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  The hated Honta virus is on cruise ships.
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  Is this the same thing as COVID?
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  In a lot of ways, it feels that way again.
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  I hope not.
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  Gerrymandering was the word of the week last week, and we're going to talk about that now with Matt Palumbo.
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  I'm Booker.
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  This is The Truth Be Told.
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  As always on Mondays, we have Matt Palumbo, and we're going to switch things up a little bit different here, Matt.
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  I'm going to let you start this hour with any subject that you want to talk about, instead of me going to my list and me starting it out.
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  We're going to get the I hit the virus.
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  We're going to get to Ilan Omar, Charlie Kirk, the China visit.
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  We'll get to all of that.
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  But before we do, let's get to whatever Matt wants to get to.
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  Matt, what do you want to get to?
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  Well, I don't know if this is cheating, but after this show, I'm going on a show to summarize the UK's election results.
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  You're cheating on me or cheating on the subject.
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  I mean, technically I'm shitting on the other shows.
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  I'm going to use it here first.
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  So it's less offensive to you then.
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  Yeah, I guess.
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  We're breaking.
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  So yeah, let's do that.
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  Obviously, we we normally talk about U.S.
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  issues on this show, but it was a lot of uh wins on the right uh in terms of gerrymandering last week, and and also, and I and I know I'm not going directly into the topic yet, but there's also major wins in Illinois where uh every single Republican senator that was up for re-election that was being primaried that voted against redistricting.
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  Indiana.
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  Um Indiana, not a little Illinois.
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  Indiana, not the Mike Pennsylvan state.
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  Yeah, um, every single Republican except one that vote that just voted against uh gerrymandering to make the state more Republican, uh, lost their primary race.
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  Uh so that was very good news there.
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  And then there was, you know, to um steal and be talking about on the next show I'm on.
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  Uh there's also great news across the pond in the UK, and that the reform UK Party, uh, which is now Nigel Farage's party, it's their right-wing populist party.
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  And you know, granted, this is Europe we're talking about, so no matter how right-wing they are, they're always gonna be like, you know, support socialized medicine or some crazy regulations here or there, but it is seems to be the you know the best you could get if you're a Republican living overseas uh in the UK.
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  Um there was local elections in the UK, and they were the number one seat getter.
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  They once been like 1400 seats.
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  Um, the labor party and the conservative party, um, not sure what the conservative party there actually conserves.
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  That's I think just whatever the left believes 10 years prior, but they both got destroyed there.
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  And it's just interesting in that, you know, like the U.S., the UK has basically had a two-party system for hundreds of years.
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  Um, the smaller parties have been, you know, small to the point where um even if they do win seats, it's usually labor or conservative wins outright, and there's no need to form a coalition or anything.
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  So they they've been basically irrelevant, all the third parties.
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  So this is really the first time we've seen the two-party system there be broken.
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  And what was the issue that that won reform UK?
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  Well, it was all immigration.
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  Um, they are seeing, like America, an unprecedented wave of immigration, legal and illegal, but a lot of it legal there.
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  People who do not want to assimilate.
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  And you know, the thing about America is, you know, despite any issues we may have with immigration, at least of the legal ones, they you know, tend to be, you know, there's at least some vetting going on.
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  We have standards for how much income you have to have, whether or not you're gonna be um, you know, take from the system.
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  Uh in Europe, it's basically a total free-for-all.
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  Like it's you come in, we'll give you citizenship in a few years, and you cannot speak the language, you can be on welfare eternally, but there's no vetting whatsoever.
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  So um that's been the major issue there.
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  Uh, conservatives have you know, preside they are unfortunately presided over actually most of the mass immigration to the UK.
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  Uh labor has continued that.
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  I mean, they're ideologically totally in favor of it, um, and tried to moderate their stance ahead of the election uh on that issue, but you know, voters saw through that.
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  So, you know, I think it is good news to see that even in Europe, which generally speaking is you know to the left of America in quite a lot of ways, especially on economics.
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  Um, for a right-wing party to win there, I just think it's a good sign of things to come here.
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  Couple of things that came to my mind as you were speaking about that election in the UK.
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  Do you think that what is happening with illegal immigration in this country now that uh Donald Trump has effectively shut down the border?
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  Is that a driving factor for the upcoming midterm?
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  Since it appears to be fixed.
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  Do you think that the conservatives, the Republicans here in this country, will just stay at home and not vote like they have been doing since November, or is that something still that can drive them to the polls?
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  Well, you know, it's it's tough because you know, of all voters, unfortunately, it's you know, whatever happened two weeks prior that's gonna determine their vote, and advanced prices are still high, that is gonna hammer us despite how good anything else is.
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  Um, but you know, Trump has objectively made a lot of games on immigration.
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  He has really solved the border issue and proved that there was literally uh a magic switch you could just flick and all of a sudden there's no more thing on migration.
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  That's that's really what it would seems like.
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  Um, I will say I am a lot more optimistic heading into the midterms ahead of um how demoralized the left appears with redistricting efforts.
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  Uh I don't even see people online like leftists saying, all right, guys, now you're really gonna outvote them.
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  It's more like um we need to kill these people or ourselves.
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  Like literally either or those are the two narratives thinking it's it's I want to kill my enemies or I want to kill myself.
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  Those are the two responses I'm seeing from the left.
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  Well, I have seen them say that.
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  I have seen them we've got to go there.
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  They're not stable people.
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  Um, but I I will say with the ill in uh Illinois.
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  Indiana.
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  Why do I I've done this 80 times in a row?
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  Well, they both start with eyes.
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  So they both that's they're basically the same word.
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  Yeah.
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  Um with um with the Indiana um results.
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  I mean, that was because Trump encouraged people to go out and vote and and vote against the people who would not um I guess cherry man to the map for the other.
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  Well, do you could do you consider those that won in Indiana last week?
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  They would be anti-Republican establishment.
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  Maybe their own party in a similar way to those that won in the UK.
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  And I was gonna get to that.
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  Do you see that uh similarity there?
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  Yes, for sure.
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  Yes, for sure.
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  So, you know, that yeah, that is the thing.
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  So, you know, that that yeah, that is the thing.
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  It's like you know, the the Trump Republican Party is a new party.
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  It's like, you know, the Trump Republican Party is a new party.
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  You know, if we were in a European country with 10 different political parties, there's no world in which Trump and Mitt Romney or Trump and George W.
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  You know, if we were in a European country with 10 different political parties, there's no world in which Trump and Mitt Romney or Trump and George W.
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  Bush are in the same party.
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  Bush are in the same party.
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  And Trump is, he has made it, you know, once again into a conservative Republican Party.
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  And Trump is he has made it, you know, once again into a conservative Republican Party.
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  I think it was kind of um I you know the party for at least 20 years before Trump, and maybe maybe longer.
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  I think it was kind of um I, you know, the party for at least 20 years before Trump, and maybe maybe longer.
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  I just haven't been in politics that long.
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  I just haven't been in politics that long, but it really seemed like it wasn't actually interested in winning.
