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Battles the politicians, the press,the digitators and magicians trust to see the
money they did, don't there's nothingto fill the holes? Well, then
are fill in their pockets that holesthe politicians bouncing down the road every batsuition

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for no more corruption and dysfunction.It's gone to take divention, ladies and
gentlemen. As the Louisiana Special Sessionadvances and comes to a conclusion, we're
gonna give you the inside story ofwhy so easily the closed primary bill UH
cleared the House and the second BlackDistrict cleared the Senate, even over the

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opposition of the Speaker of the UnitedStates House of Representatives, Louisiana's own Mike
Johnson. And speaking of the insidestory, the inside story of what's happening
coming out of Iowa going into NewHampshire. Hint, it's Trump's party.
We just live in it. Butwhat happens next we'll talk about that.
And last but not least, folkslooking forward and backward, how one mistranslation

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of one word save the world duringthe Second World War, A story about
Casablanca. All this and more inthis edition of The Founder Show. Actually
we live in that house and rejoicein that house at least many of us
do. Folks, God bless outthere. You are now listening to the
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you. Deep within the bowels arethose mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the
Big Easy, that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high
up on top of that old Libertycypress tree draped and Spanish moss way out
on the Eagles Branch. This isnone other then your Spyngary Baba of the

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Republic, Chaplain Hi mcenry, withChristopher Tidmore, your roving reporter, resident
radical moderate and associate editor of theLouisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot net.
And folks, we of course we'regoing to talk a little bit about
the Iowa Caucus. We've got acouple of ailments that have not been shared
by the general media, but mostlywe want to focus a little closer to
home to start off with, andthat is, of course, the special

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Legislative Session. And I got totell you things are moving a lot faster
and a lot easier than a lotof critics thought could get through Jeff Landry
has certainly picked this legislature pretty well. For example, on Wednesday, January
seventeenth, the Louisiana Senate, ina twenty seven to eleven vote, overwhelmingly
advanced a proposed recongressional map that wouldcreate a second congressional district. It was

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it was not without controversy. Iremember Garrett Graves, who, of course
is the Republican whose district would goaway, and he's also the Republican Jeff
Landry loves to hate most in thisworld, said quote, and I love
this legislation introduced today proposes to dowhat no Louisiana leader nor Mother Nature have
ever been able to do. Connectthe Wachita River basin to the Emeate River

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basin. When he's talking about fatfolks. Is the newly redrawn six congressional
district would stretch from Cattle Parish that'sbasically Shreport in the northwest corner of the
state, to East Baton Rouge Parish, running across the state. I mean,
talk about something that doesn't have anythingto do with what's another got to
be the wildest reptilian salamander amphibian I'veever heard of in my life. I

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gotta say, for those that don'tknow what jerrymander means, it's when Eldridge
Jerry, one of the signers ofthe decoration in Emendents, designed a district
that looked like a salamander. Andit was so weird that even people said
it was a district designed that onlyhe could win. And folks, we
have truly recreated the jerrymander because thisthing looks like a freaking salamander. And

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folks, for years, for acouple hundred years, it was considered to
be a bad thing, something thatyou just didn't do in policy because it
showed how crooked you are. Butnow the whole nation does it. It's
all over the United States. Sobasically, and this is the interesting part
of this debate, this district iscreated by dividing Republicans and Democrats in the

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Senate. So what happened was youhad eleven Republicans and ten Democrats, I
mean seventeen Republicans and ten Democrats thatsupported this and the remainding eleven Republicans thought
this was a bad idea and votedagainst it. So you've got to understand
this is and part of the reasonthey voted against it was the speaker of
the United States House of Representatives,who happens to be Oh, let me
see the congressman from shreport from CaddoParish, Mike Johnson A wanted to continue

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challenging this in the court, butb he pointed out something that is kind
of obvious to every human being alive. The district doesn't make any geographic sense.
Yes, you can gerrymander a districtand have racial priorities being one of
the priorities, but it can't bethe only one. It has to make
a certain degree of geographic sense.The courts have said that over and over

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and unfortunately, in order to createthis district, you couldn't create this district
and get rid of garret rays atthe same time. Well, unless you
drew it with basically this weird,kind of wavy salamander like line. It
looks like a moving worm. Maybewe should call it the caterpillar. I

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guess it would be better. Butbasically that lists African American representation from twenty
three percent to fifty four percent.The reason why this all comes to gather
high is because here's the dirty littlesecret. Jeff Landry. Jeff Landry has
a Senate that's two thirds Republican twothirds. Who is the chairman of the

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House of the Senate and Governmental AffairsCommittee, which is, by the way,
one of the three most powerful Senatecommittees. Is it a Republican?
No? Is it a moderate whiteDemocrat? No, it's Cleo Fields.
Jeff Landry, the conservative Republican governor, got Cameron Henry, the conservative Republican
Senate President, to appoint the mostliberal member of the Senate to that chairmanship.

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Why where does Cleo Fields live?Wow? Right in Baton Rouge,
right in that district. What didCleo Fields do before he was a state
senator? He was a member ofCongress when Louisiana had two black congressional districts.
What does Clo Fields want to do? Again? Go back to Washington
as a congressman. Who is theone person who doesn't have a problem getting

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rid of Garret Gabes on the Democraticside, the every Democrat's favorite Republican Cleo
Fields Fields. It is the fix, as we say, ladies and gentlemen,
was in but not just when itcame to redistricting. Fascinating Christopher,
Remember this, Jerry Mander goes allthe way from between from one river basement

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to another. What are you thinking, folks, that's right swamp swamp.
And by the way, we're notdealing the state doing this right now in
New York as Gerry manner in theirstates so much, there may never be
a Republican that's ever elected to theirstate legislature ever. Again, it's they're
trying to wipe out all Republicans andall Conservatives in New York right now,
five districts. It could even givehim the leadership in the US Congress.

