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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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well about a half hour ago, you have a new
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was the swearing in in the Senate.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Please range your right hand.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
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the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign
and domestic. There you will bear true faith and allegiance
to the same. That you take this obligation freely, without
any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that you
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will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office
on what you are about to enter. So help you,
God did congratulations God, but you.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Actually it's about well, maybe about fifteen minutes ago. So
just to be a little more accurate, by the way,
the inflation rate in June now at a six year low.
You read poll after inflation inflation inflation, Well, yeah, the
CPI fell quote more than expected. Why is it every
time there's good economic now more than expected, more than
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expect more than expected down to three point five percent,
and inflation and by the way, this includes you know,
partly higher gas prices, you know, because of the necessity
and it was a necessity for the president to stop
Ran from ever having the ability to get a nuclear
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weapon and the consequences, the hard the difficulties that also
went along with it. But this decline be the Dow
Jones consessed consensus by a lot and quote lower than
expected inflation number followed a sharp drop and energy prices, uh,
and which by the way, is going to be permanent.
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It's just a matter of when I think we have
now gotten to the point where there is a very
clear path uh that has emerged that the president will
have to grapple and deal with. And that is there
is obviously truth to the idea that there are there
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is a power struggle within Iran, and the power struggle
is between two factions and these warring factions.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
There there is one faction.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And I know this for a fact because we actually
have real sources that we talked to in spite of
you know, all these people that make make Adam shift
up and just outright lie to you and and pedal
their conspiracy theories. I mean, that's why I looked at
the evidence that came out in the Charlie Kirk case
last week, and it was like so overwhelming, so incontrovertible,
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you know, And I think of, you know, some of
the most vile, vicious, horrible things that have been said
about Erica Kirk, suggestions in in you window that have
been made not only about her but about Turning Point, USA,
and I just get disgusted, you know, then my only,
my only admonition is can you just leave this widow alone?
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Can you just leave these young people at Turning Point?
You know that that really have reached so many young
other young people with with a value system and thoughts
and ideas that they're not hearing on college campuses and
have done such good work and they're trying to you know,
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nobody's ever going to replace Charlie, but you know, can
you just leave them to the work that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
They are so dedicated towards.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And just can we now move forward for those that
had whatever bizarre ideas that peddling. I mean, it's getting information,
is getting real information is getting harder and harder to get.
We've we've always had an information crisis because the left
wing legacy media mob has been dominated by extreme you know,
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they're extreme biased, abusively biased agenda, you know, and and
now pretty much anybody that wants a talk show can
have one, and they can just make any accusation and
throw it out there. And the more bizarre it is,
the more attention they're going to get. You know, one
thing I've learned being for a very short time in
the podcast space is you know, there's certain clicks that
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people are searching for because clicks equal money.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Tapping into quote algorithms means money because it means more clicks.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You know, it's it's it's not a game.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I don't I'm not doing this because I have something
to prove. We have the biggest radio show by far
in the country, seven hundred and fifty or sixty affiliates,
you know, serious XM WE podcast, this radio show. We're
very proud of its success. We're grateful to all of
you for making it happen. I don't come on the
air and waste your time, you know, bragging about the
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impact that this radio show continues to have. But I
am grateful because it's a dream come true for me
and the same with the TV show. And you know,
now in October, I will begin my thirty first year
on the Fox News Channel. And all of you that
tune in made that happen. All of you that tune
into this radio show made that happen. I never forget that.
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I always try to remember that and try to do
the best job I can, not taking myself seriously as
much as taking the work that we do seriously to
the point where the meat is so deficient and so
full of lying and propagandizing, and new media unfortunately as
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a cancer within it too. You know, where the most
extreme bizarre theories, conspiracy theories are pedled and for whatever reason,
it tends to attract the most attention, which I guess
is the reason why it just gets more extreme, more extreme, more,
you know, there's more vitriol, to the point that you know,
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the more the more vitriolic you get, hostile, you get
angry you are and in the personal attacks that some
are willing to make in the process of doing all
of that, and the number of F bombs you can
drop in a in a in a three minute monologue,
you know, does seem to appeal to a certain group
of people.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
That want to, I guess be entertained by it all.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
But where you get your information matters, and that's why
we try to get right. That's why, you know, I've
gone through the history of how we've gotten to write
everything from Richard Jewell, you know, to Freddie Graham Baltimore
to hands Up, don't shoot That never happened, Darren Wilson
in Ferguson, Missouri.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
We were right, they were wrong.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Russia hoax, you know, Hillary's you know, bought and paid
for dirty dossier, and you just go through it, Obama's
Radical Association. We put a lot of effort in and
a lot of pride in trying to get things right.
