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 and the truth, and the truth. And a little bit of humor. And a little bit of humor. Grab your coffee. It's time for the morning drip on WRTO.FM, Radio Free Georgia. Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the morning drip. It's me, Grady D here with you. If I could speak. Oh, I speak pretty today, don't I? It is Wednesday, July 1st, 2026.

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 We made it through June, everybody. We made it through June. And onward to July. Of course, coming up this Saturday is July 4th, the 250th anniversary, or birthday, however you want to say it,

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 I used to say we were the best country on the planet. Well, we're in the top five now, but we're still, I don't think there's any place else that I would rather have been born into, other than the United States. Maybe New Zealand. I don't know. Never been to New Zealand.

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 But yeah, it is 1st of July, everybody. And the temperatures are still oppressive. So take care of yourselves. If you're having to work outside, make sure that you take adequate breaks.

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 All right. Let's get started, shall we?

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 Okay. Yesterday, you know, this is the week of Supreme Court verdicts.

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 We've already had the one on Monday, the big one on Monday about mail-in voting in the states that allow mail-in ballots to be counted, even if they are received after Election Day.

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 All right. Well, they also started having a meltdown on this other big ruling yesterday, the Supreme Court.

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 And this one, everybody has been really, to me, I think this one was more important or let's just say the mail-in voting and the birthright citizenship question right there in the number one spots.

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 And we're going to get into a deeper dive of birthright citizenship, the 14th Amendment, as we get through this morning's broadcast, because the one thing that I think as Americans, where we fail personally, is our pseudo understanding of the Constitution of the United States.

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 I do not claim to be a constitutionalist, but I have decided years ago that it was important for me to be able to speak about these issues intelligently.

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 I know the jury's still out on that, right? But I needed to actually know what's in the Constitution.

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 But you need to read it from cover to cover at least once or twice to get a good sense of the brilliance of the founding fathers of this great nation.

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 So, of course, we're talking about the fact that Donald Trump, as soon as he got in to office the second time around, he had a crap ton of executive orders.

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 And one of them was essentially challenging birthright citizenship.

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 they are not considered a United States citizen, even if they're, I mean, she's given birth in an American hospital.

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 The president doesn't understand the Constitution.

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 They surprise you.

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 They either positively surprise you or they negatively surprise you with this court.

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 but any immediate change appears unlikely, given the court's interpretation of the 14th Amendment.

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 The court has spoken.

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 But you and I both know that's not true.

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 As I said, they're going to do whatever they can to come at this from a different angle.

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 When we come back, we're going to do a deep dive into the history of the 14th Amendment.

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 What is the language in there?

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

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 Hey, everybody.

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 Welcome back to The Morning Drip for Wednesday, July 1st, 2026.

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 It's me, Grady D., your humble host.

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 We're going to do a deep dive into the history of the 14th Amendment.

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 I know it's riveting stuff, right?

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 Our history is important.

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 No human being should ever own another human being.

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 which contains the most famous clause we know today.

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 So, it's like, you can be part of the United States, but you're just not going to be represented.

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 None of your interests are going to be represented unless you pass this amendment.

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 This is good for the entire country.

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 Amendment was now part of the United States Constitution.

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 and equal rights cases.

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 All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are

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 citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

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 of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without

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 due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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 The other thing that you can extrapolate or pull out of this Section 1 is subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

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 There has been an argument that when this whole, quote, illegal immigration purge started with Trump's second reign was that immigrants had no rights.

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 If you are here legally, you're visiting the country, you are subject to the jurisdiction of the state that you happen to be currently residing in.

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 You can still be arrested.

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 They have the same damn rights as you and I as citizens of the United States have subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

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 All persons born are naturalized.

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 It does not matter the impetus, the foundation of where Section 1 and the overall 14th Amendment came from.

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 We can agree that its original intent was to ensure that the newly freed slaves, the African-Americans, could have rights, could be seen as people, could move freely among the states in the United States.

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 They weren't treated or they were not supposed to be treated less than.

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 We still have that issue today.

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 Anybody that tells you that racism is not alive and well in the United States has not been paying attention.

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 I'm a white guy.

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 I'm a middle-aged getting up there.

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 Like I said, I'm 56.

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 I'm a Gen Xer.

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 And as a cis straight white guy, I can tell you, even though it doesn't affect me directly, racism is still alive and percolating here in the United States.

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 A stupid person is just convinced that they know what is right and refuse any other information.

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 So, quite honestly, if you're someone who can sit there and go, there ain't no racism in the U.S. anymore, you're stupid.

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 Plain and simple.

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 Now, there's four sections, as I said, of the 14th Amendment.