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Of course, that's one of thebig things they're pushing for. So folks,
this is not just Luigiana. It'shappening all over this country. I
don't like it. I smell filth. That's why I don't like the political
world. I call it a septictank and it stinks. Yeah, but
it's Jeff Landry, who you liked, who is kind of pushing all this
out, Jeff Landry and Clio Fieldsand a lot of other people. Yeah.

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Well, and let me explain thisbecause the one jet Cleiolfield's this wasn't
secret. Clil Fields came out andwas asked why did he draw us its
weird district? He came out andsaid it because we wish to get rid
of Gary Graves and protect Mike Johnsonand Julia Letlowe. And Julia letlow is
the key. If you could drawa geographically sensible second black majority district,

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it's the same district that they're proposingfor the new second Supreme Court Black District.
It just runs up the Mississippi River. By the way, just so
you understand, there's a black districton the other side of the Mississippi River
in Mississippi that represents that's Bernie Johnson'sdistrict. And it's a black rural district.
You have African American communities up theriver. But it's a geographically cohesive

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district. It's a river valley district. It makes sense, it's a continued
district. But Julia letlow is Andlook, I've known Julia for twenty years.
She's one of the nicest, mostwonderful people. She's the widow of
Luke letlow who won the seat,who had been a former aid to Bobby
Jendall and to Mike Johnson. Awhole bunch of people, and most recently
doctor Abraham who had previously had theseat ran succeeded one and then died of

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COVID before he could be sworn in. His widow, Julia gets a seat,
and Julia's very loved, and nobodywants to take out Julia let Low.
So we're drawing a crazy district totake out the one Republican congressman who
didn't Supportjeff Landry. He didn't supportthe Democrat. He just supported another Republican
guy by the name Steve Wagon's Back. He's no rhino. No one would
think Wragon's Back was a rhino.He wasn't. He just wasn't Jeff Landry.

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And Jeff Landry's taking that out.And of course Garrett Graves is not
the favorite person of Steve Scalise either, because Steve Scalise probably is not a
speaker, because Garrett Graves did notimmediately jump on the bandwagon, because Garrett
Graves was close to Kevin McCarthy.Anyway, Mike Johnson is worried about losing
five seats across the South when he'slosing five seats in New York. I
just talked about that. The redistrictingthat's going on the Democratic Jerry Mander New

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York actually was spared a Jerrymander bya judge and Andrew Cuomo who was mad
at being kicked out of office,and so they was given a district where
geographically cohesive seats essentially elected Republicans fromLong Island, Queens and Staten Island.
That's getting rid of anyway. CleoFields, being head of the Senate and

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Governmental Affairs Committee, may have raisedthis from the Senate, but that's not
the the real thing that's happening.The really consequential thing about this seat is
not the congressional seats. It's theclosed primary. And that's the part of
this whole thing that Jeff Landry,as we mentioned last week, kind of
jumped on everybody, no one hadany warnings and tried to end the open

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primary system, which has been partof Louisiana politics since the nineteen seventies.
The open primary, for those thatdon't know and living under a rock,
is everybody runs together, regardless ofparty. If no one gets fifty percent,
the top two finishes go to therunoff and a month later, and
that's what has it. The factis Republicans, Jeff Landry being one of

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them, don't like the closed primary, I mean the open primary because it
doesn't benefit always the most conservative candidate. At least that's the theory. Jeff
Landry himself lost a congressional race againstCharles Bustani for that reason. Two Republicans.
It has allowed a lot of seatsto have more competition. You have

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Republican Democratic coalitions that can elect amore moderate Democrat New Orleans Republican and Democratic
coalitions that can elect more moderate Republicans, say Jefferson or Sat Tammany. But
either way, more importantly, itis so everybody expects a lot more contention.
Here's what happened, but not behindthe scenes. Cleo Fields goes to

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the Black caucus, who is reallykind of ambivalent. They're not really for
or against the open primary. Theyreally don't care. And he said,
listen, if we do this,here's a way of solidifying African American power
in the remaining Democratic seats. Ifyou have a closed primary, the majority

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of the voters are black. Ifyou're a Democrat, if you have a
closed primary, and Republicans, themajority of voters are conservatives. Maga conservatives,
to be honest. But on theDemocratic side, if you have competitive
districts, if you have an openprimary in this New Gerrymander district. What
could happen? Well, at fiftyfour percent, it seems like it's a

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pretty solid black district. But it'snot above the realm of possibility that a
white Democrat could want in that district. If you have a black a Democrat
and a white Democrat, the whiteDemocrat could win. Even Garrett Graves might
be able to hang on in theory, but realistically you have Republicans and Democrats
can come together and get the moremoderate candidate to win. However, if

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you have a closed primary, AfricanAmericans can decide who goes into it,
and more likely than not, theblack candidate is going to win. So
one of the things that has happenedis it's taken is Fields at the very
same time he's engineering this open prime. You know, the second minority district
is at the very same time engineeringit. So only an African American can

