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All right, let's go to the WRD talk live. We'll talk to Scott in Greer. Scott, what's on your mind this afternoon? Yeah. Hey, Charlie. Thanks for taking my call. The biggest concern I've got right now and that's what ran is we uh are going to end up getting involved in a beach on the ground, long-term quagmire. And I think that that is a huge concern.
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cost us a million dollars a day not to mention wives on both sides. Okay Scott I appreciate your call. Let me tell you something, this war in Iran has been cheaper
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than the Somali fraud that went on in Minneapolis. It has cost a lot less than that. there you go. I don't think it is. I don't think it's gonna be quiet. Donald Trump knows good and well. Pete Hagseth knows good and well. And you should know good and well. This is not gonna become one of those forever wars that we've all been used to because previously,
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They had these ridiculous rules of engagement. Everything had to go through the PR department. How's this gonna look? What are gonna know? They are going in there to win it and come back home, period. WRD Talkline 800-9050-989. That's also the Common Sense Retirement Planning Text Line. Would love to chat with you on this beautiful Wednesday afternoon. Let's see who we got on the phones there. Who we got there, JJ?
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i ran a is in travelers rest i don't it i'm doing pretty good they take my call yes sir what's up talk about uh... the uh... yesterday you had that congressman tenant on yeah and uh... and he was talking about the uh... uh... sex abuse uh... slush one that they have their car and yeah i voted for my like you know i like it but you know i voted for and i would say that i don't think you could be more wrong yesterday
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just because, you he talked about how he didn't want to release the names of, uh you know, some of the accusers and all that stuff. And all because of damage to them. And all I want to say is whose money is it that they're using to pay? And the answer is mine. And you know something, if you're going to use my money, I want to know who used it and paid whom how much for what.
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and uh... it's just because it's my money but i know well not a hold on don't you believe that these accusers some of them who have done nothing except being harassed by members of congress don't you think they deserve a little bit of privacy well you know that the thing about it is that you know i admit that some of them aren't victims and that's why i'm calling them accusers right i understand yes yes and i've said that on this program as well yes
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But what about the actual victims?
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Yeah, and I understand that, you know, but I mean, I just look at it as the fact of it's my money. That's all. Yeah, I understand that, Randy, and I appreciate it. But here's what you need to do. You need to go ask a woman in your life that if you were sexually harassed by someone in the office and you complained and you want a suit against them or whatever, they paid you, you signed a non-disclosure agreement.
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Would you want your name to be put out there for everybody to know? Ask them, ask several members, female members of your family. Let's go to Walter and Anderson. Walter, welcome. Hello, Charlie, how you doing today? I'm doing good. What's up, man? They're talking about the cost of the war. Well, we haven't heard about the cost of the war in a long time. mean, what about the Afghanistan debacle and everything like that? And like you said,
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just the Somali fraud in Minnesota alone, just in Minnesota is ridiculous. absolutely. you, Charlie. a good day. I appreciate it, Walter. Thank you. that's it. It's all about the cost. yesterday in the House of ... Well, in Columbia in the state legislature, they did something that I thought we had already done up until a few weeks ago, and that is comply with the one big, beautiful bill. So they passed legislation.
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And we are now going to go into compliance now. If you have already filed your taxes, this means that you're going to go after... Yes, it's exactly what this means. You're going to go back and have to file an amended tax return if you want to take advantage of the no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and the tax breaks that seniors are going to get. Hey, way to go, state legislature.
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Here we go, in the middle of March, you guys are really helping us out when taxes are due next month, and a lot of people have already filed. Good job, good job. So they did that. But then they passed a budget. Now this was a big, big budget. Now if you ever want a reason, if you're sitting there going, oh Charlie, I'm kind of...
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I'm kind of torn here. I don't know if I'm going to be voting in these primaries coming up in June. If you need a reason to vote in the primaries coming up in June, I want you to listen to Representative Mike Kasky and what he said to Sarita Edgerton. Are you ready? balance of the house rules ah you will find that there is no provision requiring you to actually read anything and I think that after the short
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couple weeks you've been with us, you'll find that too often nobody reads anything. Excuse me?
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Wait a minute. Did you actually just say that in the well of the house? You actually just said that in most cases people don't read anything? Well, let me ask you something, Micah Caskin, all of you Rhino members in Columbia. How are you representing anybody if you don't read the bills? How do you represent that? That bill
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That budget was huge. It was a massive budget.
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And people are like, how am I supposed to all of this before the vote? Well, you weren't. You weren't supposed to read all of that before the vote. You were just supposed to trust people like Mike Kikaski and Merle Smith and others in leadership. You're just supposed to trust them. We'll tell you. That's not representation. That's not re- that is the way that Columbia works is so
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smelly and dirty and slimy and greasy it's not even funny.
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These people, they're not even reading the bills.
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They have no idea what's in a lot of the things that they pass. That's how we get into the condition that we're in here in South Carolina. That's why we're actually funding in the new budget a lesbian podcast.
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Yeah, you heard me right, JJ. That's right. That's right, JJ. You heard me. Heard me right. Your taxpayer dollars are going to fund a lesbian podcast for whatever reason. I have no idea. Lude artwork, tons of other stuff. Now, that's horrible. But the really bad thing is
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is they come along and they actually increase. This is the largest budget South Carolina has ever had. We're going to talk to some folks next hour about this. This is the largest budget South Carolina has ever had, and they're trying to claim to you.
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That they're cutting taxes?
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How do you increase spending and cut taxes at the same time? Well, the answer is you don't. This tax plan that they have actually increases taxes for about 20 % of South Carolinians. But a lot of people don't know that because Mike Kasky, Davey Hyatt, Merle Smith, they count on one thing, all the little acolytes.
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Don't read the bill.
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That's a shame. really is. Representation doesn't happen in Columbia. We'll be right back. This is the Charlie James Show, News Talk 98.9, WORD, the voice of the Carolinas.
Mar 11, 2026