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 The second section, which I find is interesting.

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 The third section is also very interesting.

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 The second section, and as I was reading this one, I was like, wow, this definitely had to be superseded at some point.

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 Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers,

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 counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians, not taxed.

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 representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state,

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 or the members of the legislature thereof is denied to any of the male inhabitants,

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 of such state being 21 years of age and citizens of the United States are in any way abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crime,

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 the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state.

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 Essentially, it's saying if a state prevents any white male 21 years or older from voting, then the representation of that state will be reduced.

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 I don't know what you call them, but basically it's the it's the people that that think and a lot of it comes from the Christian right.

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 And look, I'm not hating on the Christian right in totality, but the segment of the Christian right that's like women shouldn't vote.

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 The man is the head of the household and he speaks for the entire household and he's the only one that should be voting.

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 I think those people need to be taken out behind the old woodshed and given a good talking to, if you know what I mean.

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 And so I'm looking at this and I'm like, surely, surely this has been superseded because we have women have voting rights.

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 And yes, parts of this were replaced by the 24th Amendment, 1964, the 19th Amendment by in 1920, which is which gave females, women.

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 I sound like a Ferengi females anyway, gives women the right to vote and the 26th Amendment in 1971.

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 So you had what's called the Native American exception.

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 The original 14th Amendment text, of course, said counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians, not text, not text.

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 This was effectively superseded by the 24th Amendment, 1964 and federal statute.

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 Originally, Native Americans living on reservations were considered were considered citizens of their own tribes and not subject to U.S. taxes.

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 In 1924, the Indian Citizenship Act granted full U.S. citizenship to all indigenous peoples born in the country.

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 The original 14th Amendment text of talking about male inhabitants being 21 years of age were changed by two amendments.

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 Again, the 19th Amendment, 1920, officially prohibited states from denying the right to vote based on sex, which overrode Section 2's explicit protection of only male voting rights.

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 Then we had the 26th Amendment, 1971, that lowered the national voting age from 21 to 18, which overrode Section 2's specific reference to citizens of 21 years of age.

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 So that's how Section 2 has been altered.

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 We also have what's called the dead letter clause, because Section 2 also contains a penalty clause stating that if a state denies the right to vote to eligible citizens, its seats in the House of Representatives would be reduced.

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 And while southern states routinely disenfranchised black voters for a century through literacy tests and poll taxes, Congress never actually enforced this penalty.

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 Instead, the country eventually passed the 15th Amendment, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to directly protect voting access rather than just reducing a state's political power.

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 And of course, what was it, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was pretty much just gutted by the Supreme Court in the last couple of weeks.

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 That's the reason why we've got so much freaking, well, part of the reason why we've got so much gerrymandering happening in, even in, especially here in southern states, where it's like, well, we've got this minority.

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 The minority is the majority in this district right here.

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 So the carve-out being this area predominantly have black citizens in it, and so therefore they're not getting a fair shake at representation if it's diluted.

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 And so the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has always been used to make sure that fair representation of all citizens of the United States.

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 The Supreme Court neutered that section pretty much, and so then a lot of southern states have started rewriting, redrawing their maps, and a lot of representation is being lost.

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 You'll hear terms like Jim Crow and how we're going back to that, and honestly, it does seem that way.

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 It really does.

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 Interestingly enough, Section 3, Section 3, no person shall be a senator or representative in Congress or elector of president and vice president or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States or under any state,

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 who, having previously taken an oath as a member of Congress or as an officer of the United States or as a member of any state legislature or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the United States,

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 shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

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 But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability.

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 This right here was brought up, I believe, after January 6th, and especially when it looked like, for all practical purposes,

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 that the sitting president at the time, the outgoing president at the time, encouraged all of his followers to ransack the Capitol.

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 Now, there are going to be folks out there that are like, well, this was not an insurrection.

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 It was just a protest.

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 It wasn't even a riot.

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 Look with your own eyes.

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 Look at all of the video footage that is there.

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 No intelligent, respectable individual can look at all of that footage and come away with going,

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 oh, they were just protesting.

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 No, they were literally crawling up the walls, attacking police officers, breaking windows, ransacking offices.

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 You can call it a riot if you want, if you don't want to go the step and call it an insurrection.

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 But I'm calling it an insurrection because you have an individual who is the most powerful person in the United States,

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 nay, the most powerful person in the world, telling rabid supporters of his, the election was stolen, fight like hell, march to the Capitol, and I'll join you.

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 And he didn't.

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 And it's only because of people on the right in the House of Representatives and in the Senate and governors of states,

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 their desire to either please dear leader or they're afraid of getting on his bad side.

