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Donald Drumpf Theatre: Political Technology or Why The Fascist is the 47th President · Donald Drumpf Theatre radio show

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SPEAKER_02: It's time again for Donald Drunk Theater No one knows what is up or down Jack or
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SPEAKER_02: white Legal or impeachable Everything is make-believe in Donald Drunk Theater So
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SPEAKER_02: let's pull the curtain back We are controlling transmission if we wish to make it
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SPEAKER_02: louder
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SPEAKER_02: We will bring up the body.
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SPEAKER_02: We can change the focus to a soft blur.
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SPEAKER_00: You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas.
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SPEAKER_00: You've just crossed over into...
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SPEAKER_02: Why does everything have to be so f***ing weird?
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SPEAKER_02: These are dangerous times.
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SPEAKER_02: Something terrible is going to happen.
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SPEAKER_02: Truth isn't truth.
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SPEAKER_02: I hear it's fake news, but maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
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SPEAKER_02: I think it's fake news, okay?
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SPEAKER_02: Now, would I do that?
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SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_02: The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do.
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SPEAKER_02: You win!
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I've declared myself as king.
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SPEAKER_02: I learned a lot from Richard Nixon.
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SPEAKER_02: Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
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SPEAKER_02: I could cause panic much better than even you.
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SPEAKER_02: I could do much, I would make you look like a minor league player.
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SPEAKER_02: So, Professor, would you say it's time for everyone to panic?
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SPEAKER_02: Yes, I would, Kent.
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SPEAKER_02: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
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SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the resistance.
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SPEAKER_02: I promise you for the remainder of the next four years, I will only speak to you in this tone of voice.
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SPEAKER_02: Well, on Tuesday, we learned that Democrats actually don't know how to rig an election.
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SPEAKER_02: I guess this election wasn't rigged.
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SPEAKER_02: That's weird though, right?
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, he said it would be rigged.
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SPEAKER_02: He said it was being rigged while people were in line voting.
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SPEAKER_02: Isn't it remarkable that this time the fix wasn't in?
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SPEAKER_02: Last time the Democrats cheated, this time we chose not to, I guess.
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SPEAKER_02: It turns out the election was stolen by more people voting for Donald Trump.
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SPEAKER_02: It's quite a caper.
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SPEAKER_02: Ocean's 74 million.
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SPEAKER_02: Donald Trump swept all the swing states,
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SPEAKER_02: won the popular vote,
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SPEAKER_02: and Republicans took back control of the Senate.
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SPEAKER_02: Donald Trump will be the president a second time.
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SPEAKER_02: He'll be the oldest person to ever take the oath of office.
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SPEAKER_02: He will be the first convicted felon to be president of the United States.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's official.
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SPEAKER_02: America's elected its first criminal president before electing its first female president.
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SPEAKER_02: What a day for proud felonists.
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SPEAKER_02: We're on the precipice of the unknown, staring into the abyss.
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SPEAKER_02: No one can know what happens next, least of all Donald Trump.
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SPEAKER_02: It is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing.
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SPEAKER_02: Look what happened.
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SPEAKER_02: Is this crazy?
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, even he not.
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SPEAKER_02: America voted this guy out in 2020.
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SPEAKER_02: And what has he done since then?
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SPEAKER_02: He tried to overthrow the government.
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SPEAKER_02: He was convicted of 34 felonies.
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SPEAKER_02: He spent an entire campaign promising vengeance against his enemies.
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SPEAKER_00: We have another key race alert,
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SPEAKER_00: this one just coming in from Alabama's fourth congressional district,
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SPEAKER_00: where in a major surprise,
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SPEAKER_00: a neo-Nazi candidate has won in what is typically a deeply Ku Klux Klan district.
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SPEAKER_00: Jason Copeland has more.
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SPEAKER_00: Jason, what are you seeing?
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SPEAKER_02: This is a significant upset, Dwight.
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SPEAKER_02: Nobody saw this coming.
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SPEAKER_02: Neo-Nazi Lucas Brennan has defeated three-term incumbent Klansman William Kent.
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SPEAKER_02: This district has had a KKK representative in Washington for over five decades,
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SPEAKER_02: so this is a huge pickup for the neo-Nazis.
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SPEAKER_00: And one that could have massive implications for the future of far-right radical racism in this country.
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SPEAKER_00: Did the Klan just get overconfident here?
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SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, look, the KKK was up in all the polls.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'm getting texts right now from senior Klan officials who are in shock.
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SPEAKER_02: This is a deep white district.
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SPEAKER_02: They thought this was a seat they'd be able to walk away with,
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SPEAKER_02: but it just,
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SPEAKER_02: it looks like the neo-Nazi's strong ground game over the last couple of weeks
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SPEAKER_02: ultimately put them over the top.
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SPEAKER_02: It's like we're living in a computer simulation and whoever's controlling Trump has a cheat code.
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SPEAKER_02: He's invincible.
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SPEAKER_02: He's like a character in Grand Theft Auto who throws a prostitute out of a car and
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SPEAKER_02: drives straight to the White House.
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SPEAKER_02: We live in an infinite time warp where Donald Trump has always been and will always
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SPEAKER_02: be the center of the universe.
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SPEAKER_02: There can be no escape.