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  It was just wanted to be this sort of permanent opposition where they would critique power but never actually hold it themselves and didn't really have any great plans for what to do when they got power.
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  And yeah, I would like Republicans who, you know, while we agree that we want government to have as few functions as possible, that there are ones that have to get done and uh there are legitimate uses of power.
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  So uh, you know, I think Trump is transforming the party for sure, too.
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  I think that the Republican establishment party is still right where you described them.
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  They still want to be that opposition party.
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  They are not effective in governing.
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  You can see that by what's happening in the Senate in the House of Representatives over the last year and a half now that Trump's been in office.
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  Now let's move on to the Honda virus.
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  Honta, Hanta, I'm not sure.
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  How do you say it?
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  Uh I'm I'm hearing Honda.
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  Well, Barry.
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  No, never heard of it.
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  Don't know what that is.
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  I don't want to know.
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  Well, I'll not wear a mask.
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  No one's wearing a mask.
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  I have heard some people were claiming it has a 48% death rate, in which case there's there's nothing to do.
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  It's just sit here and wait.
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  Well, I'm gonna let most of the doctors that are on this network on America Out Loud Talk Radio deal with it because it's not my thing, nor is it Matt's, but I did want to address it here as we start this hour because um I I you know the University of Nebraska.
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  Do you remember them when COVID first started?
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  Because it started on cruise ships and people were being taken to the University of Nebraska where they have this special um quarantine area where it's triple door and they were CNN and other people on the outside of it.
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  They were doing interviews, trying to talk to doctors.
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  And I'm having these flashbacks, and I'm like, we are not going there with the Honta virus.
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  And I so here, let me let you listen to Dr.
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  Michael Olmsted.
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  He was on uh CBS face the nation on Sunday.
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  Listen to him.
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  Actually, in terms of the ability to transmit to somebody else, it's only a rare person that does that.
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  I mean, we've had many examples of people that were infected from most urine or feces contact in Argentina, for example, where this particular strain is never results in person to person transmission.
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  It's a very rare exception.
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  So, in that sense, that you may only need a limited amount of time, but it has to be uh one of those super spreaders that actually is the person sharing the virus with you.
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  Matt, I have an idea.
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  Instead of everybody else wearing masks, we get super spreaders to write super spreader across their forehead.
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  Everybody just stay away.
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  Don't you think that would work?
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  I think that's a plan.
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  Yeah, I would just say contain those people and you know, don't put them in nursing homes, yeah, for sure.
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  No, I agree.
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  Now let's get let's get to the big story last week.
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  And you brought it up uh earlier was the gerrymandering that took place.
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  Uh, we have Texas that did it for five Republican seats.
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  Florida also concluded for four seats.
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  Tennessee is the one that really got everybody uh going nuts.
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  That was great because uh the way Memphis was split into three parts.
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  And uh I talked about it on the show Friday night, but go ahead, let me get your thoughts on it.
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  Well, well, with uh with Memphis, the way the Democrats are framing it as is black people are losing their last district, and they're making it from you know, they're trying to make it a racial issue instead of just being honest and saying, uh, listen, we're Democrats, so we want an extra Democrat district.
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  I don't know why they what the point in lying is, but they're trying to well, actually, I take that back.
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  It's uh once again do the whole everything is racism narrative.
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  So they're saying, you know, they took away black district, but the representative is Steve Cohen, who is uh obviously not a black guy, and the woman favored to now leave the district as a black Republican.
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  Oh, the irony.
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  So it's clearly not a race thing, it's it's just which party uh wants you know what wants the seat.
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  Yeah, Steve Cohen is a jerk, and he has been for a long time.
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  I met him in 1986 when my ex-wife actually worked at the state legislature there for uh Annabel Clement O'Brien, and uh I forget the other guy's name.
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  He was actually murdered by uh Tommy Low Tax Looper was his name.
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  Low tax.
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  He legally changed his name to Low Tax to run for office.
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  But Steve Cohen was a jerk back then.
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  Hopefully he is gone now, and maybe a black woman can finally represent Memphis in the form of a Republican.
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  That may happen.
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  Let's listen to this, Martha Raditz from CBS on Sunday.
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  Virginia Democrats suffered a major setback on Friday when the state Supreme Court struck down a congressional map recently approved by voters that could have created four Democratic House districts.
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  The court's majority found that the timing of the referendum process had violated the state's constitution.
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  Virginia Democrats say they plan to challenge that decision.
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  Meanwhile, serious democratic protesters charge state capitals in Louisiana.
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  And Tennessee.
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  When legislators there took steps to redraw current district maps that would be favorable to Republicans.
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  Now, Matt, we knew that this Virginia thing was going to be reversed.
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  As soon as voted on, it was illegal from the get-go.
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  You have to go through the General Assembly to be able to put this on the ballot.
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  Governor Spanbarger there, burger, whatever her name is, she just completely forgot about that.
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  They went around that, they broke the law.
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  This is not even going to go to Supreme Court.
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  I know that there are people that are going to try to appeal it, but there's no one to appeal this to.
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  The Supreme Court of Virginia has made the decision, and I don't see SCOTUS ever taking this because the election clause in the Constitution, it's all done in the state.
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  The state uh put that in the Constitution by vote that it had to be done that way, and then they just went around it.
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  I don't see SCOTUS taking this up.
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  Uh, nor do I.
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  Plus, we know how the shodas would rule on that.
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  It would be um, we would say a lot of calls for packing the Supreme Court afterwards in the last um so after this, too.
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  It seems like Republicans are gonna be up double digits on redistricting, and then you add in uh the voting rights acts uh being struck down, and those see those districts have to be redrawn.
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  And I think that's another at least 12 to 20 seats, depending on the estimates I've seen.
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  But if you look at um I saw some recent polling that basically Republic, you know, the the current map projection with all the redistricting is now 217 Republican seats, uh two uh I can't remember the the exact amount of Democrats, but I think it's only like 15 or 16 toss ups.
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  Current map projection with all the redistricting is now 217 Republican seats.
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  Uh two uh I can't remember the the exact amount of Democrats, but I think it's only like 15 or 16 toss-ups.
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  Meaning, if that map is true, it is accurate about how the Republican seats will go.
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  Meaning you know, if that map is true and is accurate about how the Republican seats will go, you know, they need to win less, what is it like five percent or less of the toss up seats to keep a majority?
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  You know, they need to win less, what is like five percent or less of the toss-up seats to keep a majority.
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  So that was unthinkable not too long ago.
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  So that was unthinkable not too long ago, and it it's the first time I can think of in quite a while the
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  And it's the first time I can think of in quite a while.
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  The right nationally has actually wielded power and done it in a way to actually help uh their own you know, their own voter base.
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  So very proud of the party, I will say on this.
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  Um I think that a lot of the people that are I'm paying attention to on social media.
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  There is a fear from me that a lot of people are gonna think, well, now it's fixed.
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  We don't have to do anything.
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  And that would be that's the last thing that needs to happen.
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  Although someone um drew like a hypothetical maximum gerrymander map where like what if every legislature, every blue state drew it like the most blue possible map.
