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 And a little bit, and a little bit of humor, and a little bit of humor.

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 Hey everybody, welcome to another edition of The Morning Drip. It is me, Grady D,

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 here with you on this Tuesday morning. It is the last day of June, June 30th, and it

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 it is going to be hot. It's going to be hot. It's going to be hot.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 And today, look at the forecast. Today's forecast. High of 95. Real feel of 106. We had a real feel of 106 yesterday.

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 Now, before I get into it, I want to let you know that the phone lines are open.

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 Morningdrip at wrto.fm.

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 Talking about the weather.

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 We have a dangerous heat wave that is pretty much gripping a large portion of the United States.

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 62 million people across 35 states are facing heat alerts during this upcoming Independence Day holiday week.

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 A strong heat dome.

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 Something I had never even heard of until just a few years ago.

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 But a strong heat dome is expected to push temperatures into the upper 90s and low 100s.

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 From the Great Plains through the Midwest, the South, the Northeast.

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 We're talking cities like Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Orlando, Dallas, and Memphis.

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 The expectation is that they're going to have to endure several days of oppressive heat and unusually warm overnight temperatures.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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 says it's time to wake up, but you're still sleepwalking through life.

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 We're serving up unfiltered truth, questionable advice, and enough caffeine-fueled energy to power the entire Piedmont Plateau.

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 Weekdays, only on Radio Free Georgia.

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 Hey everybody, welcome back to The Morning Drip.

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 It's me, Grady D, here with you on Tuesday, June 30th, 2026.

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 The very last day of the great month of June.

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 It's June 30th, right?

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 One thing I want to bring to everybody's attention, we are broadcasting America 250, the soundtrack of Us, which is a four-hour special event put on by Stephen Edward.

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 And we're going to be doing it this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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 You can also, you have the Live 365 app.

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 Just pop that on your phone, search for WRTO Radio Free Georgia, and you can listen to it there.

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 But yeah, it's going to be four hours, starting with actually one of the very, I think, first commercial songs ever recorded or something like that.

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 There's a wide variety of songs there.

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 So again, it's America 250, the soundtrack of us, 2 p.m. on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th, right here on wrto.fm.

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 Let's talk about the elephant in the room.

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 I know one of these cases is very, very important today.

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 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.

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 They ruled that states may continue counting mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day, but arrived afterward.

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 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.

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 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.

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 The Republican National Committee sued, stating that that basically is unconstitutional.

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 And the thing that you need to understand is states, again, are in charge of how they conduct elections.

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 You need to look back a couple of hundred years now.

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 The original intent of the federal government was to be more of a, let's see, how's the best way to say this?

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 The federal government that we have today is not the federal government that the founders and the writers of the Constitution envisioned.

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 They envisioned that the states would pretty much be autonomous.

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 They would basically be the arbiter if you would.

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 And as things normally happen, you know, you gain more power and then we have the federal government that we have today in 2026.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 Untrustworthy people are going to do untrustworthy things.

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 But when you look at everything about mail-in voting, it is easy, it is safe, and it is secure.

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 And contrary to what the right would have you believe, we're not the only country in the world that does mail-in ballots.

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 No, we are far from the only country that does mail-in ballots.

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 Remember, I even told you that there's one country I cannot remember off the top of my head.

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 They take an entire week to allow people to go vote.

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 It's that important to them, and it should be that important to us.

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 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.

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 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.

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 So the court concluded that Congress never prohibited states from accepting timely mailed ballots that arrived during a legally established grace period.

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 Of course, Trump criticized the ruling, calling it a tremendous loss.

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 And, of course, Justice Samuel Alito dissented, argued that post-Election Day ballot counting could weaken public confidence in elections.

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 You know who's weakening public confidence in elections?

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 The Republicans.

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 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.

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 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.

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 He did not.

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 He just wanted to do it.

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 He wanted the notoriety.

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 I mean, this man loves media attention.

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 We know that.

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 He had no expectations that he won.

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 But he was already prepared to make it a spectacle by casting doubt on the integrity of the elections.

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 Fast forward to 2020, then January 6, 2021, the election was rigged.

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 There was absolutely no way that he could have lost to sleepy Joe Biden.

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 But he did.

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 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.

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 And you can really look at the evidence.

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 And the evidence shows the election was not rigged.

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 Trump actually lost.

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 He won in 2024.

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 It was not rigged then.

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 Because, of course, he won.

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 The thing that I have a problem with, with him talking about his winning his second term in office in 2024,

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 is the fact that he keeps touting this nonsense that he won by a landslide.

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 He did not win by a landslide.

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 He won by 1.6 percent of the popular vote.

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 That is not a landslide.

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 Now, that does get into the whole nonsense of the Electoral College, which I think personally should be abolished.

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 And we should implement ranked choice voting.

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 You can disagree with me all you want.

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 That's fine.

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 You're wrong.

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 You know, back to the E. Jean Carroll case.

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 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.

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 She also has another $83 million judgment against him that is currently in appeal.

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 He constantly claims he does not know who this woman is.

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 He never sexually abused her.

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 And honestly, even a judge has called it rape.

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 I'm not calling it rape because I don't want to get sued by the President of the United States.

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 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.

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 So there's that.

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 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.

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 They basically said that she was never given an opportunity to defend herself because it's a bogus accusation.

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 For whatever reason, he seems to be going after these people under the pretense of mortgage fraud.

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 And every single time, all the evidence that is presented shows there was no fraud there.

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 None whatsoever.

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 So by the decision that they made yesterday, they made it clear that the Federal Reserve, as it was designed,

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 is truly independent from political pressures.