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SPEAKER_02: All hail our powerful and benevolent Supreme Leader.
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SPEAKER_00: And I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
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SPEAKER_00: Like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality,
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SPEAKER_02: I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
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SPEAKER_02: Windmills do cause cancer.
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SPEAKER_02: Hannibal Lecter was a lovely man.
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SPEAKER_02: And if I'm lying, then Arnold Palmer doesn't have the biggest **** in the clubhouse.
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SPEAKER_02: **** me!
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SPEAKER_02: But let's look at the bright side.
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SPEAKER_02: This way, at least there'll be a peaceful transfer of power.
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SPEAKER_02: Mike Pence, olly olly oxen free.
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SPEAKER_02: But don't you guys worry.
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SPEAKER_02: If I know Democrats,
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SPEAKER_02: they're going to take a long look in the mirror,
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SPEAKER_02: learn from their mistakes,
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SPEAKER_02: and then run Biden again in 2021.
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SPEAKER_02: People often say to me,
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SPEAKER_02: come on,
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SPEAKER_02: part of you has got to want Trump to win because he gives you so much material to
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SPEAKER_02: work with.
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SPEAKER_02: No, no.
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SPEAKER_02: No one tells the guy who cleans the bathroom, wow, you must love it when someone has explosive diarrhea.
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SPEAKER_02: There's so much material for you to work with.
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SPEAKER_02: Come on.
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SPEAKER_02: Now, we think Democrats are being hyperbolic about a second Trump term.
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SPEAKER_02: Just remember, the man who'd be Trump's next vice president once said Trump could be America's Hitler.
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SPEAKER_02: In a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, How Risky Is a Trump Second Term?
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SPEAKER_02: They hopefully point out that in the last go-round,
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SPEAKER_02: the authoritarian rule the Democrats and the press predicted never appeared because
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SPEAKER_02: Trump was too undisciplined and his attention span too short.
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SPEAKER_02: Well, there's a cup of sunshine.
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SPEAKER_02: He's too unfocused to be a fascist.
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SPEAKER_02: They might have promised to put immigrants in camps, but he doesn't have the concentration.
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SPEAKER_02: We're going to be governed by a monstrous child surrounded by cowards and grifters.
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SPEAKER_02: And my brain keeps pumping out an unlimited supply of ramifications.
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SPEAKER_02: It's really hard to see a bright side here.
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SPEAKER_02: Y'all do.
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SPEAKER_02: Y'all got what you wanted.
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SPEAKER_02: I hope you know a lot of people are going to die.
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SPEAKER_02: A lot of people.
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SPEAKER_02: Ukrainians are going to die.
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SPEAKER_02: Palestinians are going to die.
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SPEAKER_02: Women.
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SPEAKER_02: Trans people, trans kids, immigrants, both documented and not.
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SPEAKER_02: Poor people are going to die.
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SPEAKER_02: A lot of people are going to die as a result of this.
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SPEAKER_02: Not only that, but Project 2025 is fully on the table now.
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SPEAKER_02: Our institutions have never been more threatened.
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SPEAKER_02: The Supreme Court's going to become even further solidified as the Nightmare
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SPEAKER_02: Repression Tribunal,
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SPEAKER_02: it already is.
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SPEAKER_02: RFK Jr.
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SPEAKER_02: is going to outlaw 5G, and Dana White's going to be the goddamn Secretary of Education.
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SPEAKER_02: As of now, the death count is zero, but it is ready to shoot right up.
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SPEAKER_02: Oh, my God.
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SPEAKER_03: And how did I let y'all convince me that rural Pennsylvania would pick the Jamaican Indian lady?
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SPEAKER_03: Clearly I've been spending too much time with you white liberals and your goofy optimism.
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SPEAKER_02: It wasn't even close.
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SPEAKER_02: At one point, Trump was so far ahead, they put in brawny.
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SPEAKER_02: So it's undeniable that Trump gained with practically every demographic.
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SPEAKER_02: It's mind-boggling.
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SPEAKER_02: But thankfully, cable news is on 24 hours a day, so pundits can incessantly play the blame game.
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SPEAKER_02: How did this happen?
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SPEAKER_02: I think Democrats went way too far to the left.
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SPEAKER_02: Got it.
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SPEAKER_02: OK, Kamala was too far left, didn't embrace centrists.
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SPEAKER_02: It is perhaps the strategy so forcefully embracing Republicans like the Liz Cheney's.
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SPEAKER_02: OK, sorry.
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SPEAKER_02: I see.
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SPEAKER_02: She embraced centrists too much.
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SPEAKER_02: What else?
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SPEAKER_02: She wouldn't really stand and back the Israelis.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
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SPEAKER_02: She wasn't pro-Israel enough, all right?
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SPEAKER_02: The base of the party,
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SPEAKER_02: it cares about Gaza,
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SPEAKER_02: and they,
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SPEAKER_02: by not bringing a Palestinian on stage to the DNC,
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SPEAKER_02: these are not the base values of the Democratic Party.
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SPEAKER_02: Or pro-Palestinian enough.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay, was that it?
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SPEAKER_02: I think that Kamala Harris had this albatross around her neck, and it was Joe Biden.
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SPEAKER_02: She couldn't distance herself from Biden and couldn't think of anything that she
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SPEAKER_02: would have done differently.
