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May 22, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 22, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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And welcome back.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruit and plain.
It's Rush Limbaugh on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend.
As we also uh prepare for Monday, the day in which we are only 40 days away from the birthday of Barack Obama.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And the telephone number is 800 282-2882 and email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Fastest three hours of media.
This is already hour number three.
By the way, Mike Audio sound bites.
Let's see.
Well, start at number one.
We may as well play some of uh Obama's commencement speech at the Naval Academy today.
Now don't do that to me.
Yesterday you wanted to hear Obama sound bites so that I would react to them.
Uh what's number four?
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
I just that's on the top page.
I thought it was number one.
Never mind.
Well, what's number one?
Let me find number one.
What's number one?
Oh, yeah, we already did Pelosi.
I don't want to do Pelosi again.
Screw that.
All right, no, we're gonna do Pelosi again.
We've done Pelosi once.
I really I really do have to admonish any of you who thought anything was gonna happen to her over over Line about CIB.
Come on, folks.
There's no mechanism to get rid of her.
The Democrats aren't gonna get rid of her.
We don't want to get rid of her.
But there's no there was there was no way.
I mean, it's just that the Democrats run the politics of Washington.
It isn't gonna happen.
This this this story here that I have amuses me.
Maybe it'll only amuse me.
It may amuse you in a way it doesn't amuse me, but let's let's see.
Lindsay, this by the way, this this is from the India Express newspaper.
Lindsay Lohan, and I'm not getting into pop culture here.
When I see Lindsey Lohan's name on a webpage, I skip it.
But this caught my attention.
You'll see why here in mere moments.
Lindsay Lohan to marry Samantha Ronson and convert to Judaism.
If reports are to be believed, Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan is planning to get married to on and off girlfriend Samantha Ronson.
Lohan and Ronson had parted ways after a hotel bust up in March.
However, sources claim that the couple is uh back together, and that Lindsay Lohan even proposed.
The star of the movie Mean Girls is also said to be considering converting to Judaism to marry her lesbian lover.
According to the inquirer, wedding talk angered Samantha Ronson's Jewish family, so the Catholic Lohan has offered to convert.
Lindsay says that Samantha's promised she'll pr she'll persuade her family to accept this, and they and they won't wait to see if California changes the gay marriage legislation, but they'll travel to one of the states where it is legal to say they're um I I do.
All right, now what struck me about this story?
Well, let me just tell Don, you're you're you're normal red-blooded heterosexual, standard religious middle American woman.
What what are the details of this country that that stick out to you, uh the story that stick out to you the most?
There's no wrong answer here.
I mean, it's not a trick question.
It's not politically correct for you to give an answer.
Okay.
Snerdley, you want to take a stab at it?
Uh what?
Okay, here's here's here's what gets me about it.
Run through this again.
Lindsay Lohan has a lesbian lover, Samantha Ronson, as proposed.
They're gonna get married.
Fine.
Nobody has a problem with that.
Zip zero nada.
Oh, yeah!
Cool.
Let's do it.
Let's find a state where it's legal.
The thorn in this is that Lohan's a Catholic.
Oh, yeah, and they want a religious ceremony.
Exactly.
So well, I don't even know if that's the case.
The thorn in this whole story for the parents are, oh sure, my daughter's gonna marry a woman.
Yeah!
Let's have a party.
Wait, she's Catholic.
Uh-uh.
I ain't going for that.
I mean, folks.
You mean you couldn't find a nice Jewish girl?
We will not keep a sharp eye on this story.
Uh details that follow are totally uninteresting to me.
I just wanted to give you the uh lowdown in this.
Hugo Chavez dictator, Venezuela has announced the nationalization of several steel companies in the country to pave way for a large socialist state-run enterprise without giving details on the venture.
Uh Chavez said there's nothing to discuss.
We've been on this for a long time.
So I figure now how many of there are 30, was it uh 35 different ones in the words of uh well, all the oil companies and all of these steel companies.
See, I'm keeping a tally over who can outdo who, Obama or Chavez in nationalizing industries.
And by my tally, Chavez is ahead 35 to 6.
I know he's been in office longer, so he has a little bit of an advantage.
But he's nationalized the oil companies, he's oh, and he's nationalized some uh some television stations, all the radio stations, and now he's nationalized steel.
