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Speaker 10 (07:15):
Hell, but loll back down. No, stand my ground. Won't
be turned around?
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Can I'll keep this world brom dragging me down?
Speaker 10 (07:32):
Donna, stand my ground, Hannah Wong, back down.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
I don't want my head, baby, There ain't a easy way.
Stand man ground and I won't back damn Well, what's right?
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I got just one life in a world that keeps
on pushing me around. But stand my ground, Anna won back? Then?
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Very all easy wall. We'll stand man ground and I
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Speaker 11 (08:51):
All right, alright, alright, good evening, ladies and gentlemen from
San Bernardino, California to the world.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
This is.
Speaker 11 (09:03):
KCIA broadcasting over ten fifty AM one O six FM
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Reformer Podcast. I'm your host, Alan Bartleman. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
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This is the show where we are streaming, not screaming,
discussing American and world events in a reasonable, rational fashion.
Excuse my voice, a little bit of a cold. I
brought back from the Great Plains with me. Wonderful thing's
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been happening this week. Tonight I had the opportunity to
attend a fundraiser for our local public radio and television
channel KVCR at Valley College. From the size of the
crowd there, it looked like they raised a significant amount
of money. Let's hope that that helps keep public radio
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and television functioning as a vital part of our community,
so that we have a choice in news, not just
the drivel that Fox News wants to feed people. One
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heartening thing over this past weekend was a many Labor
Day demonstrations. I saw stronger than ever. Labor and unions
are now realizing the threat that they're under and they
are turning out by the tens of thousands in order
to defeat the fascists, and we hope that in the
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midterms that that will be done. I want to open
this show tonight in the spirit of Crazy Horse, one
man who did not back down, who never surrendered, and
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his progeny. And there are still those who fight in
the spirit of Crazy Horse for rights of Indigenous American people.
More on that subject later. Well tonight, ladies and gentlemen,
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I want to tell you what a wonderful week it
has been for democracy and what a horrible week it
has been for fascism in Donald Trump. Just this week,
Donald Trump is on a tremendous losing streak. Looking at
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the latest judicial decisions challenging his policies, from mass deportations
to tariffs to his troop deployments to the U. S. Cities,
the courts are proving to be a significant check on
Trump's thirst for absolute power. Here's some cases in point
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on immigration. Over Labor Day weekend, ICE attempted to begin
deporting up to seven hundred unaccompanied Guatemalan children, and of
course I did this in the most inhumane way they
could imagine. Secretly, in the dead of night, the first
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children were loaded onto plains in South Texas. These are
unaccompanied children who do not have a parent or a
guardian with them. Ephron Oliveris an attorney representing the miners.
Set on the Democracy Now News hour. At one am
on Sunday morning, olive Eis and his colleagues filed an
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emergency complaint with the Federal Court in Washington, DC. Imagine
waking up a federal judge at one o'clock in the morning.
That's what they did. I've tried to wake some up
at eight thirty in the morning and not had as
good a result, But that's a different story. Judge Sparkle
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Sukananum was woken after two am, and by four am
she had issued a temporary restraining order blocking the deportations
until the children had an immigration hearing, to which they
have a legal right. Can you imagine that nobody in Ice,
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nobody in the Trumpet administration, thinks that these people have
a legal right to an immigration hearing. I can what's
the evidence of that? Well, loading them on a plane
in the dead of night, without notice to anyone, and
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attempting to fly out of the country without the intervention
of the courts. Luckily they were stopped. Meanwhile, in Texas,
the fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, considered the nation's most conservative,
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ruled the Trump's use of the seventeen ninety eight Alien
Enemies Act to deport people was ill legal. Let me
repeat that, one of the nation's most conservative courts ruled
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the Trump's use of the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies
Act to deport people was illegal. He can't even win
in a conservative court. That's how far out Donald Trump
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and his cohorts are. That's how far from the mainstream
of American law that these wanna be fascists.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Are.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
Now, some people say to me, oh, Allan, Allen, don't
call them fascists. They're not fascists. Let's take a look.
What does fascism need mean out there in radio land? Y'all,
get out your funkin' wagnal as they used to say
on laugh in. Get out. That's your Webster's dictionary.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Have a look.
Speaker 11 (16:06):
It's right there under f fascis. I am fascism. What
is fascism? It was defined by Benetto Mussolini. You all know,
wonderful Mussolini and his wonderful end wound up hanging by
his ankles with his pants down in the public square.
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For what he had done to the Italian people. But
before they hung him by his ankles, with his panties
down around his ankles. He defined fascism as a complete
cooperation of business and government. And if you look, who
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was present on an inauguration day on the reviewing stand
along with Donald Trump was all the captains of industry,
all those former liberal Silicon Valley people now realizing this
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is their chance to make huge profits and no regulation.
So jump on board. And remember the purpose of a
corporation is not to serve the people it is the
purpose of a corporation.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
Is not.
Speaker 11 (17:47):
To create a product. The purpose of a corporation is
not to do well for the community in which it lives.
The sole purpose of a corporation is to make profits
for its shareholders. And lasi fair capitalism, that is capitalism
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which allows anything to happen, is the greatest enabler of fascism.
