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lousy t-shirt. No, you're going to have face painting for children. 00:03:06 Speaker 2: What do you want on your face painted? Can I have a teardrop? Oh, yeah. 00:03:10 Speaker 3: Three? 00:03:10 Speaker 2: Is that what you want? 00:03:11 Speaker 3: You're going to have face painting for the children, hot dogs for the families, and the message to elected officials are, we're going to eat you. I mean, what in the world happened to political discourse in this country? 00:03:24 Speaker 6: Oh, no. 00:03:25 Speaker 2: No, that's not how the Democrat Party gets ahead. 00:03:27 Speaker 3: That was not on the ballot. That was not on the ballot this past week. But I want to be fair about something. 00:03:32 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:03:33 Speaker 3: Look, the phrase we will eat you may be intended as a provocative political rhetoric rather than a literal threat of violence. 00:03:42 Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think they're going to go into cannibalism. 00:03:44 Speaker 3: But we shouldn't assume that a protest is... is going to become violent just because the organizers use this kind of language. You know, that's all I'm saying. 00:03:51 Speaker 5: No, I just assume the protest is going to become violent because it's organized by far leftists. And that's what I've seen in political protest organized by far leftists for, what, 20 years now? 00:04:03 Speaker 3: Okay, so let's look at what these activists are demanding. They want the Trump administration officials impeached and persecuted. 00:04:12 Speaker 2: All of them. 00:04:12 Speaker 3: I mean prosecuted. Excuse me. Freudian slip there. They want funding cut for all Department of Homeland Security operations. All. 00:04:24 Speaker 6: All. 00:04:25 Speaker 3: They want Democratic leaders, Hakeem Jeffries. 00:04:28 Speaker 2: By the way, real quick, let's talk about some of the Departments of Homeland Security. The Coast Guard. 00:04:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, they say all. 00:04:35 Speaker 4: FEMA. 00:04:36 Speaker 3: All Department of Homeland Security operations. FEMA. 00:04:39 Speaker 6: Yes. Yes. 00:04:40 Speaker 2: They want, that's within the Department of Homeland Security. 00:04:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely. 00:04:44 Speaker 2: This isn't just ICE operations. 00:04:45 Speaker 3: No, that's what it says right here. It says cut funding. 00:04:49 Speaker 2: It's what it says on their flyer. 00:04:50 Speaker 5: They want to cut all the funding for the, if you don't cut all the funding for the Coast Guard and prevent FEMA from being able to rescue people from hurricanes, we're going to eat you? 00:05:00 Speaker 3: Well, and they also want Democratic leaders, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer replaced. Apparently they are far too moderate. They want Congress to vote on abolishing ICE. They want to vote on Medicare for All. 00:05:15 Speaker 5: Well, look, if you get rid of the Department of Homeland Security, you don't have to abolish ICE. It's part of the Department of Homeland Security. 00:05:20 Speaker 3: And in language on this flyer that I won't repeat entirely on the radio, they're telling Democrats to grow a backbone. Think about that. Democrats just want control of Congress. They've been handed an extraordinary political opportunity. And before the new Congress has even been sworn in, you've got activists within the Democratic Party already declaring that Democratic leadership isn't radical enough. 00:05:48 Speaker 5: Because the Democrat Party's activists are following the color revolution playbook that Elise Slotkin, by the way, helped develop when she was in the CIA. She knows damn well how this game plays out. 00:06:04 Speaker 2: She's released it. She's part of it. 00:06:06 Speaker 5: So, yeah, of course they want to impeach everybody in the Trump administration. They don't just want to impeach everybody in the Trump administration. They want to throw 20-year-old baron Trump in prison because his last name is Trump. 00:06:19 Speaker 3: Okay, but all of these groups, and by the way, Within the Democratic Party, they're not one unified movement, not by a long shot. They're not. There are moderate Democrats. There are traditional liberals. 00:06:29 Speaker 2: There's like five moderate Democrats. 00:06:31 Speaker 3: There are progressive Democrats. There are democratic socialists. There are activists that believe the entire political system needs to be burned to the ground, fundamentally transformed. 00:06:41 Speaker 5: There are Muslim radicals. There's the Somali fraud group. There is the Free Palestine group. 00:06:49 Speaker 3: Well, all of these groups that we're describing— I think they all agree that Donald Trump is evil, right? They can all get behind... I don't. 00:06:59 Speaker 2: Think the five moderates. 00:07:00 Speaker 5: I don't think John Fetterman thinks that Donald Trump is evil. 00:07:03 Speaker 3: Okay, we won't include John Fetterman. 00:07:06 Speaker 2: Okay, I want to be fair. 00:07:07 Speaker 3: But my point is, all of these groups might agree on opposing Donald Trump, but they don't necessarily agree about what governing should look like. Right, but the DSA. 00:07:19 Speaker 5: Wants to be the dominant force in the Democrat Party. Basically, the DSA couldn't create its own Communist Party in the United States. So what they've done is they've taken over the party apparatus of the Democrat Party so they can forward the agenda that is anti-democratic. That's the playbook that's going on here. 00:07:37 Speaker 3: Okay, but for example, you cannot be serious about taking a sledgehammer— To the Department of Homeland Security. 00:07:46 Speaker 5: If you want illegal immigrants so that you can have unlimited votes, then that's one of the things you have to do. 00:07:53 Speaker 2: This isn't about principle. This is about power. 00:07:56 Speaker 3: So who suffers if essential government services stop functioning? I mean, as far as our national security is concerned. 00:08:03 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:08:04 Speaker 3:

