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Louisiana Orders Ten Commandments BACK into ALL Classrooms! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: So yesterday I was on a plane and headed to
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  Speaker 1: New York and my phone started to messages sort of
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  Speaker 1: blow up with people asking me and also celebrating the
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  Speaker 1: headline that the state of Louisiana became the first state
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  Speaker 1: to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public classrooms. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there were a lot of people that were sending me
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  Speaker 1: messages that were just straight up and its celebrating, saying
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  Speaker 1: we should do this, or I want to do this,
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  Speaker 1: or we need to do this, or demand to do
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  Speaker 1: this in my state. Right whether the messages were coming
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  Speaker 1: from people in California or New York or Tennessee, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't really matter.
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  Speaker 2: It was all over with its excitement.
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  Speaker 1: Let me start by dialing back the excitement and be
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  Speaker 1: a realist. There's two options when I come on this show.
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  Speaker 1: I can either lie to you and sell you a
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  Speaker 1: bill of goods about something that's so excited in a
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  Speaker 1: great step forward, or I can be honest with you
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  Speaker 1: about the reality of what is happening. I think the
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  Speaker 1: majority of you listen because you want not a cheerleader.
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  Speaker 1: You want someone to explain is this going to work?
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  Speaker 1: And what are the other side of this? That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm always going to do. I'm never gonna come on
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  Speaker 1: here and I call it cheap radio, cheap talk where
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  Speaker 1: you come on here and I get you all fired
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  Speaker 1: up over something and I know that it's pretty much
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  Speaker 1: a waste of time and worthless and isn't going to
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  Speaker 1: actually happen. That is called cheerleading shows. I'm never going
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  Speaker 1: to do that to you. I'm gonna be honest. So
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  Speaker 1: let me just start with a reality check here. This
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  Speaker 1: is not going to stand. This will be overturned. This
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  Speaker 1: will come down to the separation of church and state,
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  Speaker 1: and it will be overturned. Do I like that it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be overturned? Let me also clarify that, of
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  Speaker 1: course not. I would love to return to a time
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  Speaker 1: in this country where we have prayer in school. I
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  Speaker 1: wish we would go back in time where we had
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  Speaker 1: a safe country where your kids could play outside and
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  Speaker 1: you didn't have to worry about them being abducted.
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  Speaker 2: I would love to live in a country.
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  Speaker 1: Where we didn't have twenty plus million illegal immigrants flooding
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  Speaker 1: this country. I would love to I would love to
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  Speaker 1: have the safety of communities. I'd love to go back
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  Speaker 1: to time we actually used the death ponally appropriately in
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  Speaker 1: this country. We so have it, but we never use
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  Speaker 1: it anymore. It's pretty much worthless this country. There are
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  Speaker 1: certain parts of our history in the past that I
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  Speaker 1: understand are exactly that our past. We're never going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get back there because of the radical
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  Speaker 1: left now here is the reason why I say this
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  Speaker 1: is not going to stand. Number one, because of separation,
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  Speaker 1: interurgent state. You're never going to get this to hold up,
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  Speaker 1: and the ACLU is already suing and losing it, and
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  Speaker 1: they're going to win. The second problem with if you do,
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  Speaker 1: in fact get a quote poster size copy of the
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  Speaker 1: Ten Commandments in the classroom, which is the new requirement
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana to be displayed in every public school classroom in
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  Speaker 1: Louisy and under a bill signed alaw on Wednesday, if
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  Speaker 1: you get this and it happens and it's stuck, then
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have another problem down the road.
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  Speaker 2: What about if they decide in another.
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  Speaker 1: State or a city to post another religious text which
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  Speaker 1: goes against what you believe in which the majority of
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  Speaker 1: you listening, I'm assuming, believe in the Ten Commandments. What
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  Speaker 1: if you're in Utah they passed where they demand that
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  Speaker 1: there must be writings from the Mormon Church. And you're
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  Speaker 1: out there as a taxpayer, and your kid is going
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  Speaker 1: to school and you don't believe, and you're not a Mormon, right,
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  Speaker 1: would you be okay with that? Let's say that you're
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  Speaker 1: up in Minneapolis, Saint Paul. There's a very good chance
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  Speaker 1: there they could pass the Quran must be posted or certain,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever their commandments are. They could have a
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  Speaker 1: list that they decide to post in the schools there. There.