Until this administration, we had controls on corporations. We had
rules that they have to abide by. Trump has systematically
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attempted to liberalize, which is ironic, to loosen those rules
for the corporations more money for their shareholders, including himself
and the detriment of the American people. But at this
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point in time he's losing. Donald Trump seems to be
enamored of the McKinley administration. One of the worst presidents
the United States ever had until Donald Trump came along,
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was William McKinley, and McKinley met an end that we
can only pray for Donald Trump to reach. I'm not
threatening his life. I'm just praying for a quick end
to it. You do believe in prayer, don't you. On
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the subject of tariffs, coming back to William MCA, tariffs
were used in the nineteenth century in order to support
a very small and limited American government. We had a
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government at that time that had no tax on income,
so that the robber barons, the Rockefellers, all the big
families of the East Coast and the West Coast could
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amass as much money as they possibly could and never
pay a cent in taxes. Conversely, the working man and woman,
oh and child. By the way, there were no anti
child labor laws at that time. During as young as
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five years old toiled in factories all day long or
at the bottom of mines all day long. Imagine your child,
instead of going to school, loping off very happily to
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kindergarten with his or her little toy with them, his
or her little animal, as you kiss him goodbye and
send them into a loving teacher and a wonderful schoolroom.
Imagine instead of that, your child getting up at four
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o'clock in the morning to make the day shift in
the mines, going down into a coal mine, a gold mine,
a tin mine, any other kind of mine, and laboring
from start to finish for a ten to twelve hour day.
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And if you're five or six year old child happened
to be in the wrong place at the wrong time
and was killed in an accident in the mine, you
got nothing from the mind owners, not even the money
to bury your child, not even a thank you. That's
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the way that the capitalists treated us working people in
the nineteenth century, using us our children for labor, and
later ourselves until we were completely used up and worthless.
Because a human being to a corporation is nothing more
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than a commodity, something that they can buy and sell.
Corporation has no heart, a corporation has no soul. A
corporation is an evil entity left to itself. It's only
with reasonable controls on las a fair capitalism that we
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allow it to continue. Now, some people tell me, oh, Alan,
this is a capitalist nation.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Well no it's not.
Speaker 11 (23:40):
This is a democracy, and we can choose the kind
of financial system that we have. But there is nowhere
in the United States Constitution that says that this is
a capitalist nation, or for that matter, a Christian nation.
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This nation was founded upon freedom for people against kings,
against the power. This nation was formed in revolution against oppression.
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It was the taxes of King George. It was the
oppressive policies of the British Parliament that led to the
Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution. So this is
not a capitalist country. If the vast majority of people
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in this country want to have a socialist country, we
can bend the laws to do that. If the vast
majority of the people in this country want a fascist
system of complete cooperation between the government and corporations, they
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can have that. But in my opinion and an opinion
of many people, that's not going to happen. These fascists
now have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
They've been caught by many organizations, They've been caught by
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the courts. Most important they've been caught by the voters
of the United States. On the subject of tariffs that
Donald claims to love so much, he doesn't understand how
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they work, that they're really a tax upon us the consumer,
and prices are already going up in many stores because
of Donald Trump's tariffs. He doesn't care. That's the way
he wants to fund government and lower taxes on the corporations.
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But the Appeals Court in Washington, d c. Ruled the
Trump's so called Liberation Day tariffs were illegal and unconstitutional,
noting that only Congress has the power to impose tariffs.
Read the Constitution, it's right there, Congress has the power
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to impose tariffs. And that ruling was a sweeping decision
that unequivocally rebukes President Trump's idea that he could impose
tariffs on American consumers on his own. What else has
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little Donald suffered a defeat from well his domestic deployment
of the military, as he did here in California for
no particular reason. We didn't need the National Guard, We
didn't ask for the National Guard. Nobody wanted the National
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Guard except Donald Trump. Hoping to provoke Californians into some
sort of uprising that he could then use as a
an excuse. But we didn't take debit. We took him
to court. So Trump says, we're going in threatening to
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EVA invade Chicago now amongst others, using the Texas National Guard.
By the way, isn't it interesting that despite the fact
that the crime rate is higher in many Southern states,
the Trump only threatens northern democratically runs cities with lesser
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crime rates. And isn't it also interesting that a troops
he sends in.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Are not the.
Speaker 11 (28:32):
National Guard from that state, as he did in California
and found that didn't work for him. But he's sending
in the Southern states, but in California, federal judge invoking
the eighteen seventy eight Posse Commentatus law, which bars the
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use of the military in domestic law in force, ruled
in favor of Governor Gaven Newsom, finding Trump's deployment of
the California National Guard to the streets of Los Angeles,
along with several hundred US Marines was illegal. This is
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a well respected judge. His brother was on the Supreme Court,
and Judge Charles Bryer issued an injunction barring the Trump
administration from quote deploying, ordering, instructing, training, or using the
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National Guard currently deployed in California, and any military troops
from engaging in arrests, apprehensions, searches, seizures, security patrols, traffic control,
crowd can control, riot control, evidence collection, interrogation, or acting
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as informants. That's a sweeping injunction that covers everything Trump
tried to do. So these are just a few of
the recent cases that have rebuked Trump as he attempts
to subvert the United States Constitution. So recently up in
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tell Rude, Colorado, Egene Carroll, the noun advice columnist and
journalism was at the Tellarrude Film Festival at the premiere
of a new documentary quote Ask Egene unquote. Carol had
a long and storied career as the advice columnist for
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Elie magazine and has published several books in recent years
and become known as one of the most prominent women
to accuse Donald Trump of sexual abuse, saying he raped
her in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department
store in the mid nineteen nineties in Manhattan. Carol sued
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Trump in civil court and a jury of his Peers,
New Yorkers, not a judge. A jury of New Yorkers
found him guilty of sexually abusing her. Judge Lewis Caplan wrote,
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Trump did, in fact quote rape miss Carroll as that
term as is used and understood. She was awarded a
five million dollars settlement from Trump, not to be satisfied
to lose a little bit of money. Trump immediately called
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her a liar. She then sued for defamation and one
additional jury award of eighty three point three million dollars.