Ordinary Americans. 00:08:05 Speaker 5: Okay, but the Communist Party needs people to suffer in order to give an excuse for the Communist Party to exist. If everything's working great, there's no need to give up all of my freedoms. But if things are awful and the government can then convince me I have to give up all of my freedoms, well, now we can have a communist government come in. 00:08:24 Speaker 2: Remember, in the Soviet Union, they didn't get their revolution... Until World War I, and they were losing World War I, which is when the revolution came. In communist China, they didn't get the revolution until after World War II when the country had been decimated and everybody was in trouble. You cannot convince a free and prosperous people to give up their freedom, but you can convince a free and poor, downtrodden, harmed people to give up their freedom. 00:08:52 Speaker 3: That's what they're counting on. I guess so. So you know what? Enjoy your hot dogs this weekend. Enjoy the music and the face painting, but just remember something. 00:09:01 Speaker 2: They may taste like Hakeem Jeffries. 00:09:02 Speaker 3: No, you cannot build a better country by threatening to devour everybody who disagrees with you. 00:09:08 Speaker 2: Let's get to the top three things you need to know. 00:09:16 Speaker 5: The number of people applying for unemployment benefits continues to fall across the country. Last week, 189,000 people applied for first-time unemployment benefits, according to the Labor Department. 00:09:25 Speaker 2: That's the fewest since mid-July. 00:09:27 Speaker 5: Claims this year have been at historic lows pretty much all year long, coming in below 200,000 a week for eight weeks in a row. The last time unemployment claims were this low was in the late 1960s, when there were 100 million fewer people in the country. 00:09:44 Speaker 3: Again, this is data that supports that the economy in this country is far better than perhaps many Americans felt that it was. But that is a feeling. And I know a lot of folks say, oh, it's not a feeling when I can't pay my mortgage, when I can't pay my car note. I get that. But again, inflation due to the cost, higher cost of gasoline. 00:10:05 Speaker 2: Joe Biden drove up your inflation. 00:10:07 Speaker 5: For most things, if your car note's too big, you've got to blame Barack Obama. Cash for clunkers is part of that, and all the. 00:10:13 Speaker 2: EPA stuff he did. That's what drove up your car prices. Second thing you need to know, Assistant U.S. 00:10:18 Speaker 5: Attorney General Harmey Dillon is resigning. Dillon told Fox News she asked to resign three weeks ago, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles asked her to wait until after the midterms. Dillon says she has accomplished all she wanted to accomplish inside the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. and would now like to return to private practice. Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote on X, she has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor. The department is grateful for her dedicated public service, and we wish her every success in her future endeavors. 00:10:46 Speaker 3: So what do you think about that? 00:10:48 Speaker 5: I think she has done a good job at the Department of Justice. I think it's a blow to see her go. But look, most people working in top levels of an administration only serve about two years on average. 00:11:00 Speaker 3: Pretty intense. 00:11:01 Speaker 2: It's a pretty intense job. 00:11:03 Speaker 5: And the third thing you need to know, Democrat California, Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom commuted all of the sentences for all of the people on death row in his state. Governor Newsom issued his executive authority to reduce the penalty for 548 convicted murderers from death to life in prison. Newsom said in a statement, many Californians feel that those who commit brutal crimes deserve to die. But as governor, I have concluded the state cannot morally kill them. California has not executed anyone since January of 2006, despite having hundreds of people sentenced to die by juries. 00:11:38 Speaker 3: You know, I'm not quite sure when Gavin Newsom became so moral. I'm not saying I disagree with the decision, but at the same time, I don't know. 00:11:46 Speaker 5: Well, look, if it's morally wrong to put someone to death who committed murder, it's also morally wrong to put someone to death who hasn't been born yet and hasn't harmed anyone. 00:11:56 Speaker 1: You're listening to American Ground Radio. 00:12:01 Speaker 6: Now boarding nonstop flights to Chicago from Shreveport Regional Airport. 00:12:05 Speaker 7: Whether you're looking for an easy weekend getaway, want to enjoy world-class dining and shopping, or connect to more than 200 cities worldwide, getting to Chicago from the Arklatex has never been easier. United Airlines will start offering daily nonstop flights to Chicago from Shreveport in October, and tickets are on sale right now. Book your flights at United.com. 00:12:26 Speaker 6: Shreveport Regional Airport. More flights to more places more often. 