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DLHS Hour 4 | D.L. and Crew Reflect on Sweeping Democratic Victory · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the 2026 edition.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that if you're going to be in Detroit, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be at the Jack White Theater Friday and
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  Speaker 2: then Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: At the Orphan Inn, of course, New Orleans. What's that song?
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  Speaker 2: What is that song? If you're not taking the lumps
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  Speaker 2: and bruises with me, if you're not there when I'm down,
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  Speaker 2: don't come around when I'm up. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of people, particularly black MAGA people,
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  Speaker 2: and they know who I'm talking about. We don't need
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  Speaker 2: your advice now. We don't want the South. And we
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  Speaker 2: did it without your help. So you see, you got
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  Speaker 2: the sophisticated song. So I'm going to break it down
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  Speaker 2: for the song that we all know.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Jones. Back then you didn't want me. Now I'm hot.
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  Speaker 3: You're all on me.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You spent your whole time degrading black women on Fox
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  Speaker 2: News to the point that they gave you a thumbs down.
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  Speaker 2: How dare you tell us they made history without your
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  Speaker 2: help or advice.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They made history without it. Ain't it ironic that MAGA tried.
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  Speaker 2: To destroy diversity and diversity ended up destroying MAGA? It
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  Speaker 2: is the people who were less than, the people who
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  Speaker 2: you sided against that did this.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, pardon, you did not help. You said
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  Speaker 2: up there was going to dinner with them. You said
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  Speaker 2: up there was going on their talk shows and repeating
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  Speaker 2: the same things they were saying. Miss me with that.
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  Speaker 3: Please.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, you actually think black women are going to listen
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  Speaker 1: to anything you have to say?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think it's wrong for them to expect, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 2: as bad as he did them, a little skin ain't
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  Speaker 2: going to hurt. They got to get some kickback, baby,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. You got to get a lick back somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we can be cool after I get me
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  Speaker 2: a lick back.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need you. We did it without your help.
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  Speaker 1: You wasn't advocating for people.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, you were platforming the people
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  Speaker 2: that people were running against. What wasn't he? You were
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  Speaker 2: platforming MAGA. How dare you? We don't need you no more.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that there is a there is no
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  Speaker 2: point in just having a vengeance tour because like it
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  Speaker 2: or not, that's what Trump did. He went on a
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  Speaker 2: vengeance tour. And that didn't serve him. He went on
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  Speaker 2: a vengeance and a dumb legislation. All he did was
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  Speaker 2: propose dumb legislation and Trump up fervorless charges on people.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is you can
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  Speaker 2: have affordability and accountability. You can do this and that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're going to open those Epstein files and
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  Speaker 2: somebody's in it, as opposed to letting us.
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  Speaker 1: Know, tell us what you're going to do about it.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you're not going to arrest nobody and you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to drum nobody out from their job, then
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  Speaker 2: what are we.
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  Speaker 1: Hearing about it for?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't care who it is.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Who was ever on that list.
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  Speaker 2: If that statute of limitations that they should be pursued
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  Speaker 2: by the Department of Justice, no matter who they are.
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  Speaker 3: That's why they was put in there.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the people want. People want accountability and affordability.
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  Speaker 2: I want to find out what you did with all
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  Speaker 2: that oil money you got from Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: Where that at?
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  Speaker 2: They thought Bill Clinton was all up in there and
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  Speaker 2: it was all Trump. I'll tell you what. Whoever in there,
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  Speaker 2: I ain't got. I don't have a favorite pedophile.
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  Speaker 3: I don't. No.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't got one.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. No.
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  Speaker 2: But you see Russell Brand, he got convicted of sexual assault.
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  Speaker 2: So he is right now. He's number one candidate for
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  Speaker 2: the Republican nominee for president.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, rapist.
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  Speaker 1: Come on in. Come on in.
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  Speaker 3: That's our man. Come on in.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So the follow up on the election continues every day.
