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On today's episode of the blend back program, we discuss the recent rioting in the streets of Seattle and the lack of response from the police in response to it. Also, a woman in a women's prison in California has had sex with another woman who was transferred from a male facility into a female facility, and she is now pregnant.
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hey today is a really great broadcast uh pat tells me that it includes frivolity uh which i
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don't even know what that is but it's it's included in today's podcast we spend um some time with a
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woman who has written the book about how small businesses are getting screwed and how the little
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guy is losing his ability to actually control his life and grow wealth you don't want to miss this
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uh today's uh today's episode also we we tell you about a miracle a woman in a woman's prison in
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california has had i guess sex with another woman who was just transferred yes from the from the
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male facility because well she identifies it was a woman so she's a woman and the other woman is
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is now pregnant we i mean what would explain that we just don't know and the answer
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to what we need to do it comes from ben and jerry's and i'll tell you that on today's podcast
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you're listening to the best of the blend back program
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i want to talk to you a little bit about what's happening on our streets first in minneapolis
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uh they are um looked at all of the donations that are coming from uh you know local citizens
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uh to defund the police to support that movement and most of the uh donations coming from out of state
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which is weird and moveon.org is providing a lot of that money who is funding all of this
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where who why is moveon.org doing this uh and where do they get their money for this and what is their
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intent i want to show you something that just happened in seattle um this is um this is a video of a
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who goes by caliber visuals online don't know his name he's a freelance photographer he's 22 years old
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he was in the mount baker section of uh seattle do we have the video here he is watch this pad he's out
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on the street um there he's walking and he sees another guy coming up to him uh and he stops and
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the guy he puts his hand out they shake hands and then the guy won't let him loose and then he just
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starts he puts him down on the ground throws him down the ground violently and then just starts
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kicking him in the head and i mean full force stomping on his head and then kicking him until
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he's down then he kicks him a second time and then boom one last time kicks him unconscious yeah
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uh the kid is still uh coughing up blood today he was um it was reported to police somebody was
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but so far they don't they haven't arrested anyone
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and they showed up dressed in black uh and uh they were confronting the worshipers do we have
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now look how many are dressed in black peace to you in jesus name
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so they they threw a flash bomb into the group of kids who were out there
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um they started saying all sorts of things and following it in g in the name of jesus because that's what the the people were
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uh the christians were saying um yeah it is it is really bad by the way
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police were there they turned on the siren but it had absolutely no impact
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on antifa why would it they're not afraid of the police they know they're not going to do anything
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uh there was uh no response from the police no arrests made
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uh and they said the police said nobody reported any crime that we're aware of
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a report out that i think everyone should read and no one is reporting on it
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it is a report by the major cities chiefs association
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now this has just come out so you can understand why nobody's talking about it
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and when i say just came out it came out in october
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but it absolutely takes apart everything the media
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everything that uh the uh the clowns in washington dc are trying to perpetrate
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and say that we are violent and that was the worst attack on on america
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have you seen anybody on the right putting bail money up
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they found clear evidence of nationwide coordination for violent protests
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i want to in fact i want to read right from the report
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the weekend of may 29th to the following monday june 1st
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was by far the most violent for any major city law enforcement agencies
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these events had thousands of people in attendance including groups with suspected violent extremist ideologies
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prepared and coordinated resistance was reported by some agencies and similar tactics such as the use of arson looting barricades caravans and specific types of weapons were seen in major cities nationwide
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protestors seem to coordinate their movements and actions on these days as if the as uh if the violence and tactics were pre-planned for example across the u.s major city law enforcement agencies reported peaceful protests beginning in the early to late afternoon and violence beginning once it became dark the report confirms the presence of the far left violent extremists and notes that 78 percent of surveyed and the
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police agencies identified such actors among the protests 51 percent of agencies also identified far right acts actors at some protests unfortunately the report offers no details that would let analysts examine how the authors determined violent actors ideological tendencies no specifics are included in the report
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uh this is this is this is incredible that this report is even out there that it clearly shows do you know how many people were arrested during those protests for felonies how many people were arrested for felonies can you guess
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two thousand seven hundred and thirty five total number of arrests that were for felony charges