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be the Democratic contender for this andevery other district in the state. His
stated objective, well, he's notstated this is the understated objective. He
hasn't said this publicly. He saidthis privately is to get rid of white
Democrats. Now I'm not saying thatfrom racially. It has to do with
basic when you only have Democrats voting, African Americans tend to outnumber white Democrats

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across the state. Moderates we stillhave in Louisiana, something strange called moderates.
And one of the people I wantto compliment. You may disagree with
him, but it's a Republican JoeStagne of Kenner. Joe Stagne, by
any national measurement, is anything buta rhino. He supports Trump, he

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is supports tax cuts, he supportsgo through the thing. But he's not
as outspoken, you know, afire breathing conservative. He's somebody who cares
a lot about Rhodes. He's theone responsible finally getting the flyover ramps built
to go to the airport. Imean that, you realize how much political
skill that took, kind of manymillions of dollars and he finally got it

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done. But he looked at thisand he said, you know, he
said, if you take away theability for people to vote for whichever candidate
they want, you've done two things. You have disenfranchised eight hundred thousand independents
in Louisiana. Under this proposal,independence couldn't vote in either party primary and

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efforts to require that like a penalty. If they don't allow independence to vote
in a primary. We're all shotdown in the House. But the other
part Stagne said is this is juston a basic level, quote, I
think it's a fundamentally flawed provision thisbill for our democracy. Now, partisans
love it. Jeff Landry loves that, Luis Gervich loves that, Clio Fields

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loves it. They head of aDemocratic party loves it. But we are
the last state in the South,pretty much the last state in the country
where Democrats and Republicans can work togetheracross the aisle in their partisan basis,
where it's not unusual to have bipartisancoalitions to have bills. We don't get

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government shut downs because democ Rats andRepublicans can work together across party lines.
And most importantly, you have probusiness Democrats who are saying, here's something
that for all my fellow conservatives listeningto the audience, I want you to
listen to. Louisiana is one ofthe most pro life states in the country
because you're allowed to be an AfricanAmerican who is against abortion. The leader

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of the pro life movement is KatrinaJackson, and she's not the only one.
We have pro life members of theBlack Caucus. Because of the open
primary, you have a closed primarywith just Democrats. Every pro life Democrat
is an endangered species. So forall those conservatives who are cheering Jeff Landry,
think about that for a second.What happens when the life issue is

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only a Republican issue. We'll tellyou in every state where that's happened,
it's helping kill the Republican Party andkilling the pro life cause. Because when
an African American otherwise liberal Democrat wantsto defend life, suddenly you have ation
that's able to stand up against that. When you don't have that, what
you get is bills that essentially createpro abortion policies. So this is this

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killing of the open primary. I'mhope as we tape this it is not
finally passed the legislature, but evenif it goes to the govern's desk,
I hope they think twice because thisis not good policy for the state of
Louisiana. This is one area whereLouisiana is on the has actually done something
positive. I know last week,Hi, you said, well, I
don't want a bunch of rhinos todecide who's the Republican candidate. I'm asking

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you to think about the real implicationsof Chris for no. I'm very well
aware of that, and I realizethis is a very difficult issue because it's
like damned if you do, damnedif you don't. Either way you go,
you've got problems. And that's oneof the things that makes the political
world so difficult and so confusing.You can see, folks, how this
has become a you know, almostlike a ballroom brawl, and every nobody's

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gonna win and everybody's gonna lose.So uh, it's it's very difficult for
me to uh even take a sidein this because it because it's just like
there's no clear path to decency.Let's say it's to the right thing to
do, and I can understand thevalue of both sides and why you'd want
to have it one way or theother. And I don't know, I
don't know the solution. I don'tknow that anybody has come up with a

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solution. And so here we standonce again. And that's why I'm gonna
tell you, folks, I'm sorry, you just got to hear That's why
Jesus has got to come back andstraighten up this mess on planet Earth,
because it's not just happening here inNorwegian, it's happening all around the world,
countries all around the world. They'reall in these deadlocks and these there's
chaos and confusion and can't get theiract together. And that's why the human

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race is going down unless Jesus comesback. And folks, he's coming back
soon. Christopher, Well, butI will refer you to another holy book
to me, if not to otherpeople. It's called the Federalist Papers.
We are the Founder's show, andwhen in doubt, when in doubt in
our republic, go back to whatthe founders intended. And this is my
point. In Federalists fifty one,there is a distinct warning from Madison,

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Jay and Hamilton, and it's this. The warning of faction is very clearly
defined as political parties defining the purityof vision. And when you do that,
you have faction that undermines the republicand causes people to go against each
other. What does the open primarydo. It undermines hyperpartisanship. It actually
expands public participation in the vote.The Founders people say WWJD on the bracelets.

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Well, I'm going to do anew one WWFD. What would the
founders do? And the founders wouldsupport the open primary. That's very good
point. And I remember, likeGeorge Washington, he was totally against parties.
He didn't think we should have anykind of party. Nobody listened to
him. Unfortunately. He's a verywise man and an incidentally Christopher every none
that he quotes Federalist papers. Ifyou've never read them, it's worth reading.