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  Um you know, logistically speaking, and if every right uh red state did the same thing, Republicans would have like a 230 seat majority.
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  Yeah.
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  Um so if we really saw the escalate into total chaos, and both sides are willing to do every single thing they could possibly do to gerrymander, it would still favor the right.
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  So I I don't know.
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  It's pretty cool.
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  We actually won this battle, but when they were doing the re the Virginia redistricting, and then um when Indiana uh failed to do theirs.
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  Thank you.
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  Uh I thought, like, oh man, we might actually come out in the losing end of this, but it seems like that's not gonna be the case.
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  And not only that, Democrats, I think, spent what, like 80 million dollars in Virginia?
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  Yeah, it was 70 million.
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  70 million.
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  So that money's gone forever.
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  Thank God.
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  For nothing.
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  Yeah, they blew it for nothing.
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  Let's listen to this from CNN with Scott Jennings.
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  Listen to this conversation.
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  Black people will elect uh people who will actually represent them, who have their best interests at heart.
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  And what Republicans have done in Tennessee is dismantle the power for black people to have their voice.
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  They did the same thing in Texas because they said they thought Latinos were going to swing for Republicans.
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  There are black people that are represented.
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  I'm I'm black and I got a Republican president right now.
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  Black people don't elect black people based on race.
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  They elect people that are aligned with their moral, their beliefs, and justice, and just took that away from them in Tennessee and in other states.
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  I just I just disagree that the only person, the only kind of a politician who can elect black people in Congress must be a Democrat.
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  This is just an artificial Democratic Party.
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  That's not what I'm saying.
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  Black voters are still.
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  Well, what was she saying?
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  Or what was she trying to say?
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  I think I have no idea.
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  And then when she was like, you know, we can be rebound, like we can be re represented by white people.
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  I have a white president who you didn't vote for.
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  Didn't vote for and don't support in any way.
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  And Jennings, I don't know.
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  He didn't bring up that a black, I don't think he brings up in that clip that it's probably going to be actually a black woman who uh who ends up re-representing the scene, like we were just saying.
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  No, he didn't.
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  But yeah, that is true.
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  Let's go to one more clip here.
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  Martha Raditz, because we are talking about the midterm, and the Democrats, well, really, there are 25 seats in the middle.
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  They kind of determine the power of the House in every election midterm or in the general election for president.
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  And in this case, in this year, 2026, the Democrats think they can do um something about 44 of those seats.
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  Let's listen to this.
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  Is tighter than ever and could come down to a handful of swing districts here in the battleground Keystone State.
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  Democrats have identified four districts here in Pennsylvania.
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  They think they can flip in the midterm.
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  That's more than any other state, and it includes the district here in Lehigh Valley.
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  Republican Congressman Ryan McKenzie flipped Pennsylvania's seventh district seat by just one percentage point in 2024, about 4,000 votes.
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  The city of Allentown, now at the heart of Democratic efforts to take back the House.
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  Lots of different places in Pennsylvania.
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  If this is a blue flip, blue wave that starts here, that has huge implications for life in Washington, DC.
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  Matt, it always comes down to who goes out and votes.
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  And it's going to be key.
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  I have seen a lot of Democrats that are using the gerrymander of last week as a reason to get people energized to go out and vote.
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  I don't know how that's going to work, but it's going to be interesting to watch over the next few months.
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  Don't forget, primaries are going on now until September.
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  That includes things like school boards, uh, non-party affiliated judges are very important.
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  Matt Palumbo is joining us, the author of 11 books.
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  Matt Palumbo is joining us, the author of 11 books.
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  One of those is Spygate.
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• 21:38
  Matt, let's get into some conversation here about Charlie Kirk real quick, because I think the court made a big decision this week and one that I was glad to see that every bit of this trial is going to be on the television, so everybody can see it.
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  Complete transparency.
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  Yes.
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  I think every, you know, court trial should be at least recorded or have a recording somewhere.
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  I don't know if that is already the case.
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  But you know, I'm glad this one is going to be televised as well.
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  Now, the I will say though, I do have I am torn in, you know, will this help conspiracy like squash certain conspiracy theories, or will it help amplify them in that?
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  How do you think it'll help it?
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  How do you believe it would help it?
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  Well, stuff being clipped out of context.
• 22:26
  So you know, there was the report from the Daily Mail where you know it was claiming they couldn't trace the bullet to the gun of the shooter, but the context was well, the bullet was so destroyed.
• 22:38
  That's the reason why.
• 22:40
  This is very common means nothing.
• 22:41
  It was not conclusive, is what they said.
• 22:44
  They said it was not conclusive at the time.
• 22:46
  And they're going to have it uh checked by the FBI, who has other types of ways to to look at that bullet.
• 22:52
  So go ahead, because I know that they took off with that.
• 22:56
  Yeah, so just stuff like that, or taking things out of context, or you know, it on Netflix, and you can do a documentary where they are trying to um claim a guilty person is actually innocent.
• 23:08
  Basically, they just relitigate the case, but only show you the defense's argument.
• 23:12
  So I mean, just giving a one-sided account of uh the facts and give a very misleading picture.
• 23:19
  I mean, on the other hand, I think everyone's mind is already kind of made up, and you have if you have some like schizophrenic ideas about this shooting.
• 23:26
  I mean it's probably not going to be changed either way, but um I I don't know.
• 23:31
  I guess my prediction overall that it will be a good thing, but I I am predicting that that we are gonna see a lot of out of context clips and all that just for clickbait.
• 23:40
  Uh absolutely, because that's what those people do.
• 23:43
  You know, they don't deal with the truth, they only deal with half truth, the which is lies, and those are the best, the best way to uh try to get people to believe what it is that you're trying to sell them.
• 23:54
  Uh you know, it's creating a narrative.
• 23:56
  Well, let's go to Rebecca Woodland.
• 23:58
  She was on Fox, she's a trial attorney.
• 24:00
  Here's what she had to say about it.
• 24:02
  The judge needs to show the world what has happened.
• 24:05
  Let there be transparency in the legal proceedings.
• 24:08
  The prosecution said the courts aren't going to be in any way affected.
• 24:12
  The jury pool's not going to be affected by cameras within the courtroom.
• 24:16
  The jury pool's going to know anyway, because there'll be media coverage no matter what.
• 24:21
  But cameras in the courtroom will allow for the prosecution to show the truth for the all of these conspiracy theories.
• 24:28
  We have so many that don't really make any sense.
• 24:32
  Let them be dispelled by the facts and the evidence in the case.
• 24:36
  Show the world every day.
• 24:38
  There's nothing to hide in a courtroom.
• 24:40
  Matt, you and I have been together on this since the beginning is that there has never been more evidence in a murder case in the history of America than that that they have on Tyler Robinson for murdering Charlie Kirk last September.
• 24:55
  It was uh, you know, amazing that it was on television, it was terrible, but this trial should be on television as well.
• 25:02
  And finally, maybe a lot of these people that have been swayed by influencers trying to get them to believe in some conspiracy theory, like Candace Owens, for instance, who says the Egyptians and the Israelis are involved, and uh that's that can be over with it for a lot of people.