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  Speaker 2: This is a very show arp double edged sword.
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  Speaker 1: Now you go back when we had prayer in school,
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  Speaker 1: The prayers were not to Allah, Okay, the prayers were
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  Speaker 1: not to some weird religion or Satanism. Okay that it
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  Speaker 1: was very universal. Everybody when we had prayer in school
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, understood that we were praying to God.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: There was a uniformity in the morals in this country
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  Speaker 1: like we will never ever ever have again. So if
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  Speaker 1: you allow for something like this to now happen in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, you better be ready for the other
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  Speaker 1: side of this incredibly sharp sword. When all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden you see a headline which says in Minnesota, for example,
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  Speaker 1: or New York for example, or California for example, that
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna have you know, in this school district that
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna have commandments in Wicca, commandments of Satanism,
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  Speaker 1: commandments to the Book of Mormon, right, and Jesah Smith
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  Speaker 1: like that, like this is going to this this we
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  Speaker 1: will explode with what I would refer to as revenge religion. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want the Quran posted in the public schools,
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  Speaker 1: and I think you would agree with me. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to go back to the excitement around Louisiana
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  Speaker 1: for a moment, we can do that. I love the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Louisiana is saying to the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: country that we are going to be a state that
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  Speaker 1: is based in family and Christian values, not the Quran, right,
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  Speaker 1: not any other religion, not Satanism. But Louisiana said very
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  Speaker 1: clearly that they're going to be the first state to
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  Speaker 1: successfully pass legislation requiring the display of the Ten Commandments
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  Speaker 1: in public class rooms, including state funded universities.
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  Speaker 2: Since the Supreme Court voted.
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  Speaker 1: Five four to banish the Tendants from America's classrooms in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, Efforts to restore the Commandments to public schools
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  Speaker 1: are active in other states, including Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah.
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  Speaker 1: Remember I mentioned Utah. There you go, although none so
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  Speaker 1: far have been successful. The bill outlines that no state
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  Speaker 1: funding is to be used to place the Ten Commandments
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  Speaker 1: into the public school classrooms. Rather, schools may accept donation
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  Speaker 1: funds to purchase displays or accept donated displays.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're going to get those, that's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be a problem.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be churches and religious groups and people
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  Speaker 1: that want the pr and there's going to be elected
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  Speaker 1: officials that are going to want to playoff religion to
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  Speaker 1: get you to like them and vote for them and
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  Speaker 1: support them. So also understand that aspect of this, like
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  Speaker 1: this is very much.
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  Speaker 2: A political play.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I am going to be a little cynical for
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  Speaker 1: a second, and then I'll go back to some more
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  Speaker 1: excitement for you.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to understand why this happens.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, the elected officials, including Governor Landry down there, they know,
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  Speaker 1: and they've been briefed by their lawyers that this is
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  Speaker 1: not going to stand. They've been brief that this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be expensive to defend, and it's.
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  Speaker 2: Going to cost a lot of taxpayers dollars.
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  Speaker 1: They're willing to do it to send a message to
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  Speaker 1: their supporters and to the church community that I am
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  Speaker 1: your guy, that I am your person, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to fight for our Christian values. And so there is
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  Speaker 1: some value in that when you're running for election or
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  Speaker 1: running for reelection, right, this is an approval rating move.
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  Speaker 1: And what they've done in the polling down there in
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  Speaker 1: louisiing as I'm sure they've said, okay, do and would
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  Speaker 1: the majority of voters, specifically Republican voters and undecided, would
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  Speaker 1: they be in favor would they be against having the
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  Speaker 1: Ten Commandments in schools? And overwhelmingly that is going to
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  Speaker 1: show that Republicans are going to say yes to that question.
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  Speaker 1: They're also going to see that there's been a shift
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  Speaker 1: with independent voters.
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  Speaker 2: So this is.
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  Speaker 1: A exercise in basically building a foundation for why people
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  Speaker 1: like you and the conversations that are gonna take place
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I sure do like that new governor Landry. Do
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  Speaker 2: you see what he did?