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SPEAKER_02: Right, right, right, right.
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SPEAKER_02: I see it now.
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SPEAKER_02: Kamala didn't distance herself enough from Joe Biden.
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SPEAKER_02: And let me guess.
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SPEAKER_02: It is probably not the best idea that Democrats orchestrated a very public stab fest,
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SPEAKER_02: a proverbial stabbing in the front of the sitting president of the United States of
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SPEAKER_02: America and then didn't use him in his hometown of Scranton,
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SPEAKER_02: Pennsylvania.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
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SPEAKER_02: So she betrayed Joe Biden but was also too close to Joe Biden.
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SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
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SPEAKER_02: This is all making sense.
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SPEAKER_02: If I just put all the pieces together... Who f***ing knows? !
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SPEAKER_00: People are pointing the finger in all directions, from Latino voters to young men to Joe Rogan.
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SPEAKER_00: You can basically spin your own personal wheel of blame and generally make sure it
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SPEAKER_00: lands on whoever you were mad at in the first place.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'll be honest, I get the appeal.
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SPEAKER_00: It is fun to blame people.
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SPEAKER_00: Trump was literally just elected president again on a platform of doing exactly that.
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SPEAKER_00: There was understandable frustration
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SPEAKER_00: about the inflation that took place during Biden's term.
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SPEAKER_00: There were global factors behind it.
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SPEAKER_00: Many US allies also saw big price increases, in part because global supply chains seized up during COVID.
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SPEAKER_00: This has led to a wave of change elections all over the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Voters have thrown out incumbent governments due to higher prices.
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SPEAKER_00: And the thing is, I get not wanting to vote for the status quo.
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SPEAKER_00: And Trump, in his own fucked up way,
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SPEAKER_00: did offer a change,
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SPEAKER_00: especially as,
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SPEAKER_00: even while Harris was blanketing swing states with ads talking about grocery prices,
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SPEAKER_00: she was also saying there's not much she'd have done differently than Biden.
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SPEAKER_00: And while you could argue Biden's interventions to shore up the economy were
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SPEAKER_00: actually one of his major successes,
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SPEAKER_00: I do get.
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SPEAKER_00: When one side is saying,
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SPEAKER_00: milk is too expensive,
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SPEAKER_00: the other is saying,
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SPEAKER_00: okay,
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SPEAKER_00: yes,
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SPEAKER_00: milk is too expensive,
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SPEAKER_00: but we're working on it,
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SPEAKER_00: and also it's not that expensive when you take a macroeconomic view of America's
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SPEAKER_00: recovery
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SPEAKER_00: in contrast to other Western economies.
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SPEAKER_00: Plus, you'll get used to it.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not a great position for an incumbent party to be in,
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SPEAKER_00: and it makes for a pretty shitty lawn sign,
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SPEAKER_00: too.
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SPEAKER_00: The GOP spent at least $215 million just on anti-trans network TV ads.
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SPEAKER_00: That's just over $134 per trans person in this country.
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SPEAKER_00: The people on top are doing phenomenally well, while 60%
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SPEAKER_00: of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.
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SPEAKER_00: 25% of elderly people are trying to get by on $15,000 a year or less.
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SPEAKER_02: We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth
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SPEAKER_02: and parents all over this country.
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SPEAKER_02: worry that their kids may have a lower standard of living than they do.
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SPEAKER_00: That is the economic reality.
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SPEAKER_00: And what Donald Trump did is provided an explanation.
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SPEAKER_00: He went around, he said, I know you're angry.
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SPEAKER_00: And the reason is that zillions of illegal immigrants are coming over and they're
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SPEAKER_00: eating your cats and dogs and everything else.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the reason.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, obviously that is not the reason.
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SPEAKER_00: The reason is, in my view, that we have an
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SPEAKER_02: unprecedented level of corporate greed the american people spoke loud and clear on
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SPEAKER_02: tuesday they gave this president and republicans a mandate donald trump's got a
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SPEAKER_02: great mandate donald trump has a mandate now kamala wants to ban women dates and
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SPEAKER_02: replace them with mandates you go out you go out to dinner with a beautiful woman
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SPEAKER_02: and when you're in the bathroom they do a quick surgery takes five minutes you come
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SPEAKER_02: back you're on a mandate it says
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SPEAKER_02: But it's a delight to hear about why it happened from so many people who are so
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SPEAKER_02: wrong about what was going to happen.
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SPEAKER_02: Professor Heather Cox Richardson.
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SPEAKER_02: The right wing emphasized things that ordinary Americans had to fear that were not real.
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SPEAKER_02: And they erased the things and they erased the things that are real.
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SPEAKER_02: I mean, objectively, our economy is fabulous.
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SPEAKER_02: One of the best economies or the best economy we've had since the 1960s.
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SPEAKER_02: Real wages for 80 percent of Americans have gone up.
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SPEAKER_02: Income for the top 20 percent has gone down in that period.
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SPEAKER_02: Those are generally things that most voters would like, but they don't know that.
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SPEAKER_02: They think the economy is terrible.
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SPEAKER_02: It's a failing economy and that Trump is going to come in with his tariffs and save that.
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SPEAKER_02: And every economist will say that's exactly backward.
