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Talarico's Toxic Masculinity, Tucker Bolts the GOP, Marxists Win in NYC | Last Call · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
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  Speaker 2: and Jim Garrity of National Review.
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  Speaker 1: Free Martini's Coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the last call of the week for the
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  Speaker 3: Three Martini Lunch. This is our weekly recap of the
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  Speaker 3: biggest stories of the week. In this edition, we discussed
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  Speaker 3: the big wins by avowed Marxists in this week's New
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  Speaker 3: York City congressional primaries, Democratic Texas US Senate candidate James
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  Speaker 3: Tallerico lamenting his whiteness and masculinity Antucker Carlson officially and
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  Speaker 3: finally leaving the Republican Party. And in our chaser of
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  Speaker 3: the week, auto break ins are way down in Oakland, California.
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  Speaker 3: But of course the media found a way to make
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  Speaker 3: that a bad thing. But we begin with James Tallerico's
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  Speaker 3: latest identity politics nonsense. All right, Jim, let's shift over
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  Speaker 3: to Texas. The Texas Senate race is between Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 3: and James Tallerico. Of course, John Cornyn, the four term
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  Speaker 3: in cobent, defeated by Paxton in the primary. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: the argument against Paxton, of course, is that he's got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of controversies and corruption allegations and even an
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  Speaker 3: impeachment by the Texas House. The argument against tall Rico
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  Speaker 3: is the man's insane, and he says the most outlandish,
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  Speaker 3: like beyond far awoke things. I don't know if that
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  Speaker 3: was just to raise his profile and to show that
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  Speaker 3: he's a you know, a lefty that's standing out in Texas.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: It got him the Senate nomination over Jasmine Crockett. But
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  Speaker 3: now he's trying to walk back all this stuff because
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  Speaker 3: of course he actually is trying to win this race,
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  Speaker 3: and you can't do that when you've got a mountain
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  Speaker 3: of insane quotes that are now on the record. And
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  Speaker 3: here's another one that has come out about how he
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  Speaker 3: just struggles so much being a white guy.
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  Speaker 4: I should mention, you know, my imagination is also just
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  Speaker 4: limited by my own background and identity, right my own
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  Speaker 4: my whiteness, my masculinity, all those things start limited in
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  Speaker 4: my imagination about what's possible. So I have to continually
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  Speaker 4: press against that, try to expand the limits of what
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  Speaker 4: I'm dreaming of for our community. And that's where you know,
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  Speaker 4: doctorber in your book helps me do that, and podcasts
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  Speaker 4: like this helped me do.
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  Speaker 3: That, Jim, I don't know how much you've struggled with
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  Speaker 3: your whiteness or masculinity. By the way, the book he
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  Speaker 3: referenced there is apparently written by a trans queer Latino theologian,
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  Speaker 3: so mark that for what it's worth. But they're the
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  Speaker 3: avalanche of quotes that are going to hurt James tallerco
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  Speaker 3: just keeps getting higher.
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  Speaker 5: Greg, you're joking about this, but honest to goodness, I
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  Speaker 5: do struggle with my whiteness, mostly in the form of melanoma,
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  Speaker 5: because I have very little melanin as viewers of this
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  Speaker 5: podcast can tell, which means I get sunburned very easily.