Way to Go, Jean Carroll, Way to Go. So she
has a film out now and hopefully there remains a
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film distributor in this country. With the internal fortitude intestinal fortitude,
I should say to show that despite threats of loss
from Trump, but remember something about Trump, Taco. Trump always
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chickens out. He's nothing more than a threat machine. And
if he can bully you into it, he will, But
if he can't, he Trump always chickens out because there's
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no basis for his threats and he knows it. So
hopefully this film highlights the story of one courageous woman
refusing to be defined as a victim of Donald Trump,
providing inspiration, no doubt to the hundreds of survivors of
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Jeffrey Epstein, many of whom were on display this weekend
outside the White House outside the US Capitol, begging, begging,
the legislature to release the entire Epstein files. The Trump administration,
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which controls the files, is resisting, and one can only
ask oneself, why why would Donald Trump not want the
names of all the perpetrators along with Jeffrey Epstein to
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be published. Hmmm, I wonder. I think it's batinally obvious
to everyone that he has something to hide. So before
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we go on to a little bit about Donald Trump's past,
let me play you a little bit of humor h
from the producers, Sorry.
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Fasterace lookout, master race.
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N.
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I was born in tru Sir Gorf and that is
why they called me Rolf. Don't be stupid, be a smarty,
come and join the Nazi Party. How howspe.
Speaker 10 (37:38):
A gay?
Speaker 7 (38:03):
Wow? Talk about bad taste.
Speaker 11 (38:31):
Oh yeah, springtime, and they said it couldn't happen here. Well,
when you take a man who's made a living out
of lying all his life, and person who's word you
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couldn't take that the sun is shining without looking outside yourself,
you get what you deserve. It's been said that the
American people get the kind of government that we deserve.
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And those of us that were sucker enough to believe
Donald Trump that he was going to make America great again,
when his idea of great was imposing the billionaires over
the rest of us, we have only ourselves to blame
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for our ignorance. And you look at the average voter
for Donald Trump, as he said, I love the uneducated,
because that's the primary voter that voted for Donald Trump.
People who thought they could quote do their own research
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on the internet are on Fox News and come up
with truthful answers. People who had never been beyond an
eighth grade education are now telling us what facts are
and what falsehoods are. I heard a country Western song
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tune the other day. One of the lyrics was I
got a Christian raising and an eighth grade education, and
that's all I need. Well, it does take a little
more than that. I lodge your Christian upbringing as long
as they told you that Christianity meant love thy neighbor
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as thyself, not oppress your neighbor, not elected dictator president,
and call him Jesus Christ. At any rate, Let's go
back and have a look at little Donald's history. Little
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Donald went to military school for high school, and he
played baseball in high school, and he claimed he was
a great athlete, when actually for his senior year, the
box scores of his game shows that he got one
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hit in eighteen at bats. That's not very good baseball player.
And then Donald tells us almost forty years later, he says,
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I was supposed to be a pro baseball player. I
was thinking in high school that I had a shot
at the major league until I intended to try out
with another young kid named Willie mckevey. I watched him
hit the ball, and I said, I really believe I
will enjoy the real estate business for my entire life.
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I had always felt like the best player until I
saw that man hit. That's preposterous.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Not only.
Speaker 11 (42:39):
Could not a high school player with a one hit
out of twelve at bats and a losing season, not
compete with a major leaguer. None of that was possible.
Why is that? Well, Willie McCovey, who many of you
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Giants fans will remember as I do, came to San
Francisco with the Giants. McCovey and May's the great outfield.
I remember watching them at Seal Stadium when I was
a very small boy, and mccovey's pro tryout came in
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early nineteen fifty five. At that time, Donald Trump was
a pudgy third grader in Queen's, not a high school graduate.
In nineteen fifty nine, McCovey made his Major League debut
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with the Giants and was named the National League's Rookie
of the Year. Donald then was in the eighth grade
learning how to make his bed at the military Academy.
Come on, Donald, you never were the greatest at anything
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except being a suck up. So all the things that
you know. Donald Trump claims that he's done, most of
is lies. The amount of money he says that he
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inherited from his father, He actually inherited much much more,
and he made most of his money that he ever
earned himself as a so called reality show host on
the Apprentice. Now, I hate to disabuse those of you
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out there who think that The Apprentice was real. Like
all television reality shows, it is arranged. The only thing
real about The Apprentice was that Donald Trump would get
to fire somebody, and the producers then had to rearrange
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the entire show, all the film for that particular episode
to make that person that he fired look bad, whether
that person looked bad or not, and they paid Donald
Trump handsomely for this. But he didn't run anything, he
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didn't produce anything. All he did was come in and
fire somebody. And people that think that he he was
some great millionaire making money earning money at that time
are sadly mistaken. The only thing Donald Trump has consistently
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made money at is licensing the Trump name branding. He
puts his name on suits, on ties, on wine, on
food products, on hotels, on virtually anything. But everything that
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he tries to build on his own has been a
dismal failure. Of course, then he manages to take a
tax deduction for it. So I wonder how many people
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who have voted for Donald Trump. I've actually read a
book about Donald Trump. You know, if you would.
Speaker 7 (47:10):
Bother to.
Speaker 11 (47:13):
Listen to something else other than the dribble that comes
from all of our politicians, all in their favor and
nothing negative. And read for yourself, have a look at facts.