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It gives you a remarkable insight intowhat the mindset and the intention of
the funding follows, what they weretrying to do with the Constitution, and
you will see very powerful divine interventionthere. You will see how the foiling
follows absolutely wanted to keep God rightin the middle of government, not institutionally,
but philosophically. And when I sayGod, I mean the God of

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the Bible, the Holy Bible.They wanted that as the as a basic
plan for you know, for ourcountry. And one last thing about the
open primaries, that's really the onlyway we got our first Republican government,
conservative good governor, not not likein the days of the carpetbaggers. But
Dave Tree and I was very mucha part of that campaign. We would
never have gotten him if we didn'thave open primaries. Why the Democrats allowed

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it, I don't know. Maybeyou understand why they. I guess they
would look at that as a fatalpolitical mistake they made. But why did
they allow it? It was andit's here The story of the open primary
was Edwin Edwards was tired of runningfor office three times. He would have
to run for a primary, inthe Democratic primary, then a Democratic runoff,
then the general election, usually againstDave tren Treane. Ran three times,

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and he said, I want toget rid of this. And there's
a famous and I found out somethingthis weekend. There was a famous conference
call between Edwin Edwards, Bennett Johnson, and Lindy Box For those that don't
know history of Lindy Boggs, ofcourse, was the Congressman for New Orleans,
widow of Hail Boggs, who isMajority leader. Bennett Johnson was a
Senator, and Edwin is the governor. Edwin Edwards is trying to convince them

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to support the closed primary, tosupport the open primary, to get rid
of the close primary. And everybodyis kind of on board except Lindy and
Lindy's argument was, and I'm quoting, this will kill the Democratic Party because
people won't be required to be registeredas Democrats. They can be it.
And you know what Edwin Edwards laterin life said, in a strange sort

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of way, I was the fatherof the Republican Party by doing this.
And you know who agreed with himboth Dave Treen, who I co hosted
a radio show with for two years. He believed that Bill Nungesser, the
father the current lieutenant governor, believethat Billy nun Guests, who the current
lieutenant governor, believes that there's alot of people who believe that Louisiana would

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have probably stayed a Democratic state longenough if it weren't for the fact that
Democrats could just as easily support Republicansand follow their heart. And so for
those Republicans who are saying, youknow, we need to have it pure,
I point out to you, youmight not be in office if it
weren't for this folks anyway, speakingof God for's sake, and we got
to actually change our tune and lookat what happened in the Iowa caucuses.

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But that's after this commercial break.Wait, folks, before we go,
one last thing that I thought isalso very interesting about our jerrymander here in
Louisiana. As it turns out,it may not fix the problem that they're
trying to balance everything off. That'swhy they have jerrymandering to allow the different
political parties to have their share ofthe action, if you will, to

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allow different ethnic groups to get theirshare of the vote and all that.
But it may not even work thatway in this particular germander. I don't
know. It's very bizarre what's goingon there. So we just need to
watch and pray and hope and uhpray for divine intervention because we needed.
Folks, all right, it's timebefore you do to follow what Highest means
by that is, yes, creatingthe second district will create fifty four percent

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African American district. Guess what happensin the second congressional district, the one
that covers New Orleans, the currentblack district. It goes down from fifty
two to forty nine percent. So, in other words, in order to
create the second black district, weundermine the first black district. That's his
point. Anyway, folks, we'llbe back after these important messages. Thanks
for clarifying linker. So that's right, folks, We'll be right back.

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Donald Trump's victory in Iowa was socomplete, so massive that not only
does he go into New Hampshire withthe sixteen point lead, but people are
already talking about doctor Ben Carson ashis potential VP running man, amongst others.
All High is one of those experiencesof what actually happened and how the

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candidates fell apart. But it's alsopotentially the introduction of Joe Manchin into the
national scene. As always here inThe Founder's Show, I am Christopher Tidmore
with Chaplin, Hi McHenry and folks, there's always Chris from I working so
very hard to bring you the truth, the whole truth, and another but
the truth. And this is veryexciting caucus we've just been through. Trump's
just sad a super record like that. Maybe nobody will ever meet beat in

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the history of the Iowa caucus.That's how popular he has become. He
is got everything that's gone to bethe next great American president. Again,
for those of us that are notexactly huge Trump fans, I hate,
I got bad news for you.He's gonna be the Republican nominee. Folks
and it's pretty much a given's greatnews. We love it, I know,
and not all of us do.But let me some of us would

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prefer Nicky Haley. But I gottatell you it ain't gonna happen. And
here's why. Because Trump not onlywon Iowa, he not only dominated Iowa.
He won in ways no one expected. He won ninety eight out of
ninety nine counties, including counties hedidn't even come close to winning eight years
ago. He won urban voters bytwenty points. Now, remember Trump's supposed

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to do really well in rural areas, which he did win by thirty one
points, but not that well withurban voters. Trump supposed to do well
with high school voters, nobody expected. It's that that he won high school
educated voters by fifty one points,but he won college educated voters by nine
points. That's the constituency that's supposedto go for Nikky Halley that went for

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Donald Trump. Now, one ofa few things happened right after Trump won
visak Ramashwani, who said he wasin for the this and was gonna have
the and I'm quoting, we willshock the world tonight, the biggest upset
in the world. I guess itcame out of a whopping lag. He's
got to be one of the mostbold positive people I've ever been around in
my life. I ever heard ofmine, and I like that. And

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he's a good guy, and Iliked a lot of his policies. But
he did the right thing. Hejoined Trump. He dropped out. I'm
sorry. There's a difference that joinedTrump say it in a positive way.
He got mauled and killed and hesurrendered. Oh, I'm sorry. You
don't go into a primary and sayyou're gonna win. You're into for the
whole thing. Nothing can get youout of the race. You're gonna win