So far, Obama, but I mean Chavez has a good start, there's no question of it.
So far, Obama in just a little over a hundred days, the auto industry, the banks, the mortgage industry, uh the healthcare's next.
I mean, that's pretty big.
Dollar for dollar, you gotta say Obama's ahead here.
I mean, once once he gets, once he nationalizes one-seventh of the U.S. economy, and Chavez is pounding sand in this in this little contest.
And of course, Obama's not through because Obama himself uh may bail out minority broadcasters, which will get the ownership into the broadcast business.
Uh, and Obama is uh what else are they looking at?
Um, they've done insurance too.
That's done.
Well, but just one insurance.
They haven't they haven't nationalized the whole insurance uh uh uh industry.
But I mean there's a there's a couple of things Obama's looking at here to uh and they're slipping my mind uh uh nationalized.
But yeah, you're right, dollar for dollar.
Obama way ahead of Chavez, because we're a much wealthier country.
Well, I don't know, Snerdley.
He's now when you when you nationalize your oil companies, oh, that's what it is.
Obama's gonna nationalize energy.
He's gonna put the coal business out of business, he's gonna put the oil business over there somewhere, probably let Chavez have that.
And so yeah, uh it it's it is nip and tuck out there.
I do, I have a little on the computer, I've got a little spreadsheet where I keep track of which dictator is nationalizing more industries, uh, Barack Obama or Hugo Chavez.
And it looks like just a number of industries that Chavez is way ahead, he's been there a long time too.
Uh, but dollar for dollar is close.
Uh, you know, Obama, because he's nationalizing wealthier industries and taking them over.
So he's um uh it's it's nip and tuck.
See, it's it all depends on how you measure this stuff.
Do you want to own a whole lot of little things, or do you want to own a few giant things?
And Obama has chosen the latter.
Now he will eventually, I think, own California.
I th I uh I don't I wouldn't believe these stories coming out of Sacramento that the um well coming out of the White House, the White House said we can't we can't bail out California because then every state's gonna want to be bailed out.
And of course, there's nothing wrong with that from Obama's standpoint if we're already 11 trillion dollars in debt and we're printing money with no cause of concern for anything.
And the reason I think he's gonna own bailout California is because it's all union workers out there, government union workers, other union workers.
Did you see the movie Men in Black?
Will Smith and uh and Tommy Lee Jones, the first one.
Remember at the end of the uh at the end of the show, the giant cockroach is out there in flushing meadow and it's climbing up one of those towers, which is its secret spaceship.
This giant cockroach, this giant bug to get back to the uh mothership up there to to own Earth.
And one of the tricks that Will Smith uses is to start squashing little cockroaches on the ground, which upsets the big bug, the big cockroach, stops the trek up to the spaceship, comes back down and swallows Will Smith, because Will Smith wants to be swallowed because he's got a vaporizer gun that he's gonna blow up from inside the cockroach.
But imagine Obama as the big cockroach and union workers as the little cockroach.
And he looks at union workers getting stomped on by CEOs and everywhere else, and of course the union government union workers in California getting stomped on.
So he's the big cockroach, and he's gonna make sure these little cockroaches don't get stomped on and don't get advanced.
That's why he's gonna nationalize California.
Folks, you have to hear this.
A promo that CNN is running to uh promote the Sunday show hosted by John King, uh State of the Union.
Now, they have they have already on CNN today, they have already it's an interview with Tom Ridge, who's the former director of Homeland Security in the Bush administration, governor of Pennsylvania, uh, and they were they were talking about Ridge as potentially running for Arlen Spector's seat in the Pennsylvania Senate to replace Spectre since Spectre, uh another Republican uh has joined the Democrats, a la Cole and Powell, the old guard.
And what on CNN today, they've already played a portion of the Tom Ridge interview in which Ridge rips Cheney for criticizing Obama.
They are holding another part of the Ridge interview for Air Sunday, and that's what they're promoting.
And here's John King promoting it.
He went on some very interesting things to say, more things to say about the national security debate.
Also very interesting on why he decided not to run for the Arlinspec Senate seat up in Pennsylvania.
Many Republicans had wanted him to do that.
And he talks about the future of the Republican Party, and you might want to hear what he thinks about Rush Limbaugh.