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  Speaker 5: I also have struggled with my masculinity, mostly when listeners
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  Speaker 5: recall the redoing of the kitchen, because my wife and
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  Speaker 5: our lovely redesigner we're talking about and it's like, what
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  Speaker 5: kind of colors do you want? And they basically held
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  Speaker 5: up a blank sheet of paper, and the blank sheet
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  Speaker 5: of paper was like, no, this one is bone, this
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  Speaker 5: one is total white, this one is partial white, this
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  Speaker 5: one is off white. I didn't know I was color
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  Speaker 5: blind until I had to, but apparently the Y chromosome
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  Speaker 5: makes it very tough I'm being very joking and sarcastic
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  Speaker 5: that I really would like to ask James Tolerico, if
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  Speaker 5: you believe that your masculinity limits your imagination, do you
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  Speaker 5: believe that femininity limits imagination in another way? If so,
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  Speaker 5: please say so on the record on camera. Yes, one,
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  Speaker 5: I don't think you want to do that. If you
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  Speaker 5: believe that your whiteness limits your imagination, do you believe
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  Speaker 5: that blackness do you believe Latino heritage? Do you believe
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  Speaker 5: that Asian or any other heritage? Do you think that
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  Speaker 5: that limits imagination? Now, if he wants to say, we
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  Speaker 5: can only go through life as we are, as we
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  Speaker 5: were born and other than Rachel Dolezol, we cannot change
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  Speaker 5: our race, we cannot become another race. And there's always
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  Speaker 5: that question of you never judge and manage till you've
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  Speaker 5: walked a mile in his moccasins, right, this idea that
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  Speaker 5: you've you know, you should let someone like someone else
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  Speaker 5: talks about their experience. You may not have comparable experiences,
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  Speaker 5: You may not really fully understand what it's like to
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  Speaker 5: be them. And this is why we're supposed to call
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  Speaker 5: to try to be empathetic. And you know, if you
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  Speaker 5: buy into Christianity. We're supposed to look at as our
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  Speaker 5: brothers and sisters in Christ, right, We're supposed to look
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  Speaker 5: at them as family members, even if we're very different.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't get that from Talla Rico. I get
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  Speaker 5: this as from this self flagellating Oh I am so bad.
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  Speaker 5: Here are all the flaws in me. And I don't
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  Speaker 5: think that's like as bad as Ken Paxton is. Lord
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  Speaker 5: knows that man has all kinds of flaws and scandals
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  Speaker 5: and crimes and sins and his you know, marriage is
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  Speaker 5: a super fun site. But you look at all that
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  Speaker 5: and he doesn't walk around talking but there's something wrong
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  Speaker 5: with him because he's white, or because he's male, or
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  Speaker 5: because he's straight and apparently very very straight, based on
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  Speaker 5: the number of mistresses he has attempted to persuade state
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  Speaker 5: agencies to hire, although I guess you could say he
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  Speaker 5: was just trying to create jobs for women. Maybe that's
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  Speaker 5: part of his sales pitch there. You look at that,
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  Speaker 5: like and I think this is just I think there's
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  Speaker 5: just a significant chunk of the electorate that's just sick
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  Speaker 5: and tired of this and just you know, like not
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  Speaker 5: just dividing people not just getting to the be counting,
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  Speaker 5: not just getting into the sense of these people have
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  Speaker 5: to be in this category or something, but that there's
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  Speaker 5: something inherently better or worse than people based on that. Look, Greg,
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  Speaker 5: you and I have been around a while. If there's
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  Speaker 5: anything life has taught us is that you can find
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  Speaker 5: jerks of every color, every race, every creed, every religion
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  Speaker 5: there are. You know, there is no group of people.
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe in racial superiority, but I do believe
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  Speaker 5: in across the board racial inferiority. Everybody's really bad. Everybody
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  Speaker 5: is really annoying and frustrating. So I suspect this is
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  Speaker 5: another reason that tell Rico's probably not going to come
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  Speaker 5: as closed as Democrats hope. But obviously we'll be keeping
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  Speaker 5: an eye on this race for the next couple of months.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think most people on Texas so like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the problem with that tall Rico guys, it's
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  Speaker 3: just too masculine. I don't think that's the biggest concern.
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  Speaker 3: We do have a poll out, though it's from Red Eagle,
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  Speaker 3: Patriot and so Cal Strategies, so this might lean a
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  Speaker 3: little bit to the right gym. I don't know what was.
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  Speaker 5: The Red the Eagle or the Patriot, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And that has packed up forty nine, forty seven's, they've
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  Speaker 3: got Greg Gabbitt's up twelve, so that seems pretty right,
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  Speaker 3: I think. So my takeaway here is that, yes, you've
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  Speaker 3: got an endless list of statements and positions and insanity
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  Speaker 3: from James tallerco. But to finish the deal here, I
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  Speaker 3: think you've got to still address the issues, because you
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  Speaker 3: know that's what he's going to do to try to
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  Speaker 3: not talk about all the insane things that he says,
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  Speaker 3: so you can't just focus on that. I feel like people,
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  Speaker 3: certainly nationally looking at this, think that's all it's going
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  Speaker 3: to take to win, and maybe with the balance of
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  Speaker 3: the electorate in Texas, it's could be enough. But I
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  Speaker 3: think it would be smart to actually address issues and
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  Speaker 3: not just the candidate.