• 25:19
  And I understand what you're saying that they'll they'll use some clips and they'll try to continue to spin so that they don't have egg on their face, but I still believe that most people are going to pay attention to this and say, okay, this guy did it because it's obvious he did it.
• 25:34
  Go ahead.
• 25:34
  Well, yeah, the Egyptians and Israelis are involved because we know the Egyptians and Israelis just love each other and want to work together.
• 25:41
  Uh no, listen, in in most of these cases, it's the simplest explanation is the true one.
• 25:46
  And in this case, the uh the options are um the leftist dating and transgender who confessed to the crime is guilty and not um some you know team up involved, some team involving a Mossad in Egypt for some reason.
• 26:00
  He confessed multiple times, not just once, but there were multiple confessions by him.
• 26:06
  His own father turned him in.
• 26:08
  I don't know what else people need to see.
• 26:11
  Uh, you know, it just it's bizarre to me that people will believe someone like Candace Owens and the crap that she is trying to sell.
• 26:18
  Let's go to Il on Omar.
• 26:20
  She was in the news last week.
• 26:21
  Here is Kaylee McEnaney on Fox News.
• 26:24
  Fox News Alert, Ilhan Omar missed Tuesday's deadline for Minnesota Republicans to turn over documents in the Minnesota Feeding Our Futures fraud scandal.
• 26:32
  Democrats blocked an effort to subpoena the Congresswoman, all as we learn that Omar's name came up six times in the case against Amy Bach, the founder of Feeding Our Future.
• 26:43
  Now, Bach spearheaded the scheme, which stole federal funds intended for children, and was convicted of wire fraud conspiracy and bribery.
• 26:51
  Ilhan Omar's name first came up in an email chain with Bach back in February 2021.
• 26:57
  The subject line read, help with USDA food program and a message to Omar's office.
• 27:03
  Now, about two weeks later, Bach emailed Omar's off office with the subject line, FNS approves Minnesota School P E B T plan.
• 27:11
  Then one day later, Bach exchanged messages with this feeding our future employee who fled the country after he was indicted in 2022.
• 27:20
  The subject line of their emails was Ilhan's office.
• 27:24
  And the emails kept flowing after that.
• 27:26
  In March, Bach emailed Omar's office again about the state's school food program.
• 27:31
  There were also text messages between Bach and Omar's office, which was uncovered during a raid of Bach's Minnesota House.
• 27:39
  Now, while we know Omar's office was communicating with a now convicted fraudster, we don't know the contents of those messages or if Omar herself engaged in any wrongdoing.
• 27:48
  In a jailhouse interview with Fox, this is how Bach described those conversations.
• 27:54
  Did you have any conversations with uh Elon Omar that make you kind of think twice now?
• 28:00
  I've never actually spoken to her.
• 28:00
  I've never actually spoken to her.
• 28:02
  Um I had spoken to members of her office.
• 28:02
  Um, I had spoken to members of her office.
• 28:07
  It was always really general, um, mostly pertaining to how the Department of App Um, excuse me, Department of Education was handling applications.
• 28:07
  It was always really general, um, mostly pertaining to how the Department of App um, excuse me, Department of Education was handling applications.
• 28:16
  Um, and the approval or denial of those.
• 28:16
  Um, and the approval or denial of those.
• 28:20
  Matt, I believe there are a couple of things here that we can talk about.
• 28:20
  Matt, I believe there are a couple of things here that we can talk about.
• 28:24
  One is the obviously the fraud in Minnesota, but Ilan Omar not doing what she was supposed to do.
• 28:24
  One is the obviously the fraud in Minnesota, but Ilan Omar not doing what she was supposed to do, the subpoena failing in Minnesota because it took two-thirds of the vote, so she will not be subpoenaed there in Minnesota.
• 28:38
  So I think that's the first part.
• 28:39
  Let's talk about that.
• 28:41
  Uh well, I I know we we have to say allegedly.
• 28:45
  So I think she's allegedly uh guilty as hell here.
• 28:49
  Uh I mean a million things.
• 28:51
  A starting from the whole uh, you know, brother incident that even JD Vance says there's evidence for.
• 28:58
  Um, if that's the case, and that can be proven, there is a possibility she could actually end up being denaturalized as well.
• 29:06
  Um I will take a deportation over criminal charges any day of the week.
• 29:10
  So that would be nice.
• 29:11
  But her net worth as well recently went from being over 30 million dollars to 100,000, which she blamed on her accountant.
• 29:22
  Yeah.
• 29:23
  And uh if you have 100,000 to your name, um you know, you you're pretty you're having you're you'd be pretty much uh pretty aware that you don't have 30 million dollars to your name in signing that financial disclosure.
• 29:36
  In fact, it's the weirdest thing ever as a politician.
• 29:38
  You would want people to think you have less than what you have, not more.
• 29:41
  Right, which is what I think is really happening here.
• 29:43
  That's the way I think she's revising it downward.
• 29:46
  Um, but but you'd never do it.
• 29:47
  You you'd never have a hundred grand to your name as a politician and claim you have 30 because you know it could make you look out of touch or whatever.
• 29:54
  Uh but the winery as well that her husband claimed to have woman had just mysteriously shuddered recently.
• 30:00
  Um, and that would is what I believe uh a large source of that wealth was.
• 30:04
  So uh just a very weird situation there as well.
• 30:07
  There's gonna be so many different angles to go after her.
• 30:10
  Well, one thing that I want to talk about with this is the Minnesota fraud.
• 30:14
  We know that there has been about 300 million dollars in fraud in Minnesota that they have convictions on there is more that will be coming, obviously.
• 30:23
  But I want to go back to when this story blew up with Nick Shirley reporting it because it was reported that it was nine billion dollars, and then a lot of people on social media said it was 18 billion.
• 30:32
  It was 19 billion.
• 30:34
  Well, the entire amount of money that was given to Minnesota during the time period in question was 18 billion dollars.
• 30:41
  It was never gonna be 18 billion.
• 30:42
  The 9 billion came from a quote from the U.S.
• 30:45
  attorney there who said there could be might be as much as up to 9 billion dollars in fraud, and everybody took off with that number.
• 30:53
  The problem I have with those great big numbers that there is no corroboration and you can't prove is that everybody's gonna say it's a lie.
• 31:01
  And then when the truth comes out, and maybe it's 700 million, maybe it's a billion, which is bad and it should be.
• 31:08
  The story's gonna be about the fact that you were a conspiracy theorist and said it was nine billion.
• 31:12
  And I have a problem with that.
• 31:14
  And even my old neighbor from 15 years ago, he sent me a message over the weekend on Messenger on Facebook.
• 31:21
  And uh do you know anything about the Biden's financial situation right now?
• 31:25
  From Hunter to Joe Biden.
• 31:27
  The fact is they're about broke.
• 31:30
  So they don't have they don't have any money.
• 31:32
  If they do, they've hidden it somewhere and they're not living like they have that kind of money.
