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Normally Podcast: Washington Crime, Virginia Shifts, and the Cuomo Twist · Normally

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  Speaker 1: Guys are back on. Normally the show with normal it
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  Speaker 1: takes for when the news gets weird. I am my
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  Speaker 1: captain and.
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  Speaker 2: I am Carol Marco's we have some good news to
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  Speaker 2: kick off. This show normally gets results. Vina Prosad is
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  Speaker 2: back at the FDA.
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  Speaker 1: It's true, It's true. It's so exciting, and that is
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  Speaker 1: a that is a big one to come back from.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad that the powers that be made that
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  Speaker 1: decision that they were prevailed upon that he was good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that he accepted the position, because once you've
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  Speaker 1: been burned like that, it's probably pretty hard to say, sure,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go work for the government again, which is why
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  Speaker 1: we lose good people. Absolutely, so I love this news.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, I really I credit this show.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think we did it.
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  Speaker 1: So direct line, Yeah, direct line at us on the
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  Speaker 1: back well. And also what it may mean, as we
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  Speaker 1: noted in our last episode when we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: that is a falling down the depth chart of the
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  Speaker 1: lumor campaign against whomever she wants in the it's great
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  Speaker 1: administration and that would be good as well.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I want to take another little credit. Harry Enton
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  Speaker 2: at CNN says that Google searches for Jeffrey Epstein are
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  Speaker 2: down eighty nine percent from just three weeks ago. We
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  Speaker 2: said we don't want to talk about it, and the
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  Speaker 2: country agreed.
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  Speaker 1: The normies went again on this one.
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  Speaker 2: It's also it's Trump's world. We just live in it.
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  Speaker 2: He was like, stop talking about it. People are like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that didn't go So I thought you were
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  Speaker 1: going to say I'm getting results because I'm out here
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  Speaker 1: raising my children to sit in restaurants without screens. Because
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  Speaker 1: that happened to the time. I'm super proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: I you know, this is the way to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I actually tried to find an article that I wrote
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  Speaker 2: a long time ago about how like should you take
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  Speaker 2: your kids to restaurants? Like will you control your kids
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  Speaker 2: at the restaurant? Are they running around? Are they staring
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  Speaker 2: at people? Are they turning around? You know, are they
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  Speaker 2: under some sort of supervision? Then go ahead, bring them
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  Speaker 2: to restaurants. It doesn't matter how fancy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I took a two and a half and a
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  Speaker 1: three and a half year old and we've been training them.
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  Speaker 1: Got to go to the waffle house, make them sit,
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  Speaker 1: make them learn. Thank you, waffle house to being the
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  Speaker 1: place that is open to such things. And then I
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  Speaker 1: took them to like a medium level you just like
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  Speaker 1: a Mexican rustaurant. Wasn't anything fancy on Sunday after church,
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  Speaker 1: and they were killing it. They were great. They even
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  Speaker 1: ordered for themselves. It was adorable.
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  Speaker 2: That's the best. That's how you do it. I you know, again,
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  Speaker 2: high praise to you. And I think that's really should
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  Speaker 2: be the standard. Honestly, I think everyone should learn to
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't just have the kids. You gotta raise
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  Speaker 1: these things.
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  Speaker 2: No, like it's a whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a real thing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh No.
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  Speaker 2: The big news today is that Trump wants to fix DC,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is a good idea. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why it's controver. I think it's just controversial because his
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  Speaker 2: name is Donald Trump. I don't see anything wrong with
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  Speaker 2: bringing in National Guard to reduce crime in DC. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's not impossible. I think that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: main things to really stay here. Trump said he wants
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  Speaker 2: to add he wants to bring in eight hundred National
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  Speaker 2: Guard troops. They'll be assigned to the nation's capital. Media
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  Speaker 2: outlets are largely losing their minds today about this, but
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is one of those things that's
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  Speaker 1: particularly triggering to media. And look, I have artists hit. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I have some concerns right about him knowing what his
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  Speaker 1: limits are, on what his power is. But the DC
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  Speaker 1: National Guard, unlike other states where you do have to
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  Speaker 1: have more in concert work with governors, he is in
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  Speaker 1: charge of that.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: So this is within his powers. The DC City government,
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  Speaker 1: even though it has power thanks to a nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 1: three law to govern its own areas of the city,
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  Speaker 1: it is a partnership with the federal government. And if
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  Speaker 1: you are not doing your part exactly, and if, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know Donald Trump going around the city sees
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of homeless encampments and is like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: like this because we're about to host a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: people for the two hundred and fiftieth celebration and I
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  Speaker 1: want this place to look good. You're going to run
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  Speaker 1: into some issues. If one of Donald Trump's DOGE employees
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  Speaker 1: goes out in Adams Morgan and he and his significant
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  Speaker 1: other are attempted carjacked, and he sticks up for his
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  Speaker 1: significant other and is beat by ten teenagers. Yeah, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to have some issues with this current president. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that's where this sort of got this ball rolling.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. My friend John Cardillo, who is ex NYPD, posted,
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  Speaker 2: if Trump is serious about federalizing, DC takes control of
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  Speaker 2: their PD and turns them loose, it will work. We
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  Speaker 2: know it will work because it worked in New York
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  Speaker 2: City in the nineties. It worked in other places as well.