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this thing. You get six percentwhen no one thought you could win.
There's a difference between being positive andjust lying. Christopher, Welcome to the
world of politics. It's primarily allabout lying. Unfortunately. Let me give
you an interesting statistic about Iowa thata lot of people haven't covered. But
you'll hear things on the Founder Showyou don't get anywhere else. Asia Hutchinson

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was the sixth place finisher in Iowa. Former governor, very good governor of
Arkansas, and he dropped out becausein all of Iowa he got a whopping
one hundred and ninety one votes inthe whole state. He spent just over
nine hundred and twenty four thousand dollarsto get that result. Now, that
works out to four thousand, eighthundred and thirty eight dollars a vote.

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But for those that start laughing aboutthat, I point out something, don't
feel so bad, Governor Hutchinson.Ron Desantas spent one hundred and twenty three
million dollars in Iowa to get twentythree thousand, four hundred and twenty votes.
Or to put another way, hespent five thousand, two hundred and

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fifty one dollars and ninety two centsper vote to come in second place,
barely above Nikki Jeh. He's tellsfolks he knows that he's even not even
gonna's move everything from New Hampshire,South Carolina. And I guarantee you he's
not going to flow articles. Hedidn't want to be slamm dunk in his
own state. Well, and that'sthe question about Nicki Halley. Sof for
Nicki Hally to have a chance inNew Hampshire, it is very clear right

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now Ron DeSantis has to drop out. And guess what Ron DeSantis is not
dropping out, and latest poll inNew Hampshire, where looked like Nicki Halley
was in about four to six pointsbehind Trump, she's now sixteen points back.
Essentially at most of that distance ismade up by Ron DeSantis, who's

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about basically about ten or eleven points. Nicki Halley's strategy, for those that
wondered what she was doing, wasvery simple. It was based on a
strong second place in Iowa where Trumpwins. No one ever doubted Trump would
win, but he wins with fortysix forty seven percent of the vote,
which is still dominant, but it'snot the majority he got almost fifty three

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percent. Then she goes to NewHampshire, where, having been second place,
DeSantis either drops out or effectively dropsout. He's no longer a factor.
She wins New Hampshire, and shegoes to South Carolina. This was
the logic where she most Republicans havevoted for her for governor twice and says,
I'm the hometown girl, this isour state. You get to send

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a South Carolinian too the White Housevote for me. She in that theory
she could beat Trump in South Carolinaand from there on going into the March
fifth Super Tuesday, have at leasta fighting chance. Folks, that isn't
dead. That is so much ofa corpse at smelly at this point because

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she came in third. Admittedly itwas a third that was effectively a tie
with Ron de Sandis. It wasnineteen percent versus twenty one percent. It
was not a big deal, butstill its third place. DeSantis is going
into New Hampshire. Trump comes outof this looking stronger than he was before.
Independents are not seeing a reason tocome out. Nikki Hally was based

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both the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshirewhere independents can vote in the general election,
and she was based on that.So what is happening. The most
important thing that happened for the Iowacaucuses happened the day before. For those
that don't know how a caucus works, by the way, everybody goes into
a big room a auditorium, anassembly center, or a gymnasium and every

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you know, somebody speaks for eachof the candidates or rest of the theory.
One of the reasons Haley came inthird place is she didn't have a
precinct captain at every single caucus site, but they speak and then everybody votes,
and it's not uncommon for people eithernot to know who to the vote
for or to switch their votes,because it's kind of public how it happens.
None of that happened, So thereason I'm explaining that to you is

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the most important thing did not happenin organization. It was a cold,
freezing night. You had to bereally committed to your candidate to go out.
The funniest thing I saw on thewhole night, by the way,
was one lady who was interviewed byScripts Howard by the way, for New
Orleans listeners. And I shouldn't saythat on a Fox station, but there
is actually two news stations that arebroadcast over TV, so if you're on

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a cable there, one of themis one American News, which comes on
at like thirty two point two,but the other one is on forty nine
point four and it Scripts Howard Newsservice is a very good news service.
And they were interviewing the precinct captainsat like twenty three different caucus sites,
and they kept they said, whyare you supporting Donald Trump? And the
lady says, because I can't affordmy health insurance. And I think Trump

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will do something about healthcare prices,and he will regulate prescription drugs and all
the things, none of which Trumpis even part of his platform. It's
amazing how people project ideas on DonaldTrump. But that is side. The
most important thing that happened in theIowa caucus happened on the news shows the
day before. Joe Manchin got threeof the four news shows in one morning.

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A trifactor. He almost did theperfect four. He was on Meet
the Press, Face the Nation,and Fox News Sunday. Somehow he missed
Stephanopolis. Don't get me how,Anyway, the point being that he was
pretty clearly his new Organization America Together, was telegraphing he's running as the independent
candidate for president. Here's why thishappens. Despite popular opinion, Manchin doesn't

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hurt Biden as much as he hurtsTrump. And there's everybody in the Biden
administration is thinking Manchin hurts Biden morethan Trump right now if there was a
head to head contest. I don'tlike Donald Trump. I am a conservative,
I am pro life, I ampro tax cut, I am all
this despite popular opinion. I justdon't trust Donald Trump's attitude as a man.
But I say that not to getan argument to say something high is

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gonna agree with. If there's ahead to head contest right now with the
Green Party candidate still running, JoeStein who is running in several key states,
and probably you know a one ortwo on the left, the fact
is Donald Trump probably beat it.Joe Biden narrowly like Hillary Clinton, but
he beats her, beats him.We're in that kind of environment. But

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you have to understand how the coalitionsin the two parties exist, and most
people don't. The Republican Party isa smaller coalition than the Democratic Party,
but it's a more cohesive one.For those that never thought about this,
think about it this way. OfRepublican voters, there are several different camps.

