3-6-25 - 9am - Al Green Censured and Bill Murray about Woodward & Nixon

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, This is Guber seven three one six of Lewisville, Kentucky.
I was wonder if there's a one eight hundred number
suggestion line at the White House. I thought maybe President
Trump could start trolling some of these Democrats, maybe floating
the idea of.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Ending the filibuster.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Wouldn't that be funny? And then, also on a serious note,
you think you could sign an executive order so we
can get some incandescent light bulbs back.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
He can sign an executive order you get some incandescent
light bulbs back. But I don't think anybody's manufacturing them anymore. China.
I'm sure China would, which would just make trade even
worse with China. Let's go back to Trump's speech on
Tuesday night.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Remember this incident, a vote by big numbers and one
counties in our country.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Congressman Greens shakiness, paying and screaming in the alle at
Donald Trump, the speaking of the House is making over
Trent shoulder up.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
What what do you do? He's sniffing moistens formed to
sit down.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
And one counties in our country two thousand.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
And seven hundred to five twenty five.

Speaker 6 (01:16):
But a map that reads almost completely read for Republican.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Waker's looking for his notes, can't shake his head.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Now for the first time in modern history, believe that
our country is headed.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
In the right direction.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Where you're still yelling. In fact, he's still screaming.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
At twenty seven point swing, Trump's talking.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Loud over him. Trump looks at him, proud of plugs.
Trent gives him the side eye, the cut to Tom
Holman likewise small business optimism. Sorry, he starts in a just.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
One Monday in every carding spring one point jump.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Camp stops the gabol the way.

Speaker 7 (02:10):
Members are directed to uphold and maintain the quorum in
the House and to cease any further disruptions.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's your warning, and Lean yells at the speaker.

Speaker 7 (02:24):
Members are engaging in wilfland, continuing breach of the quorum,
and the Chair is prepared to direct the Sergeant at
arms to restore order to the joint session.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Trump shakes his head like d h, I think chuck
up me, I think you really get there is still starting.

Speaker 7 (02:53):
Where the stars to take your seat, Take your seat, sir, take.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Used to take a seat. Continues to yell.

Speaker 7 (03:04):
Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Or proper decorum.

Speaker 7 (03:08):
The chair now directs a sergeant at arms to restore order.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Remove this gentleman from the table. Now what I love
here is that the sergeant at arms, at least one
of them, who's a member of the US Capitol Police,
is plain clothes, leans over, whispers in his ear, and
I'm sure he's saying something like, come on, don't give

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me any crap. You don't want me to grab you,
but you don't want me to haul your ass out
of here. At the same time that he's whispering that
to Al Green, who continues to stand, continues to scream,
continues to shake his cane. You now have Capitol Police
coming down the aisle to where Green is standing. Now
why am I telling you all of this, because we're
going to have a media lesson in just a second,

(04:03):
bringing still gallery shouting now here from three marshals.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
And he has the speaker again, and now he's.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Get his asshold down. Numbers are directly I would I
would point out too, that every other Democrat is sitting stoicly,
some with their eyes down, some trying to avert the
they don't want the camera to pick them up. Inadvertently
they're just sitting and he's escorted out.

Speaker 7 (04:48):
Directed to uphold and maintain the quorum in the House.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
This president continues, thank you, and the President continues, Now,
why did we go through all of that, because as usual,
I'm not paying any attention to the top of the
hour news. I barely was.

Speaker 8 (05:04):
So I'm shocked that I caught it, and I'm very
shocked that we've gotten zero talkbacks and zero text messages
about this.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Now, before you play it, though, I said to so,
dragon has captured the ABC News at the top of
the hour. I have something called ABC News Radio News Call.
It's all audio that ABC News, ABC Radio News sends out.

(05:35):
I can go all the way back at least on
the first page two today at six nine a m.
And there is nothing except this. It's already moved down.
Let me find uh do do do do do doo

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dut here this was This was at till Eastern time,
eight thirty nine our time. ABC sends this out.