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wow uh-huh wow total number of persons arrested
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sixteen thousand two hundred and forty one how many have been arrested for
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washington dc washington dc and they're not felony charges only a couple almost all misdemeanors yeah
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i i think it's in the 400 range yeah yeah most misdemeanors some felonies
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two thousand seven hundred and thirty five the highest number of felony arrests for a single police uh troop
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in a single city was six hundred and thirty nine people arrested for felonies
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wow for felonies i didn't hear that no i didn't either the the agencies that found uh protesters with
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violent far-left ideologies 78 percent 78 percent uh if you look at how many people
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encountered how many agencies encountered people that were not from the town
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so out of all the protests how many how many police officers said this group over here they're not
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even from around here they're bust in no i bet a lot 90 percent yeah how many were paid to be there
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i'm gonna say a lot again 29 percent that's pretty good percentage uh who's paying who's paying
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yeah because we were told that was ridiculous oh no one was being paid of course these are
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grassroots protests are they are they now are they um if you want to look this up i think it's really
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important the major cities chief association the intelligence commanders group uh and it is the
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report on the 2020 protests and civil unrest it is it is amazing to read amazing to read how many are
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peaceful how many are violent mostly peaceful nope no not mostly peaceful not mostly peaceful what kind
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uh what kind of uh what kind of weapons did they have it's all in this report how many are belonging to
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some organization like an antifa all of it is in this report why is it the media is not interested
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more importantly why is the federal government not interested in this at all but remember we owe
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our lives to the policeman that's what joe biden said we owe everything to the policeman then maybe we
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should read what the police are saying in their own reports hmm i wonder why you're not
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my surgeon told me uh last week i've been having face surgery because of cancer on my face
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and he said to me uh last week i think we're going to get to know each other quite well
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and he called over the weekend he said i gotta go back in i'm like oh you ready for another round
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okay bring it on brother let's see how your face looks after this round um but uh i feel the same
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way without the scalpel the knife or the fight uh or the cancer about carol roth i think we're going
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to be seeing a lot of her and we will become close friends she is somebody who i absolutely believe
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gets it on what's coming our way and a voice that needs to be heard her her book is called the war
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on small business she's here with us now carol welcome glenn thanks so much for having me back
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and i feel exactly the same way and i promise uh i may bring a scalpel but it's going to be a scalpel
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on what is going on in financial markets and with the government and decentralization i had two very
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powerful washington dc people write to me this weekend and say i've never heard of carol roth before
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she makes everything make sense so let's talk about let's talk about uh what you know where do you
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want to start well let's just start with the overarching theme of what's been happening
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over the last call it 16 to 17 months because we have seen the government use the excuse that one
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person's plight is going to justify disregarding the rights of others that's what they've been doing
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they have been picking winners and losers they've been deciding who is essential and who is quote
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unquote non-essential the most horrible thing a government entity could tell a person or a business
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and they've been doing this not based on data or on science but based on political clout and
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connections and that has enabled the biggest transfer of wealth that we have ever seen in all of history
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and it's been going from main street to wall street and the power has been consolidated from the little
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guys to the big guys in the club and i feel like that is the overarching so let's let let's break that
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down a little bit by picking winners and losers um they said don't go to your ace hardware store don't go to
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local hardware store don't go to the the local paint store whatever you've got to go to home depot
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you you they left these giants open while they closed all of the local businesses
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absolutely they were the very first if you look at the very first mandates that came out in ohio led
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the charge on this and a bunch of others followed suit they were all the small entities they were
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small retailers they were gyms they were restaurants and lo and behold as you said the big guys were able
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to be open the one that i found just so completely absurd was that you could get your dog's hair and
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nails groomed but you personally couldn't get your own hair and nails groomed and there was no data or
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science to say that that was okay and then they doubled down on it so it wasn't like they did this
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for the 15 days to slow the spread that we're now like 500 days into they continued to double down
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on that messaging and it got so absurd that later in the year as they started doing reopening you would
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have places like new york saying oh if you're a bar you need to serve food uh but you know if you have