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  Speaker 2: Trump can debunk every false left wing now narrative about
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  Speaker 2: proactive policing. I'd like to see him do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the thing that DC definitely lost sight
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  Speaker 1: of from twenty twenty to definitely to twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: and then things went to a super high. They were
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  Speaker 1: at like thirty or nine homicides per one hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, and then it was like ooh.
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  Speaker 1: I think partly when Trump looked like he might be
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  Speaker 1: coming to office, they were like, we should probably get
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  Speaker 1: things out of control. They have, like the violent crime
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  Speaker 1: rates have been coming down. It is safer to be
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  Speaker 1: on the Metro than it was before because things had
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  Speaker 1: gotten so out of control. I think it's interesting that
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  Speaker 1: Muriel Bowser was on MSNBC this weekend saying I've been
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  Speaker 1: talking to Trump. We have an issue that we are
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  Speaker 1: trying to tackle. There is work to be done. The
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  Speaker 1: fact that she's signaling that she's communicating with him and
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  Speaker 1: that there's a problem on MSNBC is such a vibe
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  Speaker 1: shift from twenty two point Yeah, wild wild.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So the media is covering this as like the
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  Speaker 2: worst thing that's ever happened, but they're also saying basically
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  Speaker 2: that crime is just not that bad, like newsweeks as
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  Speaker 2: a headline, are Trump's claims about dangerous Washington d C
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  Speaker 2: backed by data? And yeah, they kind of are, because
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  Speaker 2: look at this quote from that same article in Washington,
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  Speaker 2: the total number of crimes against persons was twenty two
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  Speaker 2: three hundred and twenty in twenty and twenty four, with
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  Speaker 2: the majority of those crimes made up of assault defenses.
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  Speaker 2: And so you know, they note that as if oh,
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  Speaker 2: just it was just as sault defenses, like it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: Homdale's And then they continue, but the data showed that
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  Speaker 2: the district appears to have a higher rate of crime
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  Speaker 2: against persons compared to the most populated states like California,
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  Speaker 2: New York, and Texas. And then they go on to
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  Speaker 2: say that Washington's homicide rate last year was twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: point three per one hundred thousand people. This is far
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  Speaker 2: lower than the ten most dangerous cities in the world
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  Speaker 2: according to that metric. But then you look at the
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  Speaker 2: cities that they're measuring against, and it is a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of cities. In Mexico. The only one I've heard of
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  Speaker 2: is Tijuana, and then like Porta print Haidi, Mandela Bay,
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  Speaker 2: South Africa. They're not comparing themselves to like other capital cities.
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  Speaker 2: They're comparing themselves to like who knows where in you know, Guya, Quill, Ecuador.
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  Speaker 2: Con also Garison here.
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  Speaker 1: Also, if you're on the depth chart in the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America, just behind Detroit and Baltimore, that's also
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  Speaker 1: not good. Yes, it's not good. So I think there's
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  Speaker 1: like a because this is a federal and local partnership
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  Speaker 1: and always has been. As a result of it being
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  Speaker 1: a federal district, the federal government has more power here
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  Speaker 1: than it would other places. Now, I do think they've
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  Speaker 1: been doing a better job over the last two years
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  Speaker 1: than they were before that, but the bar was quite low.