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  Speaker 5: And my suspicion is that if you ask one, it'll
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  Speaker 5: be interested in your tel Rico does interviews in which
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  Speaker 5: he gets asked about these kinds of comments and say,
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  Speaker 5: do you still feel like your whiteness, your masculinity, and
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  Speaker 5: your heterosexuality. Do you believe that all of them limit
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  Speaker 5: your imaginations? Do you still believe that and he probably
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  Speaker 5: would want to go back and take a second shot
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  Speaker 5: at that one. He's probably saying, oh, well, when I
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  Speaker 5: said that, what I really met was blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 5: But if he doesn't do that, if he does it,
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  Speaker 5: then it's like this, you know, Kamala Harris saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: remember all those things I said four years ago. I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to have a staffer issue a statement that is
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  Speaker 5: no longer my position. And if you're thinking has changed, great,
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  Speaker 5: but ideally you're thinking has changed on something more than well,
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  Speaker 5: I was running for a smaller, more bluer district than
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  Speaker 5: now I'm running statewide in Texas. So I can't believe that.
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  Speaker 5: I think you need a better explanation for that, and
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  Speaker 5: I doubt we'll get that from tall Rico.
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  Speaker 3: No, but he's trying. He's saying, oh, I was trying
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  Speaker 3: to be provocative or no, I know there's only two
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  Speaker 3: sexes now, not six or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: I forgot to carry the one. It was a math error.
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  Speaker 3: There shouldn't be should have been two.
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  Speaker 5: I came to set too, Yeah, exactly, I thought of
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  Speaker 5: a better one. It's, you know, because he's so masculine,
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  Speaker 5: he's so overwhelmingly masculine that when asked you know how
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  Speaker 5: many different you know sex's or genders are there, he
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  Speaker 3: Let's move on to Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson is probably
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  Speaker 3: pretty darn happy with the memorandum of understanding. But of
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  Speaker 3: course he is absolutely apoplectic that this war ever took
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  Speaker 3: place in the first place. Not because you know, he
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  Speaker 3: shared the concerns we had about what the possible endgame was.
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  Speaker 3: But no, no, no, he's you know, worried that Iran's
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  Speaker 3: being treated unfairly. Carlson has now decided that, largely due
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  Speaker 3: to this, he's done with the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 1: I would not support the Republican Party. There's no chance
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  Speaker 1: I would support the Republican Party. Not going to support
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. I don't know what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 1: But at this point, you know, how could you support
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  Speaker 1: How could I or any American voter support a political
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  Speaker 1: party that's not loyal to the United States, that puts
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  Speaker 1: the interests of a foreign country above those of its
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  Speaker 1: own citizens Like that's you know, it's not possible to
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  Speaker 1: vote for people like that, And I'm not going to.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I voted Republican my entire life. I
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  Speaker 1: worked at Fox News, I've seen an MSNBC. I've been
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  Speaker 1: a consistent defender for thirty five years of the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 1: I mean very consistent defender. But there's no defending this
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  Speaker 1: because it's immoral, and it's exactly the opposite of what
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  Speaker 1: a political party in a democracy is charged with doing,
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  Speaker 1: which is representing its own voters, its own citizens, its
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  Speaker 1: own nation, and they're not doing that. So no, I'm out,
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  Speaker 1: And if I'm out, then I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other people are.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're out too. Yeah, because you're so important,
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  Speaker 3: You're so influential that if you've made a decision, then
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  Speaker 3: obviously everyone's going to follow your lead. There, Jim, I
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  Speaker 3: see this as an addition by subtraction, hopefully. I'm a
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  Speaker 3: little bit concerned that he might try to do a
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  Speaker 3: third party bid, maybe with Thomas Massey. That's the name
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  Speaker 3: in the combo that's floating around in my head. I
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  Speaker 3: have nothing to necessarily suggest that that's actually in the works,
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  Speaker 3: but it would not shock me. But they're kind of
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  Speaker 3: treading in the same lane as you know, the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: here with their attitude towards Israel, and so I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure that that would necessarily do the damage to the
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  Speaker 3: GOP that he thinks, but who knows. Once you get
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  Speaker 3: a third party in there, it's hard to necessarily say
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  Speaker 3: where the influence is going to go.