So that's how John King is promoting his interview on Sunday with former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge.
He's already ripped Cheney.
They played a portion of interview where he ripped Cheney for criticizing Obama when Cheney said that Obama's made the country less safe.
So he said you might be interested to hear what he has to say about Rush Limbaugh.
Now, uh, ladies and gentlemen, I last saw Tom Ridge at a football game.
It was in Pittsburgh, and it was it was not last season, I think it was season before, maybe two seasons before.
So it's been a couple years.
But I ran into Tom Ridge up there in uh in one of the boxes prior to the game.
I don't even remember who the Steelers were playing, and I just want to say that he was nice as he could be.
He saw I didn't know he was in the room, it was very crowded.
And he sought me out, came up, said hello, uh, talked about his future.
It was purely amicable or amicable.
It was I mean, it was like two guys on the same team saying hello to one another and having a discussion.
And so now he's given an interview to John King at CNN, and they're promoting the airing of the rest of the interview on Sunday with a tease to tune in to hear what Tom Ridge said about me.
Back to the phones, a cell call from Miami.
TJ, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey there, Rush.
How are you doing?
Uh Long time first time from Miami.
Great to have you with us, TJ.
And uh, I just uh I couldn't help but thank uh you know Joe Biden's um promise to uh pay for everybody's education should have a positive impact on uh stress uh test uh A people uh so uh you know and then further um the uh when universal health care comes around that should further reduce the stress level of everybody and then of course when he uh negotiates away uh nuclear weapons
and we can all sleep well and I think it's a good one.
You know, TJ's TJ's making a good point here.
TJ's actually making a very good point.
I don't know how easy it was for you to understand it with his cell phone connection, but TJ Miami is making a great point.
He's he's talking about the poll that we discussed earlier, where 42% of college graduates need medicine for depression.
Thirteen percent of them are thinking of doing themselves harm or killing themselves.
They're worried about school, this they're worried about the grades, they're worried about graduating, they're worried about their futures, they're worried about money, they're worried about everything, they're depressed as hell.
And TJ's saying, why?
Obama's promising everything's gonna be taken care of.
Their house is going to be taken care of, their health care is going to be taken care of.
What's to be depressed about?
Excellent point out there, TJ.
I'm glad you called to Indianapolis.
John, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, MD500 Ditto's, and by the way, if you ever get your Steelers, there's the Colts team you can vote for, too.
I was I I was in Indianapolis last year.
Yeah, I know you were.
I was the same.
And it was a Patriots game.
It was another Sunday night game was in there with NBC, yes.
Beautiful stadium.
But the reason I called is I've got a little different take on this Bush interrogation memo writers thing.
I would love for them to go on trial, and I know that's selfish.
I know it'd be hard on them and their families, but you and I know they would win, and that would put an end to all the silliness.
And and and if we do that, what Obama needs to know is maybe his memo writers were justifying.
Remember the murder of those poor alleged pirates off the coast of Somalia?
Yeah.
They were denied due process, no Miranda rights read.
Who wrote those memos?
Maybe we get to try those folks.
By the way, I'm glad you mentioned that.
I disagree within a trial business.
It'd be a total political circus.
The Democrats run the show that Obama's got the judges.
I understand because this is not guaranteed we'd win.
Talk to Scooter Libby about winning.
You know, this is not it's not a guarantee, but I want to play you a soundbite.
Grab number six here.
This is Obama from the Naval Academy graduation commencement speech today, where he you listen, you tell me if you think that he's bragging about shooting the Somali pirates.
I will not recount the full story of those five days in April.
Much of it is already known.
Some of it will never be known.
And that's how it should be.
But here on this day, at this institution, it must be said, the extraordinary precision and professionalism displayed that day was made possible in no small measure by the training, the discipline, and the leadership skills that so many of those officers learned of the United States Naval Academy.
There's Obama talking about the Somali Pirates uh, you know, the the the black teenagers that were shot uh on Obama's orders.
Well, they were 17 years old.
And they were Somalis.
Pirates, no doubt.
Um, but the those five days in April.
I'm not going to recount the full story of those five days in April.
Much of it's already known, some of it will never be known.
That's how it should be.
Five days in April.
I hear a movie coming.
I hear a movie.
Five days in April.