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  Speaker 2: I guess there were four or five more seats. That
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  Speaker 2: that trickling down. And let's be clear. Donald Trump, when
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  Speaker 2: he won this election, he won in very close margins.
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  Speaker 2: It was some ass whippings handed out. It was these
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  Speaker 2: handed out some headaches. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: Like that woman, that young lady woman, she beat.
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  Speaker 2: Hot Wheels by like double digits.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. From the rip. I mean, she gave up.
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  Speaker 1: He quit early. Like, hey, man, ain't no point in
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  Speaker 1: me even calculating.
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  Speaker 3: We use every calculator we got. There ain't no way
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  Speaker 3: you're going to win.
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  Speaker 1: Celerico beat them by double digits.
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  Speaker 2: I heard. I heard Ted Cruz say something he never
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  Speaker 2: thought he'd say. He made a public service. He said
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  Speaker 2: he's the only statewide elected official that's a Republican right now. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: I told you they lost all the left. And that's
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  Speaker 4: because he wasn't up for election.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: This is the first time in history because it is
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  Speaker 2: the state houses that have decided the course of our
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  Speaker 2: lot in life.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody talk about what Dems done for you now.
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  Speaker 2: Sixty percent of American of the African-American population in America
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  Speaker 2: live in southern region of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: And they had solid Republican blocs, solid for decades. Now
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  Speaker 2: it's a fair question. If you own state houses, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a fair question now. But I obviously don't
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  Speaker 2: think right away. But I think that, you know, today
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  Speaker 2: or tomorrow. But if you own the state houses and
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  Speaker 2: you own the state legislatures, then black people have a
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  Speaker 2: right to expect something.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: It's disingenuous to say because black people tend to vote
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  Speaker 2: at the federal level. But at the federal level, the
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  Speaker 2: money trickles down to the state and they disperse it.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're the state and you get to decide
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  Speaker 1: who disperse it, you have a say in it.
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  Speaker 3: Sure do.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked.
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  Speaker 2: Kansas had not had a progressive person voted in for
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  Speaker 2: 100 years. Mississippi has not had a black elected official,
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  Speaker 2: a black senator since for one hundred and forty five years.
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  Speaker 2: And the last one they had was they have never
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  Speaker 2: had a black Democrat be elected.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
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  Speaker 1: So it is fair now in a.
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  Speaker 2: Year or so, if these people like particularly in Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: if there are so many people who are who are,
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  Speaker 2: you know, seated throughout the the the the governance of
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  Speaker 2: state legislator is fair.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fair question.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: More than fair.
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  Speaker 2: Texas was solidly red. Georgia was solidly red. Tennessee solidly red.
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi solidly red. Sixty percent of the American black African-American
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  Speaker 2: population lived in those in those fiefdoms.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They were, you know, they weren't successful with their redrawing
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  Speaker 2: district where they were successful is Tennessee. And they got
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  Speaker 2: that young brother.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, all those state autocracies that they
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  Speaker 3: lived under, you know, was one thing. But when you
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  Speaker 3: got a president that expanded on it, it was like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: enough of this.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: When you get Kansas, when you get Iowa, when you
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  Speaker 2: get South Carolina, when you get Texas, when you get Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: anybody can get got.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody can get got. Anybody.
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  Speaker 2: And now that we know we can do it, anybody
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  Speaker 2: can get got. Ain't no safe district. They're defeating them.
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  Speaker 2: They whooping their ass in their front yard.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And they little old gerrymandered.
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  Speaker 1: Man, and you had every advantage that's still lost.
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  Speaker 2: So all of these people, now the people that are
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  Speaker 2: left understand I ain't safe from all the way to
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  Speaker 2: Alaska to Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: And they spent billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: And all that Elon Musk money. I don't know what's
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  Speaker 2: worse for somebody to take, AIPAC or Elon.
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  Speaker 3: Ha ha ha.