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  Speaker 1: The other problem that DC has is the same one
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  Speaker 1: that many American cities had during the twenty twenty to
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  Speaker 1: twenty three we all went insane era, not us the normies.
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  Speaker 1: But the cities did right, and that's that they weren't
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  Speaker 1: prosecuting many of the arrests made so people could be arrested,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even prosecuted, but given very little jail time. This
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  Speaker 1: is particularly true with youth crime in DC, where Janine
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  Speaker 1: Piro actually who is the new attorney for the area, said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: all these kids committing crimes who know they won't be punished,
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  Speaker 1: they don't come to me, so we got to deal
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  Speaker 1: with that. Here she is talking a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: what happens to people like the fifteen year olds who
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  Speaker 1: beat the DOJE employee also known as Big Balls, appropriately
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  Speaker 1: named in this case. She's talking about how the city
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  Speaker 1: deals with that.
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  Speaker 3: What I can tell you is this, I see too
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  Speaker 3: much violent crime being committed by young punks who think
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  Speaker 3: that they can get together in gangs and crews and
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  Speaker 3: beat the hell out of you or anyone else. They
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  Speaker 3: don't care where they are. They can be in DuPont Circle,
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  Speaker 3: but they know that we can't touch them. Why because
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  Speaker 3: the laws are weak. I can't touch you if you're fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: seventeen years old and you have a gun. I convict
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  Speaker 3: someone of shooting another person with an illegal gun on
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  Speaker 3: a public bus in the chest, intent to kill. I
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  Speaker 3: convict him, and you know what, the judge gives him probation,
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  Speaker 3: says you should go to college. We need to go
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  Speaker 3: after the DC Council and their absurd laws. We need
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  Speaker 3: to get rid of this concept of no cash fail.
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  Speaker 3: We need to recognize that the people who matter are
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  Speaker 3: the law abiding citizens. And it starts today, but it's
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  Speaker 3: not going to end today because the President is going
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  Speaker 3: to do everything we need to do to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that these emboldened criminals understand we see you, we're watching you,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to change the law to catch you.
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  Speaker 2: Jinine Pierro is no joke. She is the US Attorney
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  Speaker 2: for District of Columbia. She is a real petite, little badass.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and this is a real thing that particularly
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  Speaker 1: young people in DC know that there will be few
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  Speaker 1: consequences for their actions, whether it's shoplifting or assault, right
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  Speaker 1: or stealing cars is a big one. Carjacking is huge
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  Speaker 1: around here. Something you have to watch out for. A friend.
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  Speaker 1: Charmagn Yost tweeted that her son's car was stolen from
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  Speaker 1: out in front of their house in DC, and at
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  Speaker 1: that point they learned that grand theft auto is a misdemeanor.
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  Speaker 1: There's no reason for police to pursue. They're not going
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  Speaker 1: to get punished. This also what they're doing. Cash Pattel
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  Speaker 1: talked about this today. The head of the FBI is
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  Speaker 1: like a partnership they made with Virginia where federal law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement went to northern Virginia where some of these areas
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  Speaker 1: do not want to prosecute, do not want to help
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  Speaker 1: people out, do not want to protec them from violent criminals.
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  Speaker 1: And they partnered with Virginia and Governor Glenn Youngkin and
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  Speaker 1: got like four hundred to five hundred violent felons off
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  Speaker 1: the streets during their partnership. So that's part of what
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  Speaker 1: it looks like they're attempting to do here.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Matthew Foldy had a post on x that I
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  Speaker 2: really liked. He's quoting the Washington Post, and the quote
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  Speaker 2: in the Washington Post is quote, this is a safe city.