• 31:36
  But he sent this to me because he says that this is official leaked document.
• 31:40
  Ukrainian kickback records.
• 31:42
  I don't know if you've seen this going around social media.
• 31:44
  Joe Biden and his family got 92 million dollars.
• 31:49
  Mitch McConnell, 89 million.
• 31:51
  Nancy Pelosi, 86 million.
• 31:53
  Chuck Schumer, 66 million.
• 31:55
  Lindsey Graham got 62 million.
• 31:56
  Mitt Romney, 71 million.
• 31:58
  This is bull crap.
• 32:00
  This is not true.
• 32:01
  This didn't happen.
• 32:02
  There's no evidence of this, and those types of things make the truth harder to get out when you're throwing around these types of numbers that cannot be corroborated, and they're nowhere near the truth.
• 32:14
  Uh yeah, for sure.
• 32:15
  I mean, we always want to be accurate.
• 32:17
  And it is you're totally right that the directionality of the fraud matters, and that if we say it's a hundred million and it's a billion, it's wow, it's ten times the worst than fraud.
• 32:30
  We say if we say it's ten billion and then it's one, it's C you guys were off by ten.
• 32:34
  Right.
• 32:34
  This isn't even a story.
• 32:35
  Why are you making a story out of it?
• 32:37
  Yeah, yeah.
• 32:37
  You know, and uh a billion would be a big story if you hadn't said it was gonna be 10.
• 32:42
  I will say, you know, there there were just a few blocks where Shirley was documenting like tens of millions.
• 32:47
  So I think it will definitely be into the billions.
• 32:50
  But yes, you're right.
• 32:50
  We don't we we'll never know the exact number.
• 32:53
  Uh you know, and and well, actually, we may never truly know the exact number.
• 32:57
  No, I don't think so.
• 32:58
  But could approach it, hopefully.
• 32:59
  Um yeah, and unfortunately, we'll probably recover, you know, one or two cents of a dollar of the whole thing by the end of it.
• 33:05
  Big story coming up this week, Matt, is the visit to China with Donald Trump and Melania Trump.
• 33:11
  They are heading there to meet uh Xi Jinping.
• 33:14
  This is gonna be an interesting visit.
• 33:16
  Uh, you know, it's gonna include what's going on in Iran.
• 33:19
  China has been pulling away from Iran over this.
• 33:22
  Uh, you have Taiwan is going on, uh, trade, the uh uh the tariffs that Donald Trump put on will be a part of the conversation.
• 33:30
  You have artificial intelligence, semiconductors.
• 33:33
  It's a big trip right now this week.
• 33:36
  Yeah, I uh I it's actually my first time hearing that it is from you.
• 33:39
  So I I also get my news from the show as of a commentator on the show.
• 33:43
  Uh that I somehow missed that one.
• 33:46
  Um, it's um what is um you said they're pulling back on the relationship with Iran.
• 33:53
  So uh you have now tell me more.
• 33:55
  Well, yeah, they have been pulling back as a result of not being able to get oil.
• 34:00
  And I think that from what I understand from people that they are frustrated with Iran and uh with what's going on.
• 34:08
  So um, you know, it's affecting trade, it's in front uh, you know, China's uh economy is in bad shape.
• 34:14
  They're not in great shape, so they can't stand a lot of inflation, and they need oil, and they're not getting it.
• 34:20
  So I think another part of this visit is Donald Trump trying to sell American oil to China, which will then put a wedge between countries like Russia and America, Iran and America, the BRICS Nations.
• 34:31
  So we'll have to we'll have to keep an eye on this.
• 34:34
  It's gonna be interesting.
• 34:35
  The X uh will be coming here to America uh pretty soon.
• 34:38
  Let's listen to Ted Liu.
• 34:40
  He was on Face of the Nation.
• 34:41
  He's one of my favorites.
• 34:42
  I know you love him too, don't you, Matt?
• 34:44
  Oh god, no.
• 34:46
  Secretary Rubio said Taiwan will likely be discussed during President Trump's visit to China this week to meet with Xi Jinping.
• 34:54
  This is a hugely consequential summit.
• 34:57
  Um on Friday, Taiwan's Parliament proved 25 billion dollars in funds to buy more American weapons.
• 35:00
  25 billion dollars in funds to buy more American weapons.
• 35:03
  Are you largely supportive at this point of the Trump administration's willingness to strengthen Taiwan's defense?
• 35:03
  Are you largely supportive at this point of the Trump administration's willingness to strengthen Taiwan's defense?
• 35:10
  Both Democratic and Republican administrations have had the exact same policy, which is to preserve the current status quo, and we're trying to keep China from doing anything stupid in Indo-Pacific, including a military conflict.
• 35:10
  Both Democratic and Republican administrations have had the exact same policy, which is to preserve the current status quo, and we're trying to keep China from doing anything stupid in the Pacific, including a military conflict.
• 35:24
  And I just want to emphasize that the Iran war has shown that we need a brand new strategy.
• 35:24
  And I just want to emphasize that the Iran war has shown that we need a brand new strategy in the Indo-Pacific, because in any prolonged conflict with China or Russia, the U.S.
• 35:36
  will run out of defensive munitions.
• 35:38
  We already started running out of defensive munitions in a war that last year.
• 35:41
  Well, we're not running out of munitions yet, but it does take a lot of munitions to do what was doing uh what was going on in Iran and what has been going on.
• 35:51
  So I don't think that's a bad point that he's making there, Matt.
• 35:54
  But uh, you know, we it's gonna be interesting to watch what happens here with Donald Trump and Xi and China.
• 36:00
  I really sense that things are changing in the world.
• 36:03
  I think Donald Trump on the world stage over the last year and a half, he's been incredible.
• 36:08
  I think everything that he's done has uh been perfect.
• 36:12
  You know, I think well, I'll take that back.
• 36:14
  I the AIPA, the tariffs uh invoked under IBA, I think was a stretch, and I think that that cost him obviously we're paying back 166 billion dollars in tariffs.
• 36:25
  So I I think that was probably a misstep.
• 36:27
  There were other um laws that he could have invoked uh to put tariffs on.
• 36:33
  And I know that there are limitations on those other laws, but it was uh a little bit of something is better than uh nothing of something, if that makes any sense.
• 36:42
  And yeah, that's what we ended up getting because uh AIPA was invoked there.
• 36:46
  Uh yeah, that I mean then I mean, obviously the way that um the Iran conflict has been dragging on has not been ideal.
• 36:53
  I mean, it was initially gonna be I think a six and eight-week uh endeavor was the time frame.
• 36:59
  We're obviously well beyond that.
• 37:00
  And uh my uh I I I have to do a double take every time I see gas prices, and I think a lot of other people are probably in the same boat.
• 37:08
  So I mean, obviously, you know, away from the fact that it's um you know, uh, you know, it's causing a bit of financial strain, and that could end up blowing up on us in the midterms, among other issues, but um, but we'll see.
• 37:22
  Well, and I think Donald Trump is kind of stuck here on this Iran thing.
• 37:26
  I think the right thing to do, the right thing to do for the world and the right thing to do for America is to finish it.