The number of people that try to suck me in,
you know, to their vortex of just you know, to
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be honest, it's like kindergarten half of it.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It is fairly amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And you know, it's almost like the heart of you
try to suck me in. It's almost like I'm never
giving you what you want, which is attention. You know,
I actually learned this lesson from Russia Andmbath and I
remember talking and having a conversation with him, you know
about all the people that always want to attack him,
and he looked at me and he just said, uh, Sean,
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we are number one. Would you expect any different? Like
great answer. In other words, he's not going down to
the level. And occasionally he would he would take his shots,
and usually when he did, it was so well thought
out and smart and write on the money that it
would be hilarious because that's just the way he was.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And he has missed dearly.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
But as it relates to Iran and where we are,
it is clear that there is a power struggle within
the vacuum of leadership as now two tiers of leadership
completely wiped out.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Almost the full.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Third leadership wiped out, and it seems to be the
hardliners and former loyalists of the last regime, and that
would probably include the Sun, whatever physical condition he may
or may not be in of the former Supreme Leader
who they just had a funeral for Ali Hamani. And
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you know, I wish there's one story President Trump shared
with me, nothing classified. Obviously I would never want it
and he never give it to me anyway, And about
that particular funeral, I hope he tells this story publicly
one day soon, because when you hear it it's pretty
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spectacular in terms of the fear that is in the
hearts of even the hardliners, even the people that are
muddying the waters.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And you know, my guess is, unless you take out.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The people that are every week or two weeks gonna,
you know, do something stupid, then I guess it goes on.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
The President is when it was right in declaring that
the ceasefire is dead, and more rightly that he made
getting the straight of horm movez permanently open as a
top priority. And you know, there's a good New York
Post editorial today, make the win the Battle of Hormuz,
and you know, and then the President going on and
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in a lot of specificity in detail yesterday declaring that
the US is now the guardian of the Strait, unveiling
a new toll on ships that are transitting through the
Persian Gulf that could be a windfall in the end
for the US. In other words, if we're gonna if
we're going to put our national treasure and put our
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resources at risk that are very expensive, then you're gonna
pay for it. And that's that's Donald Trump's way anyway.
So he launched the blockade again of Iranian ports, meaning
they will have no money coming in. He has been
bombing the the living Adam Schiff out of the Strait
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of Hormuz, just been just eviscerating them, night after night
after night after night. What is happening behind the scenes,
I know a little bit. I know they want to
get back to the table. But then again, if we
get back to the table and you still have these
extremists that are going to come back within a week
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or two weeks and disrupt the you know, the Straight,
or or you know, try to try to attack you know,
any vessel that is going through the strait, whatever it
happens to be. But the blockade is a beginning. I mean,
by the way, that could be worth up to two
hundred billion dollars. But you know, the President said that
the US will now likely run the Straight to expect
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reimbursement from you know, ensuring commercial ships no longer get
fired upon by Iran and saying that the US will
be known as the guardian of the Horn.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Move straight.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
But as such and as a matter of fairness, will
be reimbursed at the rate of twenty percent of all
cargo that's being shipped for any and all costs necessary
to do the job, and the presidents saying they are
very foolish. And this is what I was warning people.
I said, the President's patience at some point is going
to run out. Didn't take too long. The President gave
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it a shot, gave the Memorandum of understanding a shot.
Now it seems very clear the path forward that if
you want to stop the radicals that want no part
of any peace deal. Even though you know, when I
talk to my sources that know that are active, that
are involved in all of this, they're all saying the
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same thing that they are being assured that the nuclear dust,
as it's commonly referred to, that the nuclear dust, that
the enriched uranium that President Trump is saying, they can
never get their hands on ever. And the President has options.
He can entomb it and make it impossible for decades
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for them to ever get near it, or they can
hand it over. Both are options that are on the table.
And that the Iranians have got to stop attacking ships
in the straight oh Horn moves and stop dropping mines
in the straight of Horn moons. We have horror moves.