Speaker 7 (06:06):
The ya's are two hundred and twenty four, the nays
are one hundred and ninety eight, with two answering present.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
The resolution is adopted, and about nine minutes ago they
sent this out.

Speaker 7 (06:23):
We take no pleasure in this. I gave repeated warnings
to the Representative Green to stand down and to sit down,
and he refused to do it. He chose to deliberately
violate House rules in a manner that we think is
probably unprecedented in history.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Now, what's absent from all of this is what Dragon
captured in the ABC News Top of the hour newscast,
which he gain is why I really do despise the
fact that we have ABC News.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
ABC News.

Speaker 9 (06:54):
I'm Sheary preston results expected soon on a vote happening
now on the House to center Al Green and the
Texas congressman who shook his cane at President Trump during
Tuesday's congressional address leading to this exchange.

Speaker 7 (07:06):
Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted
a disruption or proper decorum. The Chair now directs a
servant at arms to restore order.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Remove this shittleman from the chamber drag and can you
play just the first part of that before the speaker speaks?

Speaker 9 (07:29):
Al Green, the Texas congressman who shook his cane at
President Trump during Tuesday's congressional address, leading to this exchange.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Does something bother you about that? Well?

Speaker 8 (07:40):
If all he did was shook his cane, I don't
see what the big problem is.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
You think ABC might be just a little bit biased
taking the side of Oh, I don't know Al Green
who stood there and yelled at the speaker, yelled at
the president and shook his cane. No, all ABC, won't
you know is Congressman now Green who shook his cane
at the speaker. I think they missed a detailer too.
Maybe they missed the most important detail. If he had

(08:09):
stood there and just shook his cane at the president,
nobody would even the Secret Service would looked at him
and go, what an idiot. Nobody would have done anything.
It was the fact that he was standing and screaming
at the President, and then screaming at the at the
Republican House members, and then screaming at the Speaker and
the Vice President for that matter, as they stood there.

(08:30):
But no, he was just shaking his cane, which is
what all men do after they finished taking a whiz,
because they just shake their cane quietly, earnestly. Right, can
you go into can you capture what Fox is doing

(08:51):
real quickly? Nope? Sure can't. Oh dang it. Jeffreys Dodges
on questions about Democrat behavior. Well, yeah, there is no news.
Let's see if we have anything else. No, nothing on

(09:13):
this feed. Oh we do have this. This is kind
of interesting. Remember the Vinman boys, h remember the one
that the brother that what was he a colonel or
something who said that that beautiful phone call that Donald
Trump had with the new president of Ukraine. His name

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was some funny name like Zelensky or something that he
was trying to you know, hey, could you uh, could
you just see if there was any corruption. I'm just curious.
I'm not I'm not ordering you too, I'm not trying to.
I'm just curious, was there was there any corruption that
Venman well he's on MSNB, not him, but his brother's
on m s NBC. You know, just to t Congressman.

(10:01):
I know that you have such a vast.

Speaker 6 (10:04):
Legacy of service to the United States, but I'm just
wondered in Congressman, you know, you talk about oppression, and
I keep thinking about, you know, the people of Cuba
that have been living for sixty four years under a dictatorship.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
What's going on? All right? Got it? This is MSNBC
setting up that the people of Cuba had been living
under a dictatorship since the Castro Boys threw over what's
his name?

Speaker 6 (10:29):
Going in Venezuela, what's going on in Nicaragua, what's going
on in Iran since nineteen seventy nine?

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Even pulling in the Mullahs as.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
Oppressive regimes on Earth?

Speaker 2 (10:41):
How does it? How do you feel every.