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 That was the entire idea.

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 It's an independent body, central bank.

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 Believe it or not, it was actually formed by a group of individuals on one of our islands down here in Georgia.

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 But they made it clear that the Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent and free of any type of political pressures.

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 However, the one I do not agree with, but it is what it is.

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 They ruled that the executive branch does have the power to fire the heads of other independent agencies, such as I forget her name.

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 I think her last name is Slaughter.

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 She was a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC, and he fired her.

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 And she sued saying, you don't have that power.

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 And I do not remember the name of the precedent, the case or what have you.

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 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.

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 And that ruling basically said he couldn't.

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 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.

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 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.

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 Just tossed it out the window and said, nah, we don't need that anymore.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 Well, currently, those children are seen by the federal government as citizens of the United States.

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 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.

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 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.

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 That's his argument.

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 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.

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 That one's going to be interesting.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 Now, don't get me wrong.

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 I may be a Democrat.

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 I don't even know if I'm considered a progressive or not.

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 I do believe in social programs.

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 So to an extent, I might even I have a twinge of democratic socialism in me.

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 And I know socialism.

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 Oh, that's a bad word.

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 That's communism, right?

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 No, you fuckhead.

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 Communism and socialism are not the same thing.

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 Not at all.

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 But I don't know.

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 I don't even know where I was going with that, quite honestly.

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 I do believe that we have some work to do on our immigration laws.

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 I don't believe in open borders.

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 Most Democrats do not believe in open borders.

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 Most progressives do not believe in open borders.

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 We need our borders.

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 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.

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 What made America strong and great is our diversity, bringing ideas from different parts of the planet.

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 And then the best of those ideas bubbling up to the surface is what has made this country great.

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 And so our policies for immigration have stifled that, which unfortunately, the same thing.

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 And here's here's a comparison.

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 It's a strange comparison, but here's a comparison.

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 When it comes to people who steal content online, download movies and TV shows and what have you.

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 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.

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 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.

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 So I firmly believe we have the same situation when it comes to immigration.

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 It's too difficult.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 So I don't believe in open borders, as I said, but I do believe that we need to work on our.

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 We need a severe rejiggering of our immigration policies.

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 Anyway, that's my thoughts on the matter.

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 I sometimes get a little off, go, you know, down the beaten path, the unbeaten path, what have you.

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 But I'm curious to hear what you have to say.

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 What do you think about these rulings from yesterday?

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 Do you do you think the Supreme Court should have taken up Trump's appeal on this five million dollar E.

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 Jean Carroll defamation case?

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 Do you think the Supreme Court was right in stating that the Mississippi's law was just and correct and was not unconstitutional?

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 Do you agree that the Federal Reserve should be 100 percent independent as it was designed?

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 And therefore, let's let's think about it.

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 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.

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 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.

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 And as Legal Eagle says, I'll see you in court.

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 A lot of laws going into effect starting tomorrow right here in Georgia, beginning July 1st.

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 Georgia's updated medical cannabis law takes effect.

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 It expands both patient access and the range of qualifying medical conditions.

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 Senate Bill 220 replaces the term, quote, low THC oil with, quote, medical cannabis.

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 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.

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 This law also removes medical cannabis from certain provisions of Georgia's controlled substance laws, clarifying legal protections for registered patients.

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 It also significantly broadens eligibility for Georgia's medical cannabis patient registry by expanding or simplifying qualifying diagnosis.

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 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,

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 sickle cell disease, Tourette's syndrome, and peripheral neuropathy, as well as HIV.

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 The law also replaces Crohn's disease with the broader category of inflammatory bowel disease and adds lupus as a qualifying condition.

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 Another major change allows adults 21 and older to legally vaporize medical cannabis, reversing Georgia's previous prohibition on vaping.

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 Vaping is still prohibited for anyone under age 21.

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 And using your medical cannabis in any public place remains against the law.

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 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.

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 So overall, the legislation has expanded patient access.

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 It's also modernized Georgia's medical cannabis program.

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 But it stopped short of legalizing recreational marijuana, which I am a supporter of.

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 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?

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 A category three by Trump via executive order.

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 I mean, the man actually makes some smart moves.

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 I don't know how.

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 I'm pretty sure it's not him.

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00:38:53,780 --> 00:38:56,780
 But yeah, marijuana should not be.

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 Look at the history of marijuana and the reasons why it is where it is today.

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 You know what you'll find?

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 And I know I'll get some pushback on this, but it is the God's honest truth.

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 It was fueled by racism.

421
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 It's true.

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 It was fueled by racism.

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 As they say, do your own research.

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 But yeah, it should be it should be legal in every state.

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 And just I mean, tax it if you let's look at this.

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 The irony.

427
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,500
 Cigarettes kill people.

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 Smoking is bad for you.

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 Lung cancer, other other various respiratory illnesses and diseases.

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 Yet, I can still go buy a pack of cigarettes, pay that excessive amount of tax that is on

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 that cigarette and I can smoke those things till the cows come home and it's not illegal, but

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 it will kill me eventually.

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 Yet something like marijuana or specifically marijuana is illegal, even though it's not going

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 to give me cancer and kill me.

435
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 All I can say is somebody's pockets definitely get lined in these two scenarios.

436
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,580
 In one of these two scenarios, they do.

437
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 Anyway, at least, you know, in Georgia, we like to take baby steps.

438
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 And this is one more baby step toward hopefully legalizing recreational marijuana, starting

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 up an entire entire new industry here in the state of Georgia and filling up those coffers

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 at the state house and the state treasury.

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