It'll be out in time for the Oscars next year and con next year.
Five days in April.
How the courageous, brave historic president of the United States, personally, wiped out three Somali teenagers.
Personally did it by giving me orders and thereby saving a cargo ship from the ravages of these three teenagers.
Five days in April.
Can't you see it now?
Yeah.
Uh Will Smith will be Obama.
Will Smith will be the SEAL leader.
Will Smith will be the SEAL second in command.
Will Smith will be the captain of the of the Maersk that was being held hostage.
Will Smith will not play any of the pirates.
But Will Smith will play Obama and the SEAL captain and the SEAL assistant.
And of course, you know, every one of these movies has a communications person named Sparks.
You haven't know the communications guys always named Sparks.
And Obama will play the uh communications guy relaying orders from Obama to Obama to pull the trigger.
And we're back.
It's Rush Linboa, and this the EIB Network.
Great to have you here at 800 282-2882.
I just checked the email during the break, and I gotta know.
How come you haven't discussed Maureen Dowd's uh plagiarism?
Did you did you hear about this?
Apparently in a column last Sunday, she included a paragraph that was 99% word for word from a blogger.
I don't know what paragraph was.
Uh the blogger was uh Joshua Mitchell.
Uh Joshua Yeah, Marshall, Josh Marshall.
And the reason I didn't talk about it, her excuse was that somebody had told her that.
She was in conversation and she thought it sounded good and she included it.
And people began to doubt it because it was word for word for what Josh Marshall wrote.
I can't tell you how many times that has happened to me.
You know, I get thousands of emails.
Thank you.
And over the course of my Sterling broadcast, I'll tell you the last time it happened, I don't even remember the event, but somebody sent me an email reacting to a story I had just done, and I thought, wow, that's funny.
So I shared it, but I didn't, I didn't credit the emailer.
Next thing I know, I get this email from uh Lucy Ann Goldberg, who said, if you're gonna steal things from my website, could you at least give me credit?
So I wrote her back.
I said, I I hadn't been to your website today.
Somebody sent me this in an email.
And somebody else lifted it.
And in the person I said, why are you lifting stuff from somebody else's website and send it to the person?
I didn't.
It's my creation.
I didn't, I didn't do it.
So I've had that happen to me.
So Maureen Dowd's excuse, somewhat, I mean, I've I've had it happen to me.
Now, the difference is that she said she reprinted what somebody told her word for word.
That's different than having the words already in your computer where you have to cut and paste.
So I didn't bring it up because it's I mean, Maureen's unhappy enough, folks, without piling on here.
Everybody else's is uh piling on her.
I don't know.
I did this didn't it didn't strike me.
There's a story here in the was it Washington Post.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Obama endorses indefinite detention without trial for some.
We talked about this yesterday and how it appeared, he's here's at the ripping Bush.
It's like he starts his speech yesterday, and he says, I don't want to litigate the last eight years.
Then the next Castro-like 55 minutes were nothing but ripping Bush in the last eight years.
Now, I you and I couldn't get away with that hypocrisy.
I couldn't, for example, come to you and say at the top of the program, folks, I don't want to talk about Obama today, we're not, and then spend the whole show on Obama.
I'd get called on it.
But he doesn't get called on it.
And one of the things he said yesterday while not litigating the last eight years was that after ripping the last eight years and a whole thing about Ebu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, he then reserved the right for himself to hold prisoners in detention without charge and without trial.
And I made mention that this was a little hypocritical.
I can't tell you how many emails I got from subscribers to my website who said they were stunned that I had missed it.
Let me read you one as a sample.
I have it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
The preventive detention rush is not for members of radical Islam.
And It's for military vets the Obama administration considers to be a threat.
Think the preventive detention is for American citizens.
It goes hand in hand with Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano's documents on groups to watch in this country.
Now, they have withdrawn those documents, by the way.
They've officially withdrawn that whole document so the military people right wingers.
But I was struck.
I mean, it was hundreds.
And it was not just military people.
There was some people who wrote and said he's leaving the option open for himself to be able to detain citizens without charge.
And I got to thinking.
Years ago, getting the letters like this, emails like this, oh my gosh, my audience.
These people are writing me these letters, they're kooks.
But this some of them may be writing these notes, but there are too many of these.
People are looking at this guy that way.