Speaker 6 (10:44):
Day when you get to go to Capitol Hill and
knowing that you were born in a country that at
the time was under the boot of the Soviet Union?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
How does it? Just on a human.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Level, what does it mean to you?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Wow? What a setup. Let's name every ten horned dictator
in the history of the world. And then ask a
guy that was born in Russia who happened to become
a US congressman, whose brother just happened to start the
Zelensky hoax started, actually kind of got the first impeachment
rolling over a phone call. Now that I've listed all

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these dictators, how do you feel? Tell me on a
personal level, how do you feel today?

Speaker 10 (11:32):
Look up to this point, this country has always had
the American dream.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's been alive.

Speaker 10 (11:39):
When you come to this country as a refugee, not
speaking any English, but learning English, decades of education military
service and end up in Congress representing almost eight hundred
thousand Americans. What better representation of the American dream is there?
And that's been true up until this point. But we're

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seeing such a rapid retreat in these first forty five days.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Like I said, it's an abomination. Before he tells you
what it is, I get it. Back it up. Up
until the past forty five days, the American dream was alive.
There was what were the words that he used? Because
it was American? What better representation of the American dream
is there? What better representation of the American dream is there? Oh,

(12:26):
I don't know. Cutting down the side of government, reducing
regulations on individuals and businesses, trying to streamline government, identifying waste,
fraud and abuse, telling our allies that hey, we're not
going to be the world's policeman, that while we will
defend you, you need to step up and do your
fair share. Oh you know, because I thought fair share
was a phrase that Democrats absolutely love. They want everybody

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to pay their fair share, well except for you know, Europe,
except for you know, any of our allies anywhere else.
So I kind of think that right now, this kind
of is the American dream. Well does congressman then then think.

Speaker 10 (13:03):
And that's been true up until this point, But we're
seeing such a rapid retreat in these first forty.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Five days, like a retreat.

Speaker 10 (13:11):
I said, it's an abomination.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's an abomination.

Speaker 10 (13:14):
Hard pressed to think of a worst forty five days
self inflicted by any administration in this country's history, whether
it's turning away from our values or damaging the country
in the economy and predictability, and they work.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
It's it's terrible.

Speaker 10 (13:32):
And I think the American people are waking up to
this threat and making.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Their voices heard.

Speaker 10 (13:39):
It's just like seven thousand did last night in the
Teletown hall.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
That I had, gosh, thank you very much for your time.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
I appreciate it. That was it. So they bring a
Congressman out of this center vote and ask him what's
going on? Is the worst forty five days in American history?
We're now in retreat. If you don't think that there

(14:06):
is not even the Grand Canyon, it's much. It's like
the depth and width of the Pacific Ocean between Democrats
and Republicans. Who was one of the talkbacks earlier about
can we ever get back to where we were where
we're just like you know, liberal versus conservative, Republicans versus Democrats,

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and we argued about some things, and we agreed on
some things and we work together. No, that this is it.
This is it. And when you have the CBSU Gov
poll that shows that some sixty nine to seventy nine
percent of Americans approve and agree with what's going on.

(14:48):
When you had Stephen A. Smith yesterday on the View
talking about how it is a mandate when eighty nine
percent of the counties moved to the right, that is
a mandate. Do you see how far off the rails
this country has gone? And now the least little attempt

(15:11):
to get us kind of back on the straight and
narrow is the worst forty five days in American history.
It's Castro, it is Maduro, it is the Ayatola, it
is She, it is Putin, it is every little tin

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horned dictator in Africa. It is I can't go on.
I simply can't go on. That's the chasm between those
of us who believe that this country has the opportunity

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to restore itself to a constitutional republic, that we have
the opportunity. Look, you know again, I go back. Remember
when Trump said in a speech that you know, he
didn't want to keep spending all of these billions of
dollars in Ukraine, that he wanted to bring peace between
Ukraine and Russia. And that was the only time that

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I forget what he said, but something to the fact
that you know, the alternative is to continue to spend money.
And that was when the Democrats applauded. So the only
time the Democrats applauded was for Ukraine. They never applauded
one time for any of those American citizens that personify
everything great about this country. They didn't applaud one time

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for any of those victims at all. And in this
dirt bag congressman comes on and talks about how this
is the worst forty five days in American history. You, sir,
are an ass. Sit down and shut up, Mike. Nothing

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says you're for young people.