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  Speaker 1: He gave us some Ten Commandments back in the schools
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  Speaker 1: and then then liberal you know what them wastards out there,
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  Speaker 1: they fought it and you know, went to spring Court
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  Speaker 1: and we lost.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, at least I know my governor is
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  Speaker 2: a Christian. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's the conversation they're hoping takes place. They're hoping that
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  Speaker 1: mothers will be like you know, I you know, I've
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  Speaker 1: been tired and put out with politicians.
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  Speaker 2: But I tell you what. You know, them voting and
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  Speaker 2: them deciding to put the Ten Commandments back in schools,
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  Speaker 2: how will you?
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's a way to get out the vote,
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  Speaker 1: but you have to understand, it doesn't mean it's gonna stand.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean it's gonna actually happen.
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  Speaker 1: And so I again, I come on here, and I
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  Speaker 1: tell you I would love to go back to a
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  Speaker 1: time where this country believed in the in God and
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is your Lord and savior.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we're ever going to get back there.
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  Speaker 1: And if you open up this can of worms, now,
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  Speaker 1: you have to be prepared for the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the sword. And there's gonna be a lot of kids
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  Speaker 1: that may be looking at the Commandments of Allah on
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  Speaker 1: the wall in certain areas of the country because there
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  Speaker 1: is going to be revenge over this move.
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  Speaker 2: In Louisiana. It will happen. Look, you can.
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  Speaker 1: Get excited about the Ten Commandments, no doubt, but then
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  Speaker 1: there's reality. There are empty promises that are made all
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  Speaker 1: the time by politicians on both sides of the aisle.
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  Speaker 1: This story completely underrelated, but it's a perfect example of
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  Speaker 1: empty promises, right like so that you'll just get excited.
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  Speaker 1: You may remember that a couple of years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: this was a really big deal, and I think it
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  Speaker 1: was twenty twenty one, Joe Biden came out and he
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  Speaker 1: said there's gonna be We're gonna spend forty two billion
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  Speaker 1: to get high speed internet for all Americans. And there
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  Speaker 1: was this was like a really really high polling issue,
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  Speaker 1: no different than the Ten Commandments is. And if you
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  Speaker 1: ask the majority of Americans, especially if you go back
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one you think about COVID and everything else,
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  Speaker 1: there were an awful lot of people, I mean a
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  Speaker 1: significant number of people that wanted access to high speed internet.
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  Speaker 1: And they saw this in the polling, and so what
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  Speaker 1: they did was they came out, They're like, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do this.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna do this, We're gonna give We're.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna spend forty two billion dollars on a high speed
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  Speaker 1: internet plan so that all Americans will have access to
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  Speaker 1: high speed internet, and everybody cheered.
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  Speaker 2: It was a no brainer.
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  Speaker 1: You ask Americans, so they want high speed internet availability
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  Speaker 1: in their area? Of course it pulls it probably, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, ninety plus percent, right, of course, Like who's
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  Speaker 1: gonna say no to that. Everybody's going to be excited
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  Speaker 1: about that. Everybody's gonna want that. So we did it well. Now,
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  Speaker 1: an FEC commissioner has confirmed yes. In fact, in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, the Biden administration did play edge forty two
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  Speaker 1: point four to five billion from Congress to deploy high
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  Speaker 1: speed internet to millions of American That was in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Years later, in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, it is not connected even one person to
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  Speaker 1: high speed internet with those funds. In fact, it now
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  Speaker 1: says that no construction projects will even start until twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five at the earliest. Now, this senior member of
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  Speaker 1: the Federal Communications Commission is blaming the Biden administration for
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  Speaker 1: in fact slowing down the plan to bring internet access
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  Speaker 1: to rule parts of the country, despite spending tens of
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars on the project. According to the Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: car President Brden's Infrastructure Investment in Jobs Act aka the
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  Speaker 1: Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill promise high speed broadband connection to millions
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  Speaker 1: of Americans. Three years later, the administration has yet to
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  Speaker 1: spend those funds on even one single person to get
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  Speaker 1: the high speed Internet. Now, internet obviously has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with the Ten Commandments. What it does have everything
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  Speaker 1: to do with is the empty promise here. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna make it clear and say this. I love to
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  Speaker 1: see that people are fighting for faith. I love to
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  Speaker 1: see that people are fighting in a in a real,
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  Speaker 1: real way for getting some sort of morals and values
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  Speaker 1: into our schools. I love that there are people that
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  Speaker 1: understand that taking prayer out of school okay, was a
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  Speaker 1: bad thing, but putting it back in the way that
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  Speaker 1: we would have to do it would then open up
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  Speaker 1: for the for those that hate Christians, for those that
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  Speaker 1: are in other religions. Could be Wicca in one school,
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  Speaker 1: could be Satanism, another could be Mormonism. In another, could
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  Speaker 1: be that the list goes on the Quran and another.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you had the rules of Allah
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  Speaker 1: on the wall in your public school, you'd be pretty mad,
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  Speaker 1: right like you'd be pretty upset about it. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the point that people need to comprehend. That's the point
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  Speaker 1: that people really, really really need to understand.
