The Stone Zone ｜ 8-29-25
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Summary
Lisa Cook and Gia Cobb are both members of the same sorority, Delta Sigma Theta. The fact that they both belong to the same exclusive Black women's sorority is reason enough for her to be recused from the case.
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The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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Well, as you may have read or heard, President Donald Trump fired Lisa Cook,
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the member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,
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when he learned that Cook had engaged actively in mortgage fraud.
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Very specifically, Cook claimed that her home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was her primary legal residence.
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That gave her a state tax break, a superior mortgage rate, and a lower insurance rate.
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And then just two weeks later, she claimed that a home outside of Atlanta was her primary legal residence.
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Once again, she got a state tax break, a lower mortgage rate, and a lower insurance rate.
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And now we learn that Lisa Cook, the Fed Board Governor, had a third residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
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that in some years she said on her taxes were an investment property,
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but in other years she said it was a second home.
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Those, of course, both get different tax treatment, depending on which one it is.
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So Cook, in response to this firing by President Trump, filed a lawsuit in the District of Columbia,
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and that lawsuit was assigned to Judge Gia Cobb.
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We can now tell you right here in the Stone Zone exclusively that we have learned that Gia Cobb,
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who is an African-American woman, as is Lisa Cook, are both members of the same sorority, Delta Sigma Theta.
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The chances that the D.C. clerk of the courts, Angela D. Caesar,
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pointed, or I should say referred this case randomly to Gia Cobb are approximately zero.
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By the way, Angela Caesar, the clerk of the D.C. courts, has been criticized previously for signing cases to anti-Trump judges.
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Judge Jed Boasberg got an improbable number of the most important cases to the Trump administration.
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Congressman Jim Jordan has complained about this.
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I think it's time to send the clerk, Angela Caesar, a subpoena to come up to the House Oversight Committee,
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or Judiciary Committee in this case, to explain herself.
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Right now, Jerome Powell, who is the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board,
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is insisting that it's not a good time to cut interest rates.
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That's strange because the two criteria that he's supposed to use for cutting interest rates,
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or considering the cutting of interest rates, are the rate of inflation and the rate of unemployment.
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Well, right now, contrary to what all the pointy-headed establishment economists in Washington and New York predicted,
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Now, they said that if Donald Trump hard bargained for more aggressive tariff deals,
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deals in which we made trade agreements with our trading partners that were good for us,
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as well as good for them, rather than just being good for them,
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well, the economists and the so-called experts insisted that the economy would crash,
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that inflation would rage out of control, unemployment would soar,
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the stock market would crash, and of course, none of those things has happened.
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In fact, the rate of inflation and the rate of unemployment today are either at the same rate or lower
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than they were the last four times the Federal Reserve cut interest rates on the American people.
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That means when you go to borrow money personally or for a business,
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or when you go to pay off your credit card or when you go to buy a car or a house,
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That's why you should care, because today, as long as Lisa Cook is on the Federal Reserve,
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there is a five to four vote against cutting interest rates.
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One of the board governors, Governor Waller, gave a speech yesterday, terrific speech,
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in which he outlined precisely why today is the time to cut interest rates on the American people.
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So I think it is vitally important that President Trump's lawyers move aggressively,
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since he was sued by Lisa Cook to disqualify this judge.
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It is absolutely clear that she has a conflict of interest.
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The fact that she and Lisa Cook both belong to the same very exclusive black women's sorority
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The Trump Justice Department released their rebuttal to former Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook's lawsuit,
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alleging that she's entitled to the job, no matter how corrupt she may be,
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Cook retained the notoriously sloppy and, I would say, ill-fated lawyer, Abby Lowell.
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I remember when he represented Senate Majority Leader in New York, Joe Bruno,
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a truly great man who was wrongfully charged with corruption.
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Bruno was convicted on all counts, but then the U.S. Supreme Court threw Bruno's conviction out,
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saying the law under which he'd been charged was flawed.
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And the Justice Department under Bill Clinton, probably under Barack Obama,
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made the very unusual decision to retry Joe Bruno.
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Bruno fired Abby Lowell, hired a better criminal defense lawyer,
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More recently, Abby Lowell represented Hunter Biden.
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In any event, the rebuttal from President Trump's lawyers noted that Cook's improprieties
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regarding mortgages on her two homes are enough for President Trump to fire her,
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that he entitled to fire her on the basis of cause.
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Now, interestingly enough, I did a little research.