Speaker 7 (17:19):
Then an old eighty year old man shaking a cane
at a person and yelling.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Get off my fake news. He's only seventy seven, that's right,
he's a He's just a young whipper snapper seventy seven. Shoot.
Douglas Brinkley is a air quotes here famous presidential historian

(17:49):
or I should maybe it's just a famous historian. He's
one of these guys that is always uh called upon
to comment about so presidential activity. It's and and he
has no credibility with me. He wrote a book about Katrina,

(18:12):
and I bought the book. I saw, I saw that
I was, you know, I did the Washington Read. The
Washington Read is where when a book comes out, you
go to a bookstore and you thumb through the index
to see if your name's mentioned. And I looked through
the book. My name was mentioned, and there were a

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whole bunch of different pages. So I thought, well, okay,
I need to read this. So I bought the book,
paid my twenty nine ninety five or whatever it was,
what a waste, and took it home. And you know,
several days later, sat down, started to read the book
and the very first mention of me is factually incorrect,

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and I thought, this is bull crap. That's not exactly
what I said. And it's always given me this kind
of radar that when anybody like Douglas Brinkley or any
of these other so called celebrity authors go on television

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and start talking about you know, their perception of or
their stories about whatever, whatever. I don't give it very
much credence. Well, the same is true with Bob Woodward,
Woodward and Bernstein of Watergate Fame, Bill Murray, the legendary actor,
Saturday Night Live and all the other stuff, Caddy Shack,

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Bill Murray. God loved Bill Murray. He's had a really
tense exchange with Bob Woodward at a film screening that
occurred in New York. The incident happened just days after
Bill Murray questioned Bob Woodward's credibility, specifically his journalistic credibility

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in an interview that he did on the Joe Rogan podcast.
So the pair cross passed during the premiere of a
documentary about the publisher of The Washington Post, Katherine Graham.
I thought about watching it, except it now I question it,
but I'd probably still watch that. She's just out of,
you know, like something I can fall asleep to, called

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Becoming Katherine Graham. Well, Murray, during his appearance on the
Joe Rogan Experience podcast, expressed, I's gonna say discontent, but
it's really more than discontent with a book that Wouldward
did nineteen eighty four called Wired The short life in

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Fast Times of John Belushi, which besides Bill Murray, faced
a lot of criticism from several figures that were close
to John Belushi. Murray says that it made him suspect
woodwards journalism regarding the whole Watergate story and recalling the

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late Belushi's impact on comedy in general through all the
different projects Saturday Night Live, Animal House, Murray's really had
skepticism about Woodward's motivations in writing about the comedian's life
and his untimely death at the age of thirty three
and back in nineteen eighty two. I think he went
so far as to assert, well, you know what, I

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can't play the whole thing, obviously because Joe Rogan said this,
So we got a bunch of f bombs, but I
can play the first couple of minutes of it. This
is fascinating from my point of view that someone look,
just because he's a comedian doesn't mean that he's not smart,
but that he would openly Now would Bill Murray have

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done this two years ago during the Biden administration, I
don't know, but I almost want to attribute this to
the Trump effect. People feel comfortable suddenly telling other people
what they truly think about stuff. People are beginning to

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like DEI or ESG or anything else or all the
woke crap or transgenderous or whatever whatever the cultural issues are.
People are really beginning to question things, and people are
really beginning to say what they think. I know of
one individual that refers to this as the season of reveal,

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that so many things are being revealed. We'll listen to
Bill Murray.