• 37:32
  And I don't know how long that's gonna take.
• 37:35
  But as you said, the midterm is coming up here in five or six months, and with gas at $4.50, $475.
• 37:42
  That's not gonna win any Republican seeds.
• 37:45
  And then you have two years of impeachments coming on.
• 37:48
  So, you know, he's trapped.
• 37:49
  He's cornered.
• 37:51
  And Iran is proving that they can just keep lasting.
• 37:54
  They and that's been their history as well.
• 37:57
  The throughout the the world history with Iran and fighting um wars, they somehow last and they outlast people to the point where they give up.
• 38:08
  And I would hate to see that Donald Trump doesn't really finish the job here.
• 38:11
  And I'm mixed too, so I can only imagine how Donald Trump feels.
• 38:15
  Everything that he's saying in military that we had kicked their ass.
• 38:19
  There's no doubt about that.
• 38:20
  But now what?
• 38:21
  You have the Strait of Ormo's that is not allowing the the ships to go through.
• 38:26
  It has oil, it has other products that are needed for the world, and um, it's kind of a mess in some ways, and it's gonna have to take some intestinal fortitude for Trump to see this through to that end.
• 38:38
  Otherwise, it is all for nothing.
• 38:41
  And you know, everything that we did was nothing uh done for nothing, including the lives of 13 Americans.
• 38:47
  Thoughts on that.
• 38:50
  Yeah, I mean it's you know, how do we finish it up when we don't even know who we're supposed to negotiate with?
• 38:57
  We don't even know who we don't even know who's in charge yet.
• 38:59
  It's some allegedly gay guy who's also crippled that we haven't seen, or is it someone else?
• 39:05
  I mean, no one really knows.
• 39:06
  So even Trump is in uh reference that.
• 39:08
  So uh yeah, I I don't know.
• 39:10
  I mean, it's I think you are your silent.
• 39:17
  I think I literally have no idea what how the hell we get out of this.
• 39:19
  I'm like, I'm like trying to brainstorm as if I'm gonna solve this within five minutes of the case.
• 39:23
  But I think you're I think your sounds are the way American people feel about it right now.
• 39:28
  You know, I think we just don't know what to say.
• 39:31
  If we're supporters of Donald Trump generally, we're looking at this going, I'm not so sure.
• 39:37
  And you know what I mean?
• 39:39
  And we want to get out of it, and he probably does too.
• 39:42
  But how do you do it and not finish the job?
• 39:45
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• 41:28
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• 41:32
  Got some more things to talk about before this hour ends.
• 41:34
  I want to talk about the LA mayor race and Spencer Pratt.
• 41:38
  Did you see the debate last week?
• 41:40
  What are you thinking about uh Spencer Pratt?
• 41:42
  He's doing awesome.
• 41:43
  I mean I had no idea who he was.
• 41:46
  I guess my wife had watched uh the reality show that made him famous 20 years ago, so she was very excited to see him on there.
• 41:52
  But uh I it seems like reality show people are very good at politics.
• 41:57
  So people who are naturally good at speaking off the cuff and playing characters and knowing how to present themselves in different situations, and I mean that's Trump's rise was reality TV.
• 42:00
  Playing characters and knowing how to present themselves in different situations.
• 42:03
  And I mean, that's Trump's rise was reality TV.
• 42:06
  Sean Duffy got his sword on reality TV, and now maybe Spencer Pratt.
• 42:06
  Sean Duffy got his sword on reality TV, and now maybe Spencer Pratt.
• 42:10
  So I don't I it's funny, but I heard he was on the show he was on.
• 42:10
  So uh I don't I it's funny, but I heard he was on the show he was on, I think it's called the Hills.
• 42:15
  I think it's called the Hills.
• 42:16
  He was like the most unlikable character and had a reputation of being like uh a jerk with anger issues and then among other problems.
• 42:16
  He was like the most unlikable character and had a reputation of being like a jerk with anger issues and then among other problems.
• 42:23
  But I'm assuming that to some extent that's just a character he was playing.
• 42:24
  But I'm assuming that to some extent that's just a character he was playing.
• 42:27
  I would think so.
• 42:27
  I would think so.
• 42:28
  You think, yeah.
• 42:29
  So I mean I think.
• 42:29
  I mean, I think they all kind of do that to some extent.
• 42:31
  But anyway, but as they as it comes to pressure relates to the LA mayor's race, he was the most normal person up there on the debate stage.
• 42:40
  He never got flustered.
• 42:41
  He was you could tell too when the other people were speaking, everything they said was something they had rehearsed beforehand, or scripted and made sure it was poll tested or whatever the process was.
• 42:55
  Well, probably was just speaking off the cuff.
• 42:58
  Um, you know, like the one woman, there's this Indian woman who's in the LA City Council that's running.
• 43:03
  I I noticed like she would repeat certain things, a certain talking points over and over and over throughout the debate.
• 43:10
  Like she would randomly keep mentioning, you know, as a mother in the race, and it's like, okay, we heard you the past four times, but but I guess one of your talking points was I'm running for office as a mother, so she knew so it was one of those things you just keep repeating and not even realizing what you're doing.
• 43:24
  And it worked.
• 43:26
  He almost like took the place of the moderators at certain times.
• 43:30
  It was really, you know, if anyone hasn't seen it, you can just find highlights on YouTube in you know 10 minutes and get the whole summary there.
• 43:37
  It's very it was worth watching.
• 43:39
  Spencer Pratt was in Palace in Pala Spencer Pratt was in Palisades where the fire happened in January, and he was there taking questions from residents there.
• 43:49
  Here is an exchange with uh resident.
• 43:54
  In the sense, I mean your politics are obviously very very very different, but in the sense that you've really harnessed the power of social media to get your message out.
• 44:01
  What do you think of that comparison?
• 44:03
  You know, the one thing I connect with is I know he promised his voters like the subway will be free, and I'm promising my voters, the Metro Metro buses, the Metro trains, they will be free from urine, feces, stabbing, attacks.
• 44:19
  So that's kind of similar.
• 44:21
  Those we both had free things for public transportation, but you know, I think he connected with people because they felt like change.
• 44:29
  They wanted change.
• 44:30
  That message would never connect here because we've already been doing the socialist experiment pretty much for six plus years, and it's failed here in Los Angeles.
• 44:40
  So I think my message is why it's resonating on social media is it's the truth.
• 44:44
  It's authentic.
• 44:45
  It's from my heart.
• 44:45
  I didn't want to be a politician.
• 44:47
  I'm standing in what happened because of failed politicians.
• 44:51
  That's why I'm here.
• 44:52
  I don't want to be, I want to go in and change LA so that this never happens to anybody.
• 44:57
  A lot of people are like, oh, he only cares about Palisades.
• 45:00
  This isn't coming back for a long time.
• 45:02
  Not fighting for other communities.
• 45:04
  This is gonna happen to a lot of people in the next four years.
• 45:07
  There's less firefighters now than January 7th.
• 45:10
  There's 45 less firefighters.
• 45:12
  We are not prepared.
