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Today we say bye to the Washington Redskins and hello to the washington football team. Our good friend Brad thor stops by to talk about his new book, Near Dark, and speaks with Glenn about a bizarre claim from the left that donald trump is trying to slowly move towards martial law.
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hey it's pat gray for stew coming up on the glenn beck program podcast today we say bye-bye to the
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washington redskins and hello to the washington football team quite a ring to it huh uh our good
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friend brad thor stops by to talk about his new book near dark and speaks with glenn about this
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bizarre claim from the left that donald trump is trying to slowly move towards martial law
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who would have thought that in the year 2020 out of all the craziness we've seen so far that a state
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would want to secede huh glenn speaks with michael mccarter president of greater idaho that's a
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movement that's trying to move the oregon border to be part of greater idaho we discuss whether or
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not that's even possible and finally charlemagne the god speaks out against joe biden wow telling
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him to shut up for calling president trump the first racist president all of this greatness and
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a lot more coming up on the podcast you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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so did you watch opening day baseball yesterday i did not
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i was going to then i decided no i'm too tired i'm going to bed so i went to bed oh good for you yeah
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for you well you missed every player and coach on the yankees and nationals kneel before the
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national anthem yeah i saw it this morning i saw a clip of it that was beautiful that was beautiful but
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it was before the national anthem so i did appreciate that they did it before not during
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right yeah yeah well i mean they've got all the creativity now of you know the washington i'm sorry
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i was going to say the washington race at the uh washington football team right
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yeah good god what a stupid are you kidding me that's what you've come up with and i know it's
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only temporary but that's even that's stupid even temporarily yes it is the washington football team
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plus you've ignored maybe the worst part the washington you're gonna you're gonna call the
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team after a slave owner how is that possible thank you right they should just be called football team
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and then their jersey should say kill the cops i mean that's what america's all about that's what
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america's that's what america's begging for oh yeah just football team and kill the cops
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i think that's a really good one um so did you did you see the the uh ad from fox sports can we play
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this you read the title cards you know in that sportscaster voice that you do here's the uh here's
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and they're showing the digital fans are putting in the wow
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he's got him i mean he had him at hello they had you at hello didn't they yeah they did they had you
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it hello it's probably better than leaving the stadium empty it probably is and you know no empty
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no it's just training us to stay at home they're just training us to stay at home and everything is
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normal this is not normal you know at least in uh in england uh the or i think in europe the soccer
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stadiums are empty too but they're filling them with people like osama bin laden yeah yeah the
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card cutouts i mean i think that's that's actually funny i kind of like that well you
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couldn't you couldn't get away with that here though people would go
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ape crap over that right i mean you why did you use the word why did you use the word ape
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yeah oh my gosh the wow we were just talking about the washington redskins
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and then nothing to do with the washington redskins
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oh now talking baseball if i'm not mistaken but uh
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wow i offensive was that america heard it yeah it was very offensive to me i'm apologizing to
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myself for even listening to you i i'm sorry glenn that you listened to him and and uh you forced
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me to listen and i'm i apologize it's okay it's okay just don't let it happen again i won't okay
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all right so we're uh we're good with that um you really like the uh i like it better than an
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empty stadium yeah i mean i would i rather have real people in the stadium yeah but i like it
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better than an empty stadium with no so in other words you're fine you're totally fine with the
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coronavirus and and the hoax and the yes that's i'm sure that's what america is hearing right now
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yes i'm totally fine with this new normal this new normal is good for me let's keep it going guys
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i'm good yeah yeah let's go i could we could have virtual businesses and virtual restaurants and i'm
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good just uh you know hook me up to the matrix now that's exactly what i just said i don't like it
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i know i know we heard it yeah racist uh the uh the problem is is i don't like the normalization
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of everything well yeah i know that i guess i guess i hadn't thought of it that way that that
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we're normalizing but i i just want a feeling of normal during this time i know that's exactly what
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happens in a in a marxist revolution you don't care anymore you just want it to stop and you want