00:12:43 Speaker 2: Welcome back to American Ground Radio. I'm Stephen Paul with Louis R. 00:12:45 Speaker 8: Avalone. 00:12:46 Speaker 3: You know, this has me really fired up, but I've seen it time and time again. So have you. So has our audience. You know, making history in America, apparently it's only worth celebrating if you've got the right letter beside your name. And by right letter, I mean the letter D. 00:13:02 Speaker 6: Okay. 00:13:02 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:13:03 Speaker 3: Florida just elected its first black governor. 00:13:06 Speaker 6: Yes. 00:13:06 Speaker 3: Republican Byron Donalds. And by the way, Governor-elect Donalds, congratulations. 00:13:13 Speaker 5: Yeah, he was a very good congressman. I think he's going to be a good governor. He seems to be following in the same conservative ideas that have turned Florida from the

perennial purple state into the only large red state left in America. 00:13:25 Speaker 3: Let me underscore what I said earlier. 00:13:27 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:13:27 Speaker 3: He is the first black governor- of Florida. 00:13:31 Speaker 2: Elected mostly by Republicans. 00:13:33 Speaker 3: This is a historic achievement in one of America's largest and most important states, a black American rising to the highest office in Florida's state government. And it should be recognized, it should be celebrated, regardless of his political affiliation. But apparently, that's not good enough for some people on the left. Because MS Now, they apparently said, you know, all kinfolk ain't Skinfold. 00:13:59 Speaker 2: That's a direct quote from what one of their pundits said. 00:14:02 Speaker 3: Yeah, Simone Sanders Townsend was responding to this historic victory on Tuesday night. And isn't that interesting? I mean, for years we've been. 00:14:12 Speaker 2: Oh, interesting is not the right word. 00:14:13 Speaker 3: No, it's... Isn't that racist? It's disgusting. 00:14:16 Speaker 2: Isn't that despicable? 00:14:17 Speaker 3: Absolutely. 00:14:18 Speaker 2: Isn't that 18th century thinking? 00:14:21 Speaker 3: Because we've been told, I mean, and to some degree they're right, but maybe for the wrong reasons. that diversity matters, that breaking racial barriers matter. I get all of that. But apparently when a black Republican makes history, suddenly there are qualifications. Suddenly celebration comes with an asterisk. I mean, the question isn't whether this man is accomplished. It's whether he holds the political opinions that somebody else thinks that a black American ought to hold. And I found that that is astonishing to me. 00:14:56 Speaker 5: I would be astonished if I hadn't been paying attention to what the Democrat Party has been about for a long time. 00:15:04 Speaker 2: They only will support you if you are a part of their party. 00:15:10 Speaker 5: So if you are a racist white person like Graham Plattner, okay, that's fine. We'll nominate you to run for Senate. If you are a racist black person like this MS Now. 00:15:23 Speaker 2: Person, great, that's fine. We'll support you. 00:15:26 Speaker 5: If you are not racist, but you're white and you're a Republican, well, you're evil. And if you are not racist, but you're black and you're Republican, well, skinfolk ain't kinfolk. 00:15:36 Speaker 3: You know, when I said earlier that we both can agree that diversity is good, but maybe for different reasons. And the reason... that it's different for us as conservatives is because we don't demand uniformity of thought. 00:15:48 Speaker 2: But see, that's what conservatives want. 00:15:51 Speaker 3: We actually embrace diverse thoughts. 00:15:54 Speaker 5: We want diversity of thought because if your ideas don't stand up to scrutiny, you. 00:15:59 Speaker 2: Have bad ideas. 00:16:01 Speaker 5: That's why we need diversity of thought. The Democrats don't want diversity of thought, and that's why they have a whole bunch of bad ideas. We got a question for American Mamas. Dear Mamas, what do you think about Russell Brand being found guilty of rape? 00:16:14 Speaker 3: Well, let's ask our American Mamas. 00:16:17 Speaker 7: Mamas, Mamas, Mamas. 00:16:22 Speaker 3: And I told him not to come. 00:16:25 Speaker 2: She said, that ain't. 00:16:27 Speaker 3: The way to happen, no. 00:16:29 Speaker 2: And joining us now are American Mama Terry Netterville. So Russell Brand was. 00:16:35 Speaker 5: I think he used to describe himself as being hedonistic, as being kind of an awful person. He was obviously a famous actor. The movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Somebody... He's a comedian. 00:16:47 Speaker 2: He's a comedian. Get Somebody to the Strand. I don't remember the name of that film. And then. 00:16:54 Speaker 5: Within the last five years or so, ten years, he had literally a come-to-Jesus moment, completely changed how he viewed the world, gave himself over to Christ, was quoting Scripture. He had a podcast where he was talking about Scripture. And then the rape charges came, and this week he was just found guilty of raping a woman in, what, 2004? 00:17:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. 00:17:19 Speaker 9: Like almost 30 years ago. Yeah, 20 years ago. 00:17:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, 20 years ago. 00:17:24 Speaker 8: I don't know if you have not kept up with this case. It's pretty tragic all the way around. 