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Don't be fooled. So Donald Trump happens to be within
eleven months of my age, and I remember very well
in nineteen sixty six when our draft number came up.
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I had a very high draft number. For those of
you who don't know or remember those days, we were
in the heart of the Vietnam War and a draft
was instituted, and the thought was to make it somewhat fair.
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They would just toss everybody's birthday into a hat and
draw them out, and the order in which they were
drawn would correspond to a certain date. And if you
had a low draft number, I forget exactly what it was.
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I think it was one hundred something. You weren't subjects
of the draft that year. Well, I had a high
draft number. I could not have been drafted in nineteen
six sixty six. But like so many of my fellow
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citizens patriots, I joined the United States Military. I put
my time in, I served in Vietnam, and I came
home and did what most of us do, trying to
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find ourselves again. Donald Trump, however, our system wasn't good
enough for him. He had to rig the system. What
did Little Donald do? Little Donald's daddy got a chiropractor
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who rented space from Little Donald's daddy in one of
little Donald's daddy's building to write an exemption for Little Donald.
So Little Donald didn't have to serve in the military
like the rest of us. He didn't have to march,
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he didn't have to give up anything. He didn't have
to take his chance on fighting and dying with the
rest of us because his chiropractor said, little Donald has
bone spurs, so old bone spurs got a deferment from
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the military. Yet he denigrates people like Senator John McCain
who were taken prisoner and refused to be released even
when offered an early release by the horrible North Vietnamese
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prison system. You know, John McCain was tortured over and
over and over again by the North Vietnamese as a
war criminal, and they knew that his father was an
important government official, and they told John McCain, just go
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ahead and confess your war crimes. Just go ahead and
admit you're a war criminal, betray your country and we'll
let you go home. John McCain, probably in more elegant
words than I can frame, said no, So what did
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the goot.
Speaker 7 (51:55):
And a rope.
Speaker 11 (51:57):
To his hands and raised him up to the ceiling,
dislocating both of Senator McCain's arms, And to the day
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he died, John McCain could not lift his arms much
above his waist because of the torture that he'd gone,
while a coward like Donald Trump gets to sit back
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and mock heroes that gave everything for their country and
still did not betray their country. I've wondered if I
could have stood up to torture like that. I don't
(53:01):
think so. I think I would have told them anything
they wanted to hear. I can't imagine the kind of
courage and intestinal fortitude that John McCain showed in telling
the gooks to shove it. So we have about seven
(53:28):
minutes left here, and I want to wrap this up
by saying there is a huge danger to the United
States government. What the maga Republicans are trying to do
(53:54):
now is because they can't win an election fairly, they
are trying to jerrymander, They are trying to disenfranchise democrats.
They are trying to rig the system in their favor.
(54:17):
Is that what America is all about? Rigging the system
to make sure you win? Not my America, but it's
Donald Trump's. The privileged little boy with the bone spurs
is used to rigging the system. The privileged little boy
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with the bone spurs is used to denigrating real heroes
like John McCain. The fact that he has military people
in his government is revealing if you look at the people.
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None of them, Hegseth, comes to mind. Most prominently, none
of them had real command. Heg Seth never served in
a combat situation. Yes, he was a United States Marine,
(55:30):
and for that I commend him, But what did he
do with his service? He never heard a shot fired
in anger, He never ordered a shot, He never fired
a shot in anger. He never saw combat. So I'm
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here to tell you that all marines are not created equal.
And if you claim to be the one to send
military troops to fight and die or to populate our streets,
you ought to have been one who is willing to
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do so himself. And he has not, is not, and
never will be prepared to do that, because Hegseeth is
nothing but a sniveling, whining, little coward. JFK Jr. Had
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his come uppance today in front of the Congress. Maybe,
although it's doubtful, maybe that crazy Kennedy will resign. There's
something clearly wrong with that man other than a worm
in his brain. The man doesn't believe in vaccine, which
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have proved effective. But I'll bet you he's been vaccinated
and everybody in his family's been vaccinated against every possible disease.
By the way, I got my new COVID shot at
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Speaker 6 (57:48):
In the time.
Speaker 11 (57:49):
Remaining a clown car full of fascists, but they're not funny.
This is the same way that Hitler took over Germany,
one little piece at a time. Oh that's not so bad,
they said, when they came to take away the Gypsies.
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The Gypsies are just a pain. Oh that's not so bad.
When they came to take away the Jews. Nobody likes
the Jews. And then when it was too late, they
came to take the rest of them away and there
was no descent left. So, ladies and gentlemen from San Bernardino, California,
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this is the Reformer with your host Alan Bartleman. We'll
see you next week, same time, same station. Until then,
keep up the fight. Don't back down.
Speaker 7 (58:49):
Down bad damn ugus Dan at the gates of Malva.
Long back down, No stand mack ground. We'll be turned around.
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Cannot keep this world from dragging me down.
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Gonna stand my ground, Hannah Wah, back down.
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Baby, they aren't no easy with them. Stand man ground
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Well, I'm bam back down. No, loll back down. You
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Hell, but loll back down. No, stand my ground. Won't
be turned around?
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Can I'll keep this world brom dragging me down?
Speaker 10 (07:32):
Donna, stand my ground, Hannah Wong, back down.
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I don't want my head, baby, There ain't a easy way.
Stand man ground and I won't back damn Well, what's right?
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I got just one life in a world that keeps
on pushing me around. But stand my ground, Anna won back? Then?
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Very all easy wall. We'll stand man ground and I
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All right, alright, alright, good evening, ladies and gentlemen from
San Bernardino, California to the world.
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This is.