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  Speaker 2: These are real issues.
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  Speaker 1: I would love for this to be successful, and you
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  Speaker 1: can get excited about it, but I'm telling you it
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  Speaker 1: is not going to happen the way that people are
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  Speaker 1: implying that's going to happen. There's also workarounds, So let
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  Speaker 1: me just deal with one of those real quick. There
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  Speaker 1: are people are saying, well, the build they did it
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  Speaker 1: the right way because there's no state funding that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be used to place these Ten Commandments in the
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  Speaker 1: public schools. So that's how you're gonna get around church
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  Speaker 1: and state. No, it won't, Okay, it just won't. I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you it won't. Quote Dean Young, who helped do
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  Speaker 1: some of this, he said, quote I'm going to organize
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  Speaker 1: an effort and we will fund it.
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  Speaker 2: So there's gonna be people that make money off of this.
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  Speaker 1: Right, they're gonna go out there and tell you, oh, donate,
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna take money, and it's gonna go to these
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  Speaker 1: organizations and donate to the to these ten Commandments that
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be put up and then immediately taken down
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  Speaker 1: when the courts say no.
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  Speaker 2: Young, right, who just got his name out there.
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  Speaker 1: Dean Young is a Christian activist who has worked for
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  Speaker 1: thirty years to restore the Ten Commandments of classrooms across
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America. And in thirty years he's
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  Speaker 1: done it zero times until now, basically, and this one
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  Speaker 1: will be undone as well. But this is how you
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  Speaker 1: raise money. You go to Christians, you go, I won't
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  Speaker 1: get the Ten Commandments back in that classroom.
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  Speaker 2: I need you write me a check. And this guy
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  Speaker 2: has made a living.
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  Speaker 1: For thirty years selling people on something that is that
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  Speaker 1: he can sell them on their faith and their emotions
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  Speaker 1: not based in reality. Quote, there will be a Ten
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  Speaker 1: Commandments for every single classroom Louisiana, at LSU, at every college,
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  Speaker 1: and it will be funded, Young continued, which Wyay said
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to happen. The bill points to more recent
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  Speaker 1: decisions by the Supreme Court finding that the Ten Commandments
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  Speaker 1: have historical significance, is one of the foundations of our
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  Speaker 1: legal system and represent a common cultural heritage. The bill
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  Speaker 1: further states that recognizing the historical role of the Ten
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  Speaker 1: Commandments accords with our nation's history and faithfully reflects the
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  Speaker 1: understanding of the founders of our nation with respect to
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  Speaker 1: the necessity of civil morality to a functioning self government.
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  Speaker 1: That is the headline from him, and I love that.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean it's going to happen. Don't be sold
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  Speaker 1: a bill of goods that is never going to happen
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  Speaker 1: because politicians want it for polls, and both sides do this.
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  Speaker 2: That's the takeaway from this.
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  Speaker 1: Let me also move to this and the Ten Commandments.