00:17:30 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:17:31 Speaker 8: Because you see things happen like this where, you know, men are accused of rape. If they are a Democrat at a high level, like let's say Alec Baldwin, if that had been a Republican that shot that gun, they would be in jail. But when you're a Democrat, you don't have to suffer any consequences. So here's what you need to know about this whole case. There was a documentary that was done in Europe, I think it's on Netflix, about Bran, about these alleged rape cases. 00:18:04 Speaker 5: And this documentary came out after his conversion to Christianity, after his becoming a conservative. 00:18:09 Speaker 9: Yeah, that's what people need to know too. 00:18:10 Speaker 8: He not only became a Christian, but once he had clarity of the mind, he started thinking more like a Republican, and then he changed all the way to conservative. He's very bright, very intelligent. So on the podcast, he would have people on there. He's so highly intelligent that Every single point they would make, he would have a counterpoint that made more sense. So they knew that he was swaying people, not only to Christianity, but also to the right. 00:18:33 Speaker 2: He was. 00:18:34 Speaker 8: So this documentary that they had, you have to understand, these women, they never brought this case forward. They never shared it with anybody. They never said, he raped me. The documentary had actors and actresses. So instead of having the real a real documentary where you have the actual people. 00:18:57

Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:18:58 Speaker 9: And you can kind of tell about their, you know, it's kind of like that E. Jean Carroll. 00:19:01 Speaker 8: You can tell she's kind of kooky. Well, in this instance, they had a script. These actresses were able to act like. 00:19:07 Speaker 2: They did a reenactment. 00:19:09 Speaker 9: They did a reenactment. And if you're an actress, you can really do it. 00:19:12 Speaker 8: If you're the person, you can tell by the inflection or the tone or the awkwardness at certain times. So I'm not going to graph it because it's really gross, the things that they did, the things they allegedly did. But these women went to his show and they would go to his room, to the back room right after that show, meet him right there, and they. 00:19:31 Speaker 9: Would end up doing things. 00:19:33 Speaker 8: So I think that when the documentary came out, somebody had a vendetta against him because he was moving people towards Christianity, moving them to the right. So they did this documentary that was so unbelievably. 00:19:45 Speaker 9: Treacherous and terrible. And they had that music, you know. 00:19:47 Speaker 8: When yeah when you put music behind it right he looked guilty as homemade sin and he's up there saying wait a minute these they came to my room that this one invited me to her hotel room if i if i raped her then why did she go with me to go watch a movie the next day why did this one ride with me to go to a restaurant with some friends why did this one meet my mom If you're raped, do you do that? 00:20:09 Speaker 9: Do you say, Leo, I'll go with you to meet some friends at a bar? 00:20:13 Speaker 6: No. 00:20:13 Speaker 8: So this is one of those me-too things. If you heard any of that courtroom drama, the judge made up his mind before any case was even presented in front of him. And one of the things that happened is Russell Brand's attorney, I think they're called the barristers. 00:20:32 Speaker 9: The barristers, yes. 00:20:34 Speaker 8: His barrister started talking, you know, what is it when you press the defendant or whatever, when he's cross-examining or whatever? 00:20:41 Speaker 2: You're cross-examining, yeah. 00:20:42 Speaker 8: The judge stopped it, and he said, don't you see that this is not okay because the girl was crying her eyes out? 00:20:48 Speaker 6: I don't remember. 00:20:49 Speaker 8: I don't remember. So he was already indicating to the jury who he thought was guilty in this thing. And they wouldn't let him bring up things that the women said in other cases. The whole thing was a sham. 00:21:04 Speaker 2: And the judicial system in Britain is broken now. 00:21:07 Speaker 9: For sure. 00:21:09 Speaker 5: I don't know specifically about this case, but there's a whole bunch of other things going on. 00:21:13 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:21:14 Speaker 2: And if you are a conservative in Britain, you're going to jail for tweets. 00:21:19 Speaker 1: Yes. 00:21:20 Speaker 9: It's unbelievable. 00:21:21 Speaker 8: And let me tell you, this should be a warning to all men, too, over there. Be careful, because a scorned woman, they can take you in and put you in jail. 00:21:27 Speaker 5: And that is part of what Russell Brand said, was that before he became a Christian, he was doing a whole bunch of stuff he's embarrassed about. 00:21:34 Speaker 3: Yes. 00:21:35 Speaker 2: But that doesn't necessarily mean he committed rape, because he did plead not guilty to all this. 00:21:39 Speaker 8: Right. 00:21:40 Speaker 5: He's been found guilty, and the same judge you're talking about said, you're going to go away for a. 00:21:44 Speaker 2: Long, long time. 00:21:45 Speaker 9: Yeah, I wouldn't even let him think about his daughter's. 00:21:48 Speaker 5: If you'd like to ask our American Mamas a question, go to our website, AmericanGroundRadio.com slash Mamas, and click on the Ask the Mamas button. 00:21:52 Speaker 2: Terry Nettoville, thank you so much. 00:21:54 Speaker 1: You're listening to American Ground Radio. Because of you, American Ground Radio is hurting more markets than you can shake a stick at, which in California is now considered a microaggression against trees. 