Good Evening All!
I’m trying something tonight. I won’t know if it makes it better unless you let me know.
Thanks
Dismas
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Good evening, everyone.
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It’s a Friday evening.
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Hope you’re doing well.
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This is Dismas, and it’s time for some contemporary issues.
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You know, I think I told you the story about contemporary issues and why I picked it.
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It was mainly from a teacher in high school.
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He’s a professor now.
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But we’re not going to get into that because I just remembered I did tell you about it.
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And excuse me if I forget sometimes, my age is getting to me, my ADHD.
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Numerous other things, whatever it is.
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But tonight, this is really getting to me, and I’m not forgetting about it.
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As you know,
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or maybe you don’t know,
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Trump,
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our illustrious leader,
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I say that sarcastically,
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of course,
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sued the IRS for $10 billion when there was a leak of his finances.
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Now,
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if he had just done what every other president did,
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which would show his taxes,
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it wouldn’t have been an issue.
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But he didn’t.
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But to top it all off, he filed a lawsuit over two years after the incident happened.
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The statute of limitations is two years for one thing.
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And now they’re trying to settle the case.
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And it was supposed to go in front of a judge May 20th or May 27th.
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And I find that, like, they should have rushed it because now they’re negotiating.
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And he’s negotiating with his own
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Attorney Who Runs The DOJ Which Makes It To Me It’s A Conflict Of Interest But Who
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Am I To Say I’m Not A Legal Scholar But Here’s The Thing His Attorney Which Was
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Handling His Criminal Cases Is Now The Department Of Justice Attorney General
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Acting Attorney General And That’s Who’s Negotiating With Trump
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And now there’s a thing on the table, I guess, an offer of $1.7 billion.
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And the idea is he’s going to give this to the January 6th rioters, which really got me going.
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I don’t understand what this country is doing,
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and I don’t understand what the politicians are doing.
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Why aren’t the Democrats stepping up to this stuff?
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Why isn’t there an ethics
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Evaluation of what’s going on.
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How can they just get away with giving him $1.7 billion to avoid the court case?
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Because if he goes to court, everyone’s saying this judge will throw it out anyways.
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So they don’t want it thrown out.
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They want to settle it before because then the judge is out of it.
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Well, of course they’re going to do it.
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They should have had an emergency hearing to catch him off guard.
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But she gave him time to hand in their briefs and instead
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They’re figuring out a way to get around this whole thing,
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including the fact that he won’t get audited anymore.
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Him, his kids, his businesses, he’s vying for that also.
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I mean, wouldn’t it be great if we could do that?
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Hey, I don’t want to be audited anymore.
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You know, whatever.
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I never want to be audited.
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I’ve never been, but I don’t want to be.
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And I’d like to,
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you know,
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get $1.7 billion,
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but I’ll forgive that and just take the audit,
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the free audits.
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Excuse me.
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You know, I hate talking politics, but this thing has really got me boiling.
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Excuse me.
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And I don’t see how there’s nothing being done about it.
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And no one can’t fight this.
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Because once it happens, it happens.
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I don’t know if he can be sued after that to get the money back.
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I don’t know what happens.
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But I do know or I feel there’s an ethics issue here,
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and I don’t understand why the Bar Association isn’t even jumping into this.
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Why don’t they just get Todd Blanch and take his license away so that he can’t conduct business?
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I don’t understand how, I mean, I’ve dealt with the law before for certain reasons.
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And my lawyer and I have gone back and forth.
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And there’s been times where other lawyers that were involved in cases had to
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recuse themselves because of something else.
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I even had a time when the judge had to recuse herself on my hearing.
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So, and it was all about ethics.
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And this judge wanted me really bad.
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But the thing was,
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she couldn’t do anything because there was an ethical violation and she didn’t want
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to cross that line.
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What happened to morality in this country?
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What happened to the sense of fairness and fair play?
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And you don’t step over the line.
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Everyone in this administration, Republicans, are stepping over the line with no
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Fear of Retribution No Fear of Governing No Fear of Anything They Just Do What They
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Frickin Want And Get Away With It And As I Know We Can Call Senators We Can Call
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Representatives We Can Do All This Phone Calling But It Doesn’T Do Any Good If
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Those People Are Not Gonna Stand Up Call The Bar Association They Should Have
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Stopped This Yesterday Not After We Make A Thousand Phone Calls And Even Then They
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Probably Won’T Do Anything
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And then the fact is that Trump picked the team that’s going to manage the money.
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He has control of the people.
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I forgot if it’s five or six people that are going to determine how the money gets
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spent or put out.
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But he controls that group explicitly.
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He has full control.
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He can get rid of them, get new people, do whatever he wants.
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How are we letting this happen?
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How are we letting him paint the reflective pool between
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The Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial Blue And just why not leave it alone?
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Leave it the way it’s been for centuries Everything is What’s going to happen is If
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he gets voted out of office Whoever the next president is And if it’s a Democrat,
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hopefully It has to change all this And it’s going to cost us more money to change
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it back
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We’ll never get the East Wing back.
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It’s gonna be this stupid ballroom that we’re paying for.
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And it keeps going and going and going.
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When is it gonna stop?
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When are we gonna make an effort, concerted effort as Americans to stop this?
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And when are our politicians gonna do the right thing and step up to the plate and
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argue this stuff?
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Go on TV, go do whatever you have to do.
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Show with the corruption going on.
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Stop letting it happen.
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Hey, that’s it for today, folks.
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I’m sorry.
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This evening, I’m wicked up now.
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I’ll never get to sleep.
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But I wanted to bring this up because it was bugging me.
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You guys have a great weekend.
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I’ll probably be back next week unless I get bugged again and hit you up over the weekend.
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But other than that, have a nice evening.
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Talk to you soon.
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