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chips that's not good enough you need to serve dip with it so like what's the science behind the fact
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that the dip protects you from covet so what is your theory on why they did this
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so this is all about decentralization versus centralized power if you think about the economy
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and you kind of divide it right down the middle you have half of the economy that is decentralized
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it looks a lot more like a free market this is the small business side and this before covid was
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about 30.2 million small businesses that really exemplified the free market the other half of
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the economy is in the hands of about 10 to 15 thousand big businesses and this goes for gdp and jobs
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so if you are a politician who is trying to consolidate power you're trying to get more under your purview
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you're trying to get lobbying dollars you're trying to get more support maybe for your own
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campaign it's much easier for you to deal with 10 or 15 thousand big companies than it is to try to
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corral the 30.2 million small businesses so i think that that is the driver but whether you think it's
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nefarious intentional or incompetent the fact of the matter is that the big government has gotten
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so big and so out of control that the result would be the same whether or not the intention is that
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the small businesses are too small to matter or too hard to control so they the what's interesting
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to me is in 2008 they said these banks are too big to fail which implied we should make sure we support
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the smaller banks um to you know get these other banks to a pay for their own mistakes and grow uh
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grow the um the the banking sector if you will grow it out not up and in and it would provide some
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stability but that's exactly the opposite of what they did and they're doing it seems like they're doing
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that again this time with small businesses yeah i'm so glad you brought this up this is the perfect
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example so back in 2007 2008 the banks took on too much risk and that created these horrible
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consequences for the economy not just here in the u.s but worldwide we all pay the price but as you said
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they were too big to fail so they got a taxpayer bailout the slap on the risk that they think the slap
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on the risk that they got was in the terms of legislation dot frank and they said haha we are
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going to rein in these big banks even though they're too big to fail we know we've got to make
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sure that that we make room for the little guy but the effect the outgrowth of that legislation
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is it stopped the formation of small and community banks it put a bunch of smaller players out of
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business and it completely killed off small business lending at the same time the big businesses now had
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no competition they also had basically free money from the fed being pumped into the system and so
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the small bit or the big businesses got bigger and big business lending went through the roof so what
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was meant to rein in the big banks actually gave them free rein and now contrasting that to what's
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happened this time small businesses didn't take on too much risk it's not that that they needed a
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quote-unquote bailout they were mandated shut so compensating them is basically eminent domain
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their property was taken quote-unquote for the good of society under the constitution and so that's not
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a bailout that's due compensation but they were told they were too small they were told they were
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non-essential too small to matter i i've never been uh i'm not a lawsuit guy i hate lawsuits but uh if
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there is one case that the united states government should uh be sued and pay out unfortunately it would
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be all of us at the bottom of the ladder that would be paying it so it would just end up hurting us
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but it is for closing all of these businesses you put all of these businesses out of business you had
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no right to do it they only did it under duress at first they did it for the first 15 days fine but
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once they started to say we're not going to make it they would try to open up they couldn't they went
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out of business whose fault is it it's not theirs it's not their fault it is the federal government's
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fault and nobody's even really talking that way i know i mean they're gaslighting us these are the
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two biggest myths that are out there right now is one that we had these full lockdowns and we were
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all in this together we were not all in this together as we talked about at the top of the hour
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the big companies were allowed to continue wall street was propped up if you had let you know amazon
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get closed down if you had had walmart closed down if you had your local liquor store closed down if
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you had let the stock market uh you actually act like a market and and react to what was happening
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this wouldn't have lasted you know maybe even two weeks maybe three on the outside so we were not on
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this together and then in terms of the compensation people say oh well they got ppp relief people don't
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understand that the amount of ppp relief was not only a fraction of the overall like 6.6 trillion
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dollars that had been spent on relief but also a fraction of what was needed to shut these businesses
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down for months and months on end and the real tragedy of this entire thing in addition to obviously
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the subjugation of the rights is that they wanted to do this right to begin with they could have done
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compensation right out of the box to small businesses let people stay on the payrolls stay
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employed it would have cost them about a trillion to a trillion and a half dollars i project based on