We have tankers that we have a mind sweepers. There
as well as do apparently a couple of other countries.
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This is why the President was so right when he
was in Turkey to go after NATO at the NATO
meetings that took place, and that is that, well, the
people of NATO, they neglected national security, their own defense
in their own countries and their own continent, and it
is disintegrated. They showed no loyalty to the US, no
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moral clarity when it came to the number one state
sponsor of terror on something as simple as preventing Iran,
you know, with a convert or die ideology, from getting
nuclear weapons. Ironically, we find out their ballistic missile range
was longer than we anticipated or thought or believed, which
means it could hit Paris in London, and you know,
and then called them out on their radical climate alarmism,
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socialism and their unfettered illegal immigration now resulting in Sharia
courts in Great Britain and resulting in no go zones
in France and other countries. And they basically have destroyed
their continent and made it vulnerable. And I'm not sure
if it's ever coming back to be blunt, ladies and gentlemen,
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we like to take a second to hear the immortal
Bob Grant's thoughts about the world today.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, is sick. Hey, it's getting sicker.
Now back to the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I don't think it's ever been the sick. To be
very blunt with you. You know, it was funny because
I was watching this earlier when the President had a
bilateral meeting at the White House with the Iraqi Prime Minister.
I was actually watching part of it as I'm getting
ready and prepping out the show for today. And the
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interesting part of this is I missed this part, and
I hate I missed stuff. And you know, I just
I just actually pulled it up during the break. I
dropped something. That's what that? That's what that?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Ah, I couldn't even tell it. You were so subtle,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
No, I wasn't subtle about it. But I mean, I
think I did three hundred sit ups today. My stomach
is like, oh, man, since he's been killing me. Now
that I'm back working out, it's like he thinks like
he has to make up for lost time after my injury.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So that's good. Pain makes you stronger, good for you.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Oh okay, Well, I went through a lot of pain
with two pinched nerves of my neck us. See how
strong you are?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Look at you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And then people writ again Hannedy's faces blown. I'm like, yeah,
because I got a steroid shot at the highest level.
It's the only thing that lowers the inflammation. But anyway
back to what it did change from what the President
had said yesterday, And it was only very you know
later this morning that he said. I was called by
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different people, different countries, and he said, and they all said,
you know that he and he's saying that he's changed
his mind on charging the twenty percent of the Strait
of Hormuz for whatever cargo they were passing through with.
And he said, you know, we'd love to do it
a different way. We'd love to invest in the US
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and many of them are investing billions.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And then he said, I.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Was actually changed my mind because I don't think it's
I don't think anybody should be able to charge a
fee for the strait for any other strait. What he's
trying to do was obvious, and that is, you know,
we're pairing the brunt and the cost of all of this,
and it just gets frustrating for the president in part.
This is where his criticism and my criticism of European countries,
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NATO countries comes in, is like, you know, they didn't
have the moral clarity to stand with us. You know
the fact that some of our out NATO allies didn't
allow our planes to land on bases that we built
in their country. And the whole purpose now of NATO
is emerged into you know, without the US, they are
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screwed and they cannot as a continent, no individual country
there can defend themselves, and they would need the US immediately.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I just I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I think NATO's outlived its usefulness. And you know there's
probably a discussion that is going to be coming in
the days, weeks, months ahead.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
A couple of other things on the Iranian situation, Trump
did vow to destroy Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility, and
he said the US could soon attack this nuclear site
as now American. I mean, these new rounds of strike
are getting more brutal by the day. It's located near
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Natans where that was their enrichment facilities you rell call
Midnight Hammer and Axe. Pickaxe was among the other three
nuclear sites targeted by midnight hammer. But Trump apparently was
on with our friend Hugh Hewitt and says, yeah, we
got a lot of eyes on it. He says, it's
a possible target for a nice, big fat shot right
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near the front door. And we're going to take out
Pickaxe Mountain and tell the Iranians to be ready, you know.