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 That's the only reason why nothing went further on trying to point out that this man is guilty of basically treason.

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 If you look at Section 3, he held office, he took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States,

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 and the argument can be made that he engaged either in insurrection or rebellion against the federal government,

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 or he gave aid or comfort to the enemies.

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 That stupid-ass fund that they tried to basically create to pay out all the January Sixers in a weird way could be looked at as giving aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.

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 But then you run up against what the Supreme Court has already done about saying,

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 well, there's this thing called presidential immunity that if he's doing official acts for the office of the President of the United States,

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 he cannot be brought up on charges, which is one of the dumbest, along with Citizens United, rulings this Supreme Court has ever done, ever.

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 Now, granted, it's not this particular makeup of the Supreme Court that ruled in favor of Citizens United.

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 and so that a corporation can give money to PACs and candidates and things like that.

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 And, of course, that goes with the whole lobbying aspect of it, and it's so that they can show favor toward certain candidates

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 that they feel like will probably be in their corner, vote in their own interest type of thing.

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 So, that and the presidential immunity thing is, to me, one of the worst.

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 So far, you can argue about Roe v. Wade, but that's a separate discussion.

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 But those two rulings are the worst rulings in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States, in my opinion.

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 But, yeah, there's your breakdown dealing with the 14th Amendment.

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 There is a Section 4.

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 I'll read it real quickly, but it really doesn't have anything to do with anything that we're talking about.

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 Section 4 reads, and I was wrong.

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 There's actually Section 5, but Section 5 is basically just a single sentence.

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 The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services

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 in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

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 But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States,

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 or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave.

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 But all such dates, obligations, debts rather, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

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 That right there could connect to that fund that they were trying to do.

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 And finally, Section 5, the Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article.

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 It basically just says, hey, Congress can pass laws where this amendment can be enforced.

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 That's your breakdown of the 14th Amendment.

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 And so ultimately, it came down to where the Supreme Court did the right thing because it's hard to argue with.

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 I mean, when you look at persons, if you don't deem, even an illegal immigrant, someone who is in this country and did not come into this country legally,

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 they jumped the border, they jumped the fence, whatever, coyotes brought them over, doesn't matter.

425
00:38:08,540 --> 00:38:10,940
 They're not citizens, but they're still people.

426
00:38:10,940 --> 00:38:11,800
 They're persons.

427
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:21,200
 And if you don't believe that they are persons, then we got a whole nother bout of you being on the couch that needs to happen.

428
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:29,240
 So, in my opinion, and I think in the opinion of any intelligent being on this planet, especially here in the United States,

429
00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:31,080
 the Supreme Court did the right thing.

430
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:32,120
 They did the right thing.

431
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:40,840
 This entire administration is trying to treat entire swaths of people, groups of people, as less than people.

432
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:42,460
 And I personally don't like it.

433
00:38:42,460 --> 00:38:43,660
 I don't think it's right.

434
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:49,500
 And all we can do is show how disappointed we are in our leaders by voting.

435
00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:57,860
 And we have to continue to fight against any and all efforts that make voting more difficult.

436
00:38:57,860 --> 00:39:00,200
 It's not legal to have a poll tax.

437
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:06,420
 I don't have a problem necessarily of proving identity when you go to vote.

438
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:11,320
 I mean, I vote by mail, again, safe and secure, very convenient.

439
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,060
 But I have to prove with my driver's license.

440
00:39:15,060 --> 00:39:20,660
 I have to every time I send in an application because we're in a state where they don't just mail it out to you.

441
00:39:20,660 --> 00:39:22,540
 And again, I'm OK with that.

442
00:39:22,780 --> 00:39:25,420
 I do think it would be easier if they would just mail it out.

443
00:39:25,420 --> 00:39:32,720
 But, you know, the right wing has a heart on about that, saying, well, you're just sending out willy nilly and anybody can vote, right?

444
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:33,100
 No.

445
00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:39,620
 Even here in the state of Georgia where I have to submit an application to get an absentee ballot, I have to provide.

446
00:39:39,620 --> 00:39:46,600
 I have to take the form, fill it out, sign it, scan it back in, apply my.

447
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:52,400
 I have a scan of my driver's license, attach it into the appropriate location.

448
00:39:52,780 --> 00:39:54,120
 And I'm technically savvy.

449
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:55,360
 It's what I do for a living.

450
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,660
 So it's not difficult for me to do this.

451
00:39:57,660 --> 00:40:00,200
 But this is actually an additional stumbling block.

452
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,280
 But I'm OK with having to prove that I am a citizen in the United States.