00:22:10 Speaker 2: Fire up the chainsaw, fellas! Welcome back to American Ground Radio. I'm Stephen Paul with Lewis R. 00:22:28 Speaker 7: Avalone. 00:22:29 Speaker 3: You know, this past week's election results, you know, every single day I think of another way of looking at what happened. 00:22:37 Speaker 9: Okay. 00:22:38 Speaker 3: Unpacking it. You know what I mean? The more you think about it, you're like. 00:22:42 Speaker 2: Oh, this is what this means. 00:22:43 Speaker 3: I didn't see that before. Exactly. 00:22:45 Speaker 5: Okay. 00:22:46 Speaker 3: And I think, I think, You've heard the phrase, you know, the best way to win an argument sometimes is to avoid getting in one in the first place. That's kind of tongue-in-cheek, but I think that's what the Democrats did in the midterm elections because Republicans were busy talking about immigration and border security and deportations, and Democrats avoided the topic altogether. 00:23:12 Speaker 5: Yeah, I challenge you. What was the number one topic that Democrats campaigned on? 00:23:18 Speaker 3: Your grocery bill. Your rent. 00:23:20 Speaker 2: Nothing. 00:23:21 Speaker 3: No, they talked about affordability. 00:23:23 Speaker 5: They did talk about affordability, but it was just in random, in very vague terms. 00:23:29 Speaker 2: There really wasn't a full campaign message from the Democrat Party. It was just. 00:23:35 Speaker 3: And it worked. 00:23:36 Speaker 2: And it worked. 00:23:37 Speaker 3: It worked beautifully. 00:23:38 Speaker 6: Right. 00:23:38 Speaker 3: And it's what they deliberately not, it's what they deliberately chose not to talk about. 00:23:44 Speaker 6: Right. 00:23:45 Speaker 3: You know, immigration was the third most prominent issue in Democratic primary advertising. 00:23:52 Speaker 6: Okay.

00:23:52 Speaker 3: So, but when, that was during the primary, but when they moved into the general election. Yeah. You know, where they had to appeal to independents and Republican-leaning voters. 00:24:03 Speaker 2: Crickets. 00:24:04 Speaker 3: Immigration dropped to like 35th percent, or 35th place, rather. 00:24:09 Speaker 2: They didn't talk about how they're. 00:24:10 Speaker 5: Going to open up the border and allow illegal immigrants back in the country. But that's what they want to do. 00:24:16 Speaker 3: And I guess, to some degree, when your opponent has an advantage on an issue— You don't spend your whole campaign fighting on his or her strongest ground. Instead, you change the subject. You move the game, right? We're not playing over here. We're not playing over here. We're playing over here where we're talking about affordability. We're talking about how much money you have at the end of the month. 00:24:38 Speaker 2: Democrats are very good at that. 00:24:39 Speaker 5: That's why they change the plain meaning of words is so that they can fight on ground that's better suited. If they had to use the words that were already in existence, they would lose the argument. Again, going back to the abortion issue. If you had to argue that I'm going to kill a human being simply because somebody else finds that human being to be inconvenient, you would lose that argument. But you go, no, no, no, no, my body, my choice. Well, okay, I'm not telling you what to do with your body. I'm telling you what not to do to somebody else's body. But they've changed the meaning of the plain words. They've changed the battlefield so that they can win the argument. 00:25:12 Speaker 3: So Democrats, just because you won the election doesn't– just because you won the election by avoiding the issues– Doesn't mean you've resolved the issues. And now you've won. You're going to have to govern. And that means you're going to have to make decisions about immigration enforcement. 00:25:30 Speaker 5: And if your decision is we're going to end immigration enforcement, your reign in Washington will be two years and that's it. 00:25:39 Speaker 2: Let's get to a Digging Deep. Working in a coal mine. 00:25:43 Speaker 8: Going down, down, down. 00:25:45 Speaker 2: Working in a coal mine. 00:25:47 Speaker 5: All right, one of the biggest consequences of the Republican meltdown this week is going to be the makeup of the U.S. 00:25:51 Speaker 2: Supreme Court in the future. Okay. 00:25:54 Speaker 5: This loss was devastating to the conservative cause on the Supreme Court, and it could actually end up with control flipping to the leftists on the court in the next six years. Justice Samuel Alito is. 00:26:05 Speaker 2: 76 years old. 00:26:06 Speaker 8: Okay. 00:26:07 Speaker 2: Justice Clarence Thomas is 78. Now go out six years. That's 82 and 84. 00:26:12 Speaker 5: Only nine Supreme Court justices in U.S. history have been on the court past the age of 82. Only six have made it