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  Speaker 2: Let me let me start all over. Let me just
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  Speaker 2: start over, rephrase this.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be clear that I would love to
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  Speaker 1: live in a country that we had uniformity and values
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  Speaker 1: and faith and religion. I pray that we get back
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  Speaker 1: there organically in some capacity at some point. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: never going to tell you that we're going to fix
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  Speaker 1: this country by doing something that I know will not stand.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a reason why over the last thirty years,
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  Speaker 1: no other school has been able to get the Ten
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  Speaker 1: Commandments to stay. And there is Pandora's box if you
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  Speaker 1: get the Ten Commandments back, because you've lost the country
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  Speaker 1: where we have one generic belief in God. So every
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  Speaker 1: other religion is going to get a shot at that classroom,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the Pandora's box that will never, in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, go way at least on in my lifetime,
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  Speaker 1: not based on the trends and not based on what
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing. Some of you are gonna be probably upset
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  Speaker 1: with me for telling you the truth on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Just watch what happens. The ACLU is.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna raise millions and millions of dollars off of this
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  Speaker 1: case to to then go after Louisiana and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: defend it and it's gonna get a bunch of headlines.
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  Speaker 1: And then the politicians Louisiana, they're gonna be like, when
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  Speaker 1: we're defending this in the court, and then they're gonna get overturned.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna yell about that and complain, and then they'll
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  Speaker 1: be on the record going, well, at least we tried,
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  Speaker 1: and there's somebody would say, well, you should try, and
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a fair point.
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  Speaker 2: But it's gonna cost the taxpayers a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: But the Ten Commandments, unfortunately, are not gonna stay up
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  Speaker 1: in Louisiana. I wish I was wrong, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I really really do, but it's not gonna stand. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let me get to another subject that's important, and that
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  Speaker 1: is we are getting some new polling after the conviction
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  Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. Now, we had national polling that came
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  Speaker 1: out after the after he quote became a fellon in
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  Speaker 1: New York City, right and found guilty on all the
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  Speaker 1: what was it thirty four counts?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: And and and national polling right now doesn't matter to me.
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  Speaker 1: I care about state polling and swing state polling, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what you should care about. I talk about this
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  Speaker 1: every present election cycle since I don't know, I was
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: twelve years old, and I don't care about national polls.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: National polls will.
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  Speaker 1: Give you a trend if there's something changing, and I
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: know what the trend is. There's a lot of Americans
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: that don't look at Joe Biden the same way they
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: did four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great trend.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it's going to
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: come down to states, because we don't popular vote is
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: completely worthless in this country.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: It means nothing.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: They're people that have won the popular vote loss just
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: people that have lost popular vote and won it. All
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: is comes down to the electoral college. So what I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: care about is what the polls do after a case
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: like that in New York and in swing states. Well,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: we now have some data on that, and I want
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to give you one of those states which I'm extremely
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: excited about. Arizona has been a state where Donald Trump
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: has been behind Joe Biden. Is a weird political state
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: right now because you have a lot of infighting within
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party, the old school establishment Republicans there that
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: are the John McCain Republicans. They don't like people like,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: for example, Cary Lake. They don't like that she kept,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: you know, suing to try to become the senator or
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the governor.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: You know, there's there's last time.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Now she's running for Senates, like, but she hadn't dropped
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the lawsuit, and it's just it's gotten it's gotten dirty.
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  Speaker 1: I I like Cary, She's very polarizing. We had dinner
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: a couple of nights actually out in Las Vegas at
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a event not that long ago. And and I like
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: her her brand. I like how she's a fighter. But
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: it has turned off some voters. And so ultimately it's
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: going to come down to do the voters like Donald
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Trump in Arizona. Well, this new poll out has Trump
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  Speaker 1: leading Biden in Arizona in a post jury conviction former
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: p as a Donald Trump leading Joe Biden the swing
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: state of Arizona. A recent survey from Rasmusen reveals. The
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: survey asked respondents quote, if the twenty twenty four president
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  Speaker 1: election were held today, and the candidates were Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: and former President Donald Trump, who would you vote for?
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  Speaker 1: Very simple question, very straightforward, like it. Forty seven percent
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: of likely voters said they would support Trump. Now you
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: may say, well, that's not good, it's not above fifty. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: the second half forty percent said the same of Biden.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: That's a seven point difference. The difference of seven percentage
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: point in a head to head matchup is massive. Another
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: nine percent say they remain undecided. Notably, independents are split
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: between Trump and Biden, and this matters more than any
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: other aspect of the poll in swing state. So the
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: independent voters are what swing the state. Independent voters are
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: split between Trump and Biden a head to head matchup,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: with each candidate garnering thirty nine percent support and another
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: seventeen percent remaining undecided. Now what does that mean? In translation?
