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Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of The Morning Drip. It is me, Grady D,
here with you on this Tuesday morning. It is the last day of June, June 30th, and it
it is going to be hot. It's going to be hot. It's going to be hot.
Saturday to celebrate America's 250th birthday. You know, Saturday. I guess maybe a Friday would
have been great. A Sunday would have been eh, but yeah, Saturday. Now, I was talking to a friend of
mine who runs a manufacturing business, and you know, a lot of manufacturing businesses, or at least
in my experience of the ones that I have worked with, they tend to give the week off. They just
shut the plant down during the 4th of July week. Do something very similar during Christmas so that,
you know, the families can enjoy Christmas from roughly around Christmas Day all the way through
New Year's. And kind of the same thing when it comes to 4th of July. Now, he told me the best day for him as a business owner.
Well, technically, I think he said the worst day for him as a business owner is probably Wednesday, because then if 4th landed on Wednesday, he pretty much has to give the entire, just shut the company down.
Because it's ridiculous to come in, work Monday, part of Tuesday, be off Wednesday, try to recover and come back Thursday and Friday.
So even for him, I guess, landing on a Saturday is the best thing because they can work till about Wednesday and then take Thursday and Friday off.
So at least he still gets some productivity out of it. But of course, he's in a manufacturing facility, which they don't have air conditioning in there.
And today, look at the forecast. Today's forecast. High of 95. Real feel of 106. We had a real feel of 106 yesterday.
And let me tell you, I walked out here to my office at, well, I'm usually out here by 630.
So I was walking back into the house to fill up my water and have a discussion with my wife.
And I believe it was 930. It was 9 or 930, somewhere in there.
And it was already 85 degrees with a real feel in the upper 90s.
And I could confirm that. It was hot.
Which, that leads me into our first story of today.
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Talking about the weather.
We have a dangerous heat wave that is pretty much gripping a large portion of the United States.
62 million people across 35 states are facing heat alerts during this upcoming Independence Day holiday week.
Or I should say we're now in the holiday week.
A strong heat dome.
Something I had never even heard of until just a few years ago.
But a strong heat dome is expected to push temperatures into the upper 90s and low 100s.
With the heat index values reaching 105 to 115 degrees.
115 degrees.
From the Great Plains through the Midwest, the South, the Northeast.
We're talking cities like Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Orlando, Dallas, and Memphis.
The expectation is that they're going to have to endure several days of oppressive heat and unusually warm overnight temperatures.
Which will not provide any relief and increase the risk of heat-related illnesses.
Of course, officials are urging people to stay hydrated.
Avoid strenuous outdoor activity during peak afternoon hours.
Check on your elderly neighbors and anybody else that's vulnerable.
And try to use air conditioning if possible.
Now, here's a funny thing.
Not ha-ha funny, but funny as, hmm, that's interesting.
My son, my youngest son, I have three kids.
My youngest son lives in Seattle, Washington.
And one of the things that he discovered when he got to Washington State.
Now, his apartment has air conditioning.
But Washington State is one of these states, very much like over in Great Britain, where it's just started coming into the norm over the last, let's say, decade, decade and a half.
To have air conditioning.
I mean, think about it.
Us down here in the South, we can't even fathom not having air conditioning in our homes.
Right?
Now, I was born and raised, of course, right here in South Georgia, Ben Hill County.
And my earliest recollections from my very first memories, we lived in two different homes from the time I was born to the time we moved into, I think it was 1982 or 83, we actually moved into a double-wide mobile home.
And prior to that, we lived in an old clay block house that got its start as a canning facility, if you will.
And you can imagine, there was no insulation in this ceiling.
It was a bunch of fat lighter up there.
You can imagine, during peak summertime, especially with the evening sun comes down and starts baking those blocks and how that heat would radiate through.
Even until like two and three in the morning, you could put your hand up on those blocks on the inside and they would still be radiating heat.
So, my earliest years of being on this earth, we had big-ass window fans.
I had one that blew right across my bed, right across my feet, right up the entire length of my bed.
And I do remember getting up at like maybe three in the morning because it got really, really chilly and reversing the fan because that's what these fans would do.
They would either blow in or they would blow out.
You young whippersnappers probably never had to deal with anything like that.
You're like, a window fan, what the hell is that?
But I would do that and, boy, that was some of the best sleep.
Now, during the wintertime, we had propane heaters, the standard propane heaters.
I believe there was one in the bathroom.
There was one in the living room.
And I believe there was one in my mom and dad's bedroom, which their bedroom connected right to my bedroom.