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SPEAKER_02: So I think you have to grapple with the fact that people have been put into a
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SPEAKER_02: position of something that political theorists,
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SPEAKER_02: especially coming out of Russia,
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SPEAKER_02: called political technology,
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SPEAKER_02: which is that you can get people to vote away their democracy or to vote for the
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SPEAKER_02: people that they are told to vote for so long as you create a false world for them
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SPEAKER_02: to believe in.
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SPEAKER_02: And I think that that's really what we have seen right here.
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SPEAKER_02: They created an emotional reality, but there is a hint of it in there, and that's this.
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SPEAKER_02: We look objectively at the markers for the economy in terms of GDP or wages or
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SPEAKER_02: infrastructure investment and all those things as being the envy of the world.
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SPEAKER_02: Our country right now is thriving in a way that other countries are not.
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SPEAKER_02: But if in your house you're still struggling,
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SPEAKER_02: is the sense that,
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SPEAKER_02: okay,
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SPEAKER_02: maybe the system that we're selling to people
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SPEAKER_02: no longer feels valid to them.
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SPEAKER_02: In other words,
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SPEAKER_02: if our economic system we look at and say,
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SPEAKER_02: this is thriving,
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SPEAKER_02: but people don't feel it,
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SPEAKER_02: do they start to begin to say,
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SPEAKER_02: well,
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SPEAKER_02: maybe the system itself isn't delivering in a way that we need.
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SPEAKER_02: So then when you say,
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SPEAKER_02: this is to protect the system,
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SPEAKER_02: they think,
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SPEAKER_02: why would I protect something that's not delivering for me,
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SPEAKER_02: even when it's working properly?
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SPEAKER_02: Well,
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SPEAKER_02: yes,
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SPEAKER_02: except I think it's important to recognize that the system under which we live from
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SPEAKER_02: 1981 to 2021,
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SPEAKER_02: neoliberalism,
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SPEAKER_02: the idea that you were going to rely on markets and let all the money go to the top
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SPEAKER_02: because people at the top would invest more efficiently than if the government got
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SPEAKER_02: involved either through regulation or taxes.
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SPEAKER_02: That system, Joe Biden very deliberately...
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SPEAKER_02: deconstructed and replaced with the system we had had before that that did work for everybody.
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SPEAKER_02: He invested in ordinary Americans.
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SPEAKER_02: He stood for unions.
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SPEAKER_02: He used the FTC to break up monopolies and to get rid of junk fees and to try and
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SPEAKER_02: make it easier for people to start businesses.
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SPEAKER_02: All the things
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SPEAKER_02: that should have made ordinary Americans say, hey, yeah, that's pretty good.
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SPEAKER_02: We had inflation, but wages went up faster than inflation.
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SPEAKER_02: And yeah, eggs were more expensive, but that's because there was a bird flu.
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SPEAKER_02: And then there was price gouging.
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SPEAKER_02: All of these things that people like you and me tried to get out there,
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SPEAKER_02: but that is not what voters heard.
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SPEAKER_02: What they heard is eggs are more expensive, products are more expensive.
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SPEAKER_02: It's Joe Biden's fault instead of the people who had really ruled from 1981 to 2021
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SPEAKER_02: And instead, what have they done?
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SPEAKER_02: They have elected somebody who has vowed to put those old things back into place
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SPEAKER_02: and make their lives more expensive and then turn around and blame what they call
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SPEAKER_02: the liberals who they think are responsible for the cost of things because of their
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SPEAKER_02: policies and because they have been welcoming to immigrants who also are important
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SPEAKER_02: to our economy.
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SPEAKER_02: And instead of going back to neoliberalism,
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SPEAKER_02: what we're going to go to is autocracy,
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SPEAKER_02: which is a different thing.
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SPEAKER_02: Because it will not be governed by the rule of law.
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SPEAKER_02: It will be governed by cronyism and the kind of corruption that we've seen in other autocracies.
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SPEAKER_02: That's not what people think they're voting for.
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SPEAKER_02: They think they're voting for the ideas that Biden embraced,
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SPEAKER_02: investing in the middle class,
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SPEAKER_02: investing in creating a new economy.
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SPEAKER_02: And in fact, they've just voted that away in favor of Trump.
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SPEAKER_02: a system of autocracy.
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SPEAKER_02: This rejection of the Biden economic plan has shown to future politicians is that
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SPEAKER_02: there is no upside in trying to invest in ordinary Americans,
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SPEAKER_02: that you will not get rewarded for it.
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SPEAKER_02: So there's no reason to do that.
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SPEAKER_02: And that's a really big lesson that is,
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SPEAKER_02: I think,
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SPEAKER_02: going to end up really coming back to bite the people who have voted for it.
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SPEAKER_02: You've just said to any future politicians,
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SPEAKER_02: do not bother actually to try and do things for the middle class.
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SPEAKER_02: Because they won't appreciate it.
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SPEAKER_02: Instead,
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SPEAKER_02: you should go ahead and simply continue to pervert their information base so that
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SPEAKER_02: they think you're doing something even though you're not.
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SPEAKER_02: The heart of politics is the way people think about the world.
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SPEAKER_02: And what Steve Bannon has said and been part of really since Andrew Breitbart died
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SPEAKER_02: and he took over Breitbart,
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SPEAKER_02: remember that?