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it to go back to normal and uh so i understand it it's just something that you pat have been been
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by my side uh helping research and and and warning people when we get there don't do that yeah but
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it's okay in sports it's fine in sports you just need it right okay all right no i no i get it i get it
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hey it's glenn and you're listening to the glenn beck program if you like what you're hearing on
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this show make sure you check out pat gray unleashed it's available wherever you download
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your favorite podcasts so there is a movement uh now you know when trump first got into office
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there were all these liberals who were like i ride the 10th amendment i love the 10th amendment
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oh i thought it was racist no it's a way for us to be able to control our state
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hmm yeah it kind of makes sense and then we started seeing the insanity of many of these states and
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covid has only made it worse well michael mccarter uh started something move oregon's border for a
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greater idaho uh because eastern oregon residents uh are sick to death of of portland and all of the
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things that are going on with their state and they would like to join idaho is that even possible it
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hasn't happened since uh virginia seceded and uh many of the people in virginia went to a place we
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now know as west virginia that happened uh during the civil war because of uh because of slavery
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we now have michael on with us hello michael how are you good morning from crazy oregon
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it is i mean i i grew up in the pacific northwest michael so i i know about cascadia and everything else
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it's been crazy for a long time but this is dangerous crazy now in oregon well you know glenn
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this this is not something that just started recently oregon's been going downhill for years
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and in watching everything that's taking place we started last fall organizing move oregon's border
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for greater idaho and then the pandemic hit and then you know the uh riots hit and stuff and it just
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supports our decision we don't have any faith in oregon's leadership at all period um there are there
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are there are great parts of california and oregon that feel the same way i mean upstate new york is
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is like this um uh but is there first of all have you talked to idaho is idaho interest are they
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taking your phone calls yes they are uh we've had some really good response from some of the
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representatives but you know i think there's a lot of people that are sitting on the sidelines just
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watching this waiting to see what the vote's like and whether or not it uh you know it's going to
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gain traction we're we're so who are the people that who are the people that are in and how much
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land are you talking about these are generally farmers and i looked at the map and there's a lot
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of national forest in there so how many people how much land and who are those people well basically
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you're talking to you know in a lot of cases second third fourth fifth generation oregonians that have
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an attachment to the land they're not transitional people that move up and down the west coast
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buy a house live there three years sell it and move on these are people that have their roots
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in in this state and um you know they are they are they are right now they're ranchers they're like you
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say farmers that are out there and they they basically align themselves closer with idaho's
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conservative values than with what's going on in northwest oregon but you know northwest oregon's
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got about 75 percent of the population base and the votes and with that vote they control what they want
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to do no matter what we say or ask or try to input on they don't care so michael i am in i'm in idaho
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right now and by the way i i am not a permanent resident in idaho in idaho so i don't have voting
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rights but i would vote to get you in because you have uh oceanfront property which i think is very nice
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but uh right now in idaho they're trying to get rid of their governor and recall him because even
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though he's a republican they think that he has gone way too far idaho except for the boise area
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uh which is about 800 000 people is is is they're ranchers and they're farmers and they're people who
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have lived here forever and they're common sense and they even think that boise controls everything
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and nobody's listening to to the people in the rest of the state the exact same way that
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upstate new yorkers feel new york city is different yes well you know the the vote in oregon over 75
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percent of the vote is in the portland metro willamette valley and so they control the whole works
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and um there's some resistance in idaho about us you know they don't want more people moving there
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in the liberal values moving there uh and and we agree but eastern central and southern oregon is
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over 65 percent conservative so we want to boost that conservative value that you see in idaho right
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now we don't want to change it at all we don't want to move our property to idaho it's simply a lot
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by an adjustment between two states right we align ourselves and it can go ahead it can be done it
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it hasn't been done since uh the 1800s but it can be done however when you have the vote um on this