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: It means, look right now, if there's an election in Arizona.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I think Trump would win just because of the forty
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: seven to forty starting point. I don't think that the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: majority eighty percent are going to break the other way
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that are undecided for Joe Biden. What it also means
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: is it's still very much up in the air. Now.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: If the election was today, I think Trump would win.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: It.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Can that change by November? You better believe it. Now.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Here's the other caveat of this poll.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: And this is going to be an important polling aspect
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that you need to pay attention to no matter where
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you are right now listening to me. When third party
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: candidates including Independent Kennant Robert F. Kennedy Junior, Independent Kennet
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Cornell West, and Green Party Kennant Jill Stein are added
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to the mix, Trump still leads the pack with forty
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: one percent support to Biden's thirty seven percent support. Now,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: notice how that that changed significantly. We went from a
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: seven point lead down to a four point lead with
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the with all the independent candidates coming in because a
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: lot of independent voters will cast votes for third party
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: type cannants, Green party candidates you know Cornell West or
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: or RFK Junior as a protest vote, saying I'm unhappy
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: with both of the establishment canditts. I'm unhappy with Trump,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I'm happy with Biden. So I'm going to vote, but
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna vote in protests, and I'm going to pick
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: one of these other three. A difference of four percentage
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: points is a lot, but also not that much when
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you're months away. Another ten percent go for Kennedy, followed
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: by two percent for West and one percent for Stein.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: What this means is and this is my worry early
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: on about RFK Junior, who I also had dinner with
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: not that long ago, and he concerns me because the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: guy's a hardcore radical lefty, but he's been able through
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: some issues like vaccine mandates, he's been able to get
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the eyes of conservative voters to start looking at him.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: This is a guy that hates, for example, the Second Amendment,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: wants to take away all of your guns.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: He set it publicly for years and years and years.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: This is a guy that believes the government should pay
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: for your interest rate if it's above I think it
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: was three percent nationwide, so we should have full blown
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: government subsidized housing in this country.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: That is socialism. Terrifies me.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Now, the survey, taken among seven hundred and fifty likely
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Arizona voters, was taken a significant amount of time all
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: right after the Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the thirty four counts in his controversial business records trial.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: That's good news because now it's.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Really set in and the reality is set in with voters,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and they don't seem to be moved by the conviction
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: of New York. I think they believe it is a
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: witch hunt, even those that are on the left. No,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: it was political in nature. Now, several other state level
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: surveys examining the race in battleground states, even traditionally blue
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: states such as Minnesota, and this is also important, showed
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Trump edging out Biden in the post jury verdict, suggesting
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: that the establishment media and their strategy to use law
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: fair to tank the former president is not working the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: way they.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Were hoping that it would.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: For example, a Mitchell Research MIRS News survey poll examining
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the race in Michigan, and Michigan is a is a
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: liberal state.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: It's not conservative.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: It's a swing state, yes, but it leans consistently more liberal.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Taken June third, days after the jury verdict showed Trump
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: edging out Biden a head to head matchup by zero
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: point six percent. Now you add in those other candidates,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and let's be honest, Trump probably loses. Okay, when the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: third parties were included, Trump lead is still within the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: margin of era. It actually goes up, which is interesting,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: but it's still too close at one point two percent.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Now that is significant there as Biden took the state
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty by less than three percent, so it's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: a it's a four point two percent swing since the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: last election cycle. You look at this Michigan polan, it's
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: very much within the margin of era. They have head
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to head forty eight, forty forty eight to forty seven,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: not even it's even close to that. So let me
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: give you the desk after the decimal. Trump is pulling
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: at forty eight point two, Biden at forty seven point six.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: So that is that's a flip a coin. And when
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I flip a coin and it's in a democratic state,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to break for the Democrat when
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it's that close, because it's a democratic state.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Here's the interesting part. You go back to what I said.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: When you add in the third party, candidates Trump forty
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: six point three, Biden forty five point one.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: RFK is at three point three.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So in Michigan, RFK on the ballot actually help Donald Trump,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: whereas in other states we're finding out that it actually doesn't.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: What this tells me is the.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Conviction did not give the Democrats what they wanted, what
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: they were desperately needing. That's the most important part here,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And if the president can continue to stay focused on
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the issues, then we're going to be in very good
• 26:23
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