I mean, you could tell them exactly where you're gonna
hit them, and there's nothing that you can do to
stop them. You know, these air strikes and explosions, you know,
reported in the Iranian port, which is home to the
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underground missile city. US Central Command announced forces that completed
another wave of strikes against the clerical regime. But Bandar
a Boss is very strategically important and located off the
coast of the Straight Ohr Moves and one of the
islands surrounded is surrounded by the IRGC is a key
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location where the regime you know, in fact, does house
their ballistic missiles. So the strikes have degraded their ability
to continue attacking international shipping and sencom forces struck Iranian
military air defense systems, close to radar sites, missiles, drone capabilities,
small boats using US fighter aircraft, Navy vessels, one way
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attack aerial drones, one way attack seed drones for the
first time. So you know, the president just okay, you
want to do it the hard way, We're going to
do it the hard way. And the interesting thing is
already the calls are coming in to you know, let's
get back to the table, and let's get back let's
get back to negotiations. Well you have you know, how
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many chances do you want this guy to give you
because you're not getting many more chances. And at some point,
you know, if I could, if I could just wave
a magic wand there's two things that I think can happen.
One we can't do. You know, for whatever reason, has
been an executive order in place. I believe it's twelve
three three three if my memory serves me. Well, you know,
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we can't target leaders or countries. But I think, by
the way, is one of the dumbest executive orders ever given,
because they certainly wanted to target Donald Trump. And I
do believe whatever threat existed when he was leaving Turkey
was probably real.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
That's my guess.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I don't know, And it's, by the way, it's not
something that I think the country needs to know.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
What do you mean, Hanna, do you believe in transparency.
I do believe in transparency.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But part of national security is you've got to have
a top secret element to it.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
And that is just the way it is, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
And that's why when the President often has these gaggles
at the White House and he's asked, quite why would
I tell you, He'll say to them, you know, why
would I give away that information?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We have a lot more fallout.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
And this is something that is going to come up
between now an election day, probably new news every other day.
As I said yesterday, as we you know, went through
through the list of insanity as it relates to all
things Graham Platner and you know, going over to Talla Rico,
et cetera, et cetera. You know, it just is this,
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this radical Democratic Party just gets worse, is what we're
going to talk to Mark Penn about at the top.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Of the hour.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
You know, the the silence is beyond deafening. And the
silence exists because Democrats dare not take on what is
now the stronghold and the base and the power structure
within this new radicalized party. And it's a party now
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that has been taken over and they're in full control
of it. And that's Bernie Sanders, Pocahontas, Elizabeth Warren, that
is you know Zoron Marxist, Kami Mamdani, and you know
he he endorses and goes after three you know, seated
congress people in New York City, they're gone, replaced by
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Democratic Socialists. So the same thing in the state of Colorado.
See the same thing happening out in Washington State, and
it is it is really amazing. But you know, it
all comes down to a fundamental issue that I think
the country's going to have to deal with, and I
don't think it's going to be hard to deal with,
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and that is the radicalization of the Democratic Party. You know,
we've talked about six gender Tela Rico tell Rico, you know,
thinks God is non binary. Tela Rico literally arguing, you know,
with a colleague when I guess he was in the
Lower Chamber in Texas and arguing for the right of
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biological men to have access to abortion.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Now, first of all, I don't know what the six
genders are.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
I keep asking if anybody out there listening to this
show knows, please give us a call. I have an
open mind. I'm willing to get educated. By the way,
did you see this video of this guy that was,
you know, on top of the bridge today in your
in your former state, Linda, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
That was pretty nuts.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Is it's like you saw the bison in the bison
throwing this guy up in the air like is a
like a toothpick.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
That was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
So you know what the Democratic Party the party quote
of me too, the party that that has a monopoly
of compassion for minorities.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Uh, the party that will only.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Speak out against shootings and murders when it's politically expedient.
You know, there are shootings that every weekend in Chicago.
We've we've we've chronicled the names that people scrolled, the
names of people nine years those lives matter, people shot
shot and killed. With a high degree of certainty, you
could probably make an estimate on any given weekend.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
I wish that wasn't true, but it is true.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
And in other you know, blue cities and states where
they buy into this nonsense of defund dismantled nobel and sanity.
And you know, tell a Rico, you know, I was
running a vegan campaign in a cattle state like Texas.
Good luck with that, and against you know, energy independence
and drilling and being energy dominant. Good luck with that
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in Texas. You know, explaining how God is non binary,
good luck with that. Explaining why he's championing the right
of biological men to have access to abortion. I didn't
know that biological men could could have children. I don't
know that it's possible. I actually believe it's impossible. Either
that or I need to go back to school, which
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I'm not doing because there would be no need for it.