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you're you're trying to raise enough signatures as as i understand it maybe i'm wrong to get it onto
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the ballot and if you get it onto the ballot do the people in portland and uh you know eugene do they
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have to agree to i mean because they have more people than you do so you're destined to lose if they
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are voting for it well we're taking this county by county in central eastern and southern oregon
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we want to hear what the county citizens think about this and it's we're trying to get that question
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a question on the ballot for the november election do we want our um county commissioners to start
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working towards the possibility of moving their county to a county of idaho now if all 17 counties
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come out in favor of that or one by one as we get them approved by the number of signatures
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then it goes to the state legislature and then the battle really begins but it is it is possible for it
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to take place i mean who would have thought years ago 2015 that donald j trump would become the
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president of the united states who would have thought except for maybe people in oregon that
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uh socialist and marxist would be running uh a city and a state in the united states and openly doing it
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oh well let's go back 20 some years to governor morris he says come visit but don't stay he had that
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vision that we don't want those liberal policies up here in oregon we are we are a free independent
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state well right now it's kind of like the west west coast california oregon and washington
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on the west are all tied together and it's uh it doesn't sit well with us by far yeah so yeah we
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want to see what that vote is like and this this election coming up is a major election in november
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it only happens once in every four years that's why we're pushing to get on that ballot county by county
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then it goes to the are you how close are you to that well in in we've got uh one county positive
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one county at 98 percent of their signatures and several more lined up right behind that
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with enough signatures but under covid19 lockdown kate brown it is extremely hard to go out and get
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signatures i mean right you know people are just you know walk up with a mask on and grab some pin
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and try to sign on the clipboard yeah it's hands off i i do know i can't remember which state it was
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but there was they were trying to put something on the ballot and they went to court um and made the
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case that they can't they can't get that number of signatures uh because of covid19 and the court did
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reduce the amount of signatures that were required and i it just happened the last few days and i don't
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remember what state it was um but you might want to look into that um because it is hard to get that
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many federal court we filed a federal court good already for that same reason and we're not saying
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that people are wrong we we filed against the governor the secretary of state and all of the county
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clerks in these counties and it's saying okay i mean common sense that the lockdown of covid19
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has is restricting the ability to get the number of signatures of course it is right so we're asking
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for some relief on that just like these other cases have so it's in the courts right now here
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um and uh you've got a good judge do you know the judge yet yes we do we we filed june 30th we've got
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a august 5th deadline to get all these signatures in county by county and so we've we filed for relief
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to reduce the number of signatures required and to extend that date to allow us to get more signatures
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again uh it was denied the first time and so we refiled two days ago a motion uh i i i do see the
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map of uh oregon and it is it reduces it almost to the size of what maybe a couple of rhode islands
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maybe one rhode island pat have you seen this this map yeah idaho's huge uh under this plan
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and uh oregon's just a teeny little sliver so yeah yeah idaho becomes much bigger than washington
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state much right right now a lot of the counties in eastern oregon um are revenue negative counties
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for the state if the state of oregon removes those counties from their budgets all of a sudden
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they've got a lot of money they can put into their liberal social program nice i like that now
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you should probably keep that to yourself when you're trying to convince idaho
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how are you going to convince idaho when you've used that uh with oregon yeah but i think idaho looks at
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those counties in a different way they're timber friendly all of a sudden like you say they have
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a deep water port in coos bay yeah where where are all the products from idaho going to ship through
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to go out to the pacific rim they're going to come across no it's it's going to be a boom economically
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yeah it would be it would be um all right well uh best of luck and will you stay in touch with us
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and tell us how it's going and if there's anything we can do to help uh because i i just think it's
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wrong california is in the same situation to where there are all those farm farms uh and farmland in
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california they're not being listened to they don't have any real representation uh and they're sick of it