past the age of 84. Right now, Democrats are set to control 54 seats in the Senate. That could be as high as 56 when Alaska and Mississippi are finally decided. You need a majority vote to get a justice approved, so there's no way. President Trump will get a conservative justice like Alito or Thomas approved. He won't get anyone to the right of John Roberts approved. It's likely the Democrats keep the seat empty, hoping to win the White House in 2028 should there become a vacancy in the next two years. But what about after 2028? In 2028, there are 15 Democrat Senate seats up for election that year. There will be 19 Republican Senate seats up for election. So already the Republicans are at a disadvantage. If you want to get a conservative on the Supreme Court, you got to have a majority in the Senate. The Republicans are at a disadvantage. So what seats are the Democrats up in? Here's what we're looking at for Democrats. It's Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, and Oregon. 00:27:17 Speaker 2: Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington. So you can write off several of those seats as out of reach for Republicans right now. 00:27:23 Speaker 3: California? 00:27:23 Speaker 2: No way. Colorado? 00:27:25 Speaker 6: Nope. 00:27:25 Speaker 5: Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington. Those are all going to stay Democrat. You're not going to get a Republican senator out of those states. 00:27:34 Speaker 2: Am I wrong in that? 00:27:34 Speaker 3: No, I think you're absolutely right. 00:27:36 Speaker 6: Okay. 00:27:36 Speaker 5: So that leaves Arizona, Georgia, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Now let's say Republicans are able to win all of those states. 00:27:45 Speaker 2: That's five seats. 00:27:47 Speaker 5: If the Democrats pick up Mississippi and Alaska, they'll still have control of the Senate by one seat. If they only win one of those Senate seats that's still left to be decided, but win the White House in 2028, they will also maintain control of the Senate. So the only hope of being able to replace either Alito or Thomas with a real constitutional conservative is if Republicans win at least one of the races in Mississippi and Alaska and all five of those races in 2028 and the White House. 00:28:14 Speaker 3: So Justice Thomas is 78 years old. Yeah. Justice Alito is 76 years old. 00:28:20 Speaker 6: Right. 00:28:21 Speaker 3: We need to keep them healthy. 00:28:23 Speaker 2: Yes. 00:28:24 Speaker 5: They got to stay in at least two more years. Now, I said you got to win all five, right? Well, let's look at those five races. The best shot's probably Ohio. Sherrod Brown just won that seat in a special election. He lost his Senate seat from Ohio Republicans before. And if Republicans aren't looking at a wave election against them, maybe they got a chance of unseating him again since he's only back for two years. Odds at this point, though,

50-50, right? 00:28:48 Speaker 2: Is that fair? 00:28:48 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:28:49 Speaker 3: No, you're right. 00:28:50 Speaker 5: Pennsylvania, John Fetterman's up. Now, I don't think Fetterman changed his party, but he could lose his primary because he's. 00:28:55 Speaker 2: Going to get primary. 00:28:56 Speaker 5: Now, maybe Republicans are able to put up a good candidate against a far-left DSA candidate and flip that one, too. 00:29:01 Speaker 2: If they're up against Fetterman, I don't know. I think he holds a seat. 00:29:04 Speaker 3: Unless Fetterman flips and becomes an independent or a Republican. 00:29:09 Speaker 2: He might become an independent. He's not going to become a Republican. 00:29:12 Speaker 5: New Hampshire just had its best chance of going red with a Sununu running and they came up short. In Georgia, Raphael Warnock is running and Georgia now looks more like a blue state than a red one. In Arizona, Mark Warner is running and again, Arizona looks more like a blue state these days than a red one. And all of that assumes the Republicans hold the seats they have in 2028. But there are Republicans up for election in five states where Democrats just won big this week. They will be targets for the Democrats for sure. 00:29:38 Speaker 3: Now, I'm not saying that president trump you know he's a deal maker he's a negotiator all right he could you know if there was some comprehensive immigration reform that he could broker with the democrats perhaps part of that deal is democratic support within the united states senate for one, maybe two, of Supreme Court justices that he might appoint before leaving office. 00:30:06 Speaker 5: I don't think there's any way that happens because I think the Democrats know that if they get this chance with Alito and Thomas. 00:30:13 Speaker 2: Both potentially. 00:30:14 Speaker 5: Leaving within the next six years. They know they could flip it back to a 5-4 majority for the left. 00:30:19 Speaker 3: Well, in 2016, remember, Senate Republicans refused to consider Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. 00:30:27 Speaker 5: Which was a great choice because Merrick Garland turned out to be so corrupt as Attorney General. Imagine if he was still on the Supreme Court. 00:30:33 Speaker 3: Because Obama was on the way out the door and they wanted to save that spot for President Trump. 00:30:39 Speaker 2: But that's now set a precedent. 00:30:40 Speaker 5: If either one of those seats comes open in the next two years, Democrats are not going to put anybody in there. It's going to be an eight-seat Supreme Court. 00:30:47 Speaker 2: For the next two years. 00:30:48 Speaker 3: But you know, the Supreme Court is not supposed to follow the political winds. 00:30:52 Speaker 5: It's supposed to follow the Constitution. Right, but that's what conservatives think. That's not what the left thinks. Realistically, Republicans won't regain control of the U.S. Senate in 2028, so you'll have to wait until 2030, which is a midterm election. 00:31:05 Speaker 2: Here's the bottom line. 00:31:07 Speaker 5: We need to be praying for good health and long life for Justices Thomas and Alito. The future of our republic depends upon those two men more than any other two men in the country right now and for the next six years. 