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the numbers and they could have bought themselves several months to figure out mitigation strategies
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but no that's not what they did this was not something that uh they just gathered in the middle
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of the night and said we've got to close everything down this is something either the fed or the
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treasury walked in to the oval office when president trump was the president said here's the plan to
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do it can you can you talk to me a little bit about how much of this was just you know throw spaghetti
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at the wall to see what sticks and how much of this was was planned and why would you plan something
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like this so i always like to follow the markets as a signal and if you look at what happened at the
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beginning of 2020 and uh you know kind of january into the beginning of february you had the stock
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markets hitting all-time highs so even though this virus was going on in china and there was a little
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bit of spread you saw that that the markets here in the u.s said you know we're not really that
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concerned about it at the very end of february all of a sudden the market took a nosedive and just
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you know went off a cliff and so you know at the time we were trying to get our heads wrapped around
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it in retrospect we found out uh through through an article that there was actually a leak that there
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was a think tank discussion and members of the administration had basically said yeah you know
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things are starting to trend in this direction in terms of what we're planning to do and so the
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market got a whiff of this and the insiders were able to sell off before main street of course because
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that's you know what always seems to happen in our quote-unquote free market um and so you had
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the fed then come in and say it was going to stabilize the market and started providing support
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to the market before anything else was done and i thought that that was fascinating the most important
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thing they felt was to provide support to the market so that kind of tells you all that you need to
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know and then the administration came out with this 15 days to slow the spread plan uh which was
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absolute lunacy because it gave the blueprint to all of these governors to make these decisions
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and ohio was really early on and you know each governor thereafter kind of said well this provides us
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cover to do the same thing and it started like with this slow power grab almost like testing the
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waters like can we really get away with this and they just said oh really we can okay we're going
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to do more and we're going to do more and that sort of ballooned up and then the the government
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had an opportunity at the federal level to throw a lifeline so they were the ones that could have said
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well if you're going to do this you know we're going to backstop it and make sure that it's
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constitutional and make sure that we save these the small guys because that's what we're here to do
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and they just chose absolutely not to do that and anybody with half a brain cell could have figured
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out what was going on um i had raised the issue in march of 2020 before we even knew the numbers
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because it was so transparent but the way they structured the program the first tranche of the
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ppp didn't even make it to the tiny small businesses it went to kanye west and tom brady
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employ mayweather because of the way the government structured it to begin with so it was just kind of
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you know slow burn could we get away with it and every time they got away with it
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you know it's like the slow creep it's like this blob that that spreads and takes over everything
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how much of this is related to um the great reset
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yeah it's interesting so there's this concept out there from the world economic forum and their
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projections for 2030 so not that far in the future saying things like
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you will own nothing and you will be happy which as you as somebody who's uh very focused on property
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rights scares the bejesus out of me and and we would only have renters and so you know that kind
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of ties into everything that's going on with the cdc moratorium on evictions which again makes so much
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sense that a health organization would be setting economic policy outside of congress right and that
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you've got these small landlords who are basically being thrown to the side making it very difficult
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for them to keep um the places or even want to keep the places and keep renting knowing that the
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government can interfere in this direction at the same time that you've got all of this money going to
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big uh professional investors who are coming in and buying up housing so i don't know if this is uh
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happening at a global level on a coordinated basis or if they put this idea out there and others
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acted acted upon it here in the u.s or if it's just a coincidence because at the end of the day
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big entities want to grab power and that's human nature and that's why we resist central plan i just
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want to go over what you just said because i don't i don't think people really understand
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right now prices have gone up through the roof 25 26 percent uh for a new house and that's not just
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because all of a sudden we're buying again it's because the fed is making money so easy for big people to
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get that these giant hedge funds are taking the money with no real risk and they're buying up entire
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neighborhoods entire neighborhoods yeah there's actually a great article in the wall street journal