Speaker 11 (22:36):
However, when I read Wired, the book written by what's
his name Woodward about Belushi, I read like five pages
of Wired, and I went, oh my god, they framed Nixon.
All of a sudden, I went, oh my god, if
this is what he writes about my friend that I've known,

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you know, for half my adult life, which is completely inaccurate.
Talking to like the people of the outer outer circle
getting the story, what the hell did they could they
have done to Nixon? I just felt like, if he
did this to my friend like this, and I acknowledge
only read five pages, but the five pages I read,

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you know, made me want to like.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Set fire to the whole thing.

Speaker 11 (23:22):
See if you go five pages, I went, if he
did this to Belushi?

Speaker 12 (23:26):
What he did in Nixon's is probably soiled for me too.
I can't I can't take it. And I know you say, well,
you can have two sources and everything like that, but
the two sources that he had, if he had them
for the Wired book, were so far outside the inner
circle that it was it was.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Criminal, cruel. And the reasoning for it is that this
is hilarious. I never knew this. Listen to this.

Speaker 12 (23:53):
The most famous person ever to come from Wheaton, Illinois
is John Belushi. The second most famous person to come
from Wheaton, Illinois is.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Harold red Grange, the football player.

Speaker 12 (24:08):
And the third most famous person to come from Wheaton, Illinois.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
It is Bob woodword really, So Bill Murray has finally
decided that, hey, if you're going to lie about, by
the way, came from the same hometown. And I'm right,
number three is the most famous person from Wheaton, Illinois.
I need to move up to number one. So how
do I move up to number one? I knocked down

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number one. So Murray is finally coming forth and saying
that when I read that book when it came out,
it made me question what he had written about Watergate.
Journalism is losing its credibility even among now. Look, I
don't put Bill Murray necessarily in with the quote Hollywood crowd,

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because he's really kind of out of that scene. But
for him to admit to Rogan that, oh yeah, you
know what, I kind of question everything you wrote about
Dick Nixon.

Speaker 8 (25:09):
Example ABC at the top of the hour.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
ABC knows at the top of the is another great example.
Al Green shook his cane at the President.

Speaker 8 (25:18):
Gets kicked out and censured for shaking your cane. Trump
really is a dictator.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
That's you know what, Reckon, You're right, Trump is a dictator.
We need to go back, you know. Can you cut
out that Vinman SoundBite that I played about these are
the worst forty five days in the history of the Republic,
because it may be we're we're so you and I
are so amessed all in all of this dictatorship that
we don't realize that we're living in tyranny right now.

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Oh my god, think about what Mike Johnson said. They
might lose head start if Trump says, if you don't
get to your sanctuary city, we're gonna get rid a
head start. Oh my god, it will be the end of civilization.
You want you want to know just how bad it
is in terms of let me. I casually mentioned this earlier.

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The inflation adjusted federal spending per pupil and achievement of
seventeen year olds a percent change since nineteen seventy. This
is according to the Cato Institute. In nineteen seventy, the
baseline was about well, they had the baseline at zero.
Federal spending goes up from zero nineteen seventy to one

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hundred and ninety. That's the new baseline. Reading scores, math scores,
science scores. Now, just imagine a chart, a chart with
a blue line that is federal spending on per pupil
in this country, and in nineteen seventy, it goes from

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a baseline of zero to fifty dips a little bit,
goes to seventy eighty one ten, one thirty one fifty
one seventy to one ninety and it's just the hockey stick.
It just can continue straight up. Now, imagine a red
line that's reading scores, a green line that's math scores,

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and a purple line that is science scores. Now, remember
we started in nineteen seventy. Get a baseline of zero.
Reading scores, math scores. Science scores remain barely above zero
for reading, Math scores remain at the zero baseline, no

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change whatsoever, and science scores drop. So for our inflation
adjusted federal spending per pupil, we're getting zero return on
your tax dollars, and in fact, when in terms of
science scores, you're getting a negative return on your tax

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dollars first federal spending. In addition to that, in another chart,
teachers as a percentage of total school staff. In nineteen
fifty I know dark ages, Teachers accounted for almost seventy
five percent of the education jobs. In nineteen seventy, it