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  Speaker 5: So I think it's a Free Country. And if Tucker
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  Speaker 5: Carlson wants to leave the Republican Party, he's free to
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  Speaker 5: do that. I think there are a lot of Republicans
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  Speaker 5: who will what's the meme for Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka, No,
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  Speaker 5: don't come back, clearly not caring if the person leaves.
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  Speaker 5: But I think of what was interesting about this is
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  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty four at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 5: Carlson was a speaker. It was a feature speaker the
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  Speaker 5: night the Trump gave his address, and I remember I
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  Speaker 5: was in the arena, and if I remember correctly, Tucker
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  Speaker 5: Carlson did not have prepair of remarks on the teleprompter.
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  Speaker 5: He just winged it for about fifteen minutes or so. Now,
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  Speaker 5: I think if you're speaking at a major party national
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  Speaker 5: political convention, you should be either an elected official of
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  Speaker 5: that party, a candidate for elected office of that party,
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  Speaker 5: an extraordinary American, or a member of the other party
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  Speaker 5: who's decided I'm really upset with my party and I'm
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  Speaker 5: endorsing this one. This is why you have Zell Miller
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  Speaker 5: giving the keynote address at the two thousand and four
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  Speaker 5: Republican Convention and I'm just kind of sitting there thinking
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  Speaker 5: that Tucker Carlson, you know, having a pundit just go
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  Speaker 5: up and talk for fifteen minutes on the final line
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  Speaker 5: of the convention. That's kind of It's not as egregious
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  Speaker 5: as say, having a major labor leader go give the
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  Speaker 5: entire keynote address to give a persistent gripe of us
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  Speaker 5: on this podcast. But it's like, okay, fine.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: It's interesting though. Here we are less than two years
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  Speaker 5: later and Tucker Carlson has announced he's not he's leaving
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  Speaker 5: the Republican Party. I do feel like we are in
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  Speaker 5: an era of somebody leaving their party. Used to be
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  Speaker 5: a really big deal, right. Jim Jefferts was, you know,
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  Speaker 5: leaving the Republicans because he really wanted to preserve the
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  Speaker 5: Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact. We all have our lines in
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  Speaker 5: the sand, and that was his he all to die
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  Speaker 5: on Arlen Spector. You know, he stood for principle, the
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  Speaker 5: principle that he really wanted to be re elected for
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  Speaker 5: another term, and it did not work because he didn't
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  Speaker 5: win the Democratic primer. You know, I feel like we're
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  Speaker 5: in an era where we see more party flipping. And
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  Speaker 5: I think that this is a demonstration, like the irony
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  Speaker 5: is that our two parties. As much as I think
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  Speaker 5: both of them are too populist, there is a clear
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  Speaker 5: ideological divide. They have very different perspectives of the world.
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  Speaker 5: They have very different ideas of how the government should run,
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  Speaker 5: what it should do, what its priorities ought to be,
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  Speaker 5: and if you can find yourself flipping from one to
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  Speaker 5: the other, and I guess in Carlson's case it's more.
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  Speaker 5: I guess he'd characterize himself as an independent. But I
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  Speaker 5: feel like we're in a more erratic era, are a
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  Speaker 5: less consistent era, one where people are more likely to
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  Speaker 5: say I'm out and storm out the door when they
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  Speaker 5: don't get their way. And it's pretty clear that Tucker
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  Speaker 5: Carlson is very far from the thinking of the typical Republican.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's very far from the thinking of an
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  Speaker 5: atypical Republican. And so I'm not really gonna miss him.