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KCIA broadcasting over ten fifty AM one O six FM
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Reformer Podcast. I'm your host, Alan Bartleman. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
(09:23):
This is the show where we are streaming, not screaming,
discussing American and world events in a reasonable, rational fashion.
Excuse my voice, a little bit of a cold. I
brought back from the Great Plains with me. Wonderful thing's
(09:45):
been happening this week. Tonight I had the opportunity to
attend a fundraiser for our local public radio and television
channel KVCR at Valley College. From the size of the
crowd there, it looked like they raised a significant amount
of money. Let's hope that that helps keep public radio
(10:07):
and television functioning as a vital part of our community,
so that we have a choice in news, not just
the drivel that Fox News wants to feed people. One
(10:27):
heartening thing over this past weekend was a many Labor
Day demonstrations. I saw stronger than ever. Labor and unions
are now realizing the threat that they're under and they
are turning out by the tens of thousands in order
to defeat the fascists, and we hope that in the
(10:51):
midterms that that will be done. I want to open
this show tonight in the spirit of Crazy Horse, one
man who did not back down, who never surrendered, and
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his progeny. And there are still those who fight in
the spirit of Crazy Horse for rights of Indigenous American people.
More on that subject later. Well tonight, ladies and gentlemen,
(11:32):
I want to tell you what a wonderful week it
has been for democracy and what a horrible week it
has been for fascism in Donald Trump. Just this week,
Donald Trump is on a tremendous losing streak. Looking at
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the latest judicial decisions challenging his policies, from mass deportations
to tariffs to his troop deployments to the U. S. Cities,
the courts are proving to be a significant check on
Trump's thirst for absolute power. Here's some cases in point
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on immigration. Over Labor Day weekend, ICE attempted to begin
deporting up to seven hundred unaccompanied Guatemalan children, and of
course I did this in the most inhumane way they
could imagine. Secretly, in the dead of night, the first
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children were loaded onto plains in South Texas. These are
unaccompanied children who do not have a parent or a
guardian with them. Ephron Oliveris an attorney representing the miners.
Set on the Democracy Now News hour. At one am
on Sunday morning, olive Eis and his colleagues filed an
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emergency complaint with the Federal Court in Washington, DC. Imagine
waking up a federal judge at one o'clock in the morning.
That's what they did. I've tried to wake some up
at eight thirty in the morning and not had as
good a result, But that's a different story. Judge Sparkle
(13:34):
Sukananum was woken after two am, and by four am
she had issued a temporary restraining order blocking the deportations
until the children had an immigration hearing, to which they
have a legal right. Can you imagine that nobody in Ice,
(13:58):
nobody in the Trumpet administration, thinks that these people have
a legal right to an immigration hearing. I can what's
the evidence of that? Well, loading them on a plane
in the dead of night, without notice to anyone, and
(14:22):
attempting to fly out of the country without the intervention
of the courts. Luckily they were stopped. Meanwhile, in Texas,
the fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, considered the nation's most conservative,
(14:43):
ruled the Trump's use of the seventeen ninety eight Alien
Enemies Act to deport people was ill legal. Let me
repeat that, one of the nation's most conservative courts ruled
(15:04):
the Trump's use of the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies
Act to deport people was illegal. He can't even win
in a conservative court. That's how far out Donald Trump
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and his cohorts are. That's how far from the mainstream
of American law that these wanna be fascists.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Are.
Speaker 11 (15:38):
Now, some people say to me, oh, Allan, Allen, don't
call them fascists. They're not fascists. Let's take a look.
What does fascism need mean out there in radio land? Y'all,
get out your funkin' wagnal as they used to say
on laugh in. Get out. That's your Webster's dictionary.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Have a look.
Speaker 11 (16:06):
It's right there under f fascis. I am fascism. What
is fascism? It was defined by Benetto Mussolini. You all know,
wonderful Mussolini and his wonderful end wound up hanging by
his ankles with his pants down in the public square.
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For what he had done to the Italian people. But
before they hung him by his ankles, with his panties
down around his ankles. He defined fascism as a complete
cooperation of business and government. And if you look, who
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was present on an inauguration day on the reviewing stand
along with Donald Trump was all the captains of industry,
all those former liberal Silicon Valley people now realizing this
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is their chance to make huge profits and no regulation.
So jump on board. And remember the purpose of a
corporation is not to serve the people it is the
purpose of a corporation.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
Is not.
Speaker 11 (17:47):
To create a product. The purpose of a corporation is
not to do well for the community in which it lives.
The sole purpose of a corporation is to make profits
for its shareholders. And lasi fair capitalism, that is capitalism
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which allows anything to happen, is the greatest enabler of fascism.
Until this administration, we had controls on corporations. We had
rules that they have to abide by. Trump has systematically
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attempted to liberalize, which is ironic, to loosen those rules
for the corporations more money for their shareholders, including himself
and the detriment of the American people. But at this
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point in time he's losing. Donald Trump seems to be
enamored of the McKinley administration. One of the worst presidents
the United States ever had until Donald Trump came along,
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was William McKinley, and McKinley met an end that we
can only pray for Donald Trump to reach. I'm not
threatening his life. I'm just praying for a quick end
to it. You do believe in prayer, don't you. On
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the subject of tariffs, coming back to William MCA, tariffs
were used in the nineteenth century in order to support
a very small and limited American government. We had a
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government at that time that had no tax on income,
so that the robber barons, the Rockefellers, all the big
families of the East Coast and the West Coast could
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amass as much money as they possibly could and never
pay a cent in taxes. Conversely, the working man and woman,
oh and child. By the way, there were no anti
child labor laws at that time. During as young as
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five years old toiled in factories all day long or
at the bottom of mines all day long. Imagine your child,
instead of going to school, loping off very happily to
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kindergarten with his or her little toy with them, his
or her little animal, as you kiss him goodbye and
send them into a loving teacher and a wonderful schoolroom.