It was a really screwed up design.
So I didn't enjoy air conditioning until I was around 13 years old.
I had friends, of course, that had air conditioning.
I also had a friend who did not have air conditioning or they had targeted air conditioning.
And what I mean by that is they had window units.
And even when my wife and I got married, we wound up living in that same block house for a number of years.
And, you know, basically we had to put in something I did not know they had until I bought it at the time was they had a window heat pump.
And so we could get cool air during the summer and we could get some heat during the winter without having to rely on those propane heaters.
But, yeah, think about that.
Heat indices of 105 to 115 degrees right here in south central Georgia.
We're looking at 106 today.
And if you didn't have air conditioning, yeesh, that would be rough.
So, yeah, it kind of blows my mind when I find out that there are there are states, even in the United States, where there are still homes that do not have central heating and air.
You know, it's wild.
Now, at the same time, we have wildfire conditions that are remaining critical across the western United States.
We've got more than 50 major wildfires that have burned over 460,000 acres.
This includes Utah's Cottonwood Fire, which has grown beyond 93,000 acres with no containment.
Three firefighters were killed battling fast-moving fires near the Colorado-Utah border.
And forecasters are warning that the continued hot, dry, and windy weather is going to keep the fire danger extremely high across the Four Corners region.
Meanwhile, parts of the northern plains and upper Midwest are facing threats from severe thunderstorms and flooding.
But remember, ladies and gentlemen, climate change ain't real, right?
It's a hoax.
It's simply amazing what people will believe, even when it is presented to them, and they can see it with their own eyes.
You know, it just, it's, it's amazing.
It is amazing.
What do you think?
Here's my question to you, I guess.
How are you weathering this hot weather?
You staying indoors?
You checking on your neighbors?
Hopefully, you've got central air and central heat, or at least you've got some pretty good window units in the place that you live.
I have come to really, really enjoy mini-splits.
Not the kind that would make me sing Soprano, but the Pioneer, Mr. Cool, several of them, other ones, you know, make mini-split units.
And, you know, the typical one is, there's that head unit that you see mounted on the wall high up.
And then there's the small little compressor thing outside.
These are called inverters.
And you can, you can basically pick these things up.
The one I've got here ran me about 800 and something dollars.
And then I had a professional HVAC company put it in because these are designed and they are not a sponsor or an advertiser for the show.
I'm just, I'm just passing on some knowledge.
They are designed so that the average person can actually install them themselves.
The caveat is they won't have any warranty.
So if you want to make sure that the, I think it's a 10-year warranty is in force,
then you have to pay a little extra and have an HVAC company come out and install it for you
and sign off that they did that and then submit that paperwork to the company.
That's the way it was with Pioneer anyway.
And otherwise, you just, you take your chances.
You know, it could run for two, three, four years and then die on you and you're just SOL.
But yeah, I love mini-splits.
And the thing about the mini-split, now you can get them on up there like a couple thousand dollars
because they can do multi-zonal stuff and things like that.
But they can be targeted.
You can get them in 120-volt versions.
You can get them in the 220-240-volt versions.
This one's the 220-240 because it's going to be better on your power bill.
But if you just need to put one in a small room somewhere, drop about a thousand bucks,
you've got some cool air and heat.
They do both.
But yeah, I'm curious how you're weathering all of this heat
and how is it going to affect your celebratory plans if you had any come this Saturday, the 4th of July.
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It's me, Grady D, here with you on Tuesday, June 30th, 2026.
The very last day of the great month of June.
Did I say that right?
It's June 30th, right?
2026.
Tomorrow begins July.
I hope you're all doing well.
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All right, everybody.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room.
And we even have more of these things coming down today.
I know one of these cases is very, very important today.
And we're probably going to be on pins and needles trying to figure out which way they're going to go with this thing.
But yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down two significant election-related decisions, and they declined to hear President Donald Trump's appeal of the $5 million judgment in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case.
They ruled that states may continue counting mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day, but arrived afterward.
If I remember correctly, this had to do with the irony of the southern state, Mississippi, that has a law on the books that as long as a mail-in ballot was postmarked by the day of election, but was received a couple of days afterwards.
If the mail-in ballot was received a few days after, but it was postmarked by Election Day, then it is still tallied and counted.
The Republican National Committee sued, stating that that basically is unconstitutional.
And they kind of took the verbiage.
And the thing that you need to understand is states, again, are in charge of how they conduct elections.
It's the states, it's not the federal government.