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SPEAKER_02: Sure.
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SPEAKER_02: He actually changed Breitbart a lot.
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SPEAKER_02: Breitbart had been a certain kind of thinker.
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SPEAKER_02: Bannon came in and really turned Breitbart,
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SPEAKER_02: and this is a long time ago now for a lot of people,
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SPEAKER_02: and maybe it's worth thinking about him more generally,
17:16
SPEAKER_02: but he really started bashing women and people of color and talking about them as
17:21
SPEAKER_02: really inferior.
17:22
SPEAKER_02: And that was part of an ideology, and it's an ideology that I think we have seen come to the fore.
17:27
SPEAKER_02: And that is the ideology that we need to reject democracy because democracy insists
17:32
SPEAKER_02: that we treat everybody equally before the law.
17:35
SPEAKER_02: LGBTQ plus people, women, minorities, ethnic and racial and religious minorities.
17:40
SPEAKER_02: Right.
17:40
SPEAKER_02: And that that equality flies in the face of paternalism,
17:45
SPEAKER_02: especially Christian paternalism run by white men.
17:49
SPEAKER_02: And Bannon could say,
17:50
SPEAKER_02: for example,
17:51
SPEAKER_02: as he was bashing black Americans or women,
17:53
SPEAKER_02: that he was not actually prejudiced against them or biased against them.
17:56
SPEAKER_02: He was actually trying to help them because they would do better in a system where
18:00
SPEAKER_02: they were subordinate to white male leaders.
18:03
SPEAKER_02: And I think what you have seen here in this election is the coming together of the
18:07
SPEAKER_02: tech bros who want to get rid of the kinds of regulations that our government has
18:12
SPEAKER_02: put in place to make sure we treat people equally before the law and that you don't
18:16
SPEAKER_02: treat some people as if they are able to go do whatever.
18:19
SPEAKER_02: They want to get rid of those regulations and they have come together with those
18:23
SPEAKER_02: Christian nationalists who also want to return to a white male Christian patriarchy.
18:28
SPEAKER_02: And now with autocrats who would love simply to get rid of regulations so that they
18:32
SPEAKER_02: can run the economy and put money into their own pockets.
18:35
SPEAKER_02: And that difference in ideology between people who believe that some people are
18:41
SPEAKER_02: better than others and have the right to rule.
18:43
SPEAKER_02: And people like me who actually believe that people should be treated equally
18:47
SPEAKER_02: before the law and have a right to assay in their government is fundamentally the
18:51
SPEAKER_02: struggle that we've had throughout our history and that we are seeing now and that
18:56
SPEAKER_02: really on Tuesday looks like the democracy side lost.
19:00
SPEAKER_02: You know, 10 people in a room, eight of them just want to get by.
19:04
SPEAKER_02: You know,
19:04
SPEAKER_02: they just want to put food on the table and have a good time and have their friends
19:07
SPEAKER_02: and have a nice life.
19:09
SPEAKER_02: But there are two people who want to control everybody else.
19:12
SPEAKER_02: And the way that they get that power is to get six people to turn against the two at the bottom.
19:17
SPEAKER_02: And the way that you use the way that you do that is through the stories you tell.
19:22
SPEAKER_02: So if you can tell those people in the middle that those two people at the bottom
19:25
SPEAKER_02: and you can pick them at random,
19:27
SPEAKER_02: you know,
19:27
SPEAKER_02: because of the clothes they wear or the color of their eyes or the skin or whatever,
19:32
SPEAKER_02: then you can get power from those other six.
19:35
SPEAKER_02: And that would explain to me anyway, why I'm.
19:39
SPEAKER_02: why people of color will turn against other groups of color or why white women will
19:44
SPEAKER_02: vote against their own interests or,
19:46
SPEAKER_02: you know,
19:46
SPEAKER_02: because they are hearing stories that say,
19:50
SPEAKER_02: you must turn against those two people at the bottom or we're going to turn against you.
19:54
SPEAKER_02: We need to figure out ways to make our system more responsive to the American
19:58
SPEAKER_02: people in a way that it really hasn't been since 1929 when we...
20:02
SPEAKER_02: When we capped the House of Representatives so that now an average representatives
20:06
SPEAKER_02: district is over half a million people.
20:08
SPEAKER_02: Right.
20:09
SPEAKER_02: And in so many different ways.
20:10
SPEAKER_02: But but this is a theoretical crisis as well as an on the ground crisis.
20:17
SPEAKER_02: And solving either one of those two things is going to have to be married to each other.
20:21
SPEAKER_02: But also this isn't a question of saying I can just get one more voter.
20:26
SPEAKER_02: It's a question of figuring out if,
20:28
SPEAKER_02: in fact,
20:28
SPEAKER_02: democracy continues to be viable in the 21st century,
20:31
SPEAKER_02: because,
20:32
SPEAKER_02: you know,
20:32
SPEAKER_02: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban say it's not.
20:37
SPEAKER_02: And now the Republicans say it's not.
20:39
SPEAKER_02: And the question is, will the rest of us say, yes, it is.
20:42
SPEAKER_02: And here's how we're going to show that it's viable.
20:44
SPEAKER_02: I think that what you're going to see is the same thing that we saw happen in Hungary.
