care about is
I care about children being mutilated in pursuit of this
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identity thing that's going on. And if you're going to
allow people to get by with that, and you're allowed,
you're going to allow them to get by with the
crimes that they commit against children, then the entire system
is broken. The entire system utterly sucks. We allow these
things to go on, and for someone to say, well,
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unless you're going to denounce people who happen to be
bisexual or gay or lesbian, then there's something wrong with you.
Bite my ass shut up speaking of which, though the NSSA. Yeah,
that NSSA is investigating government employees talking about fetishes and
transgenderism on government chat networks. Now, if you want to
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root out misuse of taxpayer resources, explain to me what
these logs have to do with the function of the NSA.
Because the chat logs were obtained by City Journal in
New York show that NSA, CIA, and EIA employees discussing polyamory,
transgender surgeries, explicit sexual topics on government time using nssay's
(26:29):
interlink messaging platform. Essentially almost the same thing that I
fired that guy for twenty five years ago. Now it's
all Now it's blown up. They're not They're no longer
just watching it, they're actually chatting about it. Sources claim
that discussions were legitimized. How can you possibly imagine a
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way to legitimize a discussion about all these sexual preferences
and the gender identity, these transgenderism and everything else. Can
you can you think of a way that they might
want to legitimize it? There, let me help you out,
they claim, as part of the agency's DEI initiatives, and
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they were just trying to understand the LGBTQ plus employee
and all the resource groups that were there so that
they could better understand all the LGBTQ plus IA people
in the NSA, the CIA, and the d IA, and
how could they could better you know, help them. When
you review the chat logs reported by City Journal, you'll
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find employees discussing all the male to female transgender surgeries,
hair removal and estrogen injections, and the experience of sexual
pleasure post castration. That's one of the actual conversations reported
by the City Journal. Now, the employee provided the chat
logs claimed that he had witnessed hundreds of sexually provocative discussions,
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always taking place on taxpayer time, So you would expect
some repercussions, right. The NSA confirm the authenticity of the
chats and then said this, We're going to take action
against any and all employees who abuse the system. What
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do you think that means? No, it's not a rhetorical question.
I'm really serious. What do you think that means? Because
you know, we have we have an hour handbook that
we can't abuse company equipment. Now, I've always taken that
to mean that I can't take my foot and kick
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in these monitors like I'd like to or rip off
the broken blinds off the window and maybe they'd finally
get fixed. But I wonder if that's what it means,
because part of it is that it can lead to
things like probation all the way up determination if you
abuse the equipment. So what do you think the NSA
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means that they're going to take action against the people
that they found or the people they do find who
abused the system. I don't think it means squat. I
don't think the USA will do anything Morning Brownie and Dragon. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
Before I retired as a commercial truck driver, I was
required to daily contact my dispatch to let them know
that one I was okay for on time delivery and
two that I had sufficient hours for a reload. And
if not, why I have no sympathy for these government workers.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Have a good day. Well, that talked back just caused
me to go back to something I decided not to do.
I'm going to do it anyway. So on the text line,
I get a link to a story over on x
about Houston Internal Revenue Service employees being laid off. In
(30:11):
them sharing their story, it's a three minute package. I
don't want to play the whole thing, but I want
you to just kind of hear a little bit of it,
and then I want to give you some perspective.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
A former IRS employee right here in Houston.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
He was one of thousands of federal employees abruptly laid
off this week.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Abruptly. Is anybody ever laid off? Like you know?
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah, come two weeks, we're gonna fire yours.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah that does that ever happen? No?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Okay, sat down exclusively with Michelle Choi to share how
he's feeling and his message to those in power.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
How you feeling, how you doing? There? Nothing there?
Speaker 10 (30:56):
As he waits for an official termination letter to arrive
at a front door, Intarles shared the toll the last
forty eight hours has to take.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
It on him. I can't believe this is happening, and
it happens so fast. Like I said, I was just
in training. I was just in training. I waited four
months to go to training. Now I find that fascinating.
So you're in training, which means you're on probation. I've
never known of any company that doesn't have a policy
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that says, as long as you're a probationary employee or
as long as you're in training, we can let you go.
We can decide no, you're not doing for on the
training bye, or you didn't pass your probation by So
they're talking to the wrong person now again. If I
feel sorry for this guy, of course I feel sorry
(31:45):
for him. I feel badly for him. He didn't he
thought he was okay just to be fired.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
He's one of six thousand plus federal employees who work
for the Internal Revenue Service fire this week as part
of mass layoffs happening under the Trump administry. Shod The
majority of those workers, like Charles, were probationary workers employee
for less than a year.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Charles told us more.
Speaker 10 (32:06):
Than two dozen employees were laid off from his office
here off Guessner. He says it took over a year
to get his dream job as a tax exempt officer
dealing with nonprofit organizations and compliance.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And I get that, But I thought I would just
do a quick little search and just see what one
of my artificial intelligence apps shows me. So my question was,
what are some of the major layoffs in Houston, Texas.
Here's the results I got. In twenty sixteen, Chevron laid
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off six to eight thousand employees globally to cut costs
and simplify operations. I wonder if any television station in
Houston talked to any of those individuals. In twenty twenty five,
Chevron plans to lay off thousands more of employees as
part of a cost cutting drive. I wonderful we'll see
any stories about them. Texas Children's Hospital last year reduced
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its workforce by five percent, including some of leadership positions.
What if they saw that coming? Did they get interviewed?
The layoffs came after the Fetch Rating Services downgraded the
hospital's bond rating from DOUBLEA to A minus because of
their operating income losses. Shell last year cut Global and
(33:27):
Oil and Guests Exploration and Development division by twenty percent.
Shell's electricity retailer laid off one hundred Houston employees. Halliburton
laid off one thousand workers as its Houston headquarters due
to a downturn in energy markets. UTMB Health laid off
two hundred positions because of a budget shortfall. Ingram Micro
(33:49):
laid off about eight hundred and fifty employees to reduce
costs and eliminate redundancies. Oh so, Ingram Micro. Whatever the
hell that company is laid off eight hundred and fifty
employees as part of a cost cutting measure and also
as part of the cost cutting measure eliminating redundancies. Now,
(34:13):
I wonder if I do an AI search for HMM
show me television reports about Chevron Texas Children's Hospital, Shell, Aliburton, UTMB,
Ingram micro show me TV programs interviewing laid off workers. Yeah,
(34:34):
I'm not gonna waste my time either. Just a little
perspective
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