Contrary to what Trump would have you believe, it is not the federal government.
You need to look back a couple of hundred years now.
The original intent of the federal government was to be more of a, let's see, how's the best way to say this?
The federal government that we have today is not the federal government that the founders and the writers of the Constitution envisioned.
They envisioned that the states would pretty much be autonomous.
But when it came to interstate commerce, conflicts between states, things of that nature, that's where the federal government would come in.
They would basically be the arbiter if you would.
And as things normally happen, you know, you gain more power and then we have the federal government that we have today in 2026.
And I'm not saying that the federal government we have today is 100% bad.
There's a lot that needs to be changed.
But one of the things is the federal government does not have the authority to mandate that states do X, Y, or Z when it comes to how they conduct their elections.
Even for federal offices like the president of the United States or senators that represent the state or members of Congress that represent certain districts of a state in the House of Representatives.
So when they go after a state that's saying, look, we know that mail-in ballots are safe, they're secure, there is no fraud there.
Every Republican commission that has been commissioned to look into this over the last 20 or 30 years has never found any fraud that even came close to a percent, a single percent.
It's like a drop in the huge, vast ocean.
It didn't matter.
You know, evil people are going to do evil things.
Untrustworthy people are going to do untrustworthy things.
You're always going to have somebody that's just going to say, screw the law, I'm going to do what I want to do.
You're always going to have that.
But when you look at everything about mail-in voting, it is easy, it is safe, and it is secure.
And contrary to what the right would have you believe, we're not the only country in the world that does mail-in ballots.
No, we are far from the only country that does mail-in ballots.
Remember, I even told you that there's one country I cannot remember off the top of my head.
They take an entire week to allow people to go vote.
It's that important to them, and it should be that important to us.
But the Supreme Court, believe it or not, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld Mississippi's law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted after Election Day.
Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, federal law establishes when voters must cast their ballots, not when election officials must receive them.
So the court concluded that Congress never prohibited states from accepting timely mailed ballots that arrived during a legally established grace period.
Of course, Trump criticized the ruling, calling it a tremendous loss.
And, of course, Justice Samuel Alito dissented, argued that post-Election Day ballot counting could weaken public confidence in elections.
You know who's weakening public confidence in elections?
The Republicans.
There was never any concern over our elections, the safety and security of our elections, especially when it came to mail-in ballots, until Trump started the nonsense back during his first run.
He was laying the groundwork so that if he did lose, which he, by all accounts, and everything that's been written by him and from people that were with him at the time, Trump did not expect to win the presidency for his first term.
He did not.
He just wanted to do it.
He wanted the notoriety.
I mean, this man loves media attention.
We know that.
All right.
He had no expectations that he won.
And when he found out he won, he was flabbergasted.
But he was already prepared to make it a spectacle by casting doubt on the integrity of the elections.
Fast forward to 2020, then January 6, 2021, the election was rigged.
There was absolutely no way that he could have lost to sleepy Joe Biden.
But he did.
Because time and time and time and time and time again, even for you right-wingers out there, you got to, you know, keep an open mind.
And you can really look at the evidence.
And the evidence shows the election was not rigged.
Trump actually lost.
He won in 2024.
It was not rigged then.
Because, of course, he won.
The thing that I have a problem with, with him talking about his winning his second term in office in 2024,
is the fact that he keeps touting this nonsense that he won by a landslide.
He did not win by a landslide.
He won by 1.6 percent of the popular vote.
That is not a landslide.
Now, that does get into the whole nonsense of the Electoral College, which I think personally should be abolished.
And we should implement ranked choice voting.
You can disagree with me all you want.
That's fine.
You're wrong.
You know, back to the E. Jean Carroll case.
By refusing to hear Trump's appeal, the court essentially leaves intact a jury's finding that he sexually abused and later defamed Carroll making the $5 million judgment final.
She also has another $83 million judgment against him that is currently in appeal.
He constantly claims he does not know who this woman is.
He never sexually abused her.
And honestly, even a judge has called it rape.
I'm not calling it rape because I don't want to get sued by the President of the United States.
But allegedly, based on what a judge has said, that the type of assault that he is alleged to have perpetrated on Ms. Carroll is rape.
So there's that.
They also ruled that the federal governor of the Federal Reserve Governor, Lisa Cook, cannot be fired by Trump while her lawsuit makes its way through the courts.
They basically said that she was never given an opportunity to defend herself because it's a bogus accusation.
For whatever reason, he seems to be going after these people under the pretense of mortgage fraud.