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drops to fifty percent, increases slightly in nineteen ninety nine
to fifty one point six percent, and then continues to
drop to fifty percent. Teachers comprise only half of education jobs.
All the rest are Now they're not all administrators. You

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probably you know if they're if they're talking about education jobs.
I don't know whether this includes let me see if
I can see in the footnotes, if it includes anything like, oh,
I don't know, custodians, maintenance people are bus drivers. I
don't know. But whatever it is, you would think that
with federal spending per pupil going up one hundred and

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ninety times that we would have an increase in the
number of teachers. No, you and on why this country's
falling apart because of bull crap like that? Do you
know why now that Benman will say that this has
been the worst forty five days in the history of
the republic because we're turning it around.

Speaker 13 (29:31):
Michael, as a former Democrat who is now a Republican,
I do not want to see unity between the Democrat
and Republican party. I believe the best thing that we
could do would be to divide this country Red County
from Blue County and form the Red counties into their

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own separate nation.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
There are stories galore about U States seceeding, different states,
forming and combining, about Red states and Blue states separating
a national divorce. Those stories are all over They're there.
You can easily google them or duck Duck Gilham or

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being them however you want to find them. The practical
effect is that will never happen legislatively, which is how's
lawfully required to occur. The only way it would occur
is a physical a war, a civil war to do so,

(30:44):
and anytime you are into a war, there's no guarantee
that you're going to win. So I would rather, as
as an alternate to your proposition, I would rather just
completely demolish the Democrat Party. And I'm not necessarily for
a one party country, but if there's if there's some

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party that wants to try to take the place of
the Democrats that might be a little more moderate where
you could actually have debate about issues and reach a
conclusion that you know, Remember, we're trying to get the
Peggy noon and ruler that I always talk about from

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and we're moving it faster than I expected. We've gone
from a center left country, at least politically. I've always
thought that the people were always center right to where
now that's out in the open. And as long as
that stays out in the open, we can move policies
to the right, closer to freer markets, free trade, to

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freedom of speech, to actually, you know, a government that
sees its job as guaranteeing those rights that enumerated in
the Constitution. That's what I'm for. How we get there.
I think Donald Trump has put us on the path
to that. It's not and I caution you, I caution

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you so genuinely that it's not going to be just
like the per pupil spending was not always a straight
line up. It had its little dips and curves. We're
going to go out on the dips and curves, but
as long as the trend line is back toward that
constitutional republic, and I'm happy. But there will be setbacks.

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Nothing in life goes perfectly. Nothing ever goes question say nothing,
but usually you can expect that whatever you've planned, there
will be a disruption to the plan. But I want
to tie back to the per puople's spending. I want
to make that local too, but not about necessarily government,

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although it's the same thing spending. Government per pupils spending
has resulted in horrible test scores well. From the Denver Post,
RTD ridership fails to grow in twenty twenty four. We've
lost customers who used to trust us. Metro Denver residents

(33:20):
boarded RTD buses and trains sixty five point two million
times in twenty twenty four. That is up point one percent,
one tenth of a percent from twenty twenty three sixty
five point one seven million, but it's thirty eight percent
below the pre pandemic twenty nineteen ridership of more than
one hundred and five million, according to data provided to

(33:42):
the agency's elected directors. We need to kill off RTD.
We just need to obliterate it. I love mass TRENT,
I love the trend. I love high speed high speed rail.
Have you ever been to Europe Japan? Oh my gosh,
the Shinkansen in Japan is wonderful to ride on. It's

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impractical in this country, at least with today's technology, and
we certainly can't afford it today. Look at the stupid
train connecting La and San Francisco. Billions of dollars over
a budget and what maybe one mile or zero miles?
I forget, it doesn't make any difference either way. It's
just ain't working. And now they want to do run

(34:24):
from La to Las Vegas. Good grief, Stop your daydreaming
about mass transit.