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  Speaker 2: But overhearing and witnessing gang threats and then watching the
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  Speaker 2: camera footage of the thuggery is disturbing, said one resident
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  Speaker 2: speaking on the condition of anonymity over concerns of personal safety.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you can't tell the media that you're
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  Speaker 2: concerned about crime because you're worried about crime coming at you,
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  Speaker 2: that's a real problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And just as somebody who lives in the area,
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  Speaker 1: it is, it feels different to go to DC than
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  Speaker 1: it did ten years ago. Right, it feels different than
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  Speaker 1: it did three years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I have just gotten to the point where daytime metro
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  Speaker 1: riding might be possible with my kids. I've been you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's I'm not going to go buy myself and be
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable until recently when it has gotten quite a bit better.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly not at night. When I go to the city
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  Speaker 1: at night, I am more careful than I used to
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  Speaker 1: be about parking, about using a parking deck when possible,
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  Speaker 1: about not walking very far, about watching at stoplights when
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  Speaker 1: there might be someone around me. Because, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: carjacking is one of the huge ones. So there are
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  Speaker 1: real problems here, and he has some power. Congress has
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  Speaker 1: a lot of power that they can overturn the DC
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  Speaker 1: City Council on some of these more lenient laws. I
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  Speaker 1: think there is a risk as always where you overplay
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  Speaker 1: your hand, right. Although I think DC is a place
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  Speaker 1: where people are there aren't that many people who live here.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people watching from the outside are like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it'd be nice if you could just walk around the district.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the new hip place to hang out,
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  Speaker 1: the Navy Yard had so many gangs of young people
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  Speaker 1: coming to rob folks and cause other mayhem that they
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  Speaker 1: have a curfew there right now this week to deal
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  Speaker 1: with it. I mean, this is these are real issues.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think just taking the side of crime is
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  Speaker 2: going to be tough for people trying to post Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to fight crime, you want to stop that.
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  Speaker 2: That makes no sense. So I think this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a Trump one way there.
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  Speaker 1: And one more point on that note, I saw somebody
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  Speaker 1: post a Reddit at Washington DC Reddit where someone just said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay to want lower crime, and he was just
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  Speaker 1: lambasted in the comments by people who are this side
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  Speaker 1: of the left, this part, this flank of the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party that animates so much of their stupid policies and
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  Speaker 1: the energy and their party which is like so unormy,
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  Speaker 1: the opposite of normy exactly tell a person and no
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  Speaker 1: wanting to live safely in your city is problematic, It's
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  Speaker 1: not problematic. It's normal.
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  Speaker 2: It's super normal. We're going to take a quick break
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  Speaker 2: and come right back with a story out of Fairfax
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  Speaker 2: County that is going to blow your mind.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are back on normally with a very
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  Speaker 1: not normal story out of Fairfax County, Virginia, in Northern Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: Fairfax County public schools. This is ABC seven News local
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  Speaker 1: news reporting. And by the way, I want to commend
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  Speaker 1: the reporter Nick Mannok who does these stories. He found
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  Speaker 1: out that the local public schools are launching an investigation
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  Speaker 1: into claims that school staff arranged abortions for students and
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell their parents. These allegations come from twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Someone got leaked a testimony about this from one of
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  Speaker 1: these young ladies in twenty twenty one when this allegedly happened.
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  Speaker 1: One of the girls involved with seventeen years old. It
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  Speaker 1: is also alleged that, in concert with a guidance counselor
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  Speaker 1: and a principal at Centerville High School, taxpayer money may
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  Speaker 1: have been used for these abortions that were undertaken without
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  Speaker 1: calling parents. Obviously against Fairfax County public school's policy on
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  Speaker 1: paper also against the law in Virginia which requires parental
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  Speaker 1: notification for minors.
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  Speaker 2: That is quite a story. How is that not the
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  Speaker 2: biggest story in the country, you know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to picture a reverse kind of story. Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It is, a public school that decided to take kids
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  Speaker 2: to church every week, a public school that helped two
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  Speaker 2: people get married because we believe that marriage is a
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  Speaker 2: good thing. Any kind of political thing on the right
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  Speaker 2: would be this would just be wall to wall news everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And I learned about it through a thread on x
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  Speaker 2: by Walter Kurt WC Dispatch, and I just read this
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  Speaker 2: thread with my jaw on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and this is, by the way, as he points out,
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  Speaker 1: this is two young women. But the fact that this
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  Speaker 1: happened and they're investigating it, and they, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: did put out a statement saying this is by no
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  Speaker 1: means acceptable under our policies. Okay, But I'd really like
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  Speaker 1: to know how many people this happened with, right, because
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  Speaker 1: both young ladies name the same guidance counselor. I believe
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  Speaker 1: the same principle was involved both times. So if it
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  Speaker 1: was too how many was it really exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. Again, I think it should be a
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  Speaker 2: giant story. I kind of I'm looking forward to hearing
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  Speaker 2: what the parents have to say about this if they
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  Speaker 2: do come out, you know, like you said the superintendent
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  Speaker 2: note is like, I want to say that at no
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  Speaker 2: time the situation as described in these allegations be acceptable
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  Speaker 2: in Fairfax County public schools. I mean, I should hope not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately, you do have to say that in Northern
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  Speaker 1: Virginia schools.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, we didn't mean for this to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I will say Northern Virginia schools. And this
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  Speaker 1: is one of the reasons that Governor Youngkin is governor.