And I've told you, there are people who are scared to death about the future of the economy.
Their kids' futures, all of this spending, the uh the federal government power grabs.
So I find it interesting that there there are there are people out there who think that we have a president who might actually reserve for himself the right to detain people without charge and without trial for American citizens.
In the context of giving a speech that everybody assumed he was talking about terrorists.
Yeah, you know, national, Islamic terrorists who are threatening the United States.
Uh Marion in Greenville, Ohio, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network and open line Friday.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
How are you doing?
Good.
Hey, I've I'm able to talk to you.
Um what I want to talk to you about, I I think Bo may think I'm a little bit crazy because I've called him a couple times to try to get on because I I uh there's something going on in my hometown that I it's just driving us crazy, and I just wanted to talk to somebody about it and tell me.
What is it?
Go ahead.
We're here.
We are uh we have a a large ethanol plant here that's been here for about three or four years, and it's caused all kinds of trouble by like running our wells dry and all these great things that it does.
But um now we are part of a Department of Energy experiment where they're going to take the CO2 from this ethanol plant and pump it into the ground under our town to to cut down on on greenhouse gases due to the Oh you have got to be kidding.
No, no, it's so they're gonna carbonate the ground underneath your town.
Yes, yes.
They're gonna put a million.
So crying out loud uh just to save the planet?
Yes, yes.
What are they digging trenches and tunnels in to put the CO2 in?
As we speak, they are drilling holes right now uh to go down into the bedroom.
This this this this is this is insane as something that happens every day along this regard in San Francisco.
But this is happening in in wait a minute.
Is this Ohio or Oregon?
Uh Greenville, Ohio.
Ohio.
Well, you know, uh, what's the biggest close city to you?
Uh Dayton.
Dayton.
Yeah, yeah.
We're uh we're catching part of the unemployment from uh what what what is the thinking here?
And how are they gonna capture the CO C CO2 and then pump it into the holes in the ground?
Well, they somehow liquefy it and then they're gonna uh inject it and then cap it and walk away from it and leave us with a million tons of CO2 in the ground.
For crying out loud, did this is like putting five million tons of fizzies underneath your town.
Yeah, and and we're we're you know, we're having meetings, we're doing our what we can do.
We're just a small town in a small rural county, and we know that there's no stopping these kind of things.
I uh you know, it's it's it's gonna happen.
Well, here's the thing.
CO2 in its normal state is odorless.
Sure.
I mean, it has weight, but it's immeasurable.
Um it's odorless, it it's tasteless.
And here's the real clincher.
It's harmless.
You bet it is.
You better.
It's harmless.
That's what just they are depriving this CO2, they are depriving.
You gotta keep sharp eye on your trees, your leaves, and your plants, because if they start dying, the well, the the the you know, the the greenery may have become accustomed to the CO2 being pumped out with this ethanol factory.
They may hurt the corn that they're growing for the ethanol.
I mean, I d uh it it's just all crazy.
Well, you you liquefy it.
I'm gonna have to talk to a chemist.
You liquefy it.
I assume you have to concentrate it to liquefy it.
Or maybe Yes.
You have to concentrate it to lower the temperature, I would assume, and then you you put the concentrated liquid the pumping liquid CO2 in the ground?
It will be uh in a liquid form from what I read.
They've got a website.
Uh Department of Energy has a website and they talk about Greenville, Ohio quite a bit about it.
Um, I think this is a scam.
The idea they're gonna be able to capture all this what from the smokestacks of the ethanol plant.
Yeah, yeah.
And what's crazy?
Well, what's that look like?
What have you got a bunch of tents up there?
What are they gonna capture it in?
Are there are there tubes coming out of the smokestacks going right into the ground?
I don't know how it's gonna look.
I don't know.
I I they're uh big balloon?
A big balloon over the smokesta.
I I don't know.
Has this not been a great open line Friday or what?
So the town of Marion, Ohio Greenville Ohio.
Greenville.
I'm sorry, you're Mary.
Yeah, I'm Mary and Greenville, Ohio, perhaps the first town in America to be carbonated.
We will be we're part of uh uh I I think there's gonna be seven of these places around the Midwest that are gonna do it.
We're the first town, as far as I know.
We're the first town.
They've done it, I guess.