00:31:24 Speaker 2: All because of what happened on Tuesday. 00:31:26 Speaker 1: You're listening to American Ground Radio. 00:31:31 Speaker 6: Now boarding nonstop flights to Chicago from Shreveport Regional Airport. 00:31:35 Speaker 7: Whether you're looking for an easy weekend getaway, want to enjoy world-class dining and shopping, or connect to more than 200 cities worldwide, getting to Chicago from the Arklatex has never been easier. United Airlines will start offering daily nonstop flights to Chicago from Shreveport in October, and tickets are on sale right now. Book your flights at United.com. 00:31:56 Speaker 6: Shreveport Regional Airport. More flights to more places more often. 00:32:10 Speaker 2: Welcome back to American Ground Radio. I'm Stephen Park with Lewis R. Avalone. 00:32:13 Speaker 3: You know, here at American Ground Radio, we have literally thousands of pocket constitutions that we distribute each and every year. And I think we ought to send a copy of our pocket constitution to the Democrats. 00:32:28 Speaker 2: To every Democrat elected. 00:32:29 Speaker 3: Absolutely. Because apparently, Vladimir Putin... understands who's running America better than some of the people who just got elected to Congress. Democrats won the House. They won the Senate. And they're acting like Donald Trump has already packed his bags and moved out of Washington. 00:32:47 Speaker 6: They do. 00:32:47 Speaker 3: Well, I've got news for them. Donald Trump is still the president of the United States, and even the Kremlin knows it. So apparently, Putin was asked through his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, he was asked, whether the Democratic victories would change Russia's relationship with the United States. And his answer was essentially, why would they? I mean, he said, and I quote, President Trump will continue to exercise his presidential powers and President Trump will continue to pursue his foreign policy. And everything else, well, that's just domestic. Those are domestic issues at that point. Boom, right there. In other words, Moscow, they're not confused about who's sitting behind the resolute desk, and neither should anybody else in Washington be confused. Because when Putin wants to negotiate over Ukraine, he's not calling Chuck Schumer. When China wants to discuss trade or Taiwan, they're not calling Hakeem Jeffries. And when Iran wants to know whether America is serious about stopping its nuclear ambitions... They're not checking the latest Democratic caucus meeting. They're watching Donald Trump. And remember, President Trump was saying before the midterms that he expected the war with Iran to be dealt with or that he would deal

with Iran once and for all after the midterms. Because he was arguing that Iran was holding out, you know, capitulating 100%, hoping that the election would weaken his political position. 00:34:30 Speaker 2: Well, the war is over. 00:34:32 Speaker 3: Democrats won Congress. But here's what Tehran needs to understand. Donald Trump did not lose his authority as commander in chief Tuesday night. 00:34:41 Speaker 2: Right. 00:34:42 Speaker 3: And neither Iran nor Russia should make a mistake that, you know, a congressional election is changing the American landscape in terms of our Constitution. 00:34:55 Speaker 2: Right. 00:34:56 Speaker 3: Now, don't misunderstand me. Congress has tremendous constitutional powers. control over spending and legislation and oversight. The president doesn't get a blank check. I get that. But Congress does not become commander-in-chief either. And that's what the Kremlin, the Kremlin understands this. 00:35:16 Speaker 2: Let's get to a bright spot. 00:35:20 Speaker 3: I'm doing all right. 00:35:21 Speaker 1: Getting good grades. 00:35:23 Speaker 2: The future's so bright. 00:35:24 Speaker 6: I've got to win. 00:35:28 Speaker 5: So one of the things that's shown up in exit polls about why people went to the polls this last week was data centers. Now, I'm not sure either party necessarily has a monopoly on the answer that the people want, but it was something that they went to the polls about. They're concerned they use too much electricity or they use too much water. They won't supply the jobs they claim they will. They'll pack up and leave town in a few years before the local community gets its. 00:35:49 Speaker 2: Tax money back. These are all things people are concerned about. 00:35:51 Speaker 3: By the way, the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, he wants to call data centers digital factories. 00:35:57 Speaker 6: Okay. 00:35:57 Speaker 3: She just kind of wants to. 00:35:59 Speaker 2: I like that better than superintelligence. 00:36:00 Speaker 6: Okay. 00:36:01 Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. 00:36:01 Speaker 6: Fair enough. 00:36:01 Speaker 3: All right. 00:36:02 Speaker 2: Now, there are ways around all those things. More and more data centers or what? 00:36:07 Speaker 3: Digital factories. 00:36:08 Speaker 5: Digital factories have created closed-loop water systems, so they aren't draining local resources that way. They're building their own electricity generation, either natural gas, most common, or even some have nuclear reactors in development. But what about all those tax breaks and the promise of jobs? A community gives a tax break, 75% off on your taxes, and then you're afraid that the company leaves and you never get it back, or they promise we're going to have 5,000 jobs and they hire 20 people. 