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  Speaker 1: They're so bad and they do such insane things. This
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  Speaker 1: is Louden County in Fairfax County in particular. They do
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  Speaker 1: such insane things that you have to like triple check
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  Speaker 1: your story to believe that the thing is actually happening.
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  Speaker 1: And so this keeps happening over and over again, and
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  Speaker 1: it caused a lot of I'm just going to use
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  Speaker 1: the term Northern Virginia wine moms across to vote for
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  Speaker 1: Younkin in twenty twenty one. Now this year looks very different.
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  Speaker 1: There is the lieutenant governor win some sears running against
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  Speaker 1: alleged Normie dem Abigail Spanberger. Spanberger is good at sounding
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  Speaker 1: sort of normy and once is not quite the candidate
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  Speaker 1: that Younkin was. Younkin was a very special candidate in
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  Speaker 1: a very special time, which is why he won in
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  Speaker 1: this pretty purple state. But I want you to hear
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  Speaker 1: Carol a little bit of the normy dem and how
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  Speaker 1: she responds to some of the gender issues in the
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  Speaker 1: trans students play, are boys playing in girls' sports? And
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  Speaker 1: see what you think about how this might come off
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  Speaker 1: in northern Virginia. Here's Abigail Spamberger, as reported by that
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  Speaker 1: Great Local reporter.
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  Speaker 4: I asked Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spamberger's campaign if she
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  Speaker 4: would weigh in on the bathroom locker room issue and
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  Speaker 4: does she support biological males competing in women's sports. They
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  Speaker 4: didn't answer those questions, but sent a statement saying that
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  Speaker 4: as a mom with three kids and Virginia public schools quote,
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  Speaker 4: the safety of Virginia's kids is Abigail's top priority, and
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  Speaker 4: she believes that parents have the right to make decisions
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  Speaker 4: about what is best for their children. End quote. Since
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  Speaker 4: former representative Spamberger didn't answer our questions about bathroom policy
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  Speaker 4: or biological males competing in girls' school sports. We went
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  Speaker 4: back to her record in twenty twenty two, when Governor
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  Speaker 4: Glenn Younkin announced his model policy to block student access
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  Speaker 4: to locker rooms and bathrooms that don't match their biological sex,
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  Speaker 4: Spamberger wrote that mandate quote rolls back the rights of
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  Speaker 4: kids to be themselves in schools. End quote. In twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty three, Spamberger also voted in favor of allowing biological
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  Speaker 4: males to compete in women's sports. Nick Minox seven us.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't sound that normy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's imagine how bad off the party is
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  Speaker 1: that the principal model for the normy dem right and
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  Speaker 1: not muster a mere Yeah, boys shouldn't compete in women's sports.
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  Speaker 2: Which is an easy call at this point, easy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if Gavin Newsome could at least pay lip service to it.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, he hasn't done anything in a state to
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  Speaker 2: actually do that, but he at least says it's unfair,
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  Speaker 2: which is a giant in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Youngkin, by the way, notes on this other the
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  Speaker 1: crime issue that in twenty twenty three, Abigail Spanberger voted
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  Speaker 1: in support of reducing penalties for murderers and giving carjackers
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  Speaker 1: a slap on the wrist in DC because she's part
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  Speaker 1: of the Congress at that point that could vote on that. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's their attempt at Normy And like you said, when
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  Speaker 1: you're when you're on the side of crime, it's probably
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  Speaker 1: not going to go well for you in that in
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  Speaker 1: that area.
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  Speaker 2: We have one more clip of Spamburger talking about how
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  Speaker 2: she feels about parental consent and actually basically refusing to
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  Speaker 2: say one.
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  Speaker 4: Way or the other, you believe minors in Virginia should
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  Speaker 4: get parental consent before having an abortion.
