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Howie Carr · Newsradio WGAN

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How are things on this fine Tuesday morning, Sir?
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Very good. I guess there's not going to be
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a resumption of hostilities. Well, Trump is in China.
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He's leaving this morning. So few days, few days of not not
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having to wonder about what you're going to wake up to in
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the morning and after sleeping through the night, you know?
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Suppose not. I did hear about a gas tax
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holiday though. What do you think about that?
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Howie Carr. That would be great.
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I mean, it's, you know, again, it's there won't be, there won't
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be any gas tax holidays in Maine or Massachusetts or any of the
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blue states, although, you know, Ned Lamont has talked about it
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in Connecticut. But oh, they're all these,
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they're all these structural problems for, you know, somehow
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there's never a structural problem when they want to raise
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taxes, right? They're always able to find a
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workaround, but when it comes to cutting taxes, that's it's a
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problem that's too much. Yeah, I can't do that.
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No, for sure. It is kind of funny.
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I was watching the, I was watching the news like a couple
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days ago or whatever, just talking about the gas prices
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everywhere else. And obviously they're not great.
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But to see the difference between what I paid when I was
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complaining about it the other day and what California pays.
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I mean, it pretty much all is gas taxes.
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I mean, you're talking about 3-4 dollars worth, you know, per
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gallon. It's kind of ridiculous at this
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point. Yeah, or, or regulations.
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I mean, Spencer proud, I thought there was a good line in the
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debate there was it? No, Steve Hilton the other night
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when the gubernatorial debate, he said, look, Trump is a
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president of all 50 States and we're the only ones that have
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have gas prices $2.00 higher than the other 49 states.
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How is that Trump's fault? And of course it isn't that.
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That's why they don't want to, That's why they don't want to
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debate the the issue. It's just, it's ridiculous.
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They used to have what, 40 refineries in California and now
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they're down to a handful and some of them are trying to get
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out. It's so, it's so bad.
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And you know, people, people are going crazy.
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I don't blame them, you know, especially if you got a long
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commute. But you know, about the prices
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and they're saying, you know, if we're the biggest, if we're the
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biggest producer in the world, if we're the biggest exporter,
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why, why, why, why are we having these gas prices?
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Well, you know, you know the answer.
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I mean, we, we don't have enough refining capacity.
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You know, it's to say, yeah, Iran has the same problem in it
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for the same reason, ideological problems.
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You know, they they haven't play Iran and the US haven't let the
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free market operate to produce the refineries that we need to
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put to, you know, distill the the oil into gasoline.
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And it's I don't know. I mean, you know, I've been
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thinking more and more that how it the Democrats seem to have a
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lot in common with the IRDC, don't they?
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There's a couple full philosophies that crossover on
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the Venn diagram. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely
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they do. I don't know how as you consider
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Iran, what do you think is ultimately going to happen
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there? I'm kind of sick of asking about
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it, but it's it's still out there.
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And I, you know, I we look at these midterm elections coming
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up and what not. I'm just curious about when it
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ends and what that looks like. And I know we still have plenty
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of time left here, but I know that people also don't like
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paying that extra gas price. So do you think that he is
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feeling some kind of pressure to actually draw this to some kind
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of conclusion or is it just? He's got a pressure, but it's
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nothing like the pressure they have, you know, I mean, I, I
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think they just, you know, every, they're just looking.
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I think a lot of them are just looking for ways to get money
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out of the country and just figuring out how they're going
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to survive as the bombing starts again.
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Could you, you know that Mossad and CIA have been, you know,
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just drawing up diagrams just to take out this, this next group
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of these people? I, I don't know, I mean, I
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don't, I don't, I don't think it can go on that much longer,
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especially if they get they get really seriously hit.
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I mean, I think because I think they did a lot of damage last
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last week with a what he, what did he call it a love tap?
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The Love Tap Yes. They took out, you know,
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hundreds of those, those boats. I mean, those those boats are
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like, you know, and again, looking back for historical
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precedents, I mean, those boats, the way they're operating,
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they're like kamikazes. And The thing is, the kamikazes,
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you know, on rare occasions got through and heard a boat.
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I mean, there's so far they so far these boats have done
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nothing. It's just, they're just suicide
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missions against, against the Americans And I and you know,
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would you be going out with one of those boats?
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No, but we're logical people. I mean, like, that's one of the
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things about this conflict, which is to me sort of stood
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out, is that it's it would have been rational for this to end
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and for them to surrender and give up and try to preserve
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their regime and whatever like a month ago.
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You know what I mean? Like, they don't seem to me to
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be, like, thinking rationally about any of their calculus
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about any of this. I mean, what is that nuclear
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program worth to you? Honestly, if you're Iran at this
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point, clearly no one in the world wants you to have it, even
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if you got it. I mean, like, what are you gonna
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do with it? Like, what is the point of this
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anymore? Like, preserve your power,
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preserve your regime. Just cut the crap and just get
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out. But they are not doing that
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firing. Missiles at UAE, Yeah.