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They're pro life voters, people voteon abortion and religious values issues.
There are military voters, people whovote essentially on military preparedness and national security.
They're tax cut voters, people whovote basically on reducing the size of
government reduces the size of taxation.They're regulatory voters, which are essentially people
who believe in government are trying tostop government overreach. They're not particularly as

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concerned about this. Those different camps, and there are other voters, but
those are the four primary camps.Here's the thing. Other than what except
when Tommy Tuberville held up promotions overthe abortion issue, very rarely, almost
never do the four camps have anyproblems with one another. Pro Lifers don't
really care if somebody wants to cuttaxes. They kind of like having their

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taxes cut. You know, itmay not be the biggest issue for them,
but there's no contradiction. Military peoplewho are military voters don't particularly care
about you know, environmental regulation oryou know, cutting it back. It's
the works. The Democratic Party isa bigger coalition, it has more voters
in it, but sometimes the votersgo against each other in various issues.

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The perfect example is sometimes union voterswill go against environmental activists because they're competing
essentially against each other. So sometimeshow many union voters didn't like the conversion
to electric cars because that would hurtjobs? And that happens throughout the Democratic
coalition. So how do Republicans dowell generally in most elections? This is

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pre Trump Republicans in well, whenthey had somebody who was very policy oriented,
whether he was charismatic or not,who was a living embodyment of that
believe it or not, as GeorgeW. Bush. Okay, Democrats do
really well when they have a charismaticfigure at their center who doesn't ever really
tell you what he's going to do. Who's the living embodyment of that guy

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by the name of Barack Obama.Barack Obama was all about change. Nobody
knew what the hell change he wastalking about, but he was all about
change. It was about weaponizing government, of course, for that was his
change. My point being high,that's not what he was talking about he
was talking about. He wasn't veryspecific right that. He didn't really tell
us. We all wanted, Okay, what is your change? We knew
he was a communist socialistm I know. Look, we can get back to

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the point. What is the pointof this whole Why did I give this
whole history lesson to everybody? It'svery simple, because how do Republicans win
the right House? Typically, andthis is how Trump did it. They
win two thirds of independence. Sothe Republicans are a smaller coalition, but
they don't have typically have problems witheach other. They get two thirds of
independence. It's independence tend to voteagainst whoever's in power. For the first

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time. By the way, thatdid not happen in the midterms. Independents
who voted against Trump and for Bidentended to vote against Republicans or stay home.
Now Joe Manchin drops in the race, does he affect Biden? Does
he take away votes? Maybe afew? What he takes away is independence
from Donald Trump. Now there aretwo ways of looking at this. He

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might do well enough to actually becompetitive, because rough if you really follow
the things, roughly thirty percent ofRepublicans and thirty percent of Democrats don't like
either candidate, and when you factorin independence, suddenly you have a race
that's basically a third or third athird. Is that going to happen?
Probably not. It's possible though,it's very possible, but probably not.

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If that point, then we thensuddenly states become weird. You have competitive
elections in Vermont and Massachusetts, aswell as Colorado and Louisiana. You don't
know what's going to happen. Happensis though Manchin is able to neutralize the
Republican advantage amongst independents, it's notthat a lot of Republicans will vote for

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Mansin or a lot of Democrats.It's that one change, and I do
believe in the wake of what's happened, Manchin is looking at this and saying,
I'm gonna run. If Nikki Haleyhad done better, he might not.
He might put off this decision becausehe said in those dates that he
was going to make his decision comeno later than Super Tuesday, March fifth.

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Well, at this point, what'sthe point he said he would run
if Trump was running and Biden wasrunning. Guess what Trump is going to
be the Republican nominee. Biden's gonnabe Democrats. Otherwise we wouldn't be talking
about Ben Carson being potentially Trump's choice. It's not going to be Nicki Halley,
even though she's left the door openfor that. He might get a
He might choose a woman. ChristyGnome of North Dakota is one of the

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examples. There's others who are is, but more likely not. It's not
gonna be Hally. He likes BenCarson. Carson is. You may hate
him or love him, but nobodyever accuses one of the finest neurosurgeons that
everything is being stupid. He speaksvery deliberated slowly, but that's more carefully
than anything else. A lot ofpeople are, you know, turned off

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by that. We'll see. Butthe point at all of this is it's
one of those situations where this racejust got very interesting, but not the
Republican primary. And this is whereI agree with you. If you're Ronda
Santas, you spent two hundred milliondollars to get twenty percent of the vote
in Iowa, tw one hundred twentythree million in Iowa, and you're less
than ten percent. You visited ninetynine counties and you lost out. You

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lost ninety eight of them. Imean, I understand that's how so many
times these candidates drop out because whenthe donors see that, they think we've
just thrown away a ton of moneyand we don't want to throw any more
good money behind bad So he losesa lot of his donors when they get
to this point, it's already happening. Rondasannas has now started laying off people.