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Three previous members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors,
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Eric Rosengren, Richard Clarita, and Robert Kaplan,
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all resigned from the Federal Reserve Board when they were under federal investigation for improprieties.
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The rebuttal from Trump's lawyers said that not only does she not need to be convicted of a crime,
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but the president has full discretion to determine what causes.
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Describing the alleged mortgage fraud, the Trump Department of Justice wrote in their response,
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In both agreements, entered two within weeks of each other,
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Dr. Cook represented that she would occupy each property as her principal legal residence.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to see how Dr. Cook could possibly have honestly represented
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that she intended to occupy and use both a property in Michigan and a condominium in Atlanta
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as her principal legal residence during the same period.
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The president need not prove criminal acts beyond a reasonable doubt to remove a principal officer.
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Also, interestingly, in her filing, Dr. Lisa Cook admits that she is an executive in the executive branch of government,
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meaning that the chief executive has the full authority to discharge her.
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She is just hoping for an activist judge, an activist court in Washington, A.C.
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She may think that she got one in Judge Gia Cobb.
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But, as I said previously, I believe Cobb will have to recuse herself when it is publicly revealed,
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for the first time here in the Stone Zone, that they are sorority sisters.
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Cook hopes the judge and jury ultimately will not rule out her motion.
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But, even if the lower court, the district court in D.C., were to rule for Cook,
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which would not be unusual in the District of Columbia, where virtually every judge is a left-wing activist,
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would then go to a three-judge panel of appeals, even that will lean left,
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and therefore, this may ultimately end up in front of the Supreme Court.
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Well, the interest rates that you pay could be determined on the basis of this case.
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Cook will continue to play the race card and probably even go on a speaking tour
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after she is inevitably fired in order to milk every dime she can out of playing the victim.
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How typical of the privileged and titled D.E.I. caste that shamelessly extracts undeserved money from our institutions.
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Meanwhile, Christian churches were targeted across the United States with violence or terrorism,
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a stunning 415 times in 2024, rising from 198 times in 2022.
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In the four years prior to 2022, a total of churches targeted with violence or terrorism actually never exceeded 100.
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The figures come from a report that I saw today by the Family Research Council entitled
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Hostility Towards Churches in the United States, Analyzing the Incidences from 2025.
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Early this week, we saw a transgendered terrorist target a Catholic church in Minneapolis to murder children in cold blood.
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These instances are becoming far, far too normal.
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Whether it's a transgendered or a leftist or an Islamist, Christmas churches are becoming more frequently targeted for violence
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and the media is willing to look the other way.
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Or, even worse, use it to cause a drumbeat for gun control.
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Let me point out, Minnesota has among the most stringent and harshest gun control laws in the country.
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But if owning guns is made criminal, only criminals will have guns.
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We are commonly told that it is Christian or done by white people and therefore it must be condemned.
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The Founding Fathers were, in fact, white Christian influenced men and they created the greatest nation the world has ever known.
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It is far past the time to start going on offensive against these enemies of civilization and humanity.
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Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, put leftists on blast after they took the opportunity to defame Christians
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in the aftermath of that transgendered mass shooting at a Catholic school earlier this week in Minneapolis.
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The Director of the Office of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii, called out Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry and former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki in particular for the callous and insensitive remarks.
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Director Gabbard said, those like Jen Psaki and Jacob Fry, who criticized prayers in the wake of Minneapolis's tragedy, are expressing the same anti-God sentiment that motivated the shooter.
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He aimed his wrath at God by trying to stop people with his bullets from praying.
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Now it is a time for us to come together and join hands in prayer for the children who were killed, their loved ones, and those who survived this horrific shooting.
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It is repugnant to me that Jen Psaki and the Mayor Jacob Fry essentially denigrated those who fell to their knees in prayer over this horrific tragedy in Minneapolis.
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I am first-hand proof, living proof, that Jesus Christ can do anything.
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After all, they tried to frame me in a Soviet-style show trial when I had actually really done nothing wrong.
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As Tulsi Gabbard has now proven, there was no Russian collusion.
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That was a canard cooked up, a fake narrative cooked up by Barack Obama and his criminal cabal.
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Thanks for tuning in to The Stone Zone with me, Roger Stone, right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
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From that first coffee of the day, to dropping off your dry cleaning on the way.
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From stepping onto the subway, to opening your doors to your first customer of the day.