• 45:13
  Don't listen to Mayor Bass.
• 45:14
  If you live in the Hollywood Hills, Sunland to Hunga, Bel Air, the Valley.
• 45:18
  The dead brushes are anyway, Matt.
• 45:20
  Like you said, I think he does relate to people on social media.
• 45:23
  He just is real honest uh about things.
• 45:27
  And we'll see.
• 45:27
  Do you think he has a real shot at winning that race?
• 45:31
  Because I don't let me uh look it up on College.
• 45:34
  Okay, I don't believe he does.
• 45:36
  Someone asked me about it the other day.
• 45:37
  Well, what about Spencer Pratt?
• 45:38
  I liked him in the debate.
• 45:40
  I said he has no shot.
• 45:41
  So you're gonna correct us.
• 45:43
  He's at 32% on College.
• 45:46
  Okay, I I will stay with my predictions.
• 45:49
  One in three for a Republican in LA is pretty crazy.
• 45:52
  Karen Bass and about 50%, and the rest is that woman Nisha Ramon, the city council.
• 45:58
  The mother, the mother person.
• 45:59
  The mother, the mother of the mother.
• 46:01
  So I'm gonna stay with my prediction that Spencer Pratt doesn't have a chance in hell to win in Los Angeles.
• 46:06
  Actually, I I will go on the record and say I actually think he's gonna pull it off.
• 46:10
  Really?
• 46:11
  Okay.
• 46:11
  Well, we're really we can play in his back when I pull it.
• 46:14
  Okay, I will I will write this down.
• 46:16
  I'll bookmark it so we can go back to it.
• 46:18
  I say bass will win again.
• 46:20
  The communist bass will win because people in Los Angeles are just stupid.
• 46:24
  Then let's go to more Spencer Pratt.
• 46:26
  After CBS embarrassed Karen Bass by fact-checking her debate lies about the Palisades fire, they clearly got the call.
• 46:33
  CBS film with me on my burnt out lot for over an hour talking about crime, housing, affordability, things that voters care about.
• 46:41
  And they turned it over to Karen Bass's PR team to edit it into a comical five-minute hit piece with clips from the hills.
• 46:49
  They can't beat my ideas, they can't beat me in the debates, so they gotta try to turn my campaign into a side show.
• 46:55
  People are done with these skeezy political tricks, and I'm done with CBS.
• 46:59
  They should release the full unedited interview.
• 47:02
  The voters deserve to hear from their next mayor.
• 47:05
  Do you know when that election is, Matt?
• 47:07
  I don't even know what it is, but maybe maybe there's time.
• 47:11
  I think it's June 2nd.
• 47:12
  I don't know why I think that, but that's why I'm not sure.
• 47:14
  We'll go with June 2nd, and I'm gonna stick with uh with my prediction there.
• 47:19
  And when it comes to California, I'm gonna stick to uh the Democrat there as well because uh, you know, Steve Hilton, I guess he's doing a pretty good job in running that uh Chad Bianco, he has disappeared since Swalwell did.
• 47:34
  You don't hear him uh being talked about anymore.
• 47:36
  So I guess it comes down to Steve Hilton and maybe two Democrats, and I think ultimately it's gonna be a Democrat in California.
• 47:44
  Unfortunately, if you're in California, you're listening to this and you're a Republican, please go vote support for the Republican.
• 47:51
  Uh but uh I I just have to call it the way I see it.
• 47:54
  And I'm usually pretty right.
• 47:56
  Unfortunately, in this case, yeah.
• 47:59
  Yeah, in this case, unfortunately.
• 48:01
  Let's move on.
• 48:02
  Also, yeah, go ahead.
• 48:03
  I did check it.
• 48:04
  It is uh June 2nd is the mayoral.
• 48:06
  Okay.
• 48:07
  And again, keep up with your primaries wherever you live, know when they are, get out there and vote, and make sure you know the issues, the candidates and really races like school board and judges, those can get away from you.
• 48:21
  Uh, they've gotten away from me before.
• 48:22
  I've gone in to vote, and I'm don't have a clue when it comes to 10 judges, and I vote for five of them.
• 48:29
  I don't have any idea.
• 48:30
  I'm just going by their name, so make sure you pay attention to that.
• 48:34
  Let's uh look at uh South Florida real quick and what is coming out about a possible end of the grand jury that is taking place for Russia Gate.
• 48:43
  Have you heard anything about that?
• 48:45
  Uh actually, no.
• 48:46
  I I didn't know we were so north against stuff.
• 48:48
  So yeah, yeah.
• 48:49
  Well you have Comey and Brennan, I guess, are being investigated for the origins of that, which means they would have to put together a conspiracy uh case, a Rico case there.
• 49:00
  A Rico case there.
• 49:01
  Uh Cash Patel says there is evidence to bring a strong case of conspirators.
• 49:01
  Uh Cash Mattel says there is evidence to bring a strong case of conspirators.
• 49:09
  And that was uh and and that was last week, as a matter of fact, when he said that.
• 49:09
  And that was uh and and that was last week, as a matter of fact, when he said that.
• 49:14
  And then you have John Solomon that is talking about the 2020 cover-up of the election.
• 49:14
  And then you have John Solomon that is talking about the 2020 cover-up of the election.
• 49:19
  There are still a lot of questions about the 2020 cover-up.
• 49:19
  There are still a lot of questions about the 2020 cover-up.
• 49:22
  I'm wondering what happened with Fulton County after the FBI went and raided that.
• 49:22
  I'm wondering what happened with Fulton County after the FBI went and rated that.
• 49:26
  You had uh what was his name?
• 49:26
  You had uh, what was his name?
• 49:28
  Chris Kreb of the Cis.
• 49:28
  Chris Kreb of the CISA that said it was the cleanest best election ever.
• 49:33
  Oh, yeah.
• 49:34
  Yeah, you remember that.
• 49:36
  Yeah, we'll never exist.
• 49:38
  Exactly.
• 49:38
  Let's go to John Solomon here, hear what he says about the 2020 election.
• 49:43
  There is a growing body of evidence, compliments of uh DNI Gabbard and FBI director Cash Patel and CIA director John Ratcliffe, that the government was aware of foreign intrusions in our elections starting in 2020, 2022, 2024, and that there was a effort to keep this information from the people in the government who most needed to know about it.
• 50:06
  The president of the United States, the Congress, which has a statutory right to be notified anytime there's been in a foreign intrusion in our government.
• 50:14
  The evidence that we unveiled this morning, which are in class of unclassified documents that were transmitted around the intelligence community after Tulsi Gab Gabbard's dig, its director's initiative group looked at some records.
• 50:26
  Have some bombshells.
• 50:28
  There's an allegation that a CIA analyst was asked to change CIA documents to hide foreign influence efforts in the 2020 election.
• 50:36
  There's an allegation that they massage President Trump's PDB in 2020 so they wouldn't have to tell him about potential foreign intrusions.