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and quite honestly i think they should be allowed to uh to carve out uh their own their own representation
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we're being controlled now by the big cities absolutely absolutely if i can say anything more
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glenn i would encourage any of the oregon citizens that are listening to this that are in our counties
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to sign the petition to vote to i mean we have bought into this that one person can't make a difference
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that is crap we need everybody to vote on it and and then go to our our our uh website greateridaho.org
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and give us a donation because we're grassroots we're totally underfunded and nobody is paid in
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this whole program it's all from the bottom up and this is a real bottom up thing this is obviously
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george soros is not helping them on this uh it's greateridaho.org greateridaho.org and i i will tell
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you if you are if you're in oregon now idaho is really sweet and quite honestly we need a few more
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farmers in here and a few more ranchers and a few more people that think like the vast majority of
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idaho um because they're going to come up here and they'll wreck this state just as much as they
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wrecked uh oregon for you we need to stick together uh i'm i'm excited by the possibility it's going to
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be a dog fight but uh i'm up for it anything we can do to help you you just let us know greateridaho.org
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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joe biden and what he said about donald trump being our first racist president yeah no our
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first race first racist president most racist amazing really that's amazing yeah i i was
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thinking i don't know woodrow wilson yeah uh andrew jackson perhaps andrew jackson would be a very
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good one or maybe lbj would be uh would be a great one i mean there were massive racist presidents
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all of them strangely uh democrats but uh you know i'm just for that for that matter if i if i may add
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a potential one here uh barack obama with with his comments about typical white calling that well
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yeah are you calling the president a racist but there's some that's the most racist thing uh is
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not racist thing i've ever heard it used to be but it doesn't seem to be anymore but with questions
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it doesn't or answers like this uh about his grandma uh typical white person right typical white person
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uh well if she sees somebody on the street uh-huh that she doesn't know there's a you know there's
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a reaction that's been bred into it's been bred that's been bred into her if anybody said that about
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a black person can you imagine they'd still be harping about that to this day you'd be jimmy the greek
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you'd be jimmy the greek yes uh it's it's it's remarkable and it's remarkable how
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i don't know accurate we were on our questions about barack obama because he did harbor all of
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those things he did listen to jeremiah right because jeremiah right is practically running our
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country now at least the spirit of jeremiah right is have you seen next hour i think it's next hour we're
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going to get into the the uh new board planks of the uh the democratic platform oh my gosh i i don't
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know how you can vote for these people but uh i don't good luck with that and and here's something
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that um we played in the four minute buzz if you're watching uh uh watching this program on blaze tv at
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the top of every hour we have the four minute buzz and we go over some of the news and i saw this i did
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not see this yesterday but i think this is from msnbc i want you to listen to what this person is
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actually saying when they were talking about sending uh federal forces in to protect the federal
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buildings in chicago and in seattle and in uh portland listen to this analysis this is what would
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happen if you were a an authoritarian president who was preparing to to resist a loss in the election
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you would be saying the things donald trump is saying and you would be gradually rolling out
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federal police power into the states against the the wishes of the mayors and governors in question
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this is how it would happen this is how the movie would play out and anybody who's not looking at this
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with a state of alarm and concern and worried about is this president going to to employ formally
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martial law at some point as ron wyden suggested yesterday is that on the president's mind is there
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anybody having watched donald trump for the last three and a half years who doesn't think that donald
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trump would try to employ martial law if he thought it was the only way he could stay in power
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yeah that would be me yeah there's me i've been watching donald trump i've been watching donald trump
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in the most easily authoritarian time perhaps in my lifetime not take any of the authoritarian powers
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and then i've seen uh crazy stuff happening in the states happening with governors who keep crying that
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donald trump is an authoritarian and yet they seem to be the authoritarians uh no i don't think this is
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what he's doing in uh putting uh soldiers on the street so he can declare martial law uh for the
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election that is that is dangerous rhetoric and and far far beyond anything i ever said anything i ever
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said about barack obama i take back all of my apologies to you