They've done it in old coal mines, uh places where there aren't any people uh already, from what I understand uh, but we're gonna be the first one that I can find that's under an actual town with real people in it.
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Yes, or do.
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I I want to tell you right now with it with with when you you're gonna be living, you're gonna be living high atop seriously.
I mean, folks, when I say carbonated town, I mean the it's CO2 that is injected into into soft drinks to make them f fizz.
CO2 makes club soda, club soda.
CO2 is injected into even even uh uh Pellegrino uh.
So you got a giant fizzy under there.
Carbonated town, and you don't know what's gonna happen.
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You know what, uh sitting here thinking, I I'm gonna have to look into this.
I I've heard all these schemes about trapping CO2 emissions from smokestacks.
I've heard about trying to do that.
Some of the other wacko things, but pumping it underneath a town.
I have not heard about.
I I think you people in Greenville, Ohio, you really ought to I'm serious about this.
Change the name of the place to Alcasselser Village.
Get it in this before it happens.
All right, Chris in uh Syracuse, Indiana.
Thank you for calling.
You're next on the uh Open Line Friday edition of program.
Hi.
Hello.
Yeah.
Rush, I a matter of fact, I'm from Elkhart, Indiana, where they used to make AlkaSaucer.
Uh I'm calling because uh I was uh sawing logs and stacking wood last Wednesday, listening to your radio program when you uh I think it was like the third hour you started um bashing uh Rhyme uh gettelfinger calling trade unionists leeches.
We only complain and whine about our evil management.
I wanted to tell you I'm a 30-year uh union uh person.
I've collectively bargained.
I've been a union steward of union.
You've held people up.
I've held them up.
I'm kidding.
I'm sorry, it's been a fun day.
I you're a collective bargaining.
Yeah.
And I take exception with your uh characterization of trade unionist, you know, I was not talking about I have been very clear about this.
I've the it's why I mentioned Gettlefinger.
I'm talking about union leaders.
And I I don't remember was this past Wednesday two days ago or was it last week?
It was on the twentieth.
We were we were outside stacking wood and started.
Well, I have to cons I'm not disputing.
I would have to get the transcript to find out exactly what I was talking about.
It m was it a relationship to the union all of a sudden deciding they don't want to own Chrysler.
No, they don't want to manage Chrysler.
Yeah, it was but that was what I was talking about.
But they're using they're using their pension monies to help bail them out.
And the UAW has, this is the second time that the UAW has come.
What about using their pension money to bail them out?
There's nothing constitutional about this bailout.
That's what's all wrong with this.
The union's being given fifty-five percent of the stock, and Gettelfinger said after well, we don't want that.
We're gonna sell that and fund our retirement program.
So they don't want to run I remember what I said.
They don't want to run the company.
They don't want to do they want to leech off of it.
That's I Rad probably did say that.
Yes, you said leech.
Yes, that was the reference you make.
And I've listened to you for several years and your your attitude toward organized labor.
I mean, I don't understand something.
Where do you think most of the leadership comes from organized labor other than the rank and file?
Well, I let me can I make my point my point is this Frank Sinatra me, if I if I answer that, I I don't I don't I don't want to Noah stop with the Lacosa Nostra.
I didn't say anything about that.
Now see, this is why you're making too many assumptions here, Chris.
Okay.
I've got not I have said let me be qu I've got I've got about 45 seconds here.
I have nothing against anybody who works in this country.
Nothing.
I don't like people who want to get paid more for doing less, but I don't like the the the focal point of union leadership being to elect pure unadulterated liberal democrats.
Um and and so forth.
I people want to join a union, that's fine.
I just hope they know what they're getting into when they do it, that they're sacrificing their own ability to earn money based on their individual performance because it become part of a group, you become part of a contract, but I have nothing against anybody who works.
That's not true.
What's not true?
Well, number one, which part of it?
The part about COPE was not true.
Can we get your phone number because I've got to go, we'll call you.
Sorry, because I don't I don't want you thinking that I am I am giving you a short shrift here.
So we'll talk to her next week about that.
I gotta think of a quick timeout back after this.
I thought she was gonna be mad at me for comparing st state union workers to cockroaches.
You know that.
And I don't I'm not making that comparison.
It just it was the movie.
Now you really say I don't even have time to explain.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend.
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