Imagine instead of that, your child getting up at four
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o'clock in the morning to make the day shift in
the mines, going down into a coal mine, a gold mine,
a tin mine, any other kind of mine, and laboring
from start to finish for a ten to twelve hour day.
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And if you're five or six year old child happened
to be in the wrong place at the wrong time
and was killed in an accident in the mine, you
got nothing from the mind owners, not even the money
to bury your child, not even a thank you. That's
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the way that the capitalists treated us working people in
the nineteenth century, using us our children for labor, and
later ourselves until we were completely used up and worthless.
Because a human being to a corporation is nothing more
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than a commodity, something that they can buy and sell.
Corporation has no heart, a corporation has no soul. A
corporation is an evil entity left to itself. It's only
with reasonable controls on las a fair capitalism that we
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allow it to continue. Now, some people tell me, oh, Alan,
this is a capitalist nation.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Well no it's not.
Speaker 11 (23:40):
This is a democracy, and we can choose the kind
of financial system that we have. But there is nowhere
in the United States Constitution that says that this is
a capitalist nation, or for that matter, a Christian nation.
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This nation was founded upon freedom for people against kings,
against the power. This nation was formed in revolution against oppression.
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It was the taxes of King George. It was the
oppressive policies of the British Parliament that led to the
Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution. So this is
not a capitalist country. If the vast majority of people
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in this country want to have a socialist country, we
can bend the laws to do that. If the vast
majority of the people in this country want a fascist
system of complete cooperation between the government and corporations, they
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can have that. But in my opinion and an opinion
of many people, that's not going to happen. These fascists
now have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
They've been caught by many organizations, They've been caught by
(25:37):
the courts. Most important they've been caught by the voters
of the United States. On the subject of tariffs that
Donald claims to love so much, he doesn't understand how
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they work, that they're really a tax upon us the consumer,
and prices are already going up in many stores because
of Donald Trump's tariffs. He doesn't care. That's the way
he wants to fund government and lower taxes on the corporations.
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But the Appeals Court in Washington, d c. Ruled the
Trump's so called Liberation Day tariffs were illegal and unconstitutional,
noting that only Congress has the power to impose tariffs.
Read the Constitution, it's right there, Congress has the power
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to impose tariffs. And that ruling was a sweeping decision
that unequivocally rebukes President Trump's idea that he could impose
tariffs on American consumers on his own. What else has
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little Donald suffered a defeat from well his domestic deployment
of the military, as he did here in California for
no particular reason. We didn't need the National Guard, We
didn't ask for the National Guard. Nobody wanted the National
(27:32):
Guard except Donald Trump. Hoping to provoke Californians into some
sort of uprising that he could then use as a
an excuse. But we didn't take debit. We took him
to court. So Trump says, we're going in threatening to
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EVA invade Chicago now amongst others, using the Texas National Guard.
By the way, isn't it interesting that despite the fact
that the crime rate is higher in many Southern states,
the Trump only threatens northern democratically runs cities with lesser
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crime rates. And isn't it also interesting that a troops
he sends in.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Are not the.
Speaker 11 (28:32):
National Guard from that state, as he did in California
and found that didn't work for him. But he's sending
in the Southern states, but in California, federal judge invoking
the eighteen seventy eight Posse Commentatus law, which bars the
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use of the military in domestic law in force, ruled
in favor of Governor Gaven Newsom, finding Trump's deployment of
the California National Guard to the streets of Los Angeles,
along with several hundred US Marines was illegal. This is
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a well respected judge. His brother was on the Supreme Court,
and Judge Charles Bryer issued an injunction barring the Trump
administration from quote deploying, ordering, instructing, training, or using the
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National Guard currently deployed in California, and any military troops
from engaging in arrests, apprehensions, searches, seizures, security patrols, traffic control,
crowd can control, riot control, evidence collection, interrogation, or acting
(30:08):
as informants. That's a sweeping injunction that covers everything Trump
tried to do. So these are just a few of
the recent cases that have rebuked Trump as he attempts
to subvert the United States Constitution. So recently up in
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tell Rude, Colorado, Egene Carroll, the noun advice columnist and
journalism was at the Tellarrude Film Festival at the premiere
of a new documentary quote Ask Egene unquote. Carol had
a long and storied career as the advice columnist for
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Elie magazine and has published several books in recent years
and become known as one of the most prominent women
to accuse Donald Trump of sexual abuse, saying he raped
her in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department
store in the mid nineteen nineties in Manhattan. Carol sued
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Trump in civil court and a jury of his Peers,
New Yorkers, not a judge. A jury of New Yorkers
found him guilty of sexually abusing her. Judge Lewis Caplan wrote,
(31:54):
Trump did, in fact quote rape miss Carroll as that
term as is used and understood. She was awarded a
five million dollars settlement from Trump, not to be satisfied
to lose a little bit of money. Trump immediately called
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her a liar. She then sued for defamation and one
additional jury award of eighty three point three million dollars.