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The Trump Justice Department is now investigating whether the FBI, during the Biden regime,
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attempted to destroy documents secretly and unlawfully to protect former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan,
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according to the fake news New York Times, which, of course, is freaking out over the matter.
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This investigation was initiated after FBI Director Cash Patel found actual burn bags in a secret room at FBI headquarters.
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Because of ineptitude or sabotage, these crucial documents remained intact.
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It's a good thing because they tell us the actual story of the Russian collusion hoax.
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They contain pertinent details all about this criminal ruse.
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Former FBI Director Paul Abadi, who served under Biden and stepped down on January 20th,
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when Trump was sworn in to office as being scrutinized as part of this investigation,
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along with other senior FBI officials who served under Biden.
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The Trump administration is doing their due diligence to figure out exactly who is responsible
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for the legal acts when the Biden and the Obama regimes were in power.
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That list is voluminous, and when all is revealed, there may be thousands of individuals
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who will be facing charges with an exhausted amount of evidence demonstrating their guilt.
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I almost had to chuckle at watching former Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe,
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who said that the raid on the home of John Bolton,
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very specifically because Bolton retained classified documents,
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which by law he's not entitled to have, tarnished the reputation of the FBI.
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Actually, nobody tarnished the reputation of the FBI worse than, well, Andrew McCabe
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Meanwhile, Comey is out talking about Taylor Swift.
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I think he's either delusional or maybe it's some kind of secret spy code.
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Meanwhile, the state of Oklahoma has introduced an anti-woke certification test
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that is mandatory for teachers to pass before they are allowed around the precocious schoolchildren
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Oklahoma reportedly has developed this America First test with the help of Prager University,
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a popular conservative education tool run by Dennis Prager,
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to weed out the leftist subversives in academia.
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Oklahoma is offering a teaching bonus of up to $50,000 to any teacher across the nation
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with a serious resume who isn't a deranged leftist.
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Oklahoma is showing how it's done for states to set education policy.
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More right-minded families will be coming from other states as a result
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because they're unwilling to sacrifice their children's purity
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for a bizarre and distorted notion of equality.
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Federalism was designed to work in this manner as a laboratory for democracy
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where the best policies could be introduced in a decentralized fashion
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and then adopted in states across the country if those policies were successful.
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We must return to authentic federalism if we're going to make America great again for the long haul.
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We'll be right back with more Hot Politics on the Other Side.
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In this tender and funny film about the importance of connection.
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It's week two of Canadian Tire's early Black Friday sale.
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Young girls in California public schools are now being required to submit a mental health accommodation form
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if they are uncomfortable with going into the bathroom with transgender boys and males.
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The Temecula Valley United School District is requiring that female students file this request,
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stigmatizing them for wanting privacy and not to be forced to share a bathroom with gender-bending freaks and other perverts.
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They are being forced to do this under a law meant to accommodate children with real conditions such as diabetes,
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California State Superintendent Candidate Sonia Shaw described the rules as pure madness,
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This is upside down, dangerous, exactly what we warned would happen.
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This is what California is devolving into under the failed leadership of Governor Gavin Newsom.
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He may talk big on social media, posturing as if he's some kind of tough guy or actually a successful governor,
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but in actuality he's just a liberal freak who lacks the courage to defend the rights of little girls
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not to be harassed and made uncomfortable in their bathrooms.
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All voters, even Democrats, sense that he's a phony and they desire authenticity rather than some sleazy plastic used car salesman
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He is, by the way, one of the wealthiest people in the country.
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Those are about the only two qualifications I can see in terms of his ability to become the Democrat nominee
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Meanwhile, Democrats double down on their woke insanity.
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They're caught in a death spiral and they're apparently incapable of reversing course,
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as evidenced by their crazy rhetoric during the recent Democrat National Committee meeting.
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During their summer meeting in Minnesota, a resolution was unanimously passed
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in support of the American values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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DNC chairman said that the Democrats must be prepared for a, quote,
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knife fight, close quote, and to stop playing by the rules as if the far left constitution hating Democrats ever played by any rules.
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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison gave an impassioned speech in favor of transgender rights.
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0.8% of the people in America are transgendered, by the way.
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The DNC also declared the right to recognize Palestine as a nation,
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but had an Indian tribal speaker proclaim the illegitimacy of American colonialization over indigenous lands.