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  Speaker 5: I think it is important that we have a constitutional
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  Speaker 5: guarantee of access to abortion. And notably, the constitutional amendment
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  Speaker 5: that is going through the process here in Virginia is similar,
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  Speaker 5: almost identical to what has passed in states like Michigan
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  Speaker 5: and Ohio and other states very mixed political states where
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  Speaker 5: the issue of and the question of abortion is a
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  Speaker 5: politically charged one. You know, certainly, I'm a mother of
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  Speaker 5: three daughters, and I recognize that as a mother, I
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  Speaker 5: want to be involved in all of the decisions that
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  Speaker 5: my daughters make, including you know what they were to
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  Speaker 5: prompt or the eighth grade graduation. But what this constitutional
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  Speaker 5: amendment does is guarantees that in Virginia, the right to
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  Speaker 5: reproductive healthcare would be guaranteed. And I think that, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 5: some of the members of the General Assembly were looking
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  Speaker 5: for excuses to not codify that right.
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  Speaker 1: Love yeah, blah blah blah. You could just say yes
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  Speaker 1: or no. But she can't say yes or no, just
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  Speaker 1: like she can't on the boys and women's sports because
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  Speaker 1: she will get lambasted by her left flank, and she
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  Speaker 1: can't be normal on this.
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  Speaker 2: If we had a functional media who covered it like that,
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  Speaker 2: that would be good, but we basically don't.
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  Speaker 1: So it is interesting because I do think Virginia is
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  Speaker 1: primed to be very friendly for Democrats this year because
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  Speaker 1: there are so many federal workers who are at odds
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  Speaker 1: with the Trump administration's plans. They make up a huge
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  Speaker 1: part of northern Virginia and a huge part of the
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  Speaker 1: population in general, so I think it's primed for span Burger.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact that she can't moderate a little bit
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  Speaker 1: when she's got a pretty good table set for her,
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  Speaker 1: I think is telling about the future of the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you know, you guys, can you pull off
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  Speaker 2: another young Kin? Maybe? Who knows, It's not impossible. I
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  Speaker 2: think Virginia was always traditionally a red state. Obviously, with
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: people moving from the DC area to Virginia became bluer
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  Speaker 2: and bluer. I've got hope.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will be out there making the case. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that continuing the work that Youngkin has done
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  Speaker 1: would be very beneficial to this date, as opposed to
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  Speaker 1: turning hard left, which she's going to pretend she's not doing,
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  Speaker 1: but she's often going to do. So. We will be
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  Speaker 1: back in a minute, normally with a second look at
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Cromo.
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  Speaker 2: We are back on normally. And I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 2: Mary Catherine, but I feel weird having to root for
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Cromo. It really it does not feel good to me.
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  Speaker 2: But I know the thing is, I thought I was
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  Speaker 2: free and clear of this after he lost the primary,
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic primary, and he lost it because he didn't
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: work at it. He thought it was owed to him.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: We talked about it on this show. It wasn't so much.
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  Speaker 2: He was ahead in the polls the whole time until
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: like the last two days and then it all fell apart,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: but he did not try, he didn't show up to
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  Speaker 2: mayoral forums, et cetera. Now that he is running as
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: an independent, I really thought that was going to be
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  Speaker 2: the end of Andrew Cromo. But he's somehow still polling
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  Speaker 2: better than the Republicaniwa and the current mayor, Eric Adams.