Way to Go, Jean Carroll, Way to Go. So she
has a film out now and hopefully there remains a
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film distributor in this country. With the internal fortitude intestinal fortitude,
I should say to show that despite threats of loss
from Trump, but remember something about Trump, Taco. Trump always
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chickens out. He's nothing more than a threat machine. And
if he can bully you into it, he will, But
if he can't, he Trump always chickens out because there's
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no basis for his threats and he knows it. So
hopefully this film highlights the story of one courageous woman
refusing to be defined as a victim of Donald Trump,
providing inspiration, no doubt to the hundreds of survivors of
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Jeffrey Epstein, many of whom were on display this weekend
outside the White House outside the US Capitol, begging, begging,
the legislature to release the entire Epstein files. The Trump administration,
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which controls the files, is resisting, and one can only
ask oneself, why why would Donald Trump not want the
names of all the perpetrators along with Jeffrey Epstein to
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be published. Hmmm, I wonder. I think it's batinally obvious
to everyone that he has something to hide. So before
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we go on to a little bit about Donald Trump's past,
let me play you a little bit of humor h
from the producers, Sorry.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
To restart its glory? Where would that man be loved?
Around him? And then more you spring time for hitl
and Germany Sturchland is happy and we're hard to.
Speaker 10 (35:55):
Fasterace lookout, master race.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
Straight forget and Germany and morrible and brawn. Sr gerts
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oh it.
Speaker 11 (36:28):
N.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
I was born in tru Sir Gorf and that is
why they called me Rolf. Don't be stupid, be a smarty,
come and join the Nazi Party. How howspe.
Speaker 10 (37:38):
A gay?
Speaker 7 (38:03):
Wow? Talk about bad taste.
Speaker 11 (38:31):
Oh yeah, springtime, and they said it couldn't happen here. Well,
when you take a man who's made a living out
of lying all his life, and person who's word you
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couldn't take that the sun is shining without looking outside yourself,
you get what you deserve. It's been said that the
American people get the kind of government that we deserve.
(39:15):
And those of us that were sucker enough to believe
Donald Trump that he was going to make America great again,
when his idea of great was imposing the billionaires over
the rest of us, we have only ourselves to blame
(39:37):
for our ignorance. And you look at the average voter
for Donald Trump, as he said, I love the uneducated,
because that's the primary voter that voted for Donald Trump.
People who thought they could quote do their own research
(39:57):
on the internet are on Fox News and come up
with truthful answers. People who had never been beyond an
eighth grade education are now telling us what facts are
and what falsehoods are. I heard a country Western song
(40:22):
tune the other day. One of the lyrics was I
got a Christian raising and an eighth grade education, and
that's all I need. Well, it does take a little
more than that. I lodge your Christian upbringing as long
as they told you that Christianity meant love thy neighbor
(40:47):
as thyself, not oppress your neighbor, not elected dictator president,
and call him Jesus Christ. At any rate, Let's go
back and have a look at little Donald's history. Little
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Donald went to military school for high school, and he
played baseball in high school, and he claimed he was
a great athlete, when actually for his senior year, the
box scores of his game shows that he got one
(41:32):
hit in eighteen at bats. That's not very good baseball player.
And then Donald tells us almost forty years later, he says,
(41:58):
I was supposed to be a pro baseball player. I
was thinking in high school that I had a shot
at the major league until I intended to try out
with another young kid named Willie mckevey. I watched him
hit the ball, and I said, I really believe I
will enjoy the real estate business for my entire life.
(42:22):
I had always felt like the best player until I
saw that man hit. That's preposterous.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Not only.
Speaker 11 (42:39):
Could not a high school player with a one hit
out of twelve at bats and a losing season, not
compete with a major leaguer. None of that was possible.
Why is that? Well, Willie McCovey, who many of you
(43:01):
Giants fans will remember as I do, came to San
Francisco with the Giants. McCovey and May's the great outfield.
I remember watching them at Seal Stadium when I was
a very small boy, and mccovey's pro tryout came in
(43:27):
early nineteen fifty five. At that time, Donald Trump was
a pudgy third grader in Queen's, not a high school graduate.
In nineteen fifty nine, McCovey made his Major League debut
(43:47):
with the Giants and was named the National League's Rookie
of the Year. Donald then was in the eighth grade
learning how to make his bed at the military Academy.
Come on, Donald, you never were the greatest at anything
(44:11):
except being a suck up. So all the things that
you know. Donald Trump claims that he's done, most of
is lies. The amount of money he says that he
(44:35):
inherited from his father, He actually inherited much much more,
and he made most of his money that he ever
earned himself as a so called reality show host on
the Apprentice. Now, I hate to disabuse those of you
(44:58):
out there who think that The Apprentice was real. Like
all television reality shows, it is arranged. The only thing
real about The Apprentice was that Donald Trump would get
to fire somebody, and the producers then had to rearrange
(45:26):
the entire show, all the film for that particular episode
to make that person that he fired look bad, whether
that person looked bad or not, and they paid Donald
Trump handsomely for this. But he didn't run anything, he
(45:49):
didn't produce anything. All he did was come in and
fire somebody. And people that think that he he was
some great millionaire making money earning money at that time
are sadly mistaken. The only thing Donald Trump has consistently
(46:11):
made money at is licensing the Trump name branding. He
puts his name on suits, on ties, on wine, on
food products, on hotels, on virtually anything. But everything that
(46:37):
he tries to build on his own has been a
dismal failure. Of course, then he manages to take a
tax deduction for it. So I wonder how many people
(46:58):
who have voted for Donald Trump. I've actually read a
book about Donald Trump. You know, if you would.
Speaker 7 (47:10):
Bother to.
Speaker 11 (47:13):
Listen to something else other than the dribble that comes
from all of our politicians, all in their favor and
nothing negative. And read for yourself, have a look at facts.