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  Speaker 5: But you're right the idea that this is some precursor
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  Speaker 5: to some trying to create a third party or independent
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  Speaker 5: bid or something that would be particularly ominous for Republican chances,
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  Speaker 5: So it's not worth trying to bring him back. I
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  Speaker 5: think he's gone way off the deep end, and it's been,
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  Speaker 5: you know, getting more and more deep end since least
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  Speaker 5: the interview with Putin. But even beyond that, he's been
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  Speaker 5: very pro Iraniant. Remember you know, early on he was saying,
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  Speaker 5: if we had a war with the RAN, there'd be
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  Speaker 5: tens of thousands of American casualties and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 5: So like it's not surprising, but it does seem a
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  Speaker 5: little bit ominous because you could easily see Tucker's saying, oh,
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  Speaker 5: because of that, now I'm declaring the Carlson Party, the
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  Speaker 5: Swanson instant Breakfast, instant dinner of breakfast, whatever it is
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  Speaker 5: he's gonna do. You know, I was gonna say he
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  Speaker 5: could do the planned shirt, but I think Lamar Alexander
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  Speaker 5: has that, has that copyrighted.
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  Speaker 3: Tucker is who he thought he was on that note.
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  Speaker 3: But the good news about that last night of the convention,
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  Speaker 3: as nobody really remembers what he said because of Hulk
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  Speaker 3: the late yeah, ripping the shirt and.
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  Speaker 5: Trump speaking for the first time after being shot.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, oh.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously that yeah, in terms of the lead up to Trump,
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  Speaker 3: a previewed the efforts of New York City Mayor Zoron
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  Speaker 3: Mamdani to help three avowed socialists, including at least one
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  Speaker 3: self proclaimed Marxist, win congressional primaries in the city. The
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  Speaker 3: next day, the news was grim unless you're one of
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  Speaker 3: the Marxists, Jim. Yesterday we previewed how New York City
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  Speaker 3: Mayor Zoron Mamdani endorsed three pretty much avowed kamis in
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  Speaker 3: three congressional races tied to New York City, and two
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  Speaker 3: of them were running against Democratic incumbents, So pretty brazen
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: and Mam Donnie's candidates won all three and only one
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  Speaker 3: of them was even close. And so when you look
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  Speaker 3: at the seventh congressional district, you've got Claire Valdez clearly
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  Speaker 3: winning that race, easily winning by more than twenty points
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  Speaker 3: against Reinoso, the opponent there. Then in the tenth district,
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  Speaker 3: I think we knew this was going to happen, Brad Lander,
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  Speaker 3: but by more than thirty points over Congressman Dan Goldman.
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  Speaker 3: And then in the thirteenth district, Daria Eliza Avila Chevalier,
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  Speaker 3: they call her d I don't think you can have
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: a DAC and an AOC in New York City. That
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  Speaker 3: seems way too confusing. But anyway, she defeated the pretty
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: far left incumbent congressman there, Adriana Espiat by a couple
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  Speaker 3: thousand votes. So we'll get to some better news from
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: last night's primaries, but Jim, just to give you an
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  Speaker 3: idea of some of these people who will now be
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  Speaker 3: coming to Washington, because this is the whole ball of
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: wax in New York City. You win the primary, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to be coming to Washington. So here's Claire Valdez.
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  Speaker 3: This is not from last night, but from a little
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  Speaker 3: over a week ago, explaining a little bit of her platform.
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  Speaker 2: So are we ready to free Palestine? Are we ready
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  Speaker 2: to abolish ice? Are we ready to win medicare for all?
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  Speaker 4: Housing for all?
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  Speaker 2: And unions for all?
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  Speaker 3: She also wants to abolish prisons, abolish ice, as she said,
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  Speaker 3: abolish borders to fund the police, and says that all
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: deportations are wrong, including for violent criminals. She has called
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  Speaker 3: the US a quote fing disgrace unquote and said in
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  Speaker 3: a prior social media post, quote I forgot to get napkins,
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  Speaker 3: so I just wiped my hand on the American flag
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  Speaker 3: behind me un quote. Not exactly a shock. This is
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  Speaker 3: Darley's a vila chevalie, by the way, who said all that.