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I think it's just a matter oftime. I think it happens before
South Carolina. If Nicki Hally doesn'tlose win New Hampshire, I think she's
dead. I think this race isover before we even get to South Carolin.
We'll see in the next week orso if my prediction's right, but
I do I am predicting Joe Manchinis. Anyway, I got to tell
you one little funny thing. Welike to promote events, and for those
that are listening on Friday, weplease ask you one of the finest female

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authors is coming to the Garden Districtbook Shop on January nineteenth at five thirty
pm. And of course that's MonaLisa Foster on her book Threading the Needle,
and it is one of the bestwords about a woman sniper who's coming
home from war and dealing with sortof an El Dorado situation like John Wayne
against a a corrupt corporate oligarch.You know, it's really kind of a

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great book. But another event thathappens, we're not, you know,
Despite popular opinion, the Garden DistrictBookshop is not the only place that has
great authors that come to it,just most of the great authors, but
the World War Team Museum does aswell. Author by the name of James
Conroy came. He wrote a newbook that talks about the Casablanca Conference and

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he actually played again sam For thosethat do not know, the Casa Blanca
conference is where the strategy in nineteenforty two for the war was laid out.
Almost nineteen forty three. An interestinglittle thing people don't know. Do
you know that we actually were atwar with France for two days? Yeah?
Sure, we actually fought fifteen hundredFrenchmen and fifteen hundred Americans died when

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we tried to take Casablanca. Theydidn't just go and surrender. They actually
fought us for two days. Theyhad to and they didn't want to,
but it was like their solemn duty. And they try to like to shoot
up in the air, so nothingwas well, it's not true. They
shot at Physis, we lost fifteenWe lost more people in one day than
we lost in almost the entire IraqWar. This is kind of important to

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understand that. So for those thatagain fifteen hundred, think about it,
think about the numbers the entire IraqWar. If you Iraq in Afghanistan together
were fifty three hundre people over tenyears. So it's like, you know,
in Iraq was actually a lot lessthan Afghanistan. Most people don't realize,
you know that having served there,but most people don't realize that.
But the part that was interesting thatI never understood as a student of World

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War Two who studied under Steve nAmbrose, was at the Casa Blanca conference
at this little hotel, little modernisthotel in the mill Cosa Blanca, surrounded
by Bob Wire and all the faceswas FDR and Churchill was the entire military
command of Great Britain, the UnitedStates, so George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower,

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George Patten, and Ernest King whowas the chief of Naval Operations,
along with Lord Louis Mountbatten, GeneralAlan Brook the head of the Imperial General
Staff. So all in one place, and it's where they actually got to
know each other. It's the fourthtime they met, and they planned the
strategy that ultimately led into D Day. They planned everything. So why didn't

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the Germans find out about this andbalm them and erase everybody in one day?
Because Rick knew how to keep asecret. Of course, No,
there actually was a spy. Hewas a Spanish spy. He was a
fascist from Spain who was reporting tothe Germans. And he sends a wire,
a secret wire that says FDR andChurchill meeting in Casa Blanca. But

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the guy spoke Spanish, so theGerman translator says, fdr In Churchill meeting
at the Casa Blanca. Oh,at the White House. They must be
in Washington. That's actually true.That's the only reason why the Germans didn't
take us out. They thought itwas happening in Washington. Casa Blanca,
Folks in Spanish is White House Lily, So all of this, Folks is

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based on a mistranslation. On thatnote, thank you for joining us in
the Spanish show. We'll be backafter this with the patriotic moment with this
Bengary Baba. Right after this firstdid they meet it Rick's Cafe. I
gotta tell you one of the greatestmovies ever made. If you've never seen
in Casablanca, total fiction, fantasticmovie. I love it. I can't
get over to I've played every chanceI get. It's a great, very

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romantic kind of movie. All right, folks, we'll be right back after
this break. Well, Folks,is Chappinhi, McHenry. I'm here to
tell you about our ministry, LAMBMinistries. We are an intercity ministry with
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and find out all about us.We're an inner city ministry that has done
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we're seeing it, folks. They'reno longer joining the gangs, and they're
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Henry at area code five zero fourseven two three nine three six nine and
thanks so ver vera very much.That ohs well, folks, welcome back,
and this is chaplin Hei McHenry andyou are listening to the Founder's show,
and it is not time for usto go into our chaplain. Bye

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bye, patriotic moment. We justtake a brief moment to remind you of
the biblical foundations of our country,our Judeo Christian jurisprudence. And as we
are just finishing up the celebrations ofone of the greatest Americans in our history,
Reverend Martin Luther King, I thoughtit fitting to give you a few
quotes from Martin Luther King, wholiterally had a huge impact on America,

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contributed greatly to the betterment of ourcountry. And so hear what Martin Luther
King said some oh fifty sixty yearsago, sixty some odd years ago,
if you will protest courageously and yetwith dignity and Christian love, when the
history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and

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say, they lived a great people, a Black people who injected new meaning
and dignity into the veins of civilization. He went on to say, nonviolence
is the answer to crucial political andmoral questions of our time. Oh don't
you wish people would hear that today? The need for man to overcome oppression
and violence without resorting to oppression andviolence. Man must evow for all human

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conflict and method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of
such a method is love. Boy, did he have that right? And
then here you go. If aman is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweepstreets so well that all the hosts of

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heaven and Earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who
did his job well. Folks.I sure hope I get to hear that,
and I think I will. Ithink I will hear those wonderful words
well done, thou, good andfaithful servant, as certainly Martin Luther King

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heard when he entered glory. Folks. How about you? Will you hear
those words when you pass away?We're all heading there, folks. It
is the inevitable. There's no wayout. We're all going to face that
time one day where we meet ourmaker and we cross over to the other
side. So it is not timefor us for you to learn how you
can know that you know that youknow you will hear those glorious words,

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well done, thou good and faithfulservant as you cross over into hopefully heaven.
And this is how you can noteyou will make heaven as we go
into our chaplain by by gospel moment. Folks, you know the Bible says
God loves you with an everlasting love. He loves you so much he became
a man. Can you imagine thatGod leaving glory and becoming a human being.