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No, exactly. They have a military and now
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they're and now they're hey, hey, UAE is not about to fight a
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ceasefire. You know, let's go and bomb a
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couple of their refineries. And they have, I mean, why would
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you go out of your way to make an enemy out of everybody and
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every neighbor you have? You're right.
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It's it's insanity. Yeah.
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So I don't have a good explanation for it, but I
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suppose we'll see where it goes. I'll probably ask you about it
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for the next 17 weeks. So we'll see how are you, I'm
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sure that you saw the Supreme Court on Monday basically gave
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the green light to the Alabama redistricting stuff, which is,
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you know, in the wake of the Louisiana decision and
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everything else. I've been talking about this for
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basically two weeks now. But it's just amazing to me what
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an what a poorly thought through fight to pick this was for the
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Democrats. They just didn't have they never
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had enough tools in the toolbox to make this smart for them.
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They were always going to lose seats and now they're really
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losing seats and might imperil any opportunity for them to take
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back the the majorities. I, I know, and, and you know,
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the other thing is too, that some of the, some of the, the
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gerrymandering that's, that's going on up here, like for
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instance, New England, I mean, nobody was paying attention to
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the fact that, you know, the six New England states, 21 members
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of Congress, not a single Republican, even though 40% of
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the population votes for Trump. I mean, nobody knew about that
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outside outside of a handful of people like us.
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You know, they didn't know that Illinois votes 3540% for for
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Trump and has 11% Republicans. I mean, The thing is that
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Democrats say we're going to gerrymander just like the
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Republicans. Wait a second, You already have.
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Yeah. Where are you?
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Where are you going to gerrymander further?
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I mean, that's that's that was the whole thing about the
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Virginia overreach. And now I love the fact that
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they're going to the Supreme Court.
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Remember, versus Pennsylvania, you know, there was a case,
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there was a case that cried out to be addressed.
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There was voter fraud. There were there were multiple
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violations of the law in Pennsylvania.
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I mean, just overriding state statutes, the statutes to put
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the, to put more of these, you know, fraudulent voters on the,
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on the blocks. And, and the, the Supreme Court
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said Texas has no standing to go in because it's all, it's all,
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it's all a state elections are state law.
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So everyone said, oh, this was brilliant jurisprudence.
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This is what America is all about making this decision.
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So, so now the decision has gone the other way.
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And they they, they asked the Supreme Court to totally flip
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everything on its head. Yeah, of course.
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The Supreme Court must intervene, even though it's a
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totally a state issue. And then they they're the
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defenders of democracy. They want to get rid of two,
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five of those seven members of the Supreme Court in Virginia.
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Two of them are black. One is the first black woman.
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They're going to fire black people who didn't do anything
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wrong so that they can help out these white losers who are going
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to get lost 2, three times in, in congressional races in
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legitimate districts so they can get elected.
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I mean, it's, it's just, it's just insane.
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And and again, they're being cheered on by, by by the regime
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controlled media. Oh, this is what democracy looks
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like, right? You know, we must destroy
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democracy in order to save it. How is this different from the
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from burning down the village in Vietnam?
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Years ago. Of course it is not.
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Of course it is. You know, Howie, I saw something
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I think 2 days ago, maybe one or two days ago, that was somebody
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had done a study on sort of like what like fair redistricting
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would look like across the country.
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Like if you just did what the Constitution says, like compact
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districts, you know, make everything a square, basically.
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Do you know what the actual orientation of Congress would be
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right now? It was like 246 Republicans
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right now. Like, you know, it's like, it's
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a net gain of like 30 compared to what we have or 20 compared
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to what we have right now. You know, that's, that's what's,
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that's the, the, you know, when you get back to the beginning of
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all this and stuff like that, everybody says it's Texas's
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fault or whatever. But like, why do you think the
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Democrats had 40 years of uncontested control in the
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latter half of the 20th century? Like there was, there was 3
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elections where massive landslides happened.
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You had Nixon in 72, you had Reagan in 80, and you had Reagan
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in 84. You know what?
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You want to know what the average number of Democrats that
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won in Congress was for those 3 elections where Nixon won 60% of
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the vote in 49 States and Reagan won 49 and 84?
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It was like 250. It's like 250 Democrats in years
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where everyone voted for a Republican.
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That's how bad the gerrymandering has been for the
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course of 100 years. So I really don't, you know,
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like, I don't like this either, but like, I don't want to hear
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you whine about it at this point.
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Like, turnabout's fair play. So be quiet.
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That's right. And then they and then Hakeem
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Jeffries, I mean, he really is dumb.
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I mean, I thought maybe, you know, Trump was overstating the
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low, low IQ Hakeem. But every day he goes out there
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and just says these crazier things.
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I mean, again, he sounds like, you know, one of the commanders
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of the IRDC. You know, we will fight that.
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We will show them weapons they have never seen before.
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He's he's a dramatic guy and he is pretty.
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He's doing the, he's doing the Joe Namath thing too.
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He's like, I will win, I guarantee.
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Well, not so sure about that. With these redistricting plants
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that are happening right now. I think you're going to have a
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tough go of it, Hakeem. We'll see.