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Minnesota governor and failed vice presidential candidate and full-time freak Tim Walz called President Trump a fascist
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and stated that the party is not shying away from diversity as a strength and equity as a goal
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God, it would be great if they nominated that guy for president,
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but I can't even believe that even the Democrats are that dumb.
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In short, the Democrats have learned nothing or they're in too deep to turn back.
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They're being held hostage by their radicalized constituents who've been subjected to crazed propaganda for the last decade
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about Trump being a Russian agent, Trump being a fascist,
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and other lies designed to make them feel feral and unable to reason.
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They were too arrogant to believe that President Trump could make the greatest political comeback of the century,
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and now between a rock and a hard place, they really don't know what they stand for.
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This bodes well for Republican chances during next year's midterm elections.
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President Trump has come up with an interesting idea, which is a midterm Republican national convention.
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It would be a great opportunity for him to showcase the incredible accomplishments of this administration.
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I saw former Senator Claire McGaskill on MSNBC the other night.
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She was ignominiously rejected by the people of Missouri.
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You wouldn't know that, the way they hold her in such an exalted position.
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She said that the Epstein scandal was a way for President Trump to distract from the collapsing economy.
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I'm not sure what economic collapse the former senator is talking about.
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Meanwhile, these recent high-profile mass shootings by transgendered individuals,
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most recently the target of the Catholic School in Minneapolis,
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are happening because the ideology and the movement itself is actively encouraging this violence.
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Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor, Peggy Flanagan, she makes Waltz look like a moderate,
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was pictured wearing a Protect Trans Kids shirt that featured a knife on it.
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Those who oppose rights for transgender children, meaning giving them puberty blockers
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and prepping them for gender mutilation shortly after adolescence,
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Additional propaganda from transgender radicals include slogans like
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Death Before Detransition and Trans Rights or Else,
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usually paired with depictions of rifles, guns, or knives.
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Of course, everyone deserves their Second Amendment rights.
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The founders wrote that those rights shall not be infringed for any reason,
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But transgenderism would no longer be looked at as a mental illness by those of us who have common sense.
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It should now be recognized as a terrorist threat.
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Christians are encouraged to be vigilant and to stand on guard because it is only a matter of time
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before one of these satanic, possessed, deranged maniacs will strike again.
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The other serious question, which doesn't seem to get asked,
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is all of these mass shootings, which are a relatively new phenomenon here in America,
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when it comes to the shooters, how many of them are on psychotropic drugs?
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Why can't we ever get an answer to that question?
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
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is the lone public official who's been asking that difficult question.
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Meanwhile, the Air Force is granting a military funeral with full honors for January 6th,
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She, of course, is the decorated Air Force veteran who was shot and killed in cold blood.
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Without warning and unarmed, she was menacing no one.
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This decision by the Undersecretary of the Air Force, Matthew Lohmeyer,
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noted that information has come forward that reversed a previous denial
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when it came to burying Babbitt with full military honors.
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Details such as suspected federal agent Ray Epps ginning people up at the Capitol on January 6th
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and law enforcement literally opening the doors from the inside
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have changed the narrative about January 6th, proving that it was, in fact, a setup,
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a fedsurrection and not a legitimate insurrection.
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That is, of course, not what Peter Baker of the New York Times writes,
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but then Peter Baker of the New York Times isn't a journalist.
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He is a crazed left-wing propagandist posing as a journalist.
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He actually sticks to the outdated narrative that this was some kind of insurrection.
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No, I was no one other than those in law enforcement armed, not a single person.
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Additionally, the federal government agreed to a settlement worth $5 million
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The lawsuit claimed, correctly, by my estimation,
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that Babbitt was ambushed and defenseless when the Capitol Police thug,
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Michael Byrd, shot her dead at point-blank range.
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Byrd was clear of wrongdoing in the Biden administration.
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This is something the Trump administration needs to reconsider.
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to send a message to patriots nationwide to sit down, shut up,
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and let the elections be stolen by the ruling regime in Washington, D.C.
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The rehabilitation of Ashley Babbitt can only be started
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towards establishing true justice of January 6th
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if those responsible for her death are actually held responsible.
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Americans will enjoy the lowest gasoline prices
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It's only a few more days that I can wear my seersucker,
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When it comes to fashion, it's my favorite time of the year.
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The very finest Panama hats, made of straw, of course,
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when he went to survey the construction going on
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But the finest Panama hats are made in Ecuador.
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but, again, no longer appropriate after Labor Day.
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You can wear whatever you want, whenever you want.
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back when President Trump was in the White House