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And I'm talking about God, theSon, the Lord, Jesus Christ,
who was perfect God, perfect man, all the way God and all
the way man. He came tothis earth because he knew we had a
terrible love problem. We heard whatMartin Luther talked, how he focused on
love. We had a great loveproblem, folks, and it's all boiled
down to sin and death. AndGod knew we would never overcome that.

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He knew we would never be smartenough, good enough, strong enough,
loving enough, righteous enough, richenough, cool enough, whatever you think,
folks, whatever the human heart ofmine can do, he knew it
would never be good enough for hisstandards, because his standards are perfection,
and no one is perfect. Sono worries why are you trying to help

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God out? If you will?Why you're trying to be perfect? You
can't do it. The Script says, all of your righteousness as filthy rags.
So when you come to that pointin your life, when you realize
that no matter how hard you tryand how good you might be, it's
never going to be good enough,why keep trying? Why don't you just
realize you can't do it? It'simpossible. Face reality. Sometimes we just

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have to face reality. Realize thatyou'll never be good enough, smart enough,
rich enough, holy enough, greatenough, or etc. Whatever enough
to ever make heaven. No worries. You don't have to, because Jesus
did it for you. He didit for you when he died on the
cross for all of your sins.And the Bible says, as blood watched

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them all the way. And I'mtalking about from your greatest sins to your
tiniest sins, from your first sinsto your lessons, they all went on
the cross. The Bible says,Jesus was literally turned into your sin so
that he could then beat it.It literally becomes sin on your behalf,
and then turn around and give youall of his righteousness. Folks, It
can't get any better than that.If that's not a picture of love,
I don't know what is. Sohe took care of your sin problem with

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the cross. That one's gone.Now you've got one more problem death.
How do you fix that? Jesusfixed that when he rose from the dead
to win for you his precious freegift of resurrection, everlasting life. So
stop thinking that you can save yourself. That's called repentance. And now you're
free to put faith alone in Christalone. If you've never done this before,
do it right now, and doit with a faithful little chrial.

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Believe that Jesus really did die forall your sins, that he was buried,
and that he rose from the deadto win for you heaven to win
for you glory. So you'll getto meet Martin Luther King up in heaven
and others. Also, there'll bemany others up there that you'll be rejoicing
in your maybe family members who knowswho'll be there to greet you and can't
wait to see you. But folks, you got to take that free gift.

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If you don't take it, youdon't get it. And the only
thing left for you is eternal damnationof burning hell, because God will have
none of what you have in heaven. Your wickedness will still be with you,
your unbelief will be all through you. God's not let that get into
heaven. To destroy heaven. He'sgot to put you in a place where
he is not. It's called hell. Don't go there, folks. Change

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in mind right now. That's repentanceand believe that Jesus really did die for
your sins and rosam dead because hedid. Well, Now, folks,
it's time for us to go intoa new thing. We're here to introduce
a new concept in our show,a new part of our program. This
new part of our show is calledthe chaplain By by testimony time. We're

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going to still keep doing the uhWatchman on the Wall, but we're going
to alternate him. So today we'reintroducing a new message for this show,
and it's about people, folks.It's about human beings and where we're going
on what's happening. And for thefirst one, I've chosen a very old
old friend, a dear friend,a precious lady, a great lady here

(51:43):
in New Owns named Lisa Slayton.Uh. She was born and raised in
the Catholic Church, if you will, a traditional religion, and she remained
a Catholic for the rest of herlife. But she also explored and found
new things in in Christendom. Shefound simple primitive Christianity, if you will.

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She found the Bible and began tostudy it, and she loved the
Bible. She came to our Biblestudy every Monday that she was in town
for the past fifteen years. Sheowned was a co owner of the great
Christian radio station here in It's calledWSHO. But Lisa did so many things,
so many quiet things. She hada way about her. She had
a quiet reservation, but yet wasdynamic and when she said things, people

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listened. She had a way ofreaching people and reaching their hearts because she
was a great lover. She lovedpeople as God loves us. So folks,
I tipped the hat for this greatlady, Lisa Slayton. She's no
longer with us. She just passedaway. Her funeral is Friday, the
nineteenth of January and at Greenwood Cemetery, and she is going to be so

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missed. It'll be start at teno'clock in the morning, eleven o'clock.
Search for the service. Uh,folks, we are seriously lacking in this
city by the loss of this greatgal. She will be remembered and she
had a testimony that was uncanny.So now it is time for us to

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go. As we close with themone Saint Martin singing a Creole goodbye,
and God bless all out there.They call you creel goodbye. They think
we just wasted. What time meetall three sibyl There's time for a Creo goodbye.