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that came out in april talking about this and uh i believe it was a dr horton um neighborhood that
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instead of selling them to individual investors they sold the entire neighborhood to a hedge fund
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at twice the price that they would have made selling it to the individuals why would they why would
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you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
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several stories i still want to hit um the teachers union head um randy weingarten has uh said
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they've got to get the kids back into school and she has she has worked hard to she's pledging that
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the kids are going to come back to school you know as soon as they negotiate the vaccine mandates
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uh and other uh covet 19 mitigation strategies but as soon as they do that they are ready
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um you know she says the combination of vaccines i think are a big game changer and uh and it's good
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but so many kids aren't able to get the vaccine so they have to have the mask mandate mandates
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you know in schools in schools then there has to be you know test and trace and track and we have to
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have good ventilation uh we can't be expected to go back to work like the rest of america and do that
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um and she says you know i i we you know our teachers just want to see more proof on these
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vaccines and they want to hear from their doctors and um and that's why we have to negotiate these
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also um you know she reiterated um her union's commitment on teaching political agenda uh you
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know called history um she said the history that uh you know they're now producing is patriotic
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it's patriotic for students to uh analyze truth from propaganda and we're just giving them context
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to analyze what's going on these days and they'll have their own opinions but they need to know what
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slavery was they need to know why we have the 13th 14th 15th amendment uh you know we need to know the
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reasons uh for the causes of the insurrection on january 6th and it's our obligation to teach
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the causes of january 6th so let's just teach them honest history and accurate history and let
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them draw their own conclusions and by the way stop trying to bullying teachers to keep them from
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teaching the truth um critical race theory is not being taught in k-12 students that's weird because
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that's the opposite of what she said several times in virginia an elementary school shared on its website
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and then removed a radical educational video in during the summer that suggests police are dangerous to
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be around now uh again this is an elementary school this was for kindergartens uh classes
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and students uh and uh in the clip woke kindergarten uh safe i feel safe when there are no police
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that's that's uh that's weird that's weird now a lot of people are standing up again against it in
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virginia they've just about had enough of it um and we're watching those parents and what's happening
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in virginia uh but there's also a mom that is in rhode island and she just wanted to know what the
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teachers were going to teach her daughter well it has been interesting uh to watch we've had her on
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before and uh you know they they said well we can give you all that information but i think it was
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seventy five thousand dollars uh to be able to get all of that information they had to charge her that
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just to tell her what they were going to teach she uh didn't do it and now the uh teachers union is now
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suing this mother for asking questions about crt the curriculum at her daughter's school we decided we
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would talk to her attorney uh general counsel from the goldwater institute john riches hello john
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hey thanks so much for having me on so i can't believe this story it gets more and more bizarre
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and completely out of control uh she she asked for some documents they first sent her documents said
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she has to pay nine thousand dollars for them all almost entirely blacked out like it's a pentagon paper
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right yeah i mean this is this is truly one of those this can't be true types of um cases yeah as
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you said at first all she did was ask her superintendent what are you going to teach my
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incoming kindergartner and is it going to include things like critical race theory instead of just
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answering her questions they channeled her into this formal legal process where they stonewalled her
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told her they were going to charge her thousands of dollars and then if that wasn't enough the nea
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the national education association a 300 million dollar a year organization filed a lawsuit against
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her simply for requesting these records it's just a astonishing assault on open government on parents
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right to know what their kids are learning so this isn't john i don't know how you look at this um
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because this is much much more than a lawsuit against us you know a a mom this is this is game
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changing if this is allowed to stand right i i view it that way i mean look i mean just just on the
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legal side this is nonsensical it turns the public records law in its head these laws were meant to
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open government up they're meant to protect the public they're not meant to be used against the
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public but yeah i mean this is this is a real brazen assault um on parents everywhere i mean in it i think
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what it shows um glenn look at this group has so much money do they have nothing better to focus on
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like maybe perhaps educating our students than harassing and intimidating parents it's a pure
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harassment technique this union doesn't care about kids they don't care about the parents they care