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  Speaker 2: So here we go with, you know, Andrew Como take
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  Speaker 2: forty seven. He's having a little bit of a moment.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing some interesting stuff that I think is actually
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  Speaker 2: beneficial and could lead to maybe a little spike in
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  Speaker 2: his popularity which potentially can maybe lead to a win
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  Speaker 2: against the Communist I don't know. I think I would
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  Speaker 2: resign myself to Zarma'm donnie being the next mayor of
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  Speaker 2: New York City, and I am I'd be surprised if
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  Speaker 2: anything doesn't go that way. But let's maybe Andrew Como maybe. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's interesting because he's, you know, just watching
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  Speaker 1: from the outside. I do George Wilsaid on Bill marsh
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  Speaker 1: Show that we need a good, like confined dose of
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  Speaker 1: socialism every couple of decades to like show everybody that
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  Speaker 1: this doesn't work. And I actually I understand what he's saying,
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  Speaker 1: and also, I don't want New York to end up there,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm rooting for something else. Andrew Cromo's a really
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: hard pulls swallow, but he has said some stuff and
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  Speaker 1: made some lines of attack that are interesting and seem
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  Speaker 1: to be kind of hurting Mom Donnie a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: at least spiritually in his New York Times coverage and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: Which is he's saying he's going to be proposing Zorn's law,
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  Speaker 1: a law that will keep the rich out of New
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  Speaker 1: York's affordable housing. New York, of course dealing with a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: housing shortage because they won't let people build stuff, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: they won't people let people price stuff where it should
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  Speaker 1: be priced. He says, zoron Mndoni, you say freeze the rent,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: but for who? Rich people like you, hard working, working
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  Speaker 1: class New Yorkers are being pushed from their neighborhoods. He
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: notes that Zorn lives in a rent controlled apartment that
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: does not cost him very much money, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: you are a rich person stealing affordable housing from the poor,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and you're not the only one. It's time we address
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: this injustice. Let's build a new New York city that
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: works for the people who need it, and I enjoy
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the h I enjoy the shot at the Champagne Socialist.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He had a previous tweet where he said to ma'm donnie,
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  Speaker 2: you grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: You've had weddings on three continents. You own property in
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  Speaker 2: lgtbq I A plus murderous Uganda. You make one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty two thousand dollars a year plus stipends, and
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  Speaker 2: your wife works two meaning you together likely make well
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  Speaker 2: over two hundred thousand. No matter which way you cut
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  Speaker 2: it or are, m'm donnie is a rich person. You're actually
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  Speaker 2: very rich. The question is are his voters going to
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  Speaker 2: care about this, because there's plenty of rich communists. That's
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  Speaker 2: actually part of the thing. The higher you get in
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the communist order, the richer you are. It's just you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders having three homes and nobody even questions that,
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  Speaker 2: and every time it gets brought up to him, he
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  Speaker 2: shrugs it off, like, oh, I'd have three little homes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, No says My favorite is like, well I
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  Speaker 1: earned those homes right, royalties? Really? What did the book
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: royalties work? Because I didn't get my cut, and according
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to my need right, your book earnings.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly right, right, And it's like, what do you think
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  Speaker 2: the other people did, the other people who have multiple
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  Speaker 2: homes all stole their money, just you are the only
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  Speaker 2: one who earned it honestly. So yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's clever of Cuomo to say, you know, today,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I'm calling on you to move out immediately and give
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who needs it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Not entirely sure, flanking him to the left is going
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  Speaker 2: to work, but pointing out that he's a hypocrite and
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: this is how socialism always goes would be an interesting tactic.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: He's also clearly somebody good is on his x account,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: and there's like so many little, you know kind of comments,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: like somebody wrote unbelievable that rent Control Department was really
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: available for the elite to snatch away past this law.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: And Andrew Cuomo's account writes back, make it make sense.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: That's a cool twenty two year old who is responding,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: you know, crazy if true? Somebody writes doing great, bro.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: He responds, thanks bro, like just.
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  Speaker 1: So also, I love calling it Zorn's law. That is
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that's such a great it's a quality troll. And I
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: think the thing that's interesting about this particular attack. You're
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: right that all socialists, if they are up at the
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: top of the chain, end up getting all the money
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: that none of us get by design. But what's interesting
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: is he's talking about affordability, which is the thing that
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: people are turning to Zoron for and he's hitting him
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: on that. And it's a class critique, which so Ram
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Mamdani has been making. Now he's a hypocrite in his
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: class critique, but Andrew Cromo probably not the best guy
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to make the other argument, but it is on something
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: people care about in this election.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Absolutely all right, I'm gonna have to root for a
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Mayor Cuomo.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: What I wrote a piece like four years ago that
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: was like, no one's asking for a Cuomo comeback, And
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: here we are, having been presented with something so much worse.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Why does this keep happening? You know?
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I still hope Mayor Adams pulls it out, but she
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: pulls out like eight percent, So maybe not.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I know, I do. I actually find it a little
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: mystifying why people find him in particular so off putting.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I don't and it does seem like New York has
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: made progress over the past too much, sort of like DC,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, well things are improving off of
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: a low bar, but there is progress being made.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I guess he was indicted. They probably didn't help.
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  Speaker 2: Probably. Thanks for joining us on Normally. Normally airs Tuesdays
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