20:48
SPEAKER_02: the taking over of media especially,
20:50
SPEAKER_02: so that you cannot have the kinds of independent media that would urge people to
20:55
SPEAKER_02: vote against things that are actually not working for them.
20:57
SPEAKER_02: I think now we have a propaganda ecosystem that has people angry about things that are not real.
21:05
SPEAKER_02: I mean,
21:05
SPEAKER_02: this is the thing that is so hard to push back against and that people like you and
21:09
SPEAKER_02: me have tried to do by recreating a reality-based community is that people are...
21:14
SPEAKER_02: Well,
21:15
SPEAKER_02: that's a quote from the George W.
21:16
SPEAKER_02: Bush administration.
21:17
SPEAKER_02: By the way, a contemptuous quote.
21:20
SPEAKER_02: the feeling they had about the reality-based community was they were contemptuous of it.
21:24
SPEAKER_02: That's right,
21:25
SPEAKER_02: because they didn't need to have...
21:26
SPEAKER_02: This is somebody in the George W.
21:28
SPEAKER_02: Bush administration said to journalist Ron Susskind that they no longer,
21:32
SPEAKER_02: they,
21:33
SPEAKER_02: the Republican lawmakers,
21:35
SPEAKER_02: no longer had to live in the reality-based community because they could create
21:38
SPEAKER_02: their own reality.
21:39
SPEAKER_02: Right.
21:40
SPEAKER_02: And I don't know how you...
21:43
SPEAKER_02: to politically combat people making decisions based in fiction, because fiction can always be changed.
21:52
SPEAKER_02: And the only thing that I can see is that if that fiction becomes so destructive
22:00
SPEAKER_02: that people start to look for real solutions,
22:04
SPEAKER_02: in that case,
22:05
SPEAKER_02: they're going to need to look at actual reality.
22:08
SPEAKER_02: And you see that, I think, in Western North Carolina after the hurricane that just devastated the region.
22:14
SPEAKER_02: You know, the Trump people were in there lying about what was happening.
22:19
SPEAKER_02: And they were certainly creating a lot of chaos over that.
22:22
SPEAKER_02: But people who were literally trying to stay alive turned to their neighbors and to
22:27
SPEAKER_02: trusted neighbors for real information about where water was available,
22:31
SPEAKER_02: for example.
22:33
SPEAKER_02: But that's a pretty grim way of looking at things, I think, in terms of the nation.
22:37
SPEAKER_02: Now, you watch what is really the end of a certain kind of American democracy, and it's very sad.
22:46
SPEAKER_02: Many of us still believe in those dreams.
22:49
SPEAKER_02: I think even some of the people who voted for Trump still believe in those dreams.
22:52
SPEAKER_02: I think so, too.
22:53
SPEAKER_02: I really do.
22:54
SPEAKER_02: I don't think that we can talk in apocalyptic terms about Jim Crow or...
23:01
SPEAKER_02: not to Germany, but I never wanna jump to what is the darkest scenario of that.
23:10
SPEAKER_02: That type of malevolence,
23:12
SPEAKER_02: we talk about the banality of evil,
23:15
SPEAKER_02: I guess I'm trying to believe that that is not what we're living through.
23:19
SPEAKER_02: So I don't know, I'm grasping, I guess.
23:24
SPEAKER_02: Democrats were mostly running against an identity that was defined for them,
23:29
SPEAKER_02: based on a couple of months of post-George Floyd defund the police Me Too Instagram
23:34
SPEAKER_02: posts from four years ago.
23:36
SPEAKER_02: What happened was the country felt like government wasn't working for them.
23:40
SPEAKER_02: And the Democrats in particular were taking their hard-earned money and giving it
23:44
SPEAKER_02: to people who didn't deserve it as much as them.
23:48
SPEAKER_02: And so the Democrats got shellacked.
23:50
SPEAKER_02: According to the Presidential Transition Enhancement Act,
23:54
SPEAKER_02: the incoming president has to sign a pledge that says he will avoid conflicts of
23:58
SPEAKER_02: interest and other ethical concerns while he's in office.
24:01
SPEAKER_02: Team Trump has surprisingly missed multiple deadlines for signing this, dating back to September 4th.
24:07
SPEAKER_02: Of course,
24:08
SPEAKER_02: you know,
24:09
SPEAKER_02: he's being difficult about signing an ethics pledge because he's not going to
24:13
SPEAKER_02: behave ethically.
24:14
SPEAKER_02: This is...
24:15
SPEAKER_02: This law, by the way, that he's bending was signed into law by him.
24:19
SPEAKER_02: He's breaking his own law.
24:20
SPEAKER_02: Donald Trump has been very clear about what he will do when he returns to power.
24:24
SPEAKER_02: Military-style roundups of migrants using the power of the state to crush his opponents,
24:28
SPEAKER_02: pursue his grievances,
24:29
SPEAKER_02: eliminating the Department of Education,
24:31
SPEAKER_02: letting climate change run rampant,
24:32
SPEAKER_02: spreading conspiracy theories about health care and vaccines.
24:35
SPEAKER_02: He said he would be a dictator on day one.
24:37
SPEAKER_02: The question now is...
24:39
SPEAKER_02: What will the rest of us be doing on day one?