And every single time, all the evidence that is presented shows there was no fraud there.
None whatsoever.
So by the decision that they made yesterday, they made it clear that the Federal Reserve, as it was designed,
is truly independent from political pressures.
That was the entire idea.
It's an independent body, central bank.
Believe it or not, it was actually formed by a group of individuals on one of our islands down here in Georgia.
But they made it clear that the Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent and free of any type of political pressures.
However, the one I do not agree with, but it is what it is.
They ruled that the executive branch does have the power to fire the heads of other independent agencies, such as I forget her name.
I think her last name is Slaughter.
She was a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC, and he fired her.
And she sued saying, you don't have that power.
And I do not remember the name of the precedent, the case or what have you.
But the Supreme Court overturned a 90 plus year old precedent, something that actually came about because FDR, of all people, was trying to fire somebody, I believe, in the FTC at the time.
And that ruling basically said he couldn't.
Well, now this Supreme Court in 2026 has completely abolished that and said, yeah, no, the executive branch does have that power to fire the heads of these independent organizations because they apparently fall up under the executive branch and executive authority.
It's weird, it's honestly weird that they would go one way on the Federal Reserve and then go completely opposite, even destroying a 90, I think it's 92 or 93 year old precedent of the Supreme Court.
Just tossed it out the window and said, nah, we don't need that anymore.
So they did, they basically handed him additional presidential powers that you know he's going to take and just run balls to the wall and do whatever he can and basically say, well, the Supreme Court, let me do it.
The one today, I believe it's today, that everybody's got their eyes on is his attempt through executive order to essentially say that, I believe it's the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship, which does date back to the end of slavery.
And the entire concept there was, if you were born on U.S. soil and your parents were slaves, former slaves, then you are now a citizen of the United States.
Trump's argument is the fact that the way it works until he challenged it or attempted to rewrite the law, the amendment by executive action, which you cannot do, was that if someone was over here illegally, they came over from Mexico or Guatemala or wherever, and then they had children.
Well, currently, those children are seen by the federal government as citizens of the United States.
The idea being that if you can get your butt here to the United States, and let's say the woman is pregnant, and then you give birth on U.S. soil, then your child is a U.S. citizen and therefore enjoys all the amenities and rights and what have you of a citizen of the United States.
Trump's argument with his executive order is the fact that if the parents are here illegally, then the child, whether they're born on the soil of the United States or not, should not be considered a U.S. citizen because of the fact that their parents broke the law.
That's his argument.
So today, the 30th of June, the Supreme Court, I believe, is supposed to release their ruling on whether or not his executive order is unconstitutional or not.
That one's going to be interesting.
And I don't know about you, but I'm waiting with bated breath, as they say, to see which way this is going to go.
Now, if they go against Trump, fully expect an explosion on truth social as he truths how despicable and dumb the Supreme Court happens to be.
If they find in favor of him, well, he'll still explode all over the truth social, but he'll take that as permission to just wreak havoc, even more so than what he's already done when it comes to immigration.
Now, don't get me wrong.
I may be a Democrat.
I don't even know if I'm considered a progressive or not.
I do believe in social programs.
So to an extent, I might even I have a twinge of democratic socialism in me.
And I know socialism.
Oh, that's a bad word.
That's communism, right?
No, you fuckhead.
Communism and socialism are not the same thing.
Not at all.
But I don't know.
I don't even know where I was going with that, quite honestly.
I do believe that we have some work to do on our immigration laws.
I don't believe in open borders.
Most Democrats do not believe in open borders.
Most progressives do not believe in open borders.
We need our borders.
But we also need people to immigrate to the United States because, and I know this is a tired cliche, we are the melting pot of the world.
What made America strong and great is our diversity, bringing ideas from different parts of the planet.
And then the best of those ideas bubbling up to the surface is what has made this country great.
And so our policies for immigration have stifled that, which unfortunately, the same thing.
And here's here's a comparison.
It's a strange comparison, but here's a comparison.
When it comes to people who steal content online, download movies and TV shows and what have you.
Statistics have shown that the easier it is for someone to be able to find and actually pay for content online, they will do it.
But as soon as you start making it more difficult or more expensive, people with the skill set are going to go back to stealing it.
So I firmly believe we have the same situation when it comes to immigration.
It's too difficult.
There's too much red tape, too many hoops, too much of a time delay, if you will, for people to apply for, work toward and become legal citizens in the United States.