But think of again, we discussed yesterday, all that they
were willing to accept, what they were willing to push aside,
you know, long held stated values and beliefs. They would
have you believe they have a they have a monopoly
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of compassion on minorities. But at every weekend, in many
cases in blue cities, blue states, where there are populated
areas of minorities and shootings occur, they don't know the names.
They couldn't name a single person shot in the last
month in Chicago because why because they can't politicize it,
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they can't weaponize it. They can't blame Republicans, they can't
blame Donald Trump. If they had any sense of self
respect and really cared, as they state so often they do,
they would know the people's names that are shot and
killed and shot and shot and killed. They would know
those names.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
They wouldn't be a party that doesn't stand for the
families of Lake and Riley, Joscelyn Nungary and Rachel Morin anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You know, they wouldn't be a party.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
This is a party that loves to throw around the
word Nazi and fascist and Gestapo like it's nothing.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Well, they were willing to accept the guy with a
nearly two decade Nazi tattoo. Oh yeah, we're just going
we accept your explanation. A guy that mocked a US
hero soldier, you don't deserve to live. Who the hell
is he? He had no problem with that, self avowed proud communist,
as he declared. A guy that blamed women victims of
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sexual assault and rape, blamed them, blame the victims.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
We'll overlook that too, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
At a kick account, this is a website that is
a controversial history with miners, and apparently he is used
to facilitate extramarital affairs. Not a place I've ever been to,
but that's where him in a towel was a guy
that you know, this, this may be to me the
most bizarre and sickest thing of them all. You know
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that he can't pass a porter potty without going in
there and wanting to pleasure himself. Linda, do you want
to touch that? You want to exlain that? I don't
think that's all, you know, I don't think so. I
think we're going to put that aside. How do if
you want people in Maine to vote for you, how
do you refer to the rural white voters in Maine
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as stupid and racist? The only thing that would be
stupid is if they voted for him. Now they they've
they've got a bit of a quandary and dilemma and like,
who are they going to replace this idiot with? And
their their top priorities. Well, he did engage a lot
of people and created a lot of buzz, and you know,
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he got a fairly good turnout. How do we keep
all those people? You know, the same people that tolerated
his racist comments and stereotypes about African Americans, the same
guy that they supported that was mocking a girl on
social media, a teenage girl who's talking about a suicide
attempt not only part of the defund dismantled no bail
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mad in this but said all cops are bastards and worse.
You know, how do you support that guy? I have
hard time understanding, you know, where do they go from here?
But anyway, we've got a lot going on and this
is going to be the most important midterm election in
our lifetime. I don't think the issues that will define
its final outcome have happened yet. John Thune's super pac
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has apparently two hundred and thirty eight million dollars in
the bank. That's more than double what it had at
this point in the last election cycle under Mitge McDonnell,
and Anyway says, you know that pack is out there
setting new fundraising records. And the Republicans this year, they
are going to be well funded. They're going to fight back.
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But it's going to take all of you. And we've
got the biggest radio talk show in the country thanks
to all of you. If all of you just pledged
to do one thing this year, and that is vote
and take these congressional races and Senate races seriously, we
could defy historical trends usual historical trends, and we can
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win this election. You know, this democratic civil war is unprecedented,
which makes this an uncharted water midterm election year. By
the way, Fetterman on loaded on Platner after the rape
allegations and said, audios, trash bag, and he've been all
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over my TV show just trashing them today and every
time I put them on. The Trump administration, by the way,
making the DHS grants to states now contingent with the
compliance with voter security regulations, and it should be Why
are Democrats against proof of citizenship? Can anyone explain why?
I think I have a good guess. I don't think
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it's complicated. You know, why are democrats against you know,
simple you know, integrity measures like voter ID. I think
I can guess on that one too. I don't think
you have to be a genius to get there. You know,
why do they not want integrity in our process?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Now?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
The president apparently apparently the largest data breach in history
has been discovered. I am told it's well over two
hundred million. I am told it is a top geo
political foe. And the worst part is they've known about
it for a very long time, hid it from the
American people that means all of you, and did nothing
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to stop it, and then went out of their way
to prevent Donald Trump from ever learning this. Well, we
now have the paper trail that's going to get interesting.