24:42
SPEAKER_02: If you're one of the tens of millions of Americans who said no to Trump's dark,
24:45
SPEAKER_02: dangerous vision for America last night,
24:47
SPEAKER_02: now's the time to stand in solidarity with our friends,
24:50
SPEAKER_02: with our neighbors,
24:51
SPEAKER_02: with the vulnerable communities,
24:53
SPEAKER_02: and begin the hard work of making real the world we want to live in.
24:58
SPEAKER_02: Why are you leaving the country?
24:59
SPEAKER_02: I can't stay for another four years of this.
25:01
SPEAKER_02: Who knows what he's going to do?
25:04
SPEAKER_02: Who?
25:05
SPEAKER_02: Donald Trump?
25:06
SPEAKER_02: Yes, Donald Trump.
25:08
SPEAKER_02: You've heard him.
25:08
SPEAKER_02: He said he has a list of enemies.
25:10
SPEAKER_02: You think I'm not on that list?
25:12
SPEAKER_02: We would like to say to Donald Trump, we have been with you all along.
25:20
SPEAKER_02: We have never wavered in our support of you, even when others doubted you.
25:27
SPEAKER_01: Every single person on this stage believed in you.
25:30
SPEAKER_02: Every single person on this stage voted for you.
25:35
SPEAKER_02: Because we see ourselves in you.
25:37
SPEAKER_02: We look at you and think, that's me.
25:41
SPEAKER_02: That's the man I want my future children to look up to.
25:45
SPEAKER_01: And Mr.
25:46
SPEAKER_01: Trump,
25:47
SPEAKER_01: Your Honor,
25:48
SPEAKER_01: we know that you say things that are controversial sometimes,
25:52
SPEAKER_01: but really you're just speaking the truth.
25:53
SPEAKER_01: And I hate how the lamestream media tries to spin it to make you look foolish.
26:00
SPEAKER_03: So if you're keeping some sort of list of your enemies, then...
26:05
SPEAKER_02: We should not be on that list.
26:09
SPEAKER_02: And if we find out someone here voted for Kamala, we will rat them out so fast.
26:14
SPEAKER_02: And we're so excited to debut our new impression, Hot Jacked Trump.
26:19
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
26:22
SPEAKER_02: That's right, it's me, Hot Jacked Trump.
26:25
SPEAKER_02: They finally got the body right.
26:28
SPEAKER_02: But from now on, we're going to do very flattering portrayal of Trump because he's frankly my hero.
26:36
SPEAKER_02: And he's going to make an incredible president and eventually king.
26:40
SPEAKER_02: We love you, buddy.
26:42
SPEAKER_02: In summary, all of us are so excited for Trump 2.0.
26:47
SPEAKER_02: We can't wait to see what you do with the country this time.
26:49
SPEAKER_02: My only regret is that we didn't get to do another January 6th because I was ready.
26:55
SPEAKER_01: Me too.
26:59
SPEAKER_03: And worst case scenario,
27:02
SPEAKER_03: meaning scenario,
27:03
SPEAKER_03: if our planet falls apart,
27:05
SPEAKER_03: we can all go to Mars with the other man that we love and trust,
27:09
SPEAKER_03: Elon Musk.
27:10
SPEAKER_02: Check it out, Doc Mega.
27:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but seriously, I run the country now.
27:19
SPEAKER_02: And America's gonna be like one of my rockets.
27:21
SPEAKER_02: You know, they're super cool and super fun.
27:25
SPEAKER_00: But there's a slight chance it could blow up and everybody dies.
27:30
SPEAKER_00: I'm Doc Mega.
27:31
SPEAKER_00: See you in the White House.
27:34
SPEAKER_00: USA!
27:34
SPEAKER_00: USA!
27:35
SPEAKER_02: To all young men who helped elect Trump and Elon, we know you felt unseen these past four years.
27:41
SPEAKER_03: So we say to you, young men, there's no need to feel down.
27:46
SPEAKER_03: Young men, pick yourself off the ground.
27:50
SPEAKER_02: Young men, time to put on your crown.
27:54
SPEAKER_02: You don't need.
27:59
SPEAKER_02: One reason Trump might have exceeded his expectations is that some people didn't
28:04
SPEAKER_02: even know who was running against him.
28:06
SPEAKER_02: According to Google Trends, search interest for did Joe Biden drop out spiked on election day.
28:12
SPEAKER_02: I thought common sense would prevail.
28:14
SPEAKER_02: I'm so stupid.
28:15
SPEAKER_02: I always think it's going to.
28:16
SPEAKER_02: But for a lot of people, this just isn't important.
28:19
SPEAKER_02: It's not high on their list.
28:20
SPEAKER_02: There's evidence that many voters didn't even realize Joe Biden wasn't on the ballot anymore.
28:26
SPEAKER_02: Over the past two days, there was a spike in Google searches for the phrase, did Joe Biden drop out?
28:31
SPEAKER_02: After all the talk about this election,
28:34
SPEAKER_02: I mean,
28:34
SPEAKER_02: it was literally the only thing people talked about for a year.
28:37
SPEAKER_02: So the idea that some Americans didn't know who was running seems so crazy to me.
28:42
SPEAKER_02: So we decided to conduct our own totally unscientific poll.