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about driving a radical political agenda so they're they're saying that they had to sue her
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because of the sheer volume of requests and concerns about teacher privacy so they're saying
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they're protecting the teacher's privacy well yeah i mean here's what's interesting about that
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that's not the way the public records law works i mean typically what happens is a member of the
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public will submit a records request and then the government entity in this case the school district
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will review the request if there's anything in there that involves private information and by the way
00:35:47.120
she didn't request any private information she requested public information about public teaching
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duties but if anything is in there that's included in an email string or something like that the
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government entity redacts it takes it out and produces the records here you have a third party
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that's not even part of the public records process coming in and saying no no i'm going to sue to stop
00:36:08.840
you records requester from getting public information if this is allowed to stand um it completely inverts
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the presumption of transparency and the way public records processes work so you i mean this is the
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kind of stuff you do for a living odds that this actually even makes it to court i i do not see this
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uh getting very far in court i mean we are going to immediately um move to get this uh this uh
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thrown out offensive case thrown out and then what how do we i mean how do we get access to our own
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children's information if we're still pursuing uh so we have so we have sort of some parallel
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options as well we're still pursuing the underlying records and we're going to get answers to nicole's
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questions i mean she has a right to know what her daughters uh would be taught and and we're going to
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find that out so you know we're going to do that through the public records law through the open
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meetings law we're going to hold this district accountable and we're not going to stand for this
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union uh special interest how how how i mean this is so pervasive now we have the cdc writing laws
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about you know renters and landowners this is if that's allowed to stand the department of education
00:37:26.560
can write its own laws uh every administrative office can start to do that and it it doesn't seem to
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be getting better uh the i mean how how convinced are you that our our courts are going to handle
00:37:42.520
these things the way they should well we spend a lot of time thinking about this problem glenn this
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problem of the administrative state of unelected bureaucrats creating the law interpreting the law
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enforcing the law look i don't know about you but when i was in high school civics i learned that we
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got three branches of government the legislature creates the law the executive enforces it but when you
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have things like the cdc creating rules investigating the rules enforcing alleged violations you have
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one branch of government making all the decisions and that's not the way separation of powers works i
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think there's all sorts of legal opportunities out there to challenge this this sort of overreach
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many of these cases are moving moving through the process i think we have a very good u.s supreme court
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that gets the problems of administrative law and i think there's going to be a lot of positive
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developments in this area the optimistic side of me believes that this is an area that's that's very
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ripe for reform we're talking to john riches he's general counsel for the goldwater institute that was
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started uh by barry goldwater if i'm not mistaken uh trust that he started um and um and john you know
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you say there's a lot of opportunity but are there the attorneys out there that are looking for this
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fight i mean uh i've talked about it on the air before we had one of the best first amendment right
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attorneys i've had him for 20 years they just dropped us because it will cause too many problems
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with other clients that they have okay yeah i mean that is that is an unfortunate that is an
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unfortunate case where that comes up frequently in in private practice look if we want to look on the
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bright side of this glenn there there are an enormous amount of public interest groups so
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private organizations like the goldwater institute like the institute for justice pacific legal foundation
00:39:31.300
you name it that have lawyers on staff that take cases uh specifically um dedicated to limited
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government protecting individual liberties um i think that i think that that is a very positive
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development but look we need more than that we need private sector lawyers willing to take
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these cases on and not be afraid of the consequences to clients or whatever misperceived public
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appearance issues they think might be might exist this kind of stuff where you're being sued by the nea
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uh that scares regular parents then that makes them go i i don't want to get involved in all of this i i
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just i just want to keep going what advice do you have well i mean that that is exactly why the nea did it
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right it's the process is the punishment my advice and it's i think it's difficult but um it's to be
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tough to stand up uh to ask questions we all deserve a right we all have a right to know what our parents
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are going to learn we all have a right to know what our government is up to nicole uh solis our client is
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an incredibly tough dedicated um person she's not going to take no for an answer she's going to keep the
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fight going and it requires uh active actively engaged citizens like that to to get these sorts
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of answers and to hold our government accountable john thank you very much john rich is general