• 50:45
  There's an allegation uh that uh uh analytical products were hijacked and suppressed because they rightfully used evidence showing that China had uh was trying to influence the election in a more aggressive way than had been acknowledged publicly, or that Venezuela had some capabilities in election machines that raise concern.
• 51:05
  That doesn't mean they were deployed, but knowing that there were uh vulnerabilities, knowing that there were exploits, knowing that there were malinfluence operations going on.
• 51:15
  You want your commander in chief, you want your Congress to know this, and it looks like the deep state, if these documents are an accurate reflection of what the classified evidence is, was trying to keep the commander in chief, the American public, and the Congress dark about real threats to our election.
• 51:30
  Instead, we were forced federative as the most secure election in America.
• 51:34
  We now know that wasn't a true story.
• 51:36
  What we're beginning to see is an overt effort by intelligence officers to keep the people, the American people elected.
• 51:43
  Lawmakers in Congress, the president from knowing and acting on real threats to our election.
• 51:48
  Now, let me add to that what Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said recently.
• 51:54
  She says she thinks this is a quote, thinks we're going to find out, unquote.
• 52:00
  President Trump won many of the states the media claims he lost in 2020.
• 52:06
  That's what Susie Wiles says.
• 52:09
  So there is this information that is out there that's in the court, in the grand jury.
• 52:14
  So maybe we're about to get some information that is really what we've all talked about for five or six years now.
• 52:21
  Maybe it's to the point where we're going to get some uh clarity on all of this.
• 52:25
  Let's real quick move to Texas, where the gay judge in Bexar County has been removed.
• 52:31
  We talked about this when when this story came up.
• 52:34
  Her name was Speedy Gonzalez.
• 52:36
  Remember?
• 52:36
  Oh, I remember Speedy Gonzalez, yes, yes.
• 52:39
  Yeah, her actual name is Rosie Speedland Gonzalez, and she has been banned for life from ever serving on the bench again after she unlawfully ordered an attorney to be handcuffed.
• 52:52
  That is what got her in trouble.
• 52:53
  Also, here's another story, Matt.
• 52:55
  I want you to talk about this.
• 52:57
  The U.S.
• 52:57
  Postal Service has now reported a net quarterly loss of two billion.
• 53:03
  That's not a shocker.
• 53:04
  I think that's actually a little better than what it normally is.
• 53:08
  That's only two billion.
• 53:10
  I think it's usually about 16 billion dollars a year that we bail the U.S.
• 53:14
  Post service out with uh our own taxpayer money.
• 53:18
  But Matt, what do you think?
• 53:19
  What is it time to privatize the post office?
• 53:22
  Uh yeah, and the thing is it's in this weird uh like limbo where they're not a government agency, but they're also regulated to the point where they're not a full private for-profit business either.
• 53:37
  They're just in this weird like business purgatory.
• 53:40
  So yeah, I you know, the government can't run anything out of profit.
• 53:44
  The you know, the incentives just are not there.
• 53:47
  Um if you are, you know, if you and I started a business and we were to say to every employee, okay, just a heads up.
• 53:54
  Um, you can work really hard.
• 53:56
  In fact, you can work as hard as you want, but no matter what, you're all getting paid the same amount.
• 54:00
  Your raises will all be the same every single year.
• 54:03
  There's not really much room for promotion.
• 54:05
  You you know, you can't blame the employees for not working hard, and that's the incentive structure that government gives.
• 54:11
  And it's one too, where you it's very difficult to get fired as well.
• 54:15
  Um, I know Trump has uh definitely changed that in recent years.
• 54:18
  I actually didn't even realize he could fire a lot of the people that he has, but it's still the case.
• 54:23
  Overall, it's a safer job than the private sector.
• 54:25
  So the incentives aren't there.
• 54:26
  I mean, in Canada, their marijuana industry is run by the government and it and it turns a loss.
• 54:33
  So, like governments literally can't even deal drugs and make a profit, which is one of the highest mars in uh industries as a legal drug.
• 54:41
  So uh, you know, if the government can't do that, then I don't think there's any business they can ever turn the profit on.
• 54:46
  We're almost to the end of our hour, but we have not talked about Mark Hamill and what he did last week about Donald Trump wishing that he were dead, and I don't even know why we care.
• 54:56
  First of all, this guy, this guy was not a real Jedi, it was a movie.
• 55:01
  And that was 50 years ago.
• 55:03
  It was 1970, what was it, 77, 78?
• 55:06
  I remember going, I went to the theater three times to watch Star Wars, but that's how long ago it was.
• 55:11
  He has no relevance.
• 55:13
  Should we even care about this, Matt?
• 55:15
  Um, no, he's clearly just trying to hold on to any relevance whatsoever.
• 55:20
  But uh no, it just seems like a miserable guy.
• 55:23
  I don't I just can't imagine if I was like a someone worth tens of millions of dollars that had millions of fans, like even obsessing over anything to the extent that these people are obsessed over politics.
• 55:34
  I don't know.
• 55:35
  Like they they won in life, go be happy.
• 55:37
  Yeah.
• 55:37
  Well, Matt, we are to the end of our hour.
• 55:40
  We're gonna watch this week for the China visit by the Trumps.
• 55:44
  They will go there.
• 55:45
  That happens on Thursday.
• 55:46
  And I guess that's about all we really have on our radar this week.
• 55:50
  But I know that there will be plenty for us to talk about.
• 55:52
  Are you looking for anything else this week?
• 55:54
  No more gerrymandering, I guess.
• 55:56
  Maybe Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama, but in reality, that might be two seats between all of them.
• 56:00
  That might be two seats between all of them.
• 56:02
  So I don't think it's a big deal.
• 56:02
  So I don't think it's a big deal.
• 56:05
  Uh, yeah, I mean, better than nothing, and always good to demoralize the meal as much as we can.
• 56:05
  Uh yeah, I mean better than nothing, and always good to demoralize the meal as much as we can.
• 56:10
  But uh nothing particular, just more, you know, it's the status of the Iran deal, that kind of stuff.
• 56:10
  But uh nothing particular, just more, you know, it's the status of the Aran deal, that kind of stuff.
• 56:15
  Yeah, well, thank you for joining us, Matt.
• 56:15
  Yeah, well, thank you for joining us, Matt, as always.
• 56:17
  As always, always a pleasure to have you here on a Monday night.
• 56:18
  Always a pleasure to have you here on a Monday night.
• 56:20
  I call it Mondays with Matt.
• 56:20
  I call it Mondays with Matt.
• 56:21
  His name is Matt Palumbo.
• 56:21
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• 56:23
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• 56:23
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• 56:24
  Go find them at Amazon.
• 56:24
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• 56:26
  Matt, thank you.
• 56:26
  Matt, thank you.
• 56:27
  My pleasure.
• 56:27
  My pleasure.
• 56:27
  And don't forget, you were told two thousand years ago.
• 56:27
  And don't forget, you were told two thousand years ago that you are the salt of the earth, and salt without flavor, it has no value.
• 56:34
  So whatever you do, keep being salty.
• 56:37
  Have a great night.
• 56:38
  There is only one truth.
• 56:41
  You've been listening to The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott on America Out Loud.