28:46
SPEAKER_02: We went out in the street today and we asked people if they voted.
28:51
SPEAKER_02: And, of course, the election was yesterday.
28:54
SPEAKER_02: But did our fellow Americans know that?
28:56
SPEAKER_02: Well, let's find out.
29:02
SPEAKER_02: Okay, today is Wednesday, November 6th, Election Day.
29:05
SPEAKER_02: You plan on voting today?
29:06
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
29:07
SPEAKER_02: Do you know where your polling place is?
29:08
SPEAKER_01: It's by my house, yes.
29:10
SPEAKER_01: By your house.
29:10
SPEAKER_02: Are there big lines at the polling place today?
29:12
SPEAKER_01: Yes, there is.
29:14
SPEAKER_02: Are you worried about standing in line?
29:16
SPEAKER_02: Or is that part of the whole process?
29:18
SPEAKER_01: It's part of the whole process, yeah.
29:19
SPEAKER_01: You need to make sure that you stay and vote.
29:22
SPEAKER_01: Even if that line is a little long, you just got to make sure you stay in that line.
29:25
SPEAKER_02: Let me ask you this, Andres.
29:26
SPEAKER_02: Do you think Joe Biden still has a chance?
29:30
SPEAKER_02: Um, yes.
29:32
SPEAKER_02: One last thing.
29:33
SPEAKER_02: Are you going to set your clocks back next weekend?
29:36
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
29:36
SPEAKER_02: Of course you will.
29:37
SPEAKER_02: Of course.
29:39
SPEAKER_02: Today, Wednesday, November 6th, obviously election day.
29:43
SPEAKER_02: Are you excited about it?
29:43
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I'm excited, but I'm very nervous as well.
29:47
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
29:47
SPEAKER_02: Do you have any predictions for the election?
29:49
SPEAKER_02: I don't have any predictions.
29:51
SPEAKER_02: I've been watching the news, and it's hard to say what's going to happen.
29:54
SPEAKER_02: What news have you been watching?
29:56
SPEAKER_02: I'm kind of a news junkie, so I read a lot on the Internet.
30:00
SPEAKER_02: I watch NBC.
30:02
SPEAKER_02: I watch a little bit of Fox.
30:03
SPEAKER_02: Do you plan on voting today?
30:05
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
30:06
SPEAKER_02: You're going to vote today?
30:07
SPEAKER_02: Who are you voting for today?
30:08
SPEAKER_02: Harris.
30:09
SPEAKER_02: Harris?
30:10
SPEAKER_03: Yes.
30:10
SPEAKER_02: Great.
30:11
SPEAKER_02: She could use that vote.
30:13
SPEAKER_02: You think Harris can still get it done?
30:15
SPEAKER_02: I hope so.
30:16
SPEAKER_02: I believe in you.
30:17
SPEAKER_02: We believe in you.
30:18
SPEAKER_02: You can do it.
30:19
SPEAKER_02: You got this.
30:20
SPEAKER_02: Today is Wednesday, November 6th.
30:23
SPEAKER_02: You're planning on voting today?
30:25
SPEAKER_03: No.
30:25
SPEAKER_02: Why?
30:26
SPEAKER_03: I don't believe in voting.
30:29
SPEAKER_03: I don't really think our vote matters.
30:30
SPEAKER_03: I think it's the higher-ups at Wall Street that pick whatever is happening, period.
30:36
SPEAKER_02: You think they're just not listening to the common people?
30:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
30:39
SPEAKER_02: They need bigger ears?
30:41
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
30:42
SPEAKER_02: Today's the big election.
30:43
SPEAKER_02: Where are you going to be watching the voting results today?
30:45
SPEAKER_02: Just from home.
30:46
SPEAKER_02: From home?
30:46
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
30:47
SPEAKER_02: Who are you watching with?
30:48
SPEAKER_03: My boyfriend.
30:50
SPEAKER_02: Is he voting today?
30:51
SPEAKER_03: Yes, yeah.
30:53
SPEAKER_02: Are there long lines at the polls you're seeing today?
30:56
SPEAKER_03: Not at the place we went to, no.
30:58
SPEAKER_03: It wasn't too bad, but...
30:59
SPEAKER_02: Do you want to wish Kamala Harris good luck today in the election?
31:02
SPEAKER_00: I do.
31:02
SPEAKER_02: Look right in there and tell her.
31:02
SPEAKER_00: Okay, good luck with the election.
31:04
SPEAKER_00: I really hope you win.
31:06
SPEAKER_00: I'm putting all my hope into it, so, yeah.
31:09
SPEAKER_02: Why is it so important for people to get out today, Wednesday, November 6th, and vote?
31:15
SPEAKER_01: Because a lot of rights are on the line, and it's important to have your voice be heard.
31:22
SPEAKER_02: And if we're not paying attention, we're going to lose all our rights.
31:25
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
31:27
SPEAKER_02: Today's election day, Wednesday, November 6th.
31:30
SPEAKER_02: Are you gonna vote or are you gonna vote by mail?
31:33
SPEAKER_02: Probably by mail.
31:34
SPEAKER_02: By mail, you're gonna send it in.
31:35
SPEAKER_02: Who are you supporting?
31:36
SPEAKER_03: Who's running for president?