(47:40):
Don't be fooled. So Donald Trump happens to be within
eleven months of my age, and I remember very well
in nineteen sixty six when our draft number came up.
(48:02):
I had a very high draft number. For those of
you who don't know or remember those days, we were
in the heart of the Vietnam War and a draft
was instituted, and the thought was to make it somewhat fair.
(48:25):
They would just toss everybody's birthday into a hat and
draw them out, and the order in which they were
drawn would correspond to a certain date. And if you
had a low draft number, I forget exactly what it was.
(48:45):
I think it was one hundred something. You weren't subjects
of the draft that year. Well, I had a high
draft number. I could not have been drafted in nineteen
six sixty six. But like so many of my fellow
(49:06):
citizens patriots, I joined the United States Military. I put
my time in, I served in Vietnam, and I came
home and did what most of us do, trying to
(49:27):
find ourselves again. Donald Trump, however, our system wasn't good
enough for him. He had to rig the system. What
did Little Donald do? Little Donald's daddy got a chiropractor
(49:53):
who rented space from Little Donald's daddy in one of
little Donald's daddy's building to write an exemption for Little Donald.
So Little Donald didn't have to serve in the military
like the rest of us. He didn't have to march,
(50:15):
he didn't have to give up anything. He didn't have
to take his chance on fighting and dying with the
rest of us because his chiropractor said, little Donald has
bone spurs, so old bone spurs got a deferment from
(50:39):
the military. Yet he denigrates people like Senator John McCain
who were taken prisoner and refused to be released even
when offered an early release by the horrible North Vietnamese
(51:00):
prison system. You know, John McCain was tortured over and
over and over again by the North Vietnamese as a
war criminal, and they knew that his father was an
important government official, and they told John McCain, just go
(51:24):
ahead and confess your war crimes. Just go ahead and
admit you're a war criminal, betray your country and we'll
let you go home. John McCain, probably in more elegant
words than I can frame, said no, So what did
(51:51):
the goot.
Speaker 7 (51:55):
And a rope.
Speaker 11 (51:57):
To his hands and raised him up to the ceiling,
dislocating both of Senator McCain's arms, And to the day
(52:18):
he died, John McCain could not lift his arms much
above his waist because of the torture that he'd gone,
while a coward like Donald Trump gets to sit back
(52:39):
and mock heroes that gave everything for their country and
still did not betray their country. I've wondered if I
could have stood up to torture like that. I don't
(53:01):
think so. I think I would have told them anything
they wanted to hear. I can't imagine the kind of
courage and intestinal fortitude that John McCain showed in telling
the gooks to shove it. So we have about seven
(53:28):
minutes left here, and I want to wrap this up
by saying there is a huge danger to the United
States government. What the maga Republicans are trying to do
(53:54):
now is because they can't win an election fairly, they
are trying to jerrymander, They are trying to disenfranchise democrats.
They are trying to rig the system in their favor.
(54:17):
Is that what America is all about? Rigging the system
to make sure you win? Not my America, but it's
Donald Trump's. The privileged little boy with the bone spurs
is used to rigging the system. The privileged little boy
(54:43):
with the bone spurs is used to denigrating real heroes
like John McCain. The fact that he has military people
in his government is revealing if you look at the people.
(55:06):
None of them, Hegseth, comes to mind. Most prominently, none
of them had real command. Heg Seth never served in
a combat situation. Yes, he was a United States Marine,
(55:30):
and for that I commend him, But what did he
do with his service? He never heard a shot fired
in anger, He never ordered a shot, He never fired
a shot in anger. He never saw combat. So I'm
(55:50):
here to tell you that all marines are not created equal.
And if you claim to be the one to send
military troops to fight and die or to populate our streets,
you ought to have been one who is willing to
(56:12):
do so himself. And he has not, is not, and
never will be prepared to do that, because Hegseeth is
nothing but a sniveling, whining, little coward. JFK Jr. Had
(56:34):
his come uppance today in front of the Congress. Maybe,
although it's doubtful, maybe that crazy Kennedy will resign. There's
something clearly wrong with that man other than a worm
in his brain. The man doesn't believe in vaccine, which
(57:01):
have proved effective. But I'll bet you he's been vaccinated
and everybody in his family's been vaccinated against every possible disease.
By the way, I got my new COVID shot at
my local Kaiser facility today. So those of you with
(57:25):
Kaiser Health Insurance, the current flu shot, updated for all
the variants is available. Just contact Kaiser you know how
to do that and get your shot. So we have.
Speaker 6 (57:48):
In the time.
Speaker 11 (57:49):
Remaining a clown car full of fascists, but they're not funny.
This is the same way that Hitler took over Germany,
one little piece at a time. Oh that's not so bad,
they said, when they came to take away the Gypsies.
(58:11):
The Gypsies are just a pain. Oh that's not so bad.
When they came to take away the Jews. Nobody likes
the Jews. And then when it was too late, they
came to take the rest of them away and there
was no descent left. So, ladies and gentlemen from San Bernardino, California,
(58:36):
this is the Reformer with your host Alan Bartleman. We'll
see you next week, same time, same station. Until then,
keep up the fight. Don't back down.
Speaker 7 (58:49):
Down bad damn ugus Dan at the gates of Malva.
Long back down, No stand mack ground. We'll be turned around.
(59:12):
Cannot keep this world from dragging me down.
Speaker 10 (59:16):
Gonna stand my ground, Hannah Wah, back down.
Speaker 7 (59:27):
Baby, they aren't no easy with them. Stand man ground
and I won't back.
Speaker 4 (59:44):
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