453
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,980
 I live in the state of Georgia and even in Tifton.

454
00:40:07,980 --> 00:40:10,320
 So I have no problem with that requirement.

455
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:22,200
 However, if you're going to require identification for the sole purpose of being able to vote, you cannot require the person to have to pay to get that identification.

456
00:40:22,780 --> 00:40:24,880
 That is considered a poll tax.

457
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,800
 And you may be thinking, well, how is that considered a poll tax?

458
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:44,140
 Well, if you are forcing me to obtain a document documentation that proves that I'm a citizen of the United States, that I'm a citizen of the state of Georgia and that I have the right to vote, but it's going to cost me five, 10, 15 or 20 dollars.

459
00:40:44,540 --> 00:40:45,560
 That's a poll tax.

460
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:49,220
 We can we can require it, but it needs to be funded.

461
00:40:49,220 --> 00:40:52,460
 Pull some of the money out of the damn lottery if you need to.

462
00:40:52,460 --> 00:40:56,400
 I don't care, but you cannot force people to pay for it.

463
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,380
 Otherwise, it's illegal.

464
00:40:58,380 --> 00:41:01,320
 Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that deep dive into the 14th Amendment.

465
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:02,740
 Maybe you learned something.

466
00:41:02,740 --> 00:41:04,100
 We're going to take a quick break.

467
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:09,020
 I've got one more story that I want to cover before we get out of here and let you get on with your Wednesday.

468
00:41:09,020 --> 00:41:13,000
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469
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,720
 Phone lines are open probably for about another 10 minutes or so.

470
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,220
 You can text that same number 24-7.

471
00:41:19,220 --> 00:41:21,720
 Again, 229-520-5957.

472
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:23,580
 Or you can shoot me an email.

473
00:41:23,580 --> 00:41:25,400
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474
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,040
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475
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:36,820
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476
00:41:36,820 --> 00:41:38,140
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477
00:41:38,140 --> 00:41:40,800
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478
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,500
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479
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:44,560
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481
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482
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483
00:41:49,860 --> 00:41:51,860
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484
00:41:51,860 --> 00:41:52,920
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485
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,480
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486
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,840
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487
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:02,000
 Welcome back to the Morning Drip.

488
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:08,100
 It's me, Grady D, with you in our last segment for Wednesday, July 1st, 2026.

489
00:42:08,100 --> 00:42:10,680
 July 4th is this Saturday.

490
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,560
 I hope everybody is safe.

491
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,040
 I hope you have a good time Saturday.

492
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,540
 The weather is not going to be pleasant as far as the heat.

493
00:42:19,540 --> 00:42:26,320
 And though we no longer have any pets, it's something to be concerned about and make sure,

494
00:42:26,720 --> 00:42:27,540
 especially dogs.

495
00:42:27,540 --> 00:42:30,340
 Cats, I don't think, are bothered by this too much.

496
00:42:30,340 --> 00:42:35,420
 But when the fireworks start going off, and if they're going off in your neighborhood like

497
00:42:35,420 --> 00:42:39,860
 they have a tendency to do here in our neighborhood, you might want to bring your animals inside

498
00:42:39,860 --> 00:42:42,380
 because that can get a little upsetting to them.

499
00:42:42,380 --> 00:42:42,760
 All right.

500
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,160
 Last thing we want to talk about this morning before I let you get out of here.

501
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,060
 And this is something that I've talked about.

502
00:42:48,060 --> 00:42:49,920
 It affects me and my family.

503
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:55,360
 About 3 million fewer Americans are enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans than

504
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:56,800
 at the same point last year.

505
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:58,820
 This is according to new federal data.

506
00:42:58,820 --> 00:43:06,040
 Enrollment fell from 22.1 million in February of 2025 to 19.2 million in February of 2026,

507
00:43:06,420 --> 00:43:08,640
 which is a 13 percent decline.

508
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:16,920
 The latest numbers I've actually seen is we're up to about 5 million people are now off those that roster.

509
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,980
 And I want to say about 18 million have been dropped from Medicare and Medicaid.

510
00:43:20,980 --> 00:43:26,700
 Federal officials said the drop may partly reflect efforts to eliminate fraudulent or duplicate enrollments.

511
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:28,000
 That is bullshit.

512
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:35,200
 Health policy experts say the biggest factor was the expiration of the enhanced ACA premium subsidies on January 1,

513
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,260
 which caused insurance costs to rise sharply for many families.

514
00:43:38,260 --> 00:43:43,260
 I saw some reporting yesterday that said, you know, those premiums went up two to three times.

515
00:43:43,260 --> 00:43:45,220
 Ours went up 14 times.