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  Speaker 3: Claire Valdez also wants to grant a citizenship and voting
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  Speaker 3: rights to illegal aliens, and use taxpayer funds for all
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  Speaker 3: transgender treatments, and eliminate private health insurance. Brad Lander abolish
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  Speaker 3: ice of course, forgive all student loans totally two trillion
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  Speaker 3: dollars expand the Supreme Court. So Jim. Some people on
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  Speaker 3: the writer saying the losers were not only normal people
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  Speaker 3: in New York City, but also Hakim Jeffries, who's going
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: to try to manage these people if he ends up
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  Speaker 3: as the speaker next year. But we've got some radicals,
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  Speaker 3: And the question I think is is it contained to
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  Speaker 3: the deep blue areas or is this where the Democratic
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  Speaker 3: Party is now?
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  Speaker 5: Greg It was the kind of night where folks like
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: you and I can say, ah, I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: you saw the winner was the crazy one and you
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  Speaker 5: have no idea who we're talking about, because that really
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  Speaker 5: doesn't narrow it down that much at all. Would we
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: you and I have preferred for the I'm not even
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  Speaker 5: going to say moderate. I would just say not nominatly
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  Speaker 5: less crazy Democratic incumbents to win. Sure didn't happen. I'm
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: not sure this is a true nightmare for the Republican
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  Speaker 5: Party or right of center folks, conservatives, etc. And I
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  Speaker 5: guess a question would be, do you think that alexandri
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  Speaker 5: Ocassio Cortes and ilhan Omar and other members of the squad.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think they have strengthened House Democrats or do
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  Speaker 5: you think they've proven to be a liability for House Democrats.
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  Speaker 5: I get into this argument all the time where I
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: say to people, do you think AOC is powerful and influential,
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  Speaker 5: And some people say yes, absolutely, look at all her
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  Speaker 5: followers on Instagram and Twitter and all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, but like, what's she done? What has
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: she actually done in terms of legislation, what does she
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: actually you know, you can point to some cases where
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: she's questioned. Witnesses and progressives are real super excited about it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: She gets a lot of media attention, doesn't really do
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: a lot of hostile interviews we've noticed, and she certainly
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: did not wow people at the Munich Security Conference where
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: when asked about what the US should do if China
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: were to invade Taiwan, her answer was we should make
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: sure that doesn't happen, and no further elaboration from that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think these are serious people. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: these are people who are well equipped to actually lead
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  Speaker 5: the party. They are very well equipped to be gadflaws,
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  Speaker 5: They're very well equipped to get a lot of attention
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: because they're going to constantly say controversial things, or they're
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: going to say, oh, I believe that we should have
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: quote no more police at all ever unquote, which is
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: basically the Purge. I think from those horror movies that's
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: her her vision on security and safety, that she thinks
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: that national borders should not exist, that all deportation is wrong. Like,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: they're gonna be asked, do you still believe that? And
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: the answers are either going to be yes or no.
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  Speaker 5: And here's my really implausible explanation of why I no
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: longer believe that. And so it's just one of those
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: things where I think this is actually gonna be a
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: bigger headache for House Democrats, Like given a choice in
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: your districts, like, did Marjorie Taylor Green turn out to
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: be a huge advantage for the Republican Party when she
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: was in Congress? I don't think that's the case. Did
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Has Lauren Bobert been a huge asset for the party
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  Speaker 5: as well? I don't think so. I think the candidates
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: who are most outrageous, most outlandish, most extreme, tend to
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: be more trouble than they're worth. And the Democrats have
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: signed on a bunch of doozies last night.
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  Speaker 3: That segment of my business has been down about thirty percent. Jim.
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  Speaker 3: good work. But if they're losing business because crime's not happening,
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  Speaker 5: I think these folks have completely misunderstood the broken windows
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  Speaker 5: see lots of broken windows, they see no consequences for actions,
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  Speaker 5: they're more likely to commit crimes. It doesn't mean like, ah,
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  Speaker 5: are that. Are you having to have layoffs because there
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  Speaker 5: are fewer car thefts? But I think we'll live. I
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  Speaker 5: think we'll be okay. There are not all jobs are
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  Speaker 5: created equal, not all businesses. You know this way, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: you know, bad things can create economic activity, but given
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  Speaker 5: the good things that we can do.