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  Speaker 2: They made that money radioactive. This dude spent a half
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  Speaker 2: a billion dollars. He was trying to buy a center
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  Speaker 2: of the interstate.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. He got to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't that something? You moved to California because they were
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  Speaker 2: too progressive. And now Texas is progressive.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Eli, go to Florida next.
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  Speaker 2: We'll fix it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where you better go to.
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  Speaker 3: We'll fix it. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's a down there. Do whatever you want.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah, he's for sale.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to do it for us, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: It's the DL Hughley Show. Remember, tomorrow I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be at the Jack White Theater in Detroit. Also, the
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  Speaker 2: following day, I will be at the Orphan and New
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  Speaker 2: Orleans for the DL and DL Tour.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: What did you learn today, Skip? Man, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting ready to get off the air, man. I
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  Speaker 3: am going down.
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  Speaker 4: I got to host the Dallas Smokefest D9 party, man.
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  Speaker 4: So all the D9 organizations, we're going to be out
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  Speaker 4: kicking it tonight, having a good time with Dallas Smokefest.
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  Speaker 1: Man, have a few for me.
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  Speaker 3: Lofty spaces. If you're in the area, come holler.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Have a few for me, baby boy. Have a few
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  Speaker 2: for me. Junior Tanner the King, what did you learn today? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I learned, you know, the afterglow is still very, very
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  Speaker 2: high here. And like I said, as we watch these
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  Speaker 2: tallies of more and more people coming in, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just excited just like they're excited and they're
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  Speaker 2: ready to get to work. So I can't wait to
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  Speaker 2: see them work.
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  Speaker 1: And man, act like a king.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Act like a king.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to stay on them though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's reasonable that if you own the state
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  Speaker 2: houses and the state legislature, there's a reason. So a
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  Speaker 2: black woman has never been in charge. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that Georgia's ever had a black governor at all.
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  Speaker 3: No, never.
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  Speaker 2: They've only been, if I'm not mistaken, there are more
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  Speaker 2: black governors now at this point than there were in history.
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  Speaker 2: But a black governor also needs a black legislator. I mean, a,
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  Speaker 2: A progressive governor needs a progressive legislature because all the
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  Speaker 2: time they're fighting back and forth. They do have the
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  Speaker 2: veto power. But some of these were so they so entrenched.
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  Speaker 2: They had the veto power.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Even now, before Abbott leaves out of office, they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to limit his power. They're trying to limit her power.
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  Speaker 3: You know what they said?
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  Speaker 2: They said she would have authoritarian power. If she would
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  Speaker 2: have it, that meant he had it.
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  Speaker 3: As they well know.
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  Speaker 2: Man, if you don't get them wheelchair ramps and rails
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  Speaker 2: up that office and hurry your ass up.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what? Bring back the state handicap placard.
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  Speaker 2: Bring that back.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you talk about Georgia, man. They've never had a
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  Speaker 3: black governor. Warnock was the first black senator. That wasn't
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  Speaker 3: that long ago.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It's a new day, baby.
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  Speaker 2: So it is a disingenuous argument because when most of
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  Speaker 2: us live in these regions that are super heavily germinated,
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  Speaker 2: the Tennessees, the Arkansas, the Alabama, the Texases, the Floridas,
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  Speaker 2: whatever happens at the federal level never affects you because
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to give you the bread anyway.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to let those programs happen anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: But now it's a fair question to ask what you
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  Speaker 1: can do. It's fair now. It's not fair today because
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  Speaker 1: she didn't even take the job. She's governor-elect.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: But reckoning is coming. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: All right, on the next D.O. Hughley Show, if you
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• 10:26
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• 10:27
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• 10:28
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• 10:32
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  Speaker 3: Hughley.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be getting F'd in 15 minutes, and
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  Speaker 2: there's not a damn thing you can.
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  Speaker 3: Do about it. You mean tomorrow, not 15 minutes. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you won in 15 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: No, it'll be recorded tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm going to name it Victorious Darkies over there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it in 15 minutes. It's D.O. Hughley Show.