And because of those barriers, people would rather, especially if they're they're trying to escape some form of oppression, whether it's religious oppression, political oppression, whatever it is, war torn countries, for example.
They would rather attempt to come over our borders, deal with whatever the repercussions may be, be here illegally and run the risk of getting deported.
Then try to go through our convoluted immigration procedures and more than likely wind up getting killed or imprisoned before they can even become or even start the first steps toward being a citizen of the United States.
So I don't believe in open borders, as I said, but I do believe that we need to work on our.
We need a severe rejiggering of our immigration policies.
Anyway, that's my thoughts on the matter.
I sometimes get a little off, go, you know, down the beaten path, the unbeaten path, what have you.
But I'm curious to hear what you have to say.
What do you think about these rulings from yesterday?
Do you do you think the Supreme Court should have taken up Trump's appeal on this five million dollar E.
Jean Carroll defamation case?
Do you think the Supreme Court was right in stating that the Mississippi's law was just and correct and was not unconstitutional?
Do you agree that the Federal Reserve should be 100 percent independent as it was designed?
And therefore, let's let's think about it.
Lisa Cook is the first Fed Reserve governor in the history of the Federal Reserve that has ever been terminated or attempted to be terminated by a sitting president of the United States for, quote, cause.
That's not to say that the president can't initiate the procedure to do it, but he's got to have he's got to allow her the right to face her accuser and say everything that you're alleging, everything you're accusing me of is bullshit.
And as Legal Eagle says, I'll see you in court.
Let me know what you think.
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A lot of laws going into effect starting tomorrow right here in Georgia, beginning July 1st.
Georgia's updated medical cannabis law takes effect.
It expands both patient access and the range of qualifying medical conditions.
Senate Bill 220 replaces the term, quote, low THC oil with, quote, medical cannabis.
Throughout state law changes the legal possession limit from up to 20 fluid ounces of oil to products containing a combined total of no more than 12,000 milligrams of THC with individual retail packages capped at 1,200 milligrams.
This law also removes medical cannabis from certain provisions of Georgia's controlled substance laws, clarifying legal protections for registered patients.
It also significantly broadens eligibility for Georgia's medical cannabis patient registry by expanding or simplifying qualifying diagnosis.
Patients with any cancer except non-metastic skin cancer may now qualify, while previous, quote, severe or end-stage, end-quote, requirements have been removed from conditions including LLS, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease,
sickle cell disease, Tourette's syndrome, and peripheral neuropathy, as well as HIV.
The law also replaces Crohn's disease with the broader category of inflammatory bowel disease and adds lupus as a qualifying condition.
Another major change allows adults 21 and older to legally vaporize medical cannabis, reversing Georgia's previous prohibition on vaping.
Smoking or combusting medical cannabis still remains illegal.
Vaping is still prohibited for anyone under age 21.
And using your medical cannabis in any public place remains against the law.
So you can do it in the comfort of your own home, but don't be vaping or doing whatever in Walmart or any other public place.
So overall, the legislation has expanded patient access.
It's also modernized Georgia's medical cannabis program.
But it stopped short of legalizing recreational marijuana, which I am a supporter of.
I think marijuana should be completely removed off of every list all the way up to the federal level, which I know it was moved from a category one to what?
A category three by Trump via executive order.
I mean, the man actually makes some smart moves.
I don't know how.
I'm pretty sure it's not him.
But yeah, marijuana should not be.
Look at the history of marijuana and the reasons why it is where it is today.
You know what you'll find?
And I know I'll get some pushback on this, but it is the God's honest truth.
It was fueled by racism.
It's true.
It was fueled by racism.
As they say, do your own research.
But yeah, it should be it should be legal in every state.
And just I mean, tax it if you let's look at this.
The irony.
Cigarettes kill people.
Smoking is bad for you.
Lung cancer, other other various respiratory illnesses and diseases.
Yet, I can still go buy a pack of cigarettes, pay that excessive amount of tax that is on
that cigarette and I can smoke those things till the cows come home and it's not illegal, but
it will kill me eventually.
Yet something like marijuana or specifically marijuana is illegal, even though it's not going
to give me cancer and kill me.
All I can say is somebody's pockets definitely get lined in these two scenarios.
In one of these two scenarios, they do.
Anyway, at least, you know, in Georgia, we like to take baby steps.
And this is one more baby step toward hopefully legalizing recreational marijuana, starting
up an entire entire new industry here in the state of Georgia and filling up those coffers
at the state house and the state treasury.
Anyway, let me know what your thoughts are on that or anything we talked about in today's
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