00:36:34 Speaker 2: You're not getting that? 00:36:35 Speaker 6: Okay. 00:36:36 Speaker 2: Well, one community in Ohio has come up with a way that could protect taxpayers, and it may be a bright spot. 00:36:41 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:36:42 Speaker 5: This is from Vox.com, which is a far-left media outlet. Perry, Ohio is a small village, about 1,600 people. 00:36:48 Speaker 2: It's not a very big town. They put up. 00:36:51 Speaker 5: Issue 16 on the local ballot this week, and it passed. Issue 16 requires data centers that want to come into Perry to put up a performance bond. 00:37:02 Speaker 3: That makes sense. 00:37:03 Speaker 2: From Vox. 00:37:04 Speaker 3: I like that. 00:37:04 Speaker 5: Perry's issue 16 does something more novel and maybe more consequential. It forces data centers to keep their promises. It would require any data center in Perry that accepts a tax abatement or a subsidy, as almost all of them do, to take out a bond guaranteeing That even if the eye bubble bursts, even if companies fling all the data centers into space, or even if the facilities shrink to the size of a penny, the village will be left with more than empty promises and a gaping vacant campus. 00:37:33 Speaker 3: You know what? They had a good... I bet they have a good attorney for the local government there to craft that proposal. 00:37:41 Speaker 6: And maybe. 00:37:42 Speaker 3: some very experienced folks in government that have been in business that understand what a performance bond actually is. 00:37:49 Speaker 5: And this proposal passed by about 80% on the vote from the local folks. So they're not against the data center, but they're saying, we just want to make sure we're protected. Look, I think this is a potential bright spot and other places could copy the idea. As long as a couple of things, you can't make, you got to make the bond large enough to protect the community and but not so large that it drives the businesses away. That's a balancing act you're going to have to play. But if you're able to do that, this could become a really big thing. Remember, in Richland Parish, in northeast Louisiana, Metta is building a big data center there. It's not even up and running yet. But because of the taxes that are coming in from that, every single teacher in Richland Parish is going to have their salary doubled this year from $ 53, 000 to 106,000. 00:38:41 Speaker 3: It's pretty good if you can get it. And they deserve it. 00:38:45 Speaker 2: If that data center can come to your community and do that for your community, that's a bright spot. We'll be back. 00:38:54 Speaker 1: You're listening to American Ground Radio. 00:39:12 Speaker 2: Welcome back to American Ground Radio. I'm Stephen Paul with Louis R. 00:39:14 Speaker 6: Avalone. 00:39:15 Speaker 3: Well, here is a headline I never thought Americans would be celebrating. 00:39:19 Speaker 2: Oh, okay. 00:39:20 Speaker 3: The Congressional Equality Caucus is proudly announcing that the next Congress that is going to be sworn in in January, and I'm quoting... will be the gayest Congress in history. 00:39:34 Speaker 5: I think people in Congress should be happy. We haven't had enough happiness in Congress. 00:39:38 Speaker 3: Congratulations, I suppose, but I've got a question also. I mean, could we possibly try electing the most competent, congress in american history i mean how about the most intelligent how about the most fiscally responsible how about the most honest you know i and i'm really going down on a limb here the congress that actually gets something accomplished for the american people. 00:40:02 Speaker 2: No there's no chance this congress because i. 00:40:04 Speaker 3: I don't know about you but you know when i'm standing at the gas pump i'm not wondering how many members of congress are gay when i'm paying my electric bill i'm not thinking about how many are straight right You know, when I'm watching Washington spend money we don't have, I'm certainly not wondering anybody's gender identity. I'm wondering whether anybody in that building knows how to balance a budget. 00:40:26 Speaker 5: But isn't this a lot of pressure for the gayest Congress ever? I mean, if you don't have a whole bunch of stuff that you get done, isn't that going to reflect poorly on the gay members of Congress? 00:40:36 Speaker 2: Isn't that a lot of pressure? 00:40:39 Speaker 3: I mean, is that what Congress ought to be focused on first? Well, no, but being the gayest Congress. 00:40:45 Speaker 5: They can't focus on race because Byron Donald's got elected governor of Florida. 00:40:50 Speaker 3: You know, I'm just going to say, whoa. When I say, whoa, I mean, whoa. 00:41:00 Speaker 5: Marin and David Douglas are schoolteachers in Florida, and one day they noticed a young girl sitting at the end of their driveway waiting for the bus to school. 00:41:08 Speaker 2: But there wasn't a. 00:41:08 Speaker 5: Sidewalk or a place to sit, so the girl just sat down in the dirt. Well, Maren and David decided to do something about it. They bought a wrought iron bench and placed it at the end of their yard where the bus picked the girl up every morning. They then created a neighborhood library, a free neighborhood library, packed it with books for the girl to read. Well, the morning she saw it, the girl literally jumped up and down and wrote a note to Maren and David. It read, hello, this is the kid that waits at the bus at your house. Thank you so much for putting the bench there. Now I don't have to worry about the dirt and bugs. I appreciate it a ton. 00:41:40 Speaker 3: Aren't people just fantastic? 00:41:42 Speaker 6: Isn't that nice? 00:41:43 Speaker 2: May your pursuit of happiness bring you joy.