516
00:43:45,220 --> 00:43:45,800
 All right.

517
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:46,420
 Roughly.

518
00:43:46,420 --> 00:43:48,360
 We went from paying.

519
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:54,680
 I went from paying about $175 for two policies, one for my wife and myself and one for my daughter who still lives at home,

520
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,960
 so if I wanted to keep it, it was going to be somewhere between $1,500 and $1,700 a month.

521
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:00,340
 The answer was no.

522
00:44:00,340 --> 00:44:02,320
 I could not do that.

523
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:06,540
 And this was a crappy policy, too.

524
00:44:06,540 --> 00:44:11,120
 It had like a $16,000 to $17,000 deductible.

525
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:12,100
 Yeah.

526
00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:12,760
 No.

527
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:13,540
 Not at all.

528
00:44:13,540 --> 00:44:20,860
 Researchers at KFF said many consumers saw monthly premiums double or even increase by triple-digit percentages.

529
00:44:20,860 --> 00:44:21,860
 Yep.

530
00:44:21,860 --> 00:44:23,100
 Exactly.

531
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:27,060
 Making coverage unaffordable and leading them to drop their plan.

532
00:44:27,060 --> 00:44:28,020
 We had no choice.

533
00:44:28,020 --> 00:44:28,720
 I've told you.

534
00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:29,640
 I've said this before.

535
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:33,120
 If I was diagnosed with cancer, it's been nice knowing you.

536
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:33,920
 Party on, dude.

537
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:40,980
 Because I'm not bankrupting this family just so that I can eke out another 10 to 20 years of life.

538
00:44:40,980 --> 00:44:42,960
 To hell with that.

539
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:49,700
 February figures represent the first official snapshot after insurers had time to remove people who failed to pay their first premiums of the year.

540
00:44:49,700 --> 00:44:51,620
 I mean, that was pretty much me.

541
00:44:51,860 --> 00:44:55,160
 I paid my last premium for December of last year because I owed it.

542
00:44:55,240 --> 00:45:03,780
 I paid it and they kept billing me to the point where I think the last invoice I got from them was like $5,000 or $6,000.

543
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:11,220
 And I kept, right, I kept, I put notes on the damn thing and kept sending it in and saying, look, cancel this.

544
00:45:11,220 --> 00:45:12,160
 I'm not paying it.

545
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:13,440
 I didn't renew this.

546
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:14,560
 You auto renewed it.

547
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:21,760
 The enrollment decline comes as health care affordability, of course, remains a major political issue of these November midterms.

548
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:33,100
 The ACA marketplace has become an important source of coverage for self-employed workers, me, gig workers, farmers, and others who do not have employer-sponsored insurance.

549
00:45:33,100 --> 00:45:37,800
 I haven't had employer-sponsored insurance since 2015.

550
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:44,760
 And of course, the loss of these enhanced subsidies has renewed debate over how to keep private health coverage affordable for middle-income Americans.

551
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:53,540
 You may not like the concept, you may think it's always socialism or communism or whatever, about single-payer, Medicare for all.

552
00:45:53,540 --> 00:45:54,940
 Is it a perfect system?

553
00:45:54,940 --> 00:45:55,600
 No.

554
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:56,660
 You can look at Canada.

555
00:45:56,660 --> 00:45:58,100
 You can look at England.

556
00:45:58,100 --> 00:45:59,380
 It's not perfect.

557
00:45:59,380 --> 00:46:03,660
 But it's a lot better than the system that we currently have right now.

558
00:46:03,660 --> 00:46:06,960
 The system we have is pay to live.

559
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:08,940
 That's exactly what we have.

560
00:46:08,940 --> 00:46:11,080
 It's pay to live.

561
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:18,460
 If you can't afford to pay, you don't live, which is denying a lot of people life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

562
00:46:18,460 --> 00:46:24,220
 Honestly, I think there should be some form of lawsuit that we can do based on the Constitution.

563
00:46:24,220 --> 00:46:25,120
 I don't know.

564
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:25,880
 I'm just saying.

565
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,020
 Anyway, that's going to wrap up today's broadcast.

566
00:46:28,020 --> 00:46:29,700
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00:46:29,700 --> 00:46:38,600
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00:46:45,780 --> 00:46:51,600
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574
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,920
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575
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:19,820
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576
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577
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578
00:47:24,620 --> 00:47:26,060
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579
00:47:26,060 --> 00:47:28,780
 Let's get this July started.

580
00:47:28,780 --> 00:47:31,220
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00:47:31,220 --> 00:47:31,800
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00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,020
